What’s the best profitable niche for blogging? The uncompetitive niches typically are more difficult to monetise. The busiest niches are the best payers, but massively competitive. With over 600 million blogs on the internet, and growing, what’s the best niche to start a blog in, given the huge competition in most niches?

Top paying niches fall into the categories of health and wellness, making money and wealth, e-commerce and beauty. Less competitive niches are typically those such as travel, pets, personal finance, hobbies, eco-friendly products, home office equipment and solar energy.

So what’s the best niche to choose which is going to be profitable?

Best Profitable Niche For Blogging – Traffic

With a blog, you need traffic. Nothing will be profitable if you don’t get found. This means you’re going to need to spend some considerable time building content on your blog. If you’re only interest is in the end result of making profit from your blog, you can easily fall into the trap of building a blog you don’t actually like working on.

To make blogging a regular habit is much easier if you enjoy your subject. If you hate it, how long do you think you’ll sustain the effort in writing post after post, attempting to gain an audience?

In any topic, there’s competition, which means you should expect to work on your blog for several months just to start seeing regular organic traffic. So it’s a good idea to look at your interests and passions. Turn those into the subject of your blog. If nothing springs to mind immediately, think about a topic you’ll love learning about. If you build a blog on that topic, you can continue learning and growing. As you do, you can create more and more content on the subject.

Best Profitable Niche For Blogging – A Micro Niche

Now you might be thinking, I love a certain topic, but it’s way too over subscribed. There’s just no way I’ll get my content ranking on Google because it’s far too competitive. However, if this is the case you can find a micro niche. A micro niche is a niche within a niche. So even in a competitive topic area such as health and wellness, if you carve out a niche for yourself which is less competitive, you can still attract traffic and stick with your passion. An example of a micro niche is Yoga for seniors, or chair Yoga. The bigger niche is learn Yoga online and the bigger category is health and wellness.

Choosing a micro niche can allow you to pick a profitable topic but without encountering too much competition.

Best Profitable Niche For Blogging – Choosing Products Which Sell

Any niche can be profitable if you attract enough buying customers and have a good product which is already selling. Likewise, even with a tonne of traffic, if you pick a product which doesn’t sell, you’ll never be profitable. Of course this assumes you’ll be monetising your blog with an affiliate product of some kind. Another way to monetise a blog is with advertising, but this can be difficult since ad clicks mostly pay peanuts!

I spent a long time trying to sell products through blogging without getting anywhere. I wasn’t getting enough traffic to my blogs because I chose a topic I wasn’t interested in and/or knew nothing about. Once I choose a topic I enjoyed writing about, it gave me the edge because I could continue writing in that subject for much longer than the competition.

Good products to use are those which pay high ticket commissions or recurring commissions and of course those which you completely trust and believe in. Selling a product you haven’t even bought yourself isn’t a good idea, since it’s disingenuous to sell it.

Summary

So what’s the best profitable niche for blogging? Without a lot of traffic to your blog it won’t be profitable. But even high traffic blogs sometimes fail to make money. That’s because they either attract the wrong kind of traffic or they’ve chosen the wrong products to sell to their audience.

The key to choosing the best and most profitable blog topic is to tap into your natural leanings, interests and passions. Ask yourself how you can be of service to others with your blog posts and which products are going to help your visitors the most.

Expect to be working on your blogging for several months. Ask yourself in which subject can you sustain this interest for that length of time.

One blog I built was about mushroom harvesting. I had to research each post I wrote, and I had no interest in the topic. Needless to say it was an utter disaster. After 6 months of blogging I managed to get my blog ranking on Google and I got some traffic. But I was totally disinterested in the blog after this time and it soon started falling off the rankings as another (more passionate blogger) took my place!