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My Niche Marketing Journey

January 06, 2008

If you've been reading here for any length of time, you probably know that one of my "laments" is that my most successful sites are all very broadly niched. And also, affiliate commissions from CJ, Linkshare and Shareasale form the... Read

Finding New, *Profitable* Niches

August 03, 2006

Need some inspiration for finding new niches that have a good profit potential? SEOproToolz has an excellent post on Profitable Niches in Under 10 Minutes. In this post, Marcin uses Wikipedia, Google Adwords' Keywords Tool, which extracts keywords from almost... Read

Brainstorming and Niche Clusters - 50 Affiliate Site Challenge Update

May 17, 2006

I'm still building up my list of niches for my 50 Affiliate Site Challenge, and have 30 niches picked out so far. I've been over at Wordtracker almost daily (every winter I hem and haw and then plonk down my... Read

Niche-Hunting at NetShops

April 11, 2006

I realized this past weekend that something good has come out of getting new site after new site sandboxed. It's turned my attention back on my existing sites, as well as the excitement of looking for new affiliate opportunities. I... Read

Online Shopping Sales Numbers, and Picking Niche Sites

December 12, 2005

According to Comscore Networks, online shopping during this holiday season has increased by 23% over last year's numbers at this time. If you check out the release for December 11, there's also a breakdown of the top consumer searches for... Read

Launching Some Ugly Sites

November 15, 2005

I'm posting about this more for myself than anything, although I'd definitely be interested to hear if anyone else ever goes through this dilemma, and what you do about it. I have a handful of sites that I've been itching... Read

Some Niche Fun

September 16, 2005

Thanks to some inspiring email conversations with Chrissie, I decided today to stop by the local bookstore and have some niche fun. It was nice to immerse myself in ideas again. I have been looking for niches for a new... Read

After A Year, I Guess a Few Duds Are to be Expected

August 04, 2005

I'm procrastinating as usual, and was doing some catch-up browsing through blogs I like to read as regularly as I can remember to. Kathy over at Guru Gazette has a post up at Guru Gazette on letting go of sites... Read

How I Use Wordpress to Set Up Niche Sites

July 09, 2005

Okay, here's the post I promised Dave. First, though, a disclaimer. I am NOT a Wordpress expert. I started using Wordpress for blogging (not this blog, though, which is a Typepad blog) and then realized what a wonderful content management... Read

Setting up a Niche Site Using Wordpress

July 05, 2005

I use Wordpress for a lot of my sites, but often my sites are NOT blogs. Instead, I've been using Wordpress as a content management system. If your webhost offers Cpanel with Fantistico, Wordpress is quick to set up, and... Read

The Niche Dilemma

March 22, 2005

I got sidelined a bit over the weekend with a couple of deadlines, but have another week free and clear (sort of) to work on my sites. So of course, something else pops up. Last week, I finished my preliminary... Read

I Finally Found A Niche!

September 28, 2004

I'm pretty excited right now. After feeling a little frustrated by the lack of high-paying commissions among the merchants in the niche ideas I had, I stumbled onto a niche today. And it's one of those "broader" niches that lends... Read

Niche-Hunting with Magazines

September 27, 2004

My kids' school just held it's yearly magazine fundraising campaign. The kids came home with a 46 page magazine listing all the magazines that were available. I couldn't get over the choices. After ordering way too many (they needed 15... Read

Narrow That Niche

September 23, 2004

I just realized I've been making a huge mistake when it comes to pinning down a niche or two to use with the Martell system. A phrase kept haunting me - I posted the other day about my Wordtracker results,... Read