Planning a website - Niche Selection
Friday, August 15th, 2008 |The most important part in making money with websites is planning your website. This is why 99% of people fail to make extra money with their websites, because they don’t realize that planning your website is essential.
This is part one of three in planning your website. The podcast in this article will show you how to choose a website niche and what makes a website niche profitable.
The next steps in the series are explained, along with the rationale behind choosing a niche. Guys, pick the wrong niche and your website will not make money. Pick the right one and you will be rolling in it.
Here are resources to use when picking a niche:
This is a gold mine of potential niches that can easily be used with your BANS stores
Go to the Cbank marketplace and see what kind of affiliate promotions are being offered. This might help you find new niches and if you end up in that niche you’ll have an affiliate product to sell!
If no ads show up, there’s probably not a whole lot of advertiser competition in this niche
Go to website content and enter the wikipedia page URL here. Then click on the dropdown menu and allow it to show max CPC and ad positions. Then set your maximum cpc ~ 0.5 and see what you get. Check what the CPC is and how much advertiser competition is going on.
This step might be a little complex, but I cover how to use this tool fully in the next video post.
That’s all there is to choosing a website niche. Remember, if you’re serious about making extra money using the internet, then you better take the website planning phase seriously.
MJ
