Boy, am I glad I found you and this one! Niche and figuring out mine is…. well, it’s the biggest wall I have yet to figure out how to bring down. Your post is very easy to follow, so thanks for answering tons of the questions I have had for months (!) and keep shoving out of my way! So, thank you. For the post, the list and sharing your own experiences doing exactly the same things! (maybe, just maybe, it’ll save some mistakes on this end!) Have an awesome day.
~Amber-Lee

Been doing research on several niche as well as strategies for finding hot niches. People use alot of tools that you never even think of. People uses hot selling products on eBay to decide niche, Google checkout trends (not to mess with google trend), Paid keywordspy tool are just few of them.

Thank you Sarah and you definitely bring up a good point. It’s always a good idea to look at search volume for keywords in your new niche to make sure there is enough SEO traffic out there that you can grab.

Another important point is to look at the types of searches and to make sure that at least some of the keywords indicate that someone is trying to buy something and not just looking for free information.

Thanks Michael, I’m glad you enjoyed it and I hope it motivated to do some of this stuff.

I must say, I am often more interested in writing my blog than in marketing my blog. I know the two are NOT exclusive of one another, and I know I should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but…

Narrowing my niche has been my problem right along. I’ve wrapped my arms around my ENTIRE market – that being the over 50 age group. To pick ONE niche out of all that is difficult. But, I’m patient and know that if I keep reading your stuff, Susanne and Nicole, that I will see my way clear to let go and pick a niche.

Thanks again for sharing!

p.s. Nicole, are you snoozing in that picture, or just resting your eyes. 😉

That really helped clarify a little more about keyword research.

Hi Mary, I’m glad you got something out of the post.

I wasn’t big on mindmapping either until a little over a week ago. I just couldn’t quite figure out the software and didn’t get the point of how it’s supposed to help organize your thoughts.

“Bob The Teacher” gave an excellent presentation about mindmapping at NAMS and I got a chance to play with it a bit during the workshop session. Since then not a day has gone by when I’m not working on one of my mindmaps. It’s just a matter of jumping in with a little bit of direction and “playing” with it.

I think keyword research works in much the same way. You sort of have to try it and get used to the process. Give this a try… When you are ready to share one of your fabulous gluten-free recipes on your site, do a little keyword research first. You can use something as simple as the free wordtracker keyword tool. Find out exactly how people search for the recipe you are about to share. Then use that keyword as your title. Write your content as usual, being sure to include the keyword again in the first 100 words or so of your post.

Then build a few links to that post, using the keyword in the anchor text. To build the links you may want to do some bookmarking and write an article or two with the anchor text link in the resource box.

I will do that. Thank you very much Susanne:)