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This is the first blog post of what I hope to be a weekly series. Those of you who think it’s just such a daunting task to find niches and run with it, well, this post and the top random five niche picks is for you. Gone are the days of complaining “how do I find niches”, because I’ve found them for you, and it’s free, so follow along please and try not to mess up

The top niche pick of this week is “Diabetes Symptoms“. There are over 20 Million Americans who cope with Diabetes today. There are also thousands and thousands of people who are searching for symptoms of it online, and a ton more advertisers looking to target them. You can easily sign up with a CPL (Cost Per Lead) program that sends out free diabetes testing devices, or stick some YPN or Adsense ads on your information site. SEO should be a breeze for this topic too. The searching is high, and the competition is fairly low.

I would recommend making a content rich information site targeting the diabetes symptoms. Be sure to include information on every type of symptom. You can use RSS feeds to stream in pre-written content, or write it yourself, which is usually the best. When doing a linking campaign, keep everything 100% kosher, and only link to extremely relevant sites. Don’t try and sneak non-related topics or sites on here.

This is a HUGE market, and a very good sub-niche for the major niche of Diabetes. This niche is truly a diamond in the rough because of the small amount of competition and the huge amount of traffic the keywords generate on the engines. Don’t take my word for it, try it out yourself, and report back. Don’t be too greedy either, just keep it simple, follow my advice or other forums’ advice on how to build content rich sites for the search engines, and fire away. This is a longterm goal, so don’t expect to make millions on it.

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Quiiiiiiiiiiick updates..

Forum - I’m going to choose a logo for the forum tomorrow. Already purchased a brand new server for it, and have the vbulletin license ready to go. Got a dedicated server and forum admin on the job now, which rocks, because I absolutely blow at doing anything too technical. Hopefully he’ll be able to get everything up and running as soon as the server is ready to go. Included in the forum is the much anticipated Premium section, and although it’s going to be a paid option, I can assure you it will be well worth it. When the forum launches I’ll list all of the benefits it has. The free section should also be very good, so don’t think that you are missing out by not being in the Premium section. I’ve invited some very well known people in the industry to become mentors and mods. I’ll also be running some contests on the forum, so look out for those, because the prizes are going to be well awesome.

Radio show - Matt has been MIA for the last few days, so hopefully he’ll come around soon. I had to remove the radio episode mp3’s because we were switching servers. I’ll be adding it to the new server anyhow, so wait a day or two for that to be setup. If Matt doesn’t come around soon, then I’ll be co-hosting the show with Andrew Johnson and Shawn WEEKS (see, I can get it right!). Like stated in previous posts, I should have three episodes recorded shortly for everyone’s listening pleasures, and blah blah blah.

The radio show has been a HUGE success so far, just from that shitty audio pilot episode. It registered over SIX THOUSAND unique downloads!! Unreal guys, seriously. I can’t wait to launch the other episodes and see what that brings in. Hopefully 6,000 of you will also register at the forum and shoot the shit with us over there. I also appreciate all of the feedback from the show. So far one one guy had a real complaint over the content itself, which ended up in a heated debate, which is fine. But overall the biggest complaint was the audio quality (which is going to be changed by a pro for each episode), and the breaks in the mp3 itself. Both are completely managable too. I had TONS of emails from everyone complimenting me on the show, saying it was entertaining and informative. I know our news topics sucked, but remember, we didn’t plan the show at all, just kinda winged the whole thing about 30 seconds before the show. I thought we did a pretty damn good job for being the amateurs in radio that we are. I’m looking forward to more episodes and having lots of fun with them too.

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As stated in a previous post, I will begin to post five new niches each week for those seeking a new niche to get started in. Remember all of these are completely simple to get into. All you really need to do is get some content setup and put your Adsense or YPN or whichever contextual ads onto the site (try melding it into your content), and start SEO’ing away. Keyword research should be VERY easy and I’m sure the competition for the large majority of the traffic keywords you find will be quite managable. Just don’t be lazy, actually follow through!

Top 5 Niches of the week: 06/07/06

1. Home care nurse
2. Fly fishing
3. Designer brand perfume
4. iPod car accessories
5. Carpal tunnel excersizes

There you have it. I know they are completely random, but the competition for these niches are pretty damn low, yet they have lots of ppc advertisers, and I’m sure you can plug in your Amazon affiliate ID’s on books or videos related to the content. Again, just because these types of keywords may not generate loads of traffic or cash each day, the numbers will surely add up in the longrun. You can easily do some research on these topics enough to write some articles and keep your content fresh and up to date. Try updating the site once or twice every week.

Use these niches and others posted to really increase your portfolio of successful sites. It’s a great and cheap way to really increase your monthly revenues without doing much work and whithout taking up too much time either.

Costs:

- $8/yr for the domain (I like the $1.95 privacy, but that’s optional)

- $6-$10 a month for a shared but solid host (the unlimited domains ones are good, you shouldn’t worry about bandwidth either, I highly doubt you’ll be using much of it), just start with a small package and as you grow, allow your hosting plan to grow too.

- You can either make your own templates (which is recommended, better to be bland and unique, no insane graphics or art required for these sites, just a way to give off information) or you can buy premade ones. Stick with making your own to reduce costs. $0-$50 one time fee

- Time is money. Doesn’t matter how much or how little your site is going to make you, your time is valuable in some way, so try and spend your time wisely in either educating yourself on your new niche, or figuring out how to make your site attractive (content wise) to your audience.

