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Finding niches, Method 6: replicating one strong page from Ahrefs Content Explorer

Using Ahrefs Content Explorer with a language filter and a low DR filter to find high-traffic pages, then building a dedicated website around one page rather than copying the whole site.

human reviewedAhmed Raza1 min

Taught by Sir Naveed Kalro, in a short niche research session held before Etsy Class 09.

This is one more way to research a niche. Instead of looking for a whole website to reverse-engineer, it looks for a single page that is already pulling traffic, and builds a site around that page.1

Steps

  1. Open Content Explorer in Ahrefs.
  2. Apply a language filter only, for example Portuguese.
  3. Apply a DR filter of 20, so that pages from sites with a DR below 20 come up.
  4. Leave the search box blank and search.
  5. Sort the results by page traffic, so the top pages come to the top.
  6. Check the links one by one.1

What to do with a page you find

The page that shows up here is the one to target:

  • Replicate that page and build a dedicated website around it.
  • Do not replicate the whole website. The website may not meet your criteria, but this one page does, so the page is what you replicate.1

Class infographic

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Footnotes

  1. Short niche research session taught by Sir Naveed Kalro before Etsy Class 09 (iSkills, SEBT NEXT). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

More in this chapter7

  1. LessonFinding niches, Method 1: reverse-engineering marketplacesFinding a profitable niche by browsing site-selling marketplaces, reverse-engineering a successful site's keywords, and watching for brand hijacking.Read lesson
  2. LessonFinding niches, Method 2: the Ahrefs/SEMrush filter methodFinding a low-competition niche directly inside a keyword-research tool, using volume, DR, and word-count filters.Read lesson
  3. LessonFinding niches, Method 3: AI tools and NLP categoriesUsing ChatGPT prompts and Google's NLP content categories to brainstorm low-competition niche and sub-niche ideas.Read lesson
  4. LessonFinding niches, Method 4: backlink mining and UGC intent mismatchesMining a giant authority site's newest backlinks to find fresh niche sites worth replicating, and using UGC sites like Reddit and Quora to spot intent mismatches worth building for.Read lesson
  5. LessonFinding niches, Method 5: SaaS and AI tool marketplacesReverse-engineering profitable SaaS, AI-tool, and app niches from marketplaces built for that stack: Acquire.com, Product Hunt, AppSumo, and the Chrome Web Store.Read lesson
  6. LessonFinding niches, Method 7: a topic search in Ahrefs Content Explorer, then reverse engineeringSearching a topic "everywhere" in Ahrefs Content Explorer, filtering to Domain Rating 0 to 20, and reverse engineering the best site's organic keywords and its competitors to find goldmine niches.Read lesson
  7. LessonAutomating niche research: Ahrefs MCP connected to ClaudeConnecting the Ahrefs MCP server to Claude so that the assistant finds goldmine keywords (DR under 20, AI related) and reverse engineers a site you want to replicate, with a better prompt giving a better answer.Read lesson

Finding niches, Method 5: SaaS and AI tool marketplaces

Reverse-engineering profitable SaaS, AI-tool, and app niches from marketplaces built for that stack: Acquire.com, Product Hunt, AppSumo, and the Chrome Web Store.

Finding niches, Method 7: a topic search in Ahrefs Content Explorer, then reverse engineering

Searching a topic "everywhere" in Ahrefs Content Explorer, filtering to Domain Rating 0 to 20, and reverse engineering the best site's organic keywords and its competitors to find goldmine niches.