DISCOVER 'RFS' 100% AUTOMATED SYSTEM EARN $5000 WITH A LAPTOP
 




Get Reviewed by this Blog for only $500
DealDotComTTZ MediaPerformancing Ads
Pepperjam NetworkBidvertiser
Text Link AdsKonterra

I want to follow up my Start A Blog: Just Jump In! post I wrote for John about 2 weeks back. In that post I mentioned how you should create a website or blog that you are passionate about. After realizing how many readers are here that are interested in starting a blog but just don’t know where to begin, I thought letting you all in on the secrets of picking a niche might be a good idea. Well, these aren’t really secrets; it’s just my approach to picking a niche or topic to blog about. Since I’ve had a little bit of success, I thought I would share :wink:

The first thing you have to do is research. By reading helpful blogs like John Chow dot com, you are on your way. The next thing you want to do is pick a niche (a topic to blog about) that you are interested in and are willing to write about day in and day out. I am taking the online money making approach here, so if you are a recreational blogger, the day in and day out approach won’t be as strict for you.

Let me outline the process of picking a niche to make money online for you all:

  1. Time to reflect. In order to choose what your blog is about, you first need to think about what you are about. A way to identify what makes you YOU, spend some time thinking about what you value, what your interests are, your goals and aspirations, your passion and drive. If you can identify what keeps you going day in and day out, you can blog about it, and I bet it’ll be pretty easy for you too :smile:
  2. Is your niche on the rise? You will need to do a little homework here. Blogging about your passion isn’t enough to make your blog a hit; like any other business, you’ll have to do a market analysis on the area you are interested in. You might be interested in your topic but unless others are too, you will be fighting to build a highly read blog the whole time.
  3. How’s the competition? I know there is a craze going on about the making money online topic, I think I’ve jumped on that craze myself with Jane May Blogs, but you have to be realistic. If you write about a popular topic, think about what is the competition leaving out? If you can figure that out, then you’ve got yourself a niche, and I bet it will be a popular one too.
  4. Will you be able to write enough? Again, you will have to reflect on your experiences and yourself to be able to answer this. But I will say this, the internet is full of helpful resources, learn to tap into those resources to help you succeed online.
  5. How can you monetize this topic? If you are trying to make money online, you should always be asking yourself this. Will you be using affiliate sales, adsense, both, etc.? What ever your methods are, use the resources you have to help you.
  6. Finally, choose the darn topic! OK, you’ve done the hard part, now it’s time to choose your topic. Some of you might already have a blog and are still struggling to find a topic. Do these steps and I bet it will help you narrow down your scope.

This post was guest blogged by Jane May. She teaches readers how to create and monetize blogs on DailyWebIdeas.com.

Find out what I am doing right now by following me on Twitter! If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my full feed RSS. You can also subscribe by Email and have new posts sent directly to your inbox.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (10 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Here's A Few More Related Posts

  • Joel Comm Releases AdSense Secret 4
  • UberAffiliate Reveals PPC Secrets
  • How To Get Out of a Rick Roll
  • Blog Carnivals: The Biggest Kept Secret
  • Make Sky High Profits with eBay Online Auctions

    RSS feed

    44 Comments

    Comment by Nathan Hutchinson
    2007-06-15 21:06:18
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Great tips, they are going to help me :)

     
    Comment by foodette
    2007-06-15 21:26:47
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice ideas, Jane. I have my niche, and it’s one filled with competition. I guess now my goal is to see how I can offer something the others don’t.

    Thanks again,
    Foodette

     
    Comment by BlogsAndBucks
    2007-06-15 21:27:42
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I agree with you in most of the points but i like to play when there is competition. This is more challenging and lets not forget it’s obviously profitable.

    Making money online or making money from any internet marketing (including domain business, SPAM, online survey, affiliate marketing) will never become a dull topic. These were always hot subjects and they will be always hot subjects.

     
    Comment by Alex
    2007-06-15 21:50:45
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Good tips ;)

     
    Comment by The Junky's Wife
    2007-06-15 21:52:24
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I’m more than passionate about my topic…I’m freakin’ obsessed. It’s really what my life is about, and I love writing, so it’s perfect…except it’s not worth money.

    Alas!

    Comment by website copywriter
    2007-06-16 14:51:29
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I know exactly what you’re talking about, passion does come first for me, too.

     
     
    Comment by Tyson
    2007-06-15 22:09:13
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I agree, those are good tips, but only if someone is wanting to profit from their blogging endeavor.

    If someone is not concerned with making money from their blog then only Tips 1 and 6 are relevant.

    Thoughts?

    Comment by Wallace
    2007-06-15 22:23:35
    MyAvatars 0.2

    hey,JohnChow blog = $$$$$ :wink:

    Comment by Mason
    2007-06-16 07:42:51
    MyAvatars 0.2

    it also = evil :twisted:

     
     
     
    Comment by la bloga
    2007-06-15 22:11:48
    MyAvatars 0.2

    7. How much will be the ugggg!!! when John open your eyes :lol:

    Comment by Mason
    2007-06-16 07:43:59
    MyAvatars 0.2

    nice avatar :oops:

     
     
    Comment by Wallace
    2007-06-15 22:17:23
    MyAvatars 0.2

    i just plan to launch a new project about css,
    and are waiting to custom a wordpress theme.

