I help a lot of other Niche Marketers with their Micro Niche Marketing efforts and two questions come up almost every day from people looking for advice, I have decided to make this post as a reference to anyone else who may be looking for the answers.

Question 1
“What do you think about having brand names in your domain name?”

Question 2
“Is it possible to out rank Google Shopping results?”

Let’s deal with question 1 first. Now firstly, a little disclaimer: This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer and do not know a huge amount about Brand protection law etc. This information is for discussion purposes only, so make sure you also do your own research.

Using a brand name in your domain name can be risky, however if you are targeting a long tail keyword phrase which happens to contain a brand name then it can be quite an effective component of getting your niche web site to rank.

Some companies could not be bothered as ultimately more of their product is being sold through your web site, so as long as your are not misrepresenting their brand or misrepresenting your web site as being an “official company web site” then most of the times, I have not had a problem.

I have built hundreds of successful Niche web sites and only once have I run into a legal problem with a brand name domain name. I had set up a web site which sold Harley Davidson clothing via Amazon and the domain name had “Harley Davidson” in it. About 3 Weeks after the site going live, I received a legal letter from Harley Davidson requesting me to Hand over the domain name. In this case, I began a civilised conversation with their legal department and at the end of the day I ended up taking the web site down and deleting the domain name. They were happy with that and that was the end of it.

So, you need to weigh up the risk versus reward for yourself, The reward being that you could have a Niche web site performing well in the SERPS and making lots of sales, and the risk being that all your effort in creating and promoting the site could end with you having to take it down.

Now for Question 2…

For a long time, Google Shopping results have been displayed at the very top of the search results, just below any Adwords that may appear horizontally. These display prices from stores who have published data feeds into Google base and have always had a very high click through rate.

Over the past few months I have noticed that more often than not, these Google shopping results are now being blended into the Search results which, in my opinion is a much fairer way of displaying them as they rank equally amongst other web sites without being given major preference.

This is good news for us who promote product specific keywords and has resulted in much higher traffic numbers for my sites that used to sit below Google shopping results. Let us hope that this stays this way.

Would love to hear your thoughts/experiences on these topics.
Cheers
Nick

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Cheers
Nick

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I have found some real gems here just browsing through the categories with the following categories being my favorite:

• Social
• Blogging
• Network
• Share
• Discover

Enjoy
Nick

While we were away I literally had a few minutes every few days to check on things online as for the first time in many years, I decided not to take my laptop with me which is something we all should do every now and then is spend some real time away from computers and the Internet.

So, today it is back to reality and I am now in the process of a few things:

1. Complete editing and publish new training videos that I started just before I left.
2. Make some software updates to the Project Management tools
3. Start replying to all those emails and comments

I will be sending out an email to all the Niche Market Control Panel members with some very important information later, so keep your eye on your mailbox.

Chat soon.

Nick

Now stop reading this blog and head over to google and stake your claim on some of the niche markets!

Cheers
Nick

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Organic Results outranking Google Local Business Listings

For those that do not already know, there is an absolute fortune to be made in local business, in fact, I am in the process of setting up a small team in my company to handle only this.

While I am still a relatively new players in this area, having only been focusing on local business opportunities for about a year and with only about 5 successful projects to date, the concepts are still the same as standard / global SEO with a few caveats thrown in here and there. One thing I have always struggled to do is out rank Google local business listings however while doing some keyword research this morning, I discovered a few sites (local to the UK) that are managing to do just that. 

This gives me new found motivation to dominate more local markets, you going to join me?

Cheers

Nick

We host our network of niche websites across 12 different servers around the world, mostly I use shared hosting facilities but have in the last few years started using my own dedicated servers and virtual server. The virtual server NMCP is hosted on has been giving endless problems and we have now moved the NMCP to its own dedicated server. While the www.nichemarketcontrolpanel.com domain propagates (about 48 hours), you can access the full Niche Market Control Panel at http://www.nichemarketcontrolpanel.info

By the way, my WF ban has now been lifted, so expect more great videos soon. (Hopefully I can keep on the moderators good side).

Cheers
Nick

Take action now!
Cheers
Nick