Make Money Online: Choosing Your Niche
Written on October 9, 2008 by ChiQ
Filed Under: Make Money Online
Step 2 - Creating Content Niche Sites: Choosing Your Niche
Take note that our aim here is to create Content Niche Sites and not Blogs. There is a big difference between the two. Blogs by nature requires constant updating and interaction with readers. While the Content Niche sites we want to create requires zero to no maintenance. In a Nutshell.. pick a Niche, build content, rinse and repeat to build a collection of Content Niche Sites.
How do you choose your Niche?
1. Personal Interest - Take a moment to think about the things you are interested at.. what do you like to read, watch or listen to. Try to list them down and determine those that have potential to be monetized such as relevant contextual ads or range of affiliate programs.
2. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Website URL: Google Adwords External Keyword Tool
- This is a useful tool to generate keyword ideas but we are going to do more than that by figuring out those high paying keywords. I suggest that you enter a site that has a lot of original and varying content.
- Enter Website URL
- Check the box to include other pages linked from the homepage
- Drop down box choose “Show Estimated Avg CPC”
- Enter a high figure so as to get high paying keywords
3. Find out what is Hot in the Market
Finding out what these hot products are can leads to finding hot niches therefore I suggest you check out http://pages.ebay.com/sell/resources.html or http://sitepoint.com/marketplace browse around and see what people are buying. Also http://www.cbtrends.com/ which is a website that allows the ClickBank affiliates to see the “true” side of the listed in Marketplace products. Clickbank after all is the largest Affiliate Marketing site.
4. Keywords Online Tool / Online Trends
I know a lot of websites offering this service but allow me to recommend the following mainly because I use them myself.
- http://www.spyfu.com/TopList.aspx?listId=2
- http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
- http://buzz.yahoo.com/
- http://google.com/trends/hottrends
- http://www.wordtracker.com/
Conclusion: The highest consideration you will have to take in choosing niches is if there are income streams from it.
Prepare for Step 3..
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