James had emailed link to a video of the new features in version 3. I take my hats off to the guy for the kinda work he has done on the software. The new version is going to be released next week and sadly James has decided to increase the price from $67 to $97. He is serious about the new price. The software is worth more than that.

Last week, I setup a new website based off my research done using Micro Niche Finder. The niche I picked up with 2 keywords has a combined search volume of 48,000 every month. This niche has next to zero competition. Within four days I was in the front page of Yahoo. The terms have a combined search volume of 12600 a month in Yahoo alone. It is a matter of time before I am on the front page of Google.

Do you see what I mean? I am not this hyped up normally, but your time is running out fast. Go ahead and buy Micro Niche Finder before the price shoots up. Do it Now!

A Second Update on Micro Niche Finder

Google has been indexing the blog regularly and almost all articles are currently included in Google’s database. I am updating the blog once every 5 days. The major update I have is that 2 of the main keywords have appeared in Google’s search results. One of the keywords is on the front page while the other is on page 4. Both the keywords have good search volume every month.

The links are also finally showing up in Yahoo and other databases. As of now, the Search Engines have indexed about 130 backlinks. In total, I have built about 600 backlinks spreading over 6-8 keywords. In my opinion, the results are slowly beginning to show. In the coming few weeks, we should see some major progress in terms of keyword positioning and search engine traffic . The project, let’s say is entering the critical mass mode.

Stay Tuned while I bring you more in the next few weeks!

Sunday Blogbits – Micro Niche Marketing Update

To start a Niche Marketing website, you need -

1. Profitable Niche

2. Keyword Research

3. Content

4. Platform

5. Traffic

6. Monetization

Profitable Niche – A profitable niche is one that pays over and over again. It is a niche that carries demand and never diminishes. It is also a niche where you can build a passive income over time with an almost zero maintenance.

Does such a niche exist? Yes it does. In fact there thousands of such niches that fit the above description. Your job is to find them. I use a software called Micro Niche Finder to unravel hidden niches with low competition and high profit factors. The software, when given a generic phrase or word, digs Google database and gives up to 250 niche topics off the main keyword.

For example, the first time I used it, I typed in the word “Cure”. It gave many results, one of which was Acne Cure. I dug the word deeper found certain profitable niches within with medium to low competition. Thereafter, I made a list of these micro niches and setup a blog geared towards them.

Keyword Research – This goes hand in hand with the previous heading. I wont go into much detail except that Micro Niche Finder helps you to accomplish this in simple steps. Please make sure to read the accompanying guide.

Content – This is a tricky one. This is the mode where many niche marketers get discouraged and quit. Unless you are interested in the topic you have chosen, you will have a hard time preparing content. Couple the fact with the issue of duplicate content. It is imperative to have original content if you are in for long term success. Niche Marketing, even though it sounds like a get rich quick scheme, or is portrayed that way, is in reality a long term money maker.

You have 2 choices here. First being Private Label Rights articles which you can easily re-write and give the required unique flavor. Private Label articles are pretty cheap and have reasonable quality. Rewriting them is not really difficult. Read my experiment with Private Label Articles for a better understanding.

Your second choice is to outsource the content writing job to a writer. This can cost you anywhere between $4-$10 per article and set you back a bit. If anyone of you is interested, get in touch with me and I can put you through some very good writers who are reasonable priced.

Platform – Upfront, Wordpress is my choice. The days of static websites are fading. They are not over definitely, but are slowly getting into the back burner. Wordpress is the most up to date dynamic content management system available in the market. Wordpress is open source and hence 100% free. There is no strings attached.

There are many web hosts that come with ‘1 click’ installation of Wordpress. I recommend Doreo.com. They are the best I have experienced in the past 4 years. Read my Blogging Guide to understand how to operate Wordpress and make it more Search Engine friendly.

Traffic – For a niche marketing blog, Search Engine traffic is the order of the day. Search Engine traffic is what makes this business a passive earner in the long run. If you do proper SEO and build legitimate backlinks with related anchor keywords, you will eventually start receiving organic traffic and this will only increase as you keep building relevant links. Traffic from Search Engines is your first success installment. Thereafter the game becomes easier to play.

