Find a Niche

So you just found out that your idea for a niche is over populated. And you don’t know where to go from here. First thing is to brainstorm to find another niche and remember to keep an open mind. So grab a pen and paper and just look around your house because any of the things you’re looking at right now could be a niche item (remember to always carry a pen and paper with you, because ideas are all around you).
Another source to find a niche idea is to read random blogs, because they provide fresh, timely information. Forums are another place to find ideas for a niche market.

After you find a niche say “Bass Fishing” search Google for “Bass Fishing Forums” and “Bass Fishing Blogs”. Now if your asking yourself why checkout these places? The answer is because you may find a problem people are having or sub-niches like bass fishing lures.

Next step is a two-part process: one is building a keyword list and the other is where you check to see if your niche is over populated. There are a few places to build keyword list one of the most popular is wordtracker.com but I use this free one, goodkeywords.com. So let’s check to see if you have a good niche market.

Using our above example of bass fishing lures and plugging it into our keyword program, we will get up to 100 keywords and phases. Next we do a search of Google for these keywords using our example of “bass fishing lures” which gives us a result of 50,400. Some of the top affiliates say a good niche market is:

Rosalind Gardner (Super Affiliate Handbook) doesn’t consider anything under 100,000 competing sites to be a viable niche.

Jimmy D. Brown suggests ideal competing sites to be 30,000 to 100,000.

Andrew Williams thinks a good niche is 1000 or less.

I have been using Jimmy Brown 30,000 to 100,000 to try and find a good niche market.

Then I take 50,400 (Google search result) and divide it by 3362 (keyword search result for the month) this gives us a 15 and the lower this number is means that we probably have a viable niche market. After running all the keywords take the lowest ranking and see if you can find products for that niche keyword.

Good luck with your hunt!