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Another try

by davemorris
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Hi,

I have given internet marketing a try before but had very limited success. Having given up on it for a while I have decided to give it another go and have set up a site using Wordpress and linked it to my domain name.

While I have positioned the site in the IM niche I hope to develop a couple of other niche sites off my main site and would be interested to hear about the latest tools that Warriors use for niche research.

Anybody willing to share their secrets?

Dave
  • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
    Dave, I really don't use anything fancy for niche research. I use Google's
    keyword tool, which you can find here:

    https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

    Hot Trends, to see if anything is coming up I should know about.

    Google Trends

    Spyfu, to see what my competition is spending on advertising.

    SpyFu

    And the Google search engine itself just to see how many competing sites
    there are for each keyword phrase.

    I will then go to forums for each niche, various affiliate marketplaces,
    like Clickbank and PayDotCom and finally Amazon to see what products
    are being sold in that niche so I can get an idea of pricing and what
    features these products have if I should decide to create my own.

    I find that if you niche research in a methodical manner, it makes the
    process go a lot faster.

    There are of course other things you can add to the above list but I have
    personally found that these items work well enough for me. Naturally, you
    will want to test these out, as well as other tools, for yourself to see what
    kind of results you get as your mileage may vary greatly from mine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Dalangin
    I just use https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
    and Spyfu.com.

    Another is Google Trends: Feb 8, 2009, Amazon.com Bestsellers: The most popular items on Amazon.com. Updated hourly.
    and yahoo top searches.

    Ross
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    I nominated this as niche research product
    of the year 2008..

    IM Research Power Tool

    It rocks!

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by John Taylor View Post

      I nominated this as niche research product
      of the year 2008..

      IM Research Power Tool

      It rocks!

      John
      I have to agree with John. In my post above I was only concentrating on
      free resources because I didn't know how much money you had to spend,
      but if you have a spare $37...get this. It is a no brainer.

      I And the version I got was the prototype that isn't as loaded as this one
      is and even that rocked.

      Trust John, he'd never lead you astray.
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      • Profile picture of the author davemorris
        Thanks guys.

        Your advice is much appreciated. I will take some time to look at all of the above.

        It is interesting to see the different approaches used. I have a small budget available so I will probably give IM Research Power Tool a try.

        Regards

        Dave
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