Are you a Niche Blogger?

March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Obviously, you can tell from my site here, this site would not be considered a “Niche” blog for the pure fact of all the random postings I do from the sandwiches my kids make to business related articles and the crazy random rantings of an overwhelmed mom that doesn’t get enough sleep.

However, if you are like me and love learning about Internet Marketing and various methods of Making Money Online then I’m sure you have heard about Niche Blogging.  While reviewing a couple other sites, I clicked on a link to a blog on African Safaris.

Why am I so engrossed with this website? Well, it’s a great example of a very simple process of selling an affiliate link that most likely is making the site owner money and only took them a couple hours to create.

Still don’t understand?

Here it is broken down

1. Notice that this is a simple out of the box template hosted on a free blog
2. Notice the EXACT title- African Safari Trips- very specific- it’s not just African Safari that can get lost in over 2 million search results. It has the niche building word “trips” making it into a long tail keyword and has an end result of searches in the 200,000 then you add quotes to the keyword in Google and your just shy of 10,000. That’s your key target for Article Writing that will get you in the highest rankings!
3. This is a blog attached to a bigger Safari theme site.
4. When I review it, I bet they could fit some killer affiliate links in there and even a great info product of their own and sell.
5. Add an automatic newsfeed for anything safari/Africa plains related and you get easy content.

Again, just my random musings on a niche potential simplified!

New Version of Keyword Research from Google?

February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

TOOL SUGGESTION OF THE DAY: 

The Google Experimental site allows you to opt into one of several experiments that Google is researching- they include, keyword search, different views of search results, and keyboard shortcuts.

I generally use Google Sandbox, Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, or Yahoo and several more methods when researching a new word or phrase. I find this can often takes a great deal of time and like life, you can over analyze and never get anything actually accomplished.  I relate it to sitting at a slot machine, you may find that perfect Keyword that is going to magically bring you a niche with tons of traffic/money with the next pull.

I opted for the Keyword Search Results experiment, clicked one easy button and it brought me to a search box that is shown in the screen shot.

Notice that as I started to type in words for my search, the tool offered suggstions. Then the best part is they offer the actual results number before you even leave the screen. I know off the bat that I’m not going to try “Senior Move Management” with over 2 million results, but “Senior Move Manager” is in the 600,o00’s - that’s a much better start to work into a niche.

 Google states the following about the details:

That’s pretty cool. How does it do that?
Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be found in the Google Zeitgeist. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal search history.

Google works well as is. Why should I use Google Suggest?
By suggesting more refined searches up front, Google Suggest can make your searches more convenient and efficient by keeping you from having to reformulate your query. Google Suggest might offer suggestions that you will find novel or intriguing.

Go ahead, give it a try. Due to the fact it’s in Experimental, I don’t know how accurate the information is but it’s better then starting from scratch.

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