Hot Niche Spy Review – Honest
I purchased Hot Niche Spy about one week ago, and I’m pretty impressed with it, so I thought I would give you a quick review. I’m going to record a short video too, and I will put that up here when It’s done. So, let’s get right into it.
If you haven’t heard of Josh Spaulding, you’re probably living in a cave. As one of the top affiliate income earners, and a good teacher of strategies, he’s been making good money online, and making a good name for himself with his honest, and straight-forward approach to earning money online. He mostly makes his money through affiliate marketing, and he drives most of his traffic using article marketing (you will get his Article Marketing Domination free as a bonus for signing up, plus monthly submissions to 200 websites using up to 3 keywords/phrases).
First, you should know that Josh runs an excellent blog Ethical Internet Marketing (http://www.ethicalim.com/). It has to be, in my opinion, one of the most honest blogs around when it comes to earning affiliate money online, I would rank it up there with Eric’s Tips as one of the best. Josh is a fellow ‘Hoosier (Indiana boy), and I like his folksy down-to-earth approach. Now, let’s get on with the review.
Hot Niche Spy
From what I can tell Josh developed this application to help him with his own Affiliate Marketing, and that’s a very good sign. There are other products out there like this, but, there are tradeoffs to using them, as you will see. When you first login to Hot Niche Spy, you will see the main window (below), as well as links to training videos (1 bonus training video with Josh himself will be added every month), and links to your bonuses. Here’s a pick of the opening screen:
You can see from the main screen that right now there are 5 main actions for Hot Niche Spy (Josh is adding all of the time, in fact, just since I’ve been a member he added the Rankings & Backlinks checker (very nice). For this review I entered “profit internet” into the box, but this is where you will enter your niche terms that you are checking for ‘Hotness’ – now… here is a review of the 5 actions.
- Related Products – shoots you over to Click Bank, Amazon and eBay to look at products related to this niche. You want to make sure that there are at least a few decent products to promote, before you even go any further with your niche. You don’t get the Gravity number with ClickBank which would be nice to see (I’ll put in a request to add it), but you do get the details on the top 10 products offered through each service. If you find at least 2-3 good ones, then you should consider that you will have a product to promote, and can move on to the next step
- Keywords & Competition - this is my favorite part of Hot Niche Spy. It does an excellent job of returning the competition you will face, including the top 10 competitors in Google, and their average PageRank, as well as a decent list of related keywords that you can use to promote your niche – Excellent! This part really blows me away, because you get even more than that. For each of the top 10 sites, you will see the related keywords, and cost-per-click, as well as page rank for each competitor site – amazing detail, and this beats Market Samurai in it’s ease of use.
- Domain Checker – let’s you quickly and easily find matching domains that you can buy for your niche to setup your website on. This is an excellent checker, that will also show you related/possibilities for other domain names, if your primary niche domain name is taken. There’s a quick ‘Buy button’ which takes you right over to GoDaddy.com where you can make the purchase. I use GoDaddy as one of my main domain registrars and they are excellent. Well done on this section in Hot Niche Spy, it’s not included in Market Samurai at all.
- Related News – let’s you pull up news that is related to your niche. Find out what is happening right now in this niche, check out what is hot, and get great ideas for articles, that you can use to drive traffic (in spades) using Josh’s bonus: Article Marketing Domination.
- Rankings and Backlinks – another excellent tool, and I like the way this one works too. It’s fast (very fast), and it gives you all of the rankings, and the backlinks to your site, quick, fast, and accurate.
You’re certain to be gathering up tons of new Hot Niches with this tool, I highly recommend it, and it’s a good ‘partner tool’ to Market Samurai for finding keywords, and domains to promote your new Niche products on.
UPDATE (July 2010): I just logged in to Hot Niche Spy to see that Josh is planning a new update (in 3-4 days that will grab Google Suggests Keywords)! This is huge, as there’s about to be a similar product released in the marketplace, but if Hot Niche Spy will do it, all the more reason to own a membership to HNS, once again this depends on the functionality of the feature, but it’s like previous functions, I’m guess it’s going to be great, as the other features/functions are. Here’s what it says on the Members Area home page today->
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The next, exciting, new Feature which will be available sometime in the next 3-4 days is a “Google Suggests” keyword generator! Generate a list of related keywords that people are searching for in Google, but that the Google Keyword Tool is NOT displaying! (untapped keywords!) This is the next of MANY new features that you will have full access to as a “HNS” member! |
UPDATE (August 2010): The Google Suggests tool has been live now for over 1 month. You can really dig deep into what people are typing in their Google bar by using this tool. I like the layout and the way the details are returned on this tool over other Google Suggest tools, plus the fact that it runs ‘in the browser’ means I do not have to worry about it crashing – it runs great on both PC, and Mac.
UPDATE (August 2010): Another new module is being planned for Hot Niche Spy (leave it to Josh). Like previous functions, I’m guess it’s going to be great, as the other features/functions are. Here’s what it says on the Members Area home page today->
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We are currently working on a new tool that will generate a list of niche specific Questions that people are asking in your niche. Knowing what questions those in your niche are asking is huge because most search queries are just that, quesions! Keyword tools don’t offer full questions, so it’s hard to find them… for now  |
UPDATE (August 2010): Part of your membership also includes access to the NBZ (No Bull Zone) Forum. This used to be limited to Josh Coaching clients, so it’s a premium forum where Josh answers questions. I’ve been lurking in the forum here and it’s great. The questions are spot on, and the answers to real internet marketing problems are great. I’ve even learned a few things since signing on.
To check out Hot Niche Spy on your own, check out this link: http://www.hotnichespy.com
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Hi Brett,
thanks to your really helpful and onest review. You really refer to each argument – so there’s nothing left than saying again thank you. Hope a lot of folks out here will find your post