What to write about when you've covered your niche?

Could you broaden the topics?

For most of the Niches there are opportunities to write literally hundreds or thousands of articles.

If I were you, I'd try to figure out which topics are related to those that you've already written about. You could use the Google Keyword Tool to find such related topics. The Keyword Tool can also help you to come up with ideas to write about.

Beyond: buy a book about your niche. Often times there's a lot of stuff covered in books, that all those tiny websites don't write about.

lifesofree pretty much covered it. If you can only find thirty articles worth of content to write on a given niche, then there is a problem.

I'd say that the issue is that you are basing what you write on keywords first and foremost. It is certainly one way to get ideas; but if it is the only thing you are using for inspiration you have a problem.

Write on the niche, not the keywords in the niche. Remember that you are writing for human benefit and not Google's. Changing to this mindset will not only open your eyes to an infinite amount of other content ideas, but will cause your rankings to climb because you stopped worrying about pleasing Google.

Counter-intuitive, I know. Just try it though, and thank me later.

You can also try narrowing the topic instead of going broader. Take a general article and find one point that you mentioned but did not cover in detail. Sometimes going deeper reveals a whole new light on a topic.

Rose

I can't get to it know as I'm behind a firewall at work that blocks hundreds of sites, but I have a site bookmarked at home that gives you 100 different ideas to write an article about. You just insert your keyword into each title and then write about it. You could try searching for "idea generator" or "article idea generator" and seeing what you come up with.

If your site is 2-3 years old, I'd ratchet up the work flow a little too and start posting an article every day or two. Google will notice that there is new content flowing into the site and this make shuffle your rankings, especially if it is 100% UNIQUE and well-written content. Don't forget to backlink each new article as it makes its way onto the site.

-- j

Write complimenting articles to your niche not just for the keyword that you are ranking for.

Two words: Long Tail. Dig into the long tail keywords and you'll stay busy Good luck!

Thanks for the all the tips, some interesting ideas.

I've found a few more keywords to target, so that should let me bust out another set of articles. Posted one today, showing up at #10 for the keyword - rankings and traffic is definitely rising - now if only I could get my CTR up without having to resort to those CTR themes that Google seems to despise.

Considering it's been three years, I would think you should have 10X that amount of content.

There are several things you can do. If you want more related keywords, just put the ones you are already ranking for into the adwords keywords tool and see if you can find something similar. You can try finding keywords with less searches, but are easier to rank so they rank higher, or if I were you I'd work on getting the ones I have ranked already higher.

Here's an idea you don't hear often. Why not write for people rather than the SEs? Here's something I found that's pretty cool. When you write informative and intelligent articles for people interested in your market, the right keywords seem to naturally appear.

At this point, I would work on increasing your rankings for those 3 keywords. Get into the top 3 for all of them, and you'll see some nice traffic as a result.

What is the niche? Knowing that would help give a better answer.

Daniel, one trick that I use when I'm stuck for ideas is to dig through my email inbox. In most cases, I can find a question or two that someone has sent me - and if one person has that question, you can bet that there are a ton of others with the same question, even if they've never bothered to actually send me an email and ask.

With all due respect, you're kind of going about this backwards. Think about what your target audience wants/needs to know. Once you've got a topic, you can find an appropriate keyword to target. That way, you wind up with useful content that's also optimized.

Just 30 articles and you're running out of steam?

Honestly, that's just not possible. No matter how obscure your topic, you can write thousands of articles on it. You haven't even scratched the surface.

You'll allowing keywords to BLIND you.

Remember that behind every keyword, is a person. That person is searching for a reason. He has an INTENT.

Beyond that, he's a PERSON. Write about what's interesting to him, and he'll visit your site.

Let's see how you can get a start on writing not just 30, but thousands of articles.

BIG TIP: Be aware that your niche may not be worth a huge intensive effort -- you're capped by the number of searchers. That said, searches in niches go up month by month. Use common sense -- don't put in more effort than your potential income from the number of searches.

If I knew you, and the niche, I could give you more valuable help, but without knowing anything at all, I can give you some ideas.

Here we go:

1. Ask yourself: who, what, why, when and HOW for each keyword.

Who is this person?

What does he really want?

Why is he searching? Maslow's hierarchy of needs might be useful here: Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When does he want whatever it is?

Etc.

You should get some articles from this.

2. Use a thesaurus to find words related to your keywords.

You can also use Latent Semantic Indexing: Latent semantic indexing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This should give you many more words to target.

3. Use your site's referrer logs. What keywords brought searchers to your site? Make a list. You now have even more keywords to target.

4. Think about your TARGET MARKET -- your site's audience.

As I said, you're allowing keywords to BLIND you.

