Comments on: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Niches http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/ Advanced SEO Tactics and Techniques Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:59:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: GlobalWarming Awareness2007 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-29985 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:15:33 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-29985 I would of kept the name just to be funny. I would of kept the name just to be funny.

]]> by: George http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-7193 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:06:45 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-7193 How big is a niche, anyway? Is a niche definied by specificity or size? I remember some marketing email I received touting the potential profits to be made in the "health niche," and I remember thinking to myself that "health" is way way too big to be a niche. Brand names are (in my experience) usually far easier to rank for than general terms. New brands of skin care products and supplements. I work in the "Health niche" so I pay attention to the news about discoveries of antioxidant compounds, like resveratrol, and try to rank for them. How big is a niche, anyway? Is a niche definied by specificity or size?

I remember some marketing email I received touting the potential profits to be made in the “health niche,” and I remember thinking to myself that “health” is way way too big to be a niche.

Brand names are (in my experience) usually far easier to rank for than general terms. New brands of skin care products and supplements.

I work in the “Health niche” so I pay attention to the news about discoveries of antioxidant compounds, like resveratrol, and try to rank for them.

]]> by: scott reyns http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6376 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:31:22 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6376 yes, don't expect to make $ from bands, at least not without a very, very clever new angle. myspace is a brand land of bots talking to bots, a perfect example of how more wired can becoem more disconnected. hard to directly monitize on any size budget. from what i've seen, people trying to game it almost invariably aren't selling music, what they're selling are fake girly profiles to lure young lads to webcam sites they can jack off to. celeb nip slips etc. would also be hard to monetize i should think. optimizing to get the attention of the voyeurism flavor of the day is one thing, but unless one's got a pay-per-impressions cut worked out with advertisers, getting the peepers to click is quite another. maybe that's why we see, for example, so few people bidding on longstanding popular queries such as "paris hilton." as for scraping myspace bands... it would have to be the bands that are in demand to be of any use which rules out 99.9% of them. scraping content that's not in demand is duplicating marketless product that's having trouble justifying that it already exists somewhere in the first place. let me know if/when you've scraped mine, and looking forward to keeping up with how the directory project pans out. but yeah... most of us are dirt poor and in the rare moments when we're not it goes away fast on things other than web marketing anyway. :) cheers [sr] yes, don’t expect to make $ from bands, at least not without a very, very clever new angle. myspace is a brand land of bots talking to bots, a perfect example of how more wired can becoem more disconnected. hard to directly monitize on any size budget. from what i’ve seen, people trying to game it almost invariably aren’t selling music, what they’re selling are fake girly profiles to lure young lads to webcam sites they can jack off to.

celeb nip slips etc. would also be hard to monetize i should think. optimizing to get the attention of the voyeurism flavor of the day is one thing, but unless one’s got a pay-per-impressions cut worked out with advertisers, getting the peepers to click is quite another. maybe that’s why we see, for example, so few people bidding on longstanding popular queries such as “paris hilton.”

as for scraping myspace bands… it would have to be the bands that are in demand to be of any use which rules out 99.9% of them. scraping content that’s not in demand is duplicating marketless product that’s having trouble justifying that it already exists somewhere in the first place.

let me know if/when you’ve scraped mine, and looking forward to keeping up with how the directory project pans out. but yeah… most of us are dirt poor and in the rare moments when we’re not it goes away fast on things other than web marketing anyway. :)

cheers [sr]

]]> by: elhoim http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6248 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:34:15 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6248 I would be interested by the 2.95$ registrar, if being for com/net/org! I would be interested by the 2.95$ registrar, if being for com/net/org!

]]> by: Aur http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6188 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:21:08 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6188 I like your picture from the parisian metro! I think this is why I started to read your blog at first :) Where do you get domain name for $2.95 ? I like your picture from the parisian metro! I think this is why I started to read your blog at first :)

Where do you get domain name for $2.95 ?

