I LOVE home-made bread! As a matter of fact, I don’t buy bread: I make my own (been doing it for the past 20 years). I started by making it by hand: it was hard work, but so rewarding! A friend of the family took pity on me and gifted me with a bread machine. WOW! What a difference! Now bread making took 2 minutes to throw in the ingredients and I was done.

This past week, while working on my July challenge, I decided to create a demo store for one of my sites, where I’ll be offering niche mini-sites and Bread Machines was the niche I decided on. I’ll share with you here what I found out about this niche.

Possible Affiliate Programs

Amazon.com, has just about every imaginable bread machine out there, and the reviews for dome models are amazing, which will help you sell better. You can also promote bread machine cookbooks, bread machine mixes, bread machine mixes, etc.

CJ had a couple of programs that offer bread machines, but the commission is not much better than Amazon, and with Amazon you can climb up in % with volume.

Monetization Suggestions

A review site is best in my opinion: pick a domain name that is generic for bread machines, and then review individual bread machines in detail. Check out this ebook to learn how to write a review that makes sales. These ladies are pulling in over $10K form Amazon sales.

I would definitely grow a list: maybe give away a quick report (for example: ” 7 things you need to check before investing in a bread machine”) and then keep your list interested by sending in tips on keeping their bread machine in top shape, special bread recipes, recipes for bread spreads, or other foods that can be a good companion to bread, etc.

And of course, get yourself a bread machine: you’ll be eating delicious bread every day, have inspired content for your site, and you can write it off as a business expense. Seriously: once you start making your own bread, you’ll never want to go back to store-bought bread.

Here are some .com domains available for this niche now:

breadmachinesreviews.com

ultimatebreadmachine.com

whitebreadmachine.com

Here are some .org domains available:

breadmachinereview.org

homebakerysupremebreadmachine.org

horizontalbreadmachine.org

And some .net ones:

automaticbreadmachine.net

breadbakingmachine.net

breadmachinereview.net

glutenfreebreadmachine.net

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It’s summer and hot everywhere! So, I’ve been thinking about places we could go to escape the heat.

My son goes to college in Canada, and he tells me Banff is a great place to spend your vacation. So, if I was going there, I’d  be looking for some Banff Hotels, right? It looks like there are enough monthly searches, so let’s see what we can do in this niche!

Possible Affiliate Programs

You can promote books, guides, etc from Amazon.com, but your best opportunities will be selling packages for travelers: plane tickets, hotel (CJ has several travel related affiliate programs).

Monetization Suggestions

Review all Banff hotels, and monetize with Adsense. You can also get leads for hotel reservations, sell plane tickets, review places to go and things to do in Banff, as well as list/review the best/worst places to eat.

Banff is a great place to go both in the summer and winter, so go on a vacation and make some money while you are having fun.

Here are some .com domains available for this niche now:

banffattraction.com

banffcottage.com

banffpackage.com

banffreviews.com

Here are some .org domains available:

traveltobanff.org

accomodationbanff.org

banffactivities.org

banffattractions.org

And some .net ones:

vacationrentalsbanff.net

banffdining.net

banffguide.net

banffholiday.net

banffhoneymoon.net

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My daughter had her wisdom teeth removed yesterday and since I’ve done some research myself before the surgery, I found out that others in our situation do the same.

Actually there are a lot of searches related to wisdom teeth: from questions people have before they get their wisdom teeth, to searches about how to deal with infected or painful wisdom teeth, to information about removal of these teeth.

Check out the possibilities!

Resources

The best resources for this subject would be an oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist, your dentist, orth9odontist. Someone who recently underwent wisdom teeth removal would be another great choice.

Possible Affiliate Programs

Well, for once I found a niche that probably won’t benefit from the  Amazon affiliate program, or any other affiliate program for that matter.

Monetization Suggestions

The best way to monetize this niche is to JV with a local oral and maxillofacial surgery specialist and give them leads. For more  profits, you can create a directory and offer listings, if you don’t mind a little extra work.

