Google AdSense Tips – How to Find a Profitable Niche
When I first decided to invest my time and energy into learning how to create my own online income, maybe like you, I had a certain amount of stress trying to find ways of doing it! The concepts of making money online or how to build my own money making website were all new to me. The theory behind tools like Google Adsense, Adwords and Yahoo Overture were unfamiliar as were the concepts of affiliate marketing, blogging for cash and all the other tools and techniques used for creating a successful online working from home business.
So I studied, bought e-books on how to make money online, studied some more and as a result learnt more and more about ways to generate an online income. However I was quite disappointed after spending weeks and weeks trying to make some money not to generate even one sale. Then I read this statement.
There is always a reason for how well you do, and that reason always relates to what you do and how you do it.
Once you realize this, then you know success really is do-able. Some people do succeed… big-time…but not necessarily the first time. Just keep trying until you find the right approach.
Everyone has a passion or interest. We have all had experiences in life, some good, some not so good. Which ever it is, you have within yourself something that is of great value and benefit to others. This page will help you tap into those areas of your life and show you how to channel that passion and motivation to making a successful home online business.
The key to success for selling online is to create valued content where there is demand. Your visitor doesn’t want a sales pitch, they are not looking for hype or even media excellence, they are looking for relevant up-to-date content that is of value to them.
I can here some of you now saying, “I don’t know the first thing about selling online”. Well you are now in the same place I was when I first started. Although I don’t claim to know everything there is to know about making money online, I can show you the process and some of the techniques which will help you get to where you want to be.
You are embarking upon a truly rewarding journey. Have no doubts — this is “winnable” e-commerce. It’s totally under your control.
Detailed in more detail through my website, I show the 3 steps for building your own online business.
1. Find your passions and profitable niche 2. Harnessing the power of quality content and talk about your passion 3. Sell your passion to the world.
Finding a Niche
Firstly lets do a little brainstorming to find those areas of your life that are possible ideas to build your business around. The few hours or so that you spend here, in preparation, will determine exactly how big your success will be. One of Site Sells statements about this stage of preparation is PREpare, Not REpair. Don’t rush with process, you are not in a race, there is no stop watch ticking. Some careful planning and fine-tuning will pay you big dividends down the road. Ken Evoy (Director of Site Sell) has some excellent advice on how to find your subject niche! Ready? Good… lets continue and find your…
Passion
Passion makes work fun and easy…
• What is it that you love to talk about, read about?
• What is your hobby?
• What do you do for fun and games?
• What are your natural talents?
Don’t forget to look right under your nose…
• What special body of knowledge have you learned from your job?
• What do you do day after day, without even thinking about it (eg. child-rearing, taking care of sick parents, renovation contractor, customs inspector).
Think about what you do in a typical day, and what you’ve learned from it…
• What sections of a bookstore or a magazine shop do you automatically gravitate toward?
• What kind of TV shows or movies do you tend to like most?
What activities do you enjoy most about your current occupation?…
• Is it research?
• Helping customers achieve their goals?
• Managing other people?
• Teaching or explaining things to others?
• Talking/selling on the phone?
• Organizing things?
• Making a process easier?
• Discovering or creating new products or services?
• Marketing products?
Problems are also a good source for ideas because problems need solutions!…
• What bugs you?
• What’s tedious?
• What does not work?…
We all encounter obstacles, problems, and difficult people in the course of whatever it is that we do every day. What are the three biggest problems in your work place?
By now you should have a list of ideas which are all possible subjects to build your online business around. The next stage of our brainstorming stage is to prune that list to dig out the most profitable – high demand – low supply keywords.
To do this there are several tools you can use like http://wordtracker.com or Google’s Keyword Research Tool. One of the tools I use is Search It!, a free tool from Site Build It which is linked and works together with wordtracker, yahoo overture and major search engines to bring you search statistics for keyword analysis.
We all find it easy to talk about things we love, but not many people know that people are willing to pay money for the acknowledge you have! This is the dawn of the net and by creating quality content around your HIGH DEMAND – LOW SUPPLY topic you could be earning money from what you know.
5 Not So Secret Google AdSense Tips to Boost Your Earnings!
These are proven techniques for making Google AdSense, which will work on most blogs and websites. There is no secret system, you just have to think smart and put the time and effort into making things happen. Don’t start out on the Google AdSense path and think you are instantly going to be making 1000’s of dollars a week. It isn’t going to happen.
The most important step to making money from Google AdSense is to increase the volume of traffic to your blog or website. Simple ways of doing this is by distributing your articles to ezine lists, article announcement lists, blog carnivals, social bookmarks sites and yahoo groups. For this to work you need to write at least one new article a day, which needs to be of a good quality and interesting.
Create the ad units so that they blend in with your blog. You will need to go into your Google AdSense control panel and enter the hex colour codes from your website or blog. Make sure the text colour; background colour, and link colours all match your blog.
Don’t use borders around the ad unit boxes. Again, you want the boxes to blend, you will have to colour code the borders to match the background so that they become invisible.
Find profitable niche markets, it is important not to choose markets where the cost per click is too low to make it worth your while. I suggest that you do some keyword research and find out roughly what the cost per click is in Ad Words. Usually this will be a good indication as to whether this will be successful.
Keywords are of great importance, you have to make sure that your content is not overstuffed with particular keywords to the point of destroying readability and value. What you need to do is master the art of making sure your articles make liberal use of on-topic keywords, which are likely to generate the most relevant ads. Experts maintain that using keywords with your titles and H1 tags is any excellent way to assist in getting the most relevant possible adds
If you want to make money from Google AdSense, you can and will, but it takes real effort, planning, time and smart thinking. Don’t expect to be making huge amounts of money after 4 or 5 months and a few thousands visitors a month to your site. The world is full of people that expected the world too soon and for too little effort, then gave up without giving Google AdSense a proper chance.
