How to Choose a Best Niche Topic for a Blog? Tips and Tricks

The higher the search volume per month and the fewer the competitors, the better the keyword. 

A simple guide to select the best niche topic for your blog.


1. take a note book and start writing some topics you are interested in for your blog. Suppose you are interested in GPS "Global Positioning System". Make a list of topics related to GPS some thing like this,

• GPS tracking
• GPS software
• GPS shopping
• car GPS
• GPS history  

2. Now plug each keyword from your list into the Google adwords keywords selection tool. It will return with a list of keyword phrases and their corresponding search volume for a month. For example I take "car GPS" here and put it in Google Adword keyword selection tool. Before starting my search I opted for,

• Only show ideas related to my search terms
• Locations: United States
• Languages: English 

from the upper right side frame and selected "Broad" match type from the left side column.

The search result returned with a long list of related phrases.

3. Short list the phrases/keywords with some significant number of search volume like over 3000 searches a month. For example,

• best car gps                            5,400 local monthly searches
• car gps tracking                      5,400 local monthly searches
• car gps system                        3,600 local monthly searches
• car gps navigation                   4,400 local monthly searches

4. Now start searching the each selected word through google search engine.

5. Note down the number of search results for each keyword search return. The keyword returns with minimum number of search results is the least competitive keyword.

The results I found are as under:

• best car gps                       About 34,900,000 results 
• car gps tracking                 About 1,830,000 results 
• car gps systems                About 10,200,000 results 
• car gps navigation             About 16,600,000 results 

6. Sort out the keywords with high search volume and low competition. The keywords with high search volume and low competition are great for niche blogs. Here in my example "car gps tracking" with 5,400 local monthly search volume at Google adwords keywords selection tool and about 1,830,000 search results in Google Search Engine is the least competitive keyword. Although it is not a good key phrase as far as number of competitive pages are concerned but it is the best in comparison to other tested key phrases.

7. Now plug this "car GPS tracking" phrase into Google Wonder Wheel to get the related hot keywords.

Important Note:

As the services of Google Wonder Wheels are no more available, simply put your phrase in Google Search Box to get the related hot key words.

8. Finally use your basic selected keyword phrase in your blog title and related keyword phrases in your "post titles" and "post contents" at appropriate places.

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