Feb 01 2009
Is Writing a Hot Niche Over the Internet?
I’ve visited dozens of content sites which cover subjects ranging from automobile, computers, Internet, family and technology among others.
In very few of these sites is writing listed as a category. I always wonder why very little prominence is accorded to writing.
After all, isn’t the web all about writing? Why has writing been left out of these sites?
Could it be that not many folks who surf the Net are interested in writing? Or could it be that those who are interested in writing have really no need to learn anything new about it?
To ease my curiosity, I undertook a little research and found that there are about eight and a half million sites offering some form of advice or guidance on writing. There must be interest in writing. Otherwise these sites would not have survived this long.
To find out whether there’s really interest, I did a little homework on keyword search. There were only four hundred over searches for creative writing. Resume writing turned up over six hundred searches.
The main keyword – writing – turned up only a thousand two hundred searches. It’s not as impressive as the searches for dogs or golf.
Exploring further, I discovered writing sites and blogs with a high Google Page Rank. In the blogs, the number of comments left behind is impressive, growing by the day.
I have an email subscription to new comments and I receive at least one a day.
My research also uncovered Earn Money Writing is a hot niche. This niche interests even those who don’t seem to have much interest in writing.
A comment may go something like this: “I’ve always wanted to write. I’m glad to hear that you can make money writing. I’m going to give it a try.”
Well, it shouldn’t be a surprise. Earn money doing anything over the Internet is always a hot niche. Why shouldn’t non-writers turn to writing to make some money?
So, what do you reckon? Is writing a really hot niche over the Internet?
