Convinced that finding open niches is hopeless?
I wanted to show you an example of a wide open niche I found today in my daily wanderings.
Today I was doing some research on some totally unrelated keywords via the Google Keyword Tool and came across some gardening terms. One cool thing about the tool is that it gives you some suggestions for related terms as well as the term you searched for. Often opening up several “can you” affiliate website brainstorming sessions.
What I mean by the “can you” session is that I ask myself that very question. Can you? Can you build a productive website from any of these terms? Do they have all the niche factors I look for when developing a new affiliate website?
You be the judge on this one, I’m not going to develop it. So feel free to run and nab it if it suits your development requirements.
The term I came across was “strawberries growing”. Which at first look smells like a loser. But surprisingly enough, there are thousands of searches for this term each month. Now experience tells me that more people are searching for “growing strawberries” which in our case we’ve reversed the two words. But if you change the values to exact within the keyword tool, you find that there are still several hundred searches for this term each month. Opening the possibility for a market.
Now back to my guidelines. We still have to research the domain and marketability. In this case, www.strawberriesgrowing.com is available. As far as marketing goes, I have enough experience to know that many affiliate programs exist to promote for this type of site. Gardening is huge, so are affiliates selling gardening supplies, seeds, ebooks, whatever. There is plenty to sell on this site should I choose to build it.
Now comes the business plan. How do I take this site to market and make some money with it?
Well, I could build a community and have people submit images or stories about their strawberry patches, but that sounds like a lot of work and kind of boring. I don’t know that many people will actually participate, so I can’t count on them much, can I?
Nope, in this case, there are really only two options in my opinion. Create a really good reference site with four or five pages of top notch info about growing strawberries and then hope for the best. Or, build a wordpress blog and start blogging my guts out about growing strawberries.
In my experience, the latter is the way I would go in this case. Because given a month or two of blogging about growing strawberries, I could easily be the strawberry growing king. Quite possibly taking strawberriesgrowing.com to the top of the engines for both it’s domain term and the more juicy reverse term.
Pop in some affiliates, maybe some Adsense, and make some money.
With about fifteen minutes of effort each day.
Now it’s not going to make you rich, let’s get that clear. But it might make you some money if done right. If you can get the site making $5 a day, it’s a keeper. Because if you do the math, you can get to making $20 an hour in no time. Blogging your way to a nice income from home.
You may not quit your job just yet, but let me ask you this. Could you use an extra $150 bucks a month? Can you see how you can find some new niches and make even more? Maybe even creating a site portfolio worth a few dollars. Maybe even hitting the magic number so that you can quit your job.
One niche at a time my friends. They are out there. You just have to find them.
And to the new owner of strawberriesgrowing.com, whoever they might be….
I wish you a prosperous affiliate future.