Does anyone have thoughts on the French/France keyword issue, please?

"Ideally, I'd like to have a website that's French related but that I can write product reviews from, start a blog, write about life here, make some income (even if gradually), and generally enjoy the pleasure of doing it." There my friend, is your niche.

Interesting to read your article as I face exactly the same dilemma. Maybe someone will come along and wave a magic wand and all will be clear!

Hi Kim, I'm certainly no expert but if you've moved from England to France and love it you could try to go at it from the helping people in the same boat as yourself angle and target people in the UK who are considering moving there. What knowledge do you already have that you could share with others in the same position you once were. Start by brainstorming the who what when where why how questions. It's something you have first hand knowledge and experience of so would be quite easy to start. When you have the basic structure you could develop it into the 'What you need to know/have/do/avoid when you get here' angle. Once you have this you could go in all sorts of directions along the lines Joan suggested. If you're targeting the British they'd love your dry sense of humor and perspective.

Wow what a response! Thanks for all your suggestions. Lots to think about while I'm mowing my severely neglected weed patch! Thanks again everyone.

Hmm, from what you have said about all the work you did restoring the old mill, maybe you can have a site on restoring old houses and properties in France. You can write some amusing material about obtaining permits, buying building materials, anecdotal human interest things, hiring help, and making friends in France. You can have a site on regional French food, and wines, or just where you live. You can do a cultural thing on the architecture, people, food, land, social aspects, politics. Or, impressions of France, from a British point of view. We have friends from Normandy who introduced us to dishes from that region. I like to cook, but wasn't familiar with much of that cuisine. I found it very interesting. It's all butter and cream. Most people know only classic French food. Travis Sago at WA suggests that people choose a niche where people have a "hair on fire" need for something, where you are solving a problem. This may not necessarily encompass your passion, but from a profitability standpoint, it's worth considering.

Hi Kim. I know you've kindly read a few of my articles. I don't know if you remember the topics but my 30 in 30 (30 articles in 30 days) SA challenge started with me building a website and writing about patchwork. I thought I had it made. A great hobby (and I would have called it a passion) that it didn't seem many others were doing. Before long I was pounding out articles about how life is like a patchwork quilt (uuummmm.... a little off tangent from the first article about needing to sew a straight 1/4 inch seam). My point is that while writing for 30 days on SA has been maybe a little back to front it has very much consolidated for me what I like to WRITE about (as opposed to what I like to DO). Lets face it, anything web based involves writing so it's a little bit important. I have now started a new website (and the 30 day WA challenge again) and the only thing holding me back is hours in the day. I have ideas coming out my ears and a book started on the side. I still have a long long way to go an yet I KNOW my niche. I'm excited about it and can't wait to get back to it if only for half an hour in the evening. Even reading a book over my morning coffee is about my learning and understanding to pump into my life and my website. Now the downside (in case it sounds all glowing) is that I have a lot of content on SA that could have been on my website... so I'm re-doing some stuff from a different angle. Having said that, without SA I wouldn't have known where to go with it all and would be sitting around saying "This is too hard. I don't have a niche". Sheesh... I've gone on a bit now. How unlike me!

From busy London to peaceful southwest France renovating an old house by a stream. Seems you could turn your memory into London Tourists and your day to day of now to Restful Tour. Well, especially if you're willing to then meet up with groups and take them there as an additional non-Internet but in-person thing. Schedule 10 days a month for a year and don't use them up in other plans! Then step forward... ? Just an idea.

Geeee...... Kim that set of articles you did three or four in a row I think it was when you got stuck due to something (you can tell I'm an old fart don't remember the details) you had to go back to England for a bank signing or something, I enjoyed that series so much and your humours content of where you stayed etc seemed to be up your street, why not write on the area you stay? Golfspice I think it is, writes on different places and what goes on there, I think you would do well in that line.