The first step in this strategy is finding a good niche.

What's a niche you ask? Good question!

A niche is any topic or area that people are interested in.

Yes it really is that simple. Anything you or anyone else is interested in is a niche.

Really gets you thinking huh?

This is where you will have to dig a little deeper to find a good niche and some keywords that will work for your mini sites.

This is what I love the most. Finding niches.

Some people shy away from this part of the process, but to me it's like a treasure hunt!!

Here are some ideas for coming up with niche ideas.

--> Look around your area, write down everything you see. EVERYTHING!

Now I add to it, put each of the basic words you find in the wordtracker keyword tool and see what you get.

--> Look around you everywhere you go. Take paper with you and write down everything you come across for a whole day.

Then put each main topic in wordtracker and see what comes up.

--> Go to ebay pulse and look through categories there.

Put main categories in wordtracker and see what comes up.

--> Go to website directories and look at the categories they have.

Put those categories in wordtracker and see what comes up.

--> Go to Amazon, check out their categories, check out the topics of books.

Put them all in wordtracker and see what comes up!

--> Get daily niches sent to you! Yes you can get niches sent to you daily for free. These niches will probably NOT be great to go with right away, but they can give you great ideas to dig down on.

The more you let yourself go, and think outside the box the more ideas you will come up with.

If you want a quick and easy way to find profitable niches Micro Niche Finder is for you.

This niche finding software is amazing. It will find profitable keywords and keyword phrases with low competition and high search volume.

What's really cool is the results are color coded. If you see a green line you know it's going to be a good one.

When you buy Micro Niche Finder you will also get bonuses that will show you exactly how to use your newly found niche keywords to make some cash.

Niches are great to have, but useless if you don't use them.

This can be the most complicated part of the niche finding process.

You want to find a good mix of enough daily searches and competition, but not too much.

Here are my suggestions.

Make sure whatever keyword you choose has at least 50 searches a day. I often times try to stick to more than 100.

If you are doing squidoo or hubpages I try to stick to less than 30,000 competing pages.

(you find this out by putting your keyword in google with "qoutes around it". That shows you just who is optimizing for that keyword as well)

If you are going to build a whole minisite, keep your competition below 100,000 pages.

Now when you go through, don't get discouraged. It is possible to find these great keywords. They are NOT all taken.

It just takes some practice, some patients and a little ingenuity and creative thinking to find them.

Once you get started building your niche sites ~ you will get addicted, because they are fun and they will make you money!

That's when you will start looking for daily niches! You will want to be building a new site every day (well, at least once a week!)

You can build whole niche sites, and Squidoo lenses too using this technique.

You've gone searching for buried treasure and come up with some good daily niches. Now what?

Good question, niches won't do you any good sitting in your computer.

You have a couple choices. You can build squidoo lenses or hubpages with them. You can make money that way.

Or you can make minisites using wordpress.

Now that may sound big and scary but it is really quite simple ~ and will take you no time flat after you get your first site or two up.

Wordpress Goldmine was recommended to me by a good friend. She told me it was the system she was using to build niche websites.

I picked up my copy of Wordpress Goldmine and was seriously impressed. This ebook leads you by the hand through the entire process of putting up a niche website.

What I loved about this ebook is it really tells you everything. It isn't one of those ebooks where you get a bit of the information and a note at the bottom ~ oh if you want the whole story buy this.

You will know everything there is to know about building niche websites after you read this book.

It's easy to understand and easy to follow so even a beginner will be able to follow along and implement the steps involved.

Just recently my good friend PotPieGirl (who recommended Wordpress Goldmine to me) put up an amazing tutorial site for those who want to learn how to build these niche sites.

She has broken it down into 6 easy steps. You can follow along and build as you go.

Her steps are simple, and easy to understand and follow.

If you are looking for a quick way to jump start your niche site building I highly recommend this niche website tutorial.

If you feel like you need some extra help, some step by step information to use your daily niches, and to get something up and running to make you money.

The Niche Blogger is a community set up by a stay at home mom. She is also a homeschooling mom. Last year she started working on the internet to make money to pay down her debt.

In just one year she is already making 5 THOUSAND dollars a month.

That's pretty impressive. She's decided to spill all her secrets at The Niche Blogger.

She takes you by the hand and walks you through step by step how to find a profitable niche, how to set up your wordpress blog, how to find and add all the plugins you need (not many), how to market your sites to get traffic, how to monetize your sites to make money!!

She is guiding you through the entire process SHE HERSELF uses to make over 5k a month in less than a year.

I myself am a member there, and people have expressed their surprise that I'm there. I'm not quite making 5k a month yet, and I am always willing to learn something new to move me forward.

If you are looking for a helping hand and REAL answers, stop by The Niche Blogger.

Also ~ Amy answers all questions in the comment section of each post, and answers them very quickly. She also has a very active forum where members help each other out and support one another.

IT really is one of my favorite places online right now and I spend quite a bit of time there.

If you have an hour or two a day to spend on internet marketing ~ make that time worth it and get started at The Niche Blogger.