AdSense Niche: Furnace Filter, Furnace Air Filter - $$$

I found another decent AdSense niche that would be very easy to get good rankings within the search engines. Furnace filters may not seem like a topic that would bring in any money, but there number of searches per month and the number of advertisers makes this an ideal niche.

Even though furnace filters is a seasonal item, there are still enough searches during the spring and summer months to be profitable all year round. I would suggest targeting the keywords "furnace filter" from and SEO prospective, because you will have an easier time getting your site to rank well due to the lack of competition.

All AdSense niches that I profile will use the following rating system that describes the average payout per click:

• $------ $.01 to $.25


• $$----- $.26 to $.50


• $$$---- $.51 to $.75


• $$$$--- $.75 to $1.00


• $$$$$-- $1.00+

Your results should be very similiar to those posted here, but your results may vary due to competition since this post was posted (MFA sites), smart pricing on your AdSense account, and or bad traffic sources.

Adsense Niche: Bail Bond, Bail Bondsman - $$$ to $$$$

Here is a pretty nice AdSense niche that I have recently stumbled upon - bail bonds, bail bondsman, or bail agents. Here is a niche that hasn't been overrun with MFA sites, and offers a nice per click payout.

Why is this? Well, the bail bond industry is very risky, but the pay outs are pretty nice for the bail bondsman. The bail bondsman will typically charge around 10% of the bail amount as their fee. Since most bails are $1,000 or more, this means each client/defendant that use them to post bail is worth $100 and up. On top of that, people that search for bail bonds or bail bondsman are looking to post bail for someone and are usually pretty motivated. Put these two together and these bail bondsman can pay quite a bit per lead and still make a ton of money.

What does this mean for you? Well it means that this is a great niche that can bring in some great money for each click.

All AdSense niches that I profile will use the following rating system that describes the average payout per click:

• $------ $.01 to $.25


• $$----- $.26 to $.50


• $$$---- $.51 to $.75


• $$$$--- $.75 to $1.00


• $$$$$-- $1.00+

Your results should be very similiar to those posted here, but your results may vary due to competition since this post was posted (MFA sites), smart pricing on your AdSense account, and or bad traffic sources.

Using Blogs to Test Niches

So, how do you find profitable niches to build a site around? There are many strategies for narrowing down your choice of niche markets from using the overture search results and bid tools to checking competition using site searches in google. But even with these techniques you won't know for sure how profitable a niche is until you put up a site.

But putting up a high quality, good content site takes time, so I have now been using blogs to test my niche ideas before I build a full-blown site. It is very easy to publish a blog on a topic, and by throwing my adsense code on the site I can get a feel for the average price per click. If the blog can get traffic and the price per click is high enough (I shoot for around $.50 a click), I will then develop a full-fledged site around the niche.

This method does take about a month to get enough data from the blog in order to determine if the niche is worth persuing, but you can easily start several of these test blogs very quickly over that month so that you can find the most profitable niches. During the testing period I just through a couple of posts up on the blog and add a post every other day or so. These keeps the amount of time I spend on each test blog to a minimum.

techTAGG - A better Digg?

When it comes to social bookmarking sites we all know that Digg is by far the largest and most popular (just ask anyone that has had a story hit the front page.) So how could a site improve on the model perfected by Digg, well techTAGG may have done it.

What techTAGG has done is brilliant. By making a a slight tweak to the model they are giving back to their contributors. They said -> Look, we want to build a community with a similar model that Digg has built - with improvements and evolve our own strengths. We are not going to pay you explicitly, but we will share the AdSense revenue with you 50% on the stories that you submit. In fact, we want to get this party started, so the first 250 members will get 100% of the AdSense revenues for the life of the site.

FYI, their are currently only 134 members as of today, so you still have time to be in the first 250 members and get 100% of AdSense revenues from your contributed stories.

Note: The site has already generated extra AdSense revenues for me in my first 5 days as a member. It is not much, but every little bit adds up.

For more information visit techTAGG.