Profitable Geographical Niches (like Lake Tahoe or Aspen) - *** to **** Niche

Here is a brainlessly simple, but highly effective strategy for AdSense publishers who specialize in travel and tourism. It’s all about LOCATION. Here are just two examples of profitable locations – Lake Tahoe (most ads are for Lake Tahoe rentals and Lake Tahoe cabins) and Aspen (Aspen, Colorado, is famous for its ski resorts). There are tons more, of course.

Travel sites can generate a lot of money … if you do it right. If you have a site about travel in Colorado or California, you’ll do OK, but not nearly as much, if you target specific niches where the money is.

And the money is in expensive resort and popular destinations. Take Colorado. Boulder is a beautiful town, but the real money is in Aspen. Aspen is expensive, it draws tons of skiers and is fairly crowded in the off season, but more importantly there are hundreds Aspen rentals, Aspen lodges, Aspen cabins and Aspen hotels (these are the keywords to go after).

If you go after Aspen, rather than Colorado, and I don’t mean your site can’t mention any other city in the state, you’ll make much more money. But if you don’t know that the Colorado travel money is in “Aspen rentals” and “Aspen lodging”, you’ll be lucky to make one fourth of what you should.

Nobody, including Google, won’t tell you which geographical niches are profitable and which aren’t, but just use your common sense. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Lake Tahoe and Aspen are popular destinations. And you probably know that tourists look for Lake Tahoe rentals or Aspen cabins online, when they plan for their trip. Put two and two together, create content that targets relevant keywords and watch your AdSense profits skyrocket.

Oh, and a word of caution – these niches may be seasonal. Don’t be a fool to expect your Aspen Colorado Ski Resort site to make you much money in May.

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In order not to violate Google TOS, I rate niches with my own star system. ** - $0.20-$0.30 per click average, *** - $0.30-$0.50 per click average, **** - $0.50-$0.70 per click average, ***** - $0.70-$1.20 per click average. While I don’t mind sharing information on ***** niches, I don’t make this information publicly available because it would quickly kill these niches or get Google pissed off at me.

All AdSense niches were tested by me personally and your results shouldn’t be very different, unless your account was smart-priced, too much time passed since my testing, MFA got a hold of the niche or your site or traffic source sucks big time.