Mapping Your Niche With Wikidpad
First I have to give props where props are due. I ran into WikidPad via other users at Wakoopa. I played around with it a bit and then forgot about it. Then I ran into this post about using WikidPad to organize your keywords.
And something clicked. I had been using a folder with various reports and text files in it to store the information about the blogs I’ve been building. But it was a mess. I tried mind maps and they became overwhelming in the end. So I gave WikidPad a try. I just started with keywords.
Read Ann Smarty’s post on how to organize your keywords. Here are the basics of WikidPad. I would create a wiki per blog. You have to give your wike a CamelCase name like MyNicheBlog. This will give you one page. On that page, by writing other CamelCase names or by putting braces around a phrase or word, you create another page and a link from that word. This allows you to create endless hierarchies of pages.
Here is a brief run down on what I did.
I started with Google Search-based Keyword Tool. Yes, you may get more keywords from a tool like Wordtracker, but I was here to write blog posts and articles, not create ad campaigns just yet. I think 800 is enough to begin with. Plus Google gives you a lot of important traffic data along with the keywords. I put in the most general term I could think of that described the niche, I exported the CSV file and opened it in Open Office. Then I selected it and pasted into my KeyWords wiki page. I then put braces around the keywords I would begin targeting and left the others for later.
But keywords don’t really give you articles ideas, so I went to the WordTracker Keyword Questions tool and searched EzineArticles with the same term I used for keywords. The pageview count at the bottom of each articles gave me an idea of the type of questions people were looking to get answered. This gave me plenty of questions I could answer with articles. I then added these questions to its own [question] wiki page.
When I was ready to write an article on one of the questions, I just put braces around the question to create a new wiki page and start typing. Now I had my article organized whether I was going to use them as blog posts, articles for marketing or articles for various content sites.
For research, I am still using Niche Browser. It also will give me new article ideas once I run out of the ones I already have.
But the point of this blog I was mapping was to make money, so I created another [products] wiki page and listed all the affiliate products that were related to the niche. And again by adding braces around each product, I had another page where I could write the rough draft of the product description.
I could take this further and map out categories and tags beforehand, but I stopped there for now. WikidPad is a pretty simple but powerful for visualizing data in a more simplified and text based way than a mind map.
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Keep up the great work
Wikipad is a good tool but many lazy starters don’t want to use it… I used wikipad whenever I found a new niche and it always gives ease…
I’ll have to check out Wikipad. I’ve tried Tikiwiki and a much, much simpler one but never thought to apply it to a campaign or my “Ad Kingdom”.
Thanks for the post.
Great find there, the program looks like a good replacement for my spreadsheet. I have noticed that the address has changed from what you have
@ Dennis - I use some crazy spreadsheet myself LOL. I have things everywhere. It was once simple but not anymore. This looks to be much more promising and I’m always open to something new that works.