Another day, another way to make money for you guys. I’ve been using this method to take advantage and make a few pretty decent website sales.. I’m talking low four figure sales for about an hour of work.
You see, the problem with niche marketing is that well… it’s difficult to get a foothold in the established niches. Forex, diet pills, make money online even – there are thousands, if not millions of competitors out there, most of which have a budget that will blow yours out of the water.
What if those competitors… weren’t a problem?
What if your competition was so weak… you could rank first page for a 500+ daily search term… in a day or less?
I have, and now you can do.
I’m talking about current event annihilation.
By taking advantage of current events, we can make sure that most of our competition isn’t established… everyone starts out on an even foothold. No more having to compete with sites that are years older, have thousands more backlinks etc.
One of the comments yesterday spoke about wanting to know how to find and act on untapped niches… about setting trends and the like.
The websites we’ll be setting up will be small, 5-10 page niche websites. Nothing too complicated. Here’s how to find our niches though.
The two best places to find what people are interested in is a) Yahoo Buzz and b) Google Trends.
Yahoo Buzz has a little chart on the right showing top ten searches (updated hourly) while Google has 10 on their homepage and up to 100 if you click through.
This is a goldmine, because we can see what exactly people are searching for at this moment. Hot search terms = profit.
Let’s take a direct example, so you guys can understand better… at the moment, one of the hot search terms in Yahoo is Miley Cyrus.
Right now, people are pretty interested to see what she’s up to. At the moment there are more than 100,000 searches daily just for her name… that’s not even including other keywords.
As soon as you see a search term that you like, what you do is enter it into SEOBook’s tool.
From SEOBook’s tool, we can see variations of the hot keyword that other people are searching for. Now the direct keyword – in this case Miley Cyrus – will usually be too hard, but there are plenty of others.
You’re looking for anything with more than 500 searches daily.
The easiest way to rank first page… is by snagging the relevant domain. If the domain is still available for a term, it’s likely that there’s less competition, and thus it’s easier to rank.
Now for the above keyword, there are around… 20 terms that get more than 500 searches daily. That’s a potential 15,000 visitors monthly (if you snag top place – this is not difficult with the exact keyword in your domain).
Use Instant Domain Search to make searching fast, and just take keywords from the SEOBook tool and enter them directly in.
A lot of the direct keywords were taken, but in this case the keywords miley cyrus shower and miley cyrus bra were both available (in .COM). Both are near the 1,000/day search range, one slightly above, one slightly below.
Now the former keyword had around 2,000,000 competing pages. The latter however, had only around 750,000 pages – ripe for domination.
Pick a simple template from OSWD and setup a 5 page website. Make sure you do simple SEO (meta tags, page titles, bolded keywords, h1 / h2) and create 3-4 articles, one picture page. Make sure you download any pictures you find and reupload them with the keyword as its title (to benefit from Google Images traffic).
Now… pages need links to get them indexed. So submit them to the top few Social Networks, using the keyword as your title when allowed (Digg, for example). You don’t care about promoting it, just the high power backlink. After you submit it, ping the Digg entry to get your site indexed within 24 – 48 hours.
You can also leave comments on dofollow blogs or build links in other ways. All you need is around 25 links total with your keyword as anchor text (if you have an account on forums with a few hundred posts, this is good enough). Use the search term as your anchor text.
As for monetization… use Adsense, or similar (PPC). For some keywords (like miley cyrus bra) Adsense may not work, so use something like Adbrite. However you can stick to ’safe’ keywords if you prefer, as Adsense pays better than any similar kind of program. The great thing is that it’ll pick up the keywords in your article and link to similar websites, and especially celebrity related topics – these kinds of users are click-whores.
You can also try out affiliate programs – no offense meant, but in this case – the people that search for celebrities tend to be not that bright and believe they can win things like a free iPod by just entering their email address. Email / zip submits are king on celebrity kind of websites. However, most of them only allow USA traffic, while Adsense allows you to monetize everyone.
Within a few days, use Shoemoney’s SERP tool to see where you’re ranking for your keyword. Depending where you are, build links – you should be first page or close to it, but if you’re not just keep on building 
Once you hit the first page, keep working (won’t take long) until you’re top five. At the top five positions, it’s fairly easy to make around $20/day. As long as you have 2-4 weeks of consistant revenue, you can flip the website for $1,000 or more (just list it at the various webmaster forums).
