Low competition niche for blogging
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1. no! And if someone knows they won't share them with you because easy to rank niches are usually hard to find and you want to keep them to yourself 
2. there are many ways to find low competition niches, but some of the methods I've used in the past are:
a) find keywords with good search volume for which there are at least 2-3 websites ranking in top 10 that can be beaten.
The terms "good search volume" and "that can be beaten" differ from one person to another, but for me this usually meant
- good search volume = at least 5000 monthly searches
- that can be beaten = at least 2-3 affiliate / blog / content sites with 20 DR or DA maximum, or at least 2-3 forums or UGC sites like Reddit, Quora, Stackoverflow, etc
Again, these numbers can vary (and I'm sure that they DO vary from one person to another) depending on their comfort zone, some people might be comfortable with chasing after keywords with only 1000 monthly searches (as their main keyword I mean, because otherwise - for your inner pages - you can target whatever you want once you've established the right silo structure and have a plan on how to approach building and ranking your site), while other people might only chase after keywords with 100k monthly searches, or 20k, or whatever... Like I said, these numbers are not written in stone and they usually depend on what the person feels comfortable working with, and for me this number had usually been 5000 monthly searches
b) write down 10-20 big topics that you...
- absolutely love
- like a lot
- are curious about / have emotional or financial interest in
Any of these 3 criteria (in this order most of the time) would be the starting point for your niche research. So, let's assume that you figure out 10 things that fall within 1 or more of these criteria, and these 10 things would be:
- play soccer
- play guitar
- crochet
- cook
- offer relationship advice
- meditate
- read books
- do math
- criticize people
- bike
You would take each one of these big topics and...
- input them into the SEO tool of your choice (Ahrefs, Semrush, etc), and then...
- you would organize the results you get by search volume (so you can find a main keyword that you can target as I explained in the previous point) and then check the top 10 results in google for each one of the keywords until you find one that you like.
So, for example, let's say you start with the keyword "play soccer". You plop this into Ahrefs, and hit "search" and let's assume that your comfort keyword is 10k monthly searchers.
Well, you would filter and organize the list you get for the keyword "play soccer" by highest to lowest with 10k being the lowest limit you're willing to accept. And let's assume that Ahrefs finds you 40 keywords that have at least 10k monthly searches.
In this case you would open up another Ahrefs instance (in a different tab most likely) and input the 1st of the 40 keywords in that list into Ahrefs and repeat the filtering and organizing process again until there is no keyword left anymore that has at least 10k monthly searches.
When you reach the bottom of this list you start analyzing the top 10 results in google and look for potential sites you can beat (as I mentioned at point a) above)
Like I said, you narrow down each one of these keywords and sub-keywords and work your way up from the bottom of the list until you find 1 or more keywords for which there are organic results that you feel comfortable tackling.
Yes, this will take time and effort on your part (it might get dark by the time you finish manually going through 100s of potential candidates, but that's how you find golden nuggets and that's why nobody's willing to freely share their discoveries with you as I mentioned at point 1) but if you're persistent and look carefully you will find some keywords with potential, and those will represent your "low competition niche".
c) go to big ecom sites like Ebay, Amazon, Alibaba, etc... and manually open up each category and sub-category of that category and look for products that
- give good commission
- have sold well in the last 6 months
- have low refund rates
- have good and real reviews from actual purchasers
- have good price
- whatever other filter you wish to apply
Find at least 1 such product (the more the better of course) in each sub-category of each category (or at least of each category that you're interested in) that fits most / all of the criteria mentioned above, and write them down on a piece of paper (or type them into a .txt file if you don't like writing) for future research.
Once you find 50-60 products that are selling well, have low refund rates and good reviews and which give you good commissions on sale plop them into your favorite SEO tool and check the rankings for each one of these products just like you did with the keywords mentioned at point b) above.
This time, however (since we're dealing with products instead of information so the rankings will be different), you want to see as few ecommerce sites as possible, or - if there are only / mostly ecommerce sites in top 10 - you want to see as many of them that are not well optimized, and / or don't have high authority (everything above 20 DR I consider to be high authority, but YMMV)
Additionally - if possible - you want to see product review sites, as well because if review sites are ranking for these products or for these products' main categories this means that google can rank your product review site, too.
