How Even a Low Traffic Blog Can Haul In Big Bucks For You

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1. Bridget November 1, 2011 at 3:53 pm #

   I would love more info!
2. Cindy November 1, 2011 at 4:05 pm #

   I would love more info too!
3. Derek Blandford November 1, 2011 at 4:06 pm #

   I think there’s a lot more opportunity on the internet than most people even realize. You always hear people say things like:

   “There’s too much competition.”
   “The internet is getting saturated.”
   “There aren’t any products to promote cause everyone is already promoting the good stuff.”

   I say, “Hogwash!” You just need to use your brain a little and think for yourself rather than always following the herd and doing exactly what every other internet marketing guru is doing. That’s how you find these little goldmines.

   Keep digging. Don’t give up. You’ll find the gold.

   Great post Ben, Travis, and the “Ickies!”

   I’d love more info on the method you discussed as per your “P.S.”
4. Shane November 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm #

   I would definitely like to see more ideas for monetizing blogs/niche sites. Thanks.
5. Honest Jay November 1, 2011 at 4:36 pm #

   I’m definitely seeing some light bulbs here. And I’m thinking about the people who keep saying look for low competition and high searches and how they’re missing out on all these low comp, low search opportunities that CAN be profitable in some way or the other.
6. make money online November 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm #

   You make some valid points but I feel that the manner in which you communication them is something obscurity. I will bookmark this blog for further examination.
7. 6 Packs Diet November 1, 2011 at 5:12 pm #

   Very interesting post. Yes, I would like more information
8. Doug November 1, 2011 at 5:31 pm #

   Thank you for this great content please tell us more
9. Juan Rademacher November 1, 2011 at 5:45 pm #

   I’m very interested in additional info
   Thanks,
   Juan
10. BenC November 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm #

    Hi Guys,

    Great…I love the feedback!!

    I promise we’ll get a follow up going asap:-)

    Talk soon,
    Ben
11. Kevin - DIY Dork Tutorials November 1, 2011 at 7:42 pm #

    This has been the only way I’ve been able to finally start making good money online. (Not necessarily the sell ad space ideas… but targetting the low search / low comp buyers). One of my better earning sites consistently does $1800-2000/month with just anywhere from 5-25 visitors a day. The internet opens up WIDE when you see how powerful this can be.
12. Delray November 1, 2011 at 8:10 pm #

    Yes, more info please…
13. Improve your sight November 1, 2011 at 8:13 pm #

    I would like more details on monetizing your blog using this method…
14. lindsay November 1, 2011 at 8:40 pm #

    Hay Guys great post and information as always would love to have more info on this topic all help is gratefully received
15. Dennis Pehrson November 2, 2011 at 2:16 am #

    This is exactly the reason I opted in for your trial period in the first place. Loved the fishing comparison. I have a comparison I will share with you now…remember Tiny Tim and his song “Tip Toe Thru The Tulips” well all the other marketers are Tulips while you guys are Tip Toeing on thru the Tulips picking up those profitable niches that the Tulips failed to recognize. I admit that I didn’t much care for that song but I admire you guys for having such great insight. Totally Awesome and wanting more.
16. Derek November 2, 2011 at 3:29 am #

    Thanks for the quality tip and insight Ben and Travis. It’s clear that there are many ways to capitalize on the billions of folks online today. The internet marketing pie is surely big enough for each of us to get a slice. It’s just a matter of figuring out where to slice and how a big a piece to go after.

    InstaCashkeywords.com can definitely help folks figure things out. Your training is very much appreciated!

    Derek
17. Business Australia November 2, 2011 at 5:16 am #

    Your examples are a bit misleading.

    Of course searching for “buy ski boat in Florida” gives no matches.

    No decent website would have that grammatically incorrect phrase in its text.

    Searching for “buy ski boat in Florida” without the quotes gives a completely different (and more competitive) picture.
18. Tony B November 2, 2011 at 11:13 am #

    Business Australia (B.A), pint taken there, but you do have to stretch the mind a bit at times, The words can still flow within a sentence and do the SEO job:

    “We were told it was the best place to buy ski boat, in Florida they had a good reputation. So I went and ….

    You get the picture. Anyway It’s a great article that provokes thinking It’s not the “exact words that we should be looking at B.A but what it means in our niches maybe!
19. BenC November 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm #

    I apologize, Biz Aussie…

    But Tony pretty much wrapped it up there…one misleading example in a post was far from the message we were trying to get out.

    You could try “buy a ski boat in Florida”…and see there is still very little competition.

