Archive for June, 2008
Niche Research Part 2
Posted by: | CommentsA week and a half ago I started a post about niche research and more importantly, where and how to start it. If you missed it you can take a look at the first post here.
My last suggestion in the last post was to start your niche research with these ideas.
*Think of products you use daily
*Think of products your family uses
*Think of things that are not accessible in every grocery store
*Ask yourself does this have value to the person buying it?
So once you’ve started trying to think of niches you can get involved in your need to ultimately settle down and pick one and begin doing keyword research on it. But, even before keyword make sure you understand the niche you want to market.
One thing I like to do is do a wikipedia search if I am unsure about a certain niche. Usually Wikipedia has some pretty good info about almost anything. Sometimes they get it wrong, but that is bound to happen when users power your content.
Digging into keyword research…
I had created a video a little while back to really help someone get an idea of how to start digging into the keyword research. You can view that here.
Keep in mind that is just the beginning of the whole process. To really break down keyword research you can take it a step farther. Last week I talked about a clever tool I use to do fast niche research you can read about that one here.
If you really want to see how well a niche does you can run a cheap adwords campaign based around your keywords. I do this with a lot of niches I get involved with. It won’t show you how much traffic the entire internet will bring you but it will show you what kind of traffic could come from Google itself.
Don’t spend more than 3 or 4 days on this test and make sure that you keep your cost low $2-$3. Remember you just want to see how many impressions your keywords get over the course of a few days to see what potential exists. Keep in mind you’ll want to spend enough to make your ad appear on the front page.
What this will do is allow you to see if there is any activity or the amount of activity that you want to build your niche around. If traffic volume is low you may want to consider a different set of keywords to build your niche around or another niche altogether.
Keep in mind Google is about 55% of the Internet’s traffic, maybe a little more or a little less. So there is more traffic out there but typically the majority comes from Google.
That’s it for this weeks keyword research and niche finding next week we’ll go over finding profitable niches and determining if a niche is profitable or not.
Pete’s Bad RSS Report and Tool Get Me 9/10 top 10’s fast!
Posted by: | CommentsRecently I was talking to Peter Drew via skype and he threw me into a world I was, until now, unfamiliar with. In case you don’t know Peter Drew, he is the creator of the Popular Bad A** Report series. Pete and I discussed RSS Feeds and where I was actually losing some easy traffic and sales at.
Now, I’m not the master of all marketing but it was hard to swallow someone showing me that I am missing traffic and sales. For one because my business has been based around me getting traffic and sales.
However, Pete opened up a new window of opportunity that I just happened to not be experienced at. That topic was how to utilize RSS feeds to the max. What I learned blew me off the map!
We agreed that I wanted to learn and I wanted to flip through his manual and learn for myself (I wanted to test to see if the product works without having him tell me how to use it). I flipped through the report and watched one short 10 minute video and I must say by the end of the video I was a bit drawn in.
Was it a good marketing technique or was it simply going to floor me when it worked?
After about 4 hours of testing and 10 keywords later I was blown away with the results. I tested his RSS feed tool and 9 out of 10 keywords I tested were in googles top 10 in just about an hour after they were all listed….
So, how did I do it? First I snagged a trial copy of Pete’s Bad A** RSS Report and tool for $1 right here. You can also watch the awesome videos right off the page there and they will really open your eyes to a new revenue source.
I followed the instructions he lays out in the report that comes with the software and the videos. I created the blogger blog in under 10 minutes that Pete instructs us to do in the video, launched my feed out there and BOOM in under 1 hour I uncovered my first hot niche. I was getting traffic fast as well!
The other 8 keywords that did well for me took just under 4 hours in total and Keep in mind before reading Pete’s report I had never utilized my RSS feeds before. In fact, I honestly didn’t know what good they were for – Now I do
What this allowed me to do is uncover the hot niches keyword phrases I wanted to test out and see if they were going to be worth getting into google’s top 10. When the keywords showed up in google’s top 10 in under an hour each I knew I just found a niche I could go easily dominate!
A couple of my keywords had over 700+ searches a day. (Nope, I’m not giving them away as they pertain to some of my personal niches). I will show you a couple of my screen shots for one of the keyword phrases I went after though.
This made it to #4 on google in just under an hour without quotes.
In quotes it made #1 again in just under 1 hour.

After testing I knew if I wanted I could make a niche site based on my keywords and easily dominate google probably withing 3-4 weeks.
Meanwhile I could eat off of my Feed that directed people from my the feed in the search engine to my web site until my site over took higher ranks for the same keywords
Do you see the power in this tool yet? I am talking that in a day I could uncover and unlimited number of hot niches and build an empire over the next month!
I’ll add more on my progress with this later but all you need to get started is Pete’s tool it’ll only set you back $1 to try it then it’s an insanely low monthly price if you decide to keep it. From now on I’ll never search niches without this tool again. In fact, at the time of writing this it’s only $27 a month…
Diamond in the Rough? How to find your Niche
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Have you been struggling to find your niche? That diamond buried in the rough. If you are struggling don’t be concerned many others are right there with you. The hardest thing to do sometimes is come up with an idea of a niche to start promoting. Sure you could start with the keyword research and scan KEI indexes for the the top keywords but can you monetize the site?
My friend and business partner mentioned to me the other day my knack for finding niches fast, promoting them and ranking them. I guess I had never really thought about how easy it comes to me. SO, he asked me for some advice on finding his niche to promote and today I want to share that with you. In fact over the next 4 weeks all I am going to focus on on my blog is niche research.
The first lesson we talked about was learning to find a niche you’d LIKE to promote. I know you’ve probably heard a lot of recent marketers say go where the money is and go for the big kills. There is a lot more competition in those big kills however. So I suggest finding something you think would be fun or unique to promote.
So I said John grab a piece of paper and what I want you to do is a little bit of brainstorming. I then instructed him to think of 5 things that he does everyday or uses that can’t be found in everywhere. So he did and he came up with a pretty good list really.
He likes wine and honestly could have made an entire list around products about wine. Not every town has a wine store in it. Sure the local grocery store might but I doubt they have what a real wine drinker would like. I had him continue with his list anyways. Keep in mind that brainstorming and jotting things down is a great way to get your ideas and put them into action.
Plus, who has time to remember all of those keywords? I don’t, my memory is horrible.
He ended up coming up with a list of about 15 things total, pretty quickly. That’s when he realized he could uncover his own hot niches. He then realized everyone could do this.
Here are a few more ideas to get you started.
*Think of products you use daily
*Think of products your family uses
*Think of things that are not accessible in every grocery store
*Ask yourself does this have value to the person buying it?
Next, week we’ll go into digging a little deeper into your product selection.
But, first make that list!
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