Making money is easy!  Simply find a niche, build a site and sit back.

Countless articles, ebooks and guides will tell you how to build niche mini sites and sales pages, they will even show you how to find keywords and work out the profitability of a niche.   But this isn’t the hard part – anyone with computer skills can do this.

In fact, probably the most difficult part of building a niche site is coming up with the niche in the first place.

A while back I suffered.  I tried countless niches.  I built sites on web hosting, popular TV shows and dating.  And had no success.  Why was this happening?  I could see countless examples of similar sites in the same niches doing really well….and thats the problem.

I was prompted to write this article after finishing building a site.  Its on a topic I’m passionate about and I found it easy to create.  Within 5 hours the site was indexed in Google and its been 2 days since the domain was registered and it now sits on the third page of Google for the targeted keyword.  It looks promising.

Building that niche site made me realise how lucky I was to have finally “clicked” and discovered why my attempts 2 years ago were so miserable:

I was copying others.  I now build sites on topics that no one else has bothered to touch.  Sounds risky – yes, but so much easier.

Want to know how to find a niche like this?

The easiest way to find a profitable niche is by accident.  If you’re searching Google, and fail to find the information you’re looking for, then chances are there is a hole that needs to be filled.  Why not fill that hole!

You probably come across these opportunities all the time, but simply pass over and try another Google search.  This is when having a notepad near by comes in handy.  Scribble down these opportunities, ready to research them further.

Super Tip for Finding Hot Niches

If you fail to find inspiration from failed searches, instead try this super tip:

Head on over to the 43Things recently popular list.  It lists things people want to do.  I’ll repeat that again – “want to do”.  These people are actively wanting to do something.  It doesn’t take a whole lot of entrepreneurial brain power to figure out that that makes a perfect niche to target.

Its Got to Interest You

Sure you can pick niches that you have no interest in – I see many entrepreneurs doing this successfully.  But it makes it so much easier to create content and put together a site based around your passions.  If you were to take a peak at my collection of sites, you’d probably wouldn’t believe that I’m passionate about all these topics.  And its true, i’m not necessarily passionate about them all.  However, they all relate to me in some shape or form.  The ideas for the sites came about through life experiences.

Now Go Work

They say a mini site can be built in a couple of hours.  Yes thats true, but it can take many more hours to generate the backlinks and content required to push these sites to the top.

So what are you waiting for….

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