Don’t forget information though: most people searching in this niche are people who need to learn how to care for their wisdom teeth, how to get rid of pain, or infection, etc. AdSense is pretty good, so you can nicely monetize your information.

Here are some .com domains available for this niche now:

wisdomteethproblems.com

wisdomteethbleeding.com

wisdomteethcomplications.com

wisdomteethhealing.com

pullwisdomteeth.com

Here are some .org domains available:

extractionwisdomteeth.org

wisdomteethout.org

wisdomteethsurgery.org

wisdomteethremoved.org

wisdomteethrecovery.org

wisdomteethpulled.org

wisdomteethinfection.org

And some .net ones:

extractionofwisdomteeth.net

postwisdomteeth.net

gettingwisdomteethpulled.net

gettingwisdomteethout.net

removingwisdomteeth.net

wisdomteethswollen.net

wisdomteethtakenout.net

wisdomteethdentist.net

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This is special weekend for my family: my parents are celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary tomorrow, July 10th. It’s rare to find people like them, who are still together and love each other very much.

Today’s niche idea was sparked by their celebration.

Possible Affiliate Programs

Amazon.com has lots of options: wedding anniversary gifts by year, wedding anniversary gifts for her, wedding anniversary gifts for him, and more.

Make sure you check out CJ and SAS as well: there are lots of vendors there as well.

Monetization Suggestions

Create an e-commerce type site, with lots of suggestions for gifts for the different types of wedding anniversary.  And of course, AdSesne is not too bad either, so you can write content pages as well to monetize with AdSesne.

Here are some .com domains available for this niche now:

20thweddinganniversarygift.com

25thweddinganniversaryinvitations.com

40thweddinganniversarygiftideas.com

4thweddinganniversarygifts.com

50thweddinganniversarypartyideas.com

5thweddinganniversarygifts.com

weddinganniversarypoem.com

Here are some .org domains available:

15thweddinganniversary.org

20thweddinganniversarygift.org

20thweddinganniversary.org

25thweddinganniversaryinvitations.org

2ndweddinganniversarygifts.org

30thweddinganniversarygifts.org

35thweddinganniversary.org

40thweddinganniversarygiftideas.org

40thweddinganniversarygifts.org

40thweddinganniversary.org

4thweddinganniversarygifts.org

50thweddinganniversarydecorations.org

50thweddinganniversaryideas.org

50thweddinganniversarypartyideas.org

5thweddinganniversarygifts.org

goldenweddinganniversary.org

weddinganniversarycards.org

weddinganniversarypoem.org

weddinganniversarypoems.org

weddinganniversarysayings.org

And some .net ones:

10yearweddinganniversary.net

15thweddinganniversary.net

20thweddinganniversarygift.net

25thweddinganniversaryinvitations.net

2ndweddinganniversarygifts.net

30thweddinganniversarygifts.net

35thweddinganniversary.net

40thweddinganniversarygiftideas.net

40thweddinganniversarygifts.net

4thweddinganniversarygifts.net

50thweddinganniversarydecorations.net

50thweddinganniversarygift.net

50thweddinganniversaryideas.net

50thweddinganniversarypartyideas.net

5thweddinganniversarygifts.net

5thweddinganniversary.net

goldenweddinganniversary.net

traditionalweddinganniversarygifts.net

weddinganniversarypoem.net

weddinganniversarysayings.net

There ‘s a lot more to this niche than what you see above. Let me know if    you’d like more in-depth research done.  See my offer here.

Did you ever hear about Vegan Shoes? I first heard about them a couple of years ago and was fascinated by the idea, but never looked into it further.

Today’s niche was a request by @m38967. This niche looks interesting, so let’s see what opportunities lie ahead.

Resources

I think people who buy vegan shoes are very passionate about the vegan lifestyle and looking for alternative and cruelty-free products. Your best resource will probably be forums specific to the vegan lifestyle: find out what people, are looking for, why and find ways to be helpful.

Possible Affiliate Programs

As always, Amazon.com sells everything you ever thought about.

There are also affiliate programs for vegan shoes at CJ and SAS, where you can get a better commission.

