Hi hope you are having a good day. Gizmo here and Dad is taking his break so I came out to have my chance running around the keyboard.

At first the idea of doing these upset me but the more I do it the better I like it.

Now there is a lot that I don’t understand but I do watch Dad doing his work here next to the tank. He seems to do a lot of keyword research and other things with a tool called Market Samurai.

It seems to be helping him because we get gold fish regularly and I hear him talking in conferences about the power of getting the right keywords. Any time he gets asked he recommends Market Samurai for doing that keyword thing and I heard him say they had a free trial.

I do know that they have some great tutorial videos and I really like that ninja thing with the swords they use in their beginnings.

I am a turtle and keep hoping to someday hit they gooey stuff and turn into a Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtle and do that neat kung fu stuff.

Well Dad is back from his break time for me to get back in the tank and do my relaxing thing. I am much better at that than I am at writing.

Oh yeah before ya go check out the free trial of Market Samurai.

Later dudes, where’s the green goo.

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Once again it is time to look at changing the turtles home. The large ramp can no longer handle the weight of the bigger turtles and despite having six suction cups they usually work it loose within a day or two of placing it back.

As they have grown bigger their residence keeps changing. After all they started in a little plastic dish almost two years ago. Then they went into a 10 gallon tank and then their current 50 gallon tank.

The ramp was replaced for a larger one when they changed tanks and now it is time to come up with a new arrangement. After all they were the size of a quarter when the odyssey began and now are about 5 inches long. A big change.

Your business and the tools you use change as you grow too.

Lets look at keyword research. When you are small and just starting out you can use the light weight free versions like the Google external keyword research tool. Takes a bit of time and effort but handles enough to get you started.

As your business grows and you are getting bigger the time involved can become overwhelming and although it will still work you need something more heavy duty.

This is where a tool like Market Samurai comes in and allows you to go deeper and faster at the same time.

Allows you to find the low fruit and see how hard it will be to rank for terms and more importantly to find the items buyers are using to search.

So like the turtles need a new way to keep out of the water as your business expands you will need better keyword research solutions. When you reach that point check out Market Samurai and the free trial.

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They need to be profitable. It is a Sunday and the turtles are enjoying basking on the ramp while I work. Gee maybe I should be a turtle.

When I first created this blog the idea was to take a look at marketing from a different perspective using the actions of the turtles. It is fun to do and makes for good lessons. Often when something is approached in a different manner it makes a better lesson.

One of the things that happened almost immediately is that I started getting traffic for turtle related keywords even though the turtles are used as an example and the primary topic is not turtles but marketing.

I decided to do some keyword research and then check out if this was another way to generate some extra income for the care and feeding of the then 3 but now 4 turtles.

This was a case where it quickly became apparent that if I wanted to I could dominate quickly for a variety of turtle terms and I do get traffic from a variety of long tail terms.

With a bit of work I could probably get top 3 rankings for 20 or more keyword terms and while that would not generate a huge amount of traffic it would be enough to be worth the effort if…

When I did this I quickly found out that there were a few problems with getting traffic about turtles.

• Almost no products to sell
• No decent affiliate program

The vast majority of keywords that I came up with in doing research had no or very few advertisers. Checking through affiliate programs there was only one Clickbank product and the only turtle specific vendor does not have an affiliate program.

Even though I could easily generate traffic and create keyword specific content that would allow me to easily dominate in the search engines there was no way to easily monetize it.

As I always test with affiliate products first there was no easy way to see if this was profitable enough to create my own product so I keep to the marketing lessons and have never put the effort into targeting those words.

The traffic that would be generated would probably not be interested in the marketing lessons. As that is what monetizes this site and keeps the turtles in food it would not be worthwhile.

Instead I did add some banners for those finding this through turtle related terms to a good ebook that I found helpful on Clickbank.

On Wednesday evening Steve Roye and I will be going through the exact processes we use to do this type of research. You can get the details here on Keyword Research

If you got here looking for turtle information I do strongly recommend the Turtle Guide Book – just click the banner below..

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I still haven’t figured out why the turtles are always digging up the rocks in the bottom and eating them. Maybe it helps their digestion I really don’t know but I do notice that they are quite specific and will sort through numerous rocks before finding the one that they want to chew on.

They then break off little pieces and seem to swallow them or if after getting it in their mouth and tasting it they just spit it out.

Finding a new niche is a lot like their process of finding the rocks they like.

You sort through a whole bunch of information looking for the one tasty morsel that will work for you. Taste it by testing the waters in that niche before finally swallowing it (putting in the effort to really drill down).

Now unlike the turtles who have only a few things in their lives…

• eating
• sleeping
• finding the right rock

You probably have quite a few more things on your daily to do list. I know I do .

The guys at Nitro have put together a new product that can save you time sorting through to find your perfect niche. It includes 241 niches that they have ….

• Sorted for profitability
• Done the keyword research
• Found the products that are selling

A real turn key solution to save you time and wasted effort so if you are frustrated at trying to find the perfect niche check out their Proven Niches.

They include some nice bonuses too but the time savings alone is worth checking it out.

The Turtle Dad

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