Choosing a great niche subject to base your website around is paramount to your blogging success. Do you want to choose a killer niche for yourself? Choose something you are passionate about. Why? Because you will put more of yourself into it. And the more you put yourself into it, the more you are creating the road to your success. so really think about the niche you want to be in. Then choose a product that compliments your niche topic (and pays a good commission). The next step is to choose your keywords.

Your niche is what you are going to be building on and you can target your specific audience with the keywords you select based on what your target audience is most likely to be searching for. Keep this in the forefront of your mind - what search term is someone going to use to get to my site or product?

The way to find the optimum keywords for your niche subject is to use a keyword software program like Google Adwords (which is a free service).

Type in the word or phrase you think someone searching for your site or product would use. Adwords will respond by generating a list of keywords or phrases that include your phrase and other words or phrases similar to what you typed in.

This information is very valuable because it shows you how many sites are out there competing for your term, and you will get a monthly figure of how many people have made that actual search. What you are looking for is the most searched for terms with the least amount of competition.

To do a quick check of how many competitors you have for a term, you can just type your term into Google. In the upper right hand area of the page you will see the number of responses for that term - yep, that’s the competition.

You will have to decide which of these would be most profitable. This is not an exact science. Opinions run rampant in all directions on how to select the most profitable avenue.

Some internet marketers like a small amount of competition, say under 50,000. Others will tell you to go ahead and take the plunge into a market with a million competitors or more because that clearly indicates the product you are offering is popular.

If you are just starting out, I would recommend that you don’t go with anything that has over 200,000 competitors. The reason being, the more competitors, the harder it is to get your site ranked on the first, second or third page of Google (so people can find your site). Research has shown that most people aren’t going to go past the third or forth page of Google to find what they are looking for. And the less competition in your area, the easier it will be for you to rank.

As you gain confidence with your success along the way, you may want to start swimming in that bigger pond.
Anne Hilton.      Source : http://www.beccag.com/