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In this video, I'm going to show you the importance of choosing a profitable niche
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for your blog and how it can make or break your success. So true
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Everyone, my name is Kevin Smack and I've been blogging for years now. In that time, I've seen what works and what doesn't when it comes to blogging
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I know because a lot of my blogs failed in the beginning. When people think about starting a blog, they often don't know where to start
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But there's one thing that helps more than anything else. And that's choosing the right niche
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The right niche is so important because if you choose the wrong niche, you are doomed
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from the start. If it's way too competitive, you are just making it so much harder for yourself
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Now, there's always a chance you can compete in a very competitive niche, but if it's your
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first few sites, I would not recommend it. I would try to go for something easy that's not very competitive
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so you can go in and dominate the niche that you start
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I'm going to show you three examples of sites that I've created that I call failures
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Technically, it's two and a half. There's one that's kind of like half and half
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I'm going to show you the websites and why they failed and give you some other tips along the way
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A lot of people say giving up early is the number one reason people fail
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and I don't completely agree with that. because if you put enough blog posts on and you quit blogging, in time, those blog posts are going
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to build up authority if they're done right. And all of a sudden you're going to start getting
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traffic. Eventually, six months or a year later, you just randomly drop in on your ytics and
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boom, you see it's working. Well, guess what? You can just jump right back in and continue with that
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website. That website's not dead. You still have it. You still have all that other content
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now you just have the extra energy to keep going. I don't think that's the problem. I think the
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number one problem is peaking the wrong niche. You can throw as much content as you humanly
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possibly can afford, make, create, or anything. But if it's the wrong niche or you're not focusing
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on the right keywords, it's not going to matter. But for this video, we're going to talk specifically
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about the niche because we've talked about keywords before. I'll put a video up top in
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case you're curious about checking out how I find keywords now. That's the one way other than using
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Carl from keywordcare.com. And not sponsored. Let's go ahead and just jump in and show you
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these examples. These are not going to be in order, but they are going to be in order from
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my failures. So we're gonna go with the number one, the biggest failure of ever that I dumped
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a lot of money into shieldedvpn.com. Yes, I made a VPN site because I found that you can resell
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other people's VPNs. And I was like, this is going to be awesome. I'm going to go ahead
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make a website and dominate. I also have a YouTube presence. So I was like, I need a product for my
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YouTube. So why not do this? Because I also have a website with like technical phone support and my
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other one's kind of like gaming with tech built in. So I was like, this would be a good thing to
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sell, but it just didn't work. There's just too many VPNs. It's too competitive. I thought I did
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a really good job on this site. I actually am no longer selling them. I've kind of just shut it
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down to let my current subscriptions fade out, which they have, I'm actually going to be shutting
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this down when the domain ends, which is in like a month. Yeah, I'm just going to let it go. And I
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mean, I put a lot of time and content into this, a lot of work. I probably have 30 blog posts
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This was one of my first ones. So when I started it, I did go ahead and make a big mistake. After
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like three months, I noticed a few blog posts were ranking. But what did I do? I took those blog posts
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and rewrote them too much and added extra content. That way they can go ahead and be better and rank
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better. But instead, Google took this as a red flag and just killed the site. I thought it was my tech
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support. So I went through and completely set everything up. I have YouTube videos. I have
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step-by-step instructions. I've tried everything with this site. I got to the point where I was
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like I not going to do anything on this site until I get a sale Every time I would sell a VPN service which was maybe like once a month I would go ahead and spend about two hours on the website and work on it
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So the website I feel is really good. All the content on it is just going to be garbage. I'm
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just going to throw it away. It's not ranking. It's very well written. It's sales copy
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which means it's kind of like giving you a problem. And then at the end, it talks about how Shielded VPN can fix it
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That is my number one failure. VPN niche is way too competitive
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I mean, I've redone the site. I've changed the logo. I've changed the slogans
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I've tried everything I could. And it's just not taking. So this site is going to be one that I am going to let go
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I thought about selling it, but, you know, I've taken, I removed the back end so you can no longer, you'd have to set that up yourself
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It's just blog posts. It barely gets any organic traffic. Here's a quick look at the last six months of the traffic and impressions
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Some things kind of do pick up a little bit, but it just, it performs very badly
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Shielded VPN, RIP, I'll be shutting you down. and it's sad, but it's going to happen
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Let's go to my number two failure, which was a little rough
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Here we are, and don't adjust your eyes. Yes, that is a bright color, and I probably shouldn't have made it that bright
