Thirty Day Challenge

Day nine is primarily a revision of the Google Trends technique introduced on day 8. The goal is to reduce your number of niche markets to two.

The Day 8 video explains why seasonal trends can lead to misleading traffic estimates in WordTracker, and shows you how to take the keywords you’ve selected for your niche markets and use Google Trends to estimate the traffic you’ll really get in Google.

Definitely a useful technique!

You’re looking for keyword phrases in your niche markets that will deliver 80 - 100 visitors a day, as estimated using Google Trends

The goal is to find an ‘Umbrella Phrase’ for your niche market. An umbrella phrase has 100+ daily searches in WordTracker, and less than 30,000 phrase-matched competing pages (phrase match means you search on google with quote marks around the phrase in the search box (”sausage making” NOT sausage making) [note: use the new Wordtracker Gtrends tool]

Note the Umbrella Phrases for your niche markets. If a niche market does not have a good umbrella phrase, put it on the ‘back bench’.

First of all, a video on using YouTube.

Then a video on checking out you niche in Google. Notice if there are many affiliate programs in the organic results on the left. Look at the Adwords (top & right) to see who is advertising, and how many of them are affiliates.

Note down the affiliate programs you’ve discovered for you niche market

Then check out your niche market on Google Trends . Note the volume of traffic, and whether its seasonal

What a great idea! The Thirty Day Challenge is leaving the weekends free for catchups. I’m sure lots of us will appreciate that.

So the next training will be for day 6 on Monday