Wow, this thread started on one foot and ended on another.
Back to the initial question - "Exposing my best niche"
I always refer to Google adsense, because it pays each time someone clicks, not each time someone buys something. Affiliate advertising has many more complex factors.
Anyway, so if we take Google adsense and base it on your keywords, I would say these are not good converting keywords.
Let me give you an example of a friend's site from awhile back. A buddy of mine had a Corvette Classifieds website. The site charged a fee to list your car for a given period of time.
It generated about 45k uniques monthly. I know this is much more than our 30dc sites, but I am just using this as an example.
It had a clever adsense code built into the side panel that blended with the other links, etc. (160x600).
This site made between $700-800/mo. in adsense. Not bad. I personally saw the adsense reports.
How'd he do it?
Simple, he got ranked for keywords relating to Used Corvettes, Corvettes for Sale, etc. He was top 3 in Google for the main keywords.
Now, his ads just so happened to pull up sites that offered Corvette Tires, Corvette Parts, Corvette Accessories, etc. So his was a high converting adsense campaign which paid pretty well.
So for keywords like Quotes on Family, what type of adsense will this pull? Will it actually pull any high converting ads? If not, then the keyword will not be profitable.
If your Google adsense CTR (click through ratio) is less than 1% at 50 uniques a day, it will likely be less than 1% at 1000 uniques a day. Though your incoming adsense revenue will increase as traffic increases, it will not be profitable enough to warrant all the time you are having to spend on the site. Period.
When finding a niche, make sure that you can do one thing and one thing only - CONVERT. You must be able to convert your traffic into revenue. Otherwise all the other market research you have gathered is useless.
BR
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