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Day 9 / 10 Diary – Four Golden Niches!

By Mike Mindel | August 12, 2007

After the niche train wreck that was my last diary post, I’m back with a vengeance.

It’s amazing what three episodes of Entourage can do for one’s psyche. Entourage is currently my favorite TV at the moment since Lost is between series.

Anyhow.

I’ve found four niches that I can use. They pass all the niche filters (including web 2.0 properties) and I’m through.

Yipeeee!

A Polite Request

Now I’ve got some goodies and I’m tempted not to tell.

BUT…

In the spirit of openness and contribution I’m going to list all my niches and show them passing all the tests.

But I make one request.

Can you please not compete with me on the four niches.

The only exception is if one of these four is your selected niche. In which case please contact me privately on the forum and we’ll work it out.

Otherwise it will just ruin the process.

This is a polite request.

Of course, if you do compete with me and I find out, then I will just find you and eat you.

:-) )))

Ok. On to the niches…

Unusual Properties For Sale

Remember that UK specific term ‘unusual properties for sale’ ?

Turns out it’s just fine after all. Look at that UK traffic. Ed mentions that you don’t a nice pretty graph in the top section. The Regions & Languages: English section is all you need.

In this case the English Languages comparison is quite small


But it’s the regions that gets my interest

If the UK is say a 1/10th of the 500 searches a day from ‘male yeast infections’. Then thats still 50 searches a day. But the red line is twice the length. So this may well bring in 100 searches a day and is therefore a viable niche for the UK only.

Stats:

Conclusion:

I like it for the UK. The 100 searches per day is very appealing and there’s no competition. Why wouldn’t I go for it?

Thriller Novels

I’m struggling with this one. It fails in a couple of areas but is not a complete disaster.

Here’s the trends result

It’s about 50 searches a day.

Note that when I searched for ‘thriller novels’ in Wordtracker it came up first

I tried the other keywords but no trends information. So ‘thriller novels’ becomes the umbrella phrase.

Check out the stats:

The competing web pages is too high with 50,200. The trends are too low with 50 searches.

But it’s a favorite niche. I know I need to let it go. And I will… I will…

I think what I’ll do is put this on the backburner.

I may try it out just to see how the Thirty Day Challenge method works out with an umbrella keyword / umbrella phrase that’s just a leetle out of the required filters.

(That was such a human thing to do).

How to Write a Screenplay

‘Write a screenplay’ was a no go with 204,000 competing web pages. But look at this little gem

‘How to write a screenplay’ has popped up first. Let’s see what it looks like in Google

Ooh. It’s just a bit outside the number of competing web pages we would like: 36,700.

Lets look at the trends


Eek. That’s about 200 searches a day.

Lets look at the stats:

The 36,700 competing web pages is outside the filter range. But look at that traffic. 200 searches a day.

How can I pass this one up?

Grants for Writers

This one hits the jackpot.

There should be sirens wailing, wheels spinning, flashing lights and fine women in vinyl jump suits (do not ask me where that came from).

This umbrella keyword nails the Thirty Day Challenge requirements.

In Wordtracker we have

in Google we have

In Google Trends we have

Here are the stats:

So what a beauty!

Now don’t steal them please lurkers.

If you want your own niche then please join the Thirty Day Challenge and do the training.

Just In Case

There’s always one that ruins it for everyone else.

So just in case my polite request is refused and I do find my niches stolen – then I have two more up my sleeve. I’m not going to tell you what they are until the end.

But the stats for the first one are:

The stats for the second are:

Wanna See Something Funny?

I just did an exact phrase search for ‘unusual properties for sale’. Recognise this?

and this?

I ranked for ‘unusual properties for sale’ exact match search just by writing my blog and using the web 2.0 properties to shout about it.

Look at this

Eek!

And for ’suspense novel writer’

Akk!

I ranked with my blog and a couple of posts. I know a lot of you have been linking to me in del.ico.us and Stumble Upon which helps considerably.

Ok. That’s it for today.

I’m beat.

Tomorrow I’ll narrow it down to two and do some Golden Nuggets research.

Time for some more Entourage.

