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Pick a niche, for example “personal development”. Many people like this niche because it means a lot to them.

How tough is the Personal Development competition?

Google: 226 million results
Yahoo: 715 million results
Bing: 220 million results
Cuil: 11 million results

Google Monthly Searches: 201 k

This means that if you manage to rank in #1 you will have about 100k monthly visitors just from this word and this search engine. Still it’s not enough to be worth doing it. You have competition against 226 million sites just on Google.

Now the website in first results has an Alexa Rank of 11k. This is very good. Most people never manage to get any better than one million.

You can check some other keywords too. Some software you can find on Clickbank can do this automatically for you.

If you want to build a good website about personal development you should think about how you are going to beat the man that is in the first place.

That man is truly passionate about personal development and works on it FULL time which means you are going to find a way to make better than him.

If you think you cannot do better than the guy in the first place results then you should really quit that keyword because about 90% of the traffic comes from Google and the #1 gets around 50% of the clicks.

Finally you can check if you will make a lot of money with advertisements and products by seeing the price of the clicks of that keyword on Google Adwords.

This particular keyword will cost you between $1,53 – $1,91 and you will have about 46 – 61 clicks per day.

The advertisers will spend about 120$ a day which makes more than 3500$ a month. Not a very profitable niche.