How To Find A Niche With ChatGPT? Full Step-By-Step Guide!

ChatGPT is a real game changer, and it can help you find a great niche site idea. But it’s when you prompt it correctly and have a proper framework.

In this guide, I will share the top 5 tricks to discover high-potential niche site ideas using ChatGPT. So, without any further ado, let’s get into it!

Key Takeaways:

• ChatGPT can generate niche ideas when given specific prompts.
• While ChatGPT gauges topic popularity well, it lacks precise volume data or latest trends.
• Use your criteria like popularity, competition, seasonality among others to get ChatGPT to score and sort niche ideas effectively.
• Validation tools like Google Trends provide more accurate trend insights.

Here’s How To Find A Niche With ChatGPT:

1. The Basics Of Finding A Niche With ChatGPT

Let’s start with the basics of prompting. There are three elements you need to include to get great results.

1. Give ChatGPT a ROLE [Example: Act as a niche ideas generator]
2. A CTA (Call To Action) [Example: Give me a list of 10 niche ideas]
3. CONTEXT [Example: Give me a list of top 10 niche site ideas related to hobbies, popular in the US, and yet have low competition]

Don’t worry; you don’t need to be a prompting expert to find a good niche idea with ChatGPT. ChatGPT can still understand what you mean and give personalized results even if you make grammar mistakes.

But the whole idea boils down to giving “SPECIFIC” instructions to ChatGPT.

So here’s what the prompt would look like:

“Give me a list of the top 10 niche ideas related to hobbies, popular in the US, and have low competition.”

Here’s the screenshot of what the results look like:

Pro-Tip: Don’t rely on ChatGPT for traffic volume numbers. It is not connected to any live database like other keyword tools. 

However, you can surely use its Artificial Intelligence to help you validate your niche idea (more on that later).

Finding a niche is not just about hobbies or general topics. There are even niches under the broader category of making money online sub-niches to explore.

So now you have a basic idea, but how to find a niche in a specific industry.

Here’s the thing you need to know:

• Health
• Finance
• Hobbies
• Home
• Business
• Games
• Sports

And like that, you can pick a broad industry.

Not sure which niche to pick? Well, stick around until the end because you’ll learn how to use a free tool to find great niche ideas that show volume data and other metrics.

Once you have selected a broad topic, you can include that in the prompt I shared earlier and get excellent niche site ideas.

Here’s a template version of the prompt you can use to find a niche with ChatGPT:

“Give me a list of top [No.] niche ideas that are related to [Broad Niche/Industry], popular in [Target Country], and have low competition”

So you can fill in your target market, the number of niche ideas you want in one response, and your target country.

Please note that you may not get perfect niche ideas at once. You must analyze the results carefully and determine the potential niche ideas. Sometimes, it gives broad or obscure results; sometimes, it provides too many specific results. You will have to figure out the balance and adequately classify the niche.

For instance, I looked for the top 10 niche ideas in the Home industry. Here are some ideas I found (with my thoughts in brackets):

• Smart Home Integration for Seniors (As a single niche, this would be too specific. I would instead cover it as a subcategory or cluster of topics in a Senior Niche blog or as a part of a general Smart Home Blog. Does that make sense?)
• Vertical Gardens for Urban Spaces (This is a good idea, but running an Urban Gardening niche blog would be more beneficial to target urban gardeners, maybe apartment gardening.)
• Home Office Ergonomics (Cool! This is the perfect niche idea. I can make a Home Office Niche blog and cover topics related to Home Office Setup, Home Office Desk, etc.)
• Sustainable Home Cleaning Products (Sounds too specific. Instead, I would create a sustainability blog in general and cover it as a sub-topic.)
• Customized Home Organization (Okay, so you can consider a home DIY or Home Cleaning Blog and cover that as a sub-topic.)
• Pet-Friendly Home Design (Really? I don’t think this would be a good niche idea. I have heard this for the first time. It is a particular topic and sounds like a sub-topic for a Home Decor blog)
• Do-It-Yourself Home Renovation Kits (The DIY niche is broad but also a great niche idea. There are many topics to cover and areas to explore!)
• Multifunctional Furniture for Tiny Homes (I got two niche ideas from this, Home Furniture and also Tiny Homes Blog Niche)

So, as you saw my thoughts in the bracket, you need to brainstorm, analyze, and filter out the topics.

While specificity is key to finding an excellent niche, it’s also crucial to ensure that the niche isn’t too saturated. Exploring low competition niches can give you an edge in the blogging world

Now, step two.

2. Validating The Niche Ideas

So here’s a list of potential niche ideas we got after our first round of analysis:

• Smart Homes
• Apartment Gardening
• Home Office
• DIY
• Home Cleaning
• Furniture
• Tiny Homes

Now what?

We need to validate these niche ideas. And we already know that ChatGPT is not great at giving you keyword volume suggestions for any particular keyword or topic. But, you can prompt it in a specific way and use its intelligence to compare popularity among all the niches.

