Quality eBook Niches or Are They ?
A few months ago I joined eBook Niches a membership that provides 4 ebooks per month in specific niches, but are they really niches - you judge for yourself.
The ebook niche member’s site is run by Robert Blackstone & Adam Maywald and requires a monthly membership fee.
During my membership I downloaded and evaluated 12 ebook packages, covering a wide range of topics from Boat Safety, to Modelling, Home Schooling, Anxiety, Dog Training and UK Debt.
Each package has one ebook in pdf and word format, 20 PLR articles, an email course with a sales letter and graphics, provided in case you want to try and sell the ebook.
In the ebook niche package you also get a short list of 3 or 4 niche product affiliates and the results of the keyword research that I assume went into choosing the ebook subject in the first place.
So, what can you do with this ebook niche package ?
Well, you could try and sell the ebook, or give it away, or use the content for your own ebook or web pages.
Ebook niches make the claim that these are quality ebooks. Well, they are better than some I have read, but are they of such quality that you could, or would want to sell them ?
Personally I would not try to sell them. Many of them are not particularly well written and come from the ghost writer factory. The only possible use for the material that I would recommend is content for your own web pages.
However, whilst you are free to use the ebook and articles as you please, I would caution you against using the material as provided.
Firstly up to 300 other members could be using the same material, so the search engines will detect duplicate content very quickly.
Secondly, the content is not particularly good and I generally found I could get no more than 1 or 2 pages of quality web content from the ebook and articles.
Out of 20 articles I could usually only piece together one article that I would consider good enough to publish.
So, don't expect not to do any work.
eBook Niche Keyword Research
On the subject of work I would also suggest you don't rely upon the keyword research data that is provided with each ebook niche package. Firstly, I would seriously challenge whether many of these topics are actually in a niche at all.
As I have found from other product evaluations I have done on niche offerings - like Niche Monthly, Niche a Day and Article Underground, the keyword research that is the basis for these products is in many cases, extremely flawed.
It is clear to me from the keyword research provided with all these types of products that it can not be relied upon. For this reason I always do my own keyword research.
What I usually find is that the keyword phrases that have been chosen are either not in a niche, or if they are, not in one that you could get a high ranking for with a search engine any time soon.
The cost of membership to ebook niches was $47 per month, but quickly rose to $97 a month. Is it worth $47 or $97 per month, well not to me.
Tony
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Making Your Website Work for You
Comments
I was thinking the same thing with the keywords I got from ebook niches. Although I like the packages I found the keywords research very general. Especially for any kind of PPC campaign.
Posted by: Dave | January 9, 2007 04:45 PM