How to pick an AdSense niche

There are two questions I feel that are important to answer to make your AdSense sites profitable.

The first is, what are you interested in? Now, I didn’t say “What are you passionate about” because, honestly, I don’t think it is that important. But you do need to be interested enough in spending about an hour or so each week doing some moderate promotion.

The problem most people make with AdSense is picking a topic that has high PPC value, but they are not interested in. Let me give you an example:

Let’s say you researched and found out the keyword “Ohio Lemon Laws” has a PPC value of $74.86. This is an extremely high number. But, if you don’t have the mindset to go and take part in online discussions, participate in message boards, find some chat rooms, post a few message sin Usenet groups, write a press release every month and submit it to the PR directories, and write an article or two each month and submit those top the different article directories, etc. etc, etc. about Lemon Laws, you are not going drive any traffic to the site.

But, again, it comes down, are you motivated enough to write about lemon laws? If you are, great, that is a great niche, but, if you are not, then it is a terrible niche.

And that brings you to the second question. Can you spend an hour or two each week promoting the site/topic? Now, the reason I always tell people to pick something they are at least a little interested in is because your interest in the topic will make promoting that much easier.

For example, my site is about a surgery I had. Well, it is real easy for me to promote it because I like talking about it. In fact, I bet there are weeks when I spend 10 hours or more just promoting the site, in my day to day activities. The neat thing about this is, I don’t even realize it. You know what I mean?

Of course, just answering these two questions doesn’t necessarily enough. I still have to find enough content to make it worth your while, and I need to make sure there are some high paying keywords. That being said, a site based on a $6 keyword that you have an interest in and can drive people to, will make you more than a site based on a high keyword that nobody visits.

-Dan

PS let me give you an example of what I mean about promotion being almost transparent. I have an interest in AdSense, right? Well, after spell checking what I just wrote you above, I realized it could easily be turned into a decent article about how to promote your AdSense site. I didn’t sit down to write an article about this topic. I just sat down to write you a quick email. But because I am interested in the topic, it came out easily.

Generating Web Traffic Using Only Free Methods

 

Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.


While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.


How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent.  Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.


Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer.  Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.


With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.


You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.


Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.


Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.


Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.


Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your own but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality. Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.


All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

 

9 Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.