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Niche Reaper Review – Scam or Legit?

Well the whole world is buzzing about the launch of the newest, greatest, bright shiny object of the Make Money Online world – Matt Garrett and Gary Prendergast’s Niche Reaper – this is pretty much the best thing since the invention of the Internet  – on account of it it will pay me a nice recurring affiliate income  and hey you guys might have fun playing with it – was that hardcore affiliate marketing enough for you?

Anyone still here? OK. WTF Lissie why are you doing flogging yet another MMO product – well Splork has a way about him that makes me buy shit that gets past his bullshit radar.

So when I was procrastinating today Splork came up in my Google reader – and I am now $67 dollars frigging poorer – thanks mate.

Niche Reaper Review

So what does Niche Reaper claim to do – well their main claims are:

  • Uncover Hidden Keywords Over 20,000 brand new fully researched keywords unearthed every single day!
  • Dominate Entire Markets – Keywords are grouped into niches so you can build authority sites, not just keyword landing pages
  • No More Keyword Research – Simply log-in and pick a colour-coded niche we’ve done all the hard work for you
  • Remove Uncertainty – Know the dollar value of each niche BEFORE you risk your precious time and money promoting it
  • Save Time, Earn More – Quickly filter by expected earnings to build your personal portfolio of killer niches
  • Rank Faster via Google’s Backdoor – Discover hundreds of new keyword domains every day with a virtually guaranteed page one ranking
  • Join The FaceBook Gold Rush – Build Fanpages and boost their value with thousands of available keyword-rich FaceBook URLs

Been been there done that you might think – well I did anyways – as I am old and jaded. But what caught my attention was the second claim – build authority sites.

Now I’ve said before that niche sites work just fine for me, but I also know from experience of this site that once you rank for one term e.g. “site build it scam” then ranking for “hubpages scam” is a lot easier than ranking a new site for the same term.  So if you can start a site based around a bunch of keywords rather than just one – its easier – particularly if those keywords are closely related.

But stepping back one step further – Niche Reaper will actually suggest keywords to you – no not just by you putting in a keyword and it returning the variations –  they have a ticker tape screen / running board of new keywords on the front page – and within minutes I’d found some new keywords which not only have never thought of but actually had a hope in hell of ranking for with my existing sites.

The Niche Reaper’s method for calculating the ease of ranking of keywords and their potential value seems to be fairly similar to that of the Keyword Academy  not identical but nothing stupid like looking at the total number of competing sites  – but what made me put me hit the subscribe button was actually the feature that the computer itself would come up with suggestions for me.

The suggestions aren’t bad –  some are more commecial than others, a few were in Spanish, some related to the UK market – but it would be hard not to find something useful in an hour or two’s browsing.

What I Didn’t Like About Niche Reaper

  1. There is no way to add your own keywords into the tool – if they are not there already – or picked up by whatever method they use to find new keywords – you are out of luck.  There’s a comment somewhere in support saying this is a possible future enhancement.
  2. There seems to be no way to download you keyword lists – you can classify keywords of interest by adding a star – but you have to stick with the tool (and the monthly subscription) – to easily access them. Looked harder you can download them into a pretty little spreadsheet.
  3. I’m pretty cynical about the suggested values of the keywords  – I happen to have been #1 for one of the keywords I found in Niche Reaper – according to them its worth  $40,956 /month. That would be nice – my experience is that when I am #1 its worth about $333/month. (Niche Refinery from the Keyword Academy thinks its worth $3600). Now this may be a fluke keyword and exposes another limitation – the keyword I rank for (and I’m #1 in Australia and #3 in the US) gets me six times more Australians than Americans – and according to Google – most of the searchers are actually from the UK (where I don’t rank at all) – so take the values with quite a lot of cynicism.
  4. Frigging two upsells before I even bought the produce – for goodness sakes – the product looks good  – you just cheapen it by offering me a one time chance to get $XXXX value for $49.95 – or whatever it was – I wasn’t paying attention. AND DON’T SHOUT AT ME WHEN I TRY TO LEAVE THE PAGE – you will not make me a customer by getting me fired from my current job where I wasn’t supposed to be surfing the web.
  5. Too much emphasis on social media particularly Facebook – for getting traffic, never found anyone who goes on Facebook to buy stuff- just saying.
  6. Most of the training videos aren’t yet available. This may because they are just not ready yet – or it could be a ploy to keep you subscribed for month after month. I didn’t like the titles of the upcoming videos on getting traffic either – I think the Keyword Academy offers a much more solid approach for traffic generation.

