Effectively Researching your Niche Market
October 3, 2007 | 11 Comments
In my previous post, I discussed just a few methods of Discovering a Niche Market. The sum meaning of the entire post, was to encourage you to simply look around yourself, there are niches all around us in every day life! To that point, I was cooking a little dinner last night, ok… they were hot dogs… nonetheless, I looked right in front of me and thought about my Gas Grill! I looked at the assortment of utensils I had to work on the grill, the cover I had to remove to get to the grill, and then thought about how many times, or parts I had replaced during my adult years to keep a grill running! (I like Hot Dogs :-))
I think I may have burned a few things as I ran in the house to get my notepad. As you recall.. I forget things quickly, and after all, eating was more important than anything else at that point!
During this section of the Step by Step affiliate guide, we are going to dig deep into he broad category of ”Grills” to find out:
- Is there demand for a Grill releated Niche?
- Do they sell on eBay & worth the affiliate commission?
- How competitive is the existing market?
- The value of WordTracker.
- MANY additional Niche Discovery essentials!
Lets get started!
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Discovering Your Niche Market
October 2, 2007 | 12 Comments
Yesterday, we briefly discussed how you will be using this guide to become a “Super-Star” Successful eBay Affiliate with Build a Niche Store. The next 2 days are going to discuss some of the most important factors toward success, discovering and researching your niche!
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There’s Gold in Your Logfiles - Start Panning!
September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment
Monday, I wrote a small piece on how to build real traffic to your niche site. After reading it through a third time I discovered that I had left out one of the most important resources you can use for farming traffic to your site, your site logs!
Most hosts… OK, ALL hosts who are worth their salt, will provide you with some tool to view your site logs. The logs contain all of the basic information you need in order to see how many visitors are coming, how many are unique, how many pages they are viewing, etc etc. Another great feature within the logs is that you can see the search terms which may have brought that visitor to your site! While there is a HUGE amount of useful info in the logs, all I want to discuss right now are the key words and phrases that drive traffic to your Niche Site.
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Building REAL Traffic for Your Niche Site
September 24, 2007 | 6 Comments
Someone will probably ask me why I used the word “Real” in the title of this niche site traffic generation post. There is a BIG difference between “buying hits” and generating real, targeted traffic through SEO, networking, and other resources. Just ask yourself, do you want to pay someone $59.00 to send 10,000 one time visitors to your niche site regardless of whether the visitor has interest or not, or would you rather spend no money, and work on long term TARGETED traffic? The answer is somewhere in the middle, but for long term growth you will want to focus on what it takes to make ANY website a hit! If you find that one special list of 10,000 people looking for your niche widget, it may be worth testing and tracking your results!
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The 10 Essentials for Build a Niche Store Success
August 21, 2007 | 2 Comments
After working with Build a Niche Store for 30 days now and having a total of 7 functional BANS stores running, I have found there are 10 essential things that you must do in order to have a remote chance at success with the product! All in all, Build a Niche Store is very easy to use and search friendly software for eBay affiliates.
So - you may ask - Mark, what qualifies YOU to tell me there are 10 essentials for Build a Niche Store?
Aside from liking to hear myself talk, or read myself talking… (does that really make sense?) this is just my own experience and observations from using the ebay affiliate software! While I have been in the search marketing and web development business for more than 10 years now, I still learn something new each and every day! I learn these things by reading posts like this, applying what works best for me, and doing my best not to procrastinate in following through with implementation of the changes… but I will talk about that later!
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Choosing a Niche Market for Build a Niche Store
August 14, 2007 | 10 Comments
The other day - a reader (Jenny) asked about choosing the right niche for your Build a Niche Store website. This would apply to ANY site, not only the BANS sites you may setup. You are likely to find ALL SORTS of different opinions and strategies on the subject of choosing the right niche - the one below, is mine only… it works for me! Remarkably, some of your research in this subject will also serve as good information for your search optimization strategies!
The goal of your reasearch is to find a niche that is:
- Something YOU can be interested in!
- Search Popular, with low to moderate competition.
- Consumable - you want a product that will need to be used or replaced!
- Trends - when all else fails - follow the trends!
Cool Google Indexing Tool
July 18, 2007 | 4 Comments
A few days ago, I wrote about how a few of the search engine spiders had indexed a few of the new sites. I’m sure you all remember how excited I was! LOL ok… maybe it was just me!
ANYHOW - this evening I was sitting here looking through some of the sites to see just how deep the indexing was - meaning, how many pages did the spiders see and were they were already listing them in the index. I use Google as a measure of success for almost everything to do with the web… If you like to race in circles, beating Dale Earnhardt Sr would be the ultimate win for you - its the same way for Google - if you can get listed, thats half the battle!