How to Use Article Marketing to Find Great Niches!

Hi Warriors!

I want to share my system for finding great niches easily and cheaply with article marketing. I would love any comments, thoughts, feedback, argument, anything on this thread, because my hope is that we can hone this idea to the point that a newbie could read this and start being successful immediately.

Here's the problem: You want to create websites that do two things. 1) Get traffic and 2) make money from that traffic.

If you can do these two things, all you need to do is rinse and repeat and over a period of a few months you'll have quite a bit of money coming in, all on autopilot.

Sounds simple. And it really is. But there are several key skills to know--keyword analysis, seo, sales conversion tactics, etc.

I've been doing this with success for some time, but recently I was thinking about how to streamline the niche finding process.

You see, I would do keyword analysis, buy a domain, set up a site, do seo (all of which I'm pretty good at), and then the results would not always be what I wanted.

I would get great winners, sure, but also I would waste time on duds. I've created lots of sites that get traffic, but few sales, for instance.

So, I've recently come up with a way to test a niche using article marketing. This, it turns out, works like gangbusters.

Here's my system:

1. Pick a niche I'm interested in. (To do this look at Amazon, Shopping.com, Clickbank, etc.)
2. Do keyword analysis to choose a main keyword phrase and a few category phrases. (I use Market Samurai, but you can easily do this with Google's free keyword tool.)
3. Now, here's the new part for me...
4. Buy a .info domain name with the main keyword phrase in it.
5. Forward the .info domain to my affiliate offer.
6. Using the keyword analysis above, pick 10 or so keyword phrases I think I can get an article ranked well for.
7. Write 10 quick articles and upload to EZA. (EzineArticles)
8. (Make sure you link the articles to your .info domain in the bio box.)
9. Move on to test the next niche.

Let me clarify a few things.

I buy a .info domain because it's so cheap.

I write really quick articles. I have a sort of a template in my head that I use. I never vary from that.

I don't do any seo on the articles at all. I want to see how well they do in the search engines on their own.

I'm basically running this as a test. It takes all of $.89 for the .info domain name and an hour (or two, if I'm really slow) of writing.

Here's how I analyze my results.

1. Did the articles get ranked well in the search engines?
2. What's the click through rate? (Varies all over the place from niche to niche.)
3. What's the conversion rate?

If this is all a go, then I go back to this niche, buy a .com, build a WordPress blog and build out the site, and start a serious marketing effort. (I'll forward the old .info to the new .com.)

Look at all the intelligence I've gathered, though! Just from my stats from EZA, I'll have a really good picture of which keywords work and which don't. With the click through rate and the conversion rate, I'll be able to kinda sorta judge how profitable this niche could be.

So, that's it in a nutshell, a really simple, cheap, and quick method of using article marketing to choose really profitable niches. No website required, either!

Let me know what you think!