Samy's Projects Series - Select A Niche

Selecting A Niche Subject Area

• First go to Ezine Articles and look at the top of the first page. You will see a list of categories at the top of the page.

   

  Ezinearticles is a huge article directory. People submit their own articles to directories like this, and these articles can be freely used by others on their websites and blogs, provided they leave the resource information regarding the author intact. This is great because we can find ready made content for almost any subject and use it for our purposes, be that on websites, blogs or newsletters.

  Also looking through article directories, such as Ezinearticles allows us to see exactly what markets are hot, since people are writing articles about these subjects and distributing them via article directories because they are involved in a marketing process in order to attract traffic to their own sites or blogs.

  In this exercise, and those that follow it, we want to get some experience doing this ourselves.

  We will use this article directory to help us select a topic or niche for which we will create a blog. I want you to browse the categories, click to see the sub-topics and then click through to see a list of articles with their brief descriptions. You might find something that you already have an interest in, and this would be even better. Follow through with me by using your own selected subject area.

   

• I have clicked on Real Estate and I have decided to chose Foreclosure.

   

• Take a look at the articles. I want you to choose between three to five articles that cover the subject or a particular aspect of the subject (in my case "Foreclosure") in a brief and concise manner. The next thing is to save each of these articles. Simply open up Notepad on your computer and then copy and paste each article you have selected and then save it within a folder. Now, we have achieved two things: a) found a niche topic and b) found some basic content that we can use for our blog.

  The content from Ezine Articles and Go Articles is available to use for free as long as the resource box (that contains the author's bio) is left intact.

Summary

Free content is available everywhere.

You can be an expert in any subject in a very short period of time - thanks to resources like these.

These types of resources are also excellent research tools - you can see what people are promoting and writing about

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