Article Syndication Niche Selection Question...

Well health and dating sites are a huge thing on the internet, but I have more success promoting a dating site or a health product than selling a click bank ebooks. I used ebooks to build a list. Try to find an ebook on these niches that you can have full rights to give away to your blog subscribers and then forward them to affiliate dating or health sites. This has worked for me, so I hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Marksv Hey warriors, I've decided to focus on the article syndication and forum marketing traffic generation strategies, and I want to base my business model around it. My question is about the niche selection for this kind of traffic strategy. Obviously for these to be successful, a niche must have blogs and ezines that are talking about the topic, as well as active forums for the niche. I've been looking at clickbank products to select a niche, and I wanted to see whether I'm missing something in terms of my understanding of the strategy. It's easy to see how a weight loss product, or a relationship product, can be marketed. There are thousands of blogs ezines and forums that could attract targeted traffic. But what about a product that solves a particular health problem. Let's say a herpes cure, or a gout remedy product. Are these niches not suitable for the forum and article syndication strategies? There are way fewer sites, ezines, and forums that would be dedicated to these issues in particular where I could publish my content. There might be more general health sites where I could be syndicating my articles to, but I wouldn't be targeting my demographic with as much accuracy. It would be more of a hit and miss... For those of you using article syndication and real forum marketing (not spamming the boards) for traffic generation, do you feel these niches are not ideal for this business model?

If there are at least a few forums related to your topic of choice, I think it's big enough a niche to operate in.

If you can't find any at all, then I would be at least a bit worried... :p

But when it comes to article marketing, there are a few things I take into consideration when it comes to generating traffic.

First, I look at the type of people who syndicate articles that you put out during article marketing.

Then I look at the approximate number of people who syndicate those types of articles to get a general overview of the potential traffic explosion that could take place.

But overall, I think you can take a different approach.

Instead of looking at Clickbank, and then seeing if the product fits your article syndication and forum strategy, start with your strategy.

Look for topics that are suitable for article syndication and forum marketing, and then find products based on those topics.

Go where the money is. Evergreen niches like health, diet, business to business, solar and wind power, how to learn xyz etc.

Then target *sub-niches* within these and you will be in business for a long while.

I think they'll be perfectly alright on that front ...

... other than the obvious ethical and legal considerations one must apply to "healthcare niches" in general.

(I certainly wouldn't be using the word "cure" about any Herpes-related products, myself, and wouldn't be promoting a product whose sales page did, either - nor would I even expect it to remain available permanently, in this legal/regulatory climate).

Other than this comment, I can't really add to Steven's post above.

Actually, IMO general health is the type of publication/site you should be targeting, in addition to the more specialized online/offline publications. It's not entirely essential that you limit your article submissions on these topics so narrowly as to exclude a broader readership. As with other chronic diseases, there are quite possibly hundreds of thousands of suitable outlets for such articles.

For example, you perhaps should even consider mass-publication magazines, because these diseases are showing increasing incidence especially within the last few decades. What happens when articles are written to be read by real live eyeballs (instead of the search engines for SEO :p) is they may be passed on as relevant to afflicted friends, relatives, co-workers, etc.

If your articles on herpes are researched and written well including a few sprinkles of professional citations, it can go viral. (No pun intended ) Similarly, fact-based articles on gout treatments will be devoured by those suffering from such symptoms.

There is no such thing as a "cure" for either herpes or gout. Avoid promoting products that make those type of outright claims for any medical condition. But with medical disclaimers (ie seek professional medical attention, etc), information products and referenced overviews of certain treatments specifically for alleviating symptoms can be particularly lucrative in these niches.