VRE Toolbar Niche Marketing News

VRE Toolbar version 1.31 available for both IE and Firefox.

New features:

• Refresh ToolbarReloads the toolbar’s content. Useful when you started the browser in off-line mode, and the toolbar was unable to load its content from the server.
• Check For UpdateThis menu option will check to see if you’re using the newest version of the VRE Toolbar, and provides an easy way to download an update if you’re not. You must have an active Internet connection to use the Check For Update command.This is what you have to do now — download the latest version.

Firefox users: If you downloaded the toolbar from Firefox Add-ons website, than you have to wait until the newer version is approved by a Mozilla Update editor. This may take up to seven days or more. Want the latest version right now? Uninstall your toolbar, then download and install the latest version from this page:

Download VRE Toolbar for Firefox

Internet Explorer users: We decided to drop the built-in RSS reader in order to improve between-browser compatibility and performance. Also, while nice, it caused IE failure on some systems. Sorry, if you it was your main RSS reader. Please, save your feeds in another one.

New tools recently added per your request:

• Nameboy domain name suggestions (use the toolbar’s search box to search for keyword related domain names)
• HostMonster webhosting ($4.95/mo.)
• Install For Me free script installation service (Wordpress, phpBB, Article Dashboard or any other PHP, MySQL, CGI or Perl script)
• Template Monster web templates (now they have Wordpress templates too)

Know of another great tool useful for niche empire research and development? Share it! Use the Suggest a resource menu option.

Keyword Suggestion and Research Tool and Random Niche Generator were updated today to use AJAX technology.

What’s in it for you?

Faster response to your requests, because the browser doesn’t reload the entire page, but only receives the information that was changed.

For example, when looking for a niche, you usually reload the Niche Generator page over and over again until you find a niche you like. With the new technology, it works much faster, because you don’t have to wait while the entire page reloads. You get another niche suggestion in a moment.

Tested with IE, Firefox and Opera. Let me know if it doesn’t work in your browser.

– Andrei

del.icio.us / popular
VRE Toolbar > Ideas > del.icio.us / popular

Enter a tag (keyword) and select this tool. You’ll get popular posts in del.icio.us community for that tag. Great for finding out what’s hot for the topic. Works only with one-word keywords, because del.icio.us’ tags are not phrases but words.

eBay - Want It Now
VRE Toolbar > Ideas > eBay - Want It Now

eBay’s Want It Now service lets buyers post requests for hard-to-find items and allows sellers to respond to those requests with eBay listings. Browse it to find out what buyers want!

Trend Watching
VRE Toolbar > Ideas > Trend Watching

TrendWatching.com and their trend spotters scan the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas. This site is a great place to visit for ideas and inspiration on building a niche website around a hot trend.

ScriptLance
VRE Toolbar > Outsource > ScriptLance

ScriptLance is a place where you can find freelance programmers to outsource some of your tasks. If you require professional programming or website design for your business, whether its a long-term job or just a single website, you will find the help you need here at the prices you want to pay.

What resource would you like to have in the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar to help with your day-to-day niche website building tasks?

Google Trends was added to the VRE Toolbar to help with your online marketing research. It looks in Google searches to give you a better idea of the activity of a term over a set period of time that you specify. It then shows you a graph with the results.

You can use this tool with your keyword research to determine whether the area you want to go into is a momentary fluctuation or one with a constant history. You can also compare two terms, which helps you figure out pockets of information within a specific niche.

Let’s pick two random niches, such as ‘payroll software’ and ‘carpet cleaning’, and compare them in Google Trends. You can compare up to five terms by separating each term with a comma. To access Google Trends from the VRE Toolbar, type your keywords into the toolbar’s search box and select Keywords > Google Trends.

Here are the most popular resources offered by the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar in July, 2006.

Privacy note: The VRE Toolbar collects anonymous statistical usage data but it DOES NOT spy on your browsing habits. It does not track webpages you visit or keywords you use in the search box. Please see our Privacy policy.