]]> by: Eli http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6179 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:04:55 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6179 Aur, I'm lookin forward to the updates. In my experience i love the .coms but .net and .org makes a great substitute if the .com is already taken. I would definitely grab up the .net or .org for that guys name if i were you. I'm actually Italian incase you were wondering(thats not me in the photo), but its great to see some faces from around the world on this blog. Eitherway you couldn't go wrong with just investing the 2.95/year for the domain and then just parking it on a domain sponsor. Very rarely is a niche like that, when available, not worth the small bucks for the domain. Aur,
I’m lookin forward to the updates. In my experience i love the .coms but .net and .org makes a great substitute if the .com is already taken. I would definitely grab up the .net or .org for that guys name if i were you. I’m actually Italian incase you were wondering(thats not me in the photo), but its great to see some faces from around the world on this blog. Eitherway you couldn’t go wrong with just investing the 2.95/year for the domain and then just parking it on a domain sponsor. Very rarely is a niche like that, when available, not worth the small bucks for the domain.

]]> by: Aur http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6178 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:50:39 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6178 Sure no problem, I'll keep you updates about my project. I had a question... When it comes to buy a toplevel domain, what do you think about .net or .org compared to .com ? Any experience to share? For instance, there's just been a big award for a writer in France (yes I'm french, and by seeing your photo from the parisian metro, I guess you're too...). His name is Jonathan Littell, and he was unknown but now he is getting a lot of exposure thanks to his prize. I was looking and JonathanLittell.com is already taken, but not the .net or .org How could you assess if it is worth investing? Sure no problem, I’ll keep you updates about my project.

I had a question… When it comes to buy a toplevel domain, what do you think about .net or .org compared to .com ?
Any experience to share?

For instance, there’s just been a big award for a writer in France (yes I’m french, and by seeing your photo from the parisian metro, I guess you’re too…). His name is Jonathan Littell, and he was unknown but now he is getting a lot of exposure thanks to his prize. I was looking and JonathanLittell.com is already taken, but not the .net or .org
How could you assess if it is worth investing?

]]> by: Eli http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6177 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:52:19 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6177 OH one more thing i should probably mention. How about celeb nip slips? haha hey its news. When a celeb accidently flashes a giant crowd at the superbowl quickly throw up a domain for it and get it indexed. Guaranteed for the next few months you'll be slammed with more traffic than your server can handle. OH one more thing i should probably mention. How about celeb nip slips? haha hey its news. When a celeb accidently flashes a giant crowd at the superbowl quickly throw up a domain for it and get it indexed. Guaranteed for the next few months you’ll be slammed with more traffic than your server can handle.

]]> by: Eli http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6176 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:45:53 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6176 seostomp, thanks yeah i love that movie. If anyone here hasn't seen lock stock, snatch or lay4red cake i strongly suggest you check em out. Bradlee, oh fuck yeah! you could not be more right. Especially with the 911 type stuff. Quick story for ya. I used to have a pet hamster in my dorm room in college. His name was Osama. Everyone always asked me why osama and i was shocked that no one had ever heard of Osama bin laden, one of the biggest terrorists in the world. Everyone just thought i was weird for naming a pet after some no name terrorist. Then 911 happened. Suddenly EVERYONE knew who osama was and I had to change his name cus ppl wouldn't quit harassing me about him and being unamerican. Imagine having a website about him made right before 9/11. seostomp, thanks yeah i love that movie. If anyone here hasn’t seen lock stock, snatch or lay4red cake i strongly suggest you check em out.

Bradlee, oh fuck yeah! you could not be more right. Especially with the 911 type stuff. Quick story for ya. I used to have a pet hamster in my dorm room in college. His name was Osama. Everyone always asked me why osama and i was shocked that no one had ever heard of Osama bin laden, one of the biggest terrorists in the world. Everyone just thought i was weird for naming a pet after some no name terrorist. Then 911 happened. Suddenly EVERYONE knew who osama was and I had to change his name cus ppl wouldn’t quit harassing me about him and being unamerican. Imagine having a website about him made right before 9/11.

