How to Find Profitable Niche Ideas Using Article Directories
Posted on | October 31, 2008 | 11 Comments
One of the most asked questions by people interested by the idea of making money online is how to find profitable niches. Finding profitable niches can be very hard if done manually. Some time ago I posted a creative way of finding niches that would be fun to build web sites about. While this creative way of finding niches may be suitable for building flagship or personal blogs, it may not be a good tactic for those that are interested in building websites with the “build, leave aside and profit” philosophy in mind. Here is an easy way of finding profitable niches ideas using article directories. This method can help you find high paying niches that are suitable for mostly any type of site model. Give it a try, the illustrations that this little how to guide has are real examples of results. No B.S. here. To help us in this process we will be using Google’s free Ad Words keyword tool
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Visit an article directory of your choice. For this example I chose Article Dashboard. From my experience using article directories that use Article Dashboard’s software give the best results.
In the article directories home page, in this case Article Dashboard you will see the category list with its links to different article categories. It is important than the article directory displays links rather than drop down menus in order for the Ad Words tool to have better look at its contents and for this reason Article Dashboard and its offspring are the best for this job.
Now go the Ad Words tool and choose the “Website Content” option in the “How would you like to generate keywords ideas” box. Write the Url of the article directory or just copy and paste your way out of it. You can decide if you want the tool to follow links. I usually check this box but it is worth taking a peek at results with this option checked both on and off. Now hit the “Get keyword ideas” button to generate a list of keywords.
After you get your keyword list go to the options menu that says “Choose which columns to display”.
And choose the option “Show Estimated Avg. CPC” This option gives you an idea of the activity of how much advertisers are paying for these keywords.
You can select the column itself to have the keywords arranged by Avg. CPC in increasing or decreasing order to make research easier. Finally a nice list arranged by CPC. The complete list you get is usually longer than the one showed here. Lists that are shown here have been reduced for displaying purposes.
Want more keyword research fun? Enter one of the article directory’s categories and copy paste the Url in the Ad Words tool for even more unexpected profitable surprises. You will be amazed with the amount of profitable niches you will eventually find using this method.
After you pick some niches it is advisable to check for CPA offers to promote related to the chosen niches in addition to AdSense or other contextual ads. Market Leverage is great network with a lot of very good offers related to highly profitable niches be sure to check them out.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing > Find Profitable Niches > Niche Marketing
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November 11th, 2008 @ 4:45 am
How’s your experience with Market Leverage? I thought I signed up with them long back but never used the aff network nor referral banners. How’s the conversion in your case, if you don’t mind talking about it, that is?
Cheers,
Ajith
November 12th, 2008 @ 1:04 am
pretty cool site and good article, congrats, I’ll make sure to subscribe.
November 22nd, 2008 @ 7:22 am
I never got accepted into market leverage
Great article though!
November 25th, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
@Ajith I mostly build small niche sites, the problem is that I usually choose niches that are on the obscure side to ensure that I can get top spots in Google in two months or three. This sites usually lack CPA offers to promote. However, I will soon start building a VRE site based on Wordpress MU that will benefit a lot from offers found on Market Leverage. I will keep everyone informed but in this case, it may take me almost a year to get some decent traffic to ensure proper testing. As for the creatives I have included one of them in a niche site but is suffering from placement visibility since Adsense takes away the nice spots.
November 25th, 2008 @ 11:27 pm
I ve been using PPC and market leverage, the conversions are decent
December 29th, 2008 @ 8:32 am
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February 28th, 2009 @ 9:37 pm
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April 26th, 2009 @ 12:39 am
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Scot
August 20th, 2009 @ 12:54 am
I tried to submit manually to as many article directories as possible.
The trouble is, the list I got (over 800 directories) is full withoutdated, sometimes abandoned sites. I know (roughly) the topdirectories, but now i am focusing on the next 200 or so directories.Please do not suggest article submitter softwares or services. I would like to do it manually. I have all the time in this world