Monetization Suggestions

This niche is definitely best suited for a product site. You could also build a list to which you can later promote other vegan items: check out vegan wallets, vegan clothing, sneakers boots, etc.

Here are some .com domains available for this niche now:

MacbethVeganShoes.com

VeganDanceShoes.com

VeganEarthShoes.com

VeganHikingShoes.com

Here are some .org domains available:

cheapveganshoes.org

macbethveganshoes.org

veganathleticshoes.org

veganbabyshoes.org

vegandanceshoes.org

vegandressshoes.org

veganearthshoes.org

veganhikingshoes.org

veganrunningshoes.org

veganshoe.org

veganwalkingshoes.org

And some .net ones:

cheapveganshoes.net

earthveganshoes.net

macbethveganshoes.net

mensveganshoes.net

veganathleticshoes.net

veganbabyshoes.net

vegandanceshoes.net

vegandressshoes.net

veganearthshoes.net

veganhikingshoes.net

veganrunningshoes.net

veganwalkingshoes.net

Would you like to explore the vegan niche further? Check out my offer here.

Inspired by a sale I made yesterday on a niche mini-site, today’s niche research will be just a little bit different.

A couple of years ago I purchased Info Product Killer, also known as IPK and put up a few sites. I never used the entire method: just part of it, which I modified to suit my style. I never touched these sites after the initial week they went live. At that time, I wrote one article, and built a few back links (maybe 10). That’s yet! Yesterday one of these sites made a large  sale (commission over $75) from just one click: that’s the power of a very specific keyword. Anyway, let’s get on to today’s niche.

When I am creating a niche mini-site, I research differently. I first go to Amazon.com, pick a category, and off I go looking for that nugget of gold. Today I picked the Electronics category (BTW, most people look there, so you may want to choose a different category).

Once I picked my category, I dug deeper into the subcategories and decided on the “Memory Cards & External Storage” sub-category.  Once in there, at the top of your page you’ll see several tabs: I picked “Most Wished For”.

I scrolled through the items people wish for, and found something that looked interesting.

Some of the criteria I am looking for is:

• good price: I usually look for $50 or more, but I made an exception for this one.
• must be a popular item
• 4 starts or more
• several customer reviews (the more the better)

My next step was to click through to the item I picked and get acquainted with it. One of the more important thinks I look for is a part number specific to that item (see below).

Nest, I start my keyword research: not for “flash drive”, but for the pat number: SDCZ6-016G-A11

Google shows no searches for the part number, but I know people are buying this stuff. So after a little more looking around Amazon, I see that there are a lot of part numbers starting with SDCZ6. Now I do another Goggle search for the shortened search, and here is what I get:

That first keyword gets 6,600 exact searches a day, and the domain was available: BINGO!

Now, you’ll still need to do some more keyword research to come up with some good topics for your articles. Here are the top searches keywords, as well as the top paying AdSense for the niche, in case you actually want to use AdSense on your site (WOW, with those payouts you may want to ):

Possible Affiliate Programs

Amazon.com has all types of flash drives: you can’t go wrong with it.

Monetization Suggestions

AdSense payout is amazing! If you enjoy writing, and you know the technical side of flash drives, you ‘ll amazing money in this niche.

This type of site doesn’t need  a lot of content pages. Create your site with the mail product on the home page, and a few carefully selected complimentary pages. You’ll need to write some articles, do some guest posting, create some back links  and you are good to go. If you want to learn step by step how to create these sites, you can learn all you need to know from the  Info Product Killer ebook.

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if you need help with your niche research.

I absolutely LOVE summer! And summer is definitely here. With it comes time off school for our children, and summer camps are part of this time off.

Some kids, like my daughter, will go to camp once and be done. But other kids will practically camp all summer long. And for you and me, this is an opportunity to help parents make the best of their kids time to camp. Let’s learn about this niche a little more.

Resources

Teachers, educators, camp coordinators, parents of kids who camped at least once, your own kids, and so many more opportunities!

