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Seamaster · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 03:18 PM

When looking for a keyword domain niche what is your personal criteria for deciding to for it?

When I started out in Jan/Feb this year I took anything I could get a domain for but now I am a bit more selective and my main criteria is the items must cost more than £50 so I get a couple of quid per sale and that the main keyword gets over 10,000 searches per month.

What do you use do choose?

Linda Buquet · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 03:22 PM

The other criteria is how much competition there is. I don't really have time to do much affiliate marketing but I research niches - just for the fun of it mainly. Google keyword then keywords in quotes then google allintitle:"key phrase in quotes". If there were 3 niches you were considering then compare how many searches vs how many competing pages to pick the niche with the most searches vs lowest competition.

Here a couple posts about how I do KW research.
How to do Niche Keyword Research

Seamaster · #3 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:06 PM

I'm not sure how best to assess the competition.

What do you do with the niches you come up with for fun?

Kutaone · #4 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:09 PM

Well I bought a website address for another idea for waaaay too much money and decided I couldn't waste that cash so I decided THAT would be one of my niches... Great strategy huh?

Linda Buquet · #5 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Seamaster

What do you do with the niches you come up with for fun?

I don't have time to do anything with them, I just research for fun. If I see something interesting I just check out the numbers. Kinda like a hobby I guess.

How to access the numbers... I don't know a magic number to tell you to go for a niche with less than X competition - because that number depends on lots of things. How you are going to market and how good you are at it for instance.
A newbie doing SEO may have a hard time competing with 5,000 allintitle whereas a SEO pro could easily compete with 50,000. The main thing is if you are comparing niches, less competition obviously makes it easier.

Seamaster · #6 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:20 PM

Well if you come up with a good one, send it my way!

Linda Buquet · #7 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:43 PM

Will do...

Seamaster · #8 (**permalink**) 06-12-2009, 04:46 PM

Thank you.