In part two of How To Turn Niche Blogs Into Cash Machines, we talked about the example of a building travel sites that are devoted to senior honeymoons. Each of the blogs could target a specific place and each post on each blog would use those same keywords.
Now let's talk about how visitors will find your blog. There is a lot of talk about "long tail keywords" or "long tail search terms." Unfortunately, most writers seem to assume you and I know what these terms mean without further explanation. I tend to be a little behind the trend when it comes to these things so I find myself not knowing what the writers are talking about. (The same things used to happen in junior high school when other guys talked about sex, but that is another story).
Anyway (now that you know more about my childhood than you ever wanted to know) "long tails" refer to specific niches and search terms on Google and other search engines.
Studies have shown that people who type in search queries that are four or more significant words long are several times more likely to buy when they visit a site. Note: "significant words" do not include words like "the, and, a, an, how," etc. Significant words are words that are truly relevant to a searcher's query.
So an easy way to think of long tail, is to think of a long search query. The longer the search query, the more specific the information the person is seeking. And the more specific information desired, the more that person will be willing to make a purchase.
But long tails by themselves do not identify a profitable niche. I like to look for problems or illnesses people like to solve. For example, if you look around a site like MedMD, you will learn about a lot of medical issues and problems that represent a host of situations for which people will pay to find a solution.
Another great place is Amazon.com. Look for best selling non-fiction books (particularly how-to books) to find niches that offer solutions. By definition, a niche that can support a best seller is profitable. Your job is to then narrow the niche to find a small enough niche to make money on.
Here again, Amazon can help you out. Many of the books sold on Amazon allow you to look inside. Just click the picture of the book cover and you will be able to see keywords used, and you will be able to see both the table of contents and the index. If you look at these places, you can find a lot of information that could be used to create a very targeted, niche blog that relates to a long tail keyword or search term.
Niche blogging is very profitable. Your competition is scarce to non-existent and, with good SEO techniques your blog can realistically rise to the top of the first page of Google's rankings for that long tail search terms. All of that is an excellent recipe for success and consistent profits.
Charles Brown is freelance writer with an unhealthy curiosity about nearly everything, including internet marketing and blogging. He has put together a highly informative, free five-day ecourse called How To Create Hundreds of Free Blogs That Earn $1000/ Year, which you can subscribe to at http://www.trafficwave.net/lcp/chbrown/nicheblogs/3500
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