 how to find a profitable drop shipping niche for your business. Hey, are you trying to find that niche, that niche that's really going to make things pop? Well, in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. And it probably is not going to even cost you any money. You'll just be able to do it for free. So watch this video to the very end and you'll have the expertise you need to find a profitable drop shipping niche for your business. Also, don't forget, if you haven't subscribed, make sure you subscribe below, hit that subscribe button, turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I upload a new video or I go live. Give me a thumbs up. If you don't mind, hit that like button. I would really appreciate it. Okay, so let's get into the mechanics of all this. There's a lot of ways to figure out what are good niches out there. And I want to get into this video and really show you how to drill down and figure it out for your business. The first thing you want to do is look at some of these sites and look at the number of linking domains that go into the site. This will give you an idea of how popular these things are. If it doesn't have a lot of linking domains, it may not be that popular. Now think about it this way. If one of your friends says to you, hey, this is a really good restaurant, you ought to check it out. You may take that under consideration, you may go there. But if seven of your friends tell you, hey, this is a great restaurant, you ought to go to check it out, you're going to start to think that it's probably a great restaurant, you're probably going to check it out. Same thing with links to domains. Let's go over and check out some link explorer sites that you can use. Okay, the first one I want to talk about is Moz.com. In Moz.com, you can check out pretty much any site there. You can set up a free account. When examining Google search results, you'll want to look at the most carefully at the ones that have link metrics to the top few sites. So number one and number two on Google, as well as the link metrics, as well as the link metrics for the last site on the front page, number 10 on Google. This will give you a rough idea of how much work is needed to rank number one. Now, zero to 50 linking root domains likely on the low end, worthwhile markets, most sites and quality content. Some focused marketing and SEO efforts should be able to get to 50 linking domains within a year. 50 to 250, this is a more realistic range for top ranked sites in decently sized niche markets. It may take a multi-year approach to build a backlink profile in this range, but it's feasible. A competitive landscape with this profile often offers the best work to ratio, especially for individual drop shipping entrepreneurs on small teams. And then 250 plus linking root domains, unless your talented marketer SEO Ninja building up more than 250 unique links will take some serious time and commitment, it doesn't mean you shouldn't go for it. Just make sure you're ready to face some entrenched competition. Now, when Google looks at sites and how well they rank and you're trying to figure out these niche markets, it doesn't just look at the number of links. It looks at the quality of these links. So a link to your friend's website and blog is one thing, but a link to the New York Times or New York State University are two different things. Okay, let's run over to check page rank.net right now so I can show you how this works. So here's a quick way to interpret page rank readings for a site homepage. So here's a quick way to interpret page rank readings for a site homepage page rank one to two, a relatively small amount of authority page rank in this range for the top home pages likely indicates a relatively small market page rank three to four, a much more common range for a highly ranked sites and competitive niche markets. It's not necessarily easy to reach this level of authority, but not impossibly their markets in this range usually offer the best work to reward range for individual drop shippers page rank four to five, a fairly high level of authority to reach this level, you'll need to get numerous links from respected authority sites in order to get a fair number of links page rank six, you've got full time marketing and SEO department rights because you'll need them to compete with a market like this. Next is site quality and usefulness. What you'll want to do is visit some of these other sites that may be competitors of yours to figure out if you found a good niche. How inviting are these sites? How visually pleasing are these sites? What do they offer on these sites? And are you willing to do the same thing? Next thing you want to check out is site reputation and customer loyalty. When visiting some of these niche sites that you want to get in the same niche with, you're going to want to see what their reputation is. The best way to do that is search them online, put the name of the site online and put scam or rip off or something like that. You can also go to the Better Business Bureau, though I think a lot of those reviews are kind of skewered based on who pays the Better Business Bureau. Now I want you to keep in mind when you're searching on Google, Google will actually curate your results based on who you are and what your past searching history has been and what you're interested in. So I would suggest that you do this in an incognito tab so that they don't know who you are so you're going to get the actual real results. Now another thing you can do is force region specific results and here's how you do it. For example, if you were in the UK but wanted to see the search results being returned for searches in the US, you'd add the quotation and gl equals us quotation parameter to the end of the URL when the search results page and press enter. Similarly, if you were in the US and wanted to get UK results, you would add quotation and gl equals UK into quotation to the end of the URL. Now of course to be successful in your dropshipping selected niche, of course you would want to have something that has high demand and low