Well The Internet Gurus are divided on this issue. Many or most advise that there’s no point in trying to succeed if you’re in niche where there’s no money. On the other hand I’ve found it hard to work on a blog long enough to make money if I wasn’t very enthusiastic about the subject. My website with the most traffic is still one that I regard as a hobby, indeed it didn’t even occur to me to monetize it for a long time but I have now put Adsense on it and it’s become one of my irregular passive income streams. However one of the websites I bought and have always rather neglected consistently earns me the most money and yet because I have no enthusiasm or passion for the niche I always have to force myself to keep it updated and sadly often don’t!.

So I guess a compromise approach is best you should do your keyword research and find out the commercial viability of your projected niche, if it will attract high value Adsense adverts, or is there are relevant affiliate products on Clickbank, Commission Junction or ShareaSale. If your passion is for Victorian shoelaces you’ve got to face up to the fact that you will never earn very much.

So what are the Evergreen Niches? well Health, Beauty, Relationships, Pet Care, How to make money often summarized as Health, Wealth and Love you might fear that these sectors are already saturated well they are but the demand here is so great and the commerciality is so great there is always room for one site more. People are also always using the Internet for solutions to problems for product reviews , which is the best flat screen TV, restaurant discount vouchers etc. So even starting today you can carve a micro niche in one of these sectors. But remember you have to be in this for the long haul so make sure that something about the niche is interesting enough to you so that you can sustain your effort over that time!

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So there you are all you need is a reasonably good camera and to spend a few dollars on a domain and web hosting

I can claim no credit EXCEPT for the fact that if as I do you are always increasing your web real-estate you are bound to hit lucky sometime, and you will too one day!

• Anti-jokes
• Knock-Knock Jokes
• A Man Walks Into a Bar

The anti-jokes lens in particular went crazy for a few days and is still high. Now because it’s so tough to get traffic in the first place it is absolutely vital to make efforts to keep it. Twitter is the best source of really up to date news so I searched Twitter for anti-jokes and found a lot of activity concerning an Anti-Joke Chicken Meme on Reddit. Having found the source I now have to reinforce my links to this source by blogging about it, next I plan to monitor Reddit and Twitter for evolution in this trend. I’ll keep you informed.

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Yet even after all this time I still haven’t found one absolutely consistent sure way of earning enough money to consider giving up my day job.
The whole thing about Internet Marketing is its unpredictability I mean something that I might put lots of effort into hardly earns a cent, and something I do in a rush might do very well, something that I thought was as dead as dodo will make a few sales out of the blue.

Same thing with promotion ie when I spend a few hours traveling around the web posting comments in other people’s blogs and forums, you expect a kind of instant boost of traffic back to your sites, but no it doesn’t work like that the traffic boost if it comes at all , may come weeks later.
Even though I should know better I expected to see a rush of visitors to my own lenses as people investigated who left them such complimentary remarks, but nothing. Then a few days later a very high-level Squidoo Angel started visiting a bunch of my lenses and recommended one for a Purple Star which it subsequently got. Over the next few weeks I noticed wave after wave of traffic which had originated from that one day’s efforts. So it does work but it’s incredibly non-linear.

If you’ve been a wage-slave as I have this is very hard to understand and even after all this time I still don’t. I would guess that farmers would understand this easier as they plant crops that may never mature or if they mature never sell, but they still have to put all that effort in and have faith that at least one of their crops will be lucrative. This very randomness unfortunately makes it difficult to draw any conclusions as to what I’m doing right or wrong, So I’m still lacking that faith required single-mindedly toil day after day blogging, creating content, and just as enthusiastically promoting my work on forums, exploiting social-marketing sites etc, but no I still seem to irrationally see proof that it works at all.

I need to become more focused, more commercial I must cease my blanket approach ,cease my vanity projects, become hard-nosed only investing my efforts in projects that that have real commercial prospects. This means more researching learning everything I possibly can about SEO and Keyword Research. Now here is the acknowledged best Keyword Research tool marketsamurai.com which is a free 30 day trial (after the free trial the basic Keyword Research functionality remains active).

