AIS Journey Starts here! Part 1.

[Aitch]

Hi everyone.

It’s time to report back a little of my understanding about AIS sites of which I’ve been learning about over the past week or 2.

It’s so important to get organised in this game as there can be a lot to do and remember when dealing with or building up an array of niche websites. I would personally recommend reading related blogs, or joining a forum such as Keyword Avalanche which seems to have a very helpful membership.

A good Blog is Burts osCommerce & More Blog. I pop over there quite a bit and its a great resource for tips and tricks in general, and to catch up on the lastest products and tools available.

Anyway, Like any project, there has to be a starting point, a step 1 if you like.

Therefore, the first step is finding a profitible niche which starts like this:

1. Obtaining good keywords or key phrases on which to base your niches
2. Building the keyword/phrase 'lists' for the keywords above.

First you need some kind of KW research tool in order to obtain these keywords. There are free and paid options available. I can post links to these at a later date if anyone is interested.

Once you have a list of potential keywords or key phrases, it’s necessary to go through them and determine which ones might be a good choice for building a niche site around. Here are some points to take into consideration when determining which of the displayed keywords/phrases might be worth considering:

• How many searches were performed on the word/phrase in the past month?
• How many search results were there for the search?
• What was the top CPC (Cost per Click) on the word or phrase
• What’s the KVR figure? (don’t ask! but anything over 10 is worth consideration)

Once happy with your word, you then take it over to Google and do a search. You then need check to see how many Ads are showing on the right side column.

It’s best to look for at least 5 (excluding Ebay ads) Remember, as I’m looking to make money primarily with Google AdSense in the beginning, I want to see there are enough advertisers for the niche subject in question, otherwise I’ll not get full benefit from my AdSense campaign. Worse still, I could end up with PSA’s (Public Service Announcements) in place of my AdSense, which would pay diddlysquat if clicked!

Remember

What makes a good AdSense Niche?</span>

High Cost Per Click
High Traffic
Low Competition...

That’s the ideal formula but there are other variations of the above.

Low Cost Per Click
High Traffic
Low competition

High Cost Per Click
Low Traffic
Low Compertiton.

<span style=\'color:red\'>All you really need to avoid is setting up a site that has:

Low Cost Per Click
Low Traffic
High Compertiton

All else goes I guess.

That’s it for this summary. I hope it’s useful for some.

Coming Next is building those keyword lists for your keywords or phrases.

Aitch

[Yaro]

Fantastic summary Aitch - I can't wait to see how you go with this since I myself haven't experimented much with AIS but it's always tempting. Burty I think is a good person to follow too, he seems to know what he is doing (I wish he would do a podcast interview with me, but he's too shy .

I've made a blog post to share this with the world.

[Aitch]

Originally posted by Yaro@Feb 7 2006, 08:39 AM
Fantastic summary Aitch - I can't wait to see how you go with this since I myself haven't experimented much with AIS but it's always tempting. Burty I think is a good person to follow too, he seems to know what he is doing (I wish he would do a podcast interview with me, but he's too shy .

I've made a blog post to share this with the world.

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Thanks Yaro, I saw me on the front page. Fame at last ha ha Lol!

I have to mention that I’m no bookworm and I could perhaps be considered to be a slow learner and a fast forgetter, so for me, patience and persistence are a must at this game.

Additionally, I’ve joined the Keyword Avalanche forum as recommended by Burty but unfortunately it's been a bit hit-and-miss with me logging in. This is an intermittent problem my end not theirs, and I just hope it resolves itself soon.

The forum is a great resource and it seems like there's a real good community in there from what I’ve can seen so far. I've even had one member in the UK that's been guiding me remotely and has been bending over backwards to answer any question I may have along the way.

Anyway, all my postings in here will be mere summaries of what I’ve been doing. It would be too long winded to report all the moves, plus some folk are put off by lengthy posts in a forum windows. In addition to that, I don't have the time to submit the micro details, but hopefully I’ll be able to provide enough information to help people decide whether they want to have a stab at this AIS malarkey themselves or not.

Cheers for now.

Aitch

[Yaro]

Anything you can report back is much appreciated Aitch. I also wouldn't worry too much about being longwinded, no one is forced to read all the way to the end unless they want to. I specialize in longwinded articles and I know I have at least one fan that reads all the way to the end

[Rhett]

Just putting my hand up to say I'll be following your progress

[burty]

I'm not really one for researching niches and using keyword lists. When I build, I build because I could not find information.

An example:
I recently sold a car. It was a Fiat. Fiats have special keys with code in them..I had to get a couple cut & coded. I couldn't find a website offering such keys, so I built one. I now have a mini AIS about Fiat Blank Keys!

This approach is somewhat different to 99.9% of other Niche Builders. I believe that I am adding valuable sites, whereas most are just adding spam sites.

[Aitch]

I think it’s important to distinguish between the different types of AIS sites that people go for.

1. There are those so called quickly knocked up sites that the webmaster gives little thought or care for so long as they make a few bob.

2. Then there are those that carefully research the niche and have a genuine useful resource for the topic(s) in question and therefore a site that is appreciated by the visitor.

To summaries 1 and 2 above, these can perhaps be considered as the ‘build them and forget them’ jobs that have various forms of advertising strategically placed throughout the pages, and once again, some are useful whereas others are simply the type that visitors just click their way out of on arrival. Whether they leave on arrival or have a good rummage around the content and useful links first, the webmaster’s ultimately hope they will click a sponsored link at some point during their long or short visit.

3. Then there are the interactive sites where webmasters have carefully built them to promote a product or service. In this case the site has to be of a higher quality if the product/service is to sell, and the webmaster has to be available for comments, feedback, updates, and some kind of after-sales-service if he cares about what he’s constructed.

Cheers

Aitch