competition but there's more to it than just that. You're going to want to know who to sell for and exactly who your customer is and focus in on that individual to get the best results. Now there's several ways to dropship products. The first way is to come up with your own unique different product that nobody else has. That's probably the most difficult thing you can do. The second thing you can do is find manufacturers that will light label your products. In other words, they already have products, they're already selling, they already manufacture these products but you actually put your name and your branding on these products and then they ship them out for you so that's the second way to go about it. The third way which is probably the easiest for most of us is just to find a product in a niche that's doing well, put it out in the market and try to compete a little bit on price. Now the only problem you have with this is a lot of other people are probably selling that product so it's going to work better if you're emailing directly to your list than if you're running ads and people are actually price shopping it. Now if you can supply useful information to your audience that's a great way to build your list. Let's look at some of the ways you can do that. First way is you can create comprehensive buyers guides for that particular niche, investing in detailed product descriptions and listings, creating installation and setup guides, creating in-depth videos showing how the product works, establishing easy to follow systems for understanding component capability. The more you give to your market, the more you educate them, the more you help them, the more likely they're going to be to actually buy your product when they become ready to do so. You can also use popular sites like Aliexpress where you actually pay for the product once you've already sold it. So you're going to list that product, let's say in your Shopify store, you're going to take an order for it. Once you get that order, you're going to integrate that order with Aliexpress through a software called Oberlo and Oberlo will actually send that order to Aliexpress. All you have to do is accept it, pay for it and they're going to ship it out to your customer. Now in recent years they had done away with E-Packet. E-Packet was the quickest and cheapest way to send it somewhere and that hurt that industry a little bit. However, you can still ship to your customers, you do have to let them know what the shipping times are and they vary according to who the manufacturer distributor is. Let them know that upfront. Do not cover up the fact that it's going to take a little while to get to them because if you cover that up, you're going to end up with refunds and then a lot of times your product is in transit and you're not going to be able to get your money back from the distributor or the manufacturer at Aliexpress and you're just going to be out that money. So a lot of us say, well I don't want to tell people it's going to be two, three or four weeks to get their product because then they won't buy from me. It's better that they don't buy from you than they buy from you and then they refund and then you're stuck. Now the one thing I hear a lot is just follow your passion. As long as you follow your passion, you're doing something you love then you're going to be successful. Nothing could be further from the truth. Now sometimes that could be true. Sometimes people find something they really love and they make a lot of money at it, but the truth is you've got to find something that really sells well, you've got to find something that has a great market, you've got to find something that you can match up with your brand especially if you're trying to do dropshipping now within your business and then that is going to help you be successful. We own a survival food company. I'm not a survivalist. I don't hang out in the woods. I don't wear a camouflage gear or any of that. However, I did identify a need there and those people are very passionate about what they buy and we provide a good product or survival foods or the top foods in the country and we do very well with it. It's not my passion. However, my passion is making money so I guess it kind of is my passion, but we supply a really good product and we have a great reputation. So that's what I would suggest you go after first is a market that is passionate about a product and you supplying a product that is top notch and giving them incredible service. I would say if you're looking at drop shippers, whether it's manufacturing your own product, whether it's white labeling a product or whether it's just shipping something out from Aliexpress that's already there, really check them out well and make sure you get recommendations. Don't depend on what they tell you. I would suggest you looking and finding reviews of the company. How many products did they ship out? You know, what was the last time they shipped out a product? What was the satisfaction rate? A lot of times on Aliexpress you'll find reviews on there. You can go through reviews and check them out, but you also want to see what country the reviews are coming from. So if you're in the UK and you look through all the reviews and everybody in the UK is upset, they're not getting good service, then obviously you would want to sell that product. Conversely, if you're selling in the US, you'd want to check the US reviews. So make sure the reviews you're watching are actually attributed to your country. The other thing you want to look at is what is their supply? You know, are they going to have enough of this product to sell to your customer? If you do find something and you uncover it and explodes and they've only got 2,000 units available and you sell 10,000, that kind of takes you out of business. So you want to check all those things out too. I hope this video helped you out. I hope it gives you some insight into looking at other people's sites, looking at their back links, now popular they are, and looking at products, right? 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