Comments on: When To Abandon A Niche Site

By: Alex Yeo

Alex Yeo — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:02:12 +0000

If we really want to test out if the niche is profitable, we can use PPC too. Just use direct linking and see whether it sells.

But i was wondering if 200 is a good no. Sometimes there are these “blank” streak, where you don’t get any sales. I guess 500 will be a good no. to stop.

Andrew, I was wondering if 1% conversion for any product is a good conversion in your opinion?

By: G.Suvorov

G.Suvorov — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:34:08 +0000

For keywords research try SeoDigger.com
It allows you to input a site URL and it will then show you the keywords that site has that will rank it among the top 20 in Google. It returns quite a few good answers and allows you to see the Wordtracker and Overture results as well.
One of the neat features of this site is that you can sort by the position, wordtracker ranking, overture ranking and also the most recent keyword request.

By: Alex Newell

Alex Newell — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:45:30 +0000

Great post!

It sounds rather like the approach in Bum Marketing at least this bit does:

(1) He picks some longtail keywords in a certain niche, that gets extremely low competition, but decent search volume.

Two obvious questions Andrew

What are the numbers here, maybe 1000 to 10,000 pages in google and maybe 100 in wordtracker??

(2) This means on page optimisation?

I love the next bit “wait until 200 visits”.

I remember Ed Dale recently said in a video that since he is such a poor copywriter 0.5 % was his usual conversion rate.

And it’s my bail out rate for CTR in Adwords – I’ll pause a campaign as the CTR approaches 0.5%

Sounds like Robert is using a standard website Andrew but we would use these ideas for WP blogs that we use for the nmoc method?

Alex