My old niche is gone... cant find a new one :(

[Dimensions]

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Hey everyone...

Well my old niche was dieing and now is dead... I was promoting ringtones but after changes with Google and more recently governmental changes the niche is dry for me :cry

Its the only niche I've worked in.

I have now been looking for a new niche but am falling short of finding one. Being a student I currently have exams to revise for... BUT will have a solid 3-4month long summer off from uni :tup

During this period I'm going to be really looking to do some full time affiliate marketing :drool

Does anyone have any tips for me on what niche to go into or how i can go about finding another one?

Like i said above ringtones is the only thing I've done so far so I'm pretty lost as to where to go from here.:blush any help is welcomed

Thanks!

[tbp]

I find the easiest way to find a niche is to start with subjects you know, and then lookup things around the fringe of that area in Googles keyword tool at:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Another good source of inspiration is the daily newspapers. I read a couple online each day, and get a lot of ideas for niches from those, especially in the health sections.

The net is so vast that there are a huge number of niche areas out there just waiting to be tapped! A couple of hours hunting round and you should find at least a couple.

I wouldn't personally call ringtones a niche as there is masses of competition. You need to look at areas which have few search results so you can easily get into number 1. Even 40 / 50 visitors a day can give you a decent income, especially if you have a number of niche sites.

[Dimensions]

Hey thanks for the advice.

On another note im not truly sure what im supposed to be doing once i have the all important niche. As with ringtones all i had was a very simple landing page which lead my customers to the ringtone they wanted.

Lets say i wanted to promote a health drink do i do the same? set up a landing page for it then give it some traffic?

[tbp]

What you need to do ideally is to pick a product that fulfills the niche, or a couple of products, and then built a whole site around them.

They key to making money with niches is to make the site genuinly useful. You can't just throw up a page with a picture of the product and a copy of the merchants product description. Do that and you're just adding a step into the buying process, which is just an inconvenience rather than a help.

Often merchants are limited by space on their websites, so use this to your advantage. Give more pictures of the product, and a lot more details. People often forget that affiliate marketing is just that, marketing. It's about selling to the visitor, so on your site you help the visitor make up their mind to buy the product. You need to sell them on your site, so they go to the merchants site to buy the product, rather than to have a look around. Some of my sites have got 50% - 60% conversion rates, and this is because I give the visitor everything they need to decide to buy the product. They don't need to browse round the net to find out answers to their questions about the product, its all on the one site.

Google also likes sites like this, what could be more relevant to a product than a site dedicated to it, filled with useful info (rather than just an identical copy of the merchants product description). As a result, it's very easy to get to number one.

Bear in mind though that by definition niches are small, so you may only get 10 - 50 visitors a day for example. So pick a decent priced product. At this level, you can't make money by doing volume, so a product with £1 commission is not going to make you rich Go for a more expensive product, that deserves that extra space to tell the visitor about it, and even with the low visitor count, you can still make a decent amount. Once you have the format of your site working, with a decent visitor conversion rate, then you can start duplicating it and using the format for other areas.

[sussexrob]

if 3-4 months, make use of the season and do outdoor toys, trampolines, climbing frames

Rob

[moredial]

If you have the time, make up your own product.

Selling someone else's product gives you commission. Selling your own product again and again makes you real money.

Look for something that needs to be created only once and then sold again and again and again. The more automatic, the better.

If I were you, I would start by selling an e-book on how to get the best ringtones ....

[123debtsolutions]

Finance is the only market to be in right now.

With the credit crunch, debt management is booming.

Also
Payday loans is huge at the moment and returns are £8.50 per valid lead.

[Stavros]

Finance is indeed booming, but it's also by far and away the most difficult market to enter into, especially via organic search. Unless you have a half decent budget (from experience I'm talking about £1,000+ a month to get the ball rolling) and the experience to enter into paid search I wouldn't recommend it.

[Dimensions]

OK. I think ive found my niche, ands its an expensive one. The product range sells for £500-£1000+.

Google returns: Results 1 - 10 of about 610,000 when i search for the product. Is that a good range to be working with

After putting the product through
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

The search volume bar is about 1/4-1/3 ways full and reads ''low search volume'' im guessing that's bad...

Anyone have any tips if i should pursue this any further?

[moredial]

Check you are using the 'popular' search terms for the product.

It is better to have 10 visitors a day, one of whom converts for 10% commission than a thousand per day at 1p commission.

If you can get into the market during the early days and get your brand out there - become an expert site in the eyes of search engines and the public - then you will be onto a winner with minimum maintenance.

[Dimensions]

hmmmmm seems at the moment the best i can find is a 5% commission o9n the product....

[accelerator]

Maybe reading the papers will give you some inspiration for a niche:

UK Newspapers