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Any discussion about making a profit online will almost constantly refer to the term “niche marketing”, often describing it as one of the most effective ways to do this. It’s not a difficult concept to understand as it simply refers to a market sub-division where consumers are looking to purchase certain products or services who can be targetted online. A niche in the market can be a relatively unexploited and moneymaking resource since there are more buyers than sellers or, in other words, fewer competitors for your business. We are going to discuss how to become a niche marketer and establish your own profitable Internet business.

Firstly, you have to find a good niche and the easiest way to do that is to inquire about the possiblities using online resources. By visiting the Clickbank and Amazon web sites, for instance, you’ll quickly realize that there are a number of possible niches you can research. At these sites you can look through the product categories to find ones that are selling stongly and make a short list to be refined at the next stage.

Once you have some prospective markets to look into, you need to begin to do some keyword research to find out if there are niches you can compete in and that have the potential to make you some profit. Tools to help you perform keyword research are in abundance, some free and some you pay for, but the free Google keyword tool is just fine when starting out. The basic aim in keyword research is to start with broad category words and increasingly drill down into longer key phrases that still have a modest search volume. Usually these ‘long-tailed’ keywords will have fewer competition and are the ones you have to be aiming for in your niche market.

Having chosen those longer key phrases with good numbers of searches each month, you can now continue and find those with the least numbers of websites targetting the same phrase. To do this is simple – simply type the term within quotation marks into the Google’s search bar and hit enter. The number of search results that Google gives is an indication of how many websites out there are using your prospective key phrase. Of course, a profitable niche will be one without very many competing websites. A few of these longer key phrases will be the names and model numbers of particular products which are search terms used by people who are about to purchase rather than those merely searching for information.

Having completed the research and decided on a possible niche market, you can now begin to make a site using your list of profitable niche keywords. Numerous people, who are not especially knowledgeable about creating websites, use the WordPress blog platform to get their first site up and running very quickly. WordPress websites are easily crawled by the search engines. If you can obtain a domain name the same as one of the keywords you want to target then this can help your site to get higher search engine rankings. Don’t try to brand names since companies may well object and make you change it.

When you have everything ready, you can get started to monetize your website to produce passive income and eventually sell the website for a lump sum if you want.