I'm mentioning this because there was a time (2-3 years ago) when google really hated product review sites and targeted them like crazy, so if you don't see product review sites ranking for your keywords (or for your keywords' main categories, like I said) anymore this means that these niches might not be easy.
BUT - even if there are no review sites ranking in top 10 - as long as you see ecommerce sites ranking and the URLs that are ranking from those ecommerce sites are not well optimized, they don't specifically target the products / product categories that you found, or the ecommerce sites themselves don't have high authority (over 20 DR for example),. this usually means that ranking for these products / product categories is approachable. I would not say it's easy because I don't know your definition of easy and I don't know your skills, but with a bit of SEO, persistence and patience you might be able to rank in top 10 for those products / product categories
One thing that I forgot to mention is that when you do niche research for physical products by checking the categories of big sites like Amazon, Alibaba, etc and you find potential candidates you should write them down with as many adjectives and description as you see them being mentioned on those big sites because any of these words could mean a potential angle (niche) that you can approach the rankings from.
For example, let's say that you found a product on Amazon in the "Smart Plugs and Outlets" category. For example's sake, I just found this product just to explain what I mean:
https://www.amazon.com/Kasa-Smart-Resistance-Compatible-EP40/dp/B091FXH2FR?sbo=RZvfv//HxDF+O5021pAnSA==
If you take a look at the title of this product you will see a lot of words, such as Kasa, Outdoor, Wi-Fi, Sockets, Weather Resistance, IFTTTT, etc... a lot of words in that product's title as you can see, and in reality that's just a normal smart plug (well, normal for today's times, because 20-30 years ago this might have been super cool and super rare product, but you get the idea)
Now... when you find products that meet the criteria I've explain above (low refund rates, good prices / commissions, good ratings, etc) that you find interesting and wish to research, and when you write these products down, you don't just write them down like Kasa Smart Plug (or whatever its real / generic name is).
You write it down using all of those words that I've mentioned above because EVERY SINGLE ONE of these words could represent your niche.
For example, if you look this product up in Ahrefs and you find only tough sites to beat for the keyword Kasa Smart Plug (by the way, I don't recommend you type brands into your page titles and URLs to avoid potential trademarking issues)... so, when you look this product up into Ahrefs and you see only sites that are hard to beat (because they have high authority, high topical authority, lots of indexed pages and rank for lots of keywords, etc) you then move on to analyze the next niche, Outdoor Smart Plug for example...
If Outdoor Smart Plug doesn't yield good results then you move on to the next one (Wi-Fi Smart Plug, or Weather Resistance Smart Plug, etc).... you try any and every mix of these words and check the URLs ranking in top 10 for each one of these words until you find 1 or more combination of words for which you like what you see in top 10. That's why it's important to note down every single word that sounds interesting or unique about these products (and thank God that sites like Amazon help you with this by mentioning all of those properties of the products in their titles so you don't have to look for those words manually by checking the products in detail)..
And when you find 1 combination of words that you like what you're seeing for on google's 1st page and you feel you can beat at least 1 of those sites, you then go to Amazon and look for more products that use the winning words, so you can compile a list of products that you can target (so you can give people more options to buy)....
Again, all of this research will probably take you hours or days to complete. But this is important research that you must do if you wish to find easy niches which - once again - seeing how much work and exhaustion is involved into finding these niches, you can see why nobody's willing to share their discoveries with you for free....
I am pretty sure that there are other things you could do to uncover easy niches (one of the methods that I never got to try that has caught my eye at some point involved setting up google alerts for certain key phrases, but I never checked how that method worked, but the point is that there are more methods than the 3 I've explained), but these 3 should keep you busy into next year and help you develop your own twists and ways of finding opportunities...
2. there are many ways to find low competition niches, but some of the methods I've used in the past are:
a) find keywords with good search volume for which there are at least 2-3 websites ranking in top 10 that can be beaten.
