Saturday, August 25, 2007

Choosing a Niche Market

Niche Marketing Tips

To be successful with niche marketing, it is best to center in on a small area within a larger market.

For example, the main market keyword may be dogs. Dogs is a very large and a very competitive market. The topic of dogs has in the neighborhood of three million searches according to overture. But if you go to Google, you will find that there are 300 million websites about dogs. This figure varies somewhat from day to day, but the point is that is it a highly competitive term.

It is far better to find a niche topic within this field to center your website around. Choosing something like 'puppy training" or 'stop dog barking. This will show far less competition from other websites.

Drill down through the keywords and find the best search terms with the least competition. Assemble a list of many keywords with less searches, and less competition, and these can accumulate to a nice tidy total of search terms to target, and add up to a good number of searches.

Overture is used for example here. Something that will also help in your efforts in niche marketing is the use of more reliable keyword suggestion tools. Wordtracker is the favored search tool by most successful marketers on the internet.