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Just about a week ago, my niche site–mytaekwondogear.com– was on the 13th page of the Google organic search results for the keyword “taekwondo gear.”  Today, I checked again.  This time my niche site is 9th from the top of page 6 of the google organic search.  The rank is 59th to be exact.

2nd Google Rank Check for keyword "Taekwondo Gear"

2nd Google Rank Check for keyword "Taekwondo Gear"

Note that I haven’t even started any kind of back linking or article spinning campaign yet. This looking good. I just need to write a few more postings, and I think the ranking will just continue to move up.

We will soon see.

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Okay, I’m already around a week into this project focusing on “Taekwondo Gear” as the niche key word.  At the beginning, the site wasn’t ranked.  As of today, mytaekwondogear.com is on the 13th page of Google’s organic search result; specifically it is on the 124th position.

google ranking for mytaekwondogear.com

After at least a week, mytaekwondogear.com is number 124th

I’m going to have to track this to see if I see improvement over time, as I add more articles, then later some back links, I expect it to move up in rank over time.

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Figuring out the market niche I wish to blog about is the very first step.

How did I go about doing it?

Well, I sort of used the suggestions from Pat Flynn and the author of the book “Crush It” and went with a topic that is close and dear to my heart–Taekwondo.

I suppose I could have search the web for ideas.  There are many different ways to do this:

  1. Search Amazon.com on the topic of Taekwondo and see what niches comes up.
  2. Search Google.com and see what it brings up at the bottom of the first page on what people may be searching for
  3. Search Yahoo Answers or Web Answers for the topic of Taekwondo and see what people are asking.
  4. Use a tool to find a key word that would serve as the basis for the market niche.

I decided on the fourth bullet.  To do this I purchased Market Samurai.  It is pricey, but I figured that aside from using the tool to determine my market niche, I can use it as a tool to determine good key words for the various articles I know I’ll be writing.

If you want more information about Market Samurai, you can get more information about it by clicking the Market Samurai information link.

The keyword I chose was Taekwondo.  I entered that word and Market Samurai popped up with various key word combinations and their corresponding SEOT (SEO Traffic) values and SEOC (SEO Competition) values.  In using the tool, I focused on the key words that had a relatively high SEOT and low SEOC.  A quick check on the SEO key word competition which shows the various sites that shows up as the 10 sites on google’s organic search results shows that the competition isn’t really there.  The ones that show up there are mostly sites that sell martial arts gear.

I figure that I will capitalize on Taekwondo gear and give people reviews, opinion, and information regarding and relating to Taekwondo gear.

After determining that “taekwondo gear” is going to be it, I checked the availability of the domain.  The best I could do was mytaekwondogear.com.

When I get a chance, I’ll post a video of how I used Market Samurai to choose my market niche.  It really did save me time in making this determination.

Let me know if you have any questions or if you have any comments regarding how I approached the selection of my market niche.

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I’ve been reading up on a lot of things lately.  One of the things that stand out is how people out there are able to capitalize on their blog to earn income online.  If you have an interest in this field, feel free to follow me online and learn from what I learn.  Note that I credit Pat Flynn for inspiring me to do this.  Pat Flynn is the owner of the blog Smart Passive Income Blog.

This particular topic will take one year to complete from beginning to end.  The objective is to find a market niche and fill it with a web site which is monetized to earn income purely from Google Adsense and possibly from affiliate ads.

Wish me luck.  Let me know what you think by posting comments below.