Niche research stats

So I am looking up some niches for a blog(s) I am going to start creating content for and I am not sure what types of numbers to start with.

I am plugging things into Ubersuggest to start with googer trends. So far the numbers for some Ive come up with for each niche (main keyword) are:

(Definitions below)
Niche SEO Diff Srch Vol Similar keywords Goog Trend Top 10 Ave BLs
Science 27 5,400 1971 Decreasing 95
Science 18 1,900 611 Even 49
Science 27 14,800 2949 Decreasing 269
Animals 28 14,800 62 Decreasing 31 (like)
Home 58 33,100 1856 Increasing 128 (like)
Science 22 6,600 196 Decreasing 67
Health 28 33,100 42 Decreasing 19
Health 44 74,000 5758 Even 75 (like)
Health 41 74,000 453 Increasing 37 (like)
Health 62 201,000 546 Even 187
Health 39 12,100 395 Increasing 30
Health 36 8,100 381 Decreasing 1365
Health 25 49,100 381 Even 61
Art 21 12,100 5233 Even 26 (like)
Health 26 9,900 200 Increasing 58 (like)
Health 31 5,400 2488 Increasing 108
Cooking 25 880 320 Increasing 5
Health 26 18,100 6503 Even 71 (love)
Hobby 37 12,100 500 Increasing 44 (like)
Spirutalty 37 67,000 7 Decreasing 99
Spirutalty 22 27,100 6 Decreasing 5 Spirutalty 46 74,000 58500 Increasing 674 (love)
E-commerce 70 246,000 405 Increasing 175

Definitions:
SEO Diff - Organic ranking difficulty (higher badder)
Srch Vol - Monthly searches (higher gooder)
Similar keywords - Similar suggested relevant keywords (higher gooder?)
Goog Trend - 5 year google trend ("decreasing" bad?)
Top 10 Ave BLs - Average number of backlinks of the Top 10 sites in ubersuggest (lower gooder)

- I put a like or love next to the ones I think are the best. Am I close? Or are there other things I should consider? IS this enough info to get started with?

- I can come up with a formula to find a single number that takes each of these into consideration and just go with the one that spits out the highest number. But I am stuck the start with search volume.

Should I try to go after something with a high search volume and high similar keywords and just attack all the low volume long tail keywords?

Or should I try to go after niches that are easier to monetize and target as many keywords that have 500 or fewer searches a month?

Ill monetize with affiliate links first, then ads if i ever do get around to obtaining 1 view per month.

I understand ubersuggest's numbers shouldnt be taken as gospel but its where Im starting and when I have a few niches Im cool with Ill flesh them out with other sites until I have one I think I can really do something with.

Thanks anyone and everyone with your feedback. I appreciate it all. Now I understand what some people go through in the journey threads...

Jesus, I spent 20 minutes lining up each of the columns just to see it posted with the formatting deleted.

Take this with a grain of salt as I am definitely not an expert.

I think you are on the right track overall. However, for the ones you are looking at, you need to do an in depth look at the serps and not pay as close of attention to ubersuggests difficulty as I've found it to be pretty off. Personally, this post helped me a lot with getting started on it.

I hope that helps!

Cool man thanks for the long ass thread. I like when they get really granular (and I pretend to understand more than half of it). Ive been reading and reading and this will give me another dimension to getting started. Is the author on authority hacker? It looks like a lot of the same type of writing and content. Or maybe its just GOOD content that works and they both use it.

Do you use any free and trusty keyword tools you could recommend?

Placebo3ffect said:

Take this with a grain of salt as I am definitely not an expert.

I think you are on the right track overall. However, for the ones you are looking at, you need to do an in depth look at the serps and not pay as close of attention to ubersuggests difficulty as I've found it to be pretty off. Personally, this post helped me a lot with getting started on it.

I hope that helps!

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Hey,

So I was going through some keywords and trying to find some that fell under the KGR 0.25 rule and I was pretty amazed. Most keywords were not coming close. If I pulled 50 long tail KWs under 250 searches per month, most had allinthetitle results of more than the monthly search volume (KGR of 1+).

I would find maybe 4-5 that came in under a quarter of the monthly search volume amount (KGR 0.25). Is this normal for most long tail KWs? Or is this a good sign that its a bad beginner sites niche and its way too saturated?

Thanks

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad sign for beginners, but you can use it to give you an idea of how tough it's going to be.

To give you an idea, on my main money site, which is the first site I've tried to rank, I rank #1 for 16 long tail keywords. None of which fall in the KGR sweet zone, but a couple were close when I started.

Placebo3ffect said:

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad sign for beginners, but you can use it to give you an idea of how tough it's going to be.

To give you an idea, on my main money site, which is the first site I've tried to rank, I rank #1 for 16 long tail keywords. None of which fall in the KGR sweet zone, but a couple were close when I started.

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So take it wit a grain of salt. Ive seen a few niches that are close. I figure I should also take into consideration some niches would be easier to monetize than others? Or would it not a big difference between niches.

Thanks

You definitely want to have a plan for monetization in place. One mistake I made was not looking at payout limits on the affiliate program I signed up for. It had a $500 minimum. It took me three months to reach that the first time. The second time took two months. Now, for the first time I'm on track to make it in one month.

The big issue was that I was planning on using the money to pay for monthly expenses like subscriptions, hosting, etc. I had to rewrite my plan after that first month

Are you running CPA offers? Or are they larger payout offers.

It's CPA. My average commission is $4.96.