Finding Your Niche

Author: Angela Cardwell

Probably the hardest thing for someone to do is decide what they are going to do. It holds so many people back for months, even years!

It dosen't have to be that hard. Start by making a list of any of your interests. List any experience you have as well. For instance, if you love hunting put that on the list. If you are, or used to be a teacher list that. List everything that you have any knowledge about. You'll be surprised what you can come up with.

Once you have a good list you will need to research and cut back on that list. Number one. Check out Commission Junction and

Link Share to see if there are atleast 3-4 companies that offer products relevant to the ""interests"" that you put on your list. The reason I do this first before checking out competition and keywords is because this is one step that dosen't take long. And you may eliminate some interests right away.

Next, with the interests you have left. Go to google, or any large Search Engine. On each word on your list do a search. Note how many competing web pages there are for that word. This you will find in the upper right hand corner at google. While doing this check out some more narrow keyphrases. For example: If, on your list, you listed ""teaching math"". Try other phrases, such as fundamentals of math, books on math, books that teach math, learning math for beginners, advanced math applications. There are many possibilities for key phrases for each of the keywords you have written down.

If there is a huge amount of competition for all of these you want to get rid of it. It would be too hard to get noticed after all your hard work. If you get lucky and find atleast 4-5 good phrases with little competition then you want to take it one step further.

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Wordtracker , they offer a free trial. Put in your keyword or phrase. Other relevant words/phrase will be generated. Pick out up to 30 that are closely related to your keyword. After generating a list, Wordtracker will give send you a print to your email with all the keywords, the number of times they showed up in MSNs' database, the number of times searched in the last 24 hours and the number of competing webpages. If you do not get good results you can go back and try again.

You do not have to have keywords that are searched frequently. If you find a keyword or phrase that was only searched 100 times in the last 60 days but there are very few competing pages. You may have a very profitable keyphrase. The main thing you want to look at in Wordtracker is the KEI. This is a calculation of the keywords profitability.

This is the process that you will need to follow until you have a list of atleast 4-5 relevant keywords or phrases for your Niche. If the keyword on your list that you are the most interested in does not bring good results simply move on to the next. Until you find one that does give you good results. Once you have a good list of relevant keywords, it will be time to move to the next step. Finding a host and building your website!

About the author: Angela Cardwell. Experience in ""authority"" sites and affiliate marketing. For more great tips, tools and programs to begin your home based business, visit Affiliates Paradise