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How to Get a Profitable Niche Site Today

Filed Under (how to find a blog niche) by shaners on 18-06-2008

In just a minute you are going to see exactly how anyone—even a complete newbie—can create an automatic income niche site. I’m going to show you exactly how to do it with clear examples you will be able to imitate and you will realize as you read this it is the “missing piece” you’ve needed to do what you’ve seen others do online.

But first I have some good news for you:

You can have an income generating, PR 3, top Google ranked niche site within the next 24 hours—complete with content, subscribe incentives, affiliate programs—the works.

I am having too much fun working with my mentoring students and writing stuff on FullTiltBlogging.com to update FullTiltMarriage.com, a niche site I never really “finished.” I am working on four books and I am producing a new video for my mentoring students each week and I just don’t have the time or energy to put into the site.

Don’t get me wrong, you’re still getting a complete site that’s already making money, it just needs someone to give it some tweaks.

It won’t take much to tweak, but it will pay off big dividends for you.

Here’s the scoop on the site:

Google PageRank:

Google PageRank 3 for main page and several internal pages.

Google Page Rank helps Google determine how important your sites pages are in relation to other pages in the same market niche. A PR 3 shows the site’s main page and several internal pages are relatively important in the market niche—approximately 64 times more important than a brand new page in the same market niche.

Incoming Links:

1,049 incoming links (according to MarketLeap.com)

Incoming links help you with search engine positioning.

Search Engine Positions:

Here are the search positions for several keyword phrases in the market niche:

searchpositions.jpg

Content Value:

371 indexed content pages (according to MarketLeap.com) - $1,500.00

“How to Seduce Your Wife Tonight” Guide – 4,616 words - $1,154.00

This report can easily be made into a “ready to sell” eBook by adding a section with sex tips and tricks researched and added from the internet by a ghost writer. At that point it would be a “ready to sell” eBook in the $20 to $40 range.

“Why Your Husband is a Jerk (…and how to fix him)” Guide – 10,996 words - $2,749.00

This book is “ready to sell”, meaning you can create a sales page and begin selling this book in the $20 to $40 range.

175 Double Opt-In Newsletter Subscribers - $1,750.00

Custom HTML newsletter design (click here to view) - $ 100.00

Assorted Book Covers and Graphics - $ 100.00

WordPress is already installed and the site is tied to Aweber list management.

Traffic Value:

Over the last three months the site has generated 7,824 visits. All of this was free traffic, with the bulk coming from search engines and referring sites (click on the thumb below to see full sized stat from Google Analytics.)

ftm-traffic.jpg

According to this appraisal service, the value of traffic to a website can be estimated by using the price of pay-per-click ads.

Google Adwords clicks average $ .34 (low) to $ .45 (high)

87 average visits per day, 31,730 visits per year.

Low: 31,730 x $ .34 = $ 10,788.20 annual traffic value

High: 31,730 x $ .45 = $ 14,278.50 annual traffic value

Income:

Affiliate Income - $97.12 last 90 days

Here is a screen shot of the ClickBank stats (click for full size):

clickbank90dayearnings.jpg

Ad Income - $27.74 last 90 days

Here is a screen shot of the Google Adsense Income (click for full size):

adsense90day.jpg

Total Value:

If you took the value of all the above it totals around $20,000.00. And if the site was being actively monetized it would be worth that amount.

However, since I have basically ignored the site and don’t have the time to work on it to get it where it is producing a solid $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 a month, I am going to sell it for a fraction of its value for only $ 4,000.00.

Other Goodies:

I want to use your experience with this site as an example of how an average person can create a niche site and make automatic profits. If you do things right you can be making $1,500.00 to $2,000.00 a month within 4-6 months.

To make sure you are going to get there, I am going to do something I have never done when I’ve sold a site beforeI am going to give you 10 hours of free consulting time. We can do it by phone or in person, it’s up to you.

I typically charge $350.00 an hour for my consulting time, so this is a huge value – worth another $ 3,500.00.

All I ask is that you allow me to use your experiences with FullTiltMarriage.com as a basis for some future writing.

Questions:

For general questions, leave them in the comments below so everyone can benefit.

For personal questions or any other questions, email me at – Aaron@FullTiltBlogging.com. Make sure the subject line contains FullTiltMarriage.com so I catch it quickly. If you need to talk to me by phone email me and I will send you a number where I can be reached.

