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Less Competition=Money

by rome9t9
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Just thought of posting it here.


Targeting the less competitive KWs is quite effective. those getting around 20-30k searches per month are good. But to profit substiantially you shud target quite a few more niches simultaneously.

One Example: If you read collinlahay.com then you will find he has started a BANS site on Super Nintendo Console.
Now this term is searched 22k times per month. He has not done anything to the website. It is not SEOed yet. But still it ranks 3rd i search results. He made already $7 in a week.

Now if you target 10 such keywords then you will be able to generate 70 bucks per week.

Moral of the story: Target the less popular and long tail keyword and SEO up your site.

Just my 2 cents.
#competitionmoney
  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    I totally agree with you... I built my own kingdom within a niche where not many people are doing business...and I'm the real winner... without promotion, I am getting around 500 google searches on these keyword combination...

    It's hard to compete so better find other alternatives...
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    • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
      True - good idea.

      One problem I found though is - make sure there is money in the niche. If there isn't - it pays really bad even if you get lots of traffic.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
        I have a site targeting a 3-word phrase that gets under 1000 searches per month according to Google's keyword tool.

        I hold the #1 and #2 spots for the phrase, there is no competing product in the space, and I convert about 20% of search traffic to buyers... 3-4 sales per day for approximately $100 each.

        That's over $10,000 per month from a single phrase with almost no search volume.

        But it only works because there's no competition and it's a problem people are willing to pay to solve.

        It got much easier to do good keyword research this year when Google's tool added real volume data.
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        • Profile picture of the author rome9t9
          Congrats Dan. and Good Luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author mamza
        Originally Posted by Easy Cash View Post

        True - good idea.

        One problem I found though is - make sure there is money in the niche. If there isn't - it pays really bad even if you get lots of traffic.
        i really agry with you, but how to make sure that niche is really profitable?
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
          Originally Posted by mamza View Post

          i really agry with you, but how to make sure that niche is really profitable?
          Run a test ad on Google, and include a price in the ad. If people are clicking then there's a good chance there's a market.

          Better to spend $10 or even $50 up front testing the market than days or weeks of time putting together a product nobody wants.
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  • Profile picture of the author woah316
    true... but everything balances itself out... there is no one billion dollar idea that only one person is doing... where theres a walmart theres a target and kmart... a mcdonalds theres a buger king and wendys... if something is very profitable, it will have competitors.. so the less competition, the less profitible it probably is!
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    Its not about the low competition, its about finding the niche with the money in it,

    many people miss this point when looking for keywords

    go where the money, then look within the competition if a piece of the pie has not been exploited and carve yourself a piece of the action

    too many look at competitive niches and avoid them when within them still exist very low competition or low hanging fruit

    I had a client that is in a very competitive niche miss a longtail keyword that received 2 times more traffic than the root keyword he ended up jumping on this, but these opportunities still exist if you dig deep enough

    The free wordtracker keyword tool has all kinds of these missed keywords because its very difficult to expose them as result they are hidden

    or another method to expose these keywords is using trigger keywords will show what people are actually looking for this one always amazes me it exposes things I never thought about

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  • Profile picture of the author johnymartin11
    But mate where are those niches now ... every niche has been taken and promoted with quality SEO. Tell me few niches which have less searches. But the main point is if there is less search than whats the benefot of creating it.

    Tell me some niche may be I will try on them
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    • Profile picture of the author MaxineKelly
      Originally Posted by johnymartin11 View Post

      But mate where are those niches now ... every niche has been taken and promoted with quality SEO. Tell me few niches which have less searches. But the main point is if there is less search than whats the benefot of creating it.

      Tell me some niche may be I will try on them
      Yeah I am quite agree with Johny. Tell me those niches I do not think that they are even existing. Every niche have cut throat competition. Some have more than we expect and some have less. But there are ...
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  • Profile picture of the author Solidsnake
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    Low number of searches usually has low CPC...
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