That pretty much covers your costs. The SEO part, very simply put, you can use your article content to either submit to article directories to get links back from other sites (one way, that are very relevant) or you can just do a standard linking campaign. When doing a linking campaign, make sure ALL of the sites you do a reciprocal link exchange with are 100% relevant to your topic. Don’t try and sneak in some high PR software sites or unrelated topical sites just because you know they get a lot of traffic. It’s completely unnecessary. Your site will gain in rankings much quicker, and for a much longer preiod of time when you have relevant sources linking back to you. Make sure your keywords and title tags are different for each page. Keep your primary keywords in every page, but make sure not to overuse them. Use good and relevant header topics on the page too, inside the articles/content.

Use what I’ve written above, and maybe add some other creative ways of promoting and you will do more than okay. Going to the niche route is a very easy and uncomplicated way to boost your income, understanding of the engines, and overall confidence that you finally have something that works. Just keep doing it over and over with more and more niches and you will be well on your way in the longrun.

Thanks for reading and check out the new niches for next week, and the weekly hot niche pick later in the week.

Keep pluggin away!

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As many of you know, I’ve been running some traffic tests with a plethora of different traffic sources, this is not why I’m pissed off though. Even though only one of the nine campaigns running now have shown a solid ROI, I went into this knowing that the majority of the sources were going to be crap. So to further test the waters, I’ve decided to also start buying into ebooks and “fool proof systems” to see and report back, first hand on the results. This is the part that really gets to me too.

The first source I tried looked good. But see, that’s the trouble with these sales pages, they always look good and tell us what we want to hear. You’d be shocked at how many sales these programs generate. If you want to learn scam artist 101, then this is a good place to start. For the rest of you that have morals and don’t like paying for things that should be free, read on.

I’m not going to reveal the scammer just yet, because I’m going to actually try the system out, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s absolute crap, and it’s another one of those “send us money, and we’ll let you join our affiliate program”. See, the way these guys are making their money, plain and simple, is by hyping up the fact that if you follow their system, and use their software, you don’t have to do much other than that, and you will make money. Which sounds like a fantastic idea, and I can totally understand why people would buy it. But the kicker of it is, is that they are really saying “if our software fails, just promote our product through our affiliate program and you’ll make your initial investment of $30 back within a week”. To some people that may seem like a pretty good deal. For me on the other hand, I refuse to promote anyone’s product unless I think it’s worthy of promotion.

I was talking to Andrew Johnson about it on IM’s and we were both laughing our asses off about it. I even sent him a copy of their “ebook” which wasn’t even an ebook, it was just a text file saying “promote our affiliate program for the next week and you’ll make $500″. So that right there is what’s known as a bait and switch. They promote one thing, but send you something totally different. I was telling Andrew that I found it sort of amusing and disturbing that I just spent $30 to promote something that should have been free.

This experience had led me to a new idea. Think of this as an outlet for people who want to try out all of those products, but don’t want to spend money doing it, because let’s face it, 99.5% of them are bullshit anyhow. So what I’m going to do is post EVERY SINGLE one of these scammer’s ebooks and “fool proof system” in my premium section on my forum when it launches. Am I afraid of copyright infringment, yes, so I’ll just summarize their system in an easy to follow “system” and post it like that, because that’s not copyright, that’s just my opinion of how it’s supposed to work.

I’m openly admitting it right now. I will spend about $1k on these dumb programs (I’ll also apply for a refund, because screw them for trying to screw me and everyone else), as long as you guys tell me where to go and which ebooks and systems you want to see. I am so sick and tired of these fuckers preying on unsuspecting webmasters, affiliates, and just average people looking for income sources. It’s time to fight back, because no one else seems to be doing a goddamn thing about it. The only thing I ask in return is that you guys blog about your experiences, and spread the word about these “systems” and ebooks, so that the programs themselves get a bad reputation and either close shop, or run away. I’ll also post all of their contact information, business/corporate information, and anything else I can dig up on them. Enough is enough, it’s time we do something about it instead of letting them get away with it.

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For all those webmasters and affiliates interested in finding out more information on the radio show lineup, I’ve decided to post it so you know which topics will be covered on which episodes..

Episode 1:

Featured Guest: Lee Dodd from Forum Trends
Topics covered: Everything Forums. How to choose the right topic to start up a profitable forum, how to get traffic to your forum, how to get active members who post regularly, how to dominate your niche in as little time as possible, etc.

Please submit your questions to be addressed by Lee Dodd and the rest of the crew on the radio show. Keep the questions relevant to the topic of the show.

Episode 2:

Featured Guest: Aaron Wall from SEOBook.com
Topics covered: Everything SEO. There are so many different topics involved in SEO that I doubt we’ll be able to cover everything, so we’ll touch up on all of the basics and get in-depth on one or two different strategies.

Please submit your questions to be addressed by Aaron Wall and the rest of the crew on the radio show. Keep the questions relevant to the topic of the show.

Episode 3:

Featured Guest: John Chow from The Tech Zone

Topics covered: Ways to increase your CTR with contextual ads. We’ll be talking to John and cover how TTZ makes a ton of money from promoting comparison shopping contextual ads and Revshare ads on the site. How to monetize your traffic and build up some awesome new income streams.

Please submit your questions to be addressed by John Chow and the rest of the crew on the radio show. Keep the questions relevant to the topic of the show.

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