In the last post you'll remember that I spoke about using the FREE keyword tools available to you, such as Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery and the Google Keyword Tool to find article ideas for your niche website. In this post I just want to briefly touch on the main things to consider before pursuing one of these phrases.

Before you go after any keyword or phrase you are going to want to ask yourself a couple of questions before you spend the time trying to get your site to rank well for it:

1. What are the searchers intentions?
2. How will you 'monetize/convert' a visitor to a sale?
3. How well can you rank for your chosen phrase and is it worth it?

What are the searchers intentions?

This is probably the most important out of all factors to consider. If the person searching types a phrase which demonstrates no commerical intent whatsoever then there is going to be very little point in targeting it. By using our 'query' keywords and 'buying' keywords in the last post to search for a target phrase we should have been able to identify potential phrases which do offer some degree of commercial intent. Taking the phrase "how to buy a hybrid golf club" as an example, this phrase recieves around 20-30 daily searches, depending on which tool you use, which is a pretty decent volume Read the rest of this entry »

As we all know content is king, there is no denying that adding fresh, relevant content to your website will help with your rankings in the search engines providing it is done correctly. But one thing which people often struggle with is what content topics to use on their website, I know this is something I used to struggle with when I first started out online. But it doesn't have to be as hard as you think.

There are essentailly two things you need your content to have and they are:

1. Relevance to your reader and to the theme of your niche website
2. A demand for that content in the organic searches

This sort of content isn't at all hard to create and can be even easier to rank well for providing you know where to look for the right keyword phrases. Two excellent tools I love to use to find article ideas for my website are the FREE Wordtracker keyword tool and the FREE Keyword Discovery tool. Both of these tools generate some great long tail keyword phrases which can give you some great ideas for articles, better still because the phrases are longtail and very specific they are often very easy to rank for. Read the rest of this entry »

I got this email through today which informs us that The Niche Site Building Network (AKA Build A Niche Store & N1Way etc) WILL be going up for sale after all. It looks like Adam and Kelvin have decided to move on and branch out into wider projects which aren't limited to Affiliate Website development.

I wish them the best of luck for the future and for their future endeavours.

Here is the email which was sent out: Read the rest of this entry »

Ultimately if you want traffic from the search engines you MUST get your website listed within the first 20 listings for your chosen keyword phrase, to do this you simply cannot get away from the fact you are going to have to get backlinks to your website. There was a time when building as many backlinks to your websites as humanly possible was the thing to do. If you were trying to rank above competitors in the search engines for a given keyword or phrase one of the factors you looked at was the number of backlinks that site had.  Now, whilst we still look at the number of backlinks a site has when trying to rank above it, amongst many other factors, the emphasis should be on quality rather than quantity. While this sounds obvious to many of you, you would be surprised the amount of people who are still concentrating on the quantity rather than quality. Read the rest of this entry »

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Just a very quick post to let you know that Brad over at ReviewAZON.com is currently offering a massive 35% OFF his Amazon review plugin for Wordpress. This deal will only last until 26th December and then it will be pulled, so if you have been deciding whether or not to grab this plugin then now is your opportunity to give yourself a great early Christmas present.

For those of you who have already emailed me, I just want to clarify that I WILL still give you access to my FREE ReviewAZON tutorial videos when you use the discount code through my website.

The ReviewAZON discount code is: holidaysavings35 - Clicking through that link will take you to ReviewAZON101.com where you can grab the free videos and the ReviewAZON plugin.

At the end of 2008 I sat down and decided that by the end of 2009 I would have built up my online business enough to leave my full time job in the National Health Service. In October 2009 I achieved that goal and left my 'day job' to start running my online business on a full time basis. Being able to run my own business was always something I had wanted to do, having watched my grandfather and parents run a successful company themselves eversince I was a child. But it was only in 2008 that it became a realistic consideration for me, I had obtained the univiersity degree I wanted and spent 3 years in the 'real' world of work, deep down knowing it wasn't what I wanted. Read the rest of this entry »

As you will notice by the date of my last post it has been around 3 weeks since I posted here and the main reason for that is really because I have been so busy preparing a new and exciting product for release very very soon. Testing, tweaking and simply putting this product through its paces has literally taken up the last month of my working and none working life but it’s certainly been worth it.

So what product am I talking about then? Well, for those of you who are subscribed to my list you will have had a 48 hour head start but for those of you who are not then this may be the first time you've heard anything about it. The product we have been working on for the past few months is something called Read the rest of this entry »

Remembering to consider the market trends in a niche is one of the most important factors to take into account before you persue it and it will be a deciding factor in whether your website makes money or not.

When you decide to pursue any niche there are usually a few factors which should have played a part in helping you to make your decision. The following factors are most probably the ones which you were able to confirm:

• Your niche has enough search demand in the search engines
• Your niche is not too competitive in respect to competition
• Your niche has enough products within it to promote and are selling well

But did you ask yourself if your niche products are selling all year round?

There are certain niche products which will have an obvious search trend, seasonal items such as Christmas decorations or Easter costumes are prime examples of these. But there are other niche products which have slightly more complex search trends which you absolutely must take into account before moving any further with that niche. Read the rest of this entry »

As we all know there are several ways for you to build an affiliate website, you can hand code it, build in in a CMS (content management system) like Joomla or Wordpress or use a built for purpose affiliate builder such as BANS, Storestacker, Multiprofit Websites, Blog profitz etc. When you are considering building an affiliate site which promotes Amazon products you need to consider the tools available to enable you to fully utilize the Amazon affiliate program.

Whilst I've used Joomla and a lot of the built for purpose site builders my favorite tool always has been Wordpress and it's the tools which integrate into Wordpress that I want to briefly cover today. It's important to point out that a tool is a tool, they won't research, build or promote your website for you and they certainly won't be the deciding factor in allowing you to succeed or fail. For this very reason I currently only use 2 Wordpress based tools which enable me to promote Amazon products. But after some research I did find a lot more which will also allow you to integrate Amazon products into Wordpress.

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