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but that's not the reason this site's failing. HelpfulTutorials.net is a spinoff of my YouTube channel
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Here's a quick look at Helpful Tutorials. Oh, I should probably subscribe
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So this is a tutorial channel for iPhones. I've kind of stopped working on it in the last three months
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but a lot of my earlier videos do point to the website to say
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hey, come check it out and join. And with joining, you can get this awesome little sheet that I made
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It is amazing. I spent so much time and so much money for this infographic
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that I get maybe like one person a week that signs up and comes gets it
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But I mean, basically what it is, is this an iPhone picture that shows you how to fix all the problems that are very common, which, you know, it's fixing something
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People come and they do sign up for it, which is cool. But the rest of the site's not doing well
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The organic traffic's not there. I do have ads on it. However, I do have ad blocker on right now just to show you these sites in full
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you know my idea of this site was to build a website and do everything with iphones i have a
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very skilled experience with iphones i've been working on them since the first one i've fixed
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thousands i've set up thousands i've done it for jobs so i know how iphones work so that's why i
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made the channel because i had knowledge and every time someone would ask me how to fix something i'd
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be like, I should make a video on it. So I did. And in here I did something different, which I
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thought was cool. And it was kind of an experiment under iPhone videos. There is a plugin. I think
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it's called V blogger. And what it does is it grabs your videos from your YouTube channel
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and automatically puts it onto the website. Now it's a little rough to set up and stuff
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But I mean, I think it was like 30 bucks or something. But it's pretty cool because if I would post a new video, it would just make a new thread
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Of course, it would take everything from my comments and throw them in here. So there'd be a lot of stuff
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Even if people commented, it might say stuff down below. It'll copy the comments as well
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So you can come in here and edit it. And I have done that on some videos that have started getting impressions
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What I did was I came in here, edited them, and I hired someone from Fiverr to pretty much go through, take pictures, and type what's going on
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You know, type step-by-step instructions. So taking the video, turning it into a blog
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And I thought this would do really well, but I think the iPhone is just way too competitive
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Especially nowadays with Apple. Apple is just, you know, they're usually number one for their own ranking when it comes to tech support
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So this site was a failure. I did do a few blogs. I think one of them got a little bit of traffic
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That was the one. Where is it here How to clean your iPhone And I think the reason this did well was because i added some original pictures that i took and i showed how to clean it this was one of the first ones you know
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i was going through and showing you exactly how to go through and clean it and this one seemed to do
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good and i also had to clean the charging cable so this one started doing okay but never really
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took off. I also have had blogs that I've really targeted. There was this one that was
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very competitive that I was always doing so close on video. I think it's under the video section
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but I was unable to get it. And unfortunately it would have been a good amount of views and
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get the site moving, but it didn't. Then you have your member section, which is basically when you
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signed up for that thing you'd be a member because eventually I wanted to start a professional
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training area where people could pay to be members and I would go through and teach them more about
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iPhones. The problem with that is I couldn't really find enough material that would be beneficial
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in my mind because I already gave it all away for free and I didn't feel like it was a good idea to
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sell something that I've already given. I'm not like that. If I had a bunch of secrets yes but I
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didn't so kind of let that go and I had a question section so people could come ask questions and I
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was answering them and then I stopped this is the last six months and it actually gets more clicks
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than I thought but not many I think I thought most of the clicks were from the YouTube channel so it
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does look like it has it does get a few a day zero to four for the most part uh impressions is good
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average CRT is terrible and average position. So I don't know. This is age now. A lot of the stuff
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that I am tracking in has changed. So yes, it was true, but it's not anymore. So let's jump into my
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final site. And this is pro gamer stories. My main channel, Kevin Smack is YouTube gaming
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and Fortnite's mainly what I was playing. So it's like, I'm going to make a channel
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about the Fortnite professionals. I did my research, and to be honest
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everything ranking for people's names is trash. And I'm like, I can do better than that
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I can make these articles that are amazing and talk all about everyone
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and it's just gonna do awesome. I was like, there's no way this can fail
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And unfortunately, it isn't doing well. If we go to gamers, we go here
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and I probably have about 30 some loaded. These are probably way too large
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Let me look for one that's pretty large. This is probably the one that's doing the best
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So let's jump into 72 hours. Maybe not the best, but it's doing pretty good
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So here I would have all their social media. So you could go to their social media and follow them
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I would have all their equipment. That way I can sell stuff on Amazon
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And I was like, man, this site's looking good. I'm doing all this research