Monetization – By now, your blog will be receiving quality traffic from Search Engines and other sources. When your analytics confirms that you are receiving at least 40-50 visitors from Search Engines, you can go ahead and monetize your blog. Do not overdo it. Start with Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher and slowly move to affiliate marketing and eBay auction products.

Let monetization be a gradual process. Never compromise with the appearance of your blog for a few bucks. Keep it clean and with quality content. Money will follow suit.

A Simplified Guide to Niche Marketing

In the case of PLR content, the problem is even bigger. You join a PLR membership site and share a pack of articles every month with anywhere between 200-1500 members. It is duplicate content problem multiplied because each one is paying for the content consciously.

However, in the past few weeks, after I started off the Niche marketing experiment, I was exploring options for cost effective writing solution. After all, when you move from 1 blog to 2 and 2 to 4 and 4 to 8, you need a solution to manage the content part. It so happened that, when I was exploring my options, I came across PLR content again. This time I decided to take a deeper look.

I checked out a few services and zeroed on PLRPro.com run by Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay. I cannot tell you why, but I could sense honesty in them. Plus, they were offering a $1 trial. I signed up, downloaded one of the packs and the VRE Guide and to avoid any abuse on my part, I canceled the subscription. It would be unfair to download 440 articles for $1.

I admit the quality of their articles is very good. Anyways, I took out 2 articles from the pack of 40 I downloaded and decided to do a mini experiment. I opened up an article, timed myself and sat to re-write it. When I finished the job, I checked the time to see I had taken about 8 minutes to complete it. I moved over to the next article and repeated the process. This time it took me about 10 minutes to complete the re-writing job.

I then went ahead and open up DupeFree Pro and compared the Original Article 1 and my re-write. Here is the result.

The first article, when compared to the re-write had a difference of about 93%. DupeFree Pro showed similarity of 7.065%. Here is the second article.

This time, the difference is about 94%, which means a 6% similarity. According to experts, there should be at least a 30% difference to make an article look acceptable, while the respected level is 72%. In under 10 minutes, I was able to perform better.

This experiment honestly has given me a new perception about PLR content. I can suddenly sense a myriad of possibilities. Okay, not really myriad, but I can see profits in these article packs. The primary usage being Niche marketing. Re-writing really isn’t that difficult. I was able to re-write articles almost completely in 18 minutes.

Do you have any experience with PLR content?

A Look into the Private Label Rights Industry

Make sure you read to the last. I have something for you at the end. You shouldn’t miss it.

The Micro Niche Marketing project has been going on very well. I have decided to reveal the name of the niche I am working the project on as well as the URL. But before that, let me give you some stats. I have focusing on about 5 main keywords and about 15 long tails. Among them, 5 keywords have already entered the Google Top 100 list with one keyword hitting the second page of Google. The main keywords, the last time I checked were on the 80^th page of Google. It is going to take a long time to make it to top 100 as the domain is brand new and has very few backlinks. The link Building process is an ongoing one.

What I have done is, prepared a total of 20 articles and timestamped them with an interval of 5 days till the 15^th of March. This way, I do not have to pay attention to its growth and the blog will be updated regularly. Thereafter, I plan to update the blog just once a week, to keep the SE crawlers busy.

Okay, now to unveil the secret.

The niche blog I am building is on Acne Cure. I researched the most profitable micro niche keywords having low competition within Acne using Micro Niche Finder. The software made my job a snap. Visit Acne Cure Blog.

My brother sent me this news piece about the Tumor man. His name is Huang Chuncai and he hails from southern China’s Guangdong province. Take a look at his pain.

Huang Chuncai poses before his second operation to remove his tumors, which currently weigh around 10kg (22lbs), at a hospital in Guangzhou, southern China’s Guangdong province, January 3, 2008. Huang, a 32-year-old native from a remote village in China’s southern province of Hunan, says he is relieved after a part of his facial tumors, which originally weighed about 23kg (50.7 lbs), was removed last year. His second operation will remove another part of the tumors, which weighs 4.5kg (9.9lbs). Huang suffers from Neurofibromatosis, which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that primarily affects the development and growth of nerve tissues. Picture taken January 3, 2008.

I honestly cant fathom the depth of his pain. Anyways, I will leave you all with this thought.

