How long does it take you guys to develop your niche?

[TheLight]

How are you guys making money so fast? I have had many niche sites for months and have not turned large profits on them. I gotta get some inside information from you guys!

[salamei]

Originally Posted by TheLight

How are you guys making money so fast? I have had many niche sites for months and have not turned large profits on them. I gotta get some inside information from you guys!

Hello:

Well My answer to this leads me to ask you several questions. One is what are your niches about? What methods of advertising are you using?

Niches are a dime a dozen and finding ones that are profitable is the very first step in earning money with them. To do this requires research. How did you choose your niches? You do know that just one profitable niche is all that is needed to earn a great income. jumping back & forth can be very distracting and less productive when looking for a profitable niche.

Niches that are highly competitive, in terms of trying to target audiences require lots of work. Try and scale down your niches by researching sub-niches. Broader niches tend to be much too large to focus on for earning as an affiliate. i.e. Only as an example I'll try and show what it is that I'm trying to convey. lets say cars was a niche and you wanted to make money with it. Well we already know that cars is a very big industry (Google search drew 470,000,000 searches) so to make money with it we'll need to scale it down some.

So we'll try car tires why? isn't it obvious? Tires will always be a resource that people will always be searching for. A search for car tires drew (34,100,000). Now to get a even tighter niche we'll search for a more specific type of tire like vogue car tires in quotes (33,000 searches a month using google keyword tool, and 5,320 search results using Google) now that is good for earning commissions. But first you'll have to establish yourself with an affiliate program of which to earn from. Go to Google search affiliate:vogue tires. you'll find lots of major auto accessories companies willing to pay you from 3-10% or more from people that come to their site, and spend money. When signing up for the affiliate program be sure to make sure that they do indeed sell the vogue car tire. Some sites use these phrases just to get traffic without actually selling the tire.

Remember the 5,320 search results I found on Google?
You can write simple articles a couple every 3-4 days about vogue car tires, look up vogue car tires and get some particulars about the characteristics on the tire, and submit it under vogue tires keywords. Build a page on vogue tires with useable images of the tire probably through their affiliate program. Get a domain and link from your page to the affiliate site you signed up with.

Important! Also use the mis-spelled words. When searching keyword tool I found several thousand searches for this product under vogue tyres as well as all the singular spellings too! Great traffic for that tight little niche.

Now as your server captures the visitors pay close attention to the ones, look into your server history under keywords, and see the keywords that people are using to get to your page. after a while a few weeks or so see which keywords are buying, clicking-thru, and maybe build a page targeting that group or audience and build a PPC campaign for the page.

Their are tons of ways to market products and the more of those ways that you arm yourself with the more positive your affiliate marketing results will be because of all of the different variations and options you'll have. Most affiliate marketers have poor results because of 1. Trying to promote a niche that they aren't familiar with and or a lack of internet marketing experience. I'd have to say moreso the latter because if you understand how to research niches, and audiences, you'll be way ahead of most business owners and affiliate marketers.

Lots of marketers are taught to just throw a heap of keywords together when PPC advertising and then scale downward but unless you have a lot of money to burn or throw around you have tons of people coming to your page that #1 don't even want to be there in the first place, #2 won't find what they are looking for, #3 you'll be spending hundreds on needless clicks. Incidentally lots of search engines are cracking down on the use of thousands of keywords being used for a single niche, Why? I mean you'd think that they would love it wouldn't you? Fact is the campaigns aren't leading to relevant pages and information than what the consumer is searching for and that is concidered a bad SE experience.

well hope this is of use.
Salamei

[lexdino]

let me continue with your languages.
you can get on the game within a month and start making profits within 2-3 months.
Hope that helps.

[Adammo]

Originally Posted by salamei

Hello:

Well My answer to this leads me to ask you several questions. One is what are your niches about? What methods of advertising are you using?

Niches are a dime a dozen and finding ones that are profitable is the very first step in earning money with them. To do this requires research. How did you choose your niches? You do know that just one profitable niche is all that is needed to earn a great income. jumping back & forth can be very distracting and less productive when looking for a profitable niche.

Niches that are highly competitive, in terms of trying to target audiences require lots of work. Try and scale down your niches by researching sub-niches. Broader niches tend to be much too large to focus on for earning as an affiliate. i.e. Only as an example I'll try and show what it is that I'm trying to convey. lets say cars was a niche and you wanted to make money with it. Well we already know that cars is a very big industry (Google search drew 470,000,000 searches) so to make money with it we'll need to scale it down some.

