There are numerous avenues to acquire ideas on what to choose as niche subjects to come up with material that people are looking for.
Numerous IM professionals will suggest using Google trends to generate ideas. This is effective if you like to get traffic fast.
The trends data will show you what people are searching for in the past few days. This is useful if you are a blogger who regularly posts entries. Nevertheless, if you want a site that will earn money for you without touching it after it’s finished, there other sources of niche ideas that you can use to discover what we call evergreen niches”.
Everfresh niches are niches that has regular readers over a long period of time. It takes longer to make evergreen websites and you see traffic immediately but once you are finished, all you have to do is wait and watch the earnings come in. Create enough evergreen websites and you can get a
steady flow of cash even you don’t work at it again.
As an example, I’ve set up a website about how to make a paper airplane. At the start, it barely produced a dollar a day. It was making only a few cents a day but I kept at it. I kept acquiring links back to the site. Now, after just a few months of link building work, it’s already bringing in about $200/month. Mind you, the link building was almost half-hearted. I have numerous other projects going on. I acquired links for the paper airplanes website only in early life of the site.
I get links every so often whenever I can. I wasn’t really sure if the site would bring in good enough amounts of earnings. I just love
paper planes. So I continued working on it although it was just producing very little. Just this month, it started contributing a significant amount and that will only increase as I continue to get better rankings in the search engines. I am now exerting more effort to acquire more backlinks to the site.
If you look at it, it would seem that the niche isn’t as lucrative as the insurance niche. But stop and think: my paper airplanes website will be producing money years and years from now even if I don’t even add anything to it. People will be looking for tutorials on how to make paper airplanes as long as there are kids.
The site is NOT a site that was solely created for adsense. It is a useful website and visitors to the site come back repeatedly. Some even promote it to others.
So that’s the first thing to keep in mind when selecting an everfresh niche. It has to be useful or at least entertaining. Search engine users must like to visit your site even if there were no search engines.
Ironically, having that in mind would get you better results in the search engines. The search engines look at how long a visitor stays on your site. If you have crappy content, your visitors won’t hesitate to click on the back button. And it only takes a second to figure out if a website is useless.
We’ll discuss more about discovering ideas or topics that you can use to build evergreen sites. People search about “how to” instruction on the net.
And there are websites dedicated to thousands of “how to” topics. You can easily search for the most viewed articles. If you find anything that seem to have potential, go ahead and do your keyword research. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to beat the pages on the older how to sites.
A favorite among online earners to discover niche ideas is Amazon.com. If people buy products for their hobby, you will know that they are passionate about it and that they will want to earn everything they can about that hobby. So quickly visit and search amazon.com for items related to hobbies. Think about fishing, skydiving, chess, stamp collecting. There are a myriad number of hobbies to write about.
One more handy page is Wikipedia’s list of hobbies. That’s quite a long list and I’m you’re sure to find at least one that you’d like to work on. Working on a topic that interests you will help you keep at it even if you’re still not seeing any good results yet. If you select a topic that you’re not really passionate about, it will be very easy for you to get discouraged.
So we have already discussed two sources of site topics. Generally, how to’s and hobbies will be evergreen topics. The last interesting source that could potentially give you traffic and income for a long period of time are biographies. People will be interested in the life of famous people. If there’s a famous personality you’ve always wanted to learn about, this is a good chance to learn about that person and make money from your research at the same time. There are even TV channels dealing solely with biographies and you can borrow ideas from those TV channels.
We have tackled three potential sources of evergreen niches. Of course there are several other sources where you can get ideas to find everfresh niches. For now, the ones we have talked about should be enough to get you going. Keep in mind that whatever information you acquired in this article is useless unless you go out and do something about it.
Take action and you’ll discover what works and what doesn’t and you’ll be on your way to online success.
