Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Beginners And Expert Guides 2023

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Beginners And Expert Guides 2023. How To Make Money Blogging: From Newbie to Professional Guide As with everything in life, you have to begin from somewhere, which we call the starting point, and the starting point in your blogging journey is understanding some key important things about how the internet works and how everything can work together, which is what brings us to the very first step in your blogging journey. Blog Niches and Sub-Niches. But before we speak about that, we should first discuss blog niches: What they mean, how to select one, and the pros and cons.

If your foundation is broken, you’ll encounter some difficulties in your blogging journey, which is why this is the most important step before creating your first blog post.

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Beginners And Expert Guides 2023

Blog Niches are like subjects, while sub-niches are various topics under the subject. That’s the simplest explanation to make this easier to understand.

When You’re done reading this article, I want you to check out another article on slikkyhelp.com that will give you some more valuable insights about: Single Niche vs. Multi-Niche: Discover the Best Choice for Success!

Before you start any blog, the first thing that comes to mind is what I will write about. I guessed you’d asked yourself this question. Well, I’ll guide you in choosing the right niche to succeed in your journey.

Before choosing your niche, there are some factors and criteria to consider, which include:

• How Well Do You Understand The Niche (Subject) or Sub-Niche (Topics)?
• II. How good Are you writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?
• III. Can You run out of ideas at some point with this niche or Sub-niche?
• IV. How many people are writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?
• V. Do you think You’re better than those already writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?
• VI. Do you have a strategy for making your writings about this niche or sub-niche unique and better?
• VII. Is the Niche or Sub-Niche Profitable?
• VIII. Can You Easily Rank for this Niche or Sub-niche?
• IX. Am I blogging for Passion or Money? Or am I blogging because I love it but, at the same time, want to make money?

From that list, I believe you’ve asked yourself some of these questions before, and without even writing anything about each of those questions you need to ask yourself, you would have grabbed the main point of asking yourself those questions.

But since I prepare these guides for Newbies, Experts, and Professionals, I’ll further explain why you must think of these before you even start your blogging journey.

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Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Niche

Quick Notes Blog Niches and Sub-Niches

It’s not a must for you to pick a Bigger niche, which can be full of competition. What I mean by competition is that many people are writing about such a niche, and I’ve gained lots of authority about the niche. It’s always advisable to niche down, which means going for a sub-niche.

 

You might be wondering what sub-niches are. Without wasting your time, let me explain by giving you an example. Let’s use an Entertainment Niche (Subject). There are lots of topics underneath, which we call sub-niches. Topics like Biography, Viral Videos, Leaked Videos, Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity birthdays, Music, and so on are sub-niches under the Entertainment niche.

If you don’t want to compete with large professional bloggers, niching down is always the first key to gaining topical authority faster, which drives organic traffic to your blog.

Going for a bigger niche (Subject) has its advantages and disadvantages. Blog Niches and Sub-Niches.

One of the advantages is that you can cover all the sub-niches as a category on your blog. Let’s say my blog is SlikkyEntertainment.com. I can have categories like Biography, Viral videos, Leaked Videos, gossip, and more on one blog.

With this, you’ll never have ideas for what to write on your blog. The disadvantage is the competition, and it can be so hard to rank your blog post since it’s full of many experts and professionals already writing in this niche before you.

These don’t mean you can’t rank or do well. Go for whatever you think is best for you.

I. How Well You Understand The Niche (Subject) or Sub-Niche

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Understanding the niche or sub-niche is the first thing you must consider when choosing a niche or sub-niche for your blog. You can’t just jump into a niche or sub-niche you know nothing about.

Understanding the niche or sub-niche helps you dish out content about the subject or its topics flawlessly. If you don’t understand the niche, you’ll find it hard to be creative about what to write, how, or even where to start.

Let’s use me as an example. I could have easily found a blog writer to write this topic for me, but because I fully and perfectly understand this niche, one of the niches I’m an expert in, I’m writing these articles myself. I could go on and on discussing this niche and many other topics under this niche (Sub Niches) without getting tired or running out of words.

The reason I could be able to do that is because I understand it, I’m good at it, and I love it.

II. How good Are you writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Blogging has become highly competitive; you’re not the only one looking for money or financial breakthroughs. Many expert and professional bloggers are dishing out outstanding and meaningful content.

Google’s Ranking algorithm will not rank blogs with low-quality content over blogs with high-quality content. To enjoy organic traffic from Google and succeed in your chosen niche, you must be good at what you’re writing about.

If you know you’re not good in that niche, go for the niche or sub-niche you are good at, but if you have the money to employ professional blog writers who are very good in that niche or sub-niche, you can go on with it. If you have it in mind to write your blog posts yourself, I’ll advise you to go for what you’re excellent at.

 Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Beginners And Expert Guides 2023

III. Can You run out of ideas at some point with this niche or Sub-niche?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Another problem some bloggers face is running out of ideas. This can happen if you go for a niche or sub-niche with little to write about.

When you’ve written about most of the topics in the niche, you reach a wall of not knowing what else to write about. This usually happens if you are extremely niched down. Niching down means going for sub-niches to avoid large competition.

For more clarification, let me give you an example: You choose a sub-niche under Lawyers And Attorney Niche, like Accident Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware.

Choosing such a sub-niche can be good because you’re simply discussing an Accident Attorney in the State of Delaware and the City of Wilmington. Well, when you’ve written about all the accident attorneys in that city, you might not know what else to write about; that’s simply running out of ideas on what to write.

This can be good because you’ll find low competition, and if you’re really good in that sub-niche, you’ll dominate it and have some topical authority in that niche.

IV. How many people are writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: A lot of competition is bad for every market. I’d rather go for niches with low competition than highly competitive niches. Imagine how many competitors are already in the Entertainment niche, like TMZ.com, Genius.com, People.com, and many more. This does not mean you cannot compete with this Entertainment blog giant, so I always advise my students to consider the number II factor I explained above: “How good Are you writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?”.

Google Search loves fresh minds and new and quality content, and you can easily outrank these giants if you provide Google with something more quality than your competitors have already provided. For example, let’s use the keyword “Kim Kardashian Biography: The Good And Ugly About Her Life”.

Searching for the Kim Kardashian Biography keyword on Google will surprise you with millions of articles about her. Have in mind that if you want to come to the first page of Google about this keyword, then you’re going to do a lot of work; you first need to research what your competitors on the first page already wrote about her, then you have to write even more than what they’ve all written, going to extra length by researching, even more, deeper about Kim Kardashian, how she grew up, where she grew up, all her past relationships, the ugly part of her life, the good part of her life, her secrets, and so on, then you back it up with some compelling images, make sure you’re not using copyrighted materials, make sure you’re not plagiarizing, make sure you’re not using AI to generate the content because AI will use the information it known which everyone has already written about.

Don’t forget that you need to write original content about her with every piece of information you could dig up about her that your competitors haven’t written about; that’s when you can have a chance of outranking your competitors. Mind you, Content is king, but content alone can’t get you to the first page of Google; that’s where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes into play. What’s the essence of you writing great and quality content when Google Search and other Search Spiders can’t find it?

We will cover everything you need to know about SEO in this guide as you proceed. We’ve got you covered.

V. Do you think You’re better than those already writing about this Niche or Sub-niche?

If you’re someone like me, this question always pops into my head when I see anything I think I could do better. Imagine how many people have written about “How To Make Money Blogging From Newbie to Professional Guide” or “Blog Niches and Sub-Niches.” Still, because I believed I could do better than my competitors, I didn’t even care about the millions of people who had already covered this topic. I went on anyway.

Keywords play a crucial role in blogging, which we will cover extensively as you proceed forward in this guide. If you believe you’re better than your competitors, don’t look back, don’t think about the millions of results on Google search, don’t doubt yourself; do it, write that content as best as you can, follow the guides I’ve put on here, and you’ll be surprised how Google will smile on you and reward your effort with organic traffic. Organic and free traffic equals more money, and Google rewards people who provide it with good and quality content and follow the rules of Search Engine Optimization.

VI. Do you have a strategy for making your writings about this niche or sub-niche unique and better?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: This question and the previous question are similar except for the strategic aspect. Before approaching anything, both in blogging and life, always plan, always have a working plan, and make sure you have already thought about your strategy on how to win. Imagine going into a battle without a strategy; you already know the result.

The rules of strategizing in everything you do apply to Building Your Blog, Setting up Your Blog, and writing your blog content. The strategy will help you win. I won’t tell you most of the strategies I’m using on SlikkyHelp.com that made you find this article because of my competitors.

I want you to see blogging as a battlefield with many enemies after you. Everyone wants to make ends meet and has a strategy to win. What’s your strategy?

That’s one of the questions you must ask yourself before choosing your niche or sub-niche.

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VII. Is the Niche or Sub-Niche Profitable?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Here is where most people fail: If you’re blogging for passion and are not interested in making money, you need not worry about this. But if you’re here to learn how to create a successful and profitable blog, you need to open your mind, read, and assimilate everything I have to say.

Some niches and sub-niches are high-traffic niches, while others are low-traffic niches.  Most high-traffic niches are not profitable but can be if you’re guided, while most low-traffic niches are highly profitable.

