#there was like 2 good ones in that thread but they were screenshots from elsewhere so like ?

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"Thread of tweets I hope skz have seen" << literally 20 unfunny tweets I hope they never have the displeasure of seeing

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More Divaz confos

Mod: Round two of these, previously: link. There’s some interesting customer reviews in this batch (5 and 8) which may be useful to readers.

1.Vic3mage "the secret bjdivaz vip group is just pictures of boxes coming in and going out". Yeah, between the bitching about d0llshe, asking people to post on doa for them, dunking on ex-customers, posting pics of random doll parts that they can't identify which doll they're supposed to go with, whining about how little money they make, whining when ppl e-mail them, whining. Yeah, other than that it's just boxes, and alpacas u can buy off amazon anyway lol.

~Anonymous

2.The butthurt users crying and guilttripping under every Divaz confession who have never been seen before elsewhere on this blog are extremely unsuspicious and unproblematic and definitely unconnected to Divaz and unbiased in every possible way

/s

~Anonymous

3.idk shit abt bjd1vas but v1cemage i can absolutely tell you the shit about ch0o is 100% accurate, fucker's got a long, long history of being an awful little man that stretches well beyond his involvement in the doll community. between the two i'd still trust bjd1vas over ch00 ch00 the fool any day!

~Anonymous

4.The Z3st and Div4s thing is really silly and both entities were being shady but did they really have to take the DZ waiting room down with them? :( He had even made a separate thread about it......

~Anonymous 

5. RE: BJD Divaz

I’ve been a customer of BJD Divaz since they first started, when it was only run by Chart3rline. I even contacted other BJD companies trying to persuade them to work with Divaz as their US representative. Most declined because they didnt like D's commission fee, but I was able to persuade a few of them.

I asked them to purchase a doll off DOA because I couldnt afford the asking price, and while they did, I found out later that instead of agreeing to purchase the seller's price, they negotiated the price to be lower. This significantly cheaper price was not passed down to me. I paid the full price +the commission fee based on that full price. I am disappointed I was not told this. This is when I stopped viewing them as a "friend" and instead, as a business. I dont hold this against them, it’s context to what Im going to say later.

I’ve stopped purchasing from D after my recent order from them. This company usually takes 3 or less months to make a doll. I’ve ordered the doll from D and it took 11 months. They let me know it arrived to them in March and that it will be shipped soon, except it only shipped on July, and only after I sent them several "reminder" emails. Before people in the comments try to put the blame on me for not sending a reminder soon, please keep in mind that I acknowledged the email in March and confirmed everything and they keep stressing to not send them emails because they are busy, I’ve emailed once every month since. I’ve since switched to ACBJD and Ive been happy with communication and the dolls ordered. I imagine ACBJD gets the same amount of emails, but they dont berate their customers if they email more than once.

I regret when people wanted a D0llshe, but not deal with him, I always recommended D. I would warn people of ordering directly and instead go through D. They assured buyers they would be handling communication and all the efforts so they wouldnt worry, except they didn’t. A person that I’ve recommended D to, who surpassed 2 years, keeps messaging me for help because D wouldnt reply to their emails. She is respectful, sweet and a timid person, not a Karen. This person, emailed D without a reply so would email a week later, only to be told that their email would be pushed down to the bottom if emailed again. No response, so she goes to FB and IG, who both tell her to email because they arent the person running orders. Finally got a response that they would get their refund, after D0llshe sends D's payment, but minus the PP fees. 3 months later and theres no refund, only a promise of them getting it later. Why is the customer missing out on fees when they have no doll? Customer emails d0llshe and he says he cant offer refund, because they didn’t order through them, which is understandable, but when all options are out for a customer, do you blame them for chargebacks?

If anyone files a chargeback, D will be blacklisting them from every company they rep, as in blacklisting you from buying direct from those companies. I urge everyone who has negative experiences with D to email the companies they rep instead of venting on confession blogs, and writing your experiences on social media. Make it count and send letters to the companies they represent, and please provide proof because they will try to make you out to be a liar.

Speaking of, they made vague posts on cl0ver singing for charging paypal fees, and that they offer guarantees as an official dealer, except when offering refunds, to non delivered products I might add, they are keeping the fees, and offered no help with d0llshe, even before they ended their dealership with them. Someone on DOA was told to not email them unless the wait time surpassed 1.5 years. They are even so petty that they post screenshots with the full name and address (dox) of the customer on purpose and then delete it out a day later as if they just realized their "mistake".

Before you try to make excuses for them about the fires, keep in mind, I am dealing with a business. The lower price negotiation with the DOA sale, I am in no way obligated to give them a pass or treat them as a friend when they made it clear that our relationship is strictly business. Their issues, are not my issues. D0lk got dragged for not shipping in time, others, including artisans, got dragged for being so late with communication and sending back refunds for cancelled orders. Why does D get to be exempt?

The supporters are the worst part of this, because of instead of being honest so D can improve, they support them for being "real". For example, look how micemage words it, to make it seem like this criticism is from one person, when there are people on addicts who didn’t have good experience. Check the bjd dealers tag here, you will see the supporters in the comments going off on any and all criticism of D. Some have sane comments, but the majority are cult like and try to identify the person venting as if it’s one person. Addicts deletes threads with criticism asking people to instead direct it to their feedback group; which lets be honest, no one is going to do because its "not that bad", and most dont want to join a new group, which is mostly dead.

This is my first and last confession on D, I’ve emailed each company they rep and told them my experience as well as contacting the 3 month wait company, with screenshots of my order, how they handled it, and the excuse they used to put blame on the company for being so late (package arrived march to D, 4 months to be shipped is on D, not the company). I’m not using company or order details because I know they are petty enough to try to identify me and publicly shame me like they have to others. This and the threat of suing is why not many people like to go public with their experience. They just keep feedback neutral, move on and never deal with again.

~Anonymous

6. Listen, I can't take you seriously in regards to BJD!vas because you're posting on a confession blog. If you were serious, you would have posted in buyer beware groups, DoA reviews or the board to get things resolved, or you would have made a complaint to the BBB. And your language makes you come off more as someone with an agenda rather than someone who is trying to warn people. If shipping is the issue, stop buying with standard shipping and pay the extra price for express shipping. I saw one of you complain that it sat with them for 20 days; that's probably because you're not the only one and they more than likely have a queue to check and then ship out. Do mistakes happen? Yes, because we're human. I've been in this hobby for a few years now and it seems like most people know you're going to have to wait, sometimes even outside the expected wait time. And shipping something as big as a doll is a timely endeavor. I shouldn't have to say that.

My point is simply to stop complaining on an confession board and either take it to the places previously mentioned. Posting here behind the anonymous mask makes you sound like a petulant child who didn't get their way right away.

~Anonymous

7.My only issue with BJD Divaz is how I never get any updates. Every email, they tell me to join their facebook page for status updates. I dont have a FB and I dont want to create one. I bought my doll through their website, updates should be posted on their website, or they could send me an email. That isnt asking much.

~Anonymous

8. Since there seems to be a lot of either "completely negative everything sucks" or "everything was sunshine and rainbows" confessions about bjd!vaz I thought I'd chime in with a neutral review.

PROS

-They were always polite and professional in their emails, and gave me very detailed answers to my questions.

-I got exactly what I ordered, so no mix ups or missing parts or anything like that.

-I think them being forthcoming about personal issues (only one person on staff, illness, the flooding isue etc.) on social media is good, since it keeps customers updated as to why there might be delays.

-If you live in the US their shipping is very reasonable.

CONS

-Reply times were varied. Sometimes it could take over a week, sometimes a couple hours.

-My order took about 10mo which, when comparing to other people who ordered through the same company around the same time, was about 3x as long as if I bought it direct and 2x as long if I had gone through a different dealer. I get some of the waiting time is out of their control, but it was kind of ridiculous.

-They dont necessarily ship the same day they send you a tracking number. I wish they said something like, "Here's your tracking number, our pickup is Xday so it should start moving after that" just so I could be aware.

All in all no major complaints. I got my doll and all that. Their lone employee is clearly overwhelmed. I hope they hire another person, if only to give the one a break.

Truthfully, I most likely won't buy through them again. I'd rather pay the international shipping and go direct, than deal with the extensive wait time. I'd still recommend them to someone looking for a very long layaway, though. I paid in full, but if I had a 12mo layaway I would've never known they weren't ready to ship my doll until month 10.

~Anonymous

[entergamingxp]

Microsoft Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 review: masterpiece • Eurogamer.net

The Elite 2 is the best controller Microsoft have ever made, a triumph of engineering that sets a new standard for premium-grade gamepads on any platform. The new gen-two design includes more features, deeper customisation and clever creature comforts that make the Elite 2 a pleasure to use. Here’s why we love it – even though it’s not for everyone.

First off, let’s address the price. At £160 in the UK and $180 in the US, the Elite 2 costs three times the price of a standard controller; and it’s actually the same ballpark price as a brand new Xbox One S All Digital. That means it remains a luxury item that simply doesn’t make sense for all but the most invested Xbox and PC owners. Thankfully, this price differential is at least reflected in the depth of the feature list and build quality of the controller, with that premium feeling starting from the moment you take it out of the box.

While the Elite 2 comes in the same soft shell case as its predecessor, the lump of foam that supported the controller before has been replaced by a convenient charging stand – which complements the new rechargeable (but sadly irremovable) battery nicely. Remove the fabric cover, and pins on the wedge-shaped charger will line up nicely with contacts on the back of the controller. You can even plug a USB-C cable in through a specially designed flap in the back of the case, allowing you to charge your Elite 2 while keeping it fully covered.

As well as the removable charger, you’ll find a toolkit that includes four replacement thumbsticks, four paddles, a more traditional four-way d-pad and a curious item that looks like a guitar pick crossed with a SIM card removal tool. Pop off the thumbsticks, and you’ll be able to use this to adjust the tension of each stick, with three levels to choose from: the standard loosey-goosey feel and two tighter settings that push the stick back to centre more assertively. The replacement thumbsticks are wild too, with a pair of taller, flatter and less textured alternatives, a double-height stick and one with a ridged, convex top. I swapped between these regularly throughout testing, eventually ending up with a flat stick for movement and the convex option for precision aiming. Combined with the clickier face buttons, this made for the most effortlessly responsive controller I’ve ever tested – and the depth of options here mean that it should work for a wide range of gamers.

Box contents

Controller

Carrying case

Thumbsticks: Standard (2), Classic (2), Tall (1), Wide Dome (1)

Paddles: Medium (2), Mini (2)

D-pads: Standard, Faceted

Thumbstick-adjustment tool

Charging dock

USB-C cable

As well as being an evolution of the Elite line, the Elite 2 also includes the changes made to Microsoft’s most recent generation of standard Xbox controllers. This means Bluetooth connectivity is now on board, finally allowing an Elite controller to be used with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets – particularly useful for playing Xbox titles on the go with Project xCloud. It also gives a new connectivity option for Windows PCs that ameliorates the need for the £20/$20 Xbox Wireless Adapter – although the inherent latency of a Bluetooth connection means that serious PC gamers should still probably pick up the faster 2.4GHz wireless dongle if they can spare the cash. The unibody design from the new controllers has also been carried over, with a nearly flush Xbox button and a 3.5mm port for connecting headphones. It was weird buying the expensive first-gen Elite in 2019 and feeling that the standard controllers were more advanced in some ways, so it’s great to see this resolved with the Elite 2.

Looking at the two Elites side by side, another difference is clear: the size of the textured grips. On the original Elite, this only extends down the back side of each arm of the controller, but on the Elite 2 the grippy texture is found on front and back, stretching up to meet the sides of the shoulder buttons to cover a much larger surface area. Even the triggers are textured in a similar way, helping to stop sweaty fingers slipping off in a frantic firefight. Comfort is at an all-time high here, which is good news for anyone that plays enough to justify a premium controller like this one.

The hair triggers have also been upgraded, with a new travel distance between the two extremes introduced by the original Elite. I didn’t find this massively useful – full distance for racing and a hair trigger for action games like Nioh was already enough for me – but I don’t mind the extra option as it doesn’t detract from the design elsewhere. Finally, the two profiles of the first Elite have become three on the Elite 2, with the simple switch traded for an LED and button combo. There’s even a new shortcut – hold down the profile button, and the controller will return to a bog-standard setup that disables the bottom triggers. That’s useful if you’re setting the controller down and don’t want to accidentally slash a friendly NPC, or you’re handing your mate the controller and don’t want to confuse him with your unorthodox setup.

The original Elite controller failed to earn our unequivocal recommendation.

To actually set up your profiles, you’ll need to venture into the Xbox Accessories app on Xbox One or Windows. From here, you can remap any button on the controller (apart from Xbox, Start and Select). Each button can also change its mapping when a shift button of your choosing is held, allowing the paddles to be used for eight different functions instead of four. Elsewhere, you can adjust each stick’s sensitivity, set dead zones for each trigger, turn down or disable vibration in four zones and even adjust the brightness of the Xbox button. It’s a sensible package, and one that allows deeper and more intuitive customisation than the first-gen Elite, which lacks Shift functionality and the ability to map buttons to system functions like starting a recording or taking a screenshot.

While nailing the physical design and delivering competent software are impressive feats that Microsoft should be proud of, they managed that last time around too – and despite these strengths, the original Elite failed to earn our unequivocal recommendation. After all, despite a price tag many times greater than a standard controller, users of the original Elite gamepad reported a litany of problems with the device – like grips falling off, shoulder buttons jamming and sticks drifting. Many users went through multiple replacements in the span of a year, suggesting these issues weren’t restricted to the first batch of controllers, while others opted for third-party fixes like extra adhesive to solve what appear to be design deficiencies. Of course, some Elite controllers have stood the test of time. I picked one up to review twelve months ago, and I’ve had no issues whatsoever despite periods of heavy use in racing sims, Souls-like titles and party games. No one but Microsoft really has the data to say whether or not the original Elite has a higher failure rate than other gamepads, but a premium controller ought to be better constructed and more reliable than one that comes with the console, not less.

This chequered history meant that the Elite 2 faces a higher level of scrutiny. We haven’t identified any build quality concerns with our particular unit, but a thread on the /r/XboxOne subreddit with 3000 comments and counting suggests that this iteration has its own gremlins, with a multitude of users reporting sticky face buttons and thumbstick drift that Microsoft has promised to investigate. These problems are covered under the controller’s warranty, which runs 90 days in the US and Canada and one year in the UK, but choosing a major retailer that offers no quibble returns or replacements could be a wise move.

With luck, these quality assurance issues will be fixed and all future Series 2 controllers made will deliver the reliability that befits a premium option. After all, the Elite Series 2 is otherwise a standout controller with a deep feature list that provides a class-leading feeling of precision and control – a fitting choice for the next generation of Xbox consoles and PCs.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/01/microsoft-elite-wireless-controller-series-2-review-masterpiece-%e2%80%a2-eurogamer-net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-elite-wireless-controller-series-2-review-masterpiece-%25e2%2580%25a2-eurogamer-net

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51 Profitable SEO Niches to Dominate with Low Competition

Today I’m going to reveal some of the most interesting online niches where there is a lot of money to be made. These are niches which have a level of competition that allows you to compete, and fast. In other words, I wouldn’t expect to be waiting years (or even months, in many cases) to see some results.