How to Claim Your New Site:

I’m accepting offers via email this weekend. If I accept your offer, you need to be prepared to transfer 10% of your offer on Monday, and I will contact you about how to send payment and how we will transfer the site to you.

Your offer needs to include the following:

Your Name

Your Phone Number (Include the Country Code if you are outside the US/Canada)

The Amount of Your Offer

Your email address

Also make sure to tell me where you heard the site was for sale. I love to give “atta boys” to someone who helps me in business.

I look forward to working closely with you and seeing what you will do with this site.

Here’s the Guide I Promised You:

I put together a complete guide for you to download showing all the steps you can take to build your own automated income niche business. Download it here:

http://www.FullTiltBlogging.com/autoincomebusiness

This article is a guest post by Aaron Abber of FullTiltBlogging.com.
I am a part of Aaron’s mentoring program where he is teaching me and others how to make money blogging. Go visit the site now and grab his free report “How to Retire on 200 Visitors a Day”.

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niche marketing strategies

Filed Under (How to make money blogging, how to find a blog niche) by shaners on 11-06-2008

Niche Marketing Strategies

ritten by Garry Conn

Many bloggers often wonder some of the best niche marketing strategies are. That can be somewhat of a challenge to answer as your strategies can vary on the niche you are marketing. Here are some simple and universal thoughts that will help and guide with you through your ventures in niche marketing. These are general strategies that will help you overall. More or less, just some common sense things that I think many people including myself tend to neglect. These strategies all work very well for me with making money using Market Leverage. So here goes:

Branding: So many blogs that I find are spreading the products or things that they are trying to sell way too thin. I can visit just many niche blogs that are marketing many products and it gets overwhelming. Many months ago, I stated that new niche sites that are trying to market products and services should really pick just a few and roll with them. Even though these products aren’t your own, you should act as if they were. The product that you’re marketing is your brand, in essence you become an extension of the product your support and promote.

Timing: In the world of niche marketing and developing strategies, timing is everything. I focus on seasonal niche marketing. I have quite a few blogs that take full advantage of the deals market and I promote heavily holiday based products. Most profitable for me have been Black Friday, CyberModay and The Day After Christmas.

Awareness of Demand: Another reason why I work in the seasonal niche market is because I know in advanced when spikes in business will occur. People don’t shop for Christmas items in July and these same people don’t buy fireworks in October. I am always aware of supply and demand.

Effective Marketing: You need a channel to promote your business, product or service. I use WordPress primarily. Why? Because WordPress is a glorified web based version of FrontPage. It is well designed and produces web pages that are of very high quality in code. WordPress is very search engine friendly and with a few minor tweaks and modifications, a WordPress blog opens up a huge pipeline with many of the major search engine web crawlers. Effective marketing means everything in your niche marketing strategies. I also use online video syndication services such as YouTube, AOL Video, Revver, MySpace Video, etc. to promote my niche blog. Additionally, I use Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and Propeller to thrust out mass awareness of anything I am trying to flood and promote into the blogosphere and Internet.

Micro Management / Bean Counter: Give me a blog with 100 daily visits and I’ll produce a golden brick. I am very particular with things and I micro manage my traffic. When I get a visitors to my blog(s) I act as if they are physical people entering into my brick and mortar storefront. I closely control where my visitors go and what they see. My job is making sure their actions on my sites create revenue in my pocket or converts into regular readers. I closely control my outgoing links and provide very useful information.

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  1. Simply download this article that you just read and publish it on your blog.
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How to find a blog niche series and Other posts you might find useful

But if you’ve followed the steps here, I’m pretty sure you will find your own niche market very soon. I hope you enjoyed this how to find a niche market for your blog series.

How to use this post on your blog. please include the footer with all active links in tact.

This post is by Shane Higginbottom. Shane is the owner of http://making-money-blogging.com/blog where
he teaches bloggers just like you how to make money blogging. Go there now to pick up his
latest post series “How to find a niche for your blog” free.

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Full Tilt Blogging mentoring program updates

Filed Under (How to make money blogging, Internet advertising, Niche marketing, RSS Feeds and Feedburner, how to find a blog niche, tutorials) by shaners on 31-05-2008

As you may know I’m taking part in Aaron abbers fulltilt blogging mentoring program, maybe some of have decided to do the same? Be nice to know if any of you are following along with Aaron and his mentoring program.

