A Profitable Niche: You have found what appears to be a profitable niche but can people find it?
Follow me as I select real live domains to find a hot niche keyword.
In stage 1 of How to Find a Niche market I explained how I used the free Google Keywords Tool to find keyword phrases to promote my Angry Bird niche site and to get a new domain name for a companion blog.
In stage 2 I used Micro Niche Finder to Find a Profitable Keyword or two to use with my new Angry Birds Blog and my already established Instant Niche Maker site
Now in stage 3 I am goint to check out those results through Traffic Travis to see what the competition is and if I can rank high enough with these keywords to get the site on the front page of Google for that phrase.
Stage 3: A Profitable Niche Reseach with Traffic Travis
In stage 2 I had a shock, the domains I had selected for my Angry Birds niche from my manual search of Google Keywords External no longer seemed so attractive. It shows the value of careful research with the right tools. Today I am going to use the SEO analysis feature of another tool Traffic Travis
I already have an active Angry Birds instant niche maker site http://angry-birds.topsiteblog.com/ following yesterdays research I intend to change the title to ‘The angry birds nest’ as that seems like a good keyword phrase. At the moment the phrase ‘angry birds’ is a sub-domain name of my Insatnt Niche Maker site and for SEO purposes I want an Angry Birds dedicated domain name >com .net .org or .info
In stage 1 I did manual searches to start using Google Keyword External tool and had provisionally earmarked http://angrybirdonline.info and http://angrybirdsthemovie.info.
In stage 2 I changed my mind as a result of research using Micro Niche Finder and now think http://angrybirdonline.info plus http://angrybirdonlinegames.com for the blog and http://angrybirdsnest.info would be siutable for the instant niche maker site
Now in stage 3 I want to see what Traffic Travis says about their SEO possibilities, how will they compete on page. You can use T.T. free but it is so much more powerful in the paid version.
Domain search 1 http://angrybirdonline.info I want this as the domain for my blog
Open Traffic Travis
- Select SEO analysis,
- Choose the location you want, I am selecting United States,
- Select top 10 results as it will be a bit quicker than 20 and give you all you need,
- I pop in the phrase ‘angry bird online’ and Traffic Travis goes to work it takes a few seconds – very quick.
There is good news
- The phrase is rated out of 5 stars – this one gets 4 = relatively easy
- The search engine competition looks high but this is not ‘exact phrase’ so don’t fret.
- None of the top 10 have the exact phrase without the ‘s’ on birds but don’t get too excited about that Google has assumed that bird means birds
- A site with no page rank is in at number 7 – that’s good, we will have no page rank yet.
- 7 of the top 10 have zero age – thats good, neither will we but we are on level ground there
- Backlinks look a bit challengingly high but one with just 110 has crept in at number 9
- Several sites have edu links but number two got there without any.
- Dmoz (a directory it is hard to get into) looks great, only number 2 is in it.
- Yahoo directory is looking good, only number 2 and 7 are in it – it costs – a lot – so we won’t be doing that
- Title NOBODY has the phrase in the title of their web page great!
- Nobody has the phrase in the description of their web page – fantastic!
- Nobody has used the phrase in the H2 tag of their page – wonderful.
- Nothing else to worry about – good job! This look a goer.
Beware – if you are using the free version you can’t save your searches.
Domain search 2: http://angrybirdonlinegames.com I want this as the domain for my Blog
More good news – this looks even better
- The phrase is rated out of 5 stars – this one gets 4 = relatively easy
- The search engine competition looks ok, a bit higher than idea but this is not ‘exact phrase’ so don’t fret.
- None of the top 10 have the exact phrase without the ‘s’ on birds but don’t get too excited about that Google has assumed that bird means birds
- A site with no page rank is in at numbers 3, 7 and 10 – that’s good, we will have no page rank yet.
- 8 of the top 10 have zero age – that’s good, neither will we but we are on level ground there
- Backlinks look a bit challengingly high but one with just 110 has crept in at number 9 and 103 at number 10
- Several sites have edu links but number 3 got there without any.
- Dmoz (a directory it is hard to get into) looks great, none of them is in it.
- Yahoo directory is looking good, only number 3 is in it – it costs – a lot – so we won’t be doing that
- Title NOBODY has the phrase in the title of their web page great!
- Nobody has the phrase in the description of their web page – fantastic!
- Nobody has used the phrase in the H2 tag of their page – wonderful.
- Nothing else to worry about – good job! This look a goer too.
Domain search 3: http://angrybirdsnest.com I want this as the domain for my existing instant niche maker site The Complete Angry Birds so I will research the keyword phrase Angry Bird Online on Traffic Travis
And its not so good news this time 3 stars and I don’t accept anything less than 4 star so my decision is Ta Da….
…… to use http://angrybirdonline.net for the Instant Niche Maker site (its $8 p.a more expensive but carries more clout with Google than a .info and http://angrybirdonlinegames.com for the Blog (easier to rank than http://angrybirdonline.net and the blog will be easier to SEO. BUT not yet I won’t buy these domains until I have yet another check.
Tomorrow I am checking the domains I selected today on Market Samurai where we can also check if there any products to sell, and find some back links
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