I’ve seen other people put together eBook’s and blog posts on this topic before but they usually just contain a huge bulleted list with no information on how they found the niche, why they think it’s a good niche to enter and how you would actually make money in it.

I really didn’t want to do that when deciding to cover this topic, so have covered each niche in a lot of depth so you can see if it’s the right fit for you.

If there is a positive response to this kind of post I’ll definitely do more like it in the future, so please do share your feedback in the comments!

Come Closer to Your Screen For This First Opportunity

A few months ago I was doing some backlink analysis and noticed a network of websites which were all competing for a similar keyphrase, slightly tweaked for different industries.

I ran their sites through my usual go-to tools like SEMRush and Similarweb and was slightly blown-away at what I had just discovered. A network of low-quality, thin websites with barely any links was ranking for queries which, when combined, were being searched for millions of times per month.

I have since taken advantage of what I found that day and actually never planned on sharing it.

While I’m not the only one to to have discovered the opportunity, as you can see from a recent tweet of mine, I haven’t seen it covered elsewhere.

When an SEO guy tweets a G Trends screenshot of how fast one of your niches is growing and you hope noone else saw it.

— Glen Allsopp (@ViperChill) July 11, 2016

You may be wondering why I was concerned about a lot of people finding this opportunity before and why I’m sharing it with tens of thousands of people now. Well, I went a little overboard with the research for this very article and found so many niches you can capitlise on it with that I’m really not worried about competition.

“Enough of the hype, Glen, what’s the keyphrase?”

Near me.

That’s it. That’s the search query.

Or more specifically, something near me. This screenshot of keyphrases which Thumbtack – a popular services marketplace – are ranking for should give you some idea of the potential.

Another reason this opportunity is interesting to me is because it doesn’t seem to be taking much to rank.

In two of the search terms above, exact match domains are performing very well with very few backlinks. I’m not going to ‘out’ the sites but they are very easy to find when you start analysing the opportunities here.

I was able to pick up a few exact match domains myself so they’re definitely still available. I did add a few more domains to my list before going live with this article, but left out quite a few others I found.

All of the other sites I’m ranking in this space are .com’s so I’m curious to see how well the recent .co.uk purchase works out, targeting a UK-specific search query.

While I’m certainly not the only one to catch on to this, it’s always a good sign when you see exact match or nearly exact-match domains ranking well in Google. It means there are very few authoritative sites which Google thinks should be ranking.

It’s funny to see that some people are trying to capitalise on this new opportunity already with some high-priced domain names.

Now, I am aware that a large number of ‘near me’ searches are likely performed on mobile and are from people hoping to find map listings in the search results, rather than actual websites to click on.

However, the dozens of near me sites I’ve investigated appear to be receiving a lot of traffic without being featured on any kind of map pack.

I’ll use an authoritative site, HoursInfo, to give an example. I picked them because they have a number of rankings related to ‘near me’ search terms but aren’t some small time webmaster capitalising on the opportunity. You can see they are some of the most popular terms the site ranks for.

Now, I am aware that their rankings for the highlighted search terms are not great. I’ve sorted the results by volume rather than ranking position, just to show how many searches there are with ‘near me’ in the keyphrase.

Some examples of high rankings they have attained, along with their search volume, include:

Dominos near me: 450,000 searches per month (Ranked #5)

Post office near me: 368,000 searches per month (Ranked #2)

Chase bank near me: 368,000 searches per month (Ranked #5)

Gamestop near me: 165,000 searches per month (Ranked #6)

There are many more, but you get the idea.

Here’s the SimilarWeb graphic to give an idea of how much traffic they really do receive.

I’ve started ranking a number of ‘near me’ sites but they’re not high enough to show any impressive stats. That being said, I know the traffic is there due to how many small, exact match domains I’ve found ranking and their predicted traffic stats among a number of different analysis tools.

If nothing else, this could be a good niche just to test your SEO skills.

In regards to monetising the traffic, it really depends on what industry you choose. For terms like dog grooming and pet spa’s, how to monetise the site should be fairly obvious.

Making Thousands With…Bone Broth

Bear with me here; I haven’t totally lost the plot. If you haven’t been following the latest health crazes over the past year then you are probably as equally as confused as I was when I first came across this healthy meal.

Bone broth is simply a broth that is primarily made of bones and contains few vegetables (if any) which makes it different from stock.

The reason I like this topic is not because it’s some fad to jump on, but bone broth is actually proven to have a number of medical benefits. If you don’t think Apple Cider Vinegar as a health remedy is going to die out any time soon, then neither is this.

The large spike on this graph is for January of 2016, whereas the topic was talked about most in the middle of 2015. That makes me believe that people are going to go crazy for this product once again in January of 2017, when we’re in “New Years Resolution mode” and anything “healthy” tempts us to keep our wallets open.

If you’re wondering where the money to be made – “Can’t people just make it themselves?” – then you would be surprised how much people are making (and charging) for this concoction.

I first came across the topic where the owner of a Broth website, Kettle and Fire, was discussing how much a new plugin for his Shopify store made him in sales.

It was the first time I had heard of ‘Bone broth’ so I was intrigued to learn more.

That’s when I saw it being hailed as a new healthy drink option by the New York Times and MSNBC. From there, I found a number of other stores selling the broth, and it’s certainly not cheap.

That’s $70 for just 6 packs.

If you’re into natural, healthy eating then this may just be the niche for you.

You could affiliate yourself with someone who sells bone broth, make your own, or simply use variations of the term to drive traffic to other health products and offers.

If selling products on Amazon is your thing, I can imagine this is going to be a great market to start dominating now.

The Huge Opportunity with Tiny Houses

The Tiny house movement sounds exactly as it is: It’s a movement for people who want to be able to live in tiny houses.

Believe it or not, it’s a growing trend.

When I first found a video about tiny houses on Youtube I thought they were just a cute little idea. Fast forward 45 minutes and I had found myself looking at dozens of little tiny houses and being constantly impressed with what people can do with their homes.

I was also amazed to see Tiny House Youtube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, especially when I hadn’t previously knew that ‘tiny living’ was a thing.

On some popular videos I found the Youtube comments weren’t just people insulting each other – for once – but people with questions where you can get ideas for building the solution. Here are the comments on one particularly popular video.

Just from those two comments alone you can get the idea to:

Create a directory of people who build tiny houses and send them leads for a fee

Review products designed for tiny houses and promote them with affiliate links

Create a step-by-step information product on building your first tiny house

If I was going to take this on personally I would go with option two, and review products. I would focus on creating an Instagram page showcasing tiny houses and then reaching out to manufacturers to see if I could get products to review.

While tiny house owners seem to want to spend as little money as possible, the one in the video above cost $77,000, which certainly isn’t cheap. While they don’t want to spend a lot of money, they’re still spending it, and I could see tiny product reviews working very well.

GPS Car Tracking

I’ve been building this blog post over the past few months so any time a new industry or niche idea comes to me, I write it down.

It was interesting to see that one Reddit thread I wanted to cover had actually deleted the opportunity they were talking about.

Although the original poster seemed more than happy to share the idea originally – as you can see in their discussion title – it seems like they didn’t feel that way for very long.

Commenters absolutely loved the idea and everyone started thinking of businesses around it. I think this scared the original poster.

You may question my integrity when I highlight what was there, but every single comment reply explains what the business idea was. It received nearly 700 upvotes on Reddit so has already been seen tens of thousands of times.

And of course, only those interested in the niche will take any action (see my closing statements in this blog post) so there’s not too much to worry about.

The original idea, shared on Reddit, was good but not something I would go for myself, which is why I’m more open to sharing it.

The idea was to buy GPS trackers on Alibaba and then go and fit them on cars in your local area for a fee. Apparently they’re fairly easy to install and then people can have peace of mind if their car ever gets stolen or they want to track where their kids are driving when they’re using their car.

I prefer online businesses to those offline, and while people can make some good cash with this – many commenters were excited about copying it directly – it’s too labor intensive for me and the scope is too small.

Instead, I would consider doing things like:

Importing the GPS trackers and selling them via Amazon or my own Shopify store

Creating a lead generation site for those wanting this then selling the leads to people who can do it

Reviewing each tracker and promoting them with affiliate links

I think this niche is only going to get bigger as it becomes easier to set-up, so there’s a lot of potential here.

Laserless Tattoo Removal

With more people sporting tattoos than any other generation in history, it makes sense that we would have more people than ever trying to remove them.

While laser tattoo removal is a growing trend, so is the desire to remove tattoo’s without any lasers.

Right now, admittedly, there aren’t huge volume numbers for this search term. Most estimates point to various terms, like “non laser tattoo removal”, receiving around 200-500 searches per month.

That being said, there is a Clickbank product on the topic that seems to be selling quite well, so there’s definitely a market for it.

And I predict that market will grow.

As far as monetisation goes, I would personally try to target people via these “lessor” keyphrases and sell them on a more expensive solution (providing it is a better solution). I don’t think there are any alternatives that are better than lasers for removing tattoos.

Tattoo removal shops typically charge over $1,000 for the service so if you’re able to generate leads for local businesses, they’ll definitely pay for you for people you can send their way.

Will Automation Increase 18 Wheeler Accidents?

Legal industries online are some of the most profitable out there. Unfortunately, many of them are dominated by large firms which Google view as authorities in the space so even if their page ranking has little to no internal links, they still rank.

Fortunately, there are still a few opportunities. If we look at 18 wheeler accident, we can see that the results aren’t dominated by top legal firms, but actually by news sources.

However, there is one site that was able to break through the news.

I edited the screenshot so it was not too long. The legal site here was ranking in 7th for me.

Now you may be thinking this is a very obscure and unsearched for industry to go after, but the numbers are quite impressive.

According to Google Keyword planner:

truck accident: 8,100 monthly searches

18 wheeler accident: 1,300 monthly searches

truck rollover: 1,300 monthly searches

truck accident lawyer: 1,000 monthly searches

semi truck accident: 1,000 monthly searches

truck accident attorney: 720 monthly searches

fatal truck accident: 390 monthly searches

The keyphrases I’ve highlighted in bold are the ones that interest me most as I feel I could directly make money with them. While the first will include people looking for news results, I believe it will also include those looking for help with legal action after suffering an accident themselves.

The suggested Adwords bid price for ‘truck accident lawyer’ is $139.72. That means Google suggest you will need to bid $140 per click if you want to get one of the top ad spots in search results for the US. In other words, this industry is worth a lot of money to lawyers and they’re willing to pay to get clients.

As far as monetisation goes, as I mentioned earlier, I would primarily be focused on the rank and rent model. Either rank a website in this industry and rent it out to an actual legal firm, or get in touch with legal firms and ask how much they are willing to pay for leads you send their way.

Finally, I do wonder if this is an industry which is only going to be worth a lot more money in the future. This is one field where automation is likely to happen, at least in part, over the next decade. Those automated truck lawsuits are going to set a very interesting precedent for vehicle automation as a whole.

Car Shipping Companies

Just like with the legal truck angle, car shipping companies present another great opportunity to use the rank and rent model or rank to lead generation model.

Some of the most searched for terms in this niche include:

shipping a car: 8,100 monthly searches

auto shipping: 8,100 monthly searches

auto transport companies: 6,600 monthly searches

car transport companies: 4,400 monthly searches

how much does it cost to ship a car: 4,400 monthly searches

car shipping companies: 3,600 monthly searches

how much to ship a car: 2,900 monthly searches

It’s nice to see so many variations of how to phrase the question and yet each search term still has some form of buyer intent.

Let’s look at the search results for one of these terms, ‘Car shipping companies’.

Note: I removed the ads from this screenshot to reduce its length.

RD in the screenshot stands for Referring Domains. This means how many different websites are linking to them. The lower the number, the better. While companies like Uship will have thousands of different sites linking to them, it shows that the smaller, newer competitors still have a chance to rank in Google.

But these guys rank so far down. Are they really getting traffic?

Well let’s look at the worst ranking website in my screenshot, Shipmycar.com. Remember this was actually lower down because ads are normally in the result but I removed them to shorten the graphic.

If we look at SEMRush we can see they’re growing quite well organically.

Of course, these numbers aren’t huge, but they don’t have to be. When people are searching for these terms they’re generally ready to part ways with their cash, or doing the final research before they do.

There’s also the great local SEO angle with ‘ship a car [city]’ type search terms. According to one of the websites ranking, the most popular cities to ship cars to and from are:

New York, New York

Los Angeles, California

Chicago, Illinois

Washington

San Francisco

Boston, Massachusetts

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dallas, Texas

Miami, Florida

Houston, Texas

If you’re outside of the US there is probably even less competition. If you’re in Europe for example then research things like “driving through Europe” or “car shipping to Europe” and so on.

This isn’t always an obvious niche that people think about so the current competition can definitely be beaten if you’re willing to put in the work.

Security System Reviews

With 2,400 searches per month and a suggested Adwords bid price of $14 per click, this is a search term I really like. Not only because of the acceptable search volume and clear ad presence, but because the term ‘reviews’ signals intent. It shows someone is likely looking to purchase a system in the near future.

This opens up the opportunity to either promote your own products, use a dropshipper, or promote Amazon products as an affiliate.

It’s also a niche that seems to be growing as well, as security systems become more affordable.

If you see anything like the following in search results, it’s always a good sign.

Whenever I come across a growing niche that has recent dates in the search result, it always peaks my curiosity. Mostly because standard ranking factors (age, most links, domain authority) often don’t apply and a few basic links pointing something written recently are all you need.

Millions of Parents Need ‘Kids Party Ideas’

One niche I’m surprised to see hasn’t been dominated too extensively by huge brands is that of specific party ideas for kids.

If you have young children of your own and could see yourself writing about this niche and sharing photos of your parties with others, this could be the niche for you.

I first read about this website when looking at a success story for a certain website builder.

Although his website is very prominently shared as a success story around the web, I do want to be a bit more coy and block out any concrete information as to what his site is.

The main website in his network is ranking for more than 31,000 different keyphrases, some of which are searched for thousands of times per month. In another effort at being respectful to their success, I have blocked out number 1 rankings they’ve sustained for a long time.

The stats are even more impressive when you consider than the website “only” has links from 400 others. That’s not a huge number from a site which gets millions of visitors each month from Google.

Especially when many of those links are from websites which anyone can pick up a link from, just by taking the time to register on them.

While it’s not a niche I would be interested in personally, I think it could be a great side-project for anyone with young children.

I would monetise the site with things like an eBook detailing the best party ideas, and then including a directory which takes a commission for leads on things like party magicians and clowns. There’s also the chance to link to party props and decorations as an Amazon affiliate.

A Niche That’s Virtually Yours for the Taking

If I just said “get involved in the virtual reality niche” that would be a little boring of me, and typical of the poor profitable niche ideas blog posts I’ve seen in the past.

I’m sure you already know that virtual reality gaming (and other forms of erm…entertainment) have a big future ahead of them and companies like Facebook have invested billions of dollars into what they believe will be a huge new market.

