I regularly use Web 2.
0 platforms to test my niche ideas.
I'll put some quick content up on a Squidoo lens or Hubpages site, slap on a product to test conversions with, then use social bookmarking to create enough traffic to see if my idea is going to work.
I've saved myself a lot of time doing this! I've been able to avoid markets where there's no traffic and especially markets where the traffic just doesn't buy.
When you're testing a new niche, you'll want to make a list of keyword phrases, then break that list into three groups, Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.
When I'm searching for a new niche, I'll brainstorm, them choose three niche possibilities to test.
I'll then build Squidoo lenses for each of the three and watch what happens.
If you want to try this method, then build a lens for each of your test niches.
You got to have traffic to make this thing work.
What we want to do is to watch your Squidoo lenses and see which niche actually "works", that is gets traffic that converts to sales.
There are "niches" where no one is searching for anything.
There are also "niches" where people are looking for stuff, but no one's willing to buy anything.
The purpose of our test is to see which, if any, of your three most promising niches are going to be money makers.
Look at it kind of like prelims for a race.
You only want to send the winner to the Olympics.
Losers can stay home.
But now we have a problem.
If we don't get any traffic to our lenses, we won't have enough data to tell if that particular niche looks promising.
So, we're going to force some traffic.
You can do this two ways.
One by spending money, the other by taking a little of your time.
Usually when people are starting out in internet marketing they have more time than money.
So, we're going with the "spending time" idea.
(If you want to go the spend money route, you can use Google AdWords to drive some traffic to your site.
) We're going to take advantage of another Web 2.
0 phenomenon, social bookmarking sites, to create traffic for our Squidoo lens.
The whole idea behind social bookmarking is this.
Suppose you're a user of a social bookmarking site, Digg for instance.
Suppose you find a website that interests you.
You "bookmark" it-or for Digg, you Digg it! This lists the URL of the site and a small descriptive blurb you write on Digg's site.
Other Digg users see the link, click on it, look at the webpage and vote it up or down.
If a site gets voted up enough, it lands on Digg's home page, which usually results in a ton of traffic for the website that got Dugg.
For Digg to work for us, we don't need to land on the front page.
It would be great if we did, but that's really difficult to just make happen.
Unless your website is something that Digg users naturally take to.
We'll get enough of a traffic bump just by submitting our site to Digg.
Two important things will happen.
One: some Digg users will naturally run across our link and click through to our site.
Two: the actual Digg listing will probably get ranked fairly high in Google's search results for our keyword phrase, and we'll get traffic through search engine searches.
0 platforms to test my niche ideas.
I'll put some quick content up on a Squidoo lens or Hubpages site, slap on a product to test conversions with, then use social bookmarking to create enough traffic to see if my idea is going to work.
I've saved myself a lot of time doing this! I've been able to avoid markets where there's no traffic and especially markets where the traffic just doesn't buy.
When you're testing a new niche, you'll want to make a list of keyword phrases, then break that list into three groups, Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3.
When I'm searching for a new niche, I'll brainstorm, them choose three niche possibilities to test.
I'll then build Squidoo lenses for each of the three and watch what happens.
If you want to try this method, then build a lens for each of your test niches.
You got to have traffic to make this thing work.
What we want to do is to watch your Squidoo lenses and see which niche actually "works", that is gets traffic that converts to sales.
There are "niches" where no one is searching for anything.
There are also "niches" where people are looking for stuff, but no one's willing to buy anything.
The purpose of our test is to see which, if any, of your three most promising niches are going to be money makers.
Look at it kind of like prelims for a race.
You only want to send the winner to the Olympics.
Losers can stay home.
But now we have a problem.
If we don't get any traffic to our lenses, we won't have enough data to tell if that particular niche looks promising.
So, we're going to force some traffic.
You can do this two ways.
One by spending money, the other by taking a little of your time.
Usually when people are starting out in internet marketing they have more time than money.
So, we're going with the "spending time" idea.
(If you want to go the spend money route, you can use Google AdWords to drive some traffic to your site.
) We're going to take advantage of another Web 2.
0 phenomenon, social bookmarking sites, to create traffic for our Squidoo lens.
The whole idea behind social bookmarking is this.
Suppose you're a user of a social bookmarking site, Digg for instance.
Suppose you find a website that interests you.
You "bookmark" it-or for Digg, you Digg it! This lists the URL of the site and a small descriptive blurb you write on Digg's site.
Other Digg users see the link, click on it, look at the webpage and vote it up or down.
If a site gets voted up enough, it lands on Digg's home page, which usually results in a ton of traffic for the website that got Dugg.
For Digg to work for us, we don't need to land on the front page.
It would be great if we did, but that's really difficult to just make happen.
Unless your website is something that Digg users naturally take to.
We'll get enough of a traffic bump just by submitting our site to Digg.
Two important things will happen.
One: some Digg users will naturally run across our link and click through to our site.
Two: the actual Digg listing will probably get ranked fairly high in Google's search results for our keyword phrase, and we'll get traffic through search engine searches.
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