Google today have launched Google Health that is supposedly for US use, but I was able to log straight in, and add the ailment I suffer from. I am not worried about the privacy aspects.

The information provided is pretty basic as you would probably expect in a country famous for medical lawsuits.

One useful aspect of Google Health did catch my eye.

So if I was to recreate a niche site related to Chondromalacia Patella, those would be reasonable top level pages to build topic silos from, or sister sites such as back pain.

It goes without saying that Google have reliable information on this, and those keyword serches in the sidebar are about to get more traffic.

A.D.A.M. creates health content for consumers that is physician-reviewed by experts in their field.

Being the top related search terms, they would also be some of the best terms to use for Adwords landing pages, if they are allowed in your geographical area.

Search Engine Land has lots of screenshots of Google Health and Google Blogscoped has good coverage.

I thought I would take a few minutes to do a little very simple keyword research using free tools to find some viable niches to write about.

For this exercise the easiest tool to use is the Google Trends mashup created by the Wordtracker guys for the 30 Day Challenge.

What this allows you to do is first of all get search numbers from Wordtracker, and then compare the search terms with Google trends which provides real data on search volume.

Often the numbers provided by Wordtracker leave a lot to be desired, because they are easily manipulated by very few real searchers, but they do provide an excellent starting point to highlight niches.

Hubpages Is An Authority Site

It is important to realise that Hubpages is already an authority site, thus it is possible to target slightly more competitive terms than you normally might be able to when building you own niche websites, and still get results fairly quickly.

I have spotted a number of decent niches just using the keyword “film” but you should also use the thesaurus offered to provide more ideas.

Remember that whilst the keyword is film, that could mean movies, but could easily also be window film, camera film, etc.

You are also able to go off at a tangent, so a biography of Doris Day might be appropriate (if enough people search for it) – actually Doris Day might be more suitable for a full niche site so you can cover more terms to get more traffic volume.

Certainly “movie” is a better term than film based upon search volume.

False Search Volume

Be really careful to check the trends

As an example “Upcoming Will Smith Movies” based upon Wordtracker shows a search volume over 1000, but Google trends data soon squashes that happy feeling, because whilst there is almost no competition for the term, there is no search volume either.

Easy Niches

I am not giving you the keyword, but it was a product based search listed under movies.

I also checked using allintitle:”key word” and it has less than 600 competitors on Google

In fact that niche is easy enough it could certainly be gaining search traffic within a month on a fresh domain, let alone on a Hubpage.

Duncan Carver is one of those niche marketers who just disappears off on holiday for almost a year… because he can!

He is also famous for having created probably the best free link manager script

So Duncan is now back and proving that once you understand how to research a niche, and create a product to sell to that niche, the world really is your oyster.

In fact I bet he will probably go back on holiday in a few months having created a few more full-time income streams.

The Niche

Worm Farming… yes seriously, and it seems to be a hot niche

I am not going to link directly through to his niche site, because many might think that would influence results too much. Actually it wouldn’t because Duncan with his multiple web properties and his own link network has links pretty much sorted.

So far he has already covered:-

• Project Introduction – a great introduction where Duncun demonstrates he is following a set business plan
• Market Selection – this is a really good example of the niche market selection process. It isn’t hard to find real profitable niches, despite people thinking there is too much competition out there.
• Link Building Campaign – A beginner isn’t going to have the funds or the existing network to use every method Duncan is using, but honestly, if he wasn’t making this new niche site public, and staying under the radar, he most likely wouldn’t need many links to get some good rankings.

This really is a step by step process, and will probably contain many tips that you won’t find in many ebooks, and if you followed this process in another niche you would be almost certain to achieve good results.

My only criticism so far… Duncan please use mod_rewrite for those permalinks

Whilst I have submitted Duncan’s blog to Digg, there is probably too much content for the average Digg user