Choosing a Niche Topic (Part 5)

In the last week, I’ve been creating a list of possible site topics on which to build a niche affiliate website. As of today, I have 116 topics that show promise. The breakdown from last week’s exercises are as follows:

• Topics Chosen from Affiliate Networks: 12
• Topics Chosen from Giant Household Inventory: 63 (narrowed down from a list of over 670 different products!)
• Topics Chosen from “Top Links” Sites: 21
• Topics Chosen from Personal Skills, Talents, Hobbies and other interests: 20

So now, I have to narrow this down … WAY down. My goal is to get this list down to 10-15 topics that have potential and that I can investigate further for popularity.

If you’ve created a list like this yourself, you need to have some criteria to narrow the list.

Here’s my criteria for this step in the project:

Am I interested in the topic or product category enough to research it, “live with it”, write about it, and build a site around it over the next several months?

After I get the list down to 10-15, then I’ll investigate keyword popularity and affiliate providers.

Time will be tight over the next week as I have some other commitments during my limited “free time”, but I’ll make sure to squeeze in at least a couple of hours on this project this week!