-Mike

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Topics: Diary | 17 Comments »

17 Responses to “Day 9 / 10 Diary – Four Golden Niches!”

  1. bonder Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 1:51 am

    Mike,

    Wow, you are on the first page of Google for the inexact match too! That is so awesome!

  2. Garrett V Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 5:16 am

    Hey, great finds Mike! Thankfully, they are not even close to mine ;) .

    Can’t wait to see how you fair and keep up the good work on the blog. You rock!

    -Garrett

  3. Anne-Marie Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 10:30 am

    Thanks for sharing Mike. Your examples are very enlightening for following the whole process so that we can be clear about doing it ourselves so Thanks again.

    Cheers
    Anne-Marie

  4. Liz Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Huge thanks for sharing these as case studies of the process! Really helps in supplementing the core training. Rgds.

  5. Raymond Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    None of them related to mine either.

  6. Jose Luis Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Hola Mike,
    I have been reading your comments and responses all over the blog, the forums, your own website, etc.

    and the type of insight/ideas you share with us have been very valuable “lately”. why lately? because i guess i did not understand them before. it started to ring a bell…

    P.S. Any idea for the latin market in the USA?

  7. Joyce Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    Hi Mike,
    I was afraid to read your niches just in case we had one in common, and was relieved when they didn’t match!! I did consider something similar to the Unusual Properties — they have a couple of shows on HGTV and I work in the real estate industry. Congrats on getting ranked soooo fast on Google — that’s really encouraging.
    Thank you for your priceless work! We 30DCers really appreciate it! :)
    Take Care!
    Joyce
    p.s. I’m a fan of Entourage as well!

  8. John Miley Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 1:12 am

    Hi Mike,

    Excellent to see you ranking so well, so quickly. My niches are looking like a “go”, so now I will see if I can follow your lead and get spread virally.
    Great to see.
    Cheers.

    John

  9. Mike Mindel Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 1:30 am

    Thanks. But don’t rush ahead. Make sure you follow Ed’s process step by step.

  10. Andy Roberts Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 1:46 am

    Hi Mike,
    Well done on getting so many niche phrases ready. I was just wondering about the UK centric traffic because a lot of niches seem to show a lot more traffic from the UK relative to the “Male Yeast Infection” blue bar. I’m thinking this could be perhaps because MYI is less searched for from the UK rather than because the niche phrase you put up against it is UKcentric?
    Just a thought.

  11. Patrick F Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 2:27 am

    Hi Mike,

    One of your topics is the one I’m going with. I even have an expert lined up for audio interviews!

    Drop me a shout and let’s talk.

    Patrick Forbes

  12. Kelly Says:
    August 13th, 2007 at 3:15 am

    My favorite show is Keeping Up Appearances :P (Oh! she is sooooooooo my aunt!! shhh!) I don’t think it does for one’s psyche what Entourage may! :P

    My husband does do screenwriting, so I was thinking about it, but left it alone (BEFORE reading this) :) But, interesting to see the open under-the-radar phrase that pays you found on it! Go for it!

  13. Dennis Says:
    August 14th, 2007 at 12:31 am

    Hey Mike,

    Thanks for all you’ve done so far. I must have missed or misunderstood something. Wasn’t the criteria for “umbrella keyword phrase 80-100+ in wordtracker? Yours are so much lower and one is way higher in the examples above. I searched the forum and blog posts and I didn’t see anyone else with this question. If I missed something, could you explain?

    Dennis

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  15. Mike Mindel Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 12:53 am

    Yeh. In the examples above only one niche really hit the jackpot and that was ‘grants for writers’.

    Since producing the new GTrends tool I have found some new niches I am going to work with.

    New post arrives soon.

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  17. Mr Free Relaxtion Music Says:
    August 18th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    Hi Mike,

    Very helpful to hear of actual examples and to find out how they are doing. May your niche stay with you and not be plagurised!

    But I wonder if you are following your heart (you seem to be a closet author) by justifying weak phrases?

    However, I presume you have found affiliate products to sell off these and have put up your blog sites for them already…

    So any sign that you are indexed on any of these yet and are your traffic projections coming true empirically?

    You put the UK specific reference for MYI at 50. Is that a figure you have verified somehow?

    Many thanks.
    Rin Syaka.

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