A profitable untapped niche. Making $$$$!
"Patience is a virtue". It's what we need as hubbers in order to gain recognition, respect and friendship among our peers (plus the payout)
Well thank you Darkside you actually just made my day
you have a good one!
Depends on the topic. At the moment not sure if it's based on a lot of longtail hits or just google being out on some numbers, but ranking number one for unsearched topics... seems to be getting me some nice hits.
And if I ever write a "How to make money online" hub please kick me!
On the other hand, if you choose a topic that's really obscure, even if you're passionate about it...if no one shows up..well...try again.
I wrote a hub on dust craving during pregnancy. I'm #1 and the responses I get in comments are very grateful.... but there ain't that many people searching it!
How's that for obscure?Haha nice idea.
As a kid my mum used to give me charcoal tablets if I was good.... I used to think they were a treat and beg for one.
Maybe they're connected? LoL!
@Rochelle, no I don't *think* he was
This makes me think of the short story by Neil Gaiman. It's called Sunbird. A guy ate charcoal in there! Just sayin'.
WryLilt, I'm just in awe you were even craving dust. But I've had a few weird cravings, too, so I can't judge. Rofl. Why did I never see that hub? I'm so going to find it and read it now. Pregnant women and their cravings... sigh...
- AMBASSADOR BUTLERposted 13 years ago
0Maybe this post is page 1 on google - seems to be a lot of keyword stuffing for this post AB!
'google, page 1, google, page 1... page 1 and first on the page on page 1.'
- girly_girl09posted 13 years ago0
Very good advice! It is certainly more fun (and beneficial to the reader) if you are actually interested in what you're writing about.
Another great place to find a niche is to turn papers/assignments for college into hubs. Most college students have a bunch on their hard drives. You may need to optimize them, but it definitely works. Larger papers can be turned into shorter articles. If I have the option to choose a topic, I will try to opt for one that has a higher search volume. Some of my better hubs were written after reading articles in some of the magazines my daughter buys. Others were written after personal online searches, things that appeared when typing *whatever* into Google - and the search assist facility kicked in. There really wasn't any research done, I just wrote them.
The 'be patient' part is probably the most common sense aspect of writing onlineI hear you, Mega, on being sooo unique and creative and wonderful.
Sometimes I think there hasn't been an original though on the face of the earth for 50 years! Just re-runs of someone else's thinking from long ago.
Some of my so unique and creative ideas have so many hubs written about them that I can't even find a title that hasn't already been used!
Same here rebekah... it is only when I have deviated from the advice that I have found trouble
- BenjaminBposted 13 years ago0
Not that anyone needs me to second the thoughts offered here on the importance of keywords, but I do. The Hubs I have that do really well are the ones with the right keywords. The ones that I have that don't do all that well - well, some of them would be earning me more if I had more in volume. Some wouldn't. Having said that (and the following post is long - sorry - but the idea of writing what you're interested in, particularly if you're someone who's floundering for ideas on subjects to write about) is, I think, worth really discussing. (Besides, it goes without saying (and yet I'm saying it
), people can just skip this long post if they don't want to be bothered reading it. )
People are so often told they should emulate others who seem to do well at something, but what I've seen are sometimes people who don't just try to emulate style-wise or approach-wise. Instead, it's clear they're just out-and-out scouring people's material and trying to re-invent themselves as that other person. Anyone who has been on here long enough often knows the work of a lot of other Hubbers, so sometimes you can even have a pretty good idea exactly who it is someone is "borrowing from". They may "borrow" exactly the way someone approaches any number of things - from how that person approaches SEO stuff to how he creates titles to the actual "persona" of that person. I don't know... Maybe it works for some of them, but I don't think it works for too many. Nobody can be someone else as well as that someone else can be himself, and nobody can cash in on someone else's specific combination of knowledge and skills.
You can spot these folks (or sockpuppets) because you can see that they have no core to their "online identity" or aims. They borrow from one person's stuff in one place, and from someone else's stuff somewhere else - and it looks pretty peculiar if you go to their profile. You look at each of their Hubs and think, "Who is this person trying to be in this Hub?"
The unfortunate thing is that everyone has his own interests and own identity. All it takes to do reasonably well is to put in the legitimate work required, put in some time, have some patience, and write about either what you know, yourself, or about things that interest you enough that you'll recognize solid research sources when you're researching. When you stick with the stuff you, yourself, are comfortable with and interested in, it shows up in your writing; and in terms of substance and uniqueness (even if it's a simple little Hub about a simple thing).
It's one thing if you know your weakness is SEO stuff (mine is) and if you take some advice from someone for whom that's a strength. It's a whole other thing if you think you're going successfully "borrow from" others when it comes to the kind of Hubs you write or the subjects you write about.
So, I very much second the idea that people should write about what really interests them. Avatars, pen names, and even "alter-egos" (at least the kind created to separate different kinds of writing) aside; I think whatever writing people do, they need to start from who they, themselves, are as a person first; and then do whatever else (research, SEO stuff) they need to do after the writing is done.
Trying to second-guess search engines is only going go so far if the Hub is bad once (and if) people run into it. It may seem like a corny, old fashioned, idea (or else maybe it seems like a novel one in this world of Internet writing), but the one thing nobody can successfully compete with you on is being the only you that you can really be, and writing the stuff that interests, and is unique to, you. It's like everything else in life, you have to put in the time, effort, and work and go with an approach that works well for you, the individual if you want to see results.
Do a lot of people successfully write about stuff they're not interested in? Sure. I do it all the time in non-HubPages/non-spare-time writing, and some Hubbers do it on here all the time, as well. But, for people who came to HubPages because they wanted to write for their own enjoyment AND earn from doing that, writing about what interests you and writing with your own accumulation of knowledge/experience is the thing that makes your writing unique. Maybe there's a person here or there who can write about what someone else is interested and be "creative" enough at fiction to pretend he's the one interested in it (or the one who is an expert in the subject); but most can't pull that off.
If you write about what you're interested in (even if you're interested in loads of different things), you'll still come across as someone with a core, and you'll still have something unique to add to the subject. If you try to copy what you think someone else has had success writing about, you'll just look like a flake with sixteen different personalities and no real substance to your writing. Maybe you don't care about that, and it's your business if you don't. If you care about being a credible writer and earning (even with the writing that's about the stuff in which you have interest) you're not likely to be/do either.
I suppose that may be what "inspired" my long reply to this thread, here, is that, as someone who really enjoys writing, I found it refreshing to see a thread about writing - not about how to earn (and especially, not about how to earn a quick buck). I'd like to see more discussions on writing, itself, on the forums here. Earning money on this site isn't so difficult that the subject of it ought to take up quite as much forum discussion as it does.Ambassador you're confusing the hell out of me. Is your hub published on another account? If not, and it's unpublished, it ain't ... published. Which means it's not in the public domain.
Which then means no one but you, the hubteam and my dead relatives can see it.
You're not messing with us are you? Your plight does seem far fetched. I have a really expansive imagination but regards what's going on with you, or not - it's coming up blankYup. I definitely think someone is trying to yank everyone's chain--and doing a splendid job I might add.
I've popped in and out of this specific topic here and I must agree.
I'm quite perplexed, and feel badly if anyone is upset by certain claims here that may or may not be true.
I try not to pay much attention to these little things I have no control over...
However, separate note, I'm one of the ones that write about whatever I want. I like hubbers who can be honest and just be real.
Brett,
You forgot to mention Acai berries!!!!! Isnt that 'juicy' niche?????
- kimberlyslyricsposted 13 years ago0
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