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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Link Building - Hardest Part of Niche Marketing?

Building links to a website can be one of the most tiring parts of trying to profit from niche websites. Constantly building links to just one website is difficult enough at times, so multiplying this across dozens of niche websites is often a huge stumbling block for many people.

Could this be the reason a lot of people seem to fail at niche marketing (or so many of the internet marketing forum posts suggest)? Quite possibly.

There often seems to be a trend with failing niche marketers when it comes to link building. They have a niche to target, write the articles for the website, submit a few articles to directories and build a few links through blog comment posting or requesting from related sites. Keeping this up for months down the line though takes a lot of perseverance.

What about when you get to the point of owning 10 niche websites, 50, or 100?

As you can imagine, building links for this many sites without hiring full-time staff to help is no easy task. A good step to take when researching niches you think you might enter is to take a look at your competition. The more competitive a niche in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), the more effort it is going to take with your link building campaign. Good niche selection though can see you rank for small niches without having to build thousands of links over months to years.

There is literally an endless number of tiny niches that each provide profit potential. For this reason, niche selection is our biggest ally to the extent of the link building campaign we are going to have to undertake. For example, I often prefer to target a niche around a keyword that gets 100 visits per day and only needs a couple of hundred links, than a keyword getting 1000 visits but needs thousands of links to rank well in the search engines. Not only is it obviously easier to get just a couple of hundred links than a few thousand, but the competition will be far less and easier to outrank more quickly.

I cover an easy way to build links effortlessly in the Niche Marketing Primer report, where I outline a very simple strategy for profiting from niche websites. Get your free copy from http://www.onlinewithjustin.com/niche-marketing-primer.html.