Breakfast at Sophie’s and More Niche Inspector
This morning, I met some of my friends (Tristan, Stephanie, Crazy Brian, and “Phil”) for breakfast at Sophie’s, which is a fairly popular restaurant in Vancouver. Sophie’s is the kind of family restaurant where the food is tasty, reasonably priced, and there’s all kinds of crazy crap on the walls. I had their lumberjack breakfast, which was good, along with a chocolate milkshake. I know it’s not a regular thing to have a milkshake with breakfast, but I’d heard the milkshakes were really good, so there you go. On my milkshake scale, I’d give it a 4 out of 5. The shake itself was great, but I don’t think they gave me enough for the $5.50 I paid, hence the point off. Still, I do recommend it.
Enough about Sophie’s. In this post, I am continuing to use Niche Inspector in an attempt to find a viable niche to build a site around. Check the previous post for more information on how I’m conducting my search and why.
Anyway, the next term I put into Niche Inspector was ACNE. One keyword phrase that stood out for me was
ACNE PRODUCT
Searches: 10979
Google: 311000
Google ads: 51
Broad Match CPC $3.62-$4.52
This looks pretty good so far. Looking it up in Google, I see the a lot of URL’s do not have “ACNE PRODUCT” in their URL. One of the highest ranked sites is http://www.acne-treatment-answers.com/acne-product.html. Looking at this site in yahoo site inspector, we find that it has 1 page, 544 back links. Most of the back links seem to come the site itself, and not other sites, which is interesting. Further, looking at the site in the wayback machine, we see that it was only set up in the year 2005. Hmmmmm.
The other Niche Phrase that I found for ACNE was
ACNE SOLUTON
Searches: 5754
Google: 369000
Google ads: 54
Broad Match CPC $6.56-$8.20
Looking up this phrase in Google, I see that a lot of URL’s do not have “ACNE SOLUTION” in their URL (although they are all related to skin and acne care). The third highest ranked site for this search term is http://www.acneway.com. Here, we find that this site has 128 pages and 11,557 back links. The wayback machine tells us this site was set up in 2006.
Maybe something can be done with ACNE? One question I have is that if I’m optimizing a site for “ACNE PRODUCT”, how preferable is it to have “www.acneproduct.com”, as opposed to “www.acnestuff/acneproduct.com” ? I suspect that having ACNE PRODUCT right at the root of the domain would be much more valuable, but who knows?
Tomorrow is shaping up to be a big day, as my sister I having a baby. I’m going to be an Uncle again. I’ll try a post a picture of baby Beth (or Veronica, which is the other name possibility) if I’m able.
To Our Success!
- Dave
April 25th, 2008 at 9:47 am
hi Dave,
While the concept of niche inspector sounds good, the analysis is somewhat inaccurate. I am the webmaster for http://www.acne-treatment-answers.com.
you said “One of the highest ranked sites is http://www.acne-treatment-answers.com/acne-product.html. Looking at this site in yahoo site inspector, we find that it has 1 page, 544 back links. ” You referred to the above url as a site. It is just one page on a website.