Here’s How to Find that Rich Niche
niche One of the greatest challenges that many affiliates, bloggers and AdSense marketers face is finding and choosing their niche. I often suggest its best to start off with a site or blogs around your hobbies, passions, a topic you know well or even a health condition or problem you have experienced and know lots about. But what niche do you go after you’ve built your 1st sites with the above in mind. What niches do you go after if you just want to find PROFITABLE niches, that aren’t over-saturated yet?

Many people make the mistake of starting with one of the toughest niches of all - Internet Marketing. This market is extremely over-saturated and competing against this crowd is like trying to preach to the choir. They’ve all seen and used every marketing trick in the book. This market also tends to overrun with get rich quick schemes that all promise to be better than the last, but don’t really deliver value. And guess what the pros in this market do? They capitalize on all the n00bs, just like you! Other Internet marketers and webmasters can be a tough crowd to sell to - ESPECIALLY if you are a n00b yourself! Don’t go there when you are green.

Here is a GREAT suggestion, with step-by step instructions and screenshots that uses free tools in a very interesting way. Finding Profitable Niches in Under 10 Minutes from SEOproToolZ. This is the second post in a series on discovering potentially profitable niches the easy way. They show a VERY COOL trick for finding niches and by evaluating their popularity, competition and keyword cost all in one fell swoop. I can’t wait to try this myself on a couple projects.

Here is the 1st post in the series that shows what the author feels are the top six sources for niche ideas.

Another good niche finder or topic juice generator is Yahoo Buzz, which shows the most popular Yahoo searches. I also used to check at Yahoo for something I can’t find today. There used to be a place you could see the most popular stores or most popular product searches at Yahoo stores. I’ll try to find it and add it later in the niche forum thread below.

Ralph Wilson over at Web Marketing today has some great tips and niche finding tools too at: “Research Guide to Online Niche-Finding: Methodology and Software“.

Then once you have picked a niche or two, discover untapped keyword phrases in your niche market with My Keyword Adsense Niche Research Tool and/or NicheBot. This tool will help you in numerous ways and deserves a bookmark at the top of your list.

We’re discussing this & adding new niche finding tools down in this thread at the 5 Star Forum. Jump into the discussion if you have other tools or ideas.

EDITED TO ADD: 8/22/06 —————————————-
Marcin from SEOprotoolz just emailed me about a couple new niche finding updates he added to his blog. I REALLY like these too! The 1st one uses some CJ data. The 2nd one is really helpful after you find your niche to determine good sought-after key phrases and potential subject lines for your articles or pages. From Marcin:

“As you mentioned one of my articles in your blog (on discovering profitable niches in under 10 minutes, using wikipedia and google’s keyword tool), I thought you could also be interested in the two follow-up articles that I wrote about this topic.

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Thanks Marcin - love the way you think and thanks for sharing these new tips with our 5 Star readers.