In this section, we will be comparing two Niches as an example. The rules that apply to niches also apply to sub-niches; you have to take note of that. Our examples will be the entertainment niche and the lawyer/attorney Niche.

If you remember how competitive I said entertainment niches can be, well, they are not as competitive as the lawyers and attorneys niche, and the strange part of this is that only a few people are even in this niche. I’ll tell you why it’s like that and why people would rather avoid professional cavities and go to not-so-professional places like entertainment.

In blogging, the first thing you’ll have to consider is Google. Don’t forget you’re doing everything for the search giant, providing it with the information it needs for people searching on Google.

The information you provide will impact and affect people. Hence, Google spiders and bots ensure they only rank professionals in this niche rather than wannabe professionals or people who produce content for money without considering the user first.

Imagine a case scenario whereby a user searches on Google for A keyword on “How to Treat Chronic Stomach Ache.” You can see that’s a life-and-death situation if Google ranks nonprofessional blog articles on this keyword that provide the user with a drug that doesn’t cure the Chronic Stomach Ache but rather complicates the situation, which might lead to death. Then you can see how what you write can impact people’s lives.

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: This is why some niches that require professionalism have an expensive Cost Per Click (CPC). We will explain this later as you move forward in this guide. At the same time, entertainment niches have very low CPCs. Low CPC blogs always have high traffic with lots of non-buying intentions. When a user comes to any blog, they will see different advertisements. In Professional niches, users searching for those keywords always have high buying intentions, while entertainment niches have low buying intentions.

A user searching for an Accident Lawyer Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, is finding a service to employ for their Accident cases; we all know how expensive that can be, and that’s why the CPC of such keywords is always higher than the CPC of entertainment keywords.

Few people are always searching for expensive keywords, while lots and lots of people are always searching for low-cost keywords. But if you have some strategy, you can convert your high-traffic Entertainment niche to fetch you more money since ranking on Professional Keywords like lawyers and attorneys can be extremely hard.

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: You need Professionalism and Expertise to rank on Google for keywords that require such professionalism. You can refer to Google’s Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

Mind you, Google EAT applies to all niches except that the enforcement on professional blogs like Medical, legal, and Education is extremely high.

EEAT applies to non-professional blogs, but the enforcement might not be as high as professional blogs. You can find a blog post written by one secondary school guy in the remote village of Ajase in Kwara State, Nigeria, ranking and doing well on the first page of Google searches.

I’m always available to guide you for free on niche selections and how to make money from any of your chosen niches. There are more ways to make money if you have high traffic with a low CPC than you can ever imagine. Reach out to me on Telegram here.

VIII. Can You Easily Rank for this Niche or Sub-niche?

My previous number VII factors to consider explained little about this section. If you’re new to blogging, I’ll advise you to go for niches or sub-niches you can easily rank for unless you have the money to grow your blog with quality content and professional SEO services.

Professional niches are very hard to rank for; Google would rather rank an organization with lots of Professionals with PhD, BED, PGDe, and Masters writing blog posts for them than non-professionals. Most professional blogs have been Blogging for over 10 to 15 years and have a good history on Google SERPs. How do you want to outrank such organizations if you’re just a startup with no financial capability to employ professionals to handle your content and SEO?

Always consider these factors before choosing a niche to blog about.

IX. Am I blogging for Passion or Money? Or am I blogging because I love it but, at the same time, want to make money?

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: You need to ask yourself these questions before choosing your niche, as this will guide you in determining what strategy you need to be successful in that niche. If you’re blogging for passion, you won’t care if few to none are reading your articles, or you might not even need to have your blog but rather go on sites that allow creators to simply put their content out there.

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Websites like Medium.com are examples, and The New Twitter Writes allows writers to write long-form articles about any topic and publish them without earning much. You can also find some blogs looking for contributors on the web. If you’re blogging for passion, these are some ways to express yourself.

Blogging for money is an investment. You buy a domain, host the domain, design your blog, install necessary free or premium themes, paid or free plugins, employ SEO or do the SEO yourself, and so on. You need money to accomplish all this, and the end game for every investment is to get your Return on Investment back.

If you’re not blogging for money, you have little to worry about, but if you’re in this for the money, like every business, you need to learn how it works and how to succeed.

Blog Niches and Sub-Niches: Conclusion

Blogging is a very lucrative business that requires learning and understanding. If you follow all the steps I mentioned in this article, you’ve solved one of the bigger problems and challenges some bloggers face in blogging.

When your foundation is set wrong, you’ve already failed, but when you get it right, you’re on your way to winning, and if you get some things wrong, they can be easily corrected, unlike getting the very first foundation wrong.