If you can find a great niche you can make a lot of money. Fortunately, niche research gives you the answers that you need to make a killing online. Really, it’s very exciting — that is, it’s exciting if you know what you’re doing like we do. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s painful and frustrating.

I’m going to eliminate the pain right now…

Niche research is simple. If you’re just getting started, simply do some Google searches. This sounds so basic, but I’ll tell you — it works. Do a search using keywords that make sense to you. See how many web sites show up. Look at the number of results. This gives you an idea about the “supply” of content in your niche.

However, all commerce is based on supply AND demand. So, you need an simple way to figure out how much people are demanding that content. How’s this possible?

Hey, it’s simple. Head over to Free Keyword Suggestion Tool.  Do a search and you’ll get more results. You’ll know how many people are trying to find answers. You’ll know the demand for keywords, which is magic.

So, now you simple take the Google results and divide by the Free Keyword results. That is, you divide supply by demand. This number is your starting point. It’s very simple math. No worries! And, conceptually, it’s really simple. You’re just using basic princples of economics that pretty much anyone can understand. Supply and demand.

Now all you need to do is do more searches and compare the numbers you’re getting in relation to supply and demand. Before you know it, you’ll find some perfect keywords. That means you’ll have your niche in very little time. You have to love this ultra simple technique for finding niches.

But how do you make money from niches? Again, this is pretty simple. Head over to Clickbank and find products that fit your niche. It’s dead simple. Head there, do some searches and find affiliate products to promote. There are many ways of using this information to make money with niches — we’ve explained many effective business models using this research inside The Simple Cash Blog.

By the way…

You can also watch a free video that explains a very simple business model. It’s a short video that shows you how to set up a membership site in a niche in no time, and make a ton of money. If you’ve ever wanted to set up a membership site in a niche, then don’t miss this opportunity. It’s 100% free — no strings attached. You don’t even need to give me your email address to watch it. Simple, right?

OK, let’s get back to our discussion of niche research. But please keep in mind that a niche isn’t going to do you any good if you’re not making money. Consider looking at Clickbank before you do your niche research, like I talked about earlier. Make sure you have products that support your mission. Or, set up a membership site which I mentioned a moment ago.

On a final note, I want to tell you something important. We literally just launched Long Tail Niche Domination.  If you’re ready for *advanced* niche domination techniques, this is the report you need. I clearly explain how to actually create niches. Yes, this is hard to believe. I understand.

But –

It really is possible to be the first person to jump on a niche. The rewards are obviously incredible. If you “own” or dominate a niche, you have the potential to make loads of money for a long time. There are some risks with Long Tail Niche Domination, but I’ll let you decide if the rewards are worth it. (I think they are — we’re talking about hundreds or even thousands of dollars of money coming in per month.)

Learn more about creating niches out of thin air right now.

Well, that’s about it. You now know a ton about niche research. You have plenty of links to click and I’m sure your head is buzzing with ideas. You can make money by “owning” niches — take action now.

Web 2.0 is really powerful stuff – John and I have seen it generate (literally) thousands of visitors for us on command. Twitter and Stumbleupon have honestly been a couple of our greatest assets to driving traffic to our website.

Note: John wrote about how to increase web traffic with Stumbleupon here previously:

>> http://imsimple.com/the-fast-and-simple-web-20-traffic-system/

There’s a new Web 2.0 on the block…and my bet is that it will be as big as Stumbleupon and almost definitely bigger than Twitter.

It’s called Qassia. I’ve been thinking about it since I discovered it yesterday and I think it can be best described as a peer-edited article directory. It won’t appear that way exactly to the public…but more or less, that’s what it amounts to. Take a look at the main page:

>> http://www.qassia.com

(You’ll notice there’s no place to “sign up” for it. More on that in a bit…)

It looks like Qassia is designed to be an article directory and search engine hybrid. There are no categories to classify the material at the current time, but it seems like a vast majority of the content submitted by people so far is somewhat mass appeal (and also interesting). Here’s a glance at some of the “intel” (Qassia’s name for articles) recently contributed:

How Exercise Can Benefit Diabetics
Clear Your Acne – Naturally!
How To Approach Being Downsized From Your Job
How To Wake Up Early

…and a few others. Like I said – they all seem to be interesting and at least somewhat mass appeal.

At the bottom of every “intel” you submit is the ability to put in “external links”..it gives links to your website as a bio box does, but you don’t have the ability to put in any information about your website or yourself – the “bio box” just consists of links.

So far, it just sounds like an average article directory…but here’s where it gets interesting.

For every piece of intel you submit or rate as a peer-editor, you get Qassia dollars…as of this article, I have $22,560. No, it’s not “real” money…but it serves the purpose of promoting your website and driving you traffic.