Possible Affiliate Programs

Amazon.com has lots of books related to summer camps: The Summer Camp Survival Guide: Cool Games, Camp Classics, and How to Capture the Flag, Friends ForNever (Summer Camp Secrets), Basic Camp Management: An Introduction to Camp Administration (7th Edition)
and more: something for everyone getting ready for summer camp. They also have summer camp gear.

Monetization Suggestions

While I think this niche is best suited for information sites, and AdSense payout is great, there are other opportunities as well: summer camp gear, summer camp care packages, and probably best of all, a summer camp directory. It will be more work, but I think you’d be surprised how well that would do. Camp owners/managers woudl love to have a page on your site, and parents woudl have a place to go for all the info they needed: win-win!

Here are some domains available for this niche now:

EducationalSummerCamp.com

EducationalSummerCamps.com

SummerCampsForTeenagers.com

Here are some .org domains available:

academicsummercamp.org

academicsummercamps.org

childsummercamp.org

childrensummercamp.org

educationalsummercamp.org

educationalsummercamps.org

highschoolsummercamp.org

outdoorsummercamps.org

summercampactivities.org

summercampcounselor.org

summercampprograms.org

summercampsforteenagers.org

summercampsjobs.org

summerdaycamps.org

summermusiccamps.org

youthsummercamp.org

youthsummercamps.org

And some .net ones:

academicsummercamps.net

childrensummercamp.net

christiansummercamp.net

christiansummercamps.net

educationalsummercamp.net

educationalsummercamps.net

highschoolsummercamp.net

summercampcounselor.net

summercampprograms.net

summercampsforgirls.net

summercampsforteenagers.net

summercampsjobs.net

summersportscamps.net

youthsummercamps.net

Check out my offer here if you need help with keyword research for your niche.

This past week I learned a lot about kidney stones: my mother has been in pain, and I’ve been researching for ways to help her.

People with kidney stones are desperate! And that makes for a great niche to be in. When you are in pain, you want relief now!

Let’s see if the kidney stones niche can be profitable.

Resources

Your best resource will be people who had or currently have a kidney stone: you can find these people on health related forum, looking for relief, or telling their successful or unsuccessful stories.

If you have access to a urologist, you can get their input as well, for things you can learn form people who suffered from kidney stones.

Possible Affiliate Programs

As always, Amazon.com has a little bit of everything: books on how to prevent kidney stones, medicine to help you pass the stone, and even kidney stone strainers to help you catch your stones when you pass them etc.

There are some ebooks at Clickbank, but make sure you either buy one and read it before you recommend it, or get a review copy.

Monetization Suggestions

This is mostly an information niche, so AdSense is a good choice to add to those info pages, but your best monetization will be to create your own product and sell it. I purchased an ebook for $39.95 without even thinking twice, because I hated seeing my mom in so much pain.

Here are some domains available for this niche now:

HowLongDoesItTakeToPassaKidneyStone.com ==> 1600 exact searches a month

HowToPassaKidneyStone.com ==> 1000 exact monthly searches

SymptomsOfaKidneyStone.com ==>1000 exact searches every month

The above 3 domains while long, are very specific, and easy to rank for. the one I highlighted in red is exceptionally good, if you can come up with your own report to sell, or find a good product you can promote as an affiliate.

Here are some .org domains available:

causeofkidneystones.org

homeremediesforkidneystones.org

howlongdoesittaketopassakidneystone.org

kidneystonecauses.org

kidneystonesurgery.org

preventingkidneystones.org

symptomsofakidneystone.org

symptomsofkidneystone.org

typesofkidneystones.org

uricacidkidneystones.org

And some .net ones:

causeofkidneystones.net

howlongdoesittaketopassakidneystone.net

howtopasskidneystones.net

preventingkidneystones.net

symptomsofakidneystone.net

symptomsofkidneystone.net

typesofkidneystones.net

uricacidkidneystones.net

Let me know if you have any questions: I’d love to help.

Today’s niche research was inspired by Matt McWilliams from Legacy Learning Systems. This week he is holding an amazing contest and giving away prizes, so I thought I’d let you know about it.

