Choosing a narrow hobby niche can be a good thing. A website about “fitness” is probably too broad. A website about “gardening” is probably too broad. A website about “gaming” is probably too broad. Those topics are huge. They have too many possible directions and far too much competition for most new hobby website builders. … Read more
Before building a hobby website, it is worth asking a simple question: Is there enough in this hobby for me to keep creating useful content over time? You do not need every article planned before you start. You do not need to know exactly what the website will look like in two years. But the … Read more
It is easy to forget what is really happening when someone reads a website. We talk about websites, search engines, rankings, keywords, AI, algorithms, traffic, clicks, affiliate links, analytics, and all the technical machinery that sits around the internet. All of that matters. But underneath it all, something very simple is happening. One real person … Read more
It is easy to understand why people search for profitable niches. If you are thinking about building a website as a side hustle, money is obviously part of the question. You may search for things like: “Profitable niches 2026” “Best niches for affiliate marketing” “High-paying website niches” “Most profitable blog topics” That makes sense. If … Read more
A hobby website can become a real online asset. It can attract visitors, help people, build trust, and create earning opportunities through affiliate programs, advertising, digital products, tools, guides, services, or other routes. But it usually does not happen instantly. That is the honest starting point. Be careful with anyone who makes it sound as … Read more
One of the biggest worries people have when thinking about starting a side hustle or part-time website is time. How long will it take? How much work will it need? When will it start making money? Those are fair questions, but they need realistic answers. You are probably not going to start a hobby website … Read more
There is a lot of discussion now about AI search, Google AI Mode, technical SEO, structured content, crawlability, schema, query fan-out, internal links, headings, entities and all the other signals that might help a website be understood. Those things do matter. A website still needs to be accessible. Search engines need to be able to … Read more
Google AI Mode is new, powerful and slightly confusing. That makes it a perfect subject for a small experiment. If someone wants to build a useful online resource explaining Google AI Mode, could they simply ask Google AI Mode what that resource should include? That sounds circular. But it is also very interesting. So I … Read more
Key points: Google’s guidance on AI Mode does not suggest that website owners need a completely new SEO formula. Pages still need to be crawlable, indexable, clear and useful, but there is no special AI Mode file, markup or magic technical switch. The bigger lesson is that guidance should not become a mechanical checklist. Keywords, … Read more
There is a big difference between explaining an idea and showing it. I could write a perfectly competent article explaining what “consensus opinion” means. I could say that consensus opinion is the set of common ideas that appears again and again across search results, AI summaries, forum discussions and mainstream articles. That would be accurate. … Read more