How To Find Top Selling Niches With EzineArticles

Hey Alexa Smith,

Points taken...

But I don't think it's flawed. In fact, I've personally discovered two $x,xxx a month niches from this technique.

What you're talking about is conversion rate and the resulting sales of a product. I'm talking about finding big markets that are teeming with people that are looking for an answer for something.

But yes you are pretty right. I'm certainly not ruling it out though. It's made me too much money to.

It was almost going to be a couple's squabble until.... *grins*

Thanks for the post. Even though this is not exhaustive market research, at the very least is does two things:

1. A great way to brainstorm niche ideas, including things you may not even have thought of.

2. The most viewed list is one indicator of hungry markets.

This could be a great place to start, followed up with some good ol' fashioned keyword and competition research. In fact, I think I will go take a gander right now while I am thinking about it.

Darren
BamaMarketer

I did a quick look just to see if I could get any ideas from using this method. The first thing I noticed that there are 30 main categories with multiple subcategories.

I clicked on the first main category "Business". Then checked the first subcategory which is also "Business."

I clicked on a random article, scrolled down to see the most viewed articles in the past 90 days and you can see this list

Most Viewed EzineArticles in the Business: Category (90 Days)

1. The Best Ways to Start a Business With Little Or No Start-Up Capital
2. Minority Business Grants - How to Get Free Government Money You Never Pay Back
3. New Financial Advisor? Here's 4 Tips to Starting Your Financial Planning Practice
4. Guide to Implementing Business Intelligence - 1 - Getting Started With Business Intelligence
5. How to Write a Job Transfer Letter
6. Portable Car Wash Businesses You Can Start
7. Start a Restaurant Business - Design, Layout, Furniture and Themes
8. Setting Up a Company - Malaysia Vs Singapore
9. What is a Letter of Intent?
10. The Company Secretary's Duties & Liabilities
11. The Online Checklist For Offline Experts - Get Started Today
12. Step by Step Approach to Start Your Own Home Inspection Business
13. Corporate Events - Theme Ideas
14. All About the Health Fitness Business
15. Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations

You can see the many "How-to" articles suggesting people are wanting to learn how to start their own business. Not a surprise really, but it does give you an idea of the type of businesses people are interested in.

Just glancing at this one list gives me several ideas to now go and do some keyword and competition research.

Thanks for the OP...I am now inspired!

Darren
BamaMarketer

Your right Greg you can sell anything if you are good enough, but that comes down to you building the relationship with your prospects/buyer but still a very good post!

There is a lot more to research than this ... it is a start though.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the posts.

Just to clarify - there are more steps needed in order to fully "research" a market. Obviously you can't tell the conversion rates etc just from this technique... but it gives you an IDEA of what niches could turn out to be winners.

For example, I was looking the other day for an affiliate product I was wanting to promote. I saw it had some of the most popular articles along with another similar but different problem. I investigated this other problem and found a niche teaming with buyers who had no product.... cue me.

It's an effective way to get ideas and maybe the title is a little misleading... but it's certainly done well for me.

Greg,

I think a lot of people fear tackling the big time key phrases. That's ok. I don't need more competition there.

Good post, my friend!

I'm always surprised at what works.

Just yesterday I saw a guy with a portable car wash service (an idea on that list above too). He set it up right next to a drive-thru car wash where you just pay and kick back for a few minutes.

He was actually doing a customer's car while the cash wash next to him was empty.

Hi All,

I like everyone's ideas here. You know why Greg is making money, because he is doing something. You know why Alexa is making money? Because she is doing something.

It's really that simple.

I've used this example before and here it is again.

The most money I've ever seen on a change counting machine was put there by a homeless beggar.

I wish I had taken a picture. He was dirty he had holes in the elbows of his layers of old jackets and he had a stack of paper money (NOT all $1s) and a BIG bag of coins.

I recognized him as a corner street beggar I had seen many times. I even had contributed to his stack.

You know why he had all that money? Because he DID something.

Now for those who think you have to give value and over deliver to get money from people, well he did. People "felt good" about themselves when they gave or they "felt relieved" when he got out of their face after they paid him to leave. Either way it was worth a dollar or two to a very small percent of the 1,000's of passers by on "his" corner.