You’ll make anywhere between $100 – $500+ of revenue and net a thousand or so for the website sale.
Don’t think. Act. All you need to spend on is the domain name and some time (hosting is available at $0.01 first month at HG) so you have nothing to lose.
Good luck, and if you have any questions let me know
July 31st, 2008 at 6:03 pm
This is awesome! It is surprising how quickly someone can wrap up a site like this and get it ranking #1 or in top 10 for a keyword. The current events go really nicely, as I have found. A little question: how do you find email/zip submit ads? Those are great to use on celeb and news sites because the people there are dumbasses. I want to try to find some to put them up on a current even site.
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October 8th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Nate you can try copeac for email and zip code offers
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
This was a really great post. I dunno, but every single time there is a new post here it’s always beneficial. This site is great, lol.
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I got a question
Why haven’t you told us this before! 
Jason, you seriously continue to blow me away with your tips, I know they might be a bit basic, but I know you can’t spoon feed us and all
By the way, could you post something tomorrow or whenever possible explaining how to sell a website properly. I mean, what to do with the hosting, domain, files, and everything of the sort. That is where I am completely clueless and wouldn’t mind a post or ten about.
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Brilliant post. I’ve used almost this eact technique before with “iPhone 3G sold out” and made a bit of money. That was an extremely short term phrase but it worked nonetheless.
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I will try this out soon and let you know how it goes.
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Wow. This is one of your best posts yet! I’m going to try this method right now.
I really don’t know why I didn’t think of it…
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Great tips, Jason.
The only thing I see lacking here is being careful with your current events and hot keywords. Things like “Marlins trade with Manny Ramirez” is not going to prosper after today or tomorrow, because it will be over.
Just some things to keep in mind, you want to look for current events that are just becoming popular and/or will be popular for at least a few weeks so when you sell it’s still hot.
Regards,
– Mark Cuda
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
This goes to the top3 of your posts. I also wonder why you haven’t wrote about this before. Great stuff.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Haha, TUK is the man lol, great one TUK it’s always the simple stuff that makes us money. Too many think about all the hard, SEO super duper, keyword on/off site optimizational affiliate niche buster tactics!
This simple formula here someone could do day in and day out and continue to make a profit. If you already have hosting, it’s just a matter of buying domains.
great one buddy.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
A very nicely written article Jason. I’ll subscribe to your blog now.
You’ve just got some bombs in your pockets that you continue to blow every now and then.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hey Jason you were featured in the Entrecard Credit Generator.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
And this is why you’re probably the best online entrepreneur that I know… you’re mad cool, down-to-earth, open to talk to and you actually give detailed advice man…
You are the man!
I knew a few of these already but the latter half was pretty interesting.
Just to add, you can also do this for individual posts for those who don’t want to start a brand new website. Just take everything Jason said and just write a killer post on whatever topic you pick. It works the same way when it comes to the search engine traffic and Adsense AND you don’t have to start a brand new site.
Of course, this post was about niche site flipping
But definitely good info like always!
Jay
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Wow, ask and you shall receive. You never cease to amaze me (us)! I am definitely bookmarking this post and going to give it a couple of tries this weekend.
Awesome idea, good tools/links to work with, and the process laid out nicely, thanks for sharing that!
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:01 am
Your tremendous this is too much i’m going to be a millionaire just of your site. my god you got some good info and ideas.
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August 1st, 2008 at 7:10 am
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August 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
Jason,
You blog is a daily must read for me because of posts like this. I love the way to you don’t talk down to your readers and you give enough information for someone with very little experience to get started.
Thank you so much for another great post.
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August 1st, 2008 at 11:03 am
It really helped me out in making my blog and i will try to implement you simple but i think effective strategy now and hope i will become as successful like you. Keep on posting great articles and surely i will read it.
Thank you
Charles
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
nice post on some of the unexplored aspects of niche sites.actually i havent yet heard anyone use it.you are a genious.i have already started this hope this helps.
also some more knowledge on how to transfer sites would help. I would be thankfull if you could do a post on site transfers.
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I will give this a shot. Seems logical enough.
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Awesome tips..
This is the first time I visit this blog, and I am glad I did.
