If you want to make more money on your website, you need more traffic. Which means, you need to work at getting your website to the top of search engine listings. One of the easiest ways to do this is via highly targeted niche marketing. Highly targeted niche marketing can be attained either through marketing to your niche by using longer, less searched for key phrases or by marketing to sub-niches within your niche.

An easy way to get started using a more targeted niche marketing strategy is to research three and four word length key phrases that are particular to your website's niche and are not being strongly competed for already in the search engines. The fewer amount of people you have to compete with for those key phrases, the higher you will rank in the search engines.

Once you have actually found a profitable niche you will need to decide what kind of business plan you want to implement into your niche marketing campaign. Many prefer to market products that are made by others but are related to their niche. They may do this by creating affiliate websites where they promote the product and then send the buyer to the vendor's site through a link on one of their web pages. Others actually prefer to create their own products. When you sell your own product, you can keep all the money you make instead of receiving a small commission for being a middle man selling someone else's product.

Developing customer loyalty and arriving first in a specific market, offers a large advantage. Anyone with experience in a niche market knows this to be true. Niche markets have a strong habit of being widely accepted and small niches are always the next big thing. Once they become big, they are no longer a niche. This will attract larger companies who have a lot more to invest in capturing the market and will attempt to take over the market place. By capturing the market before the large companies, you have a chance to actually compete with them by staying a step ahead of their game.

Last of all, you should keep in mind that there are no hard and fast rules about what makes up a successful Internet marketing strategy. Both your short term and long term successes are dependent on your ability to adapt, revise, and revamp your Internet marketing strategy. Keep a close eye on the larger companies. How are they advertising? How often? Can you determine their target audience by the way they spin their ads? This can lead to clues as to which direction you should take your campaign.