What is “niche tasting”?

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February 23, 2008

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have used my random niche generator to do some “niche tasting”. Let me explain for those who do not know what niche tasting is. Niche Tasting is similar to domain tasting, domain tasting is where a webmaster will buy 1000 or more domains and throw adsense on them and then return the domains that do not show a profit before the 5 day waiting period ends. Google has essentially removed adsense fromt he equation with their new rules, but the practise is still going strong with other means of monetization.

Niche tasting is a process where we set up pages on an existing domain that contain keywords and possibly links to actual offers that we track conversion on. If certain niches/keywords convert, then you have a winner!

My favorite affiliate program for niche tasting is the eBay affiliate program from CJ. eBay can provide a purchasable product for just about any niche imaginable.

Easy steps:

Set up “Niche Tasting” PID.
Make sure your links have a niche or keyword specific SID.
Create the necessary pages with additional tracking.
Wait a reasonable amount of time before checking server logs.
Remove successful niche pages, and build out those specific sites.
lather, rinse and repeat.

Now you may want to isolate your niche tasting to a domain that you would not care if it tanked. I would not want to tarnish a good domain since you can’t be sure exactly how Google will react to the sudden influx of unrelated content.

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