Expert's Advice needed - Micro Niche Websites

Advice needed.

Thanks in advance.

You would have to check out the competition of the top 10 sites when you looked up those keywords without quotes on Google.

Check the PR, backlinks, intitle, inurl, etc.

Some of those keywords have very tough competition. I would recommend checking out your competition before picking any keywords.

Here is what I do when searching for keywords (Just my method, it has been working for me ):

1. Pick A Niche
This can be anything you want. Usually I pick something that I am interested in. If not you can always pick a seasonal topic (Halloween, Christmas, etc.).

2. What do people buy in the niche?
You should be able to think of dozens and dozens of thing that people buy for that niche. If you can't, I would recommend not picking that niche. For example, if I were to pick Halloween. Things that people buy during halloween include: costumes, decorations, skeletons, pumpkins, outdoor decorations, indoor decorations, party ideas, etc.

3. List of Keywords
After you have a list of about 10-20 of things that people buy, I run them through Market Samurai so that I can get a giant list of a couple hundred keywords. I like at least 20 searches per day and less than 50000 competition when the keyword is in quotes. That should narrow down the list a bit.

4. Check Results
After I have a list of these keywords, I look them all up in Google. If the keyword has less then 500,000 results, I write it down on a piece of paper.

5. Check Competition
After my list has dwindled down even more, I check the competition for the 10 ten results. I like the average PR of the top ten sites to have an average of less than 2. I also like to have the top 3 sites have less than 100 backlinks each.

6. Domains
Now that you have a very small list of keywords, it is time to get some domains. I buy all the ones that have an exact match for either .com .org or .net (in that order). If there are not exact matches, I just add another word to the domain.


Again, this is just my method for search for a keyword. There are many others you can choose from.

Hope this helps!

For future reference - don't list domains that you intend to register unless you want to help somebody out. There are domainers and marketers that will snatch them up in a heartbeat.

But on topic, what Twigman said was pretty accurate. Just because you have an EMD doesn't mean you'll automatically hit first page. Always be sure to check the competition.

My competition criteria is simple - three of the top ten sites have to have PR of n/a, 0, or 1. The majority of the top ten have to have less than 50 backlinks. And the majority of the top ten have to be poorly optimized for the KW. You get those three criteria down and you build backlinks to the EMD, you should hit first page.

Three main things:

A keyword that you can monetize
Low competition in the top 10
Enough monthly searches to make it worthe the effort

The onyl grey area here is number of searches. The keyword tool is very unreliable in my experience.

Your goal should be to get in the top 3. The top 3 results get almost 70% of all clicks. If you can't get into the top 3, it's actually better to be 9 or 10, as they tend to get more clicks than 4 - 8.

If you are going for Adsense, you are on the right track as far as determining a per-click value. But I also suggest you look for keyword that have related products or services that actually sell. Two main reason:

You can now put an affilaite link along with the Adsense, which increase your chances of getting tagged and a MFA site

If you ever get kicked from Adsense, you'll still have income from affilaite sales.

Is there a product related to your keyword? Go to Amazon or Ebay and look.

Lesson I learned: Don't bother building sites for cheap stuff, like invitations (or books). Someone shows up at you site, buys a box of invites for 9.99 and you maybe just made a dollar.

Someone shows up at your site and buys a pair of Nike Pegasus running shoes for $99 and you maybe just made $10.

Personally (and just my opinion) I wouldn't go after any of the domains you listed. Traffic to low, and no (or too cheap) related products.

Be careful registering certain domains. You can't use the name of products in your domain. A Minnie Mouse domain would get shut down.

prodigaljoe

How do you "check out what keywords are in their backlinks and on-site."

Are you referring to the text in the link? Or the alt text?

mwiab

On-site is referring to their actual site. You check their words, links, alt, titles, h1 tags, etc.

The backlinks are links pointing to the site. I use Market Samurai to check how many backlinks are pointing to a site and see which keywords are used in those text links. Then I check to see the PR of the pages linking back to the ranking page.

It depends on the keyword, traffic, and how much work you want to do for a site. For adsense sites I would only target keywords with no competition. The reason is there is so little money to be made from niche adsense. The ctr is low and and the payout is low so I would not want to invest much time into ranking those. Plus, if you are using adsense it means you are targeting a niche that does not have a good product to sell for high commissions. So these niches should be easier anyways.

If you are after keywords that target products that can make you more money then you can get the ctr very high and make nice earning per click with targeted traffic. If you know what you are doing then you can go after keywords with more competition.

If you don't have experience ranking #1 for low competition keywords then I recommend targeting keywords where the top sites don't have any backlinks with the keyword in the anchor text. Overall you want to see few banklinks and low pr but the top sites always need to be analyzed to see if they are targeting the keyword.

So basically... it depends on what you want to do and how well you know seo

go with the baseball tees and sell amazon batting tee products. prolly make $30-$40 a month if your on the 1st page. can make more if your #1

Hey there -
I make a good chunk of change from micro niche adsense sites...that is my business! I will say that you are looking at the rights things. First, you are looking at the EXACT match number of searches, good job. I always focus on keywords that have at least 1000 searches per month. Secondly, I only look at keywords with a CPC of $1 or more - great job here. You have also found some good exact match domains.

Now the critical factor for whether or not a keyword is a winner or not is the top 10 results in google (as has been stated). You can use the SEO for Firefox plugin (as has been mentioned) to look at the criteria.

Some of the top criteria to look at is:
Is the keyword in the title?
Is the keyword in the domain?
What is the PR of the page?
How many backlinks to the page?
How many backlinks to the site?
Is the result a root domain or a sub directory (www . domain .com/subdirectory/resultpage.html)?

There are several other factors, but those are critical.

I just took a look at your first keyword, "baseball tees" and it looks like a good one. Here's why:
The #1 result does not have the keyword in the title and has a PR of 0
#4 is a shopping result with PR of 0 and NO backlinks to the page
#8 is the exact match .net, and has NO backlinks to the page.
There is other weaknesses in the top 10 results, but you get the idea.

I would strongly consider doing this keyword. I didn't look at the others, but that should give you a quick guide of what to look at.

Best of luck!!