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I'm just going to crush it and then I'm going to tell a story about them
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I'm going to go ahead and talk all about them growing up
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about how they got into gaming, you know, their start you know, who they played with
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their victories, the teams they've joined and I would put their team that they're on
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you know, their stats, their victories their earnings everything and it's going to
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blow up and it didn't. And I even eventually, originally this site was called fixfortnite.com and it was
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a technical fix site. But when I wanted to do this, I renamed it to Pro Gamer Stories and had
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to start the domain authority all over. It was a bit rough, but I still had the technical fixes
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on there. And what happened was the technical fixes started doing better. I'll just jump into
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one for example i think i've only have like five of these on here and it's like how to fix a lag
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and it goes into everything i am sponsored by no ping still i'm sponsored by no ping they're great
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so they help games run better and so this article goes through everything there so
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the site in all does get some traffic so it's not a complete failure however gaming niches
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are really low. And the part that I wanted to do well isn't. As far as selling the equipment
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here's the equipment I sold on that website this year. $4.99 in commission. So you must be saying
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that site probably doesn get any traffic at all right No it does get traffic It gets about a hundred views a day and the most popular article does have equipment on it for some reason it just doesn get it we looking at it been down a
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bit so it's more like 70 or 80 views a day yeah this is just search console so with regular ytics
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some of the traffic is through my youtube channel i probably get about 100 clicks a day uh 80 to 100
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But to sell that little is insane. I have recently changed the button color to blue to offset from the green to see if that enhances it
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But it didn't do a single thing at this point. I've tried moving this around
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This used to be in the middle of the article when I talked about equipment. They used to be in the sidebar
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I've tried everything and it just doesn't seem to go through and generate any
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This site is generating money. I have thought about putting sidebars on it and just letting
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some more ads run so I can get some more money on desktop. This site does pay for make more money
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than it does cost to run since I have a hosting plan that allows everything. So here's an idea of
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about how much it gets, $12.57. And I'm probably paying maybe like $30 a year-ish for the domain
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and the privacy. It's still making a little bit of money, which is good because I'm just trying to
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make the original amount of money that I put in back. And nowadays, it's also putting some extra
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clicks into my level. That's good. You know, I'm getting closer because I have that extra $2,000
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2200 clicks a month. Fortnite's definitely been down a bit lately, so that's why the
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tracking has gone down a bit. And those are three examples of how to pick the wrong niche
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Try not to go with a really popular niche. Try to do something that has not been touched too often
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Search for stuff. See what comes up. If you're seeing forms and you're seeing Quora, Reddit
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that kind of stuff. It's looking good, but make sure it's multiple searches. You know
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it's getting harder and harder to find that specific niche, but they're out there. You can
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also go broad like I did for my playground site and then inside that playground site
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go for a specific thing and just dominate that. Just write as many articles on that area
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as you can. For example, with me, I'm doing bounce houses, so I'm writing a whole bunch
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of stuff about bounce houses. Once I'm done, I'll go to something else. Now I am doing other articles
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at the same time, which is good because I like to kind of like spray and pray, they call it
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you know, put a bunch of stuff up and see what Google likes. But at the same time, you need to
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focus in on certain areas. So there's two areas I've focused on bounce houses as one
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and just trying to go through and grow that. Now your Google will have a better idea of what the
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site's about and be more focused and all your bounce house articles should rise up if you do
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it correctly and it the we're still out on that one the site is gaining each month which you'll
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see in the income report at the end of the month and lately it does seem like it's doing even better
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so i am excited but i don't want to get too excited let's see if we can keep getting it to
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go up. So that's what I got for you. Three of my failures before I started going through and being
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successful. And like I said, if you start and then you give up, you can always go back and check your
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stats to see what's happening. For me, I did RC right on cars and I did a bunch of stuff. And you
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know what? I kind of said, you know, I'm going to go focus on YouTube now. I'm going to go full time
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YouTube. I quit my job and I just left the blog go. And three months later it was Black Friday
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and I started getting some sales on Amazon that I didn't recognize. And I kind of like zoomed in
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and I was like, well, it's my ride on site. I'm like, but I don't think I'm on Google. And I
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looked and I wasn't, I wasn't really on Google at all. These sales were coming from Bing and DuckDuckGo
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and I mean I was selling probably like a thousand dollars for 20 clicks like very little clicks and
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I'm like this is something I need to push well I can't wait for this sales time for this season
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it's going to be amazing that's everything I got for you thanks so much for listening and thank you
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