    I would also stick with the quotes when it comes to looking at competition…but this is just what has worked for Travis and I (and a lot of our affiliates)
    but if searching without quotes has worked well for you and has helped you make money online then I say keep up the good work!
20. Ringworm Treatment for Humans November 2, 2011 at 3:31 pm #

    Thanks for a great post, it got my brain thinking about the low hanging fruits.
    More info would be great though. But thank you for the possibilities that you have brought up
21. Cassandra Smith November 2, 2011 at 3:36 pm #

    This was valuable information and I will share this with my list. Thanks
22. Travel Insurance Singapore November 2, 2011 at 3:51 pm #

    Thank you for sharing Ben & Travis. There’s lots of low hanging fruits around…before this i didnt realise it till recently. There are lots of opportunities for everybody.
23. Jim November 2, 2011 at 4:01 pm #

    Sure fishin is tough if your fishin in the same holes as all the others.

    There are only a few “Guru’s” remaining on my short list and Travis ain’t no bum to me!

    I appreciate you and will get that trial.

    Regards,

    Jim
24. flower November 2, 2011 at 4:24 pm #

    Love the idea but don’t have a clue about where to go to sell ad space. Could you go into that a little more detailed information about that?
25. Jean November 2, 2011 at 4:44 pm #

    Hey Folks,

    Great post – love the way you think! No buy this expensive product & look at tons of long videos, then try and implement stuff that doesn’t seem to work. You cut to the chase & find things that the average “joe” (or in my case, average Jean) can actually do with limited funds & limited time.

    Thanks. Would love more details on how to monetize my blogs with this method.
26. Alex J. Steve November 2, 2011 at 5:13 pm #

    I doubt whether I will get any advertiser in my niche.
27. Michael November 2, 2011 at 5:17 pm #

    Great Post! I also agree with Derek about the nearly unlimited ways to make money online. It’s just that we have trained ourselves to only approach it with narrow thinking because that is what we have been taught to do.

    Just 2 days ago, I was wanting to know more about selling ad space.

    So, Yes! please send me the information about it.
28. How to lighten skin naturally November 2, 2011 at 6:05 pm #

    Targeting low comp low search kw’s is a great idea for those just starting out. I feel the first goal of a new marketer should be to reach the first page of google, forget about the money until then. If some comes in then that’s a bonus.
29. Bud Corwin November 2, 2011 at 7:03 pm #

    Hey Travis and Ben,
    Great article as usual. I too would like more info on how to get ad space on a blog.
    And also Travis, why are you hiding Jeannie? We haven’t seen her lately, and frankly, we all miss her.
30. Rick November 2, 2011 at 7:59 pm #

    Have you actually sold advertising for hundreds of dollars/mo. on sites that got as few as 10 visitors? Do people usually ask for traffic stats before buying the ad space?
31. Trevor November 2, 2011 at 8:43 pm #

    Yeah well, if you’re going to get serious about making
    money online, you might as well promote or sell big -
    ticket items, instead of promoting $20 Clickbank
    products.
32. kcommerce November 2, 2011 at 9:40 pm #

    I would like more info on monetising my blog.
    Thanks for the idea triggering articles.
33. Joe November 3, 2011 at 12:00 am #

    I would be interested in finding out more information about this method. Thanks
34. Travis November 3, 2011 at 12:08 am #

    Awesome blog Travis! I’d like more information on monetizing my blogs with advertising.
35. Lois Mondp November 3, 2011 at 1:28 pm #

    Very interesting concept, I would be very grateful for more information on how to monetize blogs with ads
    Thanks
36. Deirdre Jones November 3, 2011 at 5:31 pm #

    Thanks for the excellent information guys! There are so many potentially profitable untapped niches that I do not understand why people waste their time promoting junk. Just a little creativity and ingenuity and anyone can be earning a solid living online as long as they are willing to put in the work and effort.
37. Brain Game November 4, 2011 at 5:05 am #

    Thank you guys for the great information!
    This is exactly what my research is showing on my website traffic stats. I use Statcounter for some of my sites and they have a cool feature that shows where you rank on the “G” search engine. Nice!
    Keep up the good work. I always look forward to you emails and posts.
    Kim
38. Danielle November 4, 2011 at 8:03 am #

    Travis & Ben, you guys always amaze me.
    I notice people are getting hung-up on the wording. My suggestion – Don’t do it! Buy ski boat Maine? Dig around a bit and you’ll find that someone is using that entire phrase, grammatically incorrect as all get out, and making a nice little chunk of change with it.

    Stop over thinking this. The person using that phrase is using old school direct response copy. When you are paying $1 or more per word, you limit the number of words you use to get the point across.