     
    2007-06-15 22:17:43
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I have chosen and it’s kicking my butt!

    Comment by JaneMay
    2007-06-21 14:59:27
    MyAvatars 0.2

    congrats!

     
     
    Comment by Charles Lau
    2007-06-16 00:14:21
    MyAvatars 0.2

    You are right about it… As I started working on my first blog, I suddenly thought I am missing out a niche in my blog… I will keep on refining it till it’s right on track.. Thanks Jane May..

     
    Comment by dotnetnuke
    2007-06-16 00:31:13
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Great tips Jane, always welcome your articles. :wink:

    Comment by JaneMay
    2007-06-21 15:00:13
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Thanks for the support…as long as it’s there, I’ll keep writing :wink:

     
     
    Comment by shaun
    2007-06-16 00:31:45
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Excellent tips. I’m sure we can all use these tips to help us promote our blog and pick the right niche :grin:

     
    Comment by Ahmed
    2007-06-16 00:41:06
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice tips by joh now its easy to choose the niche :)

     
    Comment by Ahmed
    2007-06-16 00:42:05
    MyAvatars 0.2

    john rocks very nice tips

    Comment by website copywriter
    2007-06-18 09:08:25
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Yeah, he does; except Jane May wrote this post, not John.

    Comment by JaneMay
    2007-06-21 15:00:45
     
     
     
    Comment by Bryce
    2007-06-16 01:46:03
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Great tips John! I am a big fan of yours!

     
    Comment by Bryce
    2007-06-16 01:46:55
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Great tips john! I am a big fan of yours.

     
    Comment by shman
    2007-06-16 02:56:56
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Thank You for tips :)

     
    Comment by Etienne Teo
    2007-06-16 03:21:13
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Yet niche marketing is a great source of traffic and if you pick the right niche, your visitors will start to flow in, chosen your topic right and get targeted traffics :mrgreen:

     
    Comment by
    2007-06-16 03:27:20
    MyAvatars 0.2

    met with financial analyst… analysist/sp??? for warner brothers. i’m very tired now.

     
    Comment by Respiro Media
    2007-06-16 04:51:08
    MyAvatars 0.2

    In my opinion, the key for a successful blog is the content. Any other consideration is only secondary…

     
    Comment by VORN
    2007-06-16 05:06:00
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Hi John, want to recommend you a new header image, created in photoshop:
    http://translategadget.googlepages.com/alexvorn_ferrari2.jpg
    You can change you old imageheader with this one!!
    :)
    :arrow:

     
    Comment by Casey
    2007-06-16 07:25:42
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice tips!

     
    Comment by TheAnand
    2007-06-16 07:32:01
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I cant help reflecting on how many comments are here…usually when john writes a post, the comments start at 50+ in an hour or so…But I am 100% percent the guest bloggers are adding real value to the blog here….and john is minting away all the money! a win-lose situation?

    Comment by Investorblogger
    2007-06-16 09:40:33
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Not really. There are ways this works for commenters…! :twisted:

     
     
    Comment by Mason
    2007-06-16 07:41:56
    MyAvatars 0.2

    nice.. i recently made a similar post on my blog about picking an offer for affiliate marketing.

     
    Comment by ColorThreads
    2007-06-16 07:51:03
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Yea, nice tip.

     
    Comment by Investorblogger
    2007-06-16 09:33:04
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I’m still wondering how to find my niche!

     
    Comment by bryce
    2007-06-16 14:01:33
    MyAvatars 0.2

    John,

    Have you noticed that you are on page 5 on google for make money online….

    What did you do? :mrgreen:

    Comment by Lance
    2007-06-17 03:41:58
    MyAvatars 0.2

    I noticed that aswell :???:

     
     
    Comment by Da Travel Guru
    2007-06-17 00:00:38
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Nice ideas, definitely key points. thanks!

     
    Pingback by How to start blogging
    2007-06-17 14:16:29
    MyAvatars 0.2

    [...] Pick you blog niche. Recently I read a good article about Picking A Niche from Jane May. Read [...]

     
    2007-06-18 01:58:53
    MyAvatars 0.2

    [...] I read a post by John chow dot com, The Secrets of Picking A Niche its a good read if you got 7 mins to spare. The article talks about how to pick the right Niche or [...]

     
    Comment by Steven Smethurst
    2007-06-18 02:01:10
    MyAvatars 0.2

    5 out of 6 isn’t that bad, is it?
    where-i-went-wrong

    Thanks for the great article

    Comment by JaneMay
    2007-06-21 15:06:50
    MyAvatars 0.2

    You are welcome :smile:

     
     
    2007-06-21 11:11:12
    MyAvatars 0.2

    It’s always tough to stay in the Niche. Great post Jane. I see you sold your other site. Congrats.

    Comment by JaneMay
    2007-06-21 15:07:38
    MyAvatars 0.2

    Stay tuned to my blog for latest… :grin:

     
     

    Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.