Five Weekly Niche Picks - 06/07/06
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
- Home care nurse
- Fly fishing
- Designer brand perfume
- iPod car accessories
- 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! 
Great post. I think I’m going to try out one of those niches.
Just a note.. to anyone who tries out anything posted on my blog, if you can put a link back to my blog and/or a plug of my blog to your peers/friends so more people can benefit from the information, that would be really great. It’s all I ask in return for free tips and tactics. Not so tough eh?
Also, if you do try something, and even if you don’t do well or if you do well, report back on here and let everyone know how it went. Feedback does wonders.
As far as feedback goes I am following the simple content site method. With a few revisions, i am using WordPress, mainly for the fact that I can use a template, and editing and making pages is easier, I have generated sitemaps and the benefits of autolinking plus the header and footer includes plus a hell of a lot of other reasons why I use WordPress. Anyway, indexing is going great and MSN is loving me even though my site is only a few weeks old. i am still working on link building and I need more content. But it’s going pretty good. The general plan for me is to make it work and then do it agian. Hopefully It works oput for me,
I’ll be giving one of these niches a go to test things out. I’ll follow your advice to a tee and let u know how things get on.
Already tight-assed it on one cost, domain for $2.75. Now lets see how quick I can get the site up..
Fantastic post.
you always pleased me with your post jon
Giles how long does it usually take for you to get a WordPress layout up and running?
I’m used to more traditional methods but still a bit curious to know what works.
knopiix,
wordpress site + theme can be done in literally 5 minutes. It is one of the easiest theme-able blogging software out there. Literally thousands of themes available for download and one of the fastest installers I’ve ever seen.
If you want a more “hord core” CMS package that adds substantial more to it’s functionality than wordpress (remembering wordpress is predominantly a blogging tool) then take a look at Joomla. Be aware though that Joomla has a bit of a learning curve.
I do not know if creating such sites will make you earn lots? I can be wrong though, but I have an own rich content site since 7 years now. Since 2005 I have started adding adsense and in the beginning it was just there, some coding here and there.
In april this year I started optimising because with around 4000 unique visitors a day the income was really peanuts, just good enough to pay hosting and my daily lunch but that was it really.
Since then I have visited tons of websites checking what would work, what were the good advices etc. Now I have multipled my adsense income by factor 10. I have started doing this for several other websites as well that my brother runs and also there with using senses I got his income pultiplied by 4 or 6. Considering his sites have less traffic than mine it adds up.
Why am I telling this? Well, I just don’t know if creating a website for adsense will make things work, in the end traffic is the first necessity, without that your site is dead as far as income is concerned.
So, how do you guys generate traffic then when you are not really grown into the subject? Will seo suffice??
Read his post on link building. With the combination of good content, good ad placement, and lots of incoming links from relevent sources, you will be able to earn lots.
I don’t think the point is to hit a homerun with these sites, but rather to build several of them and create a nice base income for yourself; at least thats how I started before moving on to the big stuff.
Bernard-
No one said you will make lots of money with one or even two of these types of sites. Hell, sometimes these sites are a perfect way to test out and make up your own technics and methods. Even so, if you are doing it strictly for profit, volume is your best bet, because sites like these will make a maximum income of $50 a day, and probably nowhere near that high for the average web citizen, but it’s all possible.
Fly fishing is low competition?
You might want to rethink that one. I think the point here is that you’ve listed something that has been overlooked by a lot of people in the affiliate/PPC marketing game, but that has TONS of websites from hobbyists. Most have no advertising at all, though hundreds if not thousands are monetized with AdSense or Yahoo, including all the big ones.
There are several PR5-6 websites that have been putting up good articles for years. It’s not the kind of niche anybody’s new MFA is likely to break into.
I’ve got one of the highest traffic sites in that niche (in the top 10 anyway) with thousands of substantive pages carefully SEO’d, and I still don’t place in the top couple pages for “fly fishing.”
Also, the ads don’t pay very well and the affiliate opportunities aren’t very good.
Thanks Jon, for the list of niches & the step wise break up. I will definitely try one of them.