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Thinking of a great keyword, doing research on it, and figuring out just how many searches it gets daily is pretty ugly annoying. The free tools out there, while commendable, aren’t as good as the paid ones, and as for those… well, you have to pay for them.

Enter NicheFree - a blog that does all the work for you.

WHAT IS NICHEFREE?
NicheFree is a fairly new website that gives various niche ideas (complete with a background of the keywords used, how many times they’re searched, and some market predictions) as well as niche marketing tips and resources. It is in the niche-about-niches, much like Blog Badly is a blog about blogging. This could prove successful for the webmaster of the blog, Jerry, because every aspiring online entrepreneur needs a niche and there aren’t many blogs that focus solely on free niche ideas.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Even though it only has three posts at the moment, NicheFree looks very professional for a new blog. It has a spiffy looking theme, nice logo, and a clear idea of what it’s about. Still, a few improvements could be made:

• Create a clear RSS subscription section on the right. Currently, there’s a tiny button on the top right that’s a pain to find - get a noticeable RSS button that takes up more space and perhaps put that above the Youtube video that is currently there. An e-mail subscription option wouldn’t hurt either.
• Remove the “Pages” from the sidebar - it’s redundant. You already list all of your pages in your header.
• Remove the social bookmarking icons. Pretty much no one uses the ones on the blog - if they really want to submit a post, they’ll generally do it manually. Still, if you’re insistent on keeping them, only have one set - there are, again, redundancy issues when you have both there. Make sure that they’re nofollow links as well - if you keep the bottom right ones dofollow, you’ll have 40+ front-page outbound links by the time you hit ten posts.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT - BUT HOW’S THE CONTENT?
The subject matter of NicheFree is amazingly useful and straightforward. It’s easy to just glance over it and digest these important points:

• the niche he’s talking about
• some background info on the niche
• niche keywords
• monthly searches
• competition

NicheFree’s current format keeps it simple, but some points need to be clarified. For example, what exactly does “***can be a single niche market***” mean? Are the searches displayed daily or monthly? Are competing website the ones bidding on the keyword or the ones trying to rank for the keyword? Some more information could be added as well, like additional resources for the keyword (a link to it’s Google Trends page, for example), to make the posts even more detailed than they already are.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Pros

• Great idea for a blog
• Amazingly useful for webmasters
• Well optimized for SEO at the moment
• Excellent theme
• A general format to each post

Cons

• Needs a better RSS button
• Clarification issues
• Could use more information in it’s posts.

Overall, NicheFree has the potential to be quite a useful source of information for webmasters. The only major problem that I can foresee is that it gets so many readers that the niches become useless right after they are posted because so many people would go after them. No, seriously. I guess Jerry will just have to keep the best for himself.

And he could always share some with me. I did write this entire post about his blog, after all.