Today we are going to choose just one niche for our very first money making website. By now, you should have 5 potental niches as we discussed in Building A Profitable Website From Start To Finish Tutorial (Part 2). Our next step is to choose just one of these.

Analysing and choosing our niche

Our aim now is to select a niche that gets plenty of visitors from the search engines such as Google and Yahoo. We do this by using a free tool called Gtrends. Again, if you have read my eBook Sleep Money System then you will know how to use this tool already. If you haven’t I will give you a brief tutorial.

Gtrends allows us to check if a particular niche is profitable or not. Let me correct myself. Gtrends, gives us an indication of how profitable a niche is by estimating (using data from the search engines) how many visitors we will get for our particular search term. A search term is the text that a person types into the google or yahoo search box. If we have chosen ‘Red Cotton Socks’ as our niche, then we need to check what search terms a person uses to find ‘Red Cotton Socks’. It maybe that they use the exact phrase ‘Red Cotton Socks’ or something very similar to this. Lets find out…

Go to the Gtrends website and type in ‘Red Cotton Socks’. You will notice that the results come back as ‘red cotton socks ladies’.

To the left of this there is the number 1. This means that there are 1 searches per month for this search term. Now click on the bar graph on the right. This gives you a little more information on the search term.

You will notice that Gtrends reports that there is zero competition for this search term and the expected number of visits per day will be around 18. As this is just an example and as such, it’s probably not a good niche to use as you will not get many vistors. I am however, going to use this niche for the rest of the tutorials.

If this was a beter niche, Gtrends would list a series of related keywords that match your niche. We need to choose the related search term that gets the most searches AND the most daily visits. Once we have analysed the 5 niches we chose from the last tutorial, we need to choose just one for our new website. This will be based on the data we have extracted from Gtrends. The niche with the best search term results and daily visits will be the one we choose. Again, check out my eBook for more information on how to do this.

Compiling our keyword list & ordering by importance

Our next step is to extract all the keywords (search terms) from Gtrends that match our niche. If you typed ‘Red Cotton Socks’ into Gtrends then it will only have displayed one. However, normally you will have 100+ results in the list. Copy all these and copy them into a spread sheet. I normally have one spreadsheet per website so I can keep track of which keywords I am using for which one. Next, order they keywords by the number of searches per month. The one with the highest number of searches will be our primary keyword. The rest will be secondary keywords which we will use to help drive visitors to our new website. Our primary key word will be used when we purhase our domain name.

Until the next tutorial, have a play around with the tools I have given you so far. You will need to use these on a regular basis if you are going to be building money making websites. Don’t worry, they will become second nature to you soon!

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• Choosing our niche

I would like to start this tutorial to explain how we will be monetising our websites. Well, we will be using two monitising methods. #1 eBay affiliate program and #2 Adsense.

#1 eBay Affiliate Program

One of my big earners at the moment is the eBay Affiliate Program. This is where I get commission on eBay sales. This means I do not have to sell my own product or deal with the customer directly. I get commision when other people sell their product. This is all automated and I don’t need to do anything once my websites have been built and promoted in the apropriate mannor. Just the odd tweak once every month or two. Sound good? You bet ya!

#1 Adsense

When you start getting into affiliate marketing you will soon realise that there are two types of visitor to your websites. #1 A customer who is ready to buy something and #2 A vistor who is not really in the buying mode but just browsing. Our second monitising program is targeted at these types of vistors. Basically, we display Google Ads on our websites and we get paid everytime somebody clicks.

So these are the two monitising methods we are going to use on our network of money making websites.

Ok, so we need to start thinking about our first website. If you have purchased my Sleep Money System eBook you will already have learned how to pick a niche. If you havn’t read it I would highly recommend doing this first as you will then have a head start.

Choosing a profitable niche

I suggest we choose an easy niche initially as this will be our very first money making website. We need to choose a niche that does not have much competition. Choosing something like ‘iPods’ or ‘iPhones’ would be just silly as it would be very difficult for our new website to rank in the search engines for these search terms. We need to find something a little less ‘Popular’ but still be profitable.

