In a recent post,  Poor Keyword Research Causes Anxiety Attacks I received a comment from Jason Chandler in which he wrote:

“We have been told over the years that simple KEI is not the only factor. Keyword research also involves allinurl, allintitle and some other calculations AFTER KEI…”

He is absolutely correct.  Just because a page has the search term you are targetting doesn’t mean that page itself is a competitor.  Take this weeks seed search term of auction.  Without using the allintitle or allinurl I can pick up any page that mentions the word “auction” as a competitor when in fact there will be some that are not.  By using the allintitle and allinurl we get a better idea of which pages are targetting the keyword. 

Lets see how that happens in action.  The first set of results below are from running auction with no additional directives to the search engine.

In the above results I would be tempted to go after property auction or insurance auto auction

But lets see what happens when we only accept pages where the search term appears in the title:

Notice how we picked up real estate auction now.  What happened was in my first run real estate auction showed such a low KEI that I didn’t even consider it.  But most of those pages with the phrase real estate auction were not true contenders because they did not contain real estate auction in the title.

To further qualify I ran the report with the allinurl qualifier which will only look at pages that have the search term in contained in the url.

The search term real estate auction still shows a strong KEI.   Notice that the KEI for insurance auto auction dropped till it was taken out (fell into the low 80’s).  Same thing happened with foreclosure aution.

Online Auction started out looking like the best but fell from a KEI of 1804 to 374. 

Though any of the search terms with KEI of 100 above will work well, my choice is real estate auction.   I liked it enough to set up a squidoo lens

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I’ve started using Squidoo Lens’ to target profitable niches and drive traffic to affiliate sites.  For example, I set up the Squidoo Lens
http://www.squidoo.com/anxietyattacksymptom 
to target Anxiety Attack Symptoms and promote my blog Anxiety Symptoms

Below is an excellent article on the benefits of using Squidoo

Squidoo, one of the most revolutionary sites to emerge from the Web 2.0 phenomenon, can best be described as a cross between a mini site, a MySpace page, and a blog. If you are looking for a free and fast way to build traffic and make money online, this is it! Any internet marketer who is not building lenses on Squidoo is missing out on one of the quickest and easiest money making opportunities.

Intimidating as it may sound, a Squidoo ‘lens’ is just a simple one page website on Squidoo. To build a Squidoo lens all you need to do is write an article pertinent to your area of expertise, put it together on one page, and submit it. Squidoo offers a range of innovative tools to make the whole process simple, easy, and very creative. This simple one-step process establishes you as an expert in your field, and if your article is interesting enough, it will send the right kind of traffic back to your site.

Here are a number of pertinent facts about using Squidoo and the many ways you can use your Squidoo lens to build traffic and make money online:

• Squidoo lenses are remarkably easy to build. Even if you are a novice to website or blog-building, you could create your Squidoo lens and have it up and running in less then twenty minutes.

• Squidoo lenses are built around modules. Depending on what you intend using your lens for, there are dozens of modules to choose from including the more popular modules for YouTube videos, modules for making lists or modules for Ebay and Amazon auctions.

• Squidoo lenses are very highly ranked on Google, offering you a fantastic opportunity to build backlinks to your primary company website.

• You can also use Squidoo lenses to generate traffic to your primary blog by using the RSS feed module. When you load the RSS feed from your blog, Squidoo lenses automatically update as you revise your blog.

• Squidoo lets lens-masters use third-party advertising on their lenses. This means you could choose to promote your own company website or you could choose to promote your favorite affiliate product.

• Squidoo’s main revenue is earned from affiliate advertising with several sites including Google AdSense, Ebay, and Amazon. They monitor the earnings of every module and will split 50% of the profit with the creator of the lens.

• You can use Squidoo’s Ebay module to select products on Ebay by seller or by keyword. If you are marketing a lot of products on Ebay, this is a great way of generating free traffic to your auctions.

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For those trying to earn money online few things are worse than spending all that time and money setting up a new website or blog and spending countless marketing it only to find it never ranks well and/or has no profitability with the traffic it does bring. Moment by moment the stress and anxiety rise with each login to adsense to see you earned a couple dollars for the day or into your affiliate managers to see no sales.

If only you had started out targeting profitable keywords that were high in demand and low in supply then all this stress and anxiety could have been avoided

Instead of feeling stress and anxiety and running the risk of anxiety attacks lets target them to make some money shall we?

The chart below shows the results of using “anxiety” as our seed keyword into Niche Inspector. The result is 7 terms which meet our definition of a profitable niche

1. High Demand
2. Low Supply
3. Profitability

The higher the KEI then the better chance you have of ranking well in the search engines. Profitability is determined by using the current bid prices that PPC marketers are paying for that search term. My personal favorite is anxiety attacks

If your just starting out head over to blogger and setup a free blog and register for an adsense account and start blogging on the topic of anxiety attacks. To increase your blogs SEO power and interactivity I highly recommend taking a look at the Web 2.0 Wealth System, which will take you from beginner to Pro with easy step by step videos.

