Niche Testing Update 1: Orchid Care

I have submitted Caring For Orchids to StumbleUpon and a couple of other sites now. I will continue to Social Bookmark, but in a very gradual way. I believe that submission to many bookmarking sites at the same time is likely to do more harm than good, so maybe 3 or 4 bookmarks every couple of days will suffice. My StumbleUpon blog has been submitted to a number of RSS Feed directories, further backlinks should be automatically created by this tactic.

Caring For Orchids is definitely indexed by Google, but does not appear within the first few pages of search results and has not received any traffic yet. Interestingly, my previous post, Testing A New Niche: Orchid Care, has also been indexed, which is an unexpected bonus.

I have a number of other blogs in the Gardening Market Sector, so I will now link them all to Caring For Orchids to see if this will improve search engine rankings.

Testing A New Niche: Orchid Care

I have decided to try out a different niche marketing technique that I have been considering for a little while. I undertook some keyword research in the home gardening market and came up with a few keyword phrases that looked interesting, especially when I discovered that there are at least three Clickbank products relating to this niche. My normal procedure to follow this research would be to create content pages on sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages and Blogger, with affiliate links strategically placed throughout the articles. However this can be a very time consuming exercise, so it is time for a slightly different approach. As a first test I have created a simple review page on Tripod - Caring For Orchids.

To keep the process simple I am utilizing the CBtopsites Clickbank Mall for the review page. CBtopsites provides all the code required for redirecting to the relevant page, so creation of the Caring For Orchids review on Tripod only took a few minutes.

The next step will be to add Caring For Orchids to a few Social Bookmarking sites to see if it can generate traffic and get ranked in the search engines. I will then search for further free hosting sites that might be suitable for employing this tactic.

Watch out for more posts about this simple experiment over the coming weeks.