There are a lot of ways to get ideas on what to use as niche subjects to come up with material that people are looking for.
Most gurus will suggest using Google trends to come up with ideas. This is effective if you like to get traffic in the short term.
The trends information will show you what people are looking for in the past few days. This is helpful if you are a blogger who regularly posts entries. Nevertheless, if you want a site that will earn money for you without touching it after it’s finished, there other sources of niche ideas that you can use to expose what we call evergreen niches”.
Immortal niches are niches that has regular readers over the months, years or even decades. It may take longer to make everfresh sites and you won’t immediately see traffic but once you are finished, all you have to do is wait and watch the earnings roll in. Put up enough everfresh websites and you can have a
steady flow of earnings even you don’t touch it again.
As an example, I’ve set up a website about how to make a paper airplane. At the start, it barely earned a dollar a day. It was earning only a few cents a day but I kept at it. I kept acquiring backlinks to the site. Now, after a few months of back link building, it’s already earning about $200/month. Remember that the backlink building was almost half-hearted. I have a lot of other projects going on. I built links for the paper airplanes site only in in the beginning.
I build backlinks every so often whenever I feel like it. I wasn’t really sure if the niche would bring in useful amounts of dollars. I just love
paper planes. So I continued working on it even if it was just earning a few cents a day. Just this month, it started producing a significant amount and that will only increase as I continue to get better rankings in the search engines. I am now exerting more effort to acquire more backlinks to the site.
If you look at it, it would seem that the niche isn’t a lucrative one. But consider this: my paper airplanes site will be making money for a long time even if I don’t even add anything to it. People will be looking for tips on how to make paper airplanes as long as there are children.
The website is NOT a website that was solely built for adsense. It is a useful website and users of the site come back repeatedly. Some even recommend it to others.
So that’s the first rule of choosing an everfresh niche. It has to be useful or at least entertaining. People must love to go to your site even if there were no search engines.
Interestingly, having that in mind would get you better results in the search engines. The search engines measure how long a user stays on your site. If you have low quality content, your visitors won’t think twice to click on the back button. And it doesn’t take long to figure out if a website is useless.
We’ll tackle more about getting ideas or topics that you can use to put up everfresh websites. People search about “how to” instruction online.
And there are sites dedicated to thousands of “how to” topics. You can easily search for the most viewed articles. If you find anything that interests you, the next step is to do some keyword research. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to outrank the pages on the established how to websites.
A favorite among online earners to unearth niche ideas is Amazon.com. If people buy products for their hobby, you will know that they are passionate about it and that they will want to earn everything they can about that hobby. So go ahead and search amazon.com for items related to hobbies. Think about fishing, skydiving, chess, stamp collecting. There are literary thousands of hobbies you can work on.
Another useful resource is Wikipedia’s list of hobbies. That’s quite a long list and I’m you’re sure to find at least one that you’d like to work on. Selecting a topic that you love will help you keep at it even if you’re still not seeing any real results yet. If you work on a topic that you’re not really passionate about, it will be very easy for you to get discouraged.
So we have already discussed two sources of site topics. Generally, how to’s and hobbies will be evergreen topics. Another interesting source that could potentially give you traffic and income for a long period of time are biographies. People will be interested in the life of famous characters. If there’s a well-known personality you’ve always wanted to learn about, this is a good chance to learn about that person and earn from your research at the same time. There are even TV channels specializing in biographies and you can generate ideas from those TV channels.
We have tackled three potential sources of everfresh niches. Of course there are a lot of other sources where you can find ideas to find everfresh niches. For now, the ones we have discussed should be enough to give you a headstart. Remember that whatever you learned in this article is useless unless you go out and do something about it.
Take action and you’ll discover what works and what doesn’t and you’ll be on your way to online success.














Sun, Nov 22, 2009
Niche Marketing