Many times in the past, I have toyed with the idea of niche marketing online. I recently came across some things that convinced me to give it a try and I think I am going to do a bit of an experiment with this. I’ll put some of the things I’ve picked up from reading various articles about search engine optimization into effect and hopefully make a bit of money while I’m at it.
For the sake of this experiment, we’ll start out by defining “successful” by varying degrees of success.
First, if I can develop a site that will pay back the cost of the domain name, that will make it not a complete failure 
Second, if I can get one to the level where it is making enough to pay for my web hosting account, I think I would count that as somewhat of a success. Not going to quit my day job at that point, but it would mean I’m not sinking money into the various websites I’m already hosting which would be cool.
Third, and this one may take a bit of digging and experimenting to find a good niche and also to learn through some mistakes on what works and what doesn’t… I’d like to develop a site that is consistently earning $100/month. Again no reason to quit my day job at that point. But that would not only be a nice little bonus each month, it would also be something that I could hopefully replicate(depending of course on how my experiments go).
Finally, and this is somewhat of a separate category, I would like to get that site to rank #1 on Google for whatever keyword(s) I am targeting.
I’ve never done this kind of thing before though I have thought about it in the past… I know there are people out there doing it successfully though. I do not have the training or the time to put into it that they do, but I am curious to see how well I can do at duplicating a bit of their success.
Always liked a challenge.