I have been trying to find the answers to some crucial questions. What makes a website really successful. I have read stories and tall claims of the people being super successful with their websites. The real worth of their success is still unknown.

Some say, find a niche which has no competition and focus on that. There are many SEO gurus making tall claims.  So far, I have just read theories and have seen people making sense out of that.

The list of successful niche may exist in someone’s secrets and nobody wants to share with others.  There may be little research involved to find the good resources but you can gather a bit of information which may lead to discovery of something worthy for your site.

From a new site point of view, I am not in favor of writing for search engines. Write for your readers. Your readers must be your first priority and if they like your site, they are going to come back again.  Writing for search engines takes away the fun and joy of the words and you end-up making sense of keywords and your effort to fit them here and there can lead to very bad text which is difficult to read but can be found using the search engine. Is it really worth? I do not think so.  Some readers may land on your site from search engines but they are not going to stay for very long time.  I have seen sites with 100% bounce rate. Is that any good? Think of it. Stop chasing the dreams with search engines. A good writer can make worse of him if he focuses on keywords. Be natural and free-flowing, you will have enough readers.

My case studies and other text here on this site are read by the readers and some of them come from unexpected sources.