If you want to make money online, your first goal will be to find a niche market that will be profitable and return the most money for your efforts. To be most effective, you need to target a specific niche, and attract the right users and audience for your Website. For example, if your interest is weddings, that is too broad a topic. Instead, pick a more focused niche such as: wedding toasts, wedding speeches, wedding dresses, etc.

Does your niche idea have a lot of competition? How do you tell? Just go to Google, and do a search on your keywords, e.g. wedding dresses. Are there a lot of ads on the right side of the Google search results? If so, then you have a lot of competition, so make sure you use the right keywords to attract people to your Website. If there are only a few ads when you search for your niche idea then you will probably make more money as this niche may not have been exploited yet.

Next, see if there are affiliate products available to sell for this niche market. You can do this by visiting the ClickBank marketplace and performing a search using your niche market keywords. Those will be the products you will likely want to sell on your niche market Website. You want to make sure there are enough products to sell or you will not be able to monetize your Website as well.

Do the search engines send enough traffic for this niche market? Head on over to the Overture keywords tool and find out. There should be at least 15,000 searches for this niche market.

So, here is my list of the 20 ways to find a profitable niche market.

To find a profitable niche market, take a look at:

• popular product categories on Amazon, eBay, and other major bookstores
• your local schools and their continuity education class subjects and catalogues
• popular hobbies and interests of your friends and family
• the  local clubs and the type of people they serve
• the local classified ads for products and services
• what other people are asking for and saying is lacking online
• local bulletin boards
• www.magazine.com for ideas
• your local library – see the new books, new audio, new video sections for ideas
• the TV ads – use a critical eye to see what is being sold and how
• the Discovery channel for anything that peaks your interest
• article sites and most popular subjects on those sites, e.g. www.ezinearticles.com
• popular posts on www.digg.com
• Google Hot Trends to see what is most popular for any day
• MSNBC most popular news articles and videos each day
• Yahoo Buzz to see the top overall searches
• DMOZ for topic ideas – this directory is used by some major search engines. Also take a look at the ThomasNet industry directory
• www.about.com for things that catch your interest
• your local Yellow pages
• download the free monthly Trend Briefing at TrendWatching.com

You can also check out:

• www.springwise.com for new business ideas
• VRE (virtual real estate) toolbar for Firefox. This installs a toolbar within Firefox and lets you search 15 places for niche ideas, e.g. About.com, eBay, Google Sets, etc.

Today, content is the number one way to improve search engine rankings. If you can’t tell an adjective from an adverb, there are many SEO companies out there that provide keyword-targeted content for websites. Content is also the most important aspect of a successful website, that makes people want to come back, and even a website with a great design cannot succeed without it. All content does not have to be solely posted on the website either: big news should be released as a press release, and there are plenty of services that will distribute your press releases for you. In addition, keyword research is extremely important when writing good content.

However, be very careful. Websites with identical pages and mirroring content from other Websites are considered duplicate and can be considered as spam by search engines. For example, affiliate sites with an identical look and feel containing identical content are (unsurprisingly) especially vulnerable to a duplicate content filter. This is another way that Google fends off websites and website owners that are trying to trick their search engine to give higher rankings.

So, even though you can write articles and post them onto article directories such as ezinearticles.com (and you should continue to do so since every link to your Website helps), also try to create original content on your Website. Post comments on other Websites, with backlinks to your Website. Ask other Website owners to review your Website, services, and tools (again with backlinks to your Website).

Write write write…but provide value when you do so. For free. And they will come.

Content creation, article writing, and eBook publishing are great ways to drive traffic to your Website. But, it takes a lot of time and effort to write good content, post that content to article directories, and repeat the whole process all over again.

The good news is that you don’t necessarily need to create in-depth, lengthy articles every day. As long as you have something valuable to say, and what you say doesn’t change too much over time (due to newer technologies, for example), people will continue to come back to read your key articles.

But, how do you make your life easier? Is there a way to automate this content creation? Simple answer: YES, you can automate the process of gathering material for your article and thus make it a lot easier to compose it. The end result is that you could be publishing several new articles a day using the same amount of time that you previously spent producing just one!

I’m going to list below some interesting software that will automate 90% of the work for you next time you create a new blog post, article, or eBook.

Instant Article Wizard Pro

The Instant Article Wizard Pro is the best one I’ve seen so far. Check out their testimonials and videos on their Website. You can try it out for only $7 for the first month to see if you like it. I believe a lot of bloggers use this for gathering their research material instead of manually going to various search engines to look up information before starting the writing process, tuning it up a bit, and then creating their posts, articles and eBooks. It definitely saves a lot of time. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.

Are you looking for profitable niche markets? So am I.

Always.

So can you imagine how pleased I was to find 5 informative videos by James Jones where he shows how he picks out great little niches – and by that we mean profitable niches where there is very little competition.

What that means is… you can set up a web page that is optimized around the right keywords. James shows he finds the right keywords – and it’s SO EASY TO DO. Within days, that nice Mr. Google starts sending you a stream of targeted traffic.

Still interested?

Yep, I thought you would be.

NOW LET ME EXPLAIN ABOUT THESE FREE VIDEOS

They present 5 different ways you can find profitable Internet niches that very few others have seen.

So what is a niche?

A niche, by definition, is a small slice of a much larger market. Because niches are small, many marketers won’t bother with them. That means there is money available to those who find these niches and then create niche mini sites for them.

In fact, you could be the ONLY person who creates a page for that multi-word key phrase. If so, then you would get all the traffic from those Google searches.

By using your webpage to promote an affiliate product from CJ.com or ClickBank.com or your favorite affiliate program, you can turn that traffic into revenue.

The fact is… Micro Niche Finder can easily put you onto an ENDLESS supply of profitable niche markets.

Here is an examples of the good niche markets that can be found in the video #1.

• lookup a phone number, lookup area code, lookup address by phone number.

You’ll find the next in video #2, which shows how to create single page mini sites to promote affiliate products.

• world of warcraft jewelcrafting guide, world of warcraft jewelcrafting.

In video #3 (which is about creating residual revenue through AdSense sites), you will find this:

• teak patio set, teak patio sets, teak bedroom furniture… and many more.

In video #5 (it’s about Squidoo), you will see how he found these profitable niches:

• download psp games for free, hoodia rapid gels, hoodia walmart, hoodia high blood pressure, hoodia results.

NOTE: Even in markets like Hoodia (which many people think of as over-saturated), you can still find good market niches.

About the Author:

HOW MANY GOOD NICHE MARKETS are there, with profits just waiting to be pocketed by somebody? Answer: Plenty! And MicroNicheFinder makes it EASY to find them. This clever software does all the heavy lifting so check it out today and see how FAST the process is. Brought to you by FindHotMarkets.com.