]]> by: Bradlee http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6175 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:36:24 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6175 YEP! Any popular cultural icon or event can be a great niche. And with a little work you can get lucky and predict a hot one. World series, superbowl, movies, plays, bands, sporting events, hurricanes, fashion designs and designers, Christmas, Halloween, Anniverseries of big events (9/11). If you run out of niche ideas you must have your eyes closed, ears plugged, and live in a cave. TV shows! Every fall there are dozens of new ones. Each worth at least a sub domain with a forum, i'd say. YEP! Any popular cultural icon or event can be a great niche. And with a little work you can get lucky and predict a hot one. World series, superbowl, movies, plays, bands, sporting events, hurricanes, fashion designs and designers, Christmas, Halloween, Anniverseries of big events (9/11). If you run out of niche ideas you must have your eyes closed, ears plugged, and live in a cave. TV shows! Every fall there are dozens of new ones. Each worth at least a sub domain with a forum, i’d say.

]]> by: Seostomp http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6173 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:59:21 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6173 Almost forgot. Great movie reference there brother. Almost forgot. Great movie reference there brother.

]]> by: Seostomp http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6172 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:58:47 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6172 The movie idea is excellent. I have been monitoring a few sites that publish movie production facts etc. for the last year n 1/2. Just haven't really done anything with it yet. I think you just gave me the kick in the ass that I needed Eli. Thanks for the blog dude. The movie idea is excellent. I have been monitoring a few sites that publish movie production facts etc. for the last year n 1/2. Just haven’t really done anything with it yet. I think you just gave me the kick in the ass that I needed Eli. Thanks for the blog dude.

]]> by: Eli http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6170 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:25:50 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6170 Aur, Definitely good advice. If any of you didn't bother reading that comment through I strongly suggest you do. Also I would love to get an article from you on the topic. That would be great and I would be more than happy to publish it and give you a link. Phil, Those are two very excellent ideas. I remember an old popular science I read that was talking about compact disks(cds for short) and how they were going to someday replace tapes and become the standard. It was a little too far fetched for me to believe. Those magazines and patient offices are guaranteed to hold the new "big thing" every once in awhile. So next time you hearing them talking about the new standard consider buying a toplevel domain for it. Chad, Welcome aboard buddy. I am stoked that we are google worthy. Aur,
Definitely good advice. If any of you didn’t bother reading that comment through I strongly suggest you do. Also I would love to get an article from you on the topic. That would be great and I would be more than happy to publish it and give you a link.

Phil, Those are two very excellent ideas. I remember an old popular science I read that was talking about compact disks(cds for short) and how they were going to someday replace tapes and become the standard. It was a little too far fetched for me to believe. Those magazines and patient offices are guaranteed to hold the new “big thing” every once in awhile. So next time you hearing them talking about the new standard consider buying a toplevel domain for it.

Chad,
Welcome aboard buddy. I am stoked that we are google worthy.

]]> by: Chad http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6169 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:53:39 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6169 Excellent blog. I just found you a couple of days ago and the information you have here is incredible. You've definitely earned a spot on my Google homepage. Keep it up. Excellent blog. I just found you a couple of days ago and the information you have here is incredible. You’ve definitely earned a spot on my Google homepage. Keep it up.

]]> by: phil http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6165 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:49:25 +0000 http://www.BlueHatSEO.com/lock-stock-and-two-smoking-niches/#comment-6165 Nice post, I thought I was the only one that had thought of these ideas. Here are some more ideas to niche finding: - US patent office - technology / science /bleeding edge technical journals Something you already covered...popular culture, there is always going to be new stuff in the world, so get content building on it! Nice post, I thought I was the only one that had thought of these ideas. Here are some more ideas to niche finding:

- US patent office
- technology / science /bleeding edge technical journals

Something you already covered…popular culture, there is always going to be new stuff in the world, so get content building on it!

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