How To Make Online Money

I’ve been very busy lately, both with improving my own ‘bread and butter’ site (a niche site where I make money from affiliate sales), and with helping some of my friends get going on their new profit-making websites.

One of the things that I seem to be doing A LOT lately is niche research.  Trying to show my buddies the significance of finding a good keyword phrase that has many searches and few competition is important.  It teaches them how to think about wording article titles or blog posts.  And, the really cool thing is that I can show them immediate results…when they do what I tell them with a good phrase, they can see their page on the top of Google right away.

There are several good ways to do keyword research.  I have several tools available that I show the gang, but the one that I personally use the most, and the one I show them the most is in the video that follows:

Video – Niche Research Tool and Article Marketing

I use this tool almost every day.  Even when I’m writing a quick blog post on a topic about which I’m an expert, I still use this tool to help me figure out the title that is going to get me the most searches, and has the fewest competition.

For example, if I have a blog about Home Improvement, or Tools, let’s assume that I have an affiliate relationship with a hardware store (like Ace Hardware, through Commission Junction).  I can write a great article about cordless screwdrivers, and put links to those screwdrivers on my blog post.  Let’s assume I was going to title it something like “Best Cordless Screwdrivers”.  A quick check of the tool shows that people only search that exact phrase 40 times per month.  And even though an exact match of that phrase in Google shows only 6 results, I won’t have enough searches to be worth it.  (Both of that data is available super-quick in the tool…as is the same data for alternate suggestions.)  But, if I specifically mention “Black and Decker Cordless Screwdriver” in the title, there are hundreds of searches per month, and still very little competition.  (The tool even checks to see how well-optimized the competition is to see how hard it would be to beat them.)

The Video shows exactly how to find good keywords and walks through a strategy for making money from the niches you find.

Video – Niche Research Tool and Article Marketing