Let me show you how:

So, I went to ChatGPT and submitted this prompt:

Here’s a list of niche site ideas I came up with. Score them in terms of popularity on a scale of 1 to 100. Represent the information in a nice table.

By the way, this prompt was inspired by one of the videos from Authority Hacker related to ChatGPT prompts.

https://youtu.be/3CdXHbiPAGk?si=FmeMCYj9WmCN_Ow8

So, after inputting, here’s what I got as output from ChatGPT:

Niche Site Ideas	Popularity Score (1-100)
Smart Homes	85
Apartment Gardening	70
Home Office	75
DIY	60
Home Cleaning	55
Furniture	70
Tiny Homes	75

Is this result perfect? To be honest, all these topics look too close in terms of popularity. So I did another round of prompting with the same prompt, but I chose this list (Pet niche) this time.

• Cat
• Dog
• Turtles
• Rabbit

Here’s what ChatGPT gave me:

Niche Site Ideas	Popularity Score (1-100)
Cat	90
Dog	95
Turtles	60
Rabbit	70

Dog > Cat > Rabbit > Turtles

Now, I took it a step further and went to Google Trends.

There, I entered all these topics and compared them in 5 years.

Google Trends assigns popularity scores to each topic and graphically shows the data. 

After collecting the data, here’s what it looks like:

Niche Site Ideas	Interest Over Time (Average)
Cat	34
Dog	83
Turtles	4
Rabbit	6

Here, ignore the numerical data and analyze it in terms of popularity. As you can see, the popularity of the topic as per Google Trends is like this:

Dog > Cat > Rabbit > Turtles

And surprisingly, this similar popularity order is achieved when you analyze the ChatGPT data. 

So what’s the deal here?

ChatGPT may not give you accurate numerical data, but being an AI model, it’s pretty good at gauging the popularity of any topic.

You can definitely use it as a validation tool. Of course, your best choice is to rely on the data from Google Trends for more accurate results.

To get a clearer picture of a niche’s popularity over time Google Trends is a great tool. If you’re new to this platform or want a more detailed guide, check out how to use Google Trends for niche finding.

Once you have analyzed and found niche ideas, sort them by popularity. Finally, use your criteria to finalize your findings. So, let’s get into it!

3. Finalizing Your Niche Ideas

Now, whenever I choose a niche, I like to decide it based on these criteria:

• Popularity
• Competition
• Earning Potential
• Seasonality
• Evergreen Potential
• Knowledge Requirement

You can add more criteria because the next step is fun! We will now use criteria and ask ChatGPT to score our selected niche ideas.

So the prompt goes like this:

Here’s a list of my selected niche site ideas. [NICHE SITE IDEAS LIST] Please give it a score in terms of the following criteria on a scale of 1-100 [CRITERIA LIST]. Please represent the information in a nice table and also add a final column where you average all the scores and give a final score so it is much easier to pick the right niche.

The inspiration for this prompt idea came after watching this video by Julian Goldie SEO:

https://youtu.be/Pj2d76ITlfM?si=-ZqONp7hNJHMsB7K

Here’s what I got from ChatGPT when I inputted the base prompt:

Niche Ideas	Popularity	Competition	Earning	Seasonality	Evergreen	Knowledge	(Final Av.)
Mountain Biking	85	70	80	40	90	70	71.43
Gardening	90	75	65	30	85	60	68.57
Golf	75	80	75	20	75	80	68.57
Running	80	85	70	10	80	60	66.43
Laptops	70	85	85	20	75	90	71.43
Home Office	75	80	80	20	70	85	71.43
Hiking	70	70	60	40	85	60	66.43

As you can see, when you prompt it correctly, it speeds up your process.

You can also be creative and score each niche based on your criteria. Then, let ChatGPT analyze your data and write an average for each niche. You can use the base prompt I shared earlier.

Pros And Cons Of Finding A Niche With ChatGPT

Pros	Cons
You can quickly discover lots of niche ideas	The exact keyword volume data isn’t accurate
The ideas can be scored and sorted based on predefined criteria	It may require more analysis or detailed prompts to get better results
Can generate creative and new niche ideas	Doesn’t take into account the latest market trends

ChatGPT is a brilliant tool for niche discovery, but it’s not the only resource out there. Here’s a list of free niche finder tools that can further help you find the perfect niche.

How NicheScout.Pro Can Help You Find Great Niche Ideas For Free?

https://youtu.be/gA8LXoIZmNQ?si=VRf2GSVdJFOt4tkK

So what is NicheScout.Pro? It’s a free tool containing a high-potential niche site ideas database, search volume data, and competition index.

What’s more? There’s a search bar that allows you to pick specific niche ideas and check their metrics.

Moreover, you can also check out Niche Generator to explore more niche ideas.