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**Libertate** · 08-14-2006, 09:09 PM

You are absolutely right. Not just that it doesn't mean it is a good niche, a single key phrase does not necessarily even make a niche.

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Originally Posted by Slam

Wouldn't be too sure about that. Just because a niche has a big count and a ratio below 1 doesn't automatically make it easy to rank well and make profit in. "online poker" has 0.60, good luck ranking well in that niche.

**sasquatch** · 08-14-2006, 11:10 PM

So if nichbot is no good. How in the world do you find a good niche without some reporting tools to tell you are that you have found one?
I know your not just creating pages and waiting for something to happen.

Thoughts?

**Otherjohn** · 08-15-2006, 12:07 AM

http://www.earnersforum.com/showpost...2&postcount=18
has a few tools, I have a wordtracker account. But I don't know how to use it to judge whether its a good niche or not yet.

**unionisnotdead** · 08-15-2006, 07:29 AM

You know how I know nichebot is el-crappo? I typed in mesothelioma and got a ratio of 4 but "50 cent candy shop" has a ratio of 19. BFFFT

**Libertate** · 08-16-2006, 10:32 PM

Hmmm... I personally think Nichebot is good, but do recognize it is not perfect.

I suggest using Nichebot, but as I have stated before, double check with other resources.

You still have not given an alternate and better solution unionisnotdead.

I eat the apple, not the stem. I throw away the peal of a perfectly good banana. I get rid of the wrapping for the candy. Yet they are all good - and not "el-crappo".

**sasquatch** · 08-18-2006, 10:51 PM

Once you think you found a niche, how do you decide the following...

1) is there enough traffic
2) is the monetization worth effort?

This is what I want to know.

**wm8c** · 08-23-2006, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Luke

#1 is a good niche ConceptualMind

There are so many different schools of thought on this, it could go on all day. To me it's seems fairly obvious that I don't want to have to compete with 68M pages and 1.5M sites for one keyphrase. You want to find niches with lots of searches on as many variations of your keyword phrase as possible with the least amount of competition of the number of sites & pages for them. This would raise the ratio considerably.

I have made some good money out of areas that averaged 2000 searches a month, but were in an area of less than 60K websites competing for the phrases I was targetting, thus it was really quite easy to get #1 & #2 placements in Google for those keyphrases (study your competitions websites), and thus a lot of those searches in a month (appx. 300) came to me. If I can take 10% of those visits and turn them in to clicks because they are extremely targeted now, and the keywords pay $1 or more, that's $30 for that one small area or page per month.

Then the trick is to find about 100 of those, and do the same thing over and over. I'm still working on the "over and over" part because they take a while to find in areas I can intellegently write content about :glare: but hey what do I know, I'm just a "grey guy" :drool:

**ConceptualMind** · 08-23-2006, 07:54 PM

Thanks for your advice, wm8c.

**fredliz** · 08-24-2006, 07:40 PM

Thanks for the info. It was just what I have been looking for.