Five Easy Poker Niches
Posted by: Randy Comments: (2) Date: November 15, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
In journalism classes, journalists are trained to ask five questions:
- Who?
- What?
- Where?
- Why?
- How?
Each of these questions is a natural jumping-off point for a poker website. And depending on how broad or how narrow you make the questions, you can launch larger or small websites focused on each question. Even if you have a broad-based poker content site, these questions make great starting points for content ideas.
Who Poker Niches?
Who plays poker? Who plays poker professionally? Who plays poker online? Who are the most famous women playing poker?
Any of these questions can be the start of an entire poker niche site.
What Poker Niches?
What poker games do people play? What poker sites accept USA-based poker players? What languages do people play poker in, and which online cardrooms offer poker play in those languages?
Some of these questions can provide very profitable poker niches in which to launch a site.
Where Poker Niches
Where can you play live poker? Where can you play online poker? Where can you play five card stud online? Where can you play poker online if you use a Mac? Where can you find poker strategy information?
Sites that answer the “where” questions are generally considered directory style sites.
Why Poker Niches
Why do people play poker? Why do people play Texas holdem? Why do people play Omaha? Why should you play a tight-aggressive style of poker?
Someone could launch “whypoker.com” and just build pages answering “why” questions like this:
- Why is AA the best starting hand in Texas holdem?
- Why did (poker player name here) do (poker player behavior) in this situation?
- Why should you play at Poker Room A instead of Poker Room B?
How Poker Niches
How to play poker? How to play Texas holdem? How to win at sit n go tournaments?
“How” poker questions are probably the most useful type of content to launch, but a certain amount of expertise might be required in order to write competently about them.
Next time you want to launch a new poker site but can’t think of a niche, consider launching a site based on one of the five W’s above. And next time you’re stumped for content, any of these questions make a great jumping off point too.
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November 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Another thought provoking post Randy - have been enjoying these.
Had the ‘How / Why / What’ in my trusty notebook as something to follow up (grows at 2 or 3 ideas a day currently!). Everyone wants to target the same old tired niches these days, hopefully this post will trigger some creative thinking.
Cheers, Mark
November 20th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I have gone through several sites where I haven’t feel informative but Randy posted wonderful blog having valuable information for players and especially for me.
Thanks for your stuff.