    Thanks guys, that Learjet gave me an idea and the post inspired me to try it out.
39. Annegrete Krings November 4, 2011 at 11:41 am #

    I would definitely like to see more ideas for low traffic blogs.
40. Florin November 4, 2011 at 11:48 am #

    Yes, I want more info. What ad broker do you recommend? What strategy do you use to get accepted with the broker? Thanks.
41. Dee November 4, 2011 at 1:06 pm #

    Bring it on – I’m waiting. Great post!!!
42. Christmas Gift Suggestions 2011 November 4, 2011 at 1:33 pm #

    Nice idea. I may just try the trial if it expired in 7 days and not keep charging me…that’s sneaky marketing in my opinion. I would rather try it for 7 days and then get a reminder if I wanted to continue..not get automatically charged. Also, if these KWs are going out to tons of people, a lot of competition will be created (yes, you can assume that very few will take action, but still).
43. Jim November 4, 2011 at 3:48 pm #

    Travis, I appreciate your comments so much. I have followed you for a long time. But, only as a lurker not a doer. You have opened my eyes with this post.

    Please provide me with additional information
44. Steve November 4, 2011 at 4:10 pm #

    Travis and company,
    Thanks for the info would love to have more so I can understand how to sell ad space . Have follow you for a while and been thru the whole routine of buying every shine product now I am down to listening to you and trying to get focused , and stop putting it off. Am in a very bad spotand half to make this work for my family . A soon as i can start to make some thing on line will be joining Instacash to help me more till then please keep helping us . very desperate!
45. joe traffic snipers November 4, 2011 at 4:50 pm #

    This is amazing, not everyone will like to model their internet business his way because of the little competiton but they don’t know that they are leaving the GOLD for the smart IMers thanks for the post.
46. David November 4, 2011 at 5:34 pm #

    Hey, Travis,

    I’d like to know more about this and hope that its not another one of those endeavors that is easy to do…once you know how…kinda like brain surgery.

    Too often its not what is said that matters but what is not said.

    Create a Lear jet blog with some niche keywords and sell ads…sounds easy enough…but…
47. David November 4, 2011 at 5:46 pm #

    Hey, Travis,

    Got an addition to my post…pretty interesting.

    I just went to Google and searched “buy a learjet”

    I got 11,000 + indexed pages.

    Here’s what is interesting. Your blog pitch is on the first page of Google!

    Why?…because in your site description you have the words “buy a learjet”

    What confounds me is why you are on the first page when your blog has absolutely nothing to do with buying an airplane…it simply contains the right keywords.

    So, that makes me wonder big time about Google’s requirement that your site be “relevant” and have meaningful “content”

    I’d appreciate any feedback from you or any of your posters.
48. Honest Jay November 4, 2011 at 7:48 pm #

    @David See that just shows you. If this blog is on first page because it has the keywords somewhere on a page for an irrelevant term, what would happen if you actually did a blog with that term as the domain name and as the main keywords.

    Pretty sure it would be #1 and it pretty much validates this post.
49. Honest Jay November 4, 2011 at 7:53 pm #

    I just realized that you searched in quotes though. However, it just means that most of the other sites aren’t optimized for that exact keyword and you could still most likely get a top position if you targeted that keyword.
50. Rida November 4, 2011 at 11:26 pm #

    Thanks for great post…
    It keeps me motivated to continue dealing with this online marketing using blog. My blog has very low traffic and sometimes I want to give up and throw it away. Been on and off without hope. Reading your post, I start to believe that even an average blog still has chance to generate some pennies.
51. JD November 5, 2011 at 1:46 am #

    Hi Travis, you’re one of the few “gurus” I pay any attention to anymore. Good info here. I, too, would like to have more info about selling the ad space.
52. tina November 5, 2011 at 3:56 am #

    This is a really interesting way to approach these lower competition keywords. Definitely see the potential based on what you wrote. More info would be great.
53. Wesley November 5, 2011 at 10:23 am #

    Great idea, however you have to do work upfront (domain, blog = all money) and there is no guarantee someone will be interested in this low-traffic blog.
54. Peter November 5, 2011 at 1:42 pm #

    This is a great idea and one that I have been considering for quite awhile will give it some more thought. keep up the great work
55. WhoWantsCoach November 6, 2011 at 4:12 am #

    That is right on the money Travis, and not only that but you could also become a broker for these high ticket items merely matching the seller to the buyer sometimes as easy as searching thru Craigslist and eBay and making a nice commission in the process.
56. Julie November 6, 2011 at 4:57 am #

    Travis … and crew,

    I have been religiously following you since the first mention of bum marketing. This is a wonderful example of Thinking Outside of the Box. As a former teacher, I used to cringe when I found grammatical errors in publications for the world to read. Not anymore. People really do type search keywords and phrases using various and sundry errors … on purpose.

