Yes, my advice to you is that you should. I have fallen into the trap of thinking that my next great idea was going to pave the way to a new niche. Let me tell you, it has never panned out. Be very careful of niches with little or no competition. If you’re going to spend your time, spend it wisely. By that I mean spend it on activities that you know are going to get you the desired result.
If you followed my previous Wordtracker tutorial (or are already familiar with using Wordtracker), then you probably have a list of keywords saved to your computer. But the lists you export from Wordtracker are hard to manipulate. They’re not in a spreadsheet format. So what I like to do is convert my list of keywords into an Excel spreadsheet. If you’ve wanted to do this before but just weren’t sure how, then this tutorial will help you…
Just a quick update letting you know that I’ve added more dofollow blogs to DoFollow Diver. There are now over 700 dofollow blogs indexed in this blog search tool.
I’ve also removed several nofollow blogs as well. If you’re looking for a fast, easy way to get backlinks, use the DoFollow Diver tool and start posting relevant comments to blogs related to your topics. It’s a great way to build links.
This is one reason existing products and competition are useful. You want to take stock of what’s already available in a particular niche and then differentiate yourself. If you find that there are already a ton of popular ebooks in a niche, then you can come out with a physical product or write another ebook with a different spin to it.
Tagging is the essence of the social bookmarking sites I outlined in the previous Social Bookmarking Explained article.
Tags provide you with a way to categorize your image, post, or web page. Keywords are virtually always used to organize topics on the internet. Tags are really just more of the same. The users tag a web page or an image with a keyword (or key phrase). By doing so, all the other web pages, posts, and images with the same tag can be organized together. This means you can find things easier. The related information is compiled together for you so you don’t have to search all over for it.
So tags aren’t really any different than keywords. Just in case you’re still not sure what I’m talking about, here’s a real simple example. Let’s say you write an article about cell phones. You would use the tag “cell phones” to help categorize it. This is hardly rocket science at all, so please don’t fret over it. Tags equal keywords.
I’m sure you already know the importance of keywords and key phrases and how you should go about finding them. If not, please review some of the Keyword Research articles I’ve put together for you.
The difference is that organizing information by tags the way some of these innovative sites are doing turns them into more of a browsing tool than a searching tool. Many people find it a little bit messy, but at the same time, that’s what so many like about it. It’s free structure is a breath of fresh air compared to the rigidity of the search engines. Type in the wrong keyword in Google and you’ll just get pages of results related to something you’re not interested in at all.
But with tagging, you get to browse through the information. Most of the tagging sites will display a list of related tags for each search you make. This way if you don’t see what you like with your first search, you can keep browsing.
If you want to see tagging in action, I suggest visiting Technorati or Delicious.