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Sorry for having such a belated post! I was gone for the weekend and didn’t have any time to make updates to the site.

I hope your internet marketing is going well and that you have started to see a little money come in. Unfortunately I haven’t seen much yet, only from Adsense. I am still waiting for some of my articles to get accepted from Ezine Articles. At the moment I really only have one article written that is linking to my niche website.

I am actually planning on setting up yet another niche website and am going to try to pull some money in from that one. I’ll let you know the progress on that and how it goes.

In the meantime, I just want to remind you to make sure you are really spending a lot of time searching for the best niche you can. I would like to leave you with a few tips on finding a good niche.

1. The idea is to find a niche that a lot of people are searching for on the search engines, but that doesn’t have much competition (i.e. not very many search results). To do this I often use a keyword tool like the one of the ones below.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

These tools are what help you to determine how many people are searching for specific keywords in a given month.

2. After you have tried some keywords, you will notice that some have a very high volume of searches per month while others have almost none.

You want to make sure they have a good “ratio”, as I like to call it. That is, you want to make sure that the ratio between searches per month and search results is very high. If your keywords bring in 1000 searches a month but have 2,000,000 results, there is no chance that you will get any traffic or make a profit off of those keywords. TRY AGAIN.

I try to stick to around 1,000 searches per month and no more than 15k-20k results. Following those rules will get your articles to the top of Google in no time.

Just type in your keywords on the tool, click submit and then remember the number of searches it gives you. Remember that number and then search for your keywords on Google inside quotes (”keywords here”). The ratio is based off of those two numbers.

You will find out how tough this really is to do, and I mean REALLY tough. It takes a lot of time to find a good set of keywords that are worthwhile to write an article on.

3. One tool that I have been utilizing a lot more since I realized how hard it is to do step two is AdWords Analyzer.

It makes finding a niche a whole heck of a lot easier. It automatically determines how many people search for the keywords, as well as showing the amount of search results directly next to it, and a lot more features. It works out pretty well because I am used to spending a lot of time searching for good keywords and now the time has been cut in half.

It does the hard part of finding good keywords for me. It’s also useful for a bunch of other stuff too.

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, it’s really worth getting your hands on.

Well that was kind of a lot for one post, so I will stop here. Remember to let me know if you have any questions, I would love to help. Sometimes I can’t always get all my thoughts out in posts so you have to ask me to fill in the blanks for you!!!

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Good luck and regards,
Nick Larson!