Ads-Click Preview

You may not have heard of them yet, but there is a company out there called Ads-Click. I've signed up for their program -- mainly because I was interested in what appears to be a tag cloud advertisement.

I've been approved as a publisher and one of my sites is now sporting this ad unit. I have no idea what revenues will be like, but I do have the ability to see keyword click through ratios and associated price per click information.

Once I have more information I'll let you know how it works out. However, if you are impatient, you may want to Google these people up and put their tag cloud on your web site. Oh, by the way, they only want US/Canadian traffic at the current time.

UPDATE: This tag cloud item is malfunctioning in IE. So, for the time being I have commented out the code! I'll contact the support staff and see if they are able to figure out what is going on...

Niche Inspector Review

From time to time I like to splurge!

So, recently, I purchased Niche Inspector. I really like the tool, though I suspect I don't currently have the resources to justify the cost. However, that could potentially change if I find myself one or two juicy niches to conquer.

Before you go out and spend this type of money I would suggest you figure out how to do the same work manually:

• Use a keyword tool to get suggested keywords and the quantity of queries performed on those keywords.
• For each keyword returned, visit a search engine and see how many responses are returned for a user search.
• Also, for each keyword, use Google's keyword tools to determine a suggested price range for clicks using Adwords.

This can be quite a lot of work, and take a lot of time, but the results will be similar to that produced by Niche Inspector.

On a different note, I haven't found Niche Inspector a good way to discover new niches, but instead a way to see if my own niche ideas may be good. Quite simply, you can't just push the buttons and expect all kinds of valueable niches to be dropped in your lap!