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So, my little experiment into the best ways of earning money online is going along quite nicely. I have to admit, it’s going a lot better than I thought it would. And to be perfectly honest, when you think about it, it makes perfect sense.
The first lesson learned is that there’s a whole lot more money to be made outside of the Internet Marketing niche, than there is to be made inside it. I don’t give a flying **** what the gurus tell you. Get out of the IM niche and you can earn more money, rank higher, build a bigger list, get more clicks, sell more products…. than you ever will trying to sell to other online marketers.
There’s just so much less competition out there. Admittedly, I’m well impressed with the latest ‘toy’ added to my arsenal which makes finding profitable niches a breeze. But finding the niche isn’t enough on it’s own.
And of the 3 niche sites launched so far, the one doing the best bears no resemblance to anything remotely connected to making money online.
Without revealing the niche let me tell you what I’ve done so far:
- Bought the dotcom domain
- Setup a simple Wordpress blog
- Did some keyword research
- Put up 6 posts (all unique)
- Found some affiliate products to make the sidebar look pretty
- Created a downloadable ‘free giveaway’ to build a list
- Put up one adsense block in each post
- Wrote and submitted two articles
- Got about 3 backlinks to the site
And that’s pretty much about it. Not a great deal of work. And it’s the minimum you’d have to do for just about any site regardless of what niche you were going after anyway.
Yet this one little site, with hardly any content, and even less in the way of backlinks already earns more money than some of my IM sites that have been around for a year or more. And despite the fact I didn’t really think anyone in this niche would bother handing over their email address, I was amazed to see how quickly they were willing to sign up.
Not only that, they’re a damn site better at actually confirming their subscription and then going on to open, read and click the links from the emails sent out.
The site ranked on the first page of Google within a month, and after a couple of months is at number one for my main keyword, with a double listing to boot.
What I will say is that I didn’t use EZA for the article submission. Been testing out some new directories and new linking methods. Now that may have been good or bad. Perhaps the site would have ranked quicker had I stuck with EZA? To be honest, I have no idea. And to be honest, I don’t really care.
Number one within that short of a timescale, with practically no work? It’s a no brainer. As far as yours truly is concerned, the internet marketing sites have a long way to go before they can compete with the teeny, tiny niche markets.
