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The list of the top three events in 2010 is purely based on my preditions.

1. 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
This is the 21st Winter Olympics which will be held on February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. What makes this event interesting is that Vacouver won the bid by only two votes. South Korea received 11 more votes (51 - 40) in the first round but somehow in round 2, Canada won the bid by 3 votes (56-53) There was the bid bribing scandal back in 2002 with the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City. Some say bid bribing is still going on.

I will be probably blogging about the game results and score for popular sports. Also I might create some pages that sells tickets through an affiliate network. If you want to spend some time about the possible bid scandal, you can always write about it.

2. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
This is the 19th FIFA World Cup which will be held on June 11 - July 11, 2010 in South Africa. This year's FIFA is especially interesting because it is the first time the game is hosted by an African nation, plus over 200 nations are participating.

In the past, I've written game predictions and results on my blog, and it worked pretty well. Sometimes I outranked the official FIFA site in Google for certain terms.

3. 2010 United States Senate Elections
This is going to be the hottest topic of the year 2010. The election will be held on November 2, 2010, but the campaigns have started long time ago. So what makes this year's senate election so interesting? American Citizens are MAD

The Democrats are keep passing bills that moves the America toward Socialism under the President Obama's administration. The current congress and the senate has passed the most liberal agendas ignoring the people's voice. Also so much corruption has been exposed especially by the leaders of the Democrats. So many key votes were purchased last miniute with the tax payer's money.

Lastly, the Blue Dog Democrats voted 100% along with Pelosi. These Blue Dogs are likely to be fired by the citizens this year. Many Democrat candidates are up for huge challenge this year because of their destructive voting records.

So... now that you have my predictions in handy, if these topics interest you, think about how you can rank high for keywords related to these events. There might be other ways to monetize these traffic.

Since the big change in affiliate payout structure, my EPC has gone down the toilet. It is now hovering around $0.02 which is horrible. I miss the days when we had surprising $100-$200 commissions per sale here and there.

I know that many of the publishers are having problem with bot-clicks, but I don't think it's the cause of my poor EPC. My suspicion is that my EPN affiliate websites are built around high ticket items. For example, I have a website that sells used buses. Since the beginning, it sold only a few buses. With EPN's quality click pricing structure, I think my sites will perform poorly.

What this tells me is that all my new sites will have to focus on the items that sells well in volume. I say anything around $20 - $100 products. Now, because I was away for so long, I might be totally wrong. I'm not sure which way is the best way to monetize EPN's new payout structure. One thing for sure, my sites are not performing well with the current plan.

I'm going to test a few different niche website models for EPN and determine if I would stay with EPN or not.

EPN : Ebay Partner Network
EPC : Earning-Per-Click (In EPN's case, EPC refers to earnings per 100 Clicks)

In my last post, "Building a Micro-Niche Content Website" I said I will be building a micro-niche website as my first project. But the plan has changed. I will be making a mega content website at the same time.

I've been building only micro-niche websites since the beginning and I want to try something new. Since this blog is about sharing my experience, I want to try something that I haven't done before as well. I will be making micro-niche sites as well, but most of them will be all related to my mega content site.

I want to choose my niche carefully because I will be spending a lot of time and resources into this project. I will post my decision on a niche as soon as I find one.

As my first project, I've decided to build a micro-niche content site with Adsense and possibly EPN (Ebay Partner Network) ads on. I want to see if this thing still works. It will be a less than 10 page website with niche keywords no less than three words long. It worked wonderfully when I started niche marketing. I'm going to test if this model still works or not.

I haven't decided on a niche topic yet, but I will share it with you as soon as I find one. For monetizaion, I will use Adsense if the niche topic is about a "problem" or a "general information", and if the topic is about a product, EPN will be added as well.

At this point, I don't have a niche topic. I have to go through my files and see if I have anything researched already that might work for this project. If not, I will have identify a new niche market for this project. Whew.. this is not as is as it used to be :)

One thing I was so hesitating to do is starting all over from scratch. Although the blog wasn't updated since late 2008, I had well over 500 blog posts with a decent traffic. But it was done. I'm starting from scratch because I want to take a different direction with my blog.

My blog, "Niche Marketing Tips", will no longer have tutorials like I used to have in my previous blog. There are plenty of blogs with great information on niche marketing. It wasn't like this back in the days when I started my blog. If I have to, I will just point to the best information I can find on the web.

What I'm going to share on this blog is actual case studies. Because I was away from niche marketing for so long, I have to learn and test everything again. This blog will be my journal. You will see my failures and successes as I progress with my plan. You will get to see what I do exactly so that you can duplicate when it works, and avoid it when it fails. Another reason for doing this is to get advice from you as I progress. I think this is the best way to get back to the game.

I can't believe 2010 is here already. Time really flies. One of my New Year's resolutions is to get back to blogging and rebuild a new network of niche content websites. I was still maintaining my online business, but I was sort of away from niche marketing for the last 16 months or so.

Here is what happened. While I was researching a niche market back in 2008, almost accidentally, I found an interesting niche in local service industry. For some reason, I wanted to see if I can start a successful offline business as well. Maybe I wanted a challenge. I really don't know. Anyway, the next week, I incorporated a new company and purchased a liability insurance. Luckily, I found four clients the same month I incorporated.

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