This article is the first of a 4 part series about the big question associated with how a blog or mini site can be successful (as defined by profitability).

The success of a blog or mini site is going to be determined for targeting a group of people (a niche) who are eager for information of a precise nature. In other words, this is the selection of your niche.

The goal of your blog or mini site has to be a group of people who have troubles. Problems in the sense that they are in the hunt for a way out to that problems, searching to develop something. Additionally, in a huge niche, that SOMETHING, is something that causes different kind of pain. Economical pain, Corporeal pain, affecting pain, some variety of pain, for the simple cause that those people who have pain are the people who are willing to purchase solutions for that pain, and with a bit of luck from your website.

If you think this is insane, trying to exploit people with pain, it's not. This is marketing. You've had marketers doing it to you your whole life and you almost certainly never even knew about it, why can't you do it too? And the most important, you're in fact going to offer these people with a genuine answer for their pain, so you're being useful!

So you're searching for a group of people with a problem, but that's not all.

Your next worry has to be if these people searching for solutions to their problems on the internet are enough. How many is sufficient you ask? It's an appropriate question. With certain kinds of sites, you just need 10 visitors to your site a day and you can turn a nice monthly profit. Other niches and products that you endorse you might need thousands per day. It all depends on what you sell, who you sell, AND how much commission you make when you sell to them.

You should concentrate on looking at the search volume, as indicated by a tool like Wordtracker. Here you're basically looking at how many searches per day a particular keyphrase gets in the search engines. Then besides that, you want to look at whether there are other sites or blogs that are struggling in the same niche.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, NO competition is not necessarily a good sign. NO competition could and frequently does mean that it's not a profitable niche. What you really want is SOME competition, but the kind of competition that you can DESTROY by making a superior site, providing superior content and in a superior way.

The last part of the dilemma of finding a high-quality niche is whether the niche has an excellent product for you to promote. You should have something to sell to these people; the product has to be of high quality, has great promotional material (sales letter, etc, so it will convert your traffic well) and pays a respectable commission.

This is obviously assuming you're looking at the affiliate marketing form of making money with your blog - which I suggest if you're looking to give up work and earn a full time passive income, you SHOULD be. However there are other ways to make money where you might think about some different factors in your niche selection.

So if you can mix all of the aspect that has been said previously when selecting your niche, you'll be giving yourself and your new blog the best possible opportunity of being successful.
I look forward you've found this topics helpful.

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