Please consider that every searcher is a PERSON.

This is the biggie. Think about your audience.

Consider:

* What magazines/ blogs/ websites do they visit? See what keywords these sites and blogs are targeting. (If you must. DO TRY to wean yourself away from keywords -- I think something like 30 per cent of searches use unique terms in their searches.)

* What TV shows do they watch? What movies? (You can siphon off some of these searches to your site, when you use TV show/ movie references in your articles.)

* What does your market fear most? (We're all scared of something.)

* What does your market desire most? (See Maslow.)

OK, I could go on. :-)

What I've given you so far should give you lots of ideas.

That said, if I were trying to boost a site, I wouldn't be thinking about keywords much at all.

I'd be focusing on your audience -- it's small, but valuable, and you can grow it. I'd be working out how I could become more valuable to them.

YOU can become a valuable resource to your niche: their "go to" guy for whatever it is they want.

In a nutshell, I'm suggesting that you put more YOU into your site. Let your audience get to know you, and what you have to offer.

I hope these tips help you in some small way, and wish you much success.

Cheers

Angela

You could always use article templates to create new articles. EzineArticles has a ton of them on the "store" section of their website. Also, 30 articles for one niche and you're all tapped out? Probably should try to put this niche on autopilot and then switch to a different niche.

I'm curious-

Why are you using Adsense?

I think that 90% of niches can be better monetized than with Adsense- if you can get say 10% of those visitors to sign up through a squeeze page, that's 150-20 per day- like 500 people a month.

From there you can build a relationship and market affiliate products or sell your own....

Just sayin'

Write more articles about the same topics, using the same keywords, that's what I do all the time!

Believe me, you can easily get 300 articles worth of content out of what you know! ;-)

Get more content on your website. 30 articles is nothing and 150-200 UV a day can be 1500 to 2000 UV if you scale it up. Although it is all about quality over quantity. How well does your 150 unique views per day convert? Do you feel like there are similar websites doing better than you are? Hope this helps.

I would focus on two things.

1) Use your Analytics data or AWstat referral information to determine what longtail keywords are already bringing people to your site and use those as new keywords for articles.

2) Focus on improving the rankings on the three main keywords above. Between just those three, you have almost 70K in exact match. You could likely double or triple your traffic with a few spots in extra search ranking.

You've gotten great advice so far. You should look at your stats and see which keywords are bringing you the most traffic. Then, write more articles using that keyword.

However, don't forget to expand into related words and phrases as well. Thirty articles are really minimal for a site these days.

I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned focusing on SEO for your main keywords. If they're getting the exact match traffic you listed, it would probably be in your best interest to work them up into the top 3 positions before working on more content. Keep in mind that results toward the bottom of a page get a very small percentage of the overall traffic.

Wow, there are some amazing ideas in this here thread :-)

I hope you were able to find new article ideas.

But, if you just can't seem to find any interest in the site, still, why not try flipping the site? Maybe you're more of a build a flipper than a build and builder...hope that makes sense!

Add some personal thought about your niche , get some LSI key words etc.. There's really unlimited thing you can write about on every niche.

A good strategy for someone with your dilemma is to use Google Analytics.

1 - Go to your GA account and pull up the list of ALL the search terms people are using to find your website. Now set them in reverse order, so the least frequent appear first.

2 - Now scroll through and make a list of all the low-frequency search terms people have used to find you which would be relevant to your topic and would convert well.

3 - Take your list and using GA, make a note of the landing page for each of those terms. So if someone used the term "brightly colored fancy widgets", note the URL of the page on your site they landed on for that search.

4 - Now create articles using each search term on your list as the subject line/theme.

5 - Within each of those articles, make a link back to the landing page as noted in point 3.

This method is giving you inspiration for new content, but more importantly you are focusing on search terms which are already on Google's radar. The simple fact that someone has already found your site on these terms indicates that you rank somewhere already, perhaps 5-10 pages deep. This simple method will push your rankings up for the target term and you'll get more content and more traffic.

First off 30 articles is pitiful. Nothing personal .. just stating the facts.

Take the articles you have and re-purpose them. Turn them into pdf and syndicate them to their proper channels ... turn them into video and distribute.

Capture those 200 UV a day .. then send alternate offers.

Do a demographic study of your readers .. what else are they interested in as a group? Give it to them.

Find someone with scrape box and have them do a lateral and vertical reverse search for alternate keywords.

Nothing wrong with writing a lot more articles on the exact same keywords .. link them to the articles already ranking and move them up in the serps.

Find relevant sites and set up syndication deals. Find relevant blogs and do true commenting.

We haven't even touched media buys and ppc and ppv and .....

awesome tips thanks