Retire Young and Wealthy

I have made a list of some of the free keyword tools that I know of. Generally I don’t use these tools much myself. I know I should, but if I have an idea for site which I think could work, I usually just register a relevant domain anyway. If I am really keen on the site, I just start building it.

Perhaps this is the wrong way about researching a site, but it works for me. I do however, just do searches in Google and try to see what competition is out there. I looked up “grow wheatgrass” and saw some good free sites on growing your own wheatgrass. I searched on “mixi” (Japan’s version of myspace) and found a pretty good English mixi resource site.

I know that Ed in his videos explained that this doesn’t matter for his web 2.0 marketing techniques, so I suppose I am still thinking web 1.0 marketing.

Sometime ago, I when I was into finding niche markets, I found a search phrase which had a high number of searches but little competition. I registered a domain for it and started writing some content. I had no interest in the topic at all, and quickly gave up on it. So unless I am genuinely interested in the niche, I don’t even bother trying to uncover those hidden niches that many internet marketers search for.

I know that you can outsource everything, but you still have to put the thing together and then try promoting it. You could also promote someone else’s product as an affiliate, but again unless you are really into the niche I think you will quickly get bored of it.

It doesn’t hurt to build a site regardless of the number of searches that are done on the keywords, in my opinion.

You will soon see once you start getting some traffic what keywords people are finding to get to your site. You can also add a search box on your site and record the results, so you can see what people are interested in.

Just in my opinion and experience you need to initially go with what you are interested in and worry about the keywords later.

Interest + niche + work = profits