What I Like About Niche Reaper

  1. The software works – its not always a given online – but this has a nice interface and it works for me. I had a look in the support pages (nice they have those too) and the only people having problems are running Internet Explorer. Use Firefox or Chrome and your life will be better – in general – I promise.
  2. The keywords are reasonable keywords – they seem reasonably commercial – ie you may actually make some money if you rank for the terms being suggested and I haven’t seen one “make money online” keyword yet!
  3. They acknowledge the value of exact match domains – still working for me  though I would stick to 3 or fewer words if at all possible.
  4. The training videos are clear and no fluff.  They recommend namecheap for domains and Hostgator for hosting both solid companies that provide excellent service  even though there are others out that paying better affiliate commissions.
  5. It appears there will be step-by-step videos for the basics of getting a site up and running and they recommend that you outsource your articles (though I thought the particular recommendation was a little on the expensive side).
  6. This is a Clickbank product – you get 60 days to get a money back refund – and Clickbank provides the refund so there is no question about it. (Although I’ve not bought a subscription product on CB before – to be on the safe side I’d unsubscribe and request the refund before the next payment is due).

What I haven’t Reviewed

I didn’t review the upsell videos/ebooks on the initial purchase.

None of the training videos under First site – after “Getting Articles”, Facebook, Twitter, Traffic, Monetization, Resources were available at the time of this review.

Who Do I Recommend Niche Reaper For

  • Someone starting out who has no idea what a buying keyword was – that was me for years – so even if you are not a beginner if this is your weakness check the product out.
  • Someone who wants to find more related and easy keywords for existing sites – this is what I’ll use it for and its nice
  • Procrastinators. I don’t think its unreasonable that its a monthly subscription – there will be an overhead maintaining the system. For many people though you could subscribe get enough keywords for the next 6-12 months in a day or two and then unsubscribe. So don’t stay subscribed for months not using it (though my paypal account will thank you if you do) – get in, get out.
  • If you know how to setup a website but not how to do keyword research – this product may be worthwhile for you.

Who Shouldn’t Buy Niche Reaper

  • While the basic training videos aren’t complete – I wouldn’t recommend this for the complete beginner – try Keyword Academy instead.
  • If you can’t afford the $67 already gone up to $77/month – obviously really but possibly needs to be said in this age of credit card debt.

This May or May Not Be a Time Limited Opportunity

The claim is that Niche Reaper will be limited to 1000 subscribers (at one time I assume) and that they are about 1/2 way there as of the the time of writing. Now a time limited offer, act now or forever miss out – is an oldie but a goodie in online marketing.

It may however be true in this case because if it became incredibly popular then there would be a) a huge load on their servers and b) the keywords they are identifying as  easy to rank for would suddenly have a whole rabble of marketers going after them – thereby shooting their prediction in their metaphorical foot.

If it does close I bet there will be a waiting list though – thought the price might go up (because they have proven the demand).

Genuinely – I don’t know if you should hurry or not but:

HERE IS MY HONKING BIG AFFILIATE LINK

if you want to.

11 replies on “Niche Reaper Review – Scam or Legit?”

Your concerns are spot on. But I’m a little more simple than your average IM joker. I love that I don’t have to think about the “seed” keyword. I can simply go through a list of already vetted keywords/niches and just choose the one that interests me that the system classifies as green. I’ve already written a couple of Squidoo pages from the keyword list. Cool product things that popped up. For websites I’ve only looked at those niches that have 4 or 5 easy greens. Then I scrape up all the ambers as “cousins” and away I go. I focus my attention on those keyword/niches with 4-5 “opps”, as they call it. I don’t know if the monetary thing is correct but if it says over $100 then I am fine with it.

The article outsource site sucked. I wouldn’t pay for that. There are far cheaper sources plus I am only building pages on keywords/niches that I care about.

I can see most people staying in the service for a few months them bailing. The turnover will be constant. I mean once you’ve got 20-30 green keyword niche opportunities why stay? If you aren’t making $50-100 a month with these easy pickings then IM is not for you. I may or may not stay. Depends on how I choose to use it. I may start selling websites more aggressively.

