Are niche hubs better?
As mainly a writer of property related material, I am heading towards creating a niche on HubPages, but I'm not sure this is necessarily as good for attractinbg traffic as having a more widespread subject matter. Has anyone got any opinions on this?
94- Helen Cater
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I started with a niche, but soon became bored as I wanted to write about everything I found interesting, so spread my wings. It has done me no harm, and in fact I find people come looking for hairdressing related articles, only to find some of my health hubs more rewarding. I have written about how I started Hubpages and they are good for new hubers to read. In my opinion having lots of topics means more traffic not less.
96- Nelle Hoxie
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A niche is a great way to cover your main keyword and all of its variants. You can link them together for SEO benefits. Of couse you can have many different niches under your account, so there's nothing to lose, if you want to write about something else.
You could always create another account for writing about a wide spectrum of topics and just keep the account you have now for your niche. You can use the same adsense account for both accounts so there is no problem there, good luck !
I have two IDs here, one that's for writing about whatever catches my fancy and one that is about Michigan-related stuff only because I wanted to experiment with a niche. I really like them both and haven't found that traffic is hurt either way.
But like Nelle said, you can have many niches under one account. You don't need two IDs.
100- relache
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I have found that you can write as niche or broad as you wish. Having a mix seems to give overall stronger performance year-round.
90- prettydarkhorse
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relache wrote:
I have found that you can write as niche or broad as you wish. Having a mix seems to give overall stronger performance year-round.
nice informations, it is very useful for me just reading all your responses..
Thanks everyone. I would have replied earlier but the site seemed to be having a problem - or maybe it was my browser, not sure. Anyway, it seems niche writing is mostly enjoyed and doesn't harm traffic potential. I might create a new ID for other stuff, as I like things to be separated (another OCD sufferer, lol).
Hey Tony,
I recommend sticking to your niche but write broadly on the topic. Write about related things to your niche and link them together.
Whenever I write a hub, I note the words that I could expand on but irrelevant to that hub. I then write another hub related to the original but something totally different. You can capture the traffic from the wider searched topics and then give them reason to read about the specific niche.
Good luck!
89- mailxpress
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TonyBooth wrote:
As mainly a writer of property related material, I am heading towards creating a niche on HubPages, but I'm not sure this is necessarily as good for attractinbg traffic as having a more widespread subject matter. Has anyone got any opinions on this?
I feel it is harder to attract traffic. Most of my Hubs are about generating traffic using free resources but I must tell ya I do enjoy writing about using free resources to increase traffic. It has also crossed my mind to write about other topics and will in the very near future. I feel many Hubbers write about many different topics and do very well.d
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- mailxpress
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HealthTip wrote:
You could always create another account for writing about a wide spectrum of topics and just keep the account you have now for your niche. You can use the same adsense account for both accounts so there is no problem there, good luck !
What a great idea to create a new account and to write about a new niche. Thanks.
96- Dame Scribe
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Evergreen topics help bring traffic too. Use search to find excellent Hubs on that topic
96- yoshi97
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Having all your eggs in one basket is a sink or swim proposition, but spreading your eggs out all over the lawn is just asking for them to get squished ...
Being that the case, I prefer to work in a few niches at once, but not too many. As Relache said, diversification can do your hub portfolio wonders ... but if you don't niche your articles in groups they tend to do poorly standing alone. It's just human nature to want to see another article after liking the first ... and sometimes (at least for me) that second article garners the click the first one missed.
I started with 3 niches, I now write in 5. It allows you to keep writing new interesting articles all the time.
97- thranax
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They are only as good as the content written and the way it is presented.
~thranax~
79- tksensei
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As long as the niche isn't 'hot' Indian wowmen who turn out to be middle-aged lumps sporting fat, hairy bellies instead of the many, many actual hot Indian women that could have been featured.
LOL, just kidding- 97
- thranax
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Lol @ tksensei!
~thranax~ 
96- darkside
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mailxpress wrote:
What a great idea to create a new account and to write about a new niche. Thanks.
Provided the secondary account/s don't go running around the forum causing havoc it is a very good idea.
80- francisjdurz
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Niches are useful.
Hubs are great.
96- Paul Edmondson
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Hubs that are very focused on a niche topic do the best. In my opinion, the more focused the better. For example, it's difficult to gain traction writing about a broad subject like making desserts, but a Hub on how to make a mint chip ice cream cake has a good chance of doing well.