On of the courses Matt is promoting is Learn Blues Guitar, so let’s get busy and see what you can do in this niche.

Resources

There are of course forums, where you can learn what guitar players struggle with, and what they love. Here is a very good guitar forum.

But probably the best resource will be a guitar player, and it;s not hard to find a friend who plays guitar and take him out to dinner and talk guitars!

Possible Affiliate Programs
Amazon.com has everything: guitars, books, DVDs, etc.

Don’t forget to search CJ.com & Shareasale.com for affiliate programs as well. Matt’s program is at SAS, and if you sign this week, you’ll get a sign up bonus and the possibility of increased lifetime commission. You can sign up here: Legacy Learning Systems

Monetization Suggestions

Create an information site where you teach everything about guitar playing. It shouldn’t be hard if you go and take a peek at the above guitar forum.

Of course, find some good affiliate programs and create affiliate pages with guitars for sale, guitar music for sale, and even video if you have a friend who plays, or you are willing to learn yourself.

Make sure you build a list and send tips on a regular basis. Your list will love you if you send them good info, and when you suggest something that helps them play better, they’ll trust you and buy.

Here are some domains available for this niche now:

BluesScaleGuitar.com is available as well as all the other TLDs, with 1,000 exact searches a month

BluesGuitarLesson.biz with 9,900 exact searches monthly

AcousticBluesGuitar.info & .biz getting 2,900 exact searches monthly

BluesGuitarSolo.info & .biz with 2,900 exact searches monthly

HowToPlayBluesGuitar.biz with 2,900 exact searches monthly.

LearnBluesGuitar.biz with 2,300 exact searches monthly

Today I’d like to do something for you. If you decide to sign up to the Legacy Learning Systems through my link, I’ll do in depth keyword research for you for free. Just sign up, and either leave a comment here, or let me know through my contact page, and I’ll get back to you right away. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Disclaimer: if you sign up through my affiliate link, and make sales for this program, I’ll make second tier commissions.

Guess what? Today’s niche was again, inspired by something that happened in our family. A couple of weeks ago, I presented research on Road Trips the day after my son arrived home form Canada. Yesterday, he had  PRK Eye Surgery (photorefractive keratectomy), a type of laser eye surgery used to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and/or astigmatism. I think it’s an awesome niche, so let’s dig in.

Resources

I would say the best resource for this is a local ophthalmologist: offer him a free listing  on your site, and pick his brains about all there is to know about this surgery (and others, especially lasik )

Another resource are people who went through the procedure, and family members of those who went through the procedure.

Possible Affiliate Programs This is one niche where Amazon.com doesn’t have too much. but you can get creative and still use it (keep reading and you’ll find out how, under the monetization).

Monetization Suggestions

Adsense has very good payouts, but there aren’t a lot of advertisers for the specific key phrases. But, if you expand into lasik surgery, as well as other types of eye procedures, there are plenty of ads, and the payouts are even better (as high as over $10).  Would you like to attack the lasik niche? Use my keyword research service.

There isn’t much affilatae monetization for this niche, but you can be creative and come up with some offers for the people who went through this surgery. Think about it: someone wearing prescription glasses, could never wear sunglasses. So  once they have this corrective surgery, they’ll be looking for some fun, cool, trendy sunglasses. Create an affiliate sunglasses store on your site.

What are other things these people weren’t able to do? Snorkeling, swimming, etc. Come up with an angle to introduce all these things they weren’t able to do before and offer it to them.

You can also have a section for contact lenses: many people are researching this procedure, but are not ready to do it yet, or can’t financially. Offer them an alternative until they can get the surgery.

The best monetization for this niche would be to create a very informative site that attracts potential candidates, and then create a directory of doctors who can perform the surgery. Offer them a listing in your directory for a price.

Here are some domains available to buy today: they are all lower searched for phrases, but very specific.

costofprk.com

prkcomplications.com

prkhealing.com

prklasereyesurgeryrecovery.com

prklaservisioncorrection.com

prkprocedure.com

prktreatment.com

prkversuslasik.com