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Niche finding on a budget

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!

Keyword Research and Niche Mining Tools

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