I think this may work wonderfully with Keyword Academy. Basically NR is the end result after you do all the research for seeds, go through the keyword tool (particularly since Keyword Dominator isn’t working) and send the spreadsheets to Niche Refinery.

You can export your keywords. It plops them in a nice spreadsheet.

I would be surprised if they didn’t start taking keyword suggestions into the tool. The results will be for anyone to see but I bet it’s coming.

Upsells suck.

Ah using it for sites to flip – nice idea. Yeah I found the button to export keywords. Scary how we are on the same page about this – the old cynics unite LOL

I’ll pass, but thanks for the review. It’s easy to get excited about a tool, even if you’re cynical. I recently had a few good and popular tools that use become somewhat useless. They both needed an updated at almost every startup and one is going to quit working without paying data access charges. All the while that I’ve been using them, my sites that I’ve done simply out of interest in a subject without research have taken off and my well-researched topics on money sites have waned.

I’m starting to wonder if spending time and money on creating and reasonably promoting quality content is finally going to trump fiddling with software that will quit working a few months after buying it?

Hi Mark – this tool isn’t doing a direct data feed from Google’s keyword tool so they should be OK.

My experience is the exact opposite the stuff i know and write about because I want to – ranks nowhere – or ranks top with no traffic LOL The stuff I research works and works predictably – I pretty much know how many backlinks I’ll need and how many months these days.

Hi Lis, nice review but I’m another old croc who just doesn’t have time for this toy. I already work 4 very wide niches that I have built up such a big network for that I don’t need to worry about finding new, easy niches. I have more subject matter than I can handle now in those 4 niches to keep me busy for a few years. I think my head would cave in if I tried to spread myself any thinner in IM that I already am LMAO!

But I can see it being useful to get in, grab a bunch of niches to work then get out again for those that have the time to work them.

I think the days of automated toys is coming to an end. I recently heard of an uber nutty blackhat tool that’s available that will wipe the floor with the kind of social logistics that Uncle Google is planning on using as their serp ranking metric. It’ll probably be useful for a month or two then the game will change once again once G figures it out, then they’ll have to start basing their metrics on something else once its clear that auto-generated FB likes and Twitter twits in the guzillions can upset their index far worse than link spamming ever did.

Oh for the good old days, when you could build a decent site with enough real content to be useful and have it ranked highly just because it was actually a friggin’ good site!

Now you are showing your age Terry LOL. I actually do it the other way around now – rank the site – then add good content to pass the visual LOL. Yeah the automated facebook likes and twitter mentions is too easy to even imagine there is not a tool already! So easy to game!

Nice review, all we need is another so called best way to smash the search engines. I dont even buy this crap anymore. It always comes back to the basics in my opinion.

And what do you think the basics are Chris? In my view – keywords

I bought Niche Reaper last week (figured I would try it for a month and then cancel if needed, which I am going to do) and the thing that I don’t like is the search numbers are way off when compared to Google keyword tool. I’m pretty sure they used broad match and some of the keywords I found that had over 10,000 seaches a month according to Niche Reaper ended up only being around 100 exact searches according to Google tool.

I did find a few keywords that I am going to add to some of my existing sites but it took way too long to do so. It’s a good tool if you like to build a bunch of minisites with 1-5 pages and want a variety of niches to choose from or if you had a VA vetting the process for you and finding the keywords through the tool. I already cancelled my membership to it but do think I will make my $67 back from the keywords I did find for my site.

I understand that they are using phrase match for the searches plus the niche figures are for all the keywords in the niche combined with the “ops” so if there are 5 ops they are using figures for having 5 listings in the first 5 places – not that hard now that Google shows more than 2 pages from some sites. Email me the ones you thought were way out if you still have them – I’d like to investigate further

First of all thank you Lis for this great and comprehensive description of the Niche Reaper I guess that many people will going to test the product after reading your article. Its really hard to find a good unexploited niche these days and there is a hundred of programs like Niche Reaper on the market that claim to be the best niche finding software ever. Lately I have started to build few niche sites without using any of these programs (just the Google Adwords) and I want to check out if there is a chance to get some descent money from the ads that I’ve placed on those sites. Never the less thank you for sharing with us this great post.

Cheers:)

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