So I figured I give an update of what has been covered so far.

As a recap for those of you who have missed it, when go to his home page you’ll see a subscription box that offers you an e-book how to retire on two hundred visitors a day I’m not sure if you are aware of this but this is what is known as the magic number in the make money blogging world there’s been alot of talk about the 200 hundered visitors a day idea but I havent seen it really laid out in detail about how to do it until I grabbed this e-book. It’s free and all you have to do is subscribe to his mailing list to recieve it.

Don’t worry Aaron is’nt one of those idiots that entices you to sign up then bombards you with crap offers.

Once you sign up for his mentoring program he’ll send you a link to a webinar every monday evening, the usual time is 7 pm and there he reveals some very good blogging techniques to help you make money. Again I’ve paid for other mentoring programs and despite the fact that this is free it is definately one of the Best mentoring programs ive been part of.

Week ones content went like this:

How to Set Up, Start and Run an Online Business Capable of Earning You $100,000.00 per year or
more.
• Experience in Each Facet of the Business
• Limited but Necessary Technical Information
• Over $1,000.00 in Resources

My Commitment to You:
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something Illegal or Immoral
• You Will Never Be Asked to do Something You Have Not Been Trained to Do

You’re given very easy to do and easy to follow instructions so it is perfect for those of you just getting started in your blogging business

An overview of Online Business
• How to Generate Subscribers
• Understand Comment Marketing
• How to Create an eBook

An Overview of Online Business
How an online business makes money , Basic Parts of an Online Business

1. Traffic Generation
2. Lead Capture
3. Sales Message
4. Customer Follow-Up.

Then you’re shown how to get you’re own affiliate id for his affiliate program.

“I Do Things Differently When an affiliate sends me a visitor, I do my best to capture that visitor as a lead
and…I add your affiliate ID to the subscription.”

In other words what he is going to show how to do is what is known as lead blogging and I know for a fact that no other blogger is actually doing this or showing you how to do this with make money with blogs this way.

A big problem you will have with Getting RSS and newsletter subscribers is that many of your newsletter subscribers don’t confirm their subscription which leads to problems.

Aaron gives away an excellent script that you can put to use immediately to ensure that your subscribers are confirming their subscription so you can make sure you message is reaching everyone on your list.

Put this strategy to work and you’ll increase not only the number of subscribers but the number of confirmed subscribers as well!

As part of the blog mentoring program you’re given RSS tip and tricks an e-book thay shows you how to use a plug-in to: use your RSS feed to to make money blogging it allows you to promote your own product or an affilite product and all of things mentioned below.

Because I am part of the mentoring program I am allowed to give this RSS tips and tricks e-book away to you.

Some Ways to Use Your Improved RSS Feed
In addition to using Better Feed to offer your subscribers a free download, here are some other ways you can use it:
• Provide a password for a protected post on your blog
• Provide access to a free seminar only for subscribers
• Ask subscribers to participate in a survey
• Ask for help for a particular promotion without making your
request public on your blog
• Create an “affiliates only” feed so non-affiliates can’t “listen in.”
• Offer a daily download with a different link each day to increase
daily readership
• Offer a daily tip only to your RSS readers
• Create a cartoon or video that can only be viewed by subscribers
• Allow premium content for paying subscribers
• Offer ads in the RSS feed that don’t appear on your site
• Create a list of affiliate links at the base of your feed (or, if you’re
slick, in the midst of your articles)
• Add Google Adsense ads to your feed

Week 3 of the mentoring program also covered The infrastructure of your blogging business.

The infrastructure segment shows you:

That you You need:
• Products to sell
• A Way to Take Money
• A Working Sales Process
• Ways to Collect Leads
• Sources of Traffic

as well as the right way to choose a niche market which covers

  • how to find JV partners in your blog niche market.
  • Doing keyword research to find these partners and what problems those in your niche are trying to solves.

Both of these are very key and important factors that will determine your success or failure as a blogger. All of the webinars also come with MP3 files and PDF’s for you to refer to later.

Again as I mentioned it’s all free and as you follow along you’ll be gaining subscribers and given the opportunity to make money blogging with Aarons mentoring program

Week 4 begins tomorrow and I’ll be back with a recap of that for you.

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