The content you submit does NOT have to be unique, as long as you somehow have rights to it. They prefer unique content and give more Qassia dollars for it – but you can submit intel that you simply own private label rights to and easily rack up dollars

At the current time it doesn’t look like you “spend” your Qassia dollars – it’s just there to calculate your net worth. The higher your net worth, the more exposure you’re going get on Qassia, so they explain – plus you’ll get backlinks and additional traffic from submitting intel, so there’s really no reason to not try to rack up as much as you can.

If you’re in the top 50 of all the top contributors to Qassia, you get to be in the “Top 50″ column on the left hand side…home page backlink from a PR 4 website, anyone? (And page rank is bound to increase as the site becomes more popular…)

The best thing about Qassia, though, is that it’s 100% free. But…you can only join by invitation or if you get referred by someone else. Luckily, I have your invitation right here:

>> http://rhodesbrothers.qassia.com
(Note: You must sign up through the link above if you wish to join Qassia. It’s 100% free.)

There’s a lot more I could explain about it…but it’s best if you just go in and poke around yourself.

Join now and you can submit as many sites as you want into Qassia…keep in mind that your net worth is divided amongst all your sites, so if you want to try to make the Top 50 list you’ll want to only promote 1 to 2 websites when you first start out.

Rate intel and submit it to boost your net value…then reap the traffic! Enjoy!

Stuck on how to generate traffic to build your list? Here’s just a tiny fraction of the ways you can drive traffic and build a huge list…

1.) Create a blog and have each post “pre-sell” to your squeeze page, and…
2.) Set your feed up on My.Yahoo.Com (to increase SEO)
3.) Find comments from other blogs and use trackbacks
4.) Ping it with Pingomatic.com (no affiliation)
5.) Post comments on other blogs
6.) Join blog communities and blog carnivals – a simple Google search will bring up many.
7.) Make a Squidoo Lens based on long tail keywords.
8.) Post videos on YouTube with a link to your squeeze page, or another “pre-sales” page.
9.) Submit articles to article directories, such as EzineArticles, GoArticles and more.
10.) Use Facebook groups to link to your pre-sell squeeze pages. (Be unique on Facebook, and you’ll be seen.)
11.) Use Facebook flyers to advertise your squeeze page – if it’s a mass appeal product.
12.) Join Twitter and start posting as much as you can and following as many people as you can. (You can find John on Twitter at http://twitter.com/webword/)…then you can post links to your website casually.
13.) You can also ask your followers on Twitter to Stumble your pages at Stumbleupon, resulting in a surge of traffic. (You can also get stumbles other ways, too.)
14.) Make an affiliate program out of your squeeze page (offer a cut of the backend products you’re promoting, if they’re yours) and…
15.) Create a brandable, short report that your affiliates can use to distribute your product.
16.) Hit up big names in your niche and ask them if they’ll promote your squeeze page in return for high backend profits.
17.) Create a free video and then redirect it to your squeeze page at the end. Encourage your affiliates to link to the video.
18.) Join a giveaway. Give away a high quality free product on one of these giveaways and you’ll have a list that will believe in the quality that you give.
19.) Create a wiki at Wikidot with highly optimized pages.
20.) Create a forum and link to it – remember, all forum members are basically on your list.
21.) Use PPC ads from Google Adwords, Yahoo, MSN, Adbrite (I admit we haven’t had good results with them, but some people have.)
22.) Post high quality information to forums with a link in your signature to your squeeze page.
23.) Post high quality information to forums with tons of affiliate marketers, and post a link to your affiliate program.
24.) Write a press release about sites you release that pre-sell your squeeze page, and maybe even your squeeze page itself.
25.) Answer questions on Yahoo Answers related to your niche, linking to your pre-sales pages or your squeeze page.
26.) Interview well-known people in your niche. They will likely link to the interview, and it will earn you more prestige.
27.) Try to link to your blog from Wikihow and Wikipedia…but be sure your links actually provide value.
28.) Submit your “pre-sales” sites to directories such as dmoz.org.
29.) Post ads on Craigslist for your pre-sales page.
30.) Create classified ads on USFreeAds.
31.) Create low cost eBay products and when people purchase, have them opt-in to your list for a bonus.

…Of course there’s a lot more, but this list should show you there’s an almost infinite ways to drive traffic. The key to remember is that doing a single thing on this list won’t contribute much..but by mixing and matching all of the possible ways to generate traffic, your squeeze page will turn into a list building machine.

By the way, at FreeBusinessModel.com we offer a really powerful and effective way to build your list through our free videos. Go there now…

All the best,
Matt Rhodes

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