Uncovering Everfresh Ideas
November 21, 2009 – 10:14 am
There are numerous ways to get ideas on what to choose as niche topics to come up with material that people are searching for.
Numerous gurus will suggest using Google trends to generate ideas. This works if you want to acquire a lot of visitors quickly.
The trends data will tell you what people are looking for in the past few days. This is useful if you are a blogger who regularly posts entries. However, if you want a website that will earn money for you without touching it after it’s finished, there other sources of niche ideas that you can use to idenfify what we call immortalforever niches”.
Immortal niches are niches that has regular readers over a long period of time. It takes longer to put up evergreen sites and you won’t immediately see traffic but once you are finished, all you have to do is wait and watch the money roll in. Build enough evergreen sites and you can have a
steady flow of cash even you don’t work at it again.
To give you an example, I’ve set up a website about how to make a paper airplane. In the beginning, it barely earned a dollar a day. It was producing only a few cents a day but I continued with it. I kept acquiring links back to the website. Now, after a few months of link building work, it’s already making about $200/month. Remember that the backlink building wasn’t really full force. I have a lot of other projects going on. I built links for the paper airplanes website only in at the start.
I get backlinks every so often whenever I can. I wasn’t really certain if the site would bring in significant amounts of cash. I just love
paper airplanes. So I continued promoting it even if it was just producing a few cents a day. Just recently, it started making a couple hundred of dollars a month and that will only increase as I continue to get better rankings in the search engines. I am now exerting more effort to get more backlinks to the site.
At first glance, it would appear that the niche isn’t a lucrative one. But stop and think: my paper airplanes website will be earning money for a long time even if I don’t even add anything to it. People will be looking for information on how to make paper airplanes as long as there are young ones.
The site is NOT a website that was solely created for adsense. It is a useful website and users of the site come back repeatedly. Some even recommend it to others.
So that’s the first thing to keep in mind when trying to find an evergreen niche. It has to be useful or at least entertaining. People must love to visit your site even if there were no search engines.
Ironically, having that in mind would get you better results in the search engines. The search engines measure how long a visitor stays on your site. If you have low quality content, your visitors won’t hesitate to click on the back button. And it only takes a second to figure out if a site is low quality.
We’ll tackle more about discovering ideas or topics that you can use to build everfresh sites. People search about how to do stuff on the net.
And there are websites dedicated to thousands of “how to” topics. You can go to those how to sites and search for the most viewed articles. If you find something that interests you, dig deeper and do some further keyword research. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to outrank the pages on the established how to sites.
A favorite among internet marketers to discover niche ideas is Amazon.com. If people are buying products for their hobby, you will know that they are passionate about it and that they will want to earn everything they can about that hobby. So go ahead and search amazon.com for items related to hobbies. Think about fishing, skydiving, chess, stamp collecting. There are a myriad number of hobbies to work on.
One more handy page is Wikipedia’s list of hobbies. That’s quite a long list and I’m you’re sure to find at least one that you’d like to work on. Working on a topic that you love will help you keep at it even if you’re still not seeing any significant results immediately. If you choose a topic that you don’t like, it will be very easy for you to get discouraged.
So we have already talked about two sources of site topics. Generally, how to’s and hobbies will be evergreen topics. The final interesting source that could potentially bring you traffic and income for several years are biographies. People will be interested in the life of well-known people. If there’s a well-known personality you’ve always wanted to learn about, this is a good chance to learn about that person and make money from your research at the same time. There are even TV channels dedicated to biographies and you can generate ideas from those TV channels.
We have tackled three potential sources of everfresh niches. Surely there are several other sources where you can get ideas to find evergreen niches. For now, the ones we have discussed should be enough to give you a headstart. Remember that whatever you learned in this article is useless unless you go out and do something about it.
Take action and you’ll discover what works and what doesn’t and you’ll be on your way to online success.
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