So we'll try car tires why? isn't it obvious? Tires will always be a resource that people will always be searching for. A search for car tires drew (34,100,000). Now to get a even tighter niche we'll search for a more specific type of tire like vogue car tires in quotes (33,000 searches a month using google keyword tool, and 5,320 search results using Google) now that is good for earning commissions. But first you'll have to establish yourself with an affiliate program of which to earn from. Go to Google search affiliate:vogue tires. you'll find lots of major auto accessories companies willing to pay you from 3-10% or more from people that come to their site, and spend money. When signing up for the affiliate program be sure to make sure that they do indeed sell the vogue car tire. Some sites use these phrases just to get traffic without actually selling the tire.

Remember the 5,320 search results I found on Google?
You can write simple articles a couple every 3-4 days about vogue car tires, look up vogue car tires and get some particulars about the characteristics on the tire, and submit it under vogue tires keywords. Build a page on vogue tires with useable images of the tire probably through their affiliate program. Get a domain and link from your page to the affiliate site you signed up with.

Important! Also use the mis-spelled words. When searching keyword tool I found several thousand searches for this product under vogue tyres as well as all the singular spellings too! Great traffic for that tight little niche.

Now as your server captures the visitors pay close attention to the ones, look into your server history under keywords, and see the keywords that people are using to get to your page. after a while a few weeks or so see which keywords are buying, clicking-thru, and maybe build a page targeting that group or audience and build a PPC campaign for the page.

Their are tons of ways to market products and the more of those ways that you arm yourself with the more positive your affiliate marketing results will be because of all of the different variations and options you'll have. Most affiliate marketers have poor results because of 1. Trying to promote a niche that they aren't familiar with and or a lack of internet marketing experience. I'd have to say moreso the latter because if you understand how to research niches, and audiences, you'll be way ahead of most business owners and affiliate marketers.

Lots of marketers are taught to just throw a heap of keywords together when PPC advertising and then scale downward but unless you have a lot of money to burn or throw around you have tons of people coming to your page that #1 don't even want to be there in the first place, #2 won't find what they are looking for, #3 you'll be spending hundreds on needless clicks. Incidentally lots of search engines are cracking down on the use of thousands of keywords being used for a single niche, Why? I mean you'd think that they would love it wouldn't you? Fact is the campaigns aren't leading to relevant pages and information than what the consumer is searching for and that is concidered a bad SE experience.

well hope this is of use.
Salamei

Great post! Mind if I ask you where you are writing your articles? I have only written one for my niche so far on Squidoo, but am not sure if it has helped me at all.

Thanks!

[salamei]

Originally Posted by Adammo

Great post! Mind if I ask you where you are writing your articles? I have only written one for my niche so far on Squidoo, but am not sure if it has helped me at all.

Thanks!

Hi Adammo:

I submit to ezinearticles.com, many people do. You don't have to but they are ranked pretty high and thats what you want. You want to try and submit to article directories that are ranked high with the search emgines, why? because your article, if prepared properly, will inherit (acquire) that high page rank which in turn means to you that your article will beat out other submissions for a better ad placement on Google, Msn, and Yahoo as well!
Ideally you want to get in the top 10 page results, preferably first page. I use others as well like go articles.com, articlesbase.com etc. I have a rank meter on my browser, their free just go to google and type in free rank meter and download it and install it, that way when you pull up a page you can see instantly what it's ranking. These may be sites, if they are relevant of course, that you may want to link to as they're popularity helps to pull your page up to better positioning much in the same way as article directories do explained above. So linking to a relevant page thats ranking high is a good thing, "get permission from the site owner before you do this though". There are other benefits for doing this too but as with all of it, it's a skill.

It's exactly why I stress getting internet market skills. They teach marketers these and thousands of other techniques and strategies for in many cases fairly instant results. I write articles and get first page placements everyday!

Techniques and strategies don't take that long to learn. Article marketing techniques can be learned in just an hour or 2. Implementation just takes as long as it takes to submit your article to directories. I really don't understand why people waste time struggling when the information is readily available that can dramatically change marketing results.

Many marketers think that it takes months to get top SE placements. NOT TRUE! I know how unbelievable this may sound but with the proper know how an article can be written now and have first page (organic) listing in several hours. Now lets say that you have done a great job researching your industry and know the problem that many are facing etc. You have a product and are now going to target an audience. The keyword phrase that you would use should be apparent, it needs to be something people are already searching for as well as popular. I would use phrases variably (many different ways and combinations including mispellings). This is what keyword tools are good for. Seeking out these variations and mispellings that are what people are known to use and not necessarily for targeting. Targeting can only be done, effectively, through research!!! It takes a lot of guess work out of who you are going after, saves time, money. Ahhh the power of skills!!

Cheers,
Donald