I will be another regular reader of this blog
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August 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Right now I’m just using Google Trends. Thanks for sharing Yahoo Buzz. I’m going to check them out and see if I could use them to my advantage.
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August 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Fantastic post.
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August 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
It is indeed true. One of my friend have had lots of websites hitting the frontpage for similar search terms and he makes huge amount of money off these.
I think the best option will be to develop the site, keep it making at least 10$+ a day for like 4 – 5 months and you can easily expect 4,000$ or more (the sites do not need any maintenance I guess, so normally will get more than the usual 10x revenue).
I wish I had some time to spare for this.. but unfortunately very busy with clients and other offline stuff and it’s quite hard to arrange time for this. I’ll try my best to get some free time and do this though.
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August 1st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hey everyone, if you want to get a lot of search engine traffic AND get a lot of clicks on your ads, you can just create a page on your current blog and optimize that one page. That way it won’t interrupt your blog posts, you don’t have to display your pages, AND you’ll be making money.
This is of course if you don’t want to site flip and just get some increased Adsense revenue.
Jay
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August 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I would like to add that you have to select a niche or a keyword that is continuously being searched for some period of time. By the way, cool post. It would be nice if you wrote a series of posts about how you started making money online.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 am
It’s a nice tactic, if you do it just right you can earn quite a bit of money.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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August 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Great tactic! Thanks for sharing.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 pm
This is why I subscribe to your site feed. This type of article just makes my whole week. Eww… hole weak. Anyway… keep it up. I love your site.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I’ve been applying this method for the past few days. It’s somewhat working. Still trying to get SERPs, but we’ll see. Thanks, TUK!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 am
I’m giving it a try, we’ll see how it goes.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
is it me or does anyone see the chart jason talked about on the right sidebar of yahoo buzz?
i saw it once and then it disappeared can anyone explain this to me.
it doesnt appear even when i login?
pl. help.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:45 am
This is an incredible post on how to make money online. I am shocked by how easy and simple you made it sound with your easy to follow steps. Thanks for your help
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am
The toughest part for me is not the building the website, but the acquisition of the pr backlinks to get my site indexed higher up. Working on this one!
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August 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Thanks for yet another great idea can’t wait to get started with this.
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August 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
This is perhaps my favorite post on your blog. Full of great info!
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I wrote about this http://freelancetwins.com/story-6-Making-money-with-current-events but it’s harder than you make it seem with “instant money”. Unless you have a high-traffic blog that gets instantly indexed by Google (for new posts), you probably won’t rank high enough to get any traffic.
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hey Alex…
Nothing is impossible with the right type of SEO. This can be used for new or old sites.
For example, the Digg trick I put up above… that usually gets my new websites indexed within an hour or two. Doesn’t matter whether the domain is a year old or a minute old, it more often than not works.
A link to your website from a high authority site can get you indexed pretty darn quick. And luckily, there are plenty of authority sites with dofollow comments.
Once you get indexed, moving up the ranks is just a case of building more and more links. Anything under 1,000,000 SE results is usually pretty easy, assuming that the pages currently ranked are not high authority (like CNN / BBC etc).
Good luck, @ everyone else, feel free to ask questions. Haven’t answered some of the above because the comments on this post shot up a bit, but I’ll try and answer any new ones put forward
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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August 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Great use of trend blogging, which I experimented with during Vic’s competition. Hadn’t thought of applying the same idea to site flipping … you’re a smart guy, and I am in awe.
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August 17th, 2008 at 6:39 am
I tired what you said because it makes sense. I rank number one on Google for the keyword phrase: is bigfoot a myth
However, I have found that SEO Books Keyword Suggestion Tool isn’t very accurate when it comes to ‘Daily Estimates’
Let’s just say that I haven’t got one view yet for the key term: is bigfoot a myth. Is SEO Book spitting out inaccuracies or is it just me.
Get back to me man.
ttomp13@gmail.com
Thanks.
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October 28th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Good stuff man!
I reckon I’m probably late with this but what the heck! I’ve decided to try and capitalize on the whole SNL Tina Fey/Sarah Palin fad…
Wish me luck!
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October 28th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Guys – SEOBook has been a little off of late so here’s a few more tools:
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Keyword Ideas:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
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April 20th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Definitely good stuff dude!
I will give it a try – no doubt!
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