Micro niche site research help pls

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Hiya, I am a newbie and planning on making some micro niche sites to try and earn a little bit extra a month, I will do each one by one til they are making a little to move onto another.

I am new at this and have a few questions, pls

1 - When selecting the keyword for your site to try and rank well I have been using google adwords and have a query.

Say you go there and type in 'warrior diet', now that has 27,100 global searches and 14,900 local, is that too low/high? What numbers should I be aiming for?

I then goto google and type that phrase in and it says 'About 22,900,000 results', is that too low/high? Again, what number should I be aiming for?

I am bit confused about that.

Also, whats best way to promote? My plan of action was to write 4-6 articles for the site and update one article a week, and also write 5 more original articles and submit to the top 5 directories, each article unique asnot sure I should submit same article to multiple sites, would that be enough sites to submit to or should I aim for higher? I know their are loads of good article sites to submit to but if I am making each article unique it would take AGES to write 20-30-40 etc articles to submit to each one, how do you go about this process?

What are the other best ways to promote?

Thankyou.
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  • Profile picture of the author billhicks1982
    Another query, I found a keyword phrase which could be quite good, I checked first page of google and the sites backlinks and most only have a few google backlinks but loads of yahoo backlinks, so do I go for it if they have low backlinks in google but high in yahoo, since I wanna rank in google first and foremost.

    I found another keyword too that followed the same thing as above, but even though they have low google backlinks their pr's are from 3-5! Not sure how but their you go.
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  • Profile picture of the author jerytohn
    There are just so many variables that it is difficult ...

    Try not to go for competitive terms when starting out. My suggestion would be to go for very low competition terms. Most likely, the number of searches will be way smaller like 1000 searches. But it is better to rank in the top 3 of a 1000+ searches keyword than on page 3 of a 10,000 searches keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author billhicks1982
      Originally Posted by jerytohn View Post

      There are just so many variables that it is difficult ...

      Try not to go for competitive terms when starting out. My suggestion would be to go for very low competition terms. Most likely, the number of searches will be way smaller like 1000 searches. But it is better to rank in the top 3 of a 1000+ searches keyword than on page 3 of a 10,000 searches keyword.
      Thanks, I am trying to aim quite low, but just bit confused right now, info overload

      Anyone else answer my queries too, pls?
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Henderson
      Hi Bill, There are several ways to go about the task at hand, Here is what got me started a few years back when I focused on micro niche sites, I have since moved away from that business model but they still work.

      First my idea of "micro niche" is a lot smaller than 27000/14000 monthly searches. I would target anything that got around 30 to 300 searches per day, or 1000 to 9000 per month. Maybe as low as 600/mo or 20/day, just depends on the niche.

      Next you have the right idea to check the competition. You can do the Google search and look at the number of pages yes and say anything under 200,000 is great but it can be a bit trickier than that. Many factors can come into play.

      You can use free tools like SEO Quake (a plug in for Fire Fox) to get a bunch of useful information that will let you know quickly if it will be easy or not to rank on the first page. Their guide page will tell you what the data means. Or you can go the easy route and use some of the paid Keyword tools out there that make it a bit easier.

      My favorite is Micro Niche Finder with their Green Light/Red Light approach to easy to rank versus not so easy.

      For article marketing I would suggest that you focus on writing at least 1-3 articles everyday. Focus on original content. I was just using Ezine Articles only and got great results. In fact these micro niche sites from 3+ years ago still rank on page 1 without me having touched them in over 2 years. Yes they are in very very small niches, say around 10-30 visits per day, but the few hundred they bring in each month keeps the fridge filled with beer!!

      Hope this helped some.
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  • Profile picture of the author indalor1
    There is some good advice here but something I noticed the OP didn't mention, and noone else did either, is the CPC. When you look up your keywords in the google adwords tool you need to watch for the decent CPC or Cost Per Click as well. In case you don't already know... just above and to the right of the list you get when you do the search is a small box that says "columns". Open that box and make sure you turn on the "approximate CPC" option. This will add a column on the far right in the search listings that show the approximate CPC for each keyword. Making a Micro Niche site is fine but without a decent, $0.50 or higher CPC you won't see much more than cents at a time. You want to be getting preferably $0.25 per click if you can.
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    • Profile picture of the author johndougs
      My MicroNiche software is non-functional. I don't know why but updates tend to stuff is about.
      Can't use it now.

      Look for keywords with exact searches.
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