Here is a product I had good conversions with from my own anxiety attacks blog. Click on the image to the right and scroll down to the affiliate link to register from free.

Additional products you could promote from your anxiety attacks blog can be found here

NOTE: A popular affiliate marketing technique is to write honest reviews on multiple products, what you like and don’t like about each, then let your readers decide which one to buy. (tell them to buy both so they don’t stress out :-))

Well there you have it, another Profitable Niche that is very attainable and can be started for the cost of your time to start taking action.

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At first glance one might not think there is alot of money in scrapbooking but that is an incorrect perception. Looking at google I see that “scrapbook supply”, “scrapbook store”, and “discount scrapbook supply” are getting PPC bids up to three dollars. There are also many affiliate opportunities available for sites that cater to those interested in scrapbooking.

A simply strategy would be to set up a blog then write reviews on sites you find matching the profitable keywords listed in the chart above. Looking at scrapbook store, try googling scrapbook store affiliate program (without the quotes). You will find hundreds of potential partners to earn affiliate commissions with.

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I decided to try out the brainstorming function of Niche Inspector to seewhat kind of profitable niches I might come across.  Using thebrainstorming function of Niche Inspector I was provided with 25 keywords to work with

Roomba - The Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold byiRobot. TheRoomba was first released in 2002 with updates and new models released in
2003, 2004,2005,2006, and2007.  As of May 2006, over 2 million units have been sold.

This niche looks saturated as the highest KEI with the seed word of “Roomba”  as 22.1.  I have to admit this one keyword was a big distraction for me because of my past in digital electronics and robotics while at DeVry.  There is a book out on how to hack these robots you can learn more about here

diapers - Only has five possibilities with KEI over 100. Based on theprofitability indicated by the profitability indicated by the BroadMatch CPC values I wasn’t too excited …. The KEI on the seed word diapers is excellent but isn’t very specific.

measuring cups - total waste of time

halo combat evolved - only has 1,952 searches and that has been saturated
with a KEI of 1.21

baby booties - Well I thought that I might find something worthwhile here
but the KEI isn’t there.

potato peeler - hmm…

Well I am not excited with any of the ideas that the brainstorming feature of Niche Inspector provided me so I will be checking myWhat’s Hot Resources for some ideas on profitable niches or look at using some of the popular tags from Technorati

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I was catching up on reading at Pat B. Doyle’s blog and came across some interesting statistics she was sharing regarding her Adsense earnings from her boring blog project.

I highly recommend reading her post along with the previous articles pertaining to how she built the blog.  This can be duplicated with any niche.

In her keyword research she utilizes Google Adwords Keyword Tool, Seobook Keyword Tool, Keyword Elite to find keywords that have a good KEI and are profitable.

For Content she uses content from Article Directories.

Here is a sniplet of what she writes:

Keep those dates in mind while looking at the table below. These are my AdSense earnings for the blog since I started it. Per Google’s terms of service, I am not allowed to give click-through rates or amounts per click.

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What caught my attention the most is in November with only 295 visitors she generated $11.49 in Google Adsense revenue. 

NOTE: Per Google’s terms of service, She is not allowed to give click-through rates or amounts per click.

Now compare that to a few portals I did in the past prior to paying attention to KEI and profitability.

free electronics       259      $6.53
Hairloss Solutions  147       $5.53
BestFishingTips     2,080   $4.54

The Free Electronics portal is about half as effective as Pats Boring Blog Project, Hairloss Solutions is close (This portal was generated by Traffic Equalizer) and Best Fishing Tips you can read why it sucks here.

A Side Note About Traffic Equalizer

I mentioned the Hairloss Solutions  portal was built with Traffic Equalizer.  A word of caution, if you use this product be sure to integrate the resulting site with some articles.  The pure link farm search portal that Traffic Equalizer generates will initially do well until google deindex’s you. 

Last year I had a Dog Accessories Portal which started pulling 7,000 impressions a day and earned over $900 in google adsense over a 4 day period.  Them BAM, it dropped to $5 a day when they pulled the plug and deindexed the entire domain.  You can see that old site here

I would love to hear feedback on Pat’s Article and my observations along with any personal experiences.

Regards,

David Riewe

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Sara Christensen over at Pajama Professional has an excellent article covering the three essentials of a Profitable Niche.

1. High Demand
2. Low Supply
3. Profitability Potential

She makes her references to the report How to Uncover Red-Hot Niches With A Simple Step-By-Step Formula by Myleena Pham which you can download here

Sara also gives some additional tips on finding Hot Niches not covered in the report

Another great way to check profit potential, not mentioned in the Red-Hot Niches report is Clickbank. Clickbank has some great stats available. You can check price, commission, conversion, even how much of the profits are returned by affiliates. Even if you aren’t planning on referring someone else’s product, you can still use these numbers to determine whether or not there is an interest in the topic. If there are products in the niche selling well on Clickbank, then chances are related products are selling well elsewhere too.

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