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Don’t forget the smaller markets!

Back in late November I did a promotion for Alok Jain's Project Quick Cash. That promotion did very well, even prompting me to write a report about it (Pre-Selling Secrets).

I'm telling you about this because today I happened to look at my AdSense account and noticed that yesterday the case study blog I created for the promotion had earned $3.50 for the previous day. That's not a lot of money, it's true, but it's a lot more than I expected from a case study blog that I haven't touched at all since November 23, 2007.

I was intrigued, so I looked at the stats for that blog. To my surprise and delight, the blog has averaged almost 1,200 unique visitors a month since the last time I added content to it in November.

And where is this traffic coming from? 62% is coming from search engines, with 68% of the search traffic coming from Google.

I also checked my AdSense account, and in the 4 untouched months that little blog has earned me an extra $110. Not a gold mine, no, but then I stopped doing anything to it in November. Imagine if I had created 100 little blogs that I stopped working on, and 4 months later each one had earned me $100? That's $10,000 and a steady monthly revenue stream. Or better yet, what if I used a powerful article research tool to help me create content fast, and regularly updated those blogs? Imagine the kind of traffic I would see then...

The case study blog has very few backlinks, and yet has gotten traffic from a combination of 773 different keywords (according to the stats). All I did was follow the first of Alok Jain's 5 methods from Project Quick Cash, and use the tools that I created as the one-time-offer for PQC to automate the process. I posted to the blog daily for about 3 weeks.

What this tells me is that it still pays to research untapped niches for content creation. So many marketers are so focused on the hot items (diet pills, celebrities, insurance, etc.) that they miss the smaller untapped markets that can really bring in traffic long-term, and that require very little work to rank for.

Find those smaller niches, and create solid content for them, and you'll see the traffic and revenue roll into your sites. I've always found this to be true, and this little forgotten blog is just one more pillar supporting that truth.

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