by John Barr

Created on: September 21, 2007   Last Updated: June 13, 2009

Niche Marketing And Making Money Via Blogs !

The truth of the matter is that anyone with a bit of common sense can build a money making site from home, that will earn them extra money for that car or holiday they may want , for that mortgage payment they need to pay or those large irritating credit card bills that needs paying.

So for the first step:
You firstly will need to pick a Niche market. What is a Niche market you may ask? It is a topic that is more focused, and does not take the general aspect of a topic. You want to pick something that is out there, but is focused so you can get up there in search engines and build traffic to your site as quickly as possible.

Once you have picked your Niche market, you have to find out if it pays well through advertising, and has actual advertisers willing to pay you to advertise the site!

The Overture bidding tool will tell you just that! Go to: http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtoo l/

Type in your niche market term, and it will tell you how much people on overture are willing to pay for each term. If it pays well, and is worth your while, then that will be your niche market you want to pursue.

Now you need to find the keywords you want to target and rank high for in Google. You will find that the suggestion tool located at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ will help you find just that:.

Type in a keyword and it will show you what people search for and how many times per day. Pick a keyword that has a good daily search, but does not have too high of a number. This will allow you to have a fighting chance to cracking the top position for this search term. For example you may want something with about 100 searches per day.

Once you pick one, go to http://www.google.com, and search for that term and see how many results show up. If you have less than 1 million results, then that is ideal. Now take a look at the current No:1 spot.
Pay close attention to their page rank and how many links they have. If you think you can outrank them, then you are good to go. Target that keyword with your Niche Market, and your site research is done.

Once you have the research complete, you then have to set up a blog or web site.

To Set up a blog, go to one that I use Blogger and swear by at http://www.blogger.com. Set up your blog (at blogger.com it is very easy and straightforward to do) and you will be posting in no time. This is a good and quick set-up for getting your site started and getting searched by Google.
You will find however that your own site with its own domain name and hosting, tends to come up higher in search rankings. Also, having your own unique Blog Design as opposed to using a Blogger template, will help your site stand out from the rest.

Run your said Blog for about two weeks with at least 1-2 posts per day to develop enough content for search engines to consider placing you site in its rankings and for you to build traffic.

Once you have done this, set your site up for Google Adsense (http://adsense.google.com). Remember to follow the Google Adsense Terms of Service. If you are using Blogger .com then Google Adsense is already set up to go so there is no need for you to have to set it up yourself.

I recommend that you read up on SEO techniques to get your site to the top! Once you are there, you will generate traffic and if you have enough click through on your ads, you will make lots of money!
There are lots of different ways for you to generate traffic all it takes is a little thought and if you should be stuck for ideas then the internet is awash with them.

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