Comments on: MB Challenge - Part One: Picking a Niche

By: Frank C

Frank C — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:42:30 +0000

Do a blog on sports fan apparel and souvenirs. Make it sort of a buying guide. Monetize with eBay affiliate using either the EPN Toolkit or phpBay plugin (free or paid). These items have good search volumes with a huge long tail potential. There is always something to write about from NFL jerseys to souvenir baseballs to commemorative hockey pucks. With good link building, writing and a little other work you should be seeing at least $500 a month within 3-6 months, maybe more $$$ than that even.

By: Mark Cuda

Mark Cuda — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:48:09 +0000

Thanks for the input you guys, check out the new post to make sure you understand the challenge fully also.

Regards,

- Mark Cuda

By: Alex the Freelance Twin

Alex the Freelance Twin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:15:08 +0000

Don’t do technology, that would be too easy. I say go with sports. I was actually thinking about starting a sports blog recently too but i’ll keep my ARD site for the challenge

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By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:14:15 +0000

If all of those are something that interest you then I would think about the choice at a different level, choosing the right keyword(s). If you aren’t subscribed to a service this one is free though limited http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ You want more than 200 searches for the term a day with less than a million hits on google for the quoted keywords(s). This was something I learned from Courtney Tuttle

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By: IronBlogger

IronBlogger — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:10:11 +0000

Go with music Mark!

I’d love to see you do a music blog.

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By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:52:28 +0000

I think you should go into the technology niche. It is something difficult to dominate, but if you have extraordinary services or news then you will do smacking well with it. Also it is the closest to a “blogging” site, about blogging, for usually it’ll include a blogger’s gadgets and accessories. I glad you didn’t try for the MMO niche, that one blogs will fail!

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:51:32 +0000

I would go with the technology > nokia phones > symbian niche. Since I used to have a blogger blog about symbian, I know that it brings in a lot of traffic from search engines without the need for any hard work or SEO.

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