Here's a Niche Horde review after personally trying out Jonathan Leger's latest keyword research tool. This review is based on Niche Horde version 1.15, and shares with you if this can really help you make money online.

If you want to use NH, you will need to download, install, and run a small program. This turns your computer into an automated keyword researching unit. In some computers, I've seen CPU utilization of as high as 100% (that's when the NH program tries to connect with various servers on the web). In a Lenovo netbook running on Windows XP Home, the utilization hovers around the 54% level.

What this means is for some people, your computer may appear sluggish. This may be the case if you're using an older PC. But if your computer is relatively new, then you won't notice any slow down as you use our PC for your other internet tasks.

I experimented and ran the Niche Horde program on a separate netbook, and did not run any other programs. Next, I used another computer and logged into the NH members' area, hoping that since my username was running the program on another computer, I would still be able to access the keywords database via another computer.

Well, no dice.

The only way to login and access the database is to use the same computer that is running the NH program. It would be great if you could use two computers in tandem, because this will encourage more people to actually run the program that helps conduct the keyword research.

You can use your under-utilized computer to help with the distributed online research, while you use your regular workhorse of a computer to do your regular internet tasks. Since the NH program will be running on your secondary PC, you will definitely not experience any slowness in your primary PC.

End result: More people will allow their computers to perform online research.

I've seen anywhere from 108 to 137 users online, which means that's the number of computers helping Jon Leger fill up the database with profitable, easy to rank for search terms. I've saved about 500 keywords into a CSV file (to make it easy to sort via MS Excel), which will keep a certain group of writers/probloggers pretty busy in the coming weeks.

What I Do Not Like About Niche Horde

For now, there's no way you can suggest or recommend phrases to be researched. For example, I searched for several topics that I'm personally interested in, but only found less than 5 profitable phrases per topic. Hopefully, over time, the NH database will contain more entries that involve subjects I want to write about.

Given the way Jon Leger updates the software based on customer feedback, I'm looking forward to future updates.

What I Like About Niche Horde

I am quite fond of the "Niche Groups" feature, which quickly shows related phrases. This helps you rapidly develop an outline of topics to help build your niche site (or even support a new section in your authority site). With these niche groups, you (or your writers) can build a decent website, nurture it and keep it as your own, or even flip the blog and sell it to those who want ready-made sites.

I've even seen some cases where a blogger will offer to buy your blog if you are too discouraged with your low online ad revenues, because he will simply send more traffic to your pre-built blog and cash in on the advertising income.

Since my team likes to build niche blogs, the niche groups feature is my favorite.

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It's still quite early to tell, however, if Niche Horde will help you make money online. At this point, however, I guarantee that you will have a good number of topics to blog about. While I wish there were more keywords about Nokia, for example, there is a healthy list of phrases involving Samsung, which will serve you well if you're blogging about cell phones.

If you knew which phrases to target, and which are worth your while (i.e., it's not that hard to rank high for those terms), then you can go out and blog about those niche topics. Just remember the law of the farm: things will take time.

You can't just put up a website, publish ten articles targeting profitable keywords, splash on some ads, and then make $100 a day. In certain cases, and depending on your chosen topic, you'll probably make around $2 a month in total advertising revenues from 20 articles.

If you're a long-term player (remember, no article published online is wasted), then Niche Horde will help you easily come up with a list of phrases and keywords worth targeting. When you go ahead and blog about those topics (especially the ones online consumers are interested in), the initial modest ad earnings will help inspire you to keep at it.

You've probably seen how little things, over time, add up to something big. I'm confident that the articles my team will publish (thanks to the topics generated by Niche Horde) will help recover the modest $47 in Jon Leger's latest product. I hear he'll eventually raise the price to $97, but even at that level I would still get the product.

I've seen how certain types of articles have generated anywhere from $5 to $147 each month in online advertising revenues alone. Are these results typical? Of course not. The average person will just look at the list of phrases, and then will sit back and do nothing. They won't even outsource the writing of the articles.

Yes, the average person will simply collect and hoard all these wonderful niche topics... and do absolutely nothing. I mean, aside from getting the next big thing that will take their blogs to the next level. ;-)

In the meantime, writers will take those topics suggested by NH, and will go build useful and relevant websites focused on those phrases. A few will takeoff, a lot will most likely earn less than $1 a month. Yet they will forge onward, safe in the knowledge (based on experience) that no article is wasted online.

Every single webpage you publish online is worth something. The secret is you simply have to know what to write about first. Afterall, there's so little time and so much to write. Thank you, Jonathan Leger, for giving some writers a profitable sense of direction when it comes to knowing what to write about, with the help of Niche Horde.

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"Niche Horde Review"
First Posted: October 14, 2009 | Filed in: Make Money Online

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