Free Niche Blog Idea: CAKES (Traffic & Search Stats Inc)
About a year ago I bought an amazing little piece of software called Micro Niche Finder that I use almost daily to find new niche blog and post topics that have a heap of searches but very little competition. I thought it was about time to show you the benefits of this powerful tool – and in doing so, give a few of you the chance to capitalise of a fantastic niche for a new blog!
Free Niche Analysis: CAKES
Now you may be thinking, “Why ‘Cakes’?” – Well “Why not?”
It is all about finding a niche and post titles that aren’t to overcrowded, where it doens’t take too much effort to get your posts onto the front page of Google. I have a habit of typing random words into Micro Niche Finder and it just so happens that ‘cakes’ could be a nice little money spinner if you created a Wordpress blog and start writing articles for some of the key phrases I have found!
It’s All About ‘Longtail Key Phrases’!
Obviously keywords such as ‘cakes’ would have millions of pages of competition and companies would be paying $1,000’s to SEO companies to get first page listings, but these are not the keywords we are looking for. I mean, check out the competition!
There is no way that I would want to be competing against that many websites! So I head to the other end of the table and look at longtail terms that have little competition but a nice amount of traffic.
What I Look For!
Micro Niche Finder has some awesome ways to check how good a phrase will be to target for SEO. I have guidelines and limits for each of these to help me find the best phrases!
Search Count
This is what lets us know how popular a phrase is searched. For example you will notice above that ‘cakes’ is search 165,000 times a month on Google!
Now the chances of ranking in the top 10 for this term is near impossible, however the aim is to look for:
- A Search Count Of Over 1000
Anything under this I would consider a waste of time unless there was practically zero competition and you are sure you will rank in the 1st spot on Google for that keyword! Your aim is to get as high a search count without too much competition
Exact Phrase Count
This is where it gets a little bit more serious. ‘Exact phrase count’ lets us know exactly how many web pages contain the listed phrase. What you are looking for on this one is:
- As Low A Number As Possible!
Sometimes this is easier to find than others, but if you are targeting the lower search counts like the ones with only 1,000 searches a month you defiantly want an exact phrase count of less then 1,000 – I would be looking for the low 100’s! ow you may be thinking that 1,00o web pages with your phrase is a lot of competition – but most of these will have no SEO and with a few simple steps you can easily rank in the top3 searches for this phrase!
Minimal Strength Of Competition
Soc is an estimate of how strong the existing competition is for a given keyword phrase. Use soc in conjunction with the exact phrase count to determine how hard it will be to penetrate a niche market. The larger the number the harder it will be to rank well in Google!
- SOC Under 50 – Very Easy To Rank
- SOC 50-100 – Will Require More Effort
- SOC 100+ – Only Target If You’re Ready To Spend A Lot Of Effort
My Top 10 Longtail ‘Cake’ Keyphrases
Using Micro Niche Finder and the methods and limits I have stated above, I have found 10 fantasti longtail keyphrases for anyone looking to get into the ‘cake’ blogging niche!
And Here They Are:
These keyphrases would be great for anyone wanting to test niche blogs with Adsense! I’d love to hear if anyone is going to run with this idea!
What did you think of this post? Do you like this kind of research? And if so, would you like to see more posts like this? Leave your thoughts below.
Hey man I was never good with searching for keywords…this post is very helpful.
thanks
thanks for your comment, and I’m glad I could help :D
Tom! You are back. I see you changed your theme. It seems more optimized now. Great job!
Thanks Ben. I decided I needed to focus my blog a lot more and really work at it so that it could become the high-profile blog I plan for it to be.
Great post, I am always looking for more sources to help me keep track of keywords. This really simplifies it. :)
Interesting. I didn’t know that such a tool existed. of course, now all I can think about is cake. I can actually smell cake right now.
Sweet actually started my own niche sites that are making a decent amount every day now, and did stumble across this software….will definitely look into it seriously now – The Nexus – Feed Your Brain
Laura – I tried to make it as simple as possible. I think sometimes people try and over complicate things.
Melissa – Lol… That is marketing! Maybe you will have to go and bake one :D
Donace – Sounds like you are doing great with your niche sites. I would highly recommend Micro Niche Finder!
Wow thats some sweet software Tom! Definitly going to check it out.
yea, well worth a look Michael! :D
Hi Tom,
Although the competition may be low, from my experience the amount Google will pay you per click will extremely low in this niche.
However if you are a cake manufacturer then this is a great niche indeed!
Danny – The keywords above have noted ad costs ranging from 35c to 89c so it isn’t really that low!
I don’t use Micro Niche Finder but I’m presuming ‘ad costs’ is how much advertisers are paying (on average) per click on Adwords.
Unfortunately Google only passes on a fraction of this price, as low as 10%.
But as far as I know these words are Geo-targeted. And the top results of variety of Cakes yield local cake shops in Google (exceptions).
A good report though!
I actually opted for Market Samurai in the end; 3 times the price but was packed full of more features.
Been playign with it last 2 days and so far so good.