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A Niche For Free – Sea Kayaking

August 24th, 2007 2 Comments

Every now and then I get an idea, more of a brain fart than anything, about a new website that I’d like to do. Unfortunately for me I’ve got 3 websites that I need to finish, including one custom CMS and a commercial software project that MUST get done. Rather than keeping these things to myself for some point in the future and then do nothing with them I thought it might be interesting to throw it out there and see if anybody else wants it. Just so everybody doesn’t think that I’m just chucking out any old rubbish it’s worth mentioning that of the 20+ websites I’ve done to date not one hasn’t made a 3 figure profit at worst (Even the one about Spanish Diet Habits!).

Sea Kayaking
So here we go with Sea Kayaking, like all my ideas it was just down to me thinking something will become popular. There has been a lot of interest in this where I live and I’ve seen an increasing trend in Sea Kayaking for fishing in several countries. If anybody wants to do anything with this then here’s a little background info.

Search Phrases, Daily Searches, Competition, KEI

1 sea kayaking 2,642 2120000 3.293
2 sea kayaking essex 2,593 152000 44.235
3 sea kayak 2,447 2460000 2.434
4 nomad sea kayak 2,411 77800 74.716
5 sea kayak braintree 1,811 15900 206.272
6 sea kayak belize 400 369000 0.434
7 kayak sea 97 1600000 0.006
The Competition – Google

Sea Kayaking – 91,000 pages with the keyword in the title, no1 ranking has PR 4 with 38 inbound link. No2 ranking has PR4 with 31 inbound links.

Sea Kayak – 70,400 pages with the keyword in the title, no1 ranking has PR 4 with 38 inbound link. No2 ranking has PR4 with 21 inbound links.

Nomad Sea Kayak – 0 pages with the keyword in the title, no1 ranking has PR 2 with 2 inbound link. No2 ranking has PR0 with 7 inbound links.

How To Make Money

It’s an expensive hobby, the Kayak and safety equipment all cost real money. There are also large areas to write about so content should not be a problem. Not only would Adsense ads be productive but a high ranking would also bring about direct to advertiser opportunities for the many online outdoor adventure stores that exist. It is also a good community sport so a forum could be a possibility.

As a niche I’d give it an overall potential score of 7-10, my only worry being the number of people interesting in this type of hobby that would also use the internet but the search figures seem to indicate that this not be a problem.

Stop Wasting Your Time

August 23rd, 2007 0 Comments

I hate it when my daughter spends hours in front of the television, glued to the same old endless repeats on the Disney channel. Doesn’t matter if it’s Hannah Montana, That’s So Raven, Cory In the House, Zoey 101 or High School Musical it just annoys me that’s she’s wasting her time watching the same old repeated rubbish. Even if she was only watching 1 hour a day of Disney it would work out at a waste of 243 days of her life by the time she was sixteen!

This got me thinking about my own time and how I waste it. I’ve managed to get rid of my habit of checking earnings but I still waste far too much time checking Google Analytics instead of being productive. Over the last 4 years I’ve wasted 2 whole months of my time doing nothing but refreshing analytics pages.

That’s enough work for one day, I guess it’s time to get us both out of the house, get a little air and do a little exercise.

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