Comments on: Niche Site Challenge #1 – The Saga Begins

By: How I Use Content for Link Building

How I Use Content for Link Building — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:30:51 +0000

[...] took down those links recently, but that’s not the point). I noticed this, so I did the challenge myself (it’s lame, I know; it was in my early days!).I then got in touch with Pat, told him I did his [...]

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:27:03 +0000

It’s ok to give a product review and then shoot an affiliate link to the actual product – this is how many niche sites make most of their revenue! The only thing on copyright infringement is to not have the domain name exactly the name of their product & make sure you give all credit to the company who produced the product. Also, write for your own content.

Hope this helps!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:12:58 +0000

I’ve also wanted to try creating niche sites for products, but I don’t know how to do that without being guilty of copyright infringement. Do you have any ideas? Thank you!

By: SeoDuck

SeoDuck — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:47:36 +0000

I’m in russian segment of SEO and I’m still hesitating if to try the Niche site challenge started by Pat.

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:25:51 +0000

That’s a little tricky, but I’d go with lightbluewidgetshq.com. I’ve gotten feedback saying that dashes in a domain name are more likely to be spam sites, so if there’s a Google update in the future with this, you don’t have to worry. Also, in my next post I talk about a way to get a .com domain name for 99 cents for the first year, which would save you ten bucks (not that that should be the deciding factor in choosing your domain name).

On the subject of competition – this should be you’re #1 priority, because it can’t be successful in less there’s less competition. It looks like there’s no exact match domains ranking, so I think you’re good to go.

I’m putting up my next post momentarily, so check it out once it’s up! Thanks again Jon!

By: Jon Turner

Jon Turner — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:08:48 +0000

Yeah, it would be interesting to hear about the Hubspot HUGS 2011 Inbound Marketing conference and any tips & ideas you picked up. I haven’t come across it before, so I will have a look into it when I get time.
I’ve decided on the topic for my niche site & have two domains in mind but I’m unsure of which one to go for. Say my keyword is ‘light blue widgets’ would you go for a domain of ‘light-bluewidgets.org’ or a domain of ‘lightbluewidgetshq.com’ ?
The competition for this keyword isn’t exactly low but if I begin by trying to rank for my inner pages (which ARE low competition) and gradually gain authority & trust in Google, my domain will move up the rankings.

Looking forward to your next post.

Jon

By: Jon Cooper

Jon Cooper — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:21:02 +0000

First of all – great name . You already said it but I forgot to mention it in the last comment.

On the subject of authority sites – I’m trying to do that with this particular niche site because of the reasons you stated. I have a wide range of content to publish (in this case, I can create a ton of content about individual BPO companies). This also opens me up to a larger body of traffic. Unfortunately there aren’t a ton of products to promote in this niche, just a few books from Amazon, so I’m going to have to get creative. I’m probably just going to stick with some advertisement.

I should publish my next post in the 5 days or so, I’ve had so much on my plate lately. Just got back from the Hubspot HUGS 2011 Inbound Marketing conference, so I might throw in a post about the event before I jump into my second niche site post.

Thanks so much for your feedback! Feels good to know someone’s on the same path as me

By: Jon Turner

Jon Turner — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:52:57 +0000

This looks good so far Jon. I pretty much do the niche/keyword research the same way.
At the moment I’m focusing on the Health & Fitness market as I have years of experience and quite an interest. This gives me plenty of knowledge to draw upon and the enjoyment of the subject to keep me focused.
I’ve chosen to mainly concentrate on promoting products from Amazon. I’ve usually gone for the ‘sniper’ style of site which focuses on promoting 1 or 2 products only, where I go for the product name or model buyer keywords. However, I will soon start work on an authority style site as I feel Google prefers these type of sites, and it gives me a chance to add a wider range of content.

Looking forward to see how you go about setting up your website. I may have some questions for you then as I seem to struggle a bit with getting my sites to look the way I want them too! (even though I do love WordPress!)

all the best

Jon