Alright, here is my first free niche website idea. Here is what you’ll need in order to maximize this opportunity.
Some writing skills
You’ll need to create unique content by writing interesting articles.
Web host
You’ll want to put this idea on your own host so you can buy a new domain for this idea.
$8
You’ll want to buy a domain (I use NameCheap.com). If you use NameCheap, use the coupon code feblove to get the domain for $7.95.
Keywords: Used Copy Machines
Competition: only 16,400!
Price per click: Adwords: $5.00+
Search Volume: Overture: 441/month
The search volume is a little low on “Used Copy Machines”, but so is the competition. The cost per click is excellent and should turn into approximately $.50-70 per click through Adsense (my guess)
There are also plenty of used copiers on eBay, so if you can build up some traffic you can also apply to Commission Junction (CJ.com still does eBay right?) and use their affiliate program to send some traffic to eBay.
In the beginning I would advertise 100% with Adsense then try eBay to see if the cost per click is paying out for this niche. This might even be an opportunity to do some keyword arbitrage. If you’ve never done arbitrage or don’t know what it is, don’t worry, I’ll explain in a later post.
That’s it for now, get out there and buy Used-Copy-Machines.com because I just gave you your first link!
In a future post I’ll talk more about how to make this site easy for search engines to find, and also tell you how I improved my click through rate (CTR) from 2% to over 25% on ALL of my sites, just by moving my ad code a little!
Hi Brandon,
I just looked up the name used copy machine in google search, and I seem to be getting conflicting results. It must be that your article here is a little dated.
It shows that the current rate that you could pay to advertise for the keyword is only $0.05, which means a webmaster receiving money for that click is likely to get half that amount.
Also, the top competitor shows having over 400 links to their site, for the word used copy machine. Google sandbox meanwhile shows that the search level is too low to make a search estimate. So you can spend a lot of time knocking the top site in google to be #1, just so that you get only a little residual traffic.
I hate to say it, but I think the web is already saturated to the point even the low traffic ideas aren’t worth fighting for.