AffiloBlueprint Review:
Day 2—Choosing Niche and Doing Keyword Research
May 9th 2009 11:20 am
I sat down to do the home assignment from the week 1 videos: choosing a niche and doing keyword research.
Now before I bought the AffiloBlueprint, I had an idea for a niche. It was something that I started driving traffic to from a PPC ad of a single Clickbank product when I reviewed the Google Cash Detective. I’m getting an average of 1 sale per week and making about $20.00 profit.
But when I watched the video, I discovered this is exactly the same niche Mark Ling uses as his example site, having built a similar site to what I was planning a few years ago.
At first I thought I need to find another niche because I don’t just want to copy him. But I decided that it’s such a good niche (lots of Clickbank products) and I really did have the idea before I purchased, so I’m just going to ahead. After all, if I’m getting 1 sale/week right now with a single PPC campaign in a niche that is extremely competitive, maybe if I build an entire site I’ll do better. Mark’s site makes $500.00/month. If I make $100.00/month, I’ll still be happy.
So I really didn’t have much research to do. I already had tons of keywords in different categories from my PPC campaigns. So as instructed by Mark, I selected a few high-traffic keywords from each category and also some product review keywords, a total of 30 keywords in all.
The other thing I did was download Traffic Travis. It’s one of Mark Ling’s products for manipulating keywords and it has a free version. (Actually it does more things too, but I’m only interested in keyword research right now).
I’ll write a separate review for it, but here are the basics: the keyword research tool has 2 parts:
I found that the keyword suggestion part of it leaves much to be desired. For example, I typed in ‘lifelike babies’ (By the way, I did this as a test. This is not my niche).
A few times when I did the same search, it returned only 2 results:
lifelike babies
life like babies
But then when I repeated the search, I got 200 results. Some of the keywords it suggested made sense, but some were way out there like:
woolworth sit in
woolworth building
implantation signs
adopt a virtual pet
design your own virtual house
etc.
But the second part of the tool that lets you organize and tweak your list is really handy.
So my recommendation is to use a different tool to get your keyword ideas, and then import them into Travis Traffic for manipulation.
They sell two versions:
Traffic Travis free
Traffic Travis Professional
Now before I bought the AffiloBlueprint, I had an idea for a niche. It was something that I started driving traffic to from a PPC ad of a single Clickbank product when I reviewed the Google Cash Detective. I’m getting an average of 1 sale per week and making about $20.00 profit.
But when I watched the video, I discovered this is exactly the same niche Mark Ling uses as his example site, having built a similar site to what I was planning a few years ago.
At first I thought I need to find another niche because I don’t just want to copy him. But I decided that it’s such a good niche (lots of Clickbank products) and I really did have the idea before I purchased, so I’m just going to ahead. After all, if I’m getting 1 sale/week right now with a single PPC campaign in a niche that is extremely competitive, maybe if I build an entire site I’ll do better. Mark’s site makes $500.00/month. If I make $100.00/month, I’ll still be happy.
So I really didn’t have much research to do. I already had tons of keywords in different categories from my PPC campaigns. So as instructed by Mark, I selected a few high-traffic keywords from each category and also some product review keywords, a total of 30 keywords in all.
The other thing I did was download Traffic Travis. It’s one of Mark Ling’s products for manipulating keywords and it has a free version. (Actually it does more things too, but I’m only interested in keyword research right now).
I’ll write a separate review for it, but here are the basics: the keyword research tool has 2 parts:
- Keyword Finder to get keyword suggestions from a few different search engines
- Keyword Sorter to help you organize and tweak them
I found that the keyword suggestion part of it leaves much to be desired. For example, I typed in ‘lifelike babies’ (By the way, I did this as a test. This is not my niche).
A few times when I did the same search, it returned only 2 results:
lifelike babies
life like babies
But then when I repeated the search, I got 200 results. Some of the keywords it suggested made sense, but some were way out there like:
woolworth sit in
woolworth building
implantation signs
adopt a virtual pet
design your own virtual house
etc.
But the second part of the tool that lets you organize and tweak your list is really handy.
So my recommendation is to use a different tool to get your keyword ideas, and then import them into Travis Traffic for manipulation.
They sell two versions:
Traffic Travis free
Traffic Travis Professional
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