Do lists work for every niche?- Monetizing an Aquarium Website

Amazon has a lot of aquarium products. You can start a blog on aquariums and offer tips on aquarium purchasing, different types of fish, fresh water aquariums, salt water aquariums, cleaning aquariums etc and then throw in some affiliate links.

Either you could start an aquarium blog linking to affiliate products, as mentioned above, or become an Amazon Associate an set up an online stre offering various aquarium related products

I understand that Amazon has aquarium products, however, my personal experience as an aquarium owner and I've also talked to other aquarium owners is people tend not to purchase aquarium products off of amazon, instead preferring to get them from an aquarium company (like kensfish.com, petsolutions.com ect.), where the prices are similar but its from a company dedicated to aquariums. Though maybe the trend is changing

A list is always important because it maintains your relationship with your visitors and you will be less dependent on Google's traffic.

You could also do a blog on common causes for your fish to die. Then you can lead them into a sale of a product answer some questions that are closely related. Kinda like a sop opera does. Get them involved and interested with quality content and give them just enough then end with a cliffhanger into the sale of your own informational product on the subject.

You could build up a whole line of them for all different fish aliments.
Best of luck on your project...

Absolutely. The reason why people see building a list in other niches to be harder is because of the lack of General Solo Ad sellers. Most solo ad sellers only have IM clients. There are good solo ad directories around that offer General Solo Ads. However, please note that Solo Ads is not the only way to build up your list. If you ask me it's quick and effective...that's what it's made for. It's not really for building up a sustainable long-term business.

Just did a search for you on Google Keyword Adwords Tool. "buying aquarium fish" came up with 2,400 searches a month, "buying a fish tank" came up with 3,600 searches. These amounts are pretty substantial to rank for already, depending on how much competition you have.

You don't need any of your own products. However, do you know where to find Aquarium Suppliers that offer affiliate programs? I'm sure there are some out there.

You can write an ebook on how to keep your fish alive (Not Joking, fishes die all the time and people have no clue why they die) and then sell it for a couple of bucks. Major companies aren't going to pay for banner ads on your website unless they are related. Do you know of any major aquarium companies? If you want high traffic in this case I would go for SEO, but that's a long term solution.

Find a fish forum and do it there.

On a side note may I know why you want to venture into this industry? If you have some knowledge/passion/background for it, it can help you greatly since you can create content easily. Secondly, this seems like a pretty tough niche to get into.

Just want to add there's a popular series on Animal Planet right now: Tanked. It features some guys installing some of the biggest Aquariums in the world. I'm not sure how you can monetize this but It can be lucrative if you think out of the box. Perhaps you could do a review of the show on a website then sell some aquarium products?

All the best mate

Caleb Prince

Thanks for all the advice guys! Keep it coming, I'm learning a lot, and if I need to know more, or am looking for your to clarify something, I'll PM you if you guys are fine with that

Here is what I would do if I were you.

First, just off the top of my head you could be adding some of these words to your main keyword of "High End Aquariums"

Tips
Maintenance
Cleaning
Customization
Repair
Setup
Reviews

Even adding words like "blogs" or "forums"

Do searches in google with all of these things and see what comes up.

Pay attention to any Payperclick ads that show up on the first page results and any ads, (text ads, banner ads, ppc ads) that show up on any of the actual websites.

Those ads might lead you to different affiliate programs that you didn't know about.

another you can do is to create a list of all the parts that come with aquariums like covers, filters, cleaning supplies, sand, rocks, etc.

And run those through Google and see what comes up.

Oh since you are going to do all of that, you might as well do a search in Google for "Affiliate programs for high end aquariums" or "Affiliate programs that sell high end aquariums" or "High end aquarium affiliate programs"

Might save you some time, lol.

EDIT: I just typed the first one into Google "Affiliate Programs for High End Aquariums" and a bunch of results showed up.

I can't say, because I haven't tried every niche ... but they certainly work for every niche I've ever tried, if properly built and used: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

Of course, there are people who fail with them, too.

It sounds a good idea, to me, in principle.

I think "enthusiasm niches" are widely underrated and "problem niches" are widely overrated, by comparison. I'm glad, anyway, that so many of my competitors seem interested exclusively in "problem niches" and less interested in looking at the "enthusiasm niches" which can be relatively easy income-sources for skilled, list-building affiliates.

List-building is certainly particularly beneficial for "enthusiasm niches".

For me, there would need to be appropriate affiliate products available, with sales pages appropriate for my traffic demographics, otherwise I wouldn't be looking at the niche in the first place. (Like you, I'm not interested in AdSense at all.)

It's not easy to see benefits from doing that (though admittedly it isn't easy to see any harm coming from it, either, as long as you don't overdo it in too many different irrelevant places and fall foul of the Penguin updates). I don't link here to any of my own affiliate niche sites.

Aquarium niche? I would think email marketing to that market would be like shooting fish in a barrel! And considering we are talking about fish...what about scaling your marketing? (I'm here all week folks...try the fish!)

It's a hobby and a rather involved one from what I've seen. The one tropical fish hobbyist I knew spent a great deal of time researching new additions and accessories. Alexa and Shane_K provided some good points to ponder. Enthusiasts live up to that title from what I've seen.

Converse - The best conversationalists know how to get inside the head of the person they are talking with and relate to them on a common level.
Educate: Tell me something I didn't know -- make me smarter for my next conversation.
Solve: Find out what people's problems are and offer simple actionable solutions.
Convert: Offer tools (products/services) to help with the resolutions.

Regards,
jim