Are Micro-Niches Dead?

I'm not sure but I do know you've just created the 301th "is something dead" thread this month.

Congratulations.

It's like a morgue here nowadays.

Sorry for contributing to the overwhelming sense of darkness here. That may be where I got the thought to put "dead" from; reading around here that is.

To tell you the truth, I would not go in too deeply and look for Micro Niches. Tiny tiny niches can not make you much money if they are not being targeted correctly. If it has very few searches it is quite simply not in demand. We are talking about business here, so I usually See the SUPPLY & DEMAND LAW. I know, I know its a bit old school, but the law of supply and demand is Still Alive and it is a universal law that I think will always work.


Therefore to further answer your question... If you found that these certain niches do not have many searches does not mean it will not make you any money, Micro Niches are good for finding a side door into the bigger niche. But you need to make sure that these niches are making money. A great way I have found to find Good Profitable Niches is by using magazines. Magazines exist for the sole purpose of making money for the magazine company. Therefore they have already done the market research necessary to know if their topic is in DEMAND.

Drilling Down even further. If you are intent on making money with micro niches then look for buyer keywords. If it is a niche like Headaches then look for things that people will buy, like Headache Remedies. See if those have good results and then Go into that niche, Finding buyers is always the good way to go. That is why it is crucial to come up with a list of Buyer keywords and then find if it has the required search term. I typically try and find niches that have a global monthly search volume of at least 100 per day that is 3000 plus per month, or at the very least 2000.

Whatever you do, remember the Law of Supply and Demand. If it does not have any demand, odds are that it will not make any money and if you try to supply it, you will fail...

I hope this helps. If you would like be more specific please ask. It is nothing I love more than being more and more specific. Have a great day.

Kindest,

Alex Guzman

I hope micro niches arent dead as thats my business plan, micro niches and affilate marketing. I've been able to find lots of niches with decent search volumns and I'm working on building backlinks to get them on google page one. I figure I'll find out soon enough if it actually works LOL

In a sense, no micro-niche site are not dead. The meaning behind "micro-niche" in my opinion is: Finding a niche such as "pets", then digging down and then finding a sub-niche such as "dog pet care", and then going even further and targeting a micro-niche such as "dog clothes" and created in site around it.

So no, that method in finding kw's and niches is not dead.

Now lets get to what is Dead

Creating crappy 5 page sites with garbage content are far dead. With all of the google updates you need to have a good flow of unique content coming to your site to compete on a constant basis. Not saying that you need hundreds of 700 word articles, but you do need a good amount of quality content on your site.

That actually was extremely informative. It would seem I've been doing things backwards. Looking at plr articles and such, which obviously other marketers have used. The magazine idea is pretty nice. I will look into it when I can get to some magazines (none at my house). I've never committed to the idea of doing micro niches, because I've never found a great one, statistically of course.

Why not just go into a more profitable niche that you have a real interest in where there are lots of products to promote and such? You'll actually enjoy what you're doing, meet like-minded people who are into the same thing you are, and make money at the same time. You'll also save money because you won't have a ton of domains you don't know what to do with, which means you'll also be better organized. It's just a thought.

Good luck,
Joey

Micro Niche sites are alive. Just don't put AdCents on them.

What's your definition of a "mirco-niche"? I think that might be the issue, not the concept of "micro-niche"s. Also, are you basing all this one one keyword? Thirdly, how are you getting your traffic? Fourthly, what are you doing to convert that traffic?

More often than not, I've found it's not necessarily the niche that's the issue, but how marketing funnel is set up.

RoD

Create an authority site.

Authority sites beat micro niche sites in both longevity and profit margins, always. Give it a year and your micro niche sites will not be making much money (if at all), but your authority site will just grow.

Just create 5-10 high quality articles per week (you can base each on keywords to get some great search engine traffic), and make around 1/4 or 1/5 of these articles be product review articles or top 10 product lists (all with Amazon or Clickbank affiliate links).

That may be where I got the thought to put "dead" from; reading around here that is.

Gosh; I sure hope they aren't dead. If they are, then all this money I have been making with them isn't real. Maybe I'm dead? Ohhhh Noooooo! - LOL

Grey, i think there was a post from the past few days where someone said their client is working out in the micro-niche so well, they were offered by amazon or ebay to sell their products with them. If she can do it , why can't you?

Micro-niches are totally NOT DEAD, you just have to tap in the right one!

Take a look at the post , I was talking about, it should give you some ideas.

Hope I helped, good luck !

Lol $1 in the 'said dead' box please.

I had a site that had just 4 pages and was ranking between #1 and #2 for a long time for a half-decent buying KW (4,400 exact per month).
As soon as I put Adsense on it....GOOOONE WITH THE WIND! LOL
Bigger sites seem to be the way to go IMO

First of all thanks all the warriors.
I have been following your advice from 2 years but became a member of warriorforum today only.
Regarding the question - i think that after the panda update, google puts a lot of weight to authority sites. Regardless of what anyone would say, you will always see some big websites on the first 3 positions that have been around for some time and have built credibility. So i think even if you manage to get a first page position on google but you are at the 10th position, 10% will click on your website. That means 15 visitors to your site per month if the keyword gets 150 searches.
I don't think that it is worth the time.

The Micro Niche market is very much alive and well. Here is the thing; many people
know it and you need to set it up right. Just because you get in easy on one thing does not
mean you can over look anther thing. So the foundation is where it all starts. Key words
for example are a big part of it. And yet ask someone who failed and learn, they took 2
minutes sorting what word they are going to build a site off of.

Maybe it's your definition of micro niche that's wrong? There are a lot of bad niches, it's all about understanding what the consumer wants.

What's a micro niche? People come here every day with questions like: Should I try to make money in the Health niche or the Fitness niche or the Diet niche?

Each of those are massive markets, not niches. And the majority of answers that follow those questions rarely, if ever bother to make the distinction between a niche and a market.

"Pets," for example is a massive market. Caring for your pets is another huge market. Curing wet tail in hampsters is a micro niche within pet care. Is there money in that micro niche? Maybe, maybe not. Can anyone make money with it. It depends. But there is a demand for information and remedies on the topic.

I'd be interested in seeing just a few of the 200 rejected micro niches that the OP rejected. I find it hard to phathom that among 200 "little markets" there were none that might be profitable.

The defition of niche is a recess or nook. The word has taken on new meaning in the marketing community. But by it's very definition in a business context, it means there is a market. I also wonder what criteria people are using to qualify a market they'd be willing to try.

I wouldn't say they are completely dead but with the new Google updates it seems as though Google is targetting micro niche sites. It could be my paranoia but with micro sites being built for the sole purpose of making money I'm sure Google wants them GONE!

Sounds like you need some better keyword research strategy. We've been finding tons of niches all the time that are making us money. What tools are you using to find keywords?