So as an SEO knowing that the world is going to be searching for virtual reality “things” in the future, where do you start when looking to conquer Google?

Personally, I would start by looking at the news.

Not what TechCrunch is saying about the industry, but who the readers of TechCrunch are investing in.

One such example, is UploadVR. A one year old blog which raised over $1.25m just seven months ago.

While the numbers aren’t huge for the investing world, it’s a pretty big sign that people think a blog on the topic is going to make significantly more money than that back. The sum is even more impressive when you consider that we’ve barely even scratched the surface with usable products that anyone can easily own.

When I first saw the ‘virtual desktop’ a few months ago I have to admit I was blown away. I’ve never played with an Oculus Rift or similar device, but I would love to get the chance to. Virtual desktop for VR basically negates the need to take off your headset to look at other things on your computer.

How cool is this?

When I first saw this I instantly thought, “Someone is going to make a Google competitor that works so incredibly well in Virtual Reality.” Google will then go and buy them most likely, but still, I think that’s one of the next big things we’re going to see from a well-funded startup.

Sadly I am not a well-funded startup and nor do I want to take on that challenge, so we have to spread our horizons a little bit.

Looking at the categories of UPloadVR.com alone you can learn a lot about the areas of search that are going to be popular:

Google Cardboard

Oculus Rift

Virtual reality shopping

Virtual reality advertising

DIY Virtual reality

Virtual reality cameras

Virtual reality jobs

The list goes on. I think any one of these could merit a stand-alone website.

If you’re really into this niche and willing to do extra research, upload VR have one cool feature as part of their design.

That’s right: The pageview count for every article.

For a stats-nerd like myself, I love having this kind of data available.

I’ve no doubt you could pay a programmer $100 or so to scrape the website and figure out what the most popular posts in their history have been. Keeping in mind that some will have just ‘gone viral’ and won’t necessarily be searched for, it would give a lot of insights into the potential future of this huge industry.

The Web Needs a Pole Dancing Directory, Believe It or Not

You’re probably going to wonder what I was “Googling” when I say this but I just couldn’t get away from this niche when doing research for this post. I really didn’t want to write about it at all because it’s not a keyphrase as such but I just had to cover it.

After all, these niches are supposed to be for you and not for me, and I know quite a few people personally who would actually like to tackle a project like this one.

I first came across the ‘Pole dancing course’ niche on Clickbank, where there are a few eBooks and membership sites for sale (which you could promote as an affiliate).

Then a few weeks ago I received an email from an ex-Girlfriend who I haven’t spoken to for years and remembered she used to take pole dancing lessons, and still does.

For guys not in the know, pole dancing lessons are not just for women who want to work in the nightlife industry. I’ve seen a few classes in person and people (mostly women, of course) have a lot of fun with it. It’s physically demanding so a great way to keep fit.

As I always say “Go local” I started looking for pole dancing courses in different locations around the world. Whether that was states in the US or for major cities in the UK.

The competition is fierce.

There are ads four ads for everything I searched for and then the map pack and…it’s tough.

But I wouldn’t write off the niche just yet.

One thing that I found was missing in this industry was a directory. One place where you could find reviews of the different places to get lessons for a specific country.

I would personally create a huge directory of all the schools and academies out there in the UK and allow people to rate and review them. Then for each city you could of course reach out to the various schools and offer advertising opportunities on the website.

Just for London alone, look at the type of queries people are searching for:

London pole dancing class

London pole dancing school

London pole dancing academy

I found 17 diffferent schools in London alone, so it’s a competitive market.

I would say this industry is my ‘wildcard’ as there are not too many angles to enter it from unlike other ideas I’ve shared. This is just an opportunity I think some passionate could do really well with, and I would have been doing someone an injustice if I didn’t write about it here.

A Millionaire Reaches 27,100 Monthly Searchers for What?

I was reading an AMA on Reddit’s Entrepreneur section recently and came across the owner of an online store for glass pipes and other smoking-related items. Since I was working on this article at the time, I decided to do some research into the types of keywords his site was ranking for. After all, it had generated over $6M in revenue in 2016 so far so the site must be doing quite well.

While there were many keywords to choose from, the one that stood out to me was “dab rigs.” Mostly because I had no idea what that was. At 27,100 searches per month, I decided to check the search results.

Even searching from the US there are only Google shopping links in the right of search results – no ads – and I love search results like this which have:

Forum threads ranking

Blog posts from 2016 ranking

No huge ecommerce sites like Amazon ranking

No hompages ranking; only sub-pages

I think if you were going to create a dedicated website solely on ‘dab rigs’ then you could have a good chance of ranking well. It’s also a buyer-intent keyword, so if smoking and paraphernalia are your thing, it could be for you.

Just Starting with SEO? Maybe Try This

If getting high is your thing but you’re new to the SEO world, you might want to start with a lessor search term to test your ranking and website building skills. Another term which dab rigs go by are ‘concentrate rigs’.

Again I had no idea what this is but Google tells me,

Dab rigs focus on flavor rather than filtration like traditional water pipes because concentrates are typically already refined, and do not need debris filtration like traditional dry herbs.

The more you know.

If you’re going to have success in this niche, you should have known this anyway.

While concentrate rigs “only” gets 1,600 searches per month (still not bad for a buyer-intent keyphrase), the .com is available.

And if you’re angry it’s not available by the time you’re reading this post, I promise it was. Go and check Whois…someone just registered that today.

It doesn’t mean you can’t attempt to rank for the keyphrase though. Try concentratehq or concentraterigs.net and so on. Just because someone got the .com it doesn’t mean they’re actually going to put any work into it.

How to Soundproof a __

When I first attempted to take up podcasting a few years ago I discovered the office I was working with (a fairly square room with little furniture) was far from ideal when it came to acoustic sound. I had to purchase a number of foam panels for certain areas of my wall in order to get rid of the echo I was experiencing in the room.

That’s why I know this is a good niche to enter, because people are willing to spend money to fix this problem, especially when they’ve spent money on a good sound system / podcast microphone / studio equipment.

A few relevant search terms in this niche include:

how to soundproof a room: 12,100 monthly searches

how to soundproof a wall: 2,400 monthly searches

How to soundproof a door: 3,600 monthly searches

How to soundproof a bedroom: 1,000 monthly searches

As you can imagine, the list really does go on.

Even just for a door, the number of long-tail keywords which are searched for – found via Google Suggest – are many.

How to soundproof a door

How to soundproof a door cheap

How to soundproof a door with household items

How to soundproof a bedroom door

How to soundproof a hollow door

If you enter this niche, you have absolutely no excuse to ever run out of topics to write about if you’ve really done your keyword research.

Another reason I like this industry is because the search results are dominated by blog posts.

Not homepages.

Not huge brands.

Not ecommerce companies.

But bloggers who wanted to cover this topic with their own advice.

The obvious option when it comes to monetisation is linking to stores to purchase the acoustic panels you recommend as an affiliate, but there are many more options to take especially if you’re reaching people who run recording studios or are just getting into podcasting.

And I went the extra mile:

Whoever goes and registers this, please actually build a site on it.

A Genius ‘Rank and Rent’ Niche Idea

I love this one. Not because it follows one of my favourite online business models – the rank and rent method – but because it’s such a different take on the niches that people generally associate with this business model.

We’ve all heard about recommendations for injury lawyers and office rental and so on, but you’ve never heard anyone talk about this niche.

Mommy makeovers.

I’m not even going to look at the search volume for this one because I don’t care. It makes logical sense that people are searching for this and even if the numbers are small, it’s once again a buyer-intent keyword.

Oh, and a reader of ViperChill is already renting out four websites in this niche.

I asked for permission before sharing the niche here.

I said I would not check the search volume for this term, and I won’t, but the Google Trends graph is encouraging.

I could totally see local beauty salons and hair salons willing to pay for leads generated by these search queries.

Love this one.

Heavy Equipment Rental

I won’t claim to know much the construction industry but I am pretty sure about one thing: Companies are far more likely to rent the equipment they use around the world rather than own and transport it themselves.

Renting construction equipment is a very lucrative industry because some items can cost thousands of dollars per day

In the UK, crane hire for 5 hours is £390 ($514). This is not a huge crane that you see working on malls or car parks. This is for a very small crane which sits on the back of a lorry and can’t lift more than 10 tons. They’re expensive to own, and expensive to rent.

There are so many different angles to take with this niche because of how many different types of heavy equipment people rent. It was funny to check a few domain names and see how much people want for them.

And another.

If you don’t have the budget for these, I understand. Unless I was really into this industry and wanted to make a huge authority site, I wouldn’t consider them either.

However, being the overly curious guy that I am, I did manage to find a few .com’s which are available and do pick up some searches each month.

Here they are:

RentRototiller.com – 720 searches per month

DingoRental.com – 590 searches per month

HydroseedRental.com – 590 searches per month

As of hitting publish these domains are available. I’m sure they’ll be gone very quickly. Not to worry; I’m sure there are many, many more as well. I didn’t do too much research into them as I won’t be entering this niche myself.

I will be straight with you, as I feel I have been for the entirety of this blog post: There are big players in this niche. Companies with hundreds of millions of dollars – like CAT – dominating the search results for most queries.

That’s why, if I were to take this on, I would go local.

Don’t just go for broad rental phrases but go for the rental phrases for specific areas. To give you a starting point, the top five US states for construction work are currently:

Oklahoma

Illinois

Florida

Texas

California

If you’re outside of the US, like myself, then research areas where construction companies and homeowners are more likely to be looking for heavy duty equipment.

As luck would have it, we can also combine my first niche recommendation with this one. Sunbelt Rentals rank very well for a number of rental search terms. The last query on this list is interesting:

Don’t just tackle this from a generic standpoint. Try to be creative.

As with other industries I’ve covered, the aim is not to get thousands of visitors landing on your website each month. It’s about getting the right visitors and being able to convert them as a lead to send to companies who can pay big money for them.

And finally, a good way to know if this is the niche for you: You already knew what a hydroseed and rototiller were without searching Google (because I certainly didn’t).

The Simplest Ever Guide to Finding Your Own Highly Profitable Niche Ideas

The above search term, admittedly, comes with a number of ads in the search results. Buyer intent keywords usually do if you’re based in America. There are far lessor ads when I change my proxy settings to non-US countries so keep that in mind, but the majority of readers here are based in the United States.

If you’re seeing ads for anything you search for after reading this post today: Make sure you learn from them.

One website I see constantly running ads is https://ift.tt/2bCRQrQ.

For example, for the ‘security system reviews’ keyphrase I see them buying ads for this term and then sending traffic to the following page.

Every single ‘View Product’ link is simply an Amazon affiliate link.

Since Security system reviews was an interesting niche to explore, we can then analyse what other industries https://ift.tt/2bCRQrQ have “caught on to” in order to give us inspiration for other industries to enter.

For this example, I’m going to use SEMRush.com. I did recently purchase a premium account, but for the purpose of this example I will not log in, meaning I’m only using data which is freely available.

When I enter their domain name and look at other terms they’re buying ads for, I see the following results:

While some of these may be search terms they’re just ‘testing’ to see if there’s money to be made, you can generally conclude that they are making money, otherwise they wouldn’t be bidding on the terms.

Best bluetooth earbuds is only going to increase in popularity if the rumors are true about Apple’s next iPhone coming without a headphone jack.

Best portable air conditioner is only going to increase in popularity if sponsored scientists continue denying the state of global warming.

For any ads that you see in Google when performing your research, put them into SEMRush to see what other industries they’re advertising in and then analyse the organic search results.

BestProducts.com = The Biggest Link Network Google Won’t Penalise

It’s not secret that I’m disappointed as to how well BestProducts.com are ranking in Google. Especially since they only benefit from sitewide footer links on Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Elle.com. It’s seems highly ironic that Google will go through Black hat world forums looking for sites and networks to penalise but totally ignore the big fish right under their nose.

I guess Hearst Media spend enough money on Google Adwords.

That out of the way, there is something to learn from BestProducts.com: 99% of their rankings are for keyphrases where freshness counts.

For certain search queries, how recent something was written matters far more than how many links it has to a certain page, or how good the on-site SEO is, and so on.

This is known as Query Deserves Freshness, or QDF for short.

Therefore, if we analyse the terms they’re ranking for, we can see opportunities where new sites and pages actually stand a chance of ranking.

I’ve logged into SEMRush.com now to give you a list of some of those terms, for your inspiration:

wireless earbuds: 90,500 searches per month

best wireless earbuds: 22,200 searches per month

best vacuum cleaner: 22,200 searches per month

best waist trainer: 22,200 searches per month

waterproof bluetooth speaker: 18,100 searches per month

lighted makeup mirror: 14,800 searches per month

best portable speakers: 12,100 searches per month

moscow mule mugs: 33,100 searches per month

best bluetooth headphones: 40,500 searches per month

best workout headphones: 6,600 searches per month

tattoo cover up makeup: 6,600 searches per month

best blender for smoothies: 5,400 searches per month

The list goes on, but hopefully there’s inspiration for a variety of niches there.

We’re not done with huge companies and their unstoppable networks just yet.

Small Business Phone System: A Link-Ring Example

“Small business phone system” isn’t a niche I have chosen to cover because I think you should enter it. Not only because the search results are largely dominated by big brands, but if Google Trends is to be trusted then it’s a dying industry as well.

Take a look at the following screenshot to see how brand-dominated the results really are.

You’ve got Cisco, Telstra, ATT and so on. Any rational SEO would look at this search result and think “I’m leaving that one alone.”

What you don’t know, as I know you didn’t go and search for this term – it’s a pretty boring industry – is that I removed the first result from Google.

And the first result isn’t some other huge telecommunications provider offering this as a service. Instead, it’s a blog, who wrote an article on the topic in 2016.

With an estimated 3,600 searches per month, I would say this sends Business News Daily at least 1,000 monthly visitors thanks to their ranking. Ironically, the site is owned by Purch, another of the 16 companies who I reported as dominating the world’s Google search results.

The reason Business News Daily is ranking, is because of Purch’s network. Just look at this example from TomsITPro.

The highlighted text is a slightly more professional way for a private network owner to say, “Here’s a link to another article I wish to rank in my network, and another”.

The mentions of other Purch-owned sites, Top Ten Reviews and Business News Daily are internal links to their own articles on the topic.

Does a network owner really need to cover the same topic three times? I think the better question for these 16 is, why wouldn’t I create this article on all of my sites? Why take one search result when we can have many more.

My annoyances aside, it shows that even brand-dominated queries can be outranked by an in-depth and linked to article on the topic, so don’t count out all opportunities at first glance.

Sorry I Just Killed All of These Niches By Blogging About Them

If you genuinely believe that, then don’t take action on any of them.

Though please allow me to remind you that I dedicated an entire blog post to a Pomodoro app I would love to see built and not a single person created it.

Many, many people got 80% done, but nobody went ahead and actually finished it.

Why? It more than likely wasn’t something that they cared about enough. They just finally had an idea to work on and started working on it.