The terms "good search volume" and "that can be beaten" differ from one person to another, but for me this usually meant
- good search volume = at least 5000 monthly searches
- that can be beaten = at least 2-3 affiliate / blog / content sites with 20 DR or DA maximum, or at least 2-3 forums or UGC sites like Reddit, Quora, Stackoverflow, etc
Again, these numbers can vary (and I'm sure that they DO vary from one person to another) depending on their comfort zone, some people might be comfortable with chasing after keywords with only 1000 monthly searches (as their main keyword I mean, because otherwise - for your inner pages - you can target whatever you want once you've established the right silo structure and have a plan on how to approach building and ranking your site), while other people might only chase after keywords with 100k monthly searches, or 20k, or whatever... Like I said, these numbers are not written in stone and they usually depend on what the person feels comfortable working with, and for me this number had usually been 5000 monthly searches
b) write down 10-20 big topics that you...
- absolutely love
- like a lot
- are curious about / have emotional or financial interest in
Any of these 3 criteria (in this order most of the time) would be the starting point for your niche research. So, let's assume that you figure out 10 things that fall within 1 or more of these criteria, and these 10 things would be:
- play soccer
- play guitar
- crochet
- cook
- offer relationship advice
- meditate
- read books
- do math
- criticize people
- bike
You would take each one of these big topics and...
- input them into the SEO tool of your choice (Ahrefs, Semrush, etc), and then...
- you would organize the results you get by search volume (so you can find a main keyword that you can target as I explained in the previous point) and then check the top 10 results in google for each one of the keywords until you find one that you like.
So, for example, let's say you start with the keyword "play soccer". You plop this into Ahrefs, and hit "search" and let's assume that your comfort keyword is 10k monthly searchers.
Well, you would filter and organize the list you get for the keyword "play soccer" by highest to lowest with 10k being the lowest limit you're willing to accept. And let's assume that Ahrefs finds you 40 keywords that have at least 10k monthly searches.
In this case you would open up another Ahrefs instance (in a different tab most likely) and input the 1st of the 40 keywords in that list into Ahrefs and repeat the filtering and organizing process again until there is no keyword left anymore that has at least 10k monthly searches.
When you reach the bottom of this list you start analyzing the top 10 results in google and look for potential sites you can beat (as I mentioned at point a) above)
Like I said, you narrow down each one of these keywords and sub-keywords and work your way up from the bottom of the list until you find 1 or more keywords for which there are organic results that you feel comfortable tackling.
Yes, this will take time and effort on your part (it might get dark by the time you finish manually going through 100s of potential candidates, but that's how you find golden nuggets and that's why nobody's willing to freely share their discoveries with you as I mentioned at point 1) but if you're persistent and look carefully you will find some keywords with potential, and those will represent your "low competition niche".
c) go to big ecom sites like Ebay, Amazon, Alibaba, etc... and manually open up each category and sub-category of that category and look for products that
- give good commission
- have sold well in the last 6 months
- have low refund rates
- have good and real reviews from actual purchasers
- have good price
- whatever other filter you wish to apply
Find at least 1 such product (the more the better of course) in each sub-category of each category (or at least of each category that you're interested in) that fits most / all of the criteria mentioned above, and write them down on a piece of paper (or type them into a .txt file if you don't like writing) for future research.
Once you find 50-60 products that are selling well, have low refund rates and good reviews and which give you good commissions on sale plop them into your favorite SEO tool and check the rankings for each one of these products just like you did with the keywords mentioned at point b) above.
This time, however (since we're dealing with products instead of information so the rankings will be different), you want to see as few ecommerce sites as possible, or - if there are only / mostly ecommerce sites in top 10 - you want to see as many of them that are not well optimized, and / or don't have high authority (everything above 20 DR I consider to be high authority, but YMMV)
Additionally - if possible - you want to see product review sites, as well because if review sites are ranking for these products or for these products' main categories this means that google can rank your product review site, too.
I'm mentioning this because there was a time (2-3 years ago) when google really hated product review sites and targeted them like crazy, so if you don't see product review sites ranking for your keywords (or for your keywords' main categories, like I said) anymore this means that these niches might not be easy.