I’ve also done well with 77 ways to make $100 per day online

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That would be one cruel mother wouldn’t it but Google is like that it gives all the rewards to the sites that claw their way to the top of the rankings. It’s even worse than that being number 1 on the first page of Google brings you 34% of all the traffic, being in the last position on page 1 you are already down to 2 per cent, this drops to one percent if you are in number one position on the second page.

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Of course it’s not as bad as it seems as even a tiny proportion of Google’s Traffic could make you rich or your business boom, but it all goes to emphasise the importance of understanding SEO, keyword research, backlinking and social bookmarking in fact you can never learn enough about these matters. It is obviously important to dominate the art of writing compelling titles, interesting and useful articles and blog postings, in fact I used to think that good content on its own would eventually bring success but not any more.

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Just changing the order of two words in a sentence of your copy or title can have dramatic effects, in fact every little bit of fine-tuning can boost your website. To get ahead of the competition you should never stop learning, never stop experimenting. The trouble is a lot of the SEO/promotional side of Internet Marketing is dull and tedious and you need persistence and patience and yet 95% of marketers give up or only do it half-heartedly, yet the rewards for success are glittering.

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I’ve had bursts of traffic but never been able to hang on to it, this year I did well with saltpipeinhalers.com when I got more sales in a day than I’d had all year just because Dr Oz’s TV Show featured a Salt Pipe for 5 minutes, imagine how many sales those sites on Page 1 of Google made.

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So be happy that Google is not your Mommy but keep working on climbing up the rankings, improving your articles, developing your own style and your understanding of what search terms people are entering into Google. Understanding SEO is the most valuable and rewarding use of your time possible in no other domain can the equivalent amount of effort bring you such glorious awards, let’s repeat that if you are involved in any way with the web business or Internet Marketing the greatest ROI is the time and effort you put into marketing your website!

• The best earning sites are strictly commercial; Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Find a Partner, Save Money on your Insurance, Mortgages don’t think these themes must be played out, that’s where the hungry crowd is and always will be
• Do masses of keyword/niche research before choosing a micro-niche in one of the above
• Make quick automatic sites, then make more
• Avoid creating vanity websites: that’s to say websites on subjects that are close to your heart
• Use Google Analytics to get user stats
• Make sure everything you post on your sites has a payload that’s to say affiliate  links to products you promote
• Lever your creative effort re-using your post in several places, your blog, your mailing list, an ezine article
• Participate, every comment you leave on another blog, or in a forum, or social site has a chance of helping
• Learn everything you can about keyword research/SEO/Niche Research
• Remember however your reward is non-linear that something you might put a lot of effort into pays little, but 5 minutes work you did a year ago suddenly pays big
• Keep going, don’t look back, don’t give up

Oh yeah and here’s my payload Dennis Becker, famous as the 5 Buck Guy has written a  report called  “77 Ways to 100“. Which is a compilation of 77 different methods that can be used to build a $100 a day income stream

Can you tell a similar story, when did you earn your first passive income and how?

Now people often ask me how to get going and I always recommend that they experiment with PTC (Pay to Click) as it costs nothing. I also heartily recommend Squidoo which is currently earning me about a $100 a month and is also a lot of fun, and is totally and utterly free.

The biggest the best, the quickest payers
www.neobux.com

Slow but steady sure payers
www.clixsense.com

Currently giving me the most clicks
wordlinx.com/

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Thanks to the people who’ve already signed up as affiliates, sorry I can’t thank you directly as I only know your Usernames but thank you for instance nycdjr, ethesianx
and arashro ! That’s the trick of course is to get affiliates that’s how to get a real passive income.

Fortunately there is now a tool which does all the hard work for you, that is being used by SEO experts and it’s called Market Samurai which is a bit of an odd name but I guess it means you become a Samurai of Keyword and Niche Research. Friends and colleagues of mine that were already expert in the traditional way of doing keyword research were stunned when Market Samurai first appeared on the market over a year ago, although one wished it hadn’t because it makes it too easy for others.

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