1. Keywords Suggestions & Research
   Grabs the Overture search counts for different geographic markets. Offers suggested monthly regional search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Provides links to price estimate tools from Overture and Google AdWords.
2. Niche Generator
   Randomly suggests niche topics. Provides links to keyword research and domain lookup.
3. 43 Things
   Lists other people’s goals related to a keyword. Helps discover people’s interests, that can give you great ideas to create websites around.
4. Adwords Traffic Estimator
   Gives you keyword traffic and cost estimates at a glance. For any keywords you select, you’ll see the following information: minimum bid, maximum cost-per-click (CPC), search volume, estimated avg. CPC, estimated ad positions, traffic estimates based on an unlimited budget.
5. ColorImpact
   This software allows to create beautiful color schemes for your website with a single click.
6. DomainsBot Ideas, Suggestions
   Helps find great domain names.
7. DigitalPoint (Wordtracker)
   Shows the results of your query from both Wordtracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Gives suggestions for alternate (but similar) keywords.
8. Rapid Niche Websites
   Quickly create cash-pulling web sites by following this easy step-by-step system.
9. Google Sets
   Automatically create sets of items from a few examples. For example, when you enter ‘armani, versace’ subset, it returns Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Calvin Klein, Fendi, Dolce Gabbana etc. Fun and very addictive!
10. The Reese Report
    A highly regarded monthly publication (a printed newsletter & companion CD-ROM) that demonstrates and teaches tons of little-known online moneymaking strategies, provides techniques and methods you can use today to start building an online empire made up of tons of tiny content sites.

What’s your favorite tool?

One of the most effective ways to develop your empire of niche websites is creating a virtual real estate neighbourhood of several VRE sites whose topics are related to each other.

Let me show you how to organize your virtual real estate empire with a beta tool from Microsoft Research Group. You’ll know how to structure your network of niche websites, and how you can easily find out your niche neighbourhood or related themes.

The secret tool we will be using is called MSRA SRC. MSRA stands for Microsoft Research, Asia. It’s the research group that developed the tool. And SRC stands for Search Result Clustering. It’s a technology to on-the-fly cluster search results into different groups, and provide meaningful and readable names for these groups. To access the tool from the VRE Toolbar, enter your keywords in the toolbar’s search box and click Ideas > MSRA Clustering.

Let’s pick some niche to explore it’s related themes. The Random Niche Generator suggested ‘Picnic Tables’ niche for this article. Type picnic tables in the toolbar’s search box and select Ideas > MSRA Clustering.

This is just a quick update about a new page on our website — VRE Toolbar Awards.

Some of the awards prove that the toolbar is safe to install, contains no viruses, trojans or spyware. If you’re interested, please, visit this page: VRE Toolbar Awards.

I just checked out Matt Callen’s software package �called HyperVRE. What this software does is create niche websites for you that contain all the features of a �professional content website. Here are some of the features:

• Generates �hundreds of fresh, unique content-rich webpages from highly-targeted keyword lists.
• Adds extremely targeted auto-refreshing content to your website by using rotating keyword definitions.
• Keeps your webpages fresh with unique content by placing several rotating RSS feeds to ensure that all pages are unique and highly related to the topic.
• Includes one high quality article based around the main keyword for the webpage.
• Inserts your unique �AdSense �code on each and every page.
• And more…

While I could go on and on about the features, I think you really need to see for yourself what this software really can do. The best thing is… it is free.

I just downloaded my very own copy and it is awesome, so I wanted to share it with you. The software has a user-friendly interface �and there is an endless amount of customizable features.

Check it out: HyperVRE

– Andrei

VRE Toolbar version 1.22 available for both IE and Firefox.

New features and improvements:

• Pressing Enter in the search box now leads to the Keyword Suggestions & Research, our most popular tool.
• The Keyword Suggestions & Research tool is now available from the context menu. Select any word or phrase and right-click on it, then choose VRE Toolbar Keyword Research.
  
• Article Announcer added to Promote > Article Directories. Jason Potash’s Article Announcer is a very effective article marketing system complete with audios, workbooks, CD-ROM training, and software.

How to update

Select Update toolbar from the main menu:

Firefox users: if you downloaded the toolbar from Firefox Add-ons website, than you have to wait until the newer version is approved by a Mozilla Update editor.

I reviewed ColorImpact on July 10, 2006, a desktop software to create beautiful color schemes for your website with �a single click. Today, a free online alternative has been added to the VRE Toolbar Design resources — it’s ColorBlender, a free online tool for color matching and palette design.