Back to the Salt Mines - My Niches? Not So Good.

It appears my “final” 14 niches aren’t that great. To the right are my exact phrase Google results and estimated daily traffic using the elegant, yet powerful technique introduced in this video.

These aren’t even all the results from my traffic research. I looked at just over 100 keyword phrases, and these were the top choices. I ended up whittling down my 14 niches to 7, and as the table shows, they aren’t too hot. By the way, one of my “best” niches that I thought would be awesome ended up being a complete dud. The broad search patterns were promising, but there was negligible traffic for the exact phrase.

A few things are interesting though. There are some cases where the traffic is very low, but so is the number of competing websites. I’ll set these aside for now, because I might be able to use these for small SEO projects. What really sticks in my craw is the biggest traffic provider has just too much competition to hit the top of the SERPs right now. I had a number of other keyword phrases that had 100-300 searches a day, but 45k-60k competing pages.

The good thing is that now that I know the process, I can repeat it much faster. Back to the salt mines!

Good luck to the rest of you who are having trouble right now in the 30 Day Challenge. Keep on going because once we get through this, as Ed Dale put it, we’ll have a licence to print money.

edit: I forgot to mention that one umbrella phrase has about 16k results and 100 searches a day, but I have a gut feeling that this will be a fairly popular niche. I also want at least a few niches to work with.

edit2: contextual ads can be funny sometimes