This is an extreme example, but, just remember. It's "Doing Something" that gets you money. And like Chicken George said, "If your first plan don't work, get yourself another plan."

George Wright

A lot of useful tips and info here. Thanks for the share!

To the op.

Congrats on 1060 published articles and 66 pending.

What ever topics you 'choose to' look more into you can always go see how financially viable the niche is by searching over @ amazon / ebay / adsense / clickbank / etc.

I think the op mean this is a way to generate ideas and not that once you see a topic using the methods he mentioned that you should immediately jump into that niche with out doing further research.

Alexa,

Do what you want, I know what gravity product I'd like to own.

Greg.

First of all... Nice post and thanks for revealing
this technique to us.

But, This concept below isn't quite right:

Not really...

The most profitable markets are the ones that have a lot of
buyers.

Let me give you an example:

Humor

People search a lot for humor. If you do manage to get on top
of SEs for highly competitive keywords in this niche, then you'll
certainly get a LOT of traffic.

But what's the point?

You can't sell a whole lot of stuff in this market. You'll end up
putting ads to monetize a humor site. But the profits still won't
be that big, since the CPC (if you're using PPC ads) will be low.

It's difficult to get paid $.20 or more per click in niches like these
and you can't sell a whole lot of stuff either.

So, all in all, smart marketers will find niches that have lots of
traffic and lots of buyers as well.

Cheers,
Johnny

Well Alexa go and promote all the low gravity products you like. I'll keep my high gravity ones.

If it's really such a big problem to you that people like me only focus on high traffic markets, then please make a new thread about it.

My marketing works well for me because of the simple fact that I can sell more products to more people because I operate in huge markets. You look at all the big corps out there... they are in huge markets. You look at all the rich guys (and gals) out there.... they made it with huge markets.

I'm not contesting the fact that gravity does not give any indication of conversion but what I AM saying that is if you look in the Clickbank marketplace, ALL of the "most popular" products have huge gravity. According to you, this would be a coincidence. But it isn't - all the top products have huge gravity because they sell very well. I.E The higher the gravity, the most POPULAR the product is in the marketplace and the higher the number of sales. How many of the top CB products don't have a good gravity? Not many. I think Perfect Optimizer is probably the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

I personally know several highly successful CB publishers (and I own several CB products myself)... and ALL the most successful products we've had have all had huge gravity. This is not becuase of some scammy launch like what happens in the IM market. This is not because a bunch of fake affiliate accounts... but because these products converted, got more affiliates on board and then the gravity grew.

This is how it works if you're a publisher with a winning product. You start testing. It sells well. It makes money for you. You get some affs. They make money. The gravity grows. They continue to sell because it converts. More affs see the gravity & jump on board. They make sales and the gravity grows again. And so on and so forth.

A recent example of this would be "domwars" - a mafia wars book which literally shot to the top because it converts like water in the desert. It sells well and so more and more affs have jumped on board. Another example would be "pullex" which was launched almost a year ago now.

This is why your tirade about how we shouldn't focus on the high gravity products is actually flawed itself. Because high gravity products (in real markets) have high gravity for a reason - they sell. And as a publisher.... I'd much prefer to have a high selling product over a high converting one. Obviously, the two metrics go hand in hand, but on the odd occassion - a high selling product might not convert too well.

Here's a question.

-- how many of the most popular (I.E the best selling) clickbank products have low gravity? NONE. And you know what - that's all I'm really concerned about.

I'd much prefer to have a product that sells volume over it converting. You seem to be confused about conversion and sales. On the one hand, you say you want to make tons of sales etc etc... but on the other you say you need to stay away from high gravity products because they don't convert.

Here's the deal - you make money by selling products. The more products you sell, the more money you make. Higher gravity Clickbank products sell more each day. They make more money.

And btw.... for those "reputable Warriors" who suggest staying away from these big selling products, may I just remind you about something John Reese posted a while back: Sell What's Already Selling

Sell what's already selling.... and high gravity products are selling a LOT.

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PS - If you'd have ever seen the CB accounts I have of some of the top gravity products, you'd quickly take every single one of your posts back on here.