Great Sunday
Al

Sunday Blogbits – The Tumor Man

To start off, The blog made 3 Clickbank sales off one review that I wrote in the beginning of the month. It was for Micro Niche Finder. The total commissions ended with $91. It isn’t a great amount, but it definitely is not bad for a plain review.

The Blog received 330 visitors from Google and a few from MSN and Yahoo. The most searched were “Worlds weirdest homes” and Micro Niche Finder”.

According to Google Analytics, the blog received a total 6700 visitors and 10575 pageviews, much less than December. However, I am happy that the quality of visitors were better than what it was in December. I observed it from comments and personal feedbacks, as well as the source of the traffic.

The RSS Subscriber was static for the most part of the month. It changed last week after Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey mentioned my book in his blog. RSS subscriber base jumped from 137 to 150 in the last 6 days. Not a great development, but a development overall. Thank you Yaro for sending the traffic as well as new readers.

I had a goal of 3 guests posts every month. I completely missed it. I am going to work better towards hitting that goal. Last month, I started off the Micro Niche Marketing experiment. It is still going on. I will give an update in a few moments.

Do I have a goal for February? Nothing specific really. As usual, I would like to see myself fire up top of the world posts, would like to increase my readership, linkbaits, etc. If there is one thing I would like for my blog, that would be to maintain the quality I started with. Everything else, in my view will be bonuses.

Now to the Micro Niche Marketing Experiment. There hasn’t been any progress in terms of Google ranking, as it is a pretty new domain. I have been building links slowly. Last week, I managed to get about 50 links. In my opinion, 50 links a week is pretty good. I am targeting the same keywords I did before. I am positive Google has sandboxed me. It may take a couple months before I am released from it. I am going to continue building it.

I have been getting a steady 50-100 visitors everyday from referral sites like StumbleUpon, etc. This traffic will help me expedite the time to get out of Google’s sandbox. Hopefully.

At the moment, the experiment is pretty boring. Next week, I will reveal the niche I am running this experiment on. Hopefully, that should bring in the excitement.

How was January for you?

Sunday Blogbits – Performance Report and more

A pretty slow week for me, after the accident I met with. I haven’t really monitored anything in the Blogosphere. To top it, my wife’s aunt expired today due to completely unknown reasons. After spending over $10,000, the doctors could not diagnose the cause of death. I guess, our medical system is still in its growth stage.

I have made certain changes to the Micro Niche Experiment I have been working on since 2 weeks. First off, I have demolished the 1 year old domain I picked up. I registered a new domain related to the same niche. I went to Google Webmaster tools and removed the entire site from Google’s index and Search results. I had about an hour free yesterday, so I setup the new domain with Wordpress Blog, performed the basic SEO duties on it and posted the articles for the same dates as the previous blog.

Why did I do this? As strange as it may sound (to me), I had 2 personal requests to conduct the domain on a brand new domain rather than a 1 year old, somewhat trusted domain. I gave a thought over it while on bed rest and concluded in the favor of the request.

It was a bit of hassle initially, especially when I thought of all the link building I had done. Now that everything is set, the hassle is history. Google has already indexed every post in the new blog. Pretty fast, I should add and an encouraging start.

There is nothing to report regarding the project apart from the above. I will start building links once I am out of bed, which should be in a couple days. I am as excited as I was in the beginning. So, stay focused with me.

Before closing, I just took a look at couple of blogs and found this Yahoo Search Marketing $100 free credit at UberAffiliate.com. I thought, I will share it with you. Go ahead and sign up right away.

Sunday Blogbits – Micro Niche Marketing re-visited

So, what are we dealing with today? Long tail keywords.

Long tail keywords are your entry into highly competitive niches. Long tail keywords ensure that you get a fair share of any niche market you enter, regardless of how fierce and dangerous your competition is. Long tail keyword is also a key strategy in getting ranked in Search Engines in the shortest time possible.

Let us take an example scenario. I want to enter the online “Travel deals” market. I want to start a website so I can provide online consumers best travel deals, saving them a chunk of their cash and earning myself a nice commission. So, I am all excited to commence the project. I plan a nice looking website, research the companies that are offering best deals in the travel sector, while at the same time running an affiliate program. I then move onto planning my SEO strategy. To start, I research Google to get an idea of the competition out there. What do I see?

