Do you feel choosing a popular niche could leave you lost in the crowd?

[Smokey]

Every website or forum falls into a niche. Some are more popular/saturated than others. That being said, do you feel picking a popular niche for your website or forum, IE: Gaming, promotion., could lead you being lost in the crowd?

Personally, I feel like it all depends on the content you drive to your website or forum, offering up interesting takes on even the most popular discussions and making content people want to read with good SEO, any popular niched new forum could succeed in my opinion, you just need to put the proper work into it.

 

[Kane]

One of the main problems associated with using a saturated niche, especially on a forum, is related to the similarity of posts and topics. Let's say you are running a webmaster forum, you will see similar content posted (related to SEO, monetization, social media marketing, etc.) on almost all webmaster forums. You might even have the same members on your forum that you see posting on other similar forums.

 

[rightminds]

Choosing a very popular niche to me is a very wrong idea as this may the result in your blog being lost in the crowd. You need to understand clearly that there must have being some powerful leading blogs in the niche before you came around and defeating them might be a big problem.

 

[Grant]

The niche makes or breaks a site. Some niches aren't popular, while some are massively popular. If you find a niche that's popular, stick with it as long as you can. Stay up to date with changes and new ideas.

I mean, you need to have something popular if you want to succeed right? So creating a popular niche would be ideal. But that's easier said than done.

 

[Heatman]

One of the main problems associated with using a saturated niche, especially on a forum, is related to the similarity of posts and topics. Let's say you are running a webmaster forum, you will see similar content posted (related to SEO, monetization, social media marketing, etc.) on almost all webmaster forums. You might even have the same members on your forum that you see posting on other similar forums.

Where this kind of a thing really gets me very well with the behaviour of some members spinning their topic from another forum to another is when they copy it exactly the way they posted it on another forum to another one which makes a total mess of the whole thing. I can accept they can post the same topic but they should change the write-up and the title a little bit.

 

[Busybee]

While it's true that entering a highly competitive niche can be challenging, it doesn't mean it's a wrong idea. Even in a popular niche, there is room for differentiation and offering a fresh perspective that resonates with a specific audience.

 

[Heatman]

While it's true that entering a highly competitive niche can be challenging, it doesn't mean it's a wrong idea. Even in a popular niche, there is room for differentiation and offering a fresh perspective that resonates with a specific audience.

I believe that as long as you are very committed to seeing your brand grow very well, even though there is a lot of competition in that particular niche, you will most likely see success in it because competition doesn't mean you cannot do business.

 

[Frank]

One of the main problems associated with using a saturated niche, especially on a forum, is related to the similarity of posts and topics. Let's say you are running a webmaster forum, you will see similar content posted (related to SEO, monetization, social media marketing, etc.) on almost all webmaster forums. You might even have the same members on your forum that you see posting on other similar forums.

The topics, yes, but what about the contents. If the contents are original and of different words and quality, I do not think it is going to matter much. My anger is always when people begin to copy the contents to post on their forums as well. That is the challenge some of these forums are having with members copying those contents.

 

[Kane]

The topics, yes, but what about the contents. If the contents are original and of different words and quality, I do not think it is going to matter much. My anger is always when people begin to copy the contents to post on their forums as well. That is the challenge some of these forums are having with members copying those contents.

You see I am staff on other forums as well, if I create posts on the same topic, don't you think these posts will lack originality? I am a professional, I not only work on forums but I run my own forums, therefore, I don't copy paste content even when I am posting the same topic but if you are running forums on popular niches and if you happen to have the members who are also active on multiple forums on the same niche., your forum will lack originality.

 

[Heatman]

I have actually seen some people that do this kind of thing when it comes to spinning their contents to other forums. They will not even care about the originality of those contents but will copy everything word for word and post it to any other forum that they are adding contents on. This is a very bad practice.