Newbee in the weight loss niche

The weight loss niche is pretty tough. In order to see some good results you have to be patient and to push constantly.
Squidoo, web 2.0 and ezine articles are not enough to obtain first page rankings. You need to get more diversity to your link building profile.
Also, link velocity is an important factor today. You have to build links constantly and to make it look natural for search engines (especially for Google).
Be careful not to build backlinks only to your home page and do not use only main term keywords as anchor texts in order to stay away from Google penalties! Penguin could get you in trouble if you are not careful.

Hi MLarsson,

An industry or subject area or niche where there are lots of people who regularly search on the Internet for info, advice and solutions that can help them solve their most urgent problems and satisfy their most immediate needs that they can neither solve nor satisfy on their own could most likely be profitable, especially if:

(1) You have specialized knowledge and experience in the industry or subject area or niche;
(2) There are only a few people with the same level of specialized expertise in the industry or subject area or niche as yours; or
(3) You were in a similar situation as theirs, troubled with the same urgent problems and pestered with the same immediate needs, and you managed to successfully solve those problems and satisfy those needs on your own with the help of the solutions you're now promoting...

Now, the problem is, in my opinion:

This is where almost any industry or subject area or niche becomes strongly competitive: You're focusing on top Google search engine rankings for your target traffic, to get the traffic you think would give you the best results. And, you're focusing on implementing ways to get the pages of your website on the top Google results for relevant search terms. Why?

Hundreds upon thousands of people, affiliate marketers and product developers and home business owners and small to mid-scale businesses and small to large companies and small to giant corporations are also focusing on getting top Google SE rankings for their target search terms and on implementing ways to quickly get top Google SE rankings...

Instead, I suggest you focus on establishing a good, solid reputation in online places where your target markets frequently hang out, as a friendly, expert resource of relevant and updated content, info, advice, products and services that can provide your target markets with benefits not found elsewhere. What are these ways?

Content syndication. Guest posting. Web forum and social network marketing. Video marketing. Campaigns to build prospect and buyer mailing lists through free digital info products (prospects) and paid digital info products (buyers, via getting affiliates promoting your paid digital info product, with your affiliates getting 90% or more commissions per sale). PPC/PPV/PPM and private ads on online places where your target markets frequently hang out. Solo email ads. JVs...

If you've done a bit of research in the niche of weight loss you probably have a lot of information I would recommend using it away from Google doing this.

1, turn some of your good articles into free e-book and share them on some of the PDF share sites and remember to embed your affiliate link in the bottom of every page this will get you some good sales quite quickly with your content you have already produced.

2, make a couple of YouTube videos about the topic teach people something that they don't already know about their problem and direct them to click on the link in the description which will take them either to your website, affiliate product or squeeze page.

3 this is an oldie but a goodie do some forum marketing find some forums in your niche and make some very good comments that will actually help people on their put a link to your website or affiliate products in your signature you'll be surprised at how much traffic you actually get from this and you can make some very good sales.

4, take some of your content and build a Facebook fan page and start interacting on Facebook you'll be surprised at how much traffic you can get your website just by building a Facebook fan page for the website not only that but you can also optimised your fan page for a different easy to rank for keywords so you get even more traffic.

5, when you setup the Facebook fan page link it to a twitter account that way any updates you put on Facebook will automatically be shared on twitter this will also give you a big following and a targeted audience if you update your Facebook fan page regularly.

These are just some of my tips that would help you get more traffic to your website or affiliate product away from Google because trust me when I tell you it's not good to have all of your eggs in one basket or in this case all of your traffic from one place I learned that the hard way.

Weight loss is a huge niche with lots of profitable products to promote, so yeah it's worth your time. All it takes is one niche to make it big. I wouldn't be creating link wheels. They leave "footprints" and are pretty much a thing of the past. Make sure to add product reviews and articles about stuff going on in your niche. You'll get traffic from both. You should also look into promoting "Six Pack Shortcuts" by Mike Chang. It's all over the place and pays out $100+ per sale. It's on Clickbank.

Good luck,
Joey

There are many alternatives to Squidoo, you just have to learn a little bit more. There are a bunch of free ones like Weebly, WordPress, Blogger etc. each of which can perform as well as Squidoo, or there is the option of building your own site, which takes some money, and some learning, but will almost certainly get more profit for the same content.

There's other cheap options, such as creation good html-type ads on USFreeAds, and using EzineArticles (and/or other article sites) to send traffic to those (since you can't put your affiliate link directly on EZA, although some others like GoArticles might let you).

Chris

Is it worth pushing on? Absolutely yes.

You need a two-pronged approach: write articles targeting long tail keywords. They will rank with little to no backlinks after a few weeks. Second, put your affiliate links inside the posts - having the products in the sidebar doesn't work as well as having them weaved into the content.

Weight loss niche is difficult to convert. My weight loss niche gets a regular 30-50 uniques per day, but conversion are closer to 3 per month. Ugh.

Good luck!

I don't think you should give up just yet. The weight/fat loss niche is highly competitive, hence it might take a while to achieve decent results from your efforts. Bear in mind, though, that it's not just about the time and money spent marketing, it is also about what you market. By this I mean whether or not the products are high converting products.

I'm sorry if I missed this answer, but do you have your own website or are you just promoting your affiliate link?

If you have your own webspace, I would:

- try to take those low competition keywords and make a Youtube keyword optimized video. Then I would pin it on pinterest.
- offer them something for free if they sign up for your list (ex: free guide to fat busting foods) and get those viewers that you do have on a list.

Once you have a list, you can market to the same audience over and over, so it is really an amazing way to go.

Good luck

Hi,

Yes I do have website and my goal now is to get traffic first of all. After that I'll think mich more about monetizing.

Thank you for the tips!

I am in a weight loss niche as well.
I don't use anything but psychology and use facebook.
Money is in sponsoring, I generated a list of over 5,000 last month a lone.
(Didn't pay a penny for a single name)
I tried facebook ads, I tried google ads. All they did was frustrate me, so I figured out my own ways.
You should really study the human mind a bit! It will help a lot in this area!

You can make it sell. You can improve the chances of selling your products to this niche by building an email list, and building a large list. Once you have the list, you can offer them products, get them to buy, and then follow up on them with backend offers.

It is a tough niche. But with every tough niche, there are more opportunities and of course, more $.


Keep going is what I can say.


Take time. With time your credibility will grow and get more attention around that respective niche.

Keep learning and catch the nicks and tricks to succeed in the niche.


Get a better understanding of every concept of having a blog. Trust me, the learning is endless in this type of work.

Nice posts and very informative. Im also in the weight loss niche. Glad I found this post. I love this forum.

With their being a fast food spot on seemingly every corner, this is a great niche to be involved in. In fact, during the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and rates remain high. You will never run out of potential leads & sales in this niche. Good Luck my friend.

All the best,
Mike

Good niche but the competition for this niche are huge.

Make use of your unique contents and beat others.