If I had the interest to do so I would be building far more ‘[industry] near me’ websites but they’re just not very exciting. I do have a few on the go, as I said earlier, but I’m really not putting that much work into the sites. I’m relying (hoping?) on them to rank with minimum effort.

And when someone comes into those industries with a bit more effort, they’ll outrank me and take away some of my marketshare.

When I asked people whether they would be interested in this article before going live, a popular comment was that I would share how I found the niches as well.

While I hope you got something out of the industries I shared, I hope you got more out of how I found them, and you can too in the future. Even if ViperChill readers don’t make these industries saturated, they will be one day, and you need to know how to find other opportunities.

If you got something out of this article and would like to see more of them in the future, please do let me know in the comments below. I have a stack of industries I consider but don’t have time to enter, but at 7,000+ words I think I’ve covered enough for part one.

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51 Profitable SEO Niches to Dominate with Low Competition

Today I’m going to reveal some of the most interesting online niches where there is a lot of money to be made. These are niches which have a level of competition that allows you to compete, and fast. In other words, I wouldn’t expect to be waiting years (or even months, in many cases) to see some results.

I’ve seen other people put together eBook’s and blog posts on this topic before but they usually just contain a huge bulleted list with no information on how they found the niche, why they think it’s a good niche to enter and how you would actually make money in it. I really didn’t want to do that when deciding to cover this topic, so have covered each niche in a lot of depth so you can see if it’s the right fit for you. If there is a positive response to this kind of post I’ll definitely do more like it in the future, so please do share your feedback in the comments!

Come Closer to Your Screen For This First Opportunity

A few months ago I was doing some backlink analysis and noticed a network of websites which were all competing for a similar keyphrase, slightly tweaked for different industries.

I ran their sites through my usual go-to tools like SEMRush and Similarweb and was slightly blown-away at what I had just discovered. A network of low-quality, thin websites with barely any links was ranking for queries which, when combined, were being searched for millions of times per month.

I have since taken advantage of what I found that day and actually never planned on sharing it.

While I’m not the only one to to have discovered the opportunity, as you can see from a recent tweet of mine, I haven’t seen it covered elsewhere.

When an SEO guy tweets a G Trends screenshot of how fast one of your niches is growing and you hope noone else saw it.

You may be wondering why I was concerned about a lot of people finding this opportunity before and why I’m sharing it with tens of thousands of people now. Well, I went a little overboard with the research for this very article and found so many niches you can capitlise on it with that I’m really not worried about competition.

“Enough of the hype, Glen, what’s the keyphrase?”

That’s it. That’s the search query.

Or more specifically, something near me. This screenshot of keyphrases which Thumbtack – a popular services marketplace – are ranking for should give you some idea of the potential.

Another reason this opportunity is interesting to me is because it doesn’t seem to be taking much to rank.

In two of the search terms above, exact match domains are performing very well with very few backlinks. I’m not going to ‘out’ the sites but they are very easy to find when you start analysing the opportunities here.

I was able to pick up a few exact match domains myself so they’re definitely still available. I did add a few more domains to my list before going live with this article, but left out quite a few others I found.

All of the other sites I’m ranking in this space are .com’s so I’m curious to see how well the recent .co.uk purchase works out, targeting a UK-specific search query.

While I’m certainly not the only one to catch on to this, it’s always a good sign when you see exact match or nearly exact-match domains ranking well in Google. It means there are very few authoritative sites which Google thinks should be ranking.

It’s funny to see that some people are trying to capitalise on this new opportunity already with some high-priced domain names.

Now, I am aware that a large number of ‘near me’ searches are likely performed on mobile and are from people hoping to find map listings in the search results, rather than actual websites to click on.

However, the dozens of near me sites I’ve investigated appear to be receiving a lot of traffic without being featured on any kind of map pack.

I’ll use an authoritative site, HoursInfo, to give an example. I picked them because they have a number of rankings related to ‘near me’ search terms but aren���t some small time webmaster capitalising on the opportunity. You can see they are some of the most popular terms the site ranks for.

Now, I am aware that their rankings for the highlighted search terms are not great. I’ve sorted the results by volume rather than ranking position, just to show how many searches there are with ‘near me’ in the keyphrase.

Some examples of high rankings they have attained, along with their search volume, include:

Dominos near me: 450,000 searches per month (Ranked #5)

Post office near me: 368,000 searches per month (Ranked #2)

Chase bank near me: 368,000 searches per month (Ranked #5)

Gamestop near me: 165,000 searches per month (Ranked #6)

There are many more, but you get the idea.

Here’s the SimilarWeb graphic to give an idea of how much traffic they really do receive.

I’ve started ranking a number of ‘near me’ sites but they’re not high enough to show any impressive stats. That being said, I know the traffic is there due to how many small, exact match domains I’ve found ranking and their predicted traffic stats among a number of different analysis tools.

If nothing else, this could be a good niche just to test your SEO skills.

In regards to monetising the traffic, it really depends on what industry you choose. For terms like dog grooming and pet spa’s, how to monetise the site should be fairly obvious.

Making Thousands With…Bone Broth

Bear with me here; I haven’t totally lost the plot. If you haven’t been following the latest health crazes over the past year then you are probably as equally as confused as I was when I first came across this healthy meal.

Bone broth is simply a broth that is primarily made of bones and contains few vegetables (if any) which makes it different from stock.

The reason I like this topic is not because it’s some fad to jump on, but bone broth is actually proven to have a number of medical benefits. If you don’t think Apple Cider Vinegar as a health remedy is going to die out any time soon, then neither is this.

The large spike on this graph is for January of 2016, whereas the topic was talked about most in the middle of 2015. That makes me believe that people are going to go crazy for this product once again in January of 2017, when we’re in “New Years Resolution mode” and anything “healthy” tempts us to keep our wallets open.

If you’re wondering where the money to be made – “Can’t people just make it themselves?” – then you would be surprised how much people are making (and charging) for this concoction.

I first came across the topic where the owner of a Broth website, Kettle and Fire, was discussing how much a new plugin for his Shopify store made him in sales.

It was the first time I had heard of ‘Bone broth’ so I was intrigued to learn more.

That’s when I saw it being hailed as a new healthy drink option by the New York Times and MSNBC. From there, I found a number of other stores selling the broth, and it’s certainly not cheap.

That’s $70 for just 6 packs.

If you’re into natural, healthy eating then this may just be the niche for you.

You could affiliate yourself with someone who sells bone broth, make your own, or simply use variations of the term to drive traffic to other health products and offers.

If selling products on Amazon is your thing, I can imagine this is going to be a great market to start dominating now.

The Huge Opportunity with Tiny Houses

The Tiny house movement sounds exactly as it is: It’s a movement for people who want to be able to live in tiny houses.

Believe it or not, it’s a growing trend.

When I first found a video about tiny houses on Youtube I thought they were just a cute little idea. Fast forward 45 minutes and I had found myself looking at dozens of little tiny houses and being constantly impressed with what people can do with their homes.

I was also amazed to see Tiny House Youtube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, especially when I hadn’t previously knew that ‘tiny living’ was a thing.

On some popular videos I found the Youtube comments weren’t just people insulting each other – for once – but people with questions where you can get ideas for building the solution. Here are the comments on one particularly popular video.

Just from those two comments alone you can get the idea to:

Create a directory of people who build tiny houses and send them leads for a fee

Review products designed for tiny houses and promote them with affiliate links

Create a step-by-step information product on building your first tiny house

If I was going to take this on personally I would go with option two, and review products. I would focus on creating an Instagram page showcasing tiny houses and then reaching out to manufacturers to see if I could get products to review.

While tiny house owners seem to want to spend as little money as possible, the one in the video above cost $77,000, which certainly isn’t cheap. While they don’t want to spend a lot of money, they’re still spending it, and I could see tiny product reviews working very well.

GPS Car Tracking

I’ve been building this blog post over the past few months so any time a new industry or niche idea comes to me, I write it down.

It was interesting to see that one Reddit thread I wanted to cover had actually deleted the opportunity they were talking about.

Although the original poster seemed more than happy to share the idea originally – as you can see in their discussion title – it seems like they didn’t feel that way for very long.

Commenters absolutely loved the idea and everyone started thinking of businesses around it. I think this scared the original poster.

You may question my integrity when I highlight what was there, but every single comment reply explains what the business idea was. It received nearly 700 upvotes on Reddit so has already been seen tens of thousands of times.

And of course, only those interested in the niche will take any action (see my closing statements in this blog post) so there’s not too much to worry about.

The original idea, shared on Reddit, was good but not something I would go for myself, which is why I’m more open to sharing it.

The idea was to buy GPS trackers on Alibaba and then go and fit them on cars in your local area for a fee. Apparently they’re fairly easy to install and then people can have peace of mind if their car ever gets stolen or they want to track where their kids are driving when they’re using their car.

I prefer online businesses to those offline, and while people can make some good cash with this – many commenters were excited about copying it directly – it’s too labor intensive for me and the scope is too small.

Instead, I would consider doing things like:

Importing the GPS trackers and selling them via Amazon or my own Shopify store

Creating a lead generation site for those wanting this then selling the leads to people who can do it

Reviewing each tracker and promoting them with affiliate links

I think this niche is only going to get bigger as it becomes easier to set-up, so there’s a lot of potential here.

Laserless Tattoo Removal

With more people sporting tattoos than any other generation in history, it makes sense that we would have more people than ever trying to remove them.

While laser tattoo removal is a growing trend, so is the desire to remove tattoo’s without any lasers.

Right now, admittedly, there aren’t huge volume numbers for this search term. Most estimates point to various terms, like “non laser tattoo removal”, receiving around 200-500 searches per month.

That being said, there is a Clickbank product on the topic that seems to be selling quite well, so there’s definitely a market for it.

And I predict that market will grow.

As far as monetisation goes, I would personally try to target people via these “lessor” keyphrases and sell them on a more expensive solution (providing it is a better solution). I don’t think there are any alternatives that are better than lasers for removing tattoos.

Tattoo removal shops typically charge over $1,000 for the service so if you’re able to generate leads for local businesses, they’ll definitely pay for you for people you can send their way.

Will Automation Increase 18 Wheeler Accidents?

Legal industries online are some of the most profitable out there. Unfortunately, many of them are dominated by large firms which Google view as authorities in the space so even if their page ranking has little to no internal links, they still rank.

Fortunately, there are still a few opportunities. Many of which I’m taking advantage of with the rank and rent model (I cover it in-depth in a 20 minute video in email number five). If we look at 18 wheeler accident, we can see that the results aren’t dominated by top legal firms, but actually by news sources.

However, there is one site that was able to break through the news.

I edited the screenshot so it was not too long. The legal site here was ranking in 7th for me.

Now you may be thinking this is a very obscure and unsearched for industry to go after, but the numbers are quite impressive.

According to Google Keyword planner:

truck accident: 8,100 monthly searches

18 wheeler accident: 1,300 monthly searches

truck rollover: 1,300 monthly searches

truck accident lawyer: 1,000 monthly searches

semi truck accident: 1,000 monthly searches

truck accident attorney: 720 monthly searches

fatal truck accident: 390 monthly searches

The keyphrases I’ve highlighted in bold are the ones that interest me most as I feel I could directly make money with them. While the first will include people looking for news results, I believe it will also include those looking for help with legal action after suffering an accident themselves.

The suggested Adwords bid price for ‘truck accident lawyer’ is $139.72. That means Google suggest you will need to bid $140 per click if you want to get one of the top ad spots in search results for the US. In other words, this industry is worth a lot of money to lawyers and they’re willing to pay to get clients.

As far as monetisation goes, as I mentioned earlier, I would primarily be focused on the rank and rent model. Either rank a website in this industry and rent it out to an actual legal firm, or get in touch with legal firms and ask how much they are willing to pay for leads you send their way.

Finally, I do wonder if this is an industry which is only going to be worth a lot more money in the future. This is one field where automation is likely to happen, at least in part, over the next decade. Those automated truck lawsuits are going to set a very interesting precedent for vehicle automation as a whole.

Car Shipping Companies

Just like with the legal truck angle, car shipping companies present another great opportunity to use the rank and rent model or rank to lead generation model.

Some of the most searched for terms in this niche include:

shipping a car: 8,100 monthly searches

auto shipping: 8,100 monthly searches

auto transport companies: 6,600 monthly searches

car transport companies: 4,400 monthly searches

how much does it cost to ship a car: 4,400 monthly searches

car shipping companies: 3,600 monthly searches

how much to ship a car: 2,900 monthly searches

It’s nice to see so many variations of how to phrase the question and yet each search term still has some form of buyer intent.

Let’s look at the search results for one of these terms, ‘Car shipping companies’.

Note: I removed the ads from this screenshot to reduce its length.

RD in the screenshot stands for Referring Domains. This means how many different websites are linking to them. The lower the number, the better. While companies like Uship will have thousands of different sites linking to them, it shows that the smaller, newer competitors still have a chance to rank in Google.

But these guys rank so far down. Are they really getting traffic?

Well let’s look at the worst ranking website in my screenshot, Shipmycar.com. Remember this was actually lower down because ads are normally in the result but I removed them to shorten the graphic.

If we look at SEMRush we can see they’re growing quite well organically.

Of course, these numbers aren’t huge, but they don’t have to be. When people are searching for these terms they’re generally ready to part ways with their cash, or doing the final research before they do.

There’s also the great local SEO angle with ‘ship a car [city]’ type search terms. According to one of the websites ranking, the most popular cities to ship cars to and from are:

New York, New York

Los Angeles, California

Chicago, Illinois

Washington

San Francisco

Boston, Massachusetts

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dallas, Texas

Miami, Florida

Houston, Texas

If you’re outside of the US there is probably even less competition. If you’re in Europe for example then research things like “driving through Europe” or “car shipping to Europe” and so on.

This isn’t always an obvious niche that people think about so the current competition can definitely be beaten if you’re willing to put in the work.

Security System Reviews

With 2,400 searches per month and a suggested Adwords bid price of $14 per click, this is a search term I really like. Not only because of the acceptable search volume and clear ad presence, but because the term ‘reviews’ signals intent. It shows someone is likely looking to purchase a system in the near future.

This opens up the opportunity to either promote your own products, use a dropshipper, or promote Amazon products as an affiliate.

It’s also a niche that seems to be growing as well, as security systems become more affordable.

If you see anything like the following in search results, it’s always a good sign.

Whenever I come across a growing niche that has recent dates in the search result, it always peaks my curiosity. Mostly because standard ranking factors (age, most links, domain authority) often don’t apply and a few basic links pointing something written recently are all you need.

Millions of Parents Need ‘Kids Party Ideas’

One niche I’m surprised to see hasn’t been dominated too extensively by huge brands is that of specific party ideas for kids.

If you have young children of your own and could see yourself writing about this niche and sharing photos of your parties with others, this could be the niche for you.

I first read about this website when looking at a success story for a certain website builder.

Although his website is very prominently shared as a success story around the web, I do want to be a bit more coy and block out any concrete information as to what his site is.

The main website in his network is ranking for more than 31,000 different keyphrases, some of which are searched for thousands of times per month. In another effort at being respectful to their success, I have blocked out number 1 rankings they’ve sustained for a long time.

