How to monetize obscure/lower competition niches?

Just create some kind of product that is tailored to your niche and sell it to your customers. Just like any other niche. :-)

I select niches according to "what's for sale" in the first place, so this question has never arisen for me in quite those terms.

I'd never look at it this way, simply because in all my experience, SEO traffic is qualitatively the worst kind of traffic to monetize. Visitors from search engines stay less time on all my sites, view fewer pages, opt in less often and buy anything far less often than is true of any other type of traffic I've ever tried. Call me a skepchick, but the concept of "high traffic keywords" has somewhat limited appeal to me. And I'd instinctively expect, in the case of high traffic keywords with low competition, that there might be good and valid reasons for the lack of competition.

I wouldn't find it an attractive proposition, myself, because I can't really see the attraction of earning only pennies by giving people ways to leave my site rather than staying there.

Why does that bother you? They're not about to go into liquidation and disappear. If you can monetize the niche through Amazon, that's a whole different matter and something I'd certainly be interested in.

Well, I do have experience in niches with plenty of traffic and not much competition, as it happens, but I haven't selected them on that basis, but on the basis of their "monetizability" in the first place. It does sound, from what you say above, that Amazon might perhaps be your best option? It's generally a good option, too. I don't know how much experience you have with Amazon, Joel ... but you can certainly get some very high Amazon conversion-rates (and for multiple products) through list-building.

Sorry not to be any more helpful.

I am going to go against the grain just a bit here...

You mentioned not wanting to try Adsense.

I would, at least for a couple of months.

The reason being is because you might be getting a ton of click-happy kids visiting your site.

I once had a video game demo site where people could download recently released pc game demos...back when companies released them.

Most of my visitors were young gamers and they would overheat my Adsense account.

Of course, this really isn't a niche anymore, but Anime could work in the same way.

The reason I say this is because Anime is absolutely huge...and there may be unrecognized and untapped money where you would least expect it.

Of course in the rare event you strike gold you would of course play it off and say "oh well, yeah, I tried, but it never worked out." LOL

May be you can ask your subscribers to take a survey and try to find out what they want and make a product out of it.

You should try adsense for at least a few months. You never now what you're going to get.

It's not CPA but I just type anime affiliate into google and this come up...

Affiliate Program | Anime, Manga and More @ Right Stuf

It has 24k+ anime products Surely you could use something in there

or something like

http://madaboutmanga.com/affiliates.php

Just remember anime is a HUGE market I know about 7 of my friends who like to draw anime pictures and post them all over facebook. Same goes for cartoons, sure it depends on exactly what your phrases are but I am sure if you just sit their an imagine a little bit your come up with some creative solutions. It could be from anime drawing lessons, to story boards, videos, music, posters, outfits and so on.

Hi,

To resume that I have understood this right;

Low competition niche's are best to monetize with affiliate products right?
Not with adsense, then when there are only few competitiors who paod money for adwords you will get lousy pennies as adsense publisher.

But this a low competition niche means that you can not monetize this with affiliate products from cb , cj and so on????

marco005

"To resume that I have understood this right;

Low competition niche's are best to monetize with affiliate products right?"

No, you are not. There is no general answer for all niches. Just use your head. It´s like playing cards. You have to decide yourself what cards to put on the table.

Hi,

Please not this; an real business is not like playing cards only , no serious businessman playing cards to build a real business.

I look for an good indicator who tells me which keywords are on demand,are buyer keywords thats it.

Are keywords with low adwords competition who is talking about in communities and forums are these good buyer keywords? Example ; how build gain muscle fast (example) low adwords competition, but many people talking about this problem in forums. So when I have a product to solve this problem, so I can monetize it as affiliate- right??

best wishes
marco005

"Are keywords with low adwords competition who is talking about in communities and forums are these good buyer keywords? Example ; how build gain muscle fast (example) low adwords competition, but many people talking about this problem in forums. So when I have a product to solve this problem, so I can monetize it as affiliate- right??"

How can keywords with a low AdWords competition be good buyer keywords? Low AdWords competition means there is no market for (m)any products.

What I mean with " You have to decide yourself what cards to put on the table." is that you have to judge yourself what is the best solution for a given keyword. Are there good affiliate products that are somehow related to your keyword? Do you think these products will convert? What do these people have in mind when googling those keywords? And so on.

If there are no good products, use Adsense. If you think people may buy a certain product, try it. If it does not convert you can still switch to AdSense later on.

"Example ; how build gain muscle fast (example) low adwords competition,"

Are you sure this keyword has low AdWords competition? I think one can sell some products with this keyword.

Hi

First: Merry Christmas to all marketers here.

@affiliate survivor; My theory:

look at this key; best way to gain muscle
it has exact 1600 local search volume and low adwords competition

Look at this with seoquake with this key in quote "best way to gain muscle fast"
I think there is no hard to beat that competition to get a good ranking and no adword advertiser there.

