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Anybody use google sites or other free web design sites to test niches?

by Gunsblazen
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Anybody else do this to tray and rank for extremely low hanging fruit?

I mean, say you find a couple niches with like 100 searches a month, and think hey, I could get something together in an hour or so and rank that easy, maybe even make 10 bucks a month off of it or something.

I found a couple search terms with 100-200 searches a month, and the competition in the top 10 is nothing. No PRs, No Backlinks. However, I don't think it justifies buying a domain and such. What do you guys think of this strategy?
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  • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
    Note: I'd be making money selling a small information product or something. Not ad money or affiliate, maybe my own how to pdf or something high quality I could spend an hour making or something. Heck, free site, 1 purchase a month, 10 bucks, sell 1 a month or something every month and thats 100 bucks a year for an hour work.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    It doesn't sound bad, but 100 searches / 30 days = 3.3333 searches per day. The top spot in Google only catches like 60% of the search traffic (maybe it's 70%...I can't remember). Once a person gets to your site, only what? 10-20% click on an ad?

    Based on that math, you're looking at 1-2 clicks per month in a good month.

    This is all my opinion and the numbers are fuzzy because I haven't looked them up lately, but I don't think it'd be worth your time to do. You could spend that hour per day working on an e-book or writing a kick @$$ article like Alexa & MYOB and make some real money off of it.

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    • Profile picture of the author Gunsblazen
      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

      It doesn't sound bad, but 100 searches / 30 days = 3.3333 searches per day. The top spot in Google only catches like 60% of the search traffic (maybe it's 70%...I can't remember). Once a person gets to your site, only what? 10-20% click on an ad?

      Based on that math, you're looking at 1-2 clicks per month in a good month.

      This is all my opinion and the numbers are fuzzy because I haven't looked them up lately, but I don't think it'd be worth your time to do. You could spend that hour per day working on an e-book or writing a kick @$$ article like Alexa & MYOB and make some real money off of it.

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      I'm not talking adsense stuff, I'm talking about a small information product that I sell for $5-10 bucks. SO if you get to the top 5 or so, pick up 20-50 hits a month, sell 1 a month and thats another 60-100 bucks. This is super microniche stuff here.

      You ever found on of those keywords withlike 150-200 searches a month and like NO page value and think "man, I could throw together a perfect answer to that in NO TIME and not even have to try and end up number 1 in google on that page"

      I have a page on my authority site that only gets like 260 searches a month, but that page consistantly gets like 40-50 hits a month overall. I thought to myself.. make 1 sale a page a month and have a bunch of them with little time investment on free sites and you could create a good random steady stream of income to invest in bigger products...

      But adsense is not the goal here.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    This is true. In theory anyways...if I were you and you were me, I'd experiment with that page you have already and see what you do can do with it.

    I had a friend (past-tense) who would buy 5 or 6 domains based on the same keyword, spread each one to a different hosting account, scramble his own IP address, and then get them all to rank in Google so he'd actually own the entire first page.

    I'm torn on if that is a Black Hat or Grey Hat (definitely not White Hat) technique, but he made a lot of money doing that. This was pre-Panda, so I don't know if you could do it nowadays.

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    • Profile picture of the author matt78
      You can always start with some free web 2.0 like Squidoo to test the niches first. If you find it's profitable, you can then buy domain name.
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