How To Find High Paying Niches (For AdSense)

Another way of finding a high-paying niche is to look for subjects with lots of frequently-published magazines on Amazon, then use a keyword tool to dig for your niche phrases within that subject (I use Micro Niche Finder which gets the adwords CPC for each key phrase if you want it to.)

I do find though, that I make more money on a site with lower-paying ads if it’s an audience that likes to click on ads (eg is researching a purchase) and that I can drive traffic to more easily.

BTW, PLR is “Private” Label Rights, not “Public” - as in private label real-world products, someone else makes them and you brand them as your own.

Kevin

To expound on the published magazines in Amazon even further, you can pickup any magazine within a large niche and make note of the headlines of each magazine. Try to find back issues of the same magazine and look at the duplicate headlines. Those headlines are what grabs the reader’s attention and will be great to identify “micro niches”.

Another great way of identifying niches is to go to sitepoint.com as well as other marketplaces and look to see what type of websites are for sale. The sellers of these sites will even tell you how much $$ their sites are making and what niches they’re located in.

Understand that there’s no ONE way of identifying a profitable niche. The worst thing you can do however is to identify multiple niches and sub-niches without doing anything and not taking any action. And then again….I’m sure you’ve heard that a million times already.

Here is one source that shysters sell in their e-books, it is so obvious, once you know: e-Bay!

e-Bay has a wealth of statistics about hot products, which leads to hot niches.

Another, related source is Chris Malta’s worldwidebrands.com site.
Chris is a product sourcing purveyor and he offers loads of free resources that should generate some niche ideas.

Then there’s CBtrends.com, which collates the info stream from clickbank and gives you some neat ideas for finding profitable affiliate products. Just knowing what’s hot can give you niche ideas.

Finally, an offline source: your local magazine rack.
Some people suggest that you look for back issues at the library and see who’s still advertising.

That’s a cool idea but, simply browsing the niche magazines, especially letters to the editor and the monthly Ask for Advice columns will tell you what folks are looking for.

That last idea leads to an online suggestion for what you should do when you DO find your niche - go into the related forums and lurk. You COULD register and join the community, but that is not what the AdSense niche is about.

Cheers,

Mitch

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Thanks for the tweet C
I have been using spy fu, to find niche adsense site ideas for quite sometime, very good tool for sure, and VERY EFFECTIVE. LOL cats and golf how about golfing cats

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This has to be one of the most helpful posts. You could probably do a whole blog on finding high paying niches.

i don’t really create niches for adsense anymore since 6 months ago, after looking at my income drop significantly eventhough traffic to my sites are improving.

anyway, since you’re asking for niche research, here are my favorites: buzz.yahoo.com and google.com/trends/hottrends.

i basically use yahoo buzz at present for short-term affiliate offers and google trends for long term affiliate products.

@Kevin, I haven’t found that at all actually. There were a ton of niches that had loads of print magazines but really sucky AdSense payouts. I think there are a lot of offline businesses that do very well in print magazines but that doesn’t necessarily mean there are online advertisers.

@Mikita, great tip about Sitepoint! I never thought of that one!

@Mitchell, the problem with eBay is that its simply so big! Where do you start looking? I hadn’t seen the CBTrends site before - thanks for that.

Hi Caroline,

Here are two links into e-bay itself (i.e. trustworthy):

A very useful review of resources
http://reviews.ebay.com/What-apos-s-Selling-Hot-on-eBay_W0QQugidZ10000000000763247

Direct link to Seller Central:
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/index.html

Cheers,

Mitch

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Why look for the high paying keywords? If You do what everyone else is doing, ju get “results as everybody”. Go towards the “main stream”, find a nich with a lesser paying keywords. You can do descent money in that niche.

For example. The dog niche in Sweden is very lowpaying, regarding to adsense. And, sweden is a very little market and sweden only have a population half of New York City. Still, I make around $2k/month only in AdSense every month and rising by 5 % each and every month.

Only go into high paying niches if you have something fresh to offer. It’s better to have a low-paying niche with lots of content than high-paying with little content. Better in the long-run

@Patrik, if you could find keywords in your niche that draw the same traffic and have the same levels of competition as your existing keywords and yet pay more per click then assuming the CTR was the same, you’d make more money. It’s just math.

@AdSense, you’re taking competition into factor. The money you’ll make is Traffic x CTR x CPC every time. If you find a keyword paying $1.00 and a keyword paying $10.00 and all other factors are the same, you’ll make more money with the higher paying keyword. What you (and Patrik) are saying is that you’re not even looking at high paying niches for fear that you can’t compete. If that’s the case you move on but don’t rule it out until you’ve done the research.

Ofcourse, You higher bid the better. BUT! often people are only looking for the high bid keywords/keyword phrases and forget about “the rest”, wich can have really high volume traffic and really low competition.

Always where the bid is over a dollar, there are some competition.

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@Patrik, I put my possible keywords into a spreadsheet and simply add a profitability calculation which is just CPC x Estimated Traffic so that takes all of those into account too.

I mostly use combination of overture, adwords and wordtrack keywords research tools.

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Wow - there is a wealth of information here - thanks Caroline and commenters! I am still learning in this area, wanting to now move into both affiliae marketing and adsense (before I didn’t want anything to do with adsense). But have decided to follow my passions when finally(!) get my main wp blogs up properly - AND - lots of minisites for passive income in affiliate/adsense areas - and learning about keyword/niche research is something I have avoided for long time.

I now realize how impt it is - one of THE most impt things lol
Thanks to the 30Day Challenge too for this :)

Thanks Caroline and all (will certainly bm this article)
Meg