Help needed please!

[mwong]

Hi nattayb,

I can see that you are serious about affiliate marketing but I have to agree that you need to take things one at a time but that doesn't mean you take it slow. You just make things productive.

So, I recommend you take sometime to study the stickies and posts here before you did something wrong and waste your money. You can try:

Quick Affiliate And Traffic Tip

Hall of Fame - Best Words of Wisdom from 5 Star Members

Key to Affiliate Success - Try, Test, FAIL & Learn

New to affiliate marketing

Those are some discussion I find to be helpful for newbie. And there are more that help you to build your business.

Remember, you are looking for a long term and stable income and you need to get your basics right before you can earn any money. Just look at this, have you seen any skyscrapers build without its foundation?

Hope that helps.

[nattayb]

Ive been working on trying to find a great niche within the bodybuilding market. I have found a four word phrase with only 19 results on google but with 180 searches a day is that good or is a four word phrase too much? I also have a two word phrase with 150 searches per day average and 950 google results are these good?
thx

[mwong]

Hi nattayb,

You might got yourself a good long tail keyword for the 4 word phrase and I assume you at least phrase match you keyword when you do your searching.

But the thing that matter is that whether there is a market for it. Do you see any PPC ad on the result page?

If there is none, you might be having difficulty building a market from scratch.

[nattayb]

I would try and sell bodybuilding supplements. For example pros and cons of bodybuilding supplement xyz (a common supplement) has 150 per day and only 19 or so results on google or is that too specific?

[Linda Buquet]

I wondered how you found anything with on only 19 results in Google. I was afraid you were looking at things wrong.

creatine is far from being non-competitive and has 8.4 million competing pages in Google.
Even allintitle: creatine which is the better indicator of competition has 307,000 competing pages.

Where did you come up with 19???

OOOOOPPPPPS Sorry, I got it now.

When you said: QUOTE: "For example pros and cons of creatine" I thought you were asking us what the pros and cons orf optimizing for a term like creatine were. I see now you must have searched for "allintitle: pros and cons of creatine". Sorry!

[Linda Buquet]

I don't know much about the supplement however those numbers do look REALLY good.

Here's another for you:

In Wordtracker "pros and cons of creatine" doesn't come up at all as a popular search.

However: "pros and cons of creatine monohydrate" has 109 searches and only 9 competing pages.

SO yes if you are planning on building a body building site and writing articles about specific topics like that that have low competition it could be a good strategy.

HOWEVER be careful about giving ideas and keywords away on forums where others with more experience could jump on your niche and create competition. So if that phrase is one you may work on - you may want to delete it so you don't create your own competition. Leave it there generically so the discussion still makes sense and just edit to say "pros and cons of xyzsupplement". PM and let me know if you need help and if you decide to edit let me know so I can edit my posts as well.

[nattayb]

Okay thank you all

Ive found a good niche i believe allintitle:"**** ***** ********s" it produces only 678 results and wordtracker says theres 584 searches a day. I want to start designing a website and I already have a great affiliate that is through Commission Junction. Is it possible for me to start with a website thats free like tripod or should I start writing content until i have the necessary funds to get a website.

[Linda Buquet]

Hi nattayb,

Don't use tripod or any of the free web sites. If you have to go free for now use blogger.

Google owns blogger and like their pages. You'll NEVER see a good ranking in the SERPs
that's from a Tripod page. Other options to consider are squidoo.com or hubpages.com