The stats are even more impressive when you consider than the website “only” has links from 400 others. That’s not a huge number from a site which gets millions of visitors each month from Google.

Especially when many of those links are from websites which anyone can pick up a link from, just by taking the time to register on them.

While it’s not a niche I would be interested in personally, I think it could be a great side-project for anyone with young children.

I would monetise the site with things like an eBook detailing the best party ideas, and then including a directory which takes a commission for leads on things like party magicians and clowns. There’s also the chance to link to party props and decorations as an Amazon affiliate.

A Niche That’s Virtually Yours for the Taking

If I just said “get involved in the virtual reality niche” that would be a little boring of me, and typical of the poor profitable niche ideas blog posts I’ve seen in the past.

I’m sure you already know that virtual reality gaming (and other forms of erm…entertainment) have a big future ahead of them and companies like Facebook have invested billions of dollars into what they believe will be a huge new market.

So as an SEO knowing that the world is going to be searching for virtual reality “things” in the future, where do you start when looking to conquer Google?

Personally, I would start by looking at the news.

Not what TechCrunch is saying about the industry, but who the readers of TechCrunch are investing in.

One such example, is UploadVR. A one year old blog which raised over $1.25m just seven months ago.

While the numbers aren’t huge for the investing world, it’s a pretty big sign that people think a blog on the topic is going to make significantly more money than that back. The sum is even more impressive when you consider that we’ve barely even scratched the surface with usable products that anyone can easily own.

When I first saw the ‘virtual desktop’ a few months ago I have to admit I was blown away. I’ve never played with an Oculus Rift or similar device, but I would love to get the chance to. Virtual desktop for VR basically negates the need to take off your headset to look at other things on your computer.

When I first saw this I instantly thought, “Someone is going to make a Google competitor that works so incredibly well in Virtual Reality.” Google will then go and buy them most likely, but still, I think that’s one of the next big things we’re going to see from a well-funded startup.

Sadly I am not a well-funded startup and nor do I want to take on that challenge, so we have to spread our horizons a little bit.

Looking at the categories of UPloadVR.com alone you can learn a lot about the areas of search that are going to be popular:

Google Cardboard

Oculus Rift

Virtual reality shopping

Virtual reality advertising

DIY Virtual reality

Virtual reality cameras

Virtual reality jobs

The list goes on. I think any one of these could merit a stand-alone website.

If you’re really into this niche and willing to do extra research, upload VR have one cool feature as part of their design.

That’s right: The pageview count for every article.

For a stats-nerd like myself, I love having this kind of data available.

I’ve no doubt you could pay a programmer $100 or so to scrape the website and figure out what the most popular posts in their history have been. Keeping in mind that some will have just ‘gone viral’ and won’t necessarily be searched for, it would give a lot of insights into the potential future of this huge industry.

The Web Needs a Pole Dancing Directory, Believe It or Not

You’re probably going to wonder what I was “Googling” when I say this but I just couldn’t get away from this niche when doing research for this post. I really didn’t want to write about it at all because it’s not a keyphrase as such but I just had to cover it.

After all, these niches are supposed to be for you and not for me, and I know quite a few people personally who would actually like to tackle a project like this one.

I first came across the ‘Pole dancing course’ niche on Clickbank, where there are a few eBooks and membership sites for sale (which you could promote as an affiliate).

Then a few weeks ago I received an email from an ex-Girlfriend who I haven’t spoken to for years and remembered she used to take pole dancing lessons, and still does.

For guys not in the know, pole dancing lessons are not just for women who want to work in the nightlife industry. I’ve seen a few classes in person and people (mostly women, of course) have a lot of fun with it. It’s physically demanding so a great way to keep fit.

As I always say “Go local” I started looking for pole dancing courses in different locations around the world. Whether that was states in the US or for major cities in the UK.

The competition is fierce.

There are ads four ads for everything I searched for and then the map pack and…it’s tough.

But I wouldn’t write off the niche just yet.

One thing that I found was missing in this industry was a directory. One place where you could find reviews of the different places to get lessons for a specific country.

I would personally create a huge directory of all the schools and academies out there in the UK and allow people to rate and review them. Then for each city you could of course reach out to the various schools and offer advertising opportunities on the website.

Just for London alone, look at the type of queries people are searching for:

London pole dancing class

London pole dancing school

London pole dancing academy

I found 17 diffferent schools in London alone, so it’s a competitive market.

I would say this industry is my ‘wildcard’ as there are not too many angles to enter it from unlike other ideas I’ve shared. This is just an opportunity I think some passionate could do really well with, and I would have been doing someone an injustice if I didn’t write about it here.

A Millionaire Reaches 27,100 Monthly Searchers for What?

I was reading an AMA on Reddit’s Entrepreneur section recently and came across the owner of an online store for glass pipes and other smoking-related items. Since I was working on this article at the time, I decided to do some research into the types of keywords his site was ranking for. After all, it had generated over $6M in revenue in 2016 so far so the site must be doing quite well.

While there were many keywords to choose from, the one that stood out to me was “dab rigs.” Mostly because I had no idea what that was. At 27,100 searches per month, I decided to check the search results.

Even searching from the US there are only Google shopping links in the right of search results – no ads – and I love search results like this which have:

Forum threads ranking

Blog posts from 2016 ranking

No huge ecommerce sites like Amazon ranking

No hompages ranking; only sub-pages

I think if you were going to create a dedicated website solely on ‘dab rigs’ then you could have a good chance of ranking well. It’s also a buyer-intent keyword, so if smoking and paraphernalia are your thing, it could be for you.

Just Starting with SEO? Maybe Try This

If getting high is your thing but you’re new to the SEO world, you might want to start with a lessor search term to test your ranking and website building skills. Another term which dab rigs go by are ‘concentrate rigs’.

Again I had no idea what this is but Google tells me,

Dab rigs focus on flavor rather than filtration like traditional water pipes because concentrates are typically already refined, and do not need debris filtration like traditional dry herbs.

If you’re going to have success in this niche, you should have known this anyway.

While concentrate rigs “only” gets 1,600 searches per month (still not bad for a buyer-intent keyphrase), the .com is available.

And if you’re angry it’s not available by the time you’re reading this post, I promise it was. Go and check Whois…someone just registered that today.

It doesn’t mean you can’t attempt to rank for the keyphrase though. Try concentratehq or concentraterigs.net and so on. Just because someone got the .com it doesn’t mean they’re actually going to put any work into it.

How to Soundproof a __

When I first attempted to take up podcasting a few years ago I discovered the office I was working with (a fairly square room with little furniture) was far from ideal when it came to acoustic sound. I had to purchase a number of foam panels for certain areas of my wall in order to get rid of the echo I was experiencing in the room.

That’s why I know this is a good niche to enter, because people are willing to spend money to fix this problem, especially when they’ve spent money on a good sound system / podcast microphone / studio equipment.

A few relevant search terms in this niche include:

how to soundproof a room: 12,100 monthly searches

how to soundproof a wall: 2,400 monthly searches

How to soundproof a door: 3,600 monthly searches

How to soundproof a bedroom: 1,000 monthly searches

As you can imagine, the list really does go on.

Even just for a door, the number of long-tail keywords which are searched for – found via Google Suggest �� are many.

How to soundproof a door

How to soundproof a door cheap

How to soundproof a door with household items

How to soundproof a bedroom door

How to soundproof a hollow door

If you enter this niche, you have absolutely no excuse to ever run out of topics to write about if you’ve really done your keyword research.

Another reason I like this industry is because the search results are dominated by blog posts.

But bloggers who wanted to cover this topic with their own advice.

The obvious option when it comes to monetisation is linking to stores to purchase the acoustic panels you recommend as an affiliate, but there are many more options to take especially if you’re reaching people who run recording studios or are just getting into podcasting.

And I went the extra mile:

Whoever goes and registers this, please actually build a site on it.

A Genius ‘Rank and Rent’ Niche Idea

I love this one. Not because it follows one of my favourite online business models – the rank and rent method – but because it’s such a different take on the niches that people generally associate with this business model.

We’ve all heard about recommendations for injury lawyers and office rental and so on, but you’ve never heard anyone talk about this niche.

I’m not even going to look at the search volume for this one because I don’t care. It makes logical sense that people are searching for this and even if the numbers are small, it’s once again a buyer-intent keyword.

Oh, and a reader of ViperChill is already renting out four websites in this niche.

I asked for permission before sharing the niche here.

I said I would not check the search volume for this term, and I won’t, but the Google Trends graph is encouraging.

I could totally see local beauty salons and hair salons willing to pay for leads generated by these search queries.

Heavy Equipment Rental

I won’t claim to know much the construction industry but I am pretty sure about one thing: Companies are far more likely to rent the equipment they use around the world rather than own and transport it themselves.

Renting construction equipment is a very lucrative industry because some items can cost thousands of dollars per day

In the UK, crane hire for 5 hours is £390 ($514). This is not a huge crane that you see working on malls or car parks. This is for a very small crane which sits on the back of a lorry and can’t lift more than 10 tons. They’re expensive to own, and expensive to rent.

There are so many different angles to take with this niche because of how many different types of heavy equipment people rent. It was funny to check a few domain names and see how much people want for them.

If you don’t have the budget for these, I understand. Unless I was really into this industry and wanted to make a huge authority site, I wouldn’t consider them either.

However, being the overly curious guy that I am, I did manage to find a few .com’s which are available and do pick up some searches each month.

RentRototiller.com – 720 searches per month

DingoRental.com – 590 searches per month

HydroseedRental.com – 590 searches per month

As of hitting publish these domains are available. I’m sure they’ll be gone very quickly. Not to worry; I’m sure there are many, many more as well. I didn’t do too much research into them as I won’t be entering this niche myself.

I will be straight with you, as I feel I have been for the entirety of this blog post: There are big players in this niche. Companies with hundreds of millions of dollars – like CAT – dominating the search results for most queries.

That’s why, if I were to take this on, I would go local.

Don’t just go for broad rental phrases but go for the rental phrases for specific areas. To give you a starting point, the top five US states for construction work are currently:

Oklahoma

Illinois

Florida

Texas

California

If you’re outside of the US, like myself, then research areas where construction companies and homeowners are more likely to be looking for heavy duty equipment.

As luck would have it, we can also combine my first niche recommendation with this one. Sunbelt Rentals rank very well for a number of rental search terms. The last query on this list is interesting:

Don’t just tackle this from a generic standpoint. Try to be creative.

As with other industries I’ve covered, the aim is not to get thousands of visitors landing on your website each month. It’s about getting the right visitors and being able to convert them as a lead to send to companies who can pay big money for them.

And finally, a good way to know if this is the niche for you: You already knew what a hydroseed and rototiller were without searching Google (because I certainly didn’t).

The Simplest Ever Guide to Finding Your Own Highly Profitable Niche Ideas

The above search term, admittedly, comes with a number of ads in the search results. Buyer intent keywords usually do if you’re based in America. There are far lessor ads when I change my proxy settings to non-US countries so keep that in mind, but the majority of readers here are based in the United States.

If you’re seeing ads for anything you search for after reading this post today: Make sure you learn from them.

One website I see constantly running ads is http://bestreviews.guide.

For example, for the ‘security system reviews’ keyphrase I see them buying ads for this term and then sending traffic to the following page.

Every single ‘View Product’ link is simply an Amazon affiliate link.

Since Security system reviews was an interesting niche to explore, we can then analyse what other industries http://bestreviews.guide have “caught on to” in order to give us inspiration for other industries to enter.

For this example, I’m going to use SEMRush.com. I did recently purchase a premium account, but for the purpose of this example I will not log in, meaning I’m only using data which is freely available.

When I enter their domain name and look at other terms they’re buying ads for, I see the following results:

While some of these may be search terms they’re just ‘testing’ to see if there’s money to be made, you can generally conclude that they are making money, otherwise they wouldn’t be bidding on the terms.

Best bluetooth earbuds is only going to increase in popularity if the rumors are true about Apple’s next iPhone coming without a headphone jack.

Best portable air conditioner is only going to increase in popularity if sponsored scientists continue denying the state of global warming.

For any ads that you see in Google when performing your research, put them into SEMRush to see what other industries they’re advertising in and then analyse the organic search results.

BestProducts.com = The Biggest Link Network Google Won’t Penalise

It’s not secret that I’m disappointed as to how well BestProducts.com are ranking in Google. Especially since they only benefit from sitewide footer links on Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Elle.com. It’s seems highly ironic that Google will go through Black hat world forums looking for sites and networks to penalise but totally ignore the big fish right under their nose.

I guess Hearst Media spend enough money on Google Adwords.

That out of the way, there is something to learn from BestProducts.com: 99% of their rankings are for keyphrases where freshness counts.

For certain search queries, how recent something was written matters far more than how many links it has to a certain page, or how good the on-site SEO is, and so on.

This is known as Query Deserves Freshness, or QDF for short.

Therefore, if we analyse the terms they’re ranking for, we can see opportunities where new sites and pages actually stand a chance of ranking.

I’ve logged into SEMRush.com now to give you a list of some of those terms, for your inspiration:

wireless earbuds: 90,500 searches per month

best wireless earbuds: 22,200 searches per month

best vacuum cleaner: 22,200 searches per month

best waist trainer: 22,200 searches per month

waterproof bluetooth speaker: 18,100 searches per month

lighted makeup mirror: 14,800 searches per month

best portable speakers: 12,100 searches per month

moscow mule mugs: 33,100 searches per month

best bluetooth headphones: 40,500 searches per month

best workout headphones: 6,600 searches per month

tattoo cover up makeup: 6,600 searches per month

best blender for smoothies: 5,400 searches per month

The list goes on, but hopefully there’s inspiration for a variety of niches there.

We’re not done with huge companies and their unstoppable networks just yet.

Small Business Phone System: A Link-Ring Example

“Small business phone system” isn’t a niche I have chosen to cover because I think you should enter it. Not only because the search results are largely dominated by big brands, but if Google Trends is to be trusted then it’s a dying industry as well.

Take a look at the following screenshot to see how brand-dominated the results really are.

You’ve got Cisco, Telstra, ATT and so on. Any rational SEO would look at this search result and think “I’m leaving that one alone.”

What you don’t know, as I know you didn’t go and search for this term – it’s a pretty boring industry – is that I removed the first result from Google.

And the first result isn’t some other huge telecommunications provider offering this as a service. Instead, it’s a blog, who wrote an article on the topic in 2016.

With an estimated 3,600 searches per month, I would say this sends Business News Daily at least 1,000 monthly visitors thanks to their ranking. Ironically, the site is owned by Purch, another of the 16 companies who I reported as dominating the world’s Google search results.

The reason Business News Daily is ranking, is because of Purch’s network. Just look at this example from TomsITPro.

The highlighted text is a slightly more professional way for a private network owner to say, “Here’s a link to another article I wish to rank in my network, and another”.

The mentions of other Purch-owned sites, Top Ten Reviews and Business News Daily are internal links to their own articles on the topic.

