Advice On These Niches Please !!

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I'm having a strong inclination towards going into the recipies and baby names niches.

anyone got any experience with these? are they good niches to go into or not?

yesterday i was researching in the baby names niche. a lot of the baby names sites generally have descent traffic (according to ale*xa.c0m).

Any advice will be greatly apprciated.

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Hi randome, i have a baby name database site, traffic is minimal and is very competitive. If you have huge content and good seo you may succeed, i lost interest and now the site just runs adsense images and make a few bucks a day.
 
I have both niches, among others.

They are both very, very competitive niches and in order to rank where I do with them I've put in 40-50 hour weeks creating content, marketing that content, and so on. They aren't the only niches I am in, and I would never count on either as my sole source of traffic...they're too fickle as far as rankings.

If you're willing to do the work, go for it. Both have a lot of potential for traffic, but they also have some serious heavy hitters as competition (true authority sites that aren't moving down in the rankings any time soon).

As far as adsense, both pay on the low end for clicks. I haven't affiliate marketed either.
 
Thanx 4 the advice, greatly appreciated. I've got 1 or 2 "outside the box" ideas of monetizing these niches as well as getting traffic to them.
 
BlondeTM said:
Oh, and Alexa is a horrible way to gauge traffic. It's easy to game, so a lot of the sites ranks aren't "real". Check compete.com to get a better picture. The largest sites also do a ton of advertising.
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Alexa isn't that easy to game anymore. The old toolbar trick doesn't work - the one where you set your site to refresh every 5 minutes. Now, Alexa only counts unique IPs as one visitor, whereas they used to count every hit.

Alexa also has a firefox toolbar now which is making the rankings more believable. Instead of just relying on IE, it relies on both browsers to gather data.
 
That's good to know. I've been wanting to use it in conjunction with other methods to determine how sites are doing (to advertise with them) and a year or so ago some of the crappiest sites ranked high by doing the toolbar thing. I'll check them out again.
 
randome said:
Thanx 4 the advice, greatly appreciated. I've got 1 or 2 "outside the box" ideas of monetizing these niches as well as getting traffic to them.
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Both are great for out of the box ideas, because the market on both is so broad. They definitely have the traffic potential if you put the time in, they're good for long term sites (like a lot of the keywords on the top 500 list). Good luck with them! :)
 
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