Travel Deals:

1. Competition: 42 million

2. Monthly Search Volume: 188,000

That’s a mammoth size competition; one that may take me a long time to break into. Suddenly my excitement fizzes out. I run out of gas. The affiliate checks fade away slowly. Everything is blurred.

Then comes John Doe to my rescue. John tells me “Al, why don’t you trace your Long Tails?” I say “Long Tails?” He says “Yes, Long Tails”. He briefly explains to me what Long Tail keywords are. We bid farewell to each other.

I start my keyword research all over, this time focusing on the Long Tails. So, instead of Travel Deals, I pick up keywords such as:

1. Travel Deals Last minute – 268,000 competition and 38,000 volume.

2. Travel Deals Mexico – 9300 competition and 12,000 volume.

3. Cheap Student Airfares – 282,000 competition and 19,000 volume.

Suddenly, my excitement is back and I am on Cloud 9 again. I can see those fat affiliate checks re-surfacing and the blur picture is gone. I am on top of the world.

The above keywords will help me rank better and faster in Search Engines and will also help me get very specific visitors to my travel site that will have a pretty high conversion rate. Now, all that is remaining is the presentation part.

Long Tails basically help you to attack your niche market using multiple entry points. Instead of focusing on a single main keyword and wasting all the energy on it, you dig deeper and pick up 10-20 specific keywords and use them to enter the market and harness the potential. You can easily gain SERP for 10 Long Tails with the time you take to gain for one main keyword because of the competition.

I could honestly go on and on about Long Tail, but I believe, the above example has given you a clear picture of Long Tail keywords and their benefits.

How about you put some of the knowledge into action? Keep me posted on the developments.

Celebrity Bloggers: How Google Found them

Nevertheless, SOC is a very useful feature. It shows you strength of the competition based on the amount of work that has gone into it. What do I mean by that? I am referring to the number of times the keyword has been used a anchor text on backlinks that are pointing towards that particular site. It also shows how many sites have used the keyword in their title tag.

This definitely is an incredible feature by itself. You will get a very good idea as to how many backlinks you may have to build with the particular anchor text and whether you should use the same title or should you go for a variation and more.

Based on these figures, the SOC gives a rank as well as a color denoting the strength visually. Green stands for a light competition while yellow stands for medium competition. There is a red that denotes fierce competition and James recommends to skip these keywords as they take double the effort to rank well and are also sometimes, a sign of saturation.

So, next time you open up Micro Niche Finder, do not forget to take a look at the SOC for your favorite keywords. You won’t know when you got addicted to it.

Weekend Talk – An update on Micro Niche Finder

In spite of the above Gospel truth, there are netrepreneurs who get into a saturated market and make money in a short time. The first impression obviously is that of surprise. How do they make it? What propels them above the Top 10 cult? And various other questions.

When you take a closer look, you realize that these netrepreneurs achieve the above the average results by simply going behind a niche within the primary niche. If suppose, there is a niche like Video Games, the netrepreneur narrows it to a popular company, say PlayStation 2. He looks at the competition at this level. If all is good, he goes ahead with the execution. If not, he further narrows down within PlayStation 2 filtering until he finds something profitable with low competition.

When I am referring to competition, I am talking about the Search Engine trends. If I were to do a search for Video Games in Google and I get 50 million results, then the competition is fierce. If I narrow down to PlayStation and do a search, and say get 1 million results, then the competition is relatively low.

I wont deny the fact that it isn’t easy to find micro niches. No it isn’t. It involves a lot of research and trend study. There are certain services on the Internet that, upon an upfront fee, can find you your niche market with relatively low competition and reasonable profits. If you can learn how to do this and develop the skills to recognize smaller niches within the primary ones, it is well worth the time and effort. In the long run, this could pay for your retirement and beyond. Most importantly, you could retire early and rich. Many of these micro niches are virtually untapped exposing you to a goldmine. We all know what a gold mine on the Internet is, don’t we?

So, the next time you decide to enter a niche, think of the many hidden nuggets that are waiting for you to tap and make a fortune. Do not get disheartened by looking at the broad picture. Dig deeper and you will definitely find your retirement package.

Next week, I will cover more on how to find the hidden niche markets that have both, low competition as well as high profitability.

Weekend Talk – Making money in Saturated Markets