Nichefinder's Journal

This might seem funny, but I just found a great niche at the local 99 cent store. I usually don't buy books there, but out of curiousity, I checked the selection out. I found a book that caught my eye. It was in the field of health and medicine. I was surprised that it had a Costco sticker on it. I guess Costco had overstock or just could sell the bundle. So I bought the 99 cent book and did some keyword research. There was tons of high KEI keywords and a lot without any competition. I checked Google adwords and there was about ten ads. So the moral of this is: don't just look around for niches on the net. Niches are everywhere! Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

After a week long trip from Hawaii, I was eager to try out my new niche finding tool called Keywords Results Analyzer for Wordtracker . This tool does what I want, nichemining specifically for affiliate marketing. The tool does cost money, so if you're looking for something free, another great tool is Keyword Analysis by Cattle Ramp Seo . The biggest difference between the 2 are the keywords it uses. Cattle Ramps tool is one of the best free tool I've ever used, but it uses Overture to build it's list. The problem with this is that Overture doesn't arrange the words in the correct order and it also doesn't care about plural forms. When creating sites for SEO, it's better if the words are the the right format and order for what a person is searching for. An example of this would be a person typing in "niche finding software" and Overture might return something like "finding software niche." While the user might find your site with thi

I've finally found a solution to my content publishing headaches! After going through some of the popular blog/content management softwares and Allan Gardyne's forum, I've made a decision to purchase SEO Website Builder . I figured, if I'm going to be spending ton's of hour making affiliate sites, I might as well use a software specifically made for what I'm doing ... something that will help me to easily optimize my pages and pull in more free search engine visitors. I tried to optimize things myself, but I ended up not conforming to the rules and just created articles from my own comfort level. Just like anything in life, getting too comfortable can mess up your achievement of goals. It was tough for me to make the switch from Frontpage. In the past, I've always tried to create website's from an aesthetic perspective, rather than a SEO/usable content approach. I've used Flash, Dreamweaver, and Frontpage (with Photoshop) for my previous sites.

Over the last few days, I've tested out several flatfile blogs, hopefully to manage my content. I've tried out blosxom (Perl-based), Pivot, and some CMS programs like PHP-CMS, and Limbo. I learned the basics of all of these and all of them were great for blogging or managing content. I also got some good details from this site: http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm The problem I'm faced with is SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I couldn't change the URL's or Metadata to be SEO URL friendly for IIS. I noticed there were some modifications that could be done for Apache or UNIX..but I'm stuck with Windows IIS for now. I also checked out some other ones like Moveabletype and Wordpress which had some limited SEO modifications, but needed a database like MYSQL. The big problem I see with many of these CMS or Blog software with Search Engine Friendly URL's is that they ownly cover a small portion of optimization. Some have metatags, but globally for the e