[CM30]

This is a really good point, and one I feel a lot of SEO articles and sites seem to ignore. The niche you're in makes a huge difference in how easy it is to market your work.

As you say, developer focused content is easy to market online. There are tons of blogs and news sites willing to let you write guest articles or link to your work, people tend to share articles about the topic on a regular basis and sites like this one provide a perfect place to share the content too.

Same goes with the gaming and general tech fields too. They're all very easy to build links in, and provide plenty of free traffic opportunities in general.

Many niches aren't like this. They don't have the same number of enthusiast forums and subreddits, people are less likely to share content about them, and the news sites focused on them are either money focused or not interested in giving you a shot at all.

Then there's stuff like gambling, adult content etc, where no one in their right mind will ever link to your site, and where even the ad networks will tell you to get lost. Good luck marketing those without blackhat SEO, or some other way to game the system.