One of the free tools I use is eBay Pulse. This is a tool to allow you to see whats currently hot within eBay. I use this information to find out what niche to target on my website. At the time of writing this post ‘Mobile Phones’ is the number 1 most searched after term on eBay.

Before you rush out and start building a website all about mobile phones, remember what I said about not picking a niche that is too hard?

What we can do at this point is to choose something releated to mobile phones but not mobile phones themselves. For example, if I search eBay for ‘mobile phone covers’ you can see that there is quite a lot of them for sale.

If we are going to be clever here, we would then ‘niche down’ a bit further and maybe choose ‘mobile phone covers nokia’ as our niche. Why do this? well, it’s simple, the more we drill down, the easier it will be to get our website’s to rank highly in the search engines for our particular niche.

At this point, you need to choose what niche you will be targeting before we move onto the next chapter. I suggest you pick at least 5 different niches as we will be analysing them to see which is the best one to use for our first website. We will do this by checking the amount of expected vistors to our niche by using another free tool.

A few exmple niche’s you might choose is ‘red cotton socks’ or ‘green electric guitars’

NOTE: Don’t pick the niches above because if everyone who reads these tutorials build the same websites then nobody is going to make any money!

Ok guys and gals, go forth and choose at lease 5 potential niches ready for the next tutorial. We will be selecting just one for our new website!

Read Building A Profitable Website From Start To Finish Tutorial (Part 3)

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Remember, you need to actually put some work into this. If you don’t then you WILL NOT make any money! You will also need to to spend a little money on your hosting and domain name. I will also recommend two programs that you will also need to make your sites profitable. Of course you could use other software and hosting but I am recommending the very same tools I use myself.

My tutorial will cover: -

• Finding a profitable niche
• Choosing your target keywords
• Choosing products & services that match your niche
• Buying a domain name to match your keywords
• Purchasing your hosting
• Installing Wordpress & Choosing a theme
• Installing & Setting up Wordpress SEO plugins
• Configuring your site to highly target your keywords
• Getting your site indexed within just a few days
• Driving highly targeted traffic from surfers who are ‘Ready To Buy’
• Setting your site to allow maximum passive income
• How to replicate the success of your first site into other niches

My next post will be on the 3rd / 4th Jan 2009. You may want to purchase the following ready for part 2: -

1) Your Webhosting (Use coupon code ’savenow’ for a discount) - You can choose your domain later. I will show you how to transfer this to Webhosting pad. The domain will contain your keywords.
2) Directory Submission Software (this is needed - you will need the full product)
3) Social Bookmarking Software (this is needed)

I know there is a bit of an initial outlay but you will make your money back once your websites become profitable. Remember, this is an investment. Money and time spent now will be rewarded once your websites start bringing in the cash.

Please direct your questions to the comment section of this post and I will try to answer any questions during the ongoing tutorials.

Please feel free to subscribe to my feed at the top right hand corner to keep informed of my next post. Until Part 2….Good Luck!

Read Building A Profitable Website From Start To Finish Tutorial (Part 2)

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Cool eh? The above eBay listings show the the top five ‘Ending Soon’ auctions within the ‘Action Figures’ catagory. You can easily show 10, 15, 25 or any other number of items by just changing a few of the parameters.

You maybe thinking that building 100 eBay niche blogs is going to get very costly. After all your going to need a domain name and hosting for each one right? Well, you can go down that path but I certainly haven’t. To keep costs down I have been using subdomains for each niche blog. For example, all you need to do is buy a domain name such as myebaystuff.com and add a seperate subdomain per niche onto your primary domain name such as redsocks.myebaystuff.com and coolcartoys.myebaystuff.com. This way you keep the cost down. You will also need a good host to manage all your subdomains. I highly recommend WebHostingPad as you can host unlimited subdomains on your account. Something not offered by many other hosting comanies.

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