Highly Competitive Niche

Highly competitive niches are those niches for which thousands of people search everyday. These niches have one or two keywords, sometimes three also. Some of the examples are

  • personal development
  • golf tips
  • weight loss
  • make money online


If you want to make a site in a highly competitive niche, you need a comprehensive plan. You will also need to work very hard to get on the first page of search engines. The sites that rank on the first page of google or any other search engine for these keywords will have good content and also they will have links from thousands of other websites. The people who made those sites must have worked really hard and spent a good amount of money for them to rank high.

So if you want to go for such niches, then you should be ready to do two things. You need to spend money as well as work hard.


Some points that you should keep in mind for highly competitive niche are

  • You must have a good knowledge of that niche. You don't need to be a total expert, but you should have a good grasp of that topic. You can create a good site which other people will appreciate only if you deliver something better to them.
  • Before you start creating the website, you should have a good plan as to how you are going to proceed. You must decide how you are going to layout the information so that people will find the information they are looking for quickly and easily.
  • You must see the websites that rank from 1 to 20 in Google. Take a note of what information they are giving, how they are giving the info and what information they are not giving so that you can take advantage.

The amount of time required to get a good website ready and get it on first page of google or other search engines is most likely more than a year. The websites that are on top will be regularly getting backlinks, they will try to get so many backlinks that no one will be able to come close to them.

But, if you are able to create content that people just love, then you may be able to get the link love you need to get on top.

So unless you are a hundred percent sure that you want to go with it and stick with it for a year, do not go for the highly competitive niches.

Number of searches made for highly competitive niches

The number of searches that are made for these highly competitive niches is in millions. As you can see below, according to google keyword tool, the number of monthly searches for make money online is more than a million and that for weight loss keyword is a staggering 16 million. So these niches are huge. The sites that rank on the number one spot for these keywords probably make hundreds of thousands of dollars per month. This is the power of highly competitive niches.

Make Money Online
weight loss keyword


For some other highly competitive niches, the number of searches is like 300 thousand or 400 thousand or more. These are all the searches that are made per month for these keywords.

golf tips keyword
personal development keyword