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One of the ways affiliate marketers or internet marketers determine the profitability of a new niche market is by doing a search on Google and by looking at the number of sponsored ads appearing. The less sponsored ads there are, the less pay per click competition there is. Hence, you can get your ads up on the first page of Google for a lower cost and likely to reach more of your target niche market.

However, newbies may not realise that just because you use Google.com (your target market in the US) instead of Google.com.sg (country where you live, eg. Singapore), it doesn’t mean that the sponsored results appearing are those for the US market. This is because, when you browse to Google.com, your computer IP address is also sent to Google and from that IP, Google knows where in the world you live. Google then displays only the relevant sponsored ad results for your country.  One of the ways to get around this is to use a dedicated keyword research tool like Keywords Analyzer which allows you to specify which country specific Google search engine you want to use. When you perform a keyword search using the tool, only the results for that country are returned. With this, you can quickly determine the niche market profitably for any country where Google has a dedicated search engine datacentre.

The other way to get correctly check niche market profitability is by using an anonymous proxy service. Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address and instead presents the anonymous proxy server IP address to the world. So, if you are in Singapore and you set your computer to use an anonymous proxy server in the US, a search on Google will turn up results for the US market. In the picture on the left, you can see a search on Google from Singapore without the anonymous proxy server being used. Note that there are no sponsored ad results on the right hand side. In the picture on the right, a US based anonymous proxy server is used. Now, there are many sponsored ad results appearing on the right.

So, now you can check the competitiveness and profitability of any niche market in any country by using an anonymous proxy server residing in that country. Here is a list of anonymous proxy server site you can refer to:
=> http://www.proxyblind.org/anonymous-proxy.shtml
=> http://www.anonymitychecker.com/page1.html
=> http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

Important! Transparent proxy servers do not hide your IP address. What they do is cache web pages frequently requested by web users. When another web user calls a page that is already stored in the cache, the cached web page is shown to the user. This saves on internet server traffic and improves the effective network speed of your connection to the Internet. However, because these proxy servers are transparent, Google will still see your actual IP address and give you the local results only. So, make sure the proxy server in the country you want to use is anonymous and not the transparent type.

You can access the page to configure proxy settings in IE by going to Tools => Internet Options => Connections=> LAN Settings. 

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