One of my favorite ways [...]]]> In my previous post I spoke about how I find Adsense niches to target.  I mentioned that there are two types of Adsense sites you can build, sites focusing on physical products and sites focusing on information.  In today’s post I’m going to deal with the physical product Adsense sites.

One of my favorite ways to find new niches is by going to authority niche shopping sites and modeling my niche sites based on the work that they’ve already done.  What I mean by this is that in order to become seen as an authority site in a particular niche you have to have pages and pages of content and the content has to all come together.  These niche authority sites have already done all of the hard work for me, I simply go to their sites and see what different types of sub niches can be found within their larger niches.  Once I find a smaller niche to target I then insert the niche into Google’s keyword tool to see if it’d be worth my while to target.  Usually I find that the sub niche will be worthwhile otherwise it wouldn’t be prominently displayed on the shopping site.

I’ll start by doing a  Google search based on what I’m interested in.  Being that we are dealing with physical products there will be a lot of different types of sites that I can target.  I’m going to do a search for home improvement products in Google.  One of the first sites I see as one of the ads is home depot.  Home depot is one of if not the largest home repair store in the US.  It is definitely an authority site in the home repair niche.  Going to the home depot homepage I see the following:

There are 16 different departments and each department is then further broken down into related departments. When you hover over the bath department you are then presented with the following sub departments or niches.  To find a niche to target from the above I would then insert one of the sub departments into Google’s keyword tool to see if there are many keywords that I can target in the niche.  In today’s example I will choose the showerhead niche.

I see that the term showerhead gets 1900 searches a month and the average CPC is $2.31.  This would be a good niche to target if I were building a micro niche adsense site.  There are also 132 more keywords which contain the term showerhead.

In building my micro niche site I would try to come up with enough keywords that would bring the total monthly visits to 5000 – 10000.  I would have to do further analysis of each of the keywords above in order to see if the keywords would be worth targeting.  In my next post I will do a tutorial on how you can tell if a keyword will be easy enough to crack and get your site to the top ten of Google.  I’ll also delve deeper into using the Google Keyword tool and shopping sites to find niches.  Stay tuned……

One thing that has always drawn my interest in Adsense [...]]]> It’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog. One of my new goals is to update my blog everyday with useful information for people who may target my blog. Today I’d like to focus on how I go about finding new niches to target.

One thing that has always drawn my interest in Adsense is the fact that you do not have to sell anything in order to make money with Adsense. You simply need to get people to click on the ads that are featured on your website. Despite Google’s new ad on page algorithm update sites which feature Google ads at the top are still being displayed prominently in Google’s search engine, so there is definitely still money to be made with Adsense.

There are two different types of sites that you can have which feature Adsense.  You can either have a product based site, or an information based site.  If you are building an information based site you will be targeting niches in health, wealth and beauty.  The sub niches being things such as Forex, Weight Loss and Skin Care.  If you are targeting product niches then you have a vast array of different products that you can choose from in a variety of different niches.  There really are no limits to the types of products you can target whether the products are pet related, tech related, home related or any number of different niches.

When I’m targeting  a niche I tend to look for niches where people are buying and where the cost per click is above $1.00 using Google’s keyword tool.  Information related niches tend to have higher paying clicks, however I’ve developed websites built around products niches where I’ve gotten over $1.00 per click so it really just depends on what niches you target.  Think of it this way, the more expensive a product is, the higher the price a marketer will be willing to spend per click.  If a product sells at $500 or more a marketer might have no problem spending upwards of $2.00 and better per click because they can sell one item and still be very profitable.

A quick way to find out how much marketers are willing to pay to bid on a keyword is by using a site called http://spyfu.com
Spyfu allows you to enter a keyword in their search box and they’ll present to you a list showing cost per click, clicks per day# of advertisers and search volume.  Doing a quick search for the term dining room sets unveils that this keyword might now be bad to target for a niche website.  It gets 5500 searches for month, the CPC is between .91 and 1.13 and there are 13 advertisers who have bid on that keyword phrase in the last 30 days.

I would have to further analyze the top competitors on Google but I know that I could build a tightly niches site around dining room sets and possibly make some money in that niche.  It would all depend on how hard it would be for me to get on  the first page of Google for that niche.

When researching niches to target I like to use Google’s keyword tool to start with and research niches.  Googles keyword tool is now set up by categories and you can enter a category and hit search to find the top categories in Google.  A search in the Category Blankets and Bedspreads unveils the following possible keywords to target to build a website.

I would further drill into each keyword to see if I could possibly create a micro niche site out of one of those keyword phrases.  I would search each keyword phrase and build either a site focused on the main category of blankets or a site about bedspreads.  I would choose 20 to 30 keywords and go about building a site all about bedspreads.

When building these types of sites focused on products it’s quite easy to make dozens of these websites and the content will be easy to come up with as well as you can go to places like Amazon or other e-commerce sites and rewrite product descriptions.

That’s it for now.  Let me know if you have any questions.

There are people who make money online exclusively with Google Adsense displayed on their websites. If you have been to a few websites online then you have undoubtedly [...]]]> Google Adsense is one of Google’s products where they pay website publishers who display ads on their websites and people click on one of the ads.

There are people who make money online exclusively with Google Adsense displayed on their websites. If you have been to a few websites online then you have undoubtedly encountered a Google Adsense ad either text or image.

How it works is that you build a website based around either information or a product or product category and display Adsense ads on various places on your website. When people click on the link or the ad then you are paid anywhere from .01 and upwards.

There have been many e-books written on the subject and there are some people making millions of dollars online with Google. You can really start small and build your website portfolio up until you are making thousands of dollars online.

Here are just a few tips if you’re considering going Adsense route to make money online.

1) If you’re just starting build one website and make that website profitable. Try to get it to start earning at least $1 a day. Once you get it to that level then focus on building another site just like it and get that website earning money. Build as many small sites as you can manage simply because you want to start seeing revenue for your hard work right away.

2) Build websites that are focused on high paying niches. The best niches to target are the ones that you’ll receive at least $1 per click. I recently purchased an e-book on warrior forum which lists high paying Adsense niches as well as the formula used to find these niches. The e-book is entitled Adsense Niche Cheatsheet and you can find it by clicking this link http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/375447-630-copies-sold-adsense-niche-cheatsheet-focus-only-profitable-niches.html (Not an affiliate link) This e-book wasn’t around when I start but it’s a great place to find niches so that your hard work will go further.

3) Learn the proper methods for doing keyword research. What you are trying to find is keywords that get a decent amount of visitors that have low competition in Google and the other smaller search engines. Proper keyword research will allow you to enter any niche and be profitable in that niche. I recently bought a cheap tool called Keyword Anchor that can help you with doing Keyword Research. I own Micro Niche Finder but this tool is 70% cheaper than Micro Niche Finder and has similar functionality. When you buy the Keyword Anchor software you will also be able to get free keyword research videos as a bonus to the software.

4) Don’t give up too soon. Making money with Adsense is not hard. In fact Adsense is the model I tell all of my family and friends to start with. I believe Adsense is the easiest way for a beginner to make money online strictly because visitors to your website only need to click on an Adsense link for you to make money. With other affiliate programs people actually have to complete an action such as make a purchase or enter their e-mail address. People are accustomed to clicking on links when they visit websites so buy them clicking on a link on your site they are doing what comes natural to them.

Next I’m going to show everyone how I go about finding a niche to target, buying a domain, uploading content to the domain and get the domain ranked and earning me money in a short amount of time. Stay tuned and get ready to get some treats on and tips on making money with Adsense.