    It would be helpful to read a report similar to your Bum Marketing explanation. Some of us need some step-by-step hand-holding to learn a technique, especially when salesmanship isn’t your first – or native – language.

    Your casual style of presenting valuable information is refreshingly helpful. It does let us know that it is possible to write in plain, understandable English. For that, I thank you. Please expand on the information presented here. It would be so helpful.
57. Rhys November 7, 2011 at 1:52 pm #

    I would like more details on monetizing
    my blog using this method.

    Thank you!
58. Buy Wartrol November 7, 2011 at 2:33 pm #

    wow, great info. It would be amazing to know more about this.

    what other niches have great potential – i find myself wondering about this

    A strategy for how to go about this would be awesome. Tx for sharing though
59. Unique Gift Idea November 8, 2011 at 12:35 am #

    Folks seem to get hung up on particular example keywords instead of using their imagination to run with the idea.

    This post and the past posts are full of value for those who can apply the examples to other things.
60. sooreneccs November 8, 2011 at 10:06 am #

    Great inspiration for newbie blogs like mine!
    Thanks!
61. Margaret November 9, 2011 at 3:16 pm #

    If you are not getting very much traffic I think building a list of people wanting to buy a jet may be a tad difficult if not impossible.
62. kay johnson November 11, 2011 at 3:46 pm #

    Sounds great, so how about in the next lesson you tell us how to find these advertisers?
63. Rob November 11, 2011 at 8:51 pm #

    I would like more detailed info on this opportunity
64. Malcolm November 11, 2011 at 10:12 pm #

    Hi, I thought it sounds brilliant, would love to hear more about this
65. Mike Varolo November 11, 2011 at 10:24 pm #

    You make some good points here. Years ago I listened to an audio interview about long tail keyword phrases with low competition. I’m going to do a little keyword research right now to see what I can find. There are a lot of things I could do with this concept.
66. Bill November 13, 2011 at 4:51 pm #

    Yes, definitely more info, please!
67. chrisfarrell review November 13, 2011 at 10:01 pm #

    HI … I just bought the ICKY trial and I was surprised by the wealth of info it contains.

    But …

    On the keywords PDF list, it leaves out a very important element —> the PPC value.

    Without this, the marketer has to do extra steps to look for the PPC values, then incorporate them in the PDF initial list (export list to spreadsheet, export PPC to spreadsheet, combine them etc).

    Can you not incorporate the PPC outright in the ICKY kw list? I understand that you use MNF … the PPC values in MNF are just beside the KW-Searches-SOC …

    This will really simplify things for your ICKY subscribers .
    Thank you

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68. Reducing Body Fat November 14, 2011 at 1:46 am #

    Thanks for the cool tips in this article. I’ve been building sites which focus on long tail keywords for a while now.

    I’d rather rank easily for 100 keywords which get 100 visitors a month than work hard trying to rank for one keyword which gets 10000 visitors a month.

    At least for now that is. I’ll change my strategy once I start earning more cashola.
69. Kathleen Gresham November 14, 2011 at 6:19 am #

    You are so smart! This post really makes me rethink some of the domains I already have but haven’t put up a site yet, and makes me think about getting some new ones….

    Thanks! I needed that. Brilliant!
70. Scot English November 14, 2011 at 10:48 pm #

    Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say superb blog!
71. batman year one November 17, 2011 at 10:21 am #

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72. Marvin B December 5, 2011 at 3:31 am #

    I would absolutely like more info.
73. Pamela December 17, 2011 at 5:56 pm #

    I need more info on this. I’ve never thought about selling ad space on a blog
74. Mark December 18, 2011 at 3:55 am #

    There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That is a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like http://www.uyxiu.com the one you bring up where the most important thing will be working in honest good faith. I don?t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, but I am sure that your job is clearly identified as a fair game. Both boys and girls feel the impact of just a moment’s pleasure, for the rest of their lives.
75. eric January 10, 2012 at 5:15 pm #

    This is a great idea and I have actually thought about this before I set up my last idea. I saw someone who is coming out with a book and was going to ask them if they wanted to advertise on my site. What do I say to this person though? How do I ask him to pay me? Up front for a year or monthly? By what method would he use to pay me? I GUESS THIS BLOG RAISES A LOT OF MORE QUESTIONS I HAVE ABOUT DOING THIS.
76. Suzanne February 21, 2012 at 8:17 pm #

    You always over deliver Travis. Good show. I’ll be looking for that information as you promised. Thanks for thinking of us with all this cool stuff.

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