Does a network owner really need to cover the same topic three times? I think the better question for these 16 is, why wouldn’t I create this article on all of my sites? Why take one search result when we can have many more.

My annoyances aside, it shows that even brand-dominated queries can be outranked by an in-depth and linked to article on the topic, so don’t count out all opportunities at first glance.

Sorry I Just Killed All of These Niches By Blogging About Them

If you genuinely believe that, then don’t take action on any of them.

Though please allow me to remind you that I dedicated an entire blog post to a Pomodoro app I would love to see built and not a single person created it.

Many, many people got 80% done, but nobody went ahead and actually finished it.

Why? It more than likely wasn’t something that they cared about enough. They just finally had an idea to work on and started working on it.

If I had the interest to do so I would be building far more ‘[industry] near me’ websites but they’re just not very exciting. I do have a few on the go, as I said earlier, but I’m really not putting that much work into the sites. I’m relying (hoping?) on them to rank with minimum effort.

And when someone comes into those industries with a bit more effort, they’ll outrank me and take away some of my marketshare.

When I asked people whether they would be interested in this article before going live, a popular comment was that I would share how I found the niches as well.

While I hope you got something out of the industries I shared, I hope you got more out of how I found them, and you can too in the future. Even if ViperChill readers don’t make these industries saturated, they will be one day, and you need to know how to find other opportunities.

If you got something out of this article and would like to see more of them in the future, please do let me know in the comments below. I have a stack of industries I consider but don’t have time to enter, but at 7,000+ words I think I’ve covered enough for part one.

JJ Phonsotsays:

Great read for beginners and more advance people. Always appreciate reading your posts

Justinsays:

I’m surprised at how well some of these niche sites perform.

Just goes to show there’s plenty of money to be made on the net if you do the right research.

Maximesays:

thanks for the hours of work that make my life easier 🙂

Adebayosays:

Investing soon. Glen Keep it up

Matthiassays:

I literally just opened your websites while sitting next to my girlfriend on the couch and wanted to re-read some old articles to do something more useful than watching soap operas and got more and more excited reading this gem of an article. I find it awesome how often you share really good and well researched niches (cloud niches) but from my own experience the last paragraph of your article is unfortunately true. Anyway, this time I may have found some topics that seem to fit niches I am already in so thanks a lot and please keep more articles like this coming. Is there other way to support you except buying your services and courses? 🙂

satyensays:

Wow, Even I visit Google trends and all I see is the last 24 hours trend 😉 I took some lessons from this post and will look for other niche ideas. Thanks Glen.

dannysays:

Another awesome article, keep it up!

Can I ask what is your favorite tool if you want to see which backlinks are sending the most traffic to a domain/page?

Ericsays:

So which tools are in your stack for industry research? Are you only using SEMrush and SimilarWeb? Do you have any tips how you decide on a niche? I like your point about many people going 80% but not finishing, so what drives you to keep going the full 100%?

Stevesays:

I got beat to concentraterigs.com by like half a second buddy. Cheers to whoever it was that beat me! I confused myself on whether I’d privately registered or not for a moment…and that was all it took to lose out. Ha!

Great article Glen thanks as always. Yes more like this one.

Are You On Page 1says:

Glen strikes again, Great post and we also love your training from Marketing INC.

Oloyede Jamiusays:

I can see you spent alot of time writing this long and useful article.

I have to reread and carefully understand the concept before taking action.

Pardeep Goyalsays:

Wow.. So big list of niche ideas. I agree with you Glen, that most of people do not implement ideas.

You shared good pointers for people who are serious about making money online.

Simonsays:

I’ve been a long time reader of your blog but this is the first time I’ve decided to put anything into practise

I have registered a couple of domains that use your ideas and will be testing them out over the next few weeks / months!

Ryansays:

Thanks Glen! Been checking your site (and my inbox, yes I’m on you’re list :p) nonstop since you got started with the idea. Would love to see more of this, really helpful in demonstrating how….big the Internet is. Make people crying “it’s all saturated” even funnier.

Connorsays:

Thanks for putting this together.

When you said, “For terms like dog grooming and pet spa’s, how to monetise the site should be fairly obvious.” That wasn’t obvious to me haha. Would you sell the leads the site generates to dog groomers and pet spas?

Andysays:

You always hit straight out of the park. I just wonder the kind of effort that might have gone into generating this absolute stunner. Love reading your detailed blog posts. Super Awesome as always and it goes without saying….would like to see more

Chadsays:

Wow! Glen I always love your niche posts. Even though I haven’t (yet) taken action on any of them it always reminds me of the opportunities out there. I really appreciate the effort you put into your posts with so much detail. Keep up the great work!

Anthonysays:

Check out how much virtualrealitygames.com is going for!!

(It’s being sold for almost $60000 USD!)

Chrissays:

You mentioned a topic that’s close to my current niche and I have a newsletter of over 20k. Looks like I’ve got some writing to do. Thanks!

Darius Gaynorsays:

Great post! It gave me alot of ideas that I will get started on.

Curtis Randolphsays:

I like the detailed research that you do to present these niche opportunities. Well done. WAY better than others I have seen done in the past. I would like to see more so I can learn how to either do what you do or work with you in some capacity going forward.

Zsoltsays:

🙂 Very good research! I like your long essays. Keep up the good work! Cheers!

Daianesays:

Thanks so much for sharing all of this, loving the insights! Now I’m extra motivated to go after one of these niches – I was pondering the thought this week and your post comes as a confirmation that I’m on a good track. 🙂

Rinkesh Kukrejasays:

As usual great post, Glen. You just gave me some great ideas for my next blog post. There is still so much to learn from you. 🙂

Craig McGintysays:

Many thanks for taking the time to write this up Glen, would be interested to learn more in the future.

Ricardo d Argencesays:

Actually, I was looking into the GPS market. It seems companies are investing heavily on this but there’s a lot of opportunities on local SEO. Thanks for confirming that.

Sergiusays:

Very interesting to see how you approach finding these opportunities. Thanks. And yeah, I want more.

Howardsays:

I enjoyed this article. I recently bought the rank and rent playbook, so this helps get my mind thinking on niche ideas. I’ve also talked to local businessmen to get a few ideas and have a deal with one if my site ranks he will rent it. Thanks for all your help. Yes, I would like to see more articles like this in the future.

Kimberlysays:

Love the way you think and research. Thinking outside the box is second nature to you. See that you get a lot of use from SEM Rush, awesome. Registered a domain name – wishing for 48 hours in a day to get everything done. 🙂

Joshua Hardwicksays:

This is absolute gold, Glen!

I actually used to rank #1 for a “best [PRODUCT TYPE]” keyword a few years back with around 50k monthly search volume – used to pull in 20k+ uniques/month at one point, all to one page. It was nothing but a long blog post; I monetised it solely through Amazon affiliate links and it made £400 – £500/month. Each of the products on the page were around £15 – £30.

I think one thing to be careful of – for those planning to monetise via Amazon (which isn’t the best option in a lot of cases) – is that while logic dictates that going for premium product ($500+) makes more sense (due to a higher commission per purchase), I found this isn’t the case. I had an “Amazon affiliate site” in this price range a while back and I think I sold like 3 things the whole time. People seem quick to part with their cash online when something is £300 mark, they seem a lot more hesitant in my experience.

BTW, I think the whole “near me” thing would work pretty well for terms like “chinese food near me”, “pizza places near me” etc., as you could monetise with JustEat/HungryHouse affiliate links (pretty sure they have them?) – e.g. someone searches for “chinese food near me”, hits your site, and sees something along the lines of a “XX chinese restaurants currently deliver to you. Order now at JustEat!” either as a pop-up or before the actual listings themselves.

I’m ranting anyway. Great post. And if I’m being honest, I wish I’d come here sooner and nabbed that “howtosoundproof.com” domain!!

TexasBolosays:

First time reader of your blog , very good stuff indeed.Good writing. Thanks. Glad your Dad’s G2G. Best of luck.

says:

Good combination of local as well as affiliate niches! Keep it up glen!

shaun fsays:

This is fantastic I love love these ideas and tricks!

More niches to add to my money making tree!

Shared on twitter because viperchill.com rocks 🙂

Joesays:

Sorry if you’ve covered this topic before, but how successful in general would one be to pick one of the above niches, then find an expired domain with 10-20 root domains still pointing to it?

For competitive industries, buying an expired domain with just a few root domains wouldn’t do much, but given that some of the above can rank pretty easily, I’d be curious to know!

Madhukeshwarsays:

Awesome Glen, explored few new easy to rank niches with this fantastic article. Want more niches 🙂 . Yup to take benefit out of it right action is a must. Appreciate your work and thanks. Cheers !!

Shubhamsays:

As Always, Just Love Your Research Glen….Thanks for another eye opening post.!!

Ioanasays:

As valuable as these niches are, I believe (as you also mentioned) that the take-away for this article is THE PROCESS.

“When I asked people whether they would be interested in this article before going live, a popular comment was that I would share how I found the niches as well.”

I really hope to see a part two where you talk even more about your process.

PS. We already have sites in some of the niches you mentioned. They are pretty easy to rank for and not a lot of competitors.

Here’s what worked for us – analyzing competitors that started ranking very well for related phrases in the last 6 months – choosing niches where competitors had bad link profiles. Not necessarily low nr. of referring domains, but bad links in general. – using Keyword Planner, SemRush & Google’s suggestions to find unique words related to the niche we were exploring (semantic value)

Philipsays:

I love your posts and appreciate the detail. You always give me some new ideas to implement on my own sites! Although I’m currently busy running a very popular german blog and my own FBA business I still would like to read more posts like this.

Especially the party idea made me smile because I took advantage of that some years ago and wrote for a popular articel directory site called Suite101 about that topic.

Luan Fernandessays:

Thanks Glen! I’ve got some enlightening ideas on how to find/pick my niches. The first one is a real killer. And also thanks for taking my comment in consideration.

Can’t wait for the next post.

Andreisays:

Tried registering oncentraterigs.com but seems someone else got to it first, oh well, seems I’ll go with a pmd for now.

Brucesays:

Fascinating! As a complete newbie, how on earth do you get relevant content for an item (say, an optician near me) in city A, when you live in city B a thousand kilometers away? Can you point me at an explanation or a “How to” piece of content somewhere?

Colinsays:

I owe a very large chunk of my business to a blog post you wrote four years ago.

I took your idea, did a search of my own and uncovered an opportunity that has made me £120,000 since.

There’s gold in your thinking and I’m thankful every day.

Going to go and uncover another gem right now.

Ye Sosays:

Great article! The most important for me in your articles is to learn how you think, how you feel, how you smell, how you find those ideas. That is invaluable.

Tomsays:

Nice! I actually work at a security company. It’s probably a little more saturated because the sites that are ranking have huge budgets, and a few of the top ranking review sites are all owned by the same company (hooray fornetworks…). If anyone follows through and starts ranking home security sites, you should definitely get in touch! kfitzgerald@linkinteractive.com

Marksays:

Thanks so much for this Glen! The research angle alone is worth its weight in gold – teaching me how to fish one article at a time! More of these research types please!!

Mark G.says:

Glen, awesome post as usual. It would be interesting to see how many of your readers actually go on to make sites based on these ideas. I’m sure it would be surprising how few it is.

Speaking for myself, the hardest part is finding a niche that is not only good, but one that I can see myself creating great content for. The “kid party” niche is amazing, but there’s no way I can see myself creating that content.

Oh, and the Mommy Makeover niche, you connected that to spas and hair salons, but that term actually refers to plastic surgery, which would certainly make it even more lucrative.

Jeff Accasays:

It’s another great read, your posts never disappoint. Always packed with useful information that most wouldn’t share without a price tag attached

I especially like the VR stuff, great area of growth and lots of opportunity there!

Shaikh Masood Alamsays:

This post is just popup in my Facebook timeline and here I am. Glen, you always provide quality article with deep research. I prefer and recommend your blog post to my friends and readers because you share exact method and strategy which you use. This post gives me some ideas to test my SEO skills. Thanks again for awesome post.

Takeshisays:

How would you make money from the pole dancing site? It’s pretty easy to dominate local dance niches, but there’s not much money in it.

Marksays:

I like you Glen and have followed your work for a long time. However, lately you seem to spend a lot of time talking about Reddit and re-hashing posts and ideas from there. Think you may be losing me as a reader but as I don’t spend with you, you are probably not bothered anyway.

Richsays:

Awesome post Glen! I learned a lot (always do from your stuff). More of this type of post? Yes, please!

Gurjit Singhsays:

Wow Glen..Freaking amazing Bro. I wish I was the first one to read it…almost all the domains are gone now 🙁

Quantella Owenssays:

Just wanted to say that this was a great article and I’m working on the “rank-and-rent” model idea right now and recently purchased the “Playbook.”. I do wonder if you could share the name of your “$100 programmer” because the one thing I can say about all of this is how hard it is to find tech help, when you aren’t techie yourself, that doesn’t cost the Earth.

Mattsays:

I hate to be “that guy,” but I’m a little confused. The title of this posts says “51 profitable SEO niches,” yet I only count 15. Am I missing something Is there a part two coming?

Angel Cruzsays:

“Words like “near me,” “closest,” and “nearby” are increasingly common across the billions of queries on Google every month. More and more, people are looking for things in their vicinity—be it a gym or a mall, a plumber, or a cup of coffee. Google search interest in “near me” has increased 34X since 20111 and nearly doubled since last year. The vast majority come from mobile—80% in Q4 2014.2″ quoted from google.

I notice that the sites I work on get close to 80% mobile traffic are you seeing the same?

Looking forward to connecting on this topic further. Thanks

Sabinsays:

ok. I have an exact keyword domain for earplug (on country specific). Time to rank on that best headphones and earbuds. Taking action.

p.s. Glen, what do you think on the country code domain (not US or UK)? will it rank?

Andreassays:

Since all google searches that contain “near me” and similar triggers googles own search result inlay with map and everything to suggested place aren’t you competing directly with google then? I might have missed it but this isn’t discussed in the article. Should you skip all search results that are competing with Googles own search result box/area?

Ramonsays:

as always, thanks for an awesome piece of content. It’s 2AM here in the morning and I’m still awake reading through this post and some other old posts and taking some notes. I’d definitely want to read more about this in the future. Again thanks!

Edwardsays:

Any more ideas related to the medical / dental industry? Much appreciated. So much value, Glen. Cheers

Nirmalsays:

As expected, all those domains are registered by your blog readers. Hope people would actually build sites on them that just parking.

I would love to see more niche ideas.

Viveksays:

You really covered everything in deep and detail.

Thanks for it. This will really help me to understand how actually one should find niche or keyword to work on.

Will be waiting for more such article and article no 2 too!

Jeffsays:

This for sure is a value filled post.. im hoping to act on one of them .. with ecom

squawksays:

great read as always glen, congrats on sharing your research. although i believe strongly in the “rank & rent” concept for local seo marketing, it is interesting that i watched an entire video today by a prominent local seo guru who says r&r sites are the worst possible business. i’m having trouble wrapping my head around that as it goes against what my gut believes but then again, he’s “been there done that” and i haven’t. anyway, i digress big time, great article.