Yes it is not direct a buyer keyword, but when I have 5 affiliate products(new products) to gain muscle fast and build a micro website with 5 pages homepage with good 800 words long about this key and inner page textlinks on homepage to the other 5 pages (linkjuice from homepage, than 1 product each page with 800 words long ) with this key to rank; 5 best products to gain muscle fast, or gain muscle fast with this 5 new products or so.....



Or build a huge squidoo lens about this key and promote these affiliate products on squidoo?


I think there must be a market there, people who ask and talk about something like this, are interested to buy related products to gain muscle fast.

So it must convert to make a few sales every month , when the content is better-the conversions will be better (higher).I think with this key the content must be more on the informacional written style than an product review, good written product reviews will only convert on buyer keywords like this; xy500 protein muscle gainer or so...

So this is my theory about low adwords competition niche keys.

What do you think about-I'm right there or complet wrong?

And not forget the important part; I need a good writer who gives human choice in his content, so that this content convert to sales.

Find a good writer here who writes such content that convert is the other part here.

best wishes
merry christmas

marco005

Think of it like this: AdWords advertisers who want to sell products about muscle building start a campaign with all keywords in the muscle gaining niche. After a while, when all keywords had a certain number of clicks, they know which keywords made them sales/are profitable and which are not. Then they get rid of the non-profitable keywords. So keywords, with little AdWords competition, are probably not the best converting keywords.

Yes, people searching for this terms are interested in gaining more muscles. But they can also just looking for free information. If you write an informative article, you are giving away free information about building muscles. And there is lot of free information about building muscles on the internet.

It may also be better to promote only 1 product. If you offer more than 1 product people get confused, don´t know which product to buy and keep on searching for additional information on other websites.

The best way to sell something on keywords like this is probably with email-marketing. They show some interest in the subject and if you can write convincing emails about your product you may sell something. But these people probably also subscribed to other newsletters from your competitors and your emails must be at least even convincing as theirs. If they buy something, they probably only buy from 1 newsletter.

Yes finding a good writer may not be easy and may also cost you a lot. And you will also need somebody to write your emails. It´s much easier to make a profit if you can write the content yourself. Cheap articles are in most cases only good for building backlinks on free blog platforms or article directories.

In conclusion: Keywords with low AdWords competiton are usually not very profitable keywords. Even if you make more money by promoting affiliate products rather than Adsense, these keywords still will not make you much money.

Hi,

@affiliate survivor; thanks for your tip,now I understand you better.

So I don't will build a list, will make conversions with my websites who promoting affiliate prodicts.
Yes it is better stay away from such keywords like in my example.

So I must look for buyer keywords who has competition (adwords) but are not to hatd to beat to get a good ranking.

So I will concentrate on new affiliate products (in the new section of affiliate programs) but this is little bit playing joker too, with this keys you will rank easy,but you don't know which are profitable, this method words for amazon affiliates who promote the newest amazon products.

What method without build list yiu can recommend me and which warrior writer can write good articles that sells for an resonable price?

best wishes
marco005

I never buy articles and don´t know any good writers.

What method I can recommend? That´s a difficult question. It depends on your skills. Making money with Adsense usially requires the least skills. If you are a total newbie Adsense may be the best option to begin with.

There is no method that can guarantee a 100% succes. You always have to take some risks.

Good buyers keywords are easier to convert, but have a fierce competition and you need to know how to get these sites to the top of Google. Easier keywords make less money and you need a lot of pages for a substantial income. And even ranking for keywords like that is not always a walk in the park.

The best method for long term success is probably selecting a large, evergreen, niche with many keywords and affiliate products and start building something up in this niche. Don´t expect much money fast. Quick methods usually do not work. Or at least not for long.

Hi,

@affiliate survivor; Above my example,informacional written articles does not convert, or not so convert like written product reviews with a keyword phrase like;

buy (about, my review)... xy suplex protein muscle gainer (example) a such goow written product review converts better than a more informational written article like; best 5 protein muscle gainer

??

best wishes
marco005

I like your idea about JVing with some of the costume/game creators and sending them traffic. Seems like that would (easily) be the most bang for your buck, at least on a per-customer basis.

@Marco005

It´s not only about the kind of articles you write, but also about the kind of keywords people are searching for. Someone who is searching for "xy suplex protein muscle gainer review" is showing a real interest in that product and only wants some more information before buying. He is close to buying that product and your article only has to put him over the edge.

On the other hand, someone who is searching for an informational search term like "how long does it take to build muscle" isn´t searching for a specific product and has no intention to buy anything. When he sees an advertisement for an ebook or supplement on your website, something he probably never heard of before, chances of him buying that product are small. That´s why you need to get his email and convince him about the advantages of your offer. To make him buy something he didn´t intend to buy.

You could just go with Infolinks, that's easy. Maybe you could sell adspace directly to companies or even competitor websites.

Hi,

@affiliate survivor; thanks again,now I understand you better. I will search for niche buyer keywords,who are micro keywords in an evergreen subniche,they are easier to rank and people search for them.

With users who want search for information first, they are not in buyer modus so perhaps I must build a list to have success with them,but when they in buyer modus it will be easier to have success as affiliate.

marco005

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