BUT - even if there are no review sites ranking in top 10 - as long as you see ecommerce sites ranking and the URLs that are ranking from those ecommerce sites are not well optimized, they don't specifically target the products / product categories that you found, or the ecommerce sites themselves don't have high authority (over 20 DR for example),. this usually means that ranking for these products / product categories is approachable. I would not say it's easy because I don't know your definition of easy and I don't know your skills, but with a bit of SEO, persistence and patience you might be able to rank in top 10 for those products / product categories
One thing that I forgot to mention is that when you do niche research for physical products by checking the categories of big sites like Amazon, Alibaba, etc and you find potential candidates you should write them down with as many adjectives and description as you see them being mentioned on those big sites because any of these words could mean a potential angle (niche) that you can approach the rankings from.
For example, let's say that you found a product on Amazon in the "Smart Plugs and Outlets" category. For example's sake, I just found this product just to explain what I mean:
https://www.amazon.com/Kasa-Smart-Resistance-Compatible-EP40/dp/B091FXH2FR?sbo=RZvfv//HxDF+O5021pAnSA==
If you take a look at the title of this product you will see a lot of words, such as Kasa, Outdoor, Wi-Fi, Sockets, Weather Resistance, IFTTTT, etc... a lot of words in that product's title as you can see, and in reality that's just a normal smart plug (well, normal for today's times, because 20-30 years ago this might have been super cool and super rare product, but you get the idea)
Now... when you find products that meet the criteria I've explain above (low refund rates, good prices / commissions, good ratings, etc) that you find interesting and wish to research, and when you write these products down, you don't just write them down like Kasa Smart Plug (or whatever its real / generic name is).
You write it down using all of those words that I've mentioned above because EVERY SINGLE ONE of these words could represent your niche.
For example, if you look this product up in Ahrefs and you find only tough sites to beat for the keyword Kasa Smart Plug (by the way, I don't recommend you type brands into your page titles and URLs to avoid potential trademarking issues)... so, when you look this product up into Ahrefs and you see only sites that are hard to beat (because they have high authority, high topical authority, lots of indexed pages and rank for lots of keywords, etc) you then move on to analyze the next niche, Outdoor Smart Plug for example...
If Outdoor Smart Plug doesn't yield good results then you move on to the next one (Wi-Fi Smart Plug, or Weather Resistance Smart Plug, etc).... you try any and every mix of these words and check the URLs ranking in top 10 for each one of these words until you find 1 or more combination of words for which you like what you see in top 10. That's why it's important to note down every single word that sounds interesting or unique about these products (and thank God that sites like Amazon help you with this by mentioning all of those properties of the products in their titles so you don't have to look for those words manually by checking the products in detail)..
And when you find 1 combination of words that you like what you're seeing for on google's 1st page and you feel you can beat at least 1 of those sites, you then go to Amazon and look for more products that use the winning words, so you can compile a list of products that you can target (so you can give people more options to buy)....
Again, all of this research will probably take you hours or days to complete. But this is important research that you must do if you wish to find easy niches which - once again - seeing how much work and exhaustion is involved into finding these niches, you can see why nobody's willing to share their discoveries with you for free....
I am pretty sure that there are other things you could do to uncover easy niches (one of the methods that I never got to try that has caught my eye at some point involved setting up google alerts for certain key phrases, but I never checked how that method worked, but the point is that there are more methods than the 3 I've explained), but these 3 should keep you busy into next year and help you develop your own twists and ways of finding opportunities...
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Local services, eco-friendly products, or hobbies like urban gardening and niche DIY crafts.
try this very low competition
try this very low competition
masterhodler
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+11. no! And if someone knows they won't share them with you because easy to rank niches are usually hard to find and you want to keep them to yourself
but here i am when I have a question, i always knocking chatgpt loool
Try google keyword planner to find low competition keywords
Roger Marquez
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Sooo much this!1. no! And if someone knows they won't share them with you because easy to rank niches are usually hard to find and you want to keep them to yourself
You are aware that any low comp niche that is worth building a blog around it to eventually monetize it with ads and affiliate products can potentially worth a few thousands of dollars a month in revenue?
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For my country wood working is low competition. You can check the keywords with Ahrefs or Semrush to see if something is low competition.