keyword research

My advice, as one who is making money blogging is to find a niche you love and can work for a long time without difficulty. I work from home and mostly focus on my hobbies to make money online.

However, in the same breath I would also add that one should NOT go into a niche just because they like it. That cleared things up, right? Keep reading it gets clearer as you go.

The Thing Is Niches Today Are Competitive

When you think about it competition in most online markets and niches today actually began more than a decade ago. This means huge numbers of marketers have been working their niche focused keywords for a long time making it rather difficult to compete.

If you happen to be new at marketing or stepping into a new niche this means you need to do some good keyword research before you begin. Finding the keywords you can rank for gives you a chance to break into a niche and over time you can even rank for top keywords, like I do.

For Any Success Today Niche Research To Find Keywords Is Vital

Don’t even think about buying a domain until you’re research is complete. The first goal should be to find the right keywords for your new niche focused domain name.

If you were search Google for some helpful gardening information and the three domains listed below appear in the top three positions, which would you be likely to click first and think about why you chose it.

hbb2obm.com or homegardeningtips.com or backyardgardeningtips.com

When I’m viewing search results in Google or any search engine I of course look at the description as well but right now it’s just about the domain names you see in listing. Personally I will always click the domain name that is niche targeted as they appear to be more authoritative.

In today’s competitive niches it’s always best to purchase keyword focused domain names. But don’t go get it just yet, there’s more.

If You Can Get A DOT COM Extension For Your Domain

Today DOT COM is imprinted on most people’s brain. It’s all we’ve heard for years, so when anyone mentions a domain name DOT COM is usually the extension that pops in their head, automatically. Go for the DOT COM unless you have a great reason for not doing that.

Because there are so many keyworded domains that are DOT COM it can be harder to find keywords to use in your domain and still have a DOT COM, so let me give you some ideas to help.

Add a suffix to the end of your keyword phrase.
Adding a suffix didn’t work, then try adding a word to the front as a prefix.
Add a hyphen or two if the other options haven’t worked.
Using your city or town is a great way to get keyworded domains using a suffix.

Finding domains with your best keywords can take some time but research is your best tool and it works for me. Today I need speed in my research and have a few paid tools that speed things up. Keyword Elite 2 is a niche research tool that saves me time I can then spend working my sites. I also use Micro Niche Finder to find profitable niches but this tool helps me find those hard to find domains.