Regarding the rate they make the money, that’s quite impressive and it shows there’s a lot of money for us, others, to make online.

Hey I agree with you about Vic. He is an original guy to say the least and it’s a refreshing break. I purchased a bunch of domains for bans sites back in april when he first started talking about bans.

It took me a while to get going because I initially purchased all dot info’s. I’ve done alright with bans so far and I’m definitely going to scale up to at least a hundred of them now that I see that it works.

You sound like you are still rather new to the whole “make money online” game, and if you like blogger unleashed you might also like bluehatseo dot com. On bluehat, Eli sorta picks up where vic leaves off in terms of how advanced the techniques are and prerequisite knowledge…and goes WAY beyond.

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Now, at more than one month distance, I’ve checked again with Wordtracker and it says “no results found”.

But it surprises me that with the hugeness and fluidity of the internet that one person could make such a difference. Just one more thing to keep track of as we do our research!

I don’t disagree with anything you say, but I’m still confused/concerned about the numbers that keyword tools return.

According to that WordTracker research from 3 months ago, there were 144 searches daily for [oakland tooth whitening].

I just checked my stats for the blog in question. I have the number one position for the term [oakland tooth whitening] without the quotes, and the site is PR2 only four months after launch.

In the last six days I’ve had 3 visits total. Not to beat this issue to death … the site’s up, I’ve moved on to other sites. But I’m now a LOT more suspicious about keyword research, particularly when to comes to local searches.

Lastly … according to WordTracker this morning, there are 65 searches daily for [oakland tooth whitening], less than half the number from February. Honestly, I really do believe that Court’s keyword sniping series led to enough of us doing local keyword searches for research that the tools started returning flawed data at the beginning of 2008.

I just found your blog and it’s nice to see another relative newcomer to the world of making a living online! I like your openness and your writing style and look forward to reading your posts.

About this issue though, I think one of the things that many of us forget is that there is a whole different set of buying attitudes and behaviors going on out there that aren’t (yet?) adapted to internet shopping. I know in my own case, I use the internet a lot more for information than for actual buying, even though I’m perfectly comfortable shopping online for most things. But as Ellen points out, teeth whitening is a personal service that requires a local provider if you want the best service (for example, laser whitening).

I’ve spent my whole working life in the business world, and people buy stuff for all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of ways. Now that I’m doing a lot of internet affiliate marketing, my perspective tends to narrow down to looking at everything from in IM viewpoint. I’m fighting that, though, because that is only one part of the equation. Maybe the supply/demand scenario for teeth whitening is poor in the brick & mortar world right now. If so, it’s unlikely that the picture would be rosy online.

Niche marketing has certainly gotten a lot of attention and some areas of the market are choked with competitors. I’m spending a lot of time looking at things I believe others aren’t looking at, and hoping that I can spot trends that haven’t been exploited to death. And if a niche isn’t doing well, I try to figure out if the problem is an IM/SEO one, an economic one, a personal one, etc. Some things can be fixed, some can’t.

As this business matures, it will become more difficult to make the kind of money that some of the early birds made in many niches. We’re going to have to look at a much broader picture to find those money-maker niches in the future, IMO.