Wordtracker have developed a great tool for uncovering niches for the thirty day challenge.
Even if you aren’t doing the challenge, you can still use the tool. The tool compares the data from Wordtracker with the results from Google trends.
The 30 day challenge team has already verified that the term “male yeast infection” gets around 500 searches a day. The results from wordtracker also take into account MSN and Yahoo searches. The 30DC is concentrating purely on ranking in Google, which is why they are trying to estimate the number of daily searches using Google trends.
The whole idea is finding a niche which has less than 30,000 competing sites. This is defined by doing a search with inverted commas around the phrase like “Tokyo hotels”. This is the first test. The next test is that the phrase gets at least 100 searches a day. Tokyo hotels passes on searches a day (270), but fails on competition (1.4 million pages).
The phrase also needs to has something which you could possibly create a product around or has affiliate programs which you could join and promote. It took a while but I found one such phrase just now. It goes against my principle of creating sites/content on what I am interested in, but I want to try and follow the 30 day challenge to the letter. It’s a bit of fun if you like games or challenges (better than doing a sudoku puzzle).
Another test is when you look in the top search results, how many web 2.0 type sites do you see. Presumably we will be using web 2.0 sites like Squidoo to promote or niche pages, so if all of the results are web 2.0 properties it is going to be hard to make the strategy work.
Even if you have just heard of the 30DC you could try out the above tool using various combinations of keywords. All of the videos so far have been leading up to this point, so you could possibly still skip all of them and just find a keyword combination that first passes the main test (keyword search versus competition) and then proceed to the affiliate programs/web 2.0 site test.
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Excellent tool. Thanks for writing about it. I tried watching the first video of the 30DC but decided not to go along with it. I’m going to try and watch a few of the videos to see what other helpful tips they’re talking about.
Oh, and I hope you give an update some time in the future (September 1?) about your niche you discovered
Good to see the 30d challenge is working for you I have not been able to follow with the required listening time involved
hopefully i can catch up when i get some down time. Thanks for the WT Tool nice & quick & easy to use. One thing i do with these tools is to throw the results in a bulk name checker makes an easy way to fimd good domains.