Ming Jong Teysays:

Great work. Love the ideas you shared about this low hanging fruits 🙂

Keep it up and look forward to reading your part 2.

Suseela Susieesays:

All are saying the same thing repeatedly, but in your blog I had a chance to get some useful and unique information, I love your writing style very much, I would like to suggest your blog in my dude circle, so keep on updates.

Lily Evanssays:

Hey loved the post! Great article and congrats on reaching the top 30 young bloggers! I will be back to visit often!

David Nazarethsays:

Hello glen loved the article. would like some more posts on this topic.

Darky Khansays:

Appreciate your work Glen!

For the term “near me”, is there a way to localize it to a particular city (new york for example), because the keyword itself doesn’t specify the location?

Davidsays:

Interesting stuff for sure. I just asked my wife, who works in the health industry, about boiled broth and she said it’s been growing for a while in popularity but it tastes disgusting! Haha.

says:

The reason I love this space, a really entertaining read. Do you think similarweb data is reliable? I ask because I used it in the past and was able to cross check their reports with actual domains I was managing and frankly it was a turd. Perhaps their strength is in these micro markets (even if search volume is high?). G.

Bosays:

Love, love reading your very long and highly entertaining posts. Although I’m not (at least yet) planning on entering any of these markets, I enjoy reading your background work and the thought that goes into you research and choices. Keep it coming.

Ruben Baestaenssays:

Hey Glen, I’m a long time follower, but first time commenter.

There are actually some great ideas in this post that I’ll definitely be’ll using

SAMsays:

Thanks for this awesome niche list, Glen! Lots of golden nuggets to keep me busy for quite a while:) As always, I look forward to your next post!

Tomsays:

Thanks for this insightful post. Did some research on one of the niches you mentioned, found 243 suggestions in google and bought a domain that includes the major part of the searchphrase. Now its up to generate content �� rank – and monetize.

Looking forward to your followup post. Tom

Bensays:

Awesome, definitely do more posts like this one!

Sohil Memonsays:

Hey Glen, I really love to read your case-studies and this is one of the best! Well, you have just mention about varies niches, but any idea how one can rank easily? Please let me know your thoughts.

Rob Gillsays:

The more you give Glen, like your articles, the more will come back to you many times over. Always well written.

Howardsays:

Great article! Really appreciate the tips for monetization on the niches!

Iansays:

Please give us more posts like this one.

Jacob jamessays:

What a great read! If I can pull all that together I should be able to get somewhere.

Carlsays:

Question for you… Canada is a small market compared to that of the US or UK. Small population spread out over a BIG territory. Based on this context/reality, what would be the right approach to have success in a given niche?

I know that it wil generally depend, but there must be some high-level tips to consider.

Theodore DeBettencourtsays:

Such a fun read. Thank you for the time you put into this. This plucks at the heart of my entrepreneurial adhd. I want to do all of them! You could run a whole business email list just by giving one of these away per week. Hmmmm….

Awesome stuff – you need a paid course (:

Drusays:

Thanks for sharing your research. I think if people research on some of the related niche ideas, your article will bring a ton of opportunities.

Quick question. How would you monetize traffic for search query “Dominos near me”?

Mesays:

Brad McInnissays:

Glen – another great article. Do you have any idea on the near me searches how that affects mobile searches? More specifically, when you use the near me tag does it rank higher when someone is looking on their mobile device when they have location services turned on? Would be nice if there was a way to capitalize on that. Plenty of great stuff in the article to get going on. Always have great ideas and it is much appreciated! Brad

Joshsays:

Sometimes I think your SEO advice is actually life counseling packaged in a way that is super targeted for reaching a demographic that otherwise wouldn’t hear it.

When you say “go local” the message is actually “get out and meet people in your local area you can do business with.”

So many people get caught up in trying to make money online so that they can travel the world that they forget that the reason we do any of this stuff in the first place is so that we can make an impact in our global community and foster human connections.

Sure, it starts out with a local niche site that doesn’t require you to talk to anybody. Then as you get more invested in it and see the potential you start to leave the cave and meet people in your local area. Then living there becomes a lot more fun and you find yourself talking to people and getting human interactions you weren’t getting before.

Staying in front of the computer for too long isn’t good for anybody. Sometimes I think life would be easier working on a farm. But internet money is still money. And easier physically.

Bhuboy Villanuevasays:

I’ve tried to make a search about one of my niche website and the term near me, and found a site with keyword+nearme , in page 1 of google with low DA, Thanks for sharing this niche ideas

Mateus Guitarsays:

Damn life, I know this post cost him many hours. This matter has served me as a lesson on how to behave Google with some specific situations.

Tomahawk (@unicornpoach)says:

Great post as always Glen! Will need to dig up that Pomodoro app blog. Lots of value here as well. Definitely need more posts like this!!

Johnsays:

Jamiesays:

Great post. How would you suggest optimising for “near me” searches organically?

ernestsays:

great post as always [inspiration ]

Matt Diggitysays:

Nice work, Glen. Niche research is pretty much the last topic that a marketer would give out and here you are, laying it all out like a boss. Abundance mentality… all the way. Good on you.

Marksays:

Awesome insights; am pretty sure competition for these key terms will increase once this article goes viral.

Kash Lalkasays:

Excellent post Glen, I read this post 3 times and have made notes for future businesses. I used your “Best” “2016” idea you gave at the start of the year and started a site with the words in the domain name. I am ranking for some very competitive keywords and am raking in 4 figures in adsense every month passive via it. Barely any links but just jumped the 2016 bandwagon. I will be doing the same for 2017 though this year I am buying the domain name in oct itself so it gets some age. In Jan 2017 I plan to 301 redirect the links from the 2016 site to the 2017 site and copy all the content there. Does it make sense to do it? Once again THANK YOU!!!

Lsays:

Nice how you post these kind of in-depth articles. Good for the inspiration. However, you should now do more on strategies and tips how to rank your website and/or generate traffic. I think this is still a hurdle for a lot of website owners 🙂

tareksays:

I really loved this post Glen. It is full of information such a great post Glen .Thakns a lot I always believe that you are a great writer.

I hope To see similar post about niche research in the ” near” future Glen. (see I have applied the near theory lool). I love reading niche research with data .

Many Many thanks Glen you are the best .

Briansays:

Great article. I can’t believe that best reviews.guide is able to run on Adwords like that. It’s an obvious bridge page and no content

Imran Yousafsays:

Thank You Glen for your interesting article. I am frequent visitor but silent reader of your blog. Most of time I wondered how people get the idea of so technical and extremely narrow niche ideas. Your article explained well all this exercise. Especially how to find niche ideas by checking paid traffic tactics.

Rodsays:

Came here with a preconceived notion but left with totally different mindset. Was wondering when looking at searches per month what would be the minimum you would consider? I feel you are going to say depends on niche. Second question, I have never thought of a directory site, how do you go about monetizing? Simply charging for a link? I have a bunch of decent domain but not enough time in the day it seems. Any advice greatly appreciated

Raphael Shartasays:

Thanks Glen, I went through your post and found some interesting niches. I hope to choose one of then. get adsense approval or an affiliate maybe amazon and start earning online. though I just started blogging. your advice will be much appreciated on the kind of niche I use .

Leonsays:

Thanks for the post. In Sermush it is reporting that I’m in 4th position for one of those “blank near me” terms. However when I search for it in google, I am no where to be found (like 3/4 page)…Instead it is showing actual local businesses in my city that are close to me…. I guess only if my browser was not to specific location would I show? But everyone these days is set to a city of theirs and so my page doesn’t have a chance. Or does it?

Alexsays:

I’m wondering how to take advantage of the “near me” keywords.

Is there like a geo-locator plug-in that you can use so if someone searches like “pizza near me” and they click your link it geo-locates them to a page relevant to their actual location?

I’m interested in targeting one or more of those keywords I’m just not sure how to actually make it so when my site is clicked it sends them to a page relevant to the location of the person searching.

tareksays:

hi Glen, THanks a lot man I do really liked this articles. I really love niche research. Niche research I would really like to see similar blog post in the near future.

See I have included the magic word “near” lol. thanks a lot glen Hope to read an other post on niches.

Shamaila Zahidsays:

Wow, this is such a great article! There are so many niche ideas for me to explore. Thanks for sharing 😀

Dashsays:

I loved this article. I was looking for new inspiration and with this post I have decided to jump into the “near me” lane. I will be putting a spin on it and seeing how it comes along.

Leilões no ESsays:

Our incredible that. The tips are very good I will apply in my business with certainty.

P.S: Brazil is following you 🙂

Rubensays:

I am trying to find those type of niches for my Spanish webs…lets see what we can do

Keviasays:

You asked if we would like more of this kind of post, and the answer is yes! Thank you for the niche ideas but more importantly the strategies on how you found them. Do you have a post about different ways on how to monetize once you have found a niche/idea. I can’t seem to figure out how money is made once you have a niche or industry locked down. If there is a post or if you could write one just as detailed and informative as this one, that would be really awesome, thank you.

Mikesays:

Excuse me while I set up VRpoledancingclassesnearme.com 😉

Pretty sure I might have tipped you off on one of these niches about a year ago in an email I sent you. I have been enjoying the fruits of my labor since 2014 and it’s still going strong, happy to say. While I have definitely seen some new sites appearing and getting gobs of traffic, I still don’t worry much about them…more motivation for me.

Vishalsays:

I did take a domain name ending with near me but I never realized that it was a big niche. I have to work on that website to see the effect as you mentioned. My domain name searches are low but the website can get good revenue in direct advertizing.

jackysays:

you rocked the internet bro best tips for niche success thanks will try some of this 😉

ruchi sharmasays:

Hello Glen, Thanks for this huge article on niche research article. This was huge and full of information as always. I am also working on a niche blog and trying to rank on top, right now i am on 2-3 rd page without so many backlink. Hope to reach on top of google soon

Abdullah Premsays:

First of all thanks to share this great post and day before yesterday i was thinking of creating a new niche site but concerned to pick a right product to promote from your post i have marked some products to start with and by the way which tool are your using to dig the keywords?

Cindysays:

Wow! Awesome stuff here. I love the how you found them way more then what you found. Thanks for this freakin awesome share

sudhir shuklasays:

Hey Glen, Got some awesome buyer keyword ideas from here. Thanks a lot for writing this detailed guide on profitable keywords. Thanks for giving me beautiful idea.

Wrenn Taylorsays:

Another Great Article about optimizing SEO strategies. I personally can see the value in SEO and what it does for the community and the advancement of networking our cities! If more people knew how to SEO correctly then more and more cities would grow. In the end it is just a big network 😉 -Wrenn

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If this unique visual novel about your mermaid girlfriend is your cup of tea, check out the campaign.Grimshade successfully completed it's campaign with $107,041 pledged. According to an earlier update, this means the Switch version is happening. Five more updates were shared. The first marks reaching their main goal. The second details the combat system of the game. The third update has the live stream included. The fourth marks the final 24 hours of the campaign. The fifth was after the completion of the campaign stating as such. They also mention the survey will be going out on June 28th. If this hand drawn story driven RPG with a branching narrative seems like your cup of tea, check it out.Xenosis: Alien Infection was successful in it's campaign with $39,279 raised by the end. This does mean that they missed the Switch version at $75,000. Two more updates were shared. The first marks the final 48 hours with the team working hard on enemy art and sound design. The second marks reaching the Xbox One stretch goal. If this space survival adventure game interests you, check out it's campaign.Stoneshard completed it's campaign successfully with $101,186 collected for the campaign. Three more updates were shared. The first marks reaching the Divine Trials goal being reachedand hoping to make it to $100,000 raised. The second marked only one hour left and thanking backers. The third announces late backing on their website. If this game set in medieval times blending modern ideas into the old schdool roguelike gameplay is up your alley, you can try out the demo here.Kickstarter UpdatesOn Thursday June 21st, Hollow Knight devs Team Cherry participated in an AMA on the subreddit.Grave Danger is releasing on June 28th according to Nintendo's site.Photon Cube is releasing on June 28th according to Nintendo's site.Anima: Gate of Memories: The Nameless Chronicles will be released on Switch on June 29th.Pocket Rumble shared a new trailer and is releasing on Switch on July 5th.Pinstripe, from the same developer as Once Upon a Coma has been announced to be coming to Switch as well in about a month.Project Sense shared an update after the campaign ended for reaching 600% funding. They also add an analysis of the campaign, what will be happening going forward, and the plan to release of the game.Wild Mage shared two updates. The first update marks the beginning of the Treasure Island Challenge. The second is an update on the challenge.The first post-campaign update for Monster Crown shares some screenshots of the game as well as some improved sprites of the monsters you will be collecting.The narrative prototype for Blasphemous should have been available according to the latest update. This is the third playable demo and the update lists the new features in the demo.Unsung Story shared a new update all about the animation process for the game.Banner Saga 3 shared a soundtrack preview update which includes a video, and changes to a backer tier.NAIRI: Tower of Shirin shared a June progress update which includes the Switch version being in the home stretch and details on language support and tweaks to the game. Quite a few screens of the game were shared as well.An update for Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics announced a Kickstarter live that will be occurring on July 18th.The devs behind Indivisible discuss further detail on the game's delay in an interview with DualShockers.If anyone sees a crowdfunding effort or notices an update for a game on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Fig, or elsewhere, please message the moderators or myself to give us a heads up and I will be able to add it into the Kickstarter wiki. I also add Kickstarters that are posted to the subreddit.Additionally, if anyone thinks of any good questions or discussions to have for these posts to bring about some good discussion, either comment or message me personally. Thank you and have a great week!-phantomligerNameDeveloperEnd DateDescriptionSwitch versionROTA - Gravity Bending Puzzle PlatformerharetroJuly 20, 2018ROTA is a Gravity Bending Puzzle Platformer with a 1-Bit Art Style and LoFi Hip-Hop Soundtrack$5,000 Stretch GoalA Fold ApartLightning Rod GamesJuly 19, 2018A Fold Apart is a 3D puzzle game about the emotional struggle of a long distance relationship set in a world of folding paper.$45,000 Main GoalShardWeaver: Kolo — A Story-driven Action Adventure RPGCitadel GamesJuly 7, 2018Explore floating islands, craft magical weapons, choose to slay or spare the bosses, uncover the secret history of the kingdom Ukona.75,000 Stretch GoalThe Jimmy's SoulsDelusion ArtsJuly 5, 2018Enter in the enigmatic atmosphere of The Jimmy's Souls and discover an incredible story with a touch of reality!$14,000 Stretch Goal (Campaign is in MX$)Cubemon - A Open World Adventure RPGSven PüttnerJuly 3, 2018Explore the Sun-Island, solve puzzles, help the local Cubemons and take care of your own companion, train him, feed him, love him!$250,000 Stretch Goal (Campaign is in €)TemtemCremaJuly 2, 2018Seek adventure in the lovely Airborne Archipelago alongside your Temtem squad. Catch every Temtem and battle tamers around the world.$250,000 Stretch GoalDuck JamPlucky Duck ProductionsJune 29, 2018Quack reaction micro-game action!$50,000 Stretch GoalTransmogrifyAndrew StrauchJune 28, 2018Explore a mysterious facility and fight your way past dangerous creatures with an unconventional weapon.$10,000 Stretch GoalPixel Princess Blitz - Sandbox Roguelite Action RPGLanze GamesJune 27, 2018A truly innovative sandbox-style roguelite action RPG, crafted in delightful pixel-art.€8,574 Main GoalMy Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?sekaiprojectJune 24, 2018Help us bring the visual novel, "My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?" to both PC and Nintendo Switch!$12,000 Main GoalGrimshadeTalerockJune 21, 2018A story-driven RPG with tactical battles set in a fantasy world$200,000 Stretch GoalXenosis: Alien InfectionNerdRage StudiosJune 21, 2018*Xenosis: Alien Infection is a retro-inspired, top down sci-fi adventure / survival game, with a focus on a story-driven single-player experience. *$75,000 Stretch GoalStoneshard: Open-world Roguelike RPG with Tactical FreedomInk Stains GamesJune 16, 2018Grim medieval adventure that blends old school roguelike gameplay with modern ideas.$30,000 Main Goal via /r/NintendoSwitch

[webdesignersolutions]

UPDATE to Cloudways Web Hosting Issue via /r/webhosting

UPDATE to Cloudways Web Hosting Issue

** UPDATE *\*

-- June 14, 2018 --

I started a thread in early June 2018 called "Web hosting nightmare - Cloudways was stealing my website content" to warn others after I experienced a frustrating security breach while using their web hosting services. Since then, I have had a dozen emails and several phone calls with the company regarding this incident. For the purposes of awareness, transparency, and fairness, here are the highlights so far:

Cloudways has terminated the employment of the rogue employee and is accepting responsibility for what happened. The initial frustrating email that I received from a Cloudways "customer success manager" - where he completely ignored my issues - was actually from the rogue employee himself as he was trying to quash the incident with me before it got to his managers. So, I will cut them some slack there.

