I’ve been focusing quite a bit lately on two topics on this blog – Market Samurai and ‘cheap article writers‘.

The reason I have been doing this is because these two tools are really all that you need to create a fantastic, profitable niche blog. One the one hand if you buy Market Samurai you have probably the most advanced keyword research tool that will not only allow you to analyze topics to find highly targeted, money making niches ( my indoor dog kennels site is already starting to get Google traffic and Adsense dollars!)

But What If You Find A Profitable Niche You Have No Knowledge In?

This is exactly what happened to me. I found a fantastic niche that I saw had a handful of keywords with niche search traffic, and not to difficult competition (I knew with a little work I could get front page of Google) – but the problem was that they keywords had to do with dogs….and I don’t really like dogs. To be quite honest, they kinda scare me. So the fact that the niche was to do with extra large dogs – I had even less interest.

But It Was A Profitable Niche!

So I bought a great keyword domain and started writing my first article – but was failing miserably. I don’t know about you, but I cannot write about what I am not passionate about. So I needed to find someone who was. But since I was only testing the niche at the time – I needed cheap article writers!

But Where Do You Find Cheap Article Writers?

I was willing to pay up to $5 an article because I knew that was about the price that they were going for if I went to the DigitalPoint marketplace, but if you have ready my SEO article writers post, you would know that I took a completely different route.

The best way to get the cheapest article writers is to get the writers bidding against each other for your business and that is exactly what I did.

If you have never heard of oDesk, you need to head over there and sign up to their freelancing website.

What Is oDesk And How Can I Help Me Get Cheap Article Writers?

oDesk is an online services marketplace that has freelancers performing over $6 million of work a month.

It is totally free to join and as soon as you have registered you will have access to 1,000’s of writers, designers, programmers and many other services that will help you focus your efforts on other parts of your online business.

All you have to do is post a job, if you are looking for cheap article writers then you will obviously post a job in the article section – you set the maximum price and then just wait for the writers to start bidding for your work.

You will get a range of expensive and cheap article writers, quality writers and not so professional writers. The good thing about oDesk is that before you have to decide which SEO article writer you will give your job to, you can view their resume and application, check out their previous work rating and contact them for a further interview.

What’s This About $1.60 Articles?

As I said earlier, I was more than happy to pay up to $5 an article but after seeing a couple of people posting writing jobs on  oDesk for about $2 an article I decided to put that as my maximum price ($20 for 10 articles or $2 each), but as the applicants came in I started to see people offering less to try and gain my job.

You have to be careful when you are selecting candidates that English is their first language. But you can set this as a requirement in the job description.

)ne lady’s application caught my attention, because she was American (so English was her first language), she had and loved dogs, her sample articles were fantastic (extremely personal writing style) and her bid on the job was just $1.60 per article!

I made the decision to approve her application, sent through the keywords that I wanted articles written for and as they say, the rest is history.

Here Is A Sample Of The $1.60 Articles

• Dog Kennels And Runs
• Dog Kennel Fence
• Indoor Dog Kennels
• Outside Dog Kennels

I don’t know about you, but that is much better than I could write, and for $1.60 each I can’t wait for my next niche project to use oDesk again!

So, I guess the whole point of this article was to show you that creating a niche website doesn’t have to take a lot of time or money. For me it took some keyword research using Market Samurai, and hiring cheap article writers to create my content for me. Now all I have left to do is perfect my monetization strategies and do a bit of link building!

I found out about these ebooks from Tom at BuildThatList.com.

To thank him can I recommend you subscribe to his blog or download his free squeeze pages?

Jason Fladlien is one very smart internet marketer.

You see, pretty much every website I visit that is selling an information product always focus on trying to grab your email – subscribing you to their list.

They always offer you an ebook or ‘leaked first chapter’ to try and convince you. But Jason does things a little bit differently.

He still does the ebooks, but you don’t have to opt into an email list and he gives you the actual PDF link on his page.

Now don’t get me wrong, he is still marketing his products, he just decided to put a few links in each ebook to his products – and you can decide whether you want to learn more about them or not. However, he does not fill his ebooks with links – there are actually some fantastic tips in them (so I decided to share a few of my favourites with you!).

So let’s get straight into the free internet marketing ebooks.

The Great Article Marketing Hoax

Jason writes about a few methods that you should consider instead of just writing articles for EzineArticles. Has a few great ideas (one that was making him $40 an hour).

=> Download The Great Article Marketing Hoax

Email Marketing Genius

I gained a lot from this ebook about how to write email headlines that will make people open your email to great strategies to get a better click through rate.

=> Download Email Marketing Genius

The Case Against Video Sales Letters

With the recent increase in video sales letters and squeeze pages, this is a timely reminder to to just do things just because everyone else is.

=> Download The Case Against Video Sales Letters

Instant Action On Info

In what seems counter product to the sale of his products, this free ebook actually looks at how people spend too much time studying information products and not enough time acting on them. If you struggle with productivity, you may want to consider checking this one out.

=> Download Instant Action On Info

Feel free to take advantage of the free internet marketing ebooks, because even if you can learn one or two small things from each one it will make your blogs and email list more profitable.

As you know I have recently started a new surveys for money blog, and as the focus is the Australian market, I needed to find some Australian survey companies that were going to pay me for the leads that I provided.

There are a heap of places to get paid for doing surveys, and there was one affiliate network that seemed to have almost all of them – so I decided to sign up to them and check them out.

CheckMyStats.com.au has over 250 campaigns that are a mixture of CPA, CPC, CPL, CPS and CPM that not only target Australians, but they also have have campaigns that target the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand.

The majority of the survey websites pay per lead, and already I have referred a couple of my blogs readers, and the commissions per lead are from 80 cents to $6.90, so with a growing search engine traffic I can see this blog becoming a nice little money maker.

So far my experience with CheckMyStats has been fantastic, and they also personally have a fantastic affiliate program for their affiliate network – paying $7.50 for each new affiliate that signs up to CheckMyStats and $100 for each new merchant that you refer.

If you are looking for a new affiliate network, that has a lot of great campaigns and some nice payouts (and have sites or lists targetted to the AUS, US, UK or NZ markets) then you should definitely check out CheckMyStats.