tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230786022024-09-05T22:37:10.310-07:00Discovering the Value of Niche MarketingCharles Kirkendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06520345981360988999noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23078602.post-29619421044299757562011-03-15T06:26:00.000-07:002011-04-04T05:04:35.692-07:00

In order to determine the value of social bookmarking sites, I am running a case-study to see how fast the links from these types of sites are indexed (Social Bookmark Case Study).  For the case study, I created a simple Squidoo page (Powerful Worship Songs) that I could add to the various social bookmarking sites. This post documents the result of the case study and shows that some social

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A lot of webmasters suggest submitting your site(s) and page(s) to social bookmarking sites.  With the large number of social bookmarking sites available, this looks like a great way generate back links to a site.  But, I am also a little cautious about the actual value.  I want to make sure that I am focusing my link building efforts in the best possible direction. So, I am

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I took a couple of years off from my online endeavors, but I am now back.  This time around I am focusing on creating long-term value through quality content.  I got burnt out chasing the short term gains of PPC to PPA offers.  Every time I had a winning combination, the offer I was using would be discontinued or paused.  So all my hard work was wasted up to that point. This

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As I stated in my previous post, I have started to focus on PPA since the beginning of the year and have been amazed at the results (I was able to make money right from the beginning.) Since the beginning of the year I have been testing various PPA offers and markets and have found some winners and some losers. With the winners I have expanding my efforts and with the losers I have cut my

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It has been a long time since I posted, but I have been very busy working on building up my online income. In the process I have begun to switch my focus from PPC (pay-per-click - google adsense) to PPA (pay-per-action - Azoogle). The reason is that the PPA offers pay out much better so there is a huge upside to learning how to compete in the PPA markets.Using PPC to drive traffic to PPA

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For most of us that are trying to make money online, our largest initial cost are web hosting fees. One way to offset these initial costs is to search for web hosting discounts and rebates. With a little effort you can easily save up to 50% on your hosting fees and significantly cut you upfront business expenses.Here are some of the best deals that I have found for several large web hosting

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I found another decent AdSense niche that would be very easy to get good rankings within the search engines. Furnace filters may not seem like a topic that would bring in any money, but there number of searches per month and the number of advertisers makes this an ideal niche. Even though furnace filters is a seasonal item, there are still enough searches during the spring and summer months to

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Here is a pretty nice AdSense niche that I have recently stumbled upon - bail bonds, bail bondsman, or bail agents. Here is a niche that hasn't been overrun with MFA sites, and offers a nice per click payout.Why is this? Well, the bail bond industry is very risky, but the pay outs are pretty nice for the bail bondsman. The bail bondsman will typically charge around 10% of the bail amount as

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So, how do you find profitable niches to build a site around? There are many strategies for narrowing down your choice of niche markets from using the overture search results and bid tools to checking competition using site searches in google. But even with these techniques you won't know for sure how profitable a niche is until you put up a site.But putting up a high quality, good content site

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When it comes to social bookmarking sites we all know that Digg is by far the largest and most popular (just ask anyone that has had a story hit the front page.) So how could a site improve on the model perfected by Digg, well techTAGG may have done it.What techTAGG has done is brilliant. By making a a slight tweak to the model they are giving back to their contributors. They said -> Look, we

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As the number of sites that I have grows, I continue to look for little tricks and tools that can help me keep track of how my sites are doing. On neat little trick that I have found is to use google alerts to keep track of when my sites get updated in Google.For every site that I have, I create two alerts: one for site:www.URL.com and link:www.URL.com. These provides me with emails that let me

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The keys to online niche marketing are the ability to identify niche markets and the ability to get high keyword rankings in the search engines. Over the course of the last couple of months I have found several free tools that have become invaluable to improving my niche marketing efforts. With these tools you will be able to both identify new niche markets to persue and optimize your niche sites

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One of the first things that I do when I find a potential niche market is to create a blogger blog. I then add content to the blog for a couple of weeks and see what happens. If the blog starts to take off and get a lot of traffic, I then create a full blown site around the niche.The reason I like to use blogger sites is that fact that they are easy to maintain and update from one account. But

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I have been dabbling and testing to see if I could make any money by participated on adsense revenue sharing sites. Obviously I got the idea to look for other revenue sharing sites from my membership to Digital Point. I mixed things up a little by joining several different types of revenue sharing sites. I joined several adsense revenue sharing forums in addition to Digital Point, a couple of

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I have been testing a lot of different techniques to generate traffic to my niche sites. So far the best traffic techinique that I have found for my niche sites is to submit articles to the free article directories.For one of my sites I was receiving 1 to 2 unique visitors a day from the search engines (site is currently in Google's sandbox so traffic is only coming from yahoo and msn.) I

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Well I have been looking for a new host for some new sites I want to create. My goal was to find the best deal that I could on a good hosting plan.I was able to find a deal that allowed me to save over %50 on my web hosting fees.Here is how I went about finding my web hosting deal.Researched hosting companies to select plans that met my requirements. I used online web hosting forums and review

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A lot of people seem to be focused on building their Google PageRank for their sites without understanding that PageRank does not equate to getting traffic. It is fairly easy to get a new site to have a 4 or 5 page ranking within 30 days. But even with a PR5 ranking these sites are not guarranteed to recieve tons of traffic.So, how come a PR5 ranked site not recieve very much traffic:Pages are

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I have been going through frustrations of getting good SERPs in Google. Google's algorithm does seem to punish newer sites. Almost all of my sites listed high on certain search terms for their first couple of weeks, but then dropped down in the SERPs.This has had a drastic impact on the amount of traffic that gets to my site and my income. I still get traffic from MSN, but it is only a fraction

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Well, its official, my main site is definitely in google's infamous sandbox. While my site ranks well for auxilary keyword phrases within my niche, it isn't even in the rankings for any of my sites main keywords. Although this is frustrating, I am still getting traffic from the other search engines to hold me over.Determining Ranking Without SandboxI was curious to see how my site would rank if

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yThis is the second part of the how I acheived a PR5 ranking within 30 days on one of my niche sites. In this part I will descibe the internal linking strategy that I used for my the sites.Internal Linking StrategyThere are a lot of different internal linking strategies, and each one will have a different impact on how PR (page rank) is distributed throughout your site. If you are not careful in

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Would you like to know how I took a new niche site from PR0 to PR5 in 30 days? Of course, so in this post I will tell you the strategies and techniques I used to take a small financial niche site to a PR5 ranking in its first month.I used a combination of a targeted external link compaigns and an specific internal linking strategy. Both of these combined contributed to giving the home page of the

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What is the value in a niche? Well I am going to find out and document my progress as I begin building small highly focused niche sites. I will be using a combination of adsense and assorted affiliate programs to make money on these niche sites. I won't specifically mention the niches that I am currently working with, but I will document the various strategies that I am using to increase the

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