Niche question?

[Jennifer-Botham]

Niche Dental marketing coaching gives dentists strategies.

[longroad]

I think its a good niche as there are several angles you can tackle it.
You can go for the dental patients and sell them products, or you could market to the higher end which are the dentists themselves.

[amoona]

Choosing keywords for a niche is really a hard work but also a very important part. I usually use SEO elite and google keyword tool to find the right keyword for me.

[nathan denton]

You will find that niche market research is always free. Once you determine that your niche has low competition and "may" be profitable you can then start testing out various strategies and products which is where you may need to invest some money - dont forget there are always free options at this stage aswell.

Nathan

[Billy Kay]

I use different methods to find a profitable niche.

One, I have a coupon site. This requires me to join every program on every network. This gives me the opportunity find out which merchants are dogs, and which "get it"

For example, if Walmart converts on the coupon site, and the AM is approachable, responds to emails, they pay on time, no reversal issues, etc... I investigate a niche.

I go to their website, look at their left navigation bar, and try to make a niche out of one of their sub-categories.

Goes something like this:

Apparel... too broad

Women's Apparel... too broad

Women's Shoes...... too broad

Women's Sneakers...... too broad

Women's Nike Sneakers... that works! That's a small enough niche

Then you just find out if enough people actually search for the term. How many results (competition) show up in Goog

Then you keep re-doing until you find one that has enough searches and not a ton of competition.

Then you seriously look at the top 5 results in the niche you decide on, and make sure you can build a site a good as, or better, then them.

Nine times out of 10, the end niche you decide on is not even close to what you started with.

In the above example, you may find that every variation of women's footwear is either saturated with competitors, or you've niched so much (just blue sneakers for red headed women dot com) that there's not enough searches to justify a website, that you end up with something completely different...

You start out thinking your niche is going to be about some kind of women's sneaker, and it ends up being crystal bar coasters

But when the moment comes... you see 480,000 people search for crystal bar coasters every month, and the results show no competition, or badly designed websites as competition, or the only results are deep link pages on the interior of sites (rather then a site devoted exclusively to the niche), it's a Eureka moment.

If you chose this niche because you decided Wlamart proved themselves to you on another of your sites... contact the AM. They KNOW what works and what doesn't. Tell them you just did the research and want to build a site around their crystal bar coasters. They too will get excited and share iideas with you.

AMs know what works, but they can't build a site because of the conflict of interest. You may luck out and he'll say "Yes! I've always wanted to build a site for our coasters, I have a great idea... it's yours!"

Conversely, and this happened to me, they may say We're gonna be deleting the coasters from our site, as there's no markup in them, so try something else. Or... stall a few months. We don't like our current manufacturer and we'll be swapping all the coasters out soon as we find a replacement.

[Linda Buquet]

Originally Posted by Billy Kay

If you chose this niche because you decided Walmart proved themselves to you on another of your sites... contact the AM. They KNOW what works and what doesn't. Tell them you just did the research and want to build a site around their crystal bar coasters. They too will get excited and share iideas with you.

AMs know what works, but they can't build a site because of the conflict of interest. You may luck out and he'll say "Yes! I've always wanted to build a site for our coasters, I have a great idea... it's yours!"

Conversely, and this happened to me, they may say We're gonna be deleting the coasters from our site, as there's no markup in them, so try something else. Or... stall a few months. We don't like our current manufacturer and we'll be swapping all the coasters out soon as we find a replacement.

Excellent points all Billy. I especially like this last part because you NEVER KNOW unless you ask.

They could even say perfect timing we just found a great new manufacturer and we're expanding that category. None of our other affiliates are promoting it so you should be able to do well.

[FDC]

Hmmm, dental plans like in insurance? First, check out the competition. Then what companies would you offer? Check out if they have nice commission structures. then, the sky's the limit!

[FDC]

Yes, you are on the right track. Especially if you looked up a keyword estimator. that way you know what people are searching and how much of it they are searching. If its too narrow of a niche, then broaden it a bit.

[DerkThunder]

Maybe like a dentistry info web site or maybe the mouth in general. As said before there are some high paying affiliates in that niche along with hair restoration

Oh Dental plans as in insurance. I thought that we were all talking about a referral website maybe some sort of site where dentists could answer questions and maybe attract a little more business.

[kneepain]

I always try to find niches with minimum 3,000 searches a month. Anything less is a waste of time.