Which Niche Sites See the Most Traffic?

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   AHrehaposted 3 years ago

   Anyone know which are the highest and lowest traffic niche sites?
   
   From my own stats I’m seeing ToughNickel and Bellatory do pretty well while Letterpile and Delishably get much less traffic, though it could just be me.

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      harrynielsenposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Owlcation and Spinditty are best for me.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Owlcation, Ballatory, Paired Life. I think it depends on one's articles. We would need hubpages to tell us which site did the most traffic, and it's not likely they would tell us.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 3 years ago

   The majority of my articles are on either Spinditty or ReelRundown. My Spinditty stuff generally does better than my RR stuff.

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      AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks!

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   Wesman Todd Shawposted 3 years ago

   I'd tell you my Spinditty stuff outdoes everything else I've done, and that would be true, but I've also been mostly focused very specifically on that niche, and am probably more qualified in that than in any other. So I'm not sure my answer is very helpful. You should definitely go for whatever it is which excites you the most, but you should probably do the most work where you're both enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

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      AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Great thoughts! Thank you!!

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   Sherry Hewinsposted 3 years ago

   Dengarden seems pretty good too.

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   DrMark1961posted 3 years ago

   I guess you want to know which niche sites are best, not best for each person who posts here. You can get numbers from several sources. Here are some posted by similarweb.com:
   
   Owlcation is at the top: 6.11 million page views per month
   levelskip                        3.99
   reelrundown                  3.41
   pethelpful                      2.92
   dengarden                     2.89
   spinditty                         2.67
   toughnickel                    2.06
   bellatory                         1.78
   
   There are other sites I did not look up but I think they are rated lower than these.

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      AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      This is perfect!! Thank you!

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         DrMark1961posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I cannot vouch for the veracity of those numbers but they look reasonable. Even with those numbers, be sure to concentrate on a site that you know a lot about, even if it is one of those with less traffic.
         Glad I could help.

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            AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Good advice! Thank you!

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      TessSchlesingerposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Nice to know. Thank you. I guess we are all going to focus our efforts there...

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      OldRosesposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      That's interesting that the highest performing niche site is owlcation.  My owlcation hubs are my worst performers.  I can vouch for Dengarden being a middling performer.  Almost all of my hubs are on Dengarden and most are just middling performers.  Thankfully a few are superstars and keep the $$ rolling in.

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         DrMark1961posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I would be very hesitant about writing any articles based on these numbers. If you were to get a lot of traffic from Dengarden it would be a lot better than a little from Owlcation, right?
         All of my articles are on Pethelpful. The only thing I could publish on Bellatory would be a satire.

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            OldRosesposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            I write what I know most about which is gardening.  A few of my hubs that I consider gardening related, the HP editors have felt belong on other niche sites so I have a few hubs on Owlcation, Holidappy and Delishably.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 3 years ago

   Numbers aren't everything if you are interested in earnings, however. There are many topics where you can get a lot of views and earn next to nothing, and others where you get less views but earn more.

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      AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Very true!

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         Wesman Todd Shawposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Mr. Goodman is a wise old timer around these parts. Before you get caught up in more complicated things, make certain you're formatting your pages to be as visually appealing as possible.
         
         Probably the single best thing I have learned about writing and publishing things online is you have to break up the text into lots of very small paragraphs.
         
         Big honkin chunks of text make the person trying to read your page lose interest. It's hard to keep reading when you lose your place due to a gigantic honkin glob of text.
         
         The text could be the most fantastic text in the history of text. Doesn't matter. Break up them paragraphs into small chunks. I like three sentence chunks, myself, but if three looks too small for a paragraph, I could do more for a chunk.

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            AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            Great advice! I do find myself throwing out massive paragraphs. Not really SEO or reader friendly I suppose.

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            Jean Bakulaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

            It took me a long time to realize that. I had to make much shorter paragraphs, people don't have the attention spans to read long ones.

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               AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

               Sad, but true!

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      AloBeDaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      I can attest to that.

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      DrMark1961posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Are you talking about Amazon sales or CPM for a particular subject? Since HP pays by number of impressions, numbers are important here.
      (And, when numbers go down, so do Amazon sales: not everyone is going to by, so if 10,000 people read your article a day there are a lot more sales than if 1000 people read your article per day.)

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         AHrehaposted 3 years agoin reply to this

         Right. Still new without that sweet snowball of traffic rolling. I’ve got a few Amazon links sprinkled in there. Maybe someday someone will use one. : )

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