The company is taking steps to strengthen its hiring and training practices. I will keep an eye on this over the coming weeks and report back as to how effectively I feel they are actually implementing these changes.

The company is planning to make changes to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for its support engineers. I will also keep an eye on this over the coming weeks.

I have made recommendations to the leadership team regarding more robust access control policies and procedures - to include password vaulting (so that customers' account credentials are never exposed during migrations and other technical support activities), real-time session monitoring, adopting the principle of least privilege (PoLP), etc. I will provide an update regarding this too if the company moves forward with implementation.

I have received a full refund of my web hosting fees from the past several months. I have not accepted any compensation beyond that.

I am in close contact with the Cloudways team now and will keep an eye on the changes that they make over the coming months.

~ If you have any questions regarding this incident or the company's response, feel free to send me a PM.

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** Original Post *\*

TLDR: An employee of Cloudways stole my website content and was using it as a template to build a website for his client on the side. Cloudways’ support/customer success team played dumb for hours as I tried to get an explanation/ resolution. Eventually they admitted to it and offered an apology.

Do not trust this company with your business!

I am posting this as a public service announcement to help others who may be considering Cloudways web hosting, so you can avoid the same issues that I faced. Prior to this, I had heard great things about Cloudways. I hosted my website with them for about 2 months - their dashboard was clean and simple, their server speeds were good, etc. It seemed like a reputable company. But all of that changed a few days ago...

I was checking my website's backlink profile and came across a Cloudways staging URL that was linking to my website. When I followed the link, it led back to what looked exactly like my website (it had the same design, a photo of me was there in the sidebar, my blog posts were there, etc.) Except there was something off about it.At the top left of the screen, instead of MY company's logo, there was a logo for a skincare company called Oriflame. Confused, I continued to click through the site and eventually landed on the home page. Here, my confusion turned to shock. This home page looked exactly like mine design-wise, and some of my content was still the same. BUT, most of the wording and images had been changed to rebrand the website as a skincare consultancy for a woman in Pakistan! In the 'About Us' section, my photo was replaced with that of a woman (the owner of the skincare company) but it still had my name and description next to the photo.

Care to guess what was happening? Well... A support engineer from Cloudways who had access to my website was using my website as a template to build a site for his client on the side!

I immediately jumped on live chat with Cloudways to explain what was going on and request an explanation/ resolution. Unfortunately, the support agent just played dumb. He told me that what I was seeing was just a leftover link from my website migration. I carefully explained to him that 1) I am not female 2) the female depicted in that photo is not me, 3) I don't run a skincare consultancy, etc. I even sent him SCREENSHOTS COMPARING MY WEBSITE TO THE PLAGIARIZED ONE. The support engineer then simply said that he would remove the link.

At that point, I was infuriated! Cloudways took no responsibility for the issue and offered no explanation. I ended the chat by saying that I would be cancelling my service and writing this review. That's when he really took notice and said that he'd pass on my issue to his team.

The next day, I was contacted by a Cloudways customer success manager. He was fairly polite, but it was back to square one — he ignored the actual issue. After I responded with some very stern wording, he said that he confronted the support engineer who admitted to everything. I was offered an apology and a promise that they would take steps to prevent this sort of thing in the future.

I shut down the server and moved my website elsewhere, because one such incident is enough of a warning. I figure the best thing I can do now is to warn others, so they can avoid this shady web hosting company. Avoid the nightmare that I went through. Pass on Cloudways.

Submitted June 14, 2018 at 03:33PM by Zak-and-Zu via reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/8r61qc/update_to_cloudways_web_hosting_issue/?utm_source=ifttt

[darrellkmartin]

9 Customer Support Mistakes Sending Customers to the Competition (and How to Avoid Them!)

Customer support is a battlefield; a place where only the strongest and most attuned brands survive.

One misstep can mean the difference between a loyal customer and one who tells 10+ friends never to give your business the time of the day.

While companies struggle to survive with price wars and product offerings, they often neglect to focus on the one thing that could be the biggest differentiator for their brand:

The customer experience.

60% of consumers have higher expectations for customer service now than they did just one year ago.

And, by 2020, the White House Office of Consumer Affairs predicts the customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiatior.

This spells out a massive opportunity for any business. Not only does support directly impact retention and advocacy, it provides a vehicle to lure customers away from your competitors.

Despite the bottom line importance, an insane number of companies are still making the same mistakes day after day that send their customers to the competition. In fact, 89% of consumers have quit doing business with a brand simply because of a shitty customer experience.

And the worst part? Everyone one of these mishaps is completely avoidable with a little awareness and effort.

But, it all starts with identify the root of the problem.

So, here are 9 customer support mishaps that are sending your customers to the competition, the common causes, and how to avoid them.

#1 – Taking too long to resolve an issue

Data: A study by LIvePerson shows that 71% of visitors expect help within 5 minutes when making an online purchase. And, 45% of consumers in the US will drop an online transaction if they can’t get a timely resolution.

While speed isn’t always the most important factor in delivering good support, it is a factor.

We’re living in an on-demand world where people are used to getting the information they want, when they want it. Customer support is no different.

Common causes: Part of slow problem resolution stems from finding the right person who can handle the issue. A customer’s first point of contact may not have the necessary resources or authority to fix an issue, which means they need to transfer the problem to someone who does.

A poor hand-off process can let issues slip through the cracks or not provide the assigned support rep with enough information to resolve the issue. This is a common issue when support teams are handling requests out of a shared email inbox.

How to fix it: As your support team grows, consider investing in a helpdesk solution that allows team members to triage, categorize and assign support tickets across the organization.

Tickets need to be assigned based on priority, with availability and level of expertise taken into account.

Support team members should not be sifting through email chains trying to piece together a support request. Reps need to be able to quickly access a customer’s prior interactions, across multiple support channels, in order to get context and personalize the support experience.

Automations can also be set up so that certain ticket categories (eg. feature requests, technical issues, billing errors etc..) are assigned to specific subject matter experts on your team. This ensures tickets are only being viewed by the people most qualified to resolve the issue.

In the world of customer support, context is everything, especially when it comes to resolution speed.

#2 – Being transferred from one rep to another and having to repeat the same issue each time

Data: In a study that asked customers what annoys them the most, 37% of participants mentioned they don’t like being “passed around.” That is, going from one rep to another, having to rehash the issue each time, without getting any closer to actually solving the problem.

We’ve all been there. And it’s frustrating as hell!

Common causes: In most cases it comes down to one of the following:

Ticket assigned to the wrong person

Reps unable to find the answers

Inadequate context

How to fix it: Use an automated tagging system to ensure all support requests are routed to the right support team member. For example, technical issues should not be sent to the billing department :)

Also, some problems are going to be more complex than others. Sometimes you’ll encounter an issue that is unprecedented, and will require input from multiple sources to reach a resolution.

In cases like this, it must be easy for your customers and agents to collaborate. Think of it as a live chat thread on every ticket. Customers can chat with staff, submit questions, screenshots and other information to help resolve the problem.

Similarly, agents can collaborate with one another directly within the ticket rather than assigning and reassigning the support ticket. This reduces the risk of key information slipping through the cracks.

At a bare minimum, all staff should be able to reassign tickets to proper personnel.

#3 – Being stranded in “support limbo” without knowing if anything is being done to resolve the issue

Data: A study from Bain and Company;discovered customers are four times more likely to buy from your competitor if their problem is service-related versus a price- or product-related issue.

The phrase, “no news is good news” does not hold true when it comes to customer support. Customers who have no idea if anything is being done to solve their problem are likely to feel neglected, frustrated and compelled to take their business elsewhere. .

Common causes:Support emails fall through the cracks.

As we already touched on, there are major limitations to using a shared inbox for customer support.

The biggest limitation?

Accountability.

Emails get lost, land in the spam folder, bounce or get accidentally deleted. And without proper assignment and tracking, no one is ever held accountable.

This problem compounds as support teams grow and tickets start to flood the inbox.

How to fix it:Ensure every support ticket is assigned to the right

#4 – No apology for a s#!tty support experience

Data: In one study, 37% of customers felt better after a bad support experience when they were offered something of monetary value, such as a credit or refund. But when the company added an apology to the compensation, satisfaction rates doubled to 74%.

Common causes:Some companies believe offering an apology means admitting fault or acknowledging they’re providing bad service. Few people like to admit when they're wrong. No one likes to apologize when they know they didn’t do anything wrong.

How to fix it:Even if you didn’t do anything wrong, you can still be sorry about the way the customer feels.

Throw ego out the door.

You should be genuinely sorry when your customers are upset, whether it is your fault or not. Let them know that. Make this empathetic response a part of every negative support interaction.

#5 – Not providing a helpful, up-to-date, self-service support channel

Data: Half of consumers prefer to seek out their own answers, while 70% of customers expect a company to offer a self-service feature on their website.

(i.e Most people would rather avoid contacting a support rep to get their questions answered).

Common Causes: Companies don’t fully understand the most common support questions, or don’t have the budget and resources to develop and update a robust knowledge base.

How to fix it: Good self-service support is more than a static FAQ. Instead, try including a searchable knowledge base that will return relevant answers based on the keywords entered in the customer’s query.

Also, to ensure the knowledge base is continually updated, make it easy for support staff to answer a question and quickly post it to the knowledge base.

#6 – Being treated rudely with robot-like support

Data:Rude, incompetent, rushed service has been cited as the number one reason why customers abandon business with a company.

People want a better experience when dealing with real people – in fact, they expect it.

Common causes:Professionalism is often mistaken for formality, but it’s entirely possible to be both informal and professional. Many companies use scripts and guides to ensure their reps say the right things, which works for some purposes, but completely fails when it comes to sounding empathetic.

Bottom line: Using the right tone in customer service is critical.

But, the right tone is not always a casual tone.

65% of online customers - across all ages and genders - prefer a casual service tone over a formal one, but the numbers swing significantly in the opposite direction when a customer is being denied a request.

78% said an overly casual tone with slang has a negative impact on the customer experience when a rep is denying a request.

How to fix it: Pay attention to the context of your support interactions, and model tone accordingly.

For the most part, casual tone will perform better. But, in the cases you are dealing with a pissed off customer, switch to a more formal tone, acknowledge and empathize with the issue, and always make the customer feel like you are taking their request seriously.

#7 – Poor mobile experience

Data: Mobile internet traffic has surpassed desktop, and the gap continues to widen.

WOW local marketing indicated 52% of customers are less likely to work with a company if they have a bad mobile experience.

Despite this, Software Advice reports 90% of customers mention having at least one poor experience getting support on a mobile device.

Common Causes:Companies are slow to adopt a mobile-first mindset.

How to fix it: Today’s customers use their mobile device for everything. From research and purchasing to customer support. Your mobile strategy needs to synchronize with the customer journey.

Adopt a mobile-first customer service approach, make sure your website is mobile-friendly (duh, Robbie!), and ensure all support channels - email, chat, web, knowledge base - are accessible across mobile devices.

Also - ensure your support staff are able to respond to tickets from any device

#8 – Believing a few complaints = good support service

Data: For every customer who complains, there are about 26 others who don’t say a word. I.e. most businesses only hear from about 4% of unhappy customers.

Even worse, 13% of dissatisfied customerswill tell upwards of 15 people about a poor support experience.

Unhappy customers are silent assassins. Don’t let the silence fool you.

Common causes:Some customers will never tell you about a poor experience, even if you outright ask them.

But, often the lack of feedback is due to an inadequate However, more customers might be willing to share their thoughts if they knew how. Not every company uses a client feedback loop, and some of the ones who do don’t know how to leverage that data to make improvements.

How to fix it:Be proactive.

Don’t wait to put out the fires. Regularly collect feedback from your customers in order to gain insight into the performance of your support operations.

An NPS survey is a bare minimum.

If you find that someone had a negative experience with your company, be sure to reach out, apologize and do everything you can to make it right.

Remember:

Customers who complain are giving you an insanely valuable gift: insight into what is making many more customers unhappy than just the ones who chose to inform you.

#9 – Thinking you are immune to the support service issues listed above

Data: 80% of companies believed they delivered excellent customer service.

But, only 8% of customers agreed.

Common causes:Brands often look at the wrong KPIs or metrics to gauge how they’re doing – or worse, fail to measure and analyze any of the data they collect. Some companies don’t prioritize gathering customer feedback, and view silence as a soft metric for customer satisfaction.

How to fix it: Establish a clearly defined set of KPIs to measure support performance at each level of the organization - agent and organization.

Need inspiration?

Here are the metrics other support professionals are using.

Start by creating a customer feedback loop that solicits information from your customers.

Tracking things like resolution time can highlight efficiency. Monitoring ticket types can identify the areas in your company causing customers the most headaches - billing, technical issues etc. - so resources can be appropriately allocated.

Every company will be different, but remember, just because it is measureable does not mean it is meaningful.

Wrap Up

82% of customers have left a company because of a bad customer service experience.

Just like great support is a magnet for new customers, crappy support will repel them before you even know they exist.

Ask yourself:

“Is a poor customer experience sending customers to my competition?”

Looking at the common mishaps shown above will likely give you the answer, and a solution to the problem.

from Startup Tips By Darrel https://www.jitbit.com/news/customer-support-mistakes/