Micro Niche Finder ~ Review

Micro Niche Finder

This is one tool every serious blogger needs to have in their toolbox.

I don’t give many product reviews on this blog… I do have affiliate links scattered around — over on the right hand side, a few 125 x 125 images that promote what I feel are pretty good products. Some I’ve used — some I have not.

I like the 125’s though — they add a bit of contrast and liven up the blog a bit 

Above the 125’s there is an image promoting Entrecard — a good way to drive some extra traffic to your site. Jack Humphrey has a new “Special Report” at Social Power Linking on using Entrecard — the “ins and outs” if you will on how to maximize your traffic using Entrecard.

I learned a lot of stuff in the special report that I did not know… thanks Jack.

Hang with me for a bit — I’m going to start from the end, and work my way in reverse with the Micro Niche Finder review.

So don’t bail out on me — I promise, I’ll get there.

Micro Niche Finder Video.

I’m getting ready to launch on a new membership site, Big Fish Blogger (posting about it next week).

While doing my “due diligence”… I asked a few Bloggers to share with me (an unofficial survey of sorts), what was the number one problem or top challenge they had with blogging.

I expected to see “getting traffic” as the number one challenge — surprisingly, it wasn’t.

So, what was the number one challenge they face with their blogging?

If you surf the web a bit — read a few blogs, the answer is obvious. Chances are, it is something you struggle with occasionally as well — I know I do at times.

Micro Niche Finder is not a blogging tool.

I’m sure when James developed Micro Niche Finder, blogging never even entered his mind — could have.

He was focused on creating a tool that uncovered little known and untapped niche products and markets — and that it does — plus, it does a lot more.

How to run my car on water.

I’m ranked #4 in Google for that phrase — it is a post on this blog (Update: I was ranked #4 – removed post).

It is really a fluke that I even wrote the post. Has nothing to do with small business marketing — but I was trying out a new tool (Micro Niche Finder), and I wanted to test it out.

Worked like this.

I entered the term “how to” in the Micro Niche Finder search pane.

It returned results at that time (last November)  that looked something like this;

When I did the search in November using Micro Niche Finder, “How to run my car on water” was one of the results Micro Niche Finder returned. The search results obviously change over time, due to the nature of what people are searching for is constantly changing.

So what does all this have to do with the #1 blogging challenge I was talking about?

Everything — stay with me.

But let me ask you a question first.

When you sat down and wrote your last “Hall of Fame” post on your blog… did you just wing it and think to yourself;

If I write it they will come?…

Or, did you do a little research before hand to make sure it was a topic people would find interesting? — or even better, information they were already looking and searching for!

Hey… I’m no Seth Godin. I write about stuff on my blog all the time where I’m the only one who finds it interesting (topic of a post I’ll be doing soon).

Thing is… we don’t have to do this. So lets stop.

After all, a major factor in getting traffic is writing articles and posts that people are interested in and want to read.

We have the tools and resources at our disposal that virtually guarantees every article or post we write is on a topic or on a subject people are wanting to know more about — and looking for right now.

Micro Niche Finder is one of those tools.

When I wrote the Run My Car On Water post… Micro Niche Finder showed it to be a very low (bad) searched for phrase with little competition (good). I believe there was only 50 or 60 searches for the broad phrase (without quotes) a month at the time on Google — I wrote the post anyway because of the low competition and the current situation with gas prices (bought a Hybrid myself).

Using Micro Niche Finder, I found a few more relevant keyword phrases with higher search results, and weaved them throughout the article.

But honestly, the article is not that good — like a ten minute post promoting a Clickbank product (and I sell a few every month).

But the subject matter is in high demand and something people are searching for now.

People are desperately searching for ways to lower their gas bill — I was.

So here’s your answer… the number one challenge we all face — writing content that people are wanting to read.

If you can do this — the traffic will come. Maybe that’s why getting traffic was #2 on the survey.

I know — that is a quadruple Uh Duh!

No big secret there, right.

You have read all the way to this point and my punch line was nothing more than “write what people want to read and what they are searching for?”

Well do ya?

How do you know? Have you done the research — or did you just sit down and decide to write a post because you have not written one lately?

For example, if I had a blog where I catered to the iPhone niche — I might write a post on how to unlock an iphone – based on the data Micro Niche Finder returned (see image above).

You could also take it a step further and create a product or report that shows people how to unlock an iphone — and sell it.

The search volume is not that high — 360 searches a month — but, there’s only 3 sites who’ve highly optimized their site for that phrase.

While I would not do a stand alone blog where I only targeted that specific phrase — search volume is to low — I would write an article or post targeting that phrase if my blog was in the iPhone niche.

Micro Niche Finder is a great tool, and I’ve only shown you one thing it can do.

I did not even hit on the Brainstorming, Hot Trends or other features.

I give Micro Niche Finder a double thumbs up.

And yes — the below link is an affiliate link — check it out if you struggle a bit with what to write about.

Micro Niche Finder video.

Update: Version 4 Recently released – an awesome tool now even more awesome.

Micro Niche Finder Version 4 Video (give it a minute to load).

Click the full screen button above for a better viewing.