Calling all Niche Site owners!!

For keyword research, you can start off with Google Keyword Tool which is free. Traffic Travis is also free to use for you to check on rankings and such. Another one would be Ahrefs for you to check on backlinks.

You can get started with the free tools already.

I find Market Samira still the best keyword research program, and it available for mac

Majority of the tools are used to speed up the process. For example, with SEMrush, you could pull up heaps of potential long tail keywords in a matter of seconds.

Of course, if you're on a tight budget then Google keyword planner with the help of related searches and suggestions will do the trick.

As for a first site, I'd recommend just starting out with a very low competitive niche just so you could get your feet wet.

Google keyword planner is great because its free to use, im a fan of long tail pro, but the only down side is it can take some time pulling up long tail key words.

I used a very, very simple on-page website builder, because WordPress was far too difficult and complicated for me.

I've never needed or wanted any tools like any of those, at all, and probably you don't, either.

If you're planning (as I guess from your post?) to try to make some income out of affiliate marketing, you need a domain-name, some hosting (could even be free, if absolutely necessary, to start you off), and a paid autoresponder subscription (not a free one). Nothing else.

Read this post? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8659398

The reason it seems hard to believe is that it isn't true.

I set up my entire business for $60, and there wasn't a time - at any point - that having more money than that would have made any of my income more secure, bigger, better, faster, or more reliable.

The financial entry-barriers to setting up an affiliate marketing business are really terribly, terribly low.

The knowledge/skills-based entry-barriers, on the other hand, are rather the opposite!

Most people fail because they don't know what they're doing and set off in the wrong direction (i.e. thinking mostly about "keywords" and Google and SEO and search-engine traffic, instead of understanding "what marketing is" and "how it works"), not because they're under-funded.


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Don't forget Buzzbundle.

Its perfect for niche sites because it lets you track each time your niche keyword gets mentioned on forums, social media and blogs, so you can pop over, leave an interesting comment and direct them to your niche site ---> getting you highly targeted traffic

Now for some follow up questions for those that are willing and able haha I need some guidance as to know whether or not I may have found the niche key word to base my niche site around.

I believe I have found a niche for my first website. I've done my keyword research and found a keyword that is earning around ~5k searches per month. Now I know that 5k is chump change for some of you out there, but 5k searchers for the first niche I want to tackle is not too shabby for me haha.

I scouted out the top 10 spots on google for the keyword phrase which is essentially the following:

1. youtube video w/ 2 backlinks only
2. youtube video w/ 0 backlinks
3. youtube video w/ 0 backlinks
4. wikihow w/ 3 backlinks
5. authority site with very weak content and hardly any backlinks

6-10 not much else.

Again, this may be the case primarily because I am targeting a niche that is fairly uncompetitive to get my feet wet before I tackle a more competitive scene.


Many of the guides and tutorials I've studied instructed to search for spots in the top 10 that are attainable. If the majority of the top 10 have no real authority or backlinking on their sites, is this a good indicator that I have a chance to rank my own website??

I'm also a bit confused on how the ranking system works for youtube links, links for maps to locations of stores, twitter pages, and yelp pages. Are these pages generally harder to outrank than other niche sites, affiliate sites, or individually owned webpages or does the same algorithm apply??

I didn't use any tools except WordPress, and I monetize with AdSense. Other "tools" probably aren't going to give you the actual answer to picking a niche. Think about things that happen hundreds to thousands of times a day. Something that's going to give you a massive amount of content. Look in a newspaper, and you should figure out what I am talking about (it's not sports or real estate, as those are too competitive). Then, use free tools like Google News or appropriate listing websites to take your search for content nationally. You will never run out of content if you pick one of the right niches.

I use Google keyword planner for my keyword research. The reason as to why most niche site owners fail is that they target the extremely hard keywords. Just because a keyword gets around 40,000 searches a month doesn't exactly mean it's worth spending the time and money to rank it. I tend to do the more simpler method which is: LONG TAIL KEYWORDS.

Target long tail keywords is the BEST method when trying to rank a site. If you can target these keywords, your traffic potential is going to be HUGE. Think of it this way.

Stupid analogy:

Imagine your site is a massive building. The door is a keyword. If you are targeting the high competitive keywords (the main door), your traffic is going to be small. Not a lot of people will be able to fit through the door so it will be dripping in slowly. Now imagine that you also have long tail keywords (other doors around the building), then your traffic is going to be pouring in a faster rate as the traffic sources all have different places to come from.