Niches and searches? Ugh...blog ideas?

Hello everyone!


Just a few words about myself before I ask, so that you know how to answer.


I am a college student who is very computer savvy, and I like to create web pages as well as articles and things, especially about my hobbies and such.


Now, as we all know, college is coming all too soon, and once I go back, I will be out of work and unable to work, I am taking 19 credit hours spread out over all times of the day, and so I hoped to make money with my blogs using Google ad-sense and things like that. However, the topics I write about are usually way too broad, and so I was thinking I would go into a much more narrow niche so that I could generate more traffic, since I could never compete with the top results on my current niches.


I know there's the keyword tool from google, which is great! However... how can I tell which keywords I should base my new niche around? Keywords that get only 50-100 searches a month seem too low to care about, and niches that get 50k plus seem way too hard to compete with. Should I aim for keywords with 1k searches or something?


I would be so happy to make anything like 10 dollars a day, just something to help me get by.





In any case, thank you very much for any time spent answering this.|||You are very correct in your thinking. Most people just aim for the highest keywords, which, usually, they cannot compete with. In your case I would go for around 20K on a few keywords you know lots about.


The key to competing on keywords is basically getting a higher pagerank than they're getting. To do this you need several backlinks. Which could be easy in your case since you write. Submit some (or all) of your writings to article directories with a link back to your blog. This will not only increase your traffic, but also your search engine rank. Try also commenting on other blogs and forums (watch out for no-follow links - see source), again with a link back to your blog. I suggest implementing Google Adsense from the beginning. Once you have a nice visitor-base you'll start earning some money. Depending on your keywords and niche you can also try selling products as an affiliate or CPA offers. This does require some work, it's not a walk in the park and you should be willing to spend at least an hour or two a day to promote and add quality content to your blog. If you follow these steps correctly I assure you, you will make more than $10 a day.





I hope this helps and if you need additional, more personalized help, feel free to ask me at the forum in the source.





Adiv


Online Business Owner and Consultant