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Rent Audio Books – Free Niche Idea #2

Download John Grisham Innocent ManThis free niche idea is a definite money maker. The main reason I believe that is because the competiton is downright weak. This site, full of only affiliate links about the keywords, “rent audio books” and “rent books on tape” is ranked #5!

As I said before, I would register a new domain (always use a domain, don’t use a free blog from blogger), and that should be your only cost unless you buy some links. Shouldn’t be too necessary though.

Keywords: Rent Audio Books and/or Rent Books on Tape
Competition: 29,500 and 3,250 (very low)
Price per click: Adwords: $3.50+
Search Volume: Overture: about 200/month

The search volume on this keyword set is very low currently, but it matches the competition. Low competition should mean low search volume. However, this one is set to rise sharply and quickly.

The audio book industry is going to be experiencing a major surge in the coming years. iPod’s and other mp3 players are getting very popular and everyone can afford one (less than $50) so buying one to just listen to books is completely understandable.

Playaway DigitalCompanies like Playaway are set to take the market by storm.  The school I work at has bought 3 of them and is looking to buy 10 a month over the next year.  Multiply that by many schools in many districts. You’ll have many parents, teachers and librarians searching for the ability to rent audio books. This doesn’t include the people who commute an hour one way that want to rent books on tape and be able to listen all the way to work.

For a great list of companies that have affiliate programs look at the site above and find out where most of their affiliates are coming from…most look like CJ.com links to me. The site listed above is a PR 2 and was registered in August of 2004. You’ll have a hard time overcoming that age, but with a huge lack of links, they are setting themselves up for being overtaken.

You should be able to, with a very informative site, become the expert in this area and get a lot of .edu and a few .gov sites to link to you. This will help you become even more established as the expert. I would write some articles, submit them, then cite on your page that you have articles written on a variety of topics.

Hopefully that idea helps you make some money, get out there and start writing great content about renting audio books online and renting books on tape! Let me know how your site does, and what your domain name is and I’ll give you a free link on this page! (It is already themed around your keywords!)

By |February 28th, 2007|Free Niche Websites|13 Comments
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Free Niche Website Idea #1

Alright, here is my first free niche website idea. Here is what you’ll need in order to maximize this opportunity.

Some writing skills
You’ll need to create unique content by writing interesting articles.

Web host
You’ll want to put this idea on your own host so you can buy a new domain for this idea.

$8
You’ll want to buy a domain (I use NameCheap.com). If you use NameCheap, use the coupon code feblove to get the domain for $7.95.

Keywords: Used Copy Machines
Competition: only 16,400!
Price per click: Adwords: $5.00+
Search Volume: Overture: 441/month

    The search volume is a little low on “Used Copy Machines”, but so is the competition. The cost per click is excellent and should turn into approximately $.50-70 per click through Adsense (my guess)

    There are also plenty of used copiers on eBay, so if you can build up some traffic you can also apply to Commission Junction (CJ.com still does eBay right?) and use their affiliate program to send some traffic to eBay.

    In the beginning I would advertise 100% with Adsense then try eBay to see if the cost per click is paying out for this niche. This might even be an opportunity to do some keyword arbitrage. If you’ve never done arbitrage or don’t know what it is, don’t worry, I’ll explain in a later post.

    That’s it for now, get out there and buy Used-Copy-Machines.com because I just gave you your first link!

    In a future post I’ll talk more about how to make this site easy for search engines to find, and also tell you how I improved my click through rate (CTR) from 2% to over 25% on ALL of my sites, just by moving my ad code a little!

    By |February 25th, 2007|Free Niche Websites, Make Money Online|1 Comment
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    How To: Make Money Online (Intro)

    Making money online takes 2 things:

    1. Traffic
    This is the visitors, users, email addresses, or whatever/whoever you are marketing too. For me, this is generally website visitors. I’ve never had an email marketing list, never spammed anyone, and never been able to convert traffic to signups in an email list.

    2. Way to monetize traffic
    For me this is mainly Adsense and Azoogle.com. What you need to do is offer your traffic something of interest or value to them so they are inclined to click or buy whatever you are promoting (monetization).

    It sounds extremely simple, but it isn’t. It is truly some hard work. Once you have written 50+ pages of niche specific content, all 400-500 words long, and not seen a dime come from it, you’ll realize that it isn’t easy. But it is rewarding, personally and financially.

    From a business standpoint you would expect #2 to be more difficult, but that is the easy part. Finding somewhere to send your traffic is easy, there are affiliate programs, contextual programs and some kind of program for just about every niche.

    The difficult part is finding the traffic. Traffic also comes in two groups, good and useles. Good traffic is traffic that comes from search engines or links that relate specifically to what you are selling (or contextually advertising). Useless traffic is traffic that comes from Digg, linkbait, and spam. This traffic doesn’t click ads and they don’t buy anything. Linkbait however can be a great way to build links, which will, increase the search engine traffic in the future. The linkbait itself however won’t make you much (if any) money.

    What this blog will be focusing on is the good type of traffic, how to get it, and what to do with it once you have it. Basically, what I’ve been doing over the last two years. I’ll tell you what has worked, what hasn’t and what I haven’t tried. I’ll even give you examples of my good and bad sites, which make money and which don’t.

    So bookmark this site, subscribe to the RSS feed, or whatever it takes to get back here for every new post!

    By |February 25th, 2007|Make Money Online|1 Comment
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    About me and this blog…

    I’m married with two children. My wife is a wonderful woman, and I couldn’t have designed a more beautiful, Godly, understanding, supportive and loving woman. She is perfect, and perfect for me.

    When I not spending time with my family, I am usually working on my websites. Currently I have over 300 niche websites. Some receive nearly 100,000 unique visitors per month while others make an equal amount of money with just 2,000 visitors per month. I don’t stick with most projects for a long time so having a variety of website projects fits well with my personality.

    I’ve been designing websites and marketing those websites since 1999. While much has changed, some things never will. Since 1999 my websites have provided value and knowledge to it’s visitors. In 2004 I started offering various services, you can read more about my services here.

    By |February 25th, 2007|About Me, My websites, News|25 Comments
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