Nice websites worked well for few of bloggers who continuously testing new and new methods and formula for their business. Recently I have tried working on few micro niche sites that was worked well for me. I am not going to reveal the site’s name here, i would just share useful information on how you too can start niche blogs and websites for you and start making passive income from your blog. If you have landed on this page, you might know your question that is about What Are Niche Websites. If you do not know what a Niche Website is then I strongly suggest you read this post before moving forward. Understanding your endeavor is half the battle and knowledge is one of the most important tools you will have in this process.
What Are Niche Websites ?
If we say about definition of Micro Niche website, it’s small blog or website that focuses on Specific Information that is Both Useful and Interesting for the Audience. It focus and provide information on very small category out of available category products on the internet.There is nothing in the definition but powerful money making idea is to start niche website and monetize it.
To start successful niche website, you should understand that the focus is on the consumer or person visiting your website. Every single person who visit your website should be in buying mode, if you have monetized your website with affiliate marketing products. If we fail to recognize that the customer is king, then we will likely fail to understand why we have not transformed our Niche Site into a profitable venture.
Let’s talk about Halloween that is on 31st October 2014. If you are creating affiliate site specially focused on Halloween products, the traffic you are receiving from search engines would be specially searching for Halloween related products. So monetizing it with affiliate product would bring huge boost in your affiliate sales and since this is event, you can also monetize it with Google Adsense. If you monetize your sites with only adsense, it’s called Adsense Niche Sites.
If you are writing a blog or your site is about wide category covering all niche, you can call it as non-niche site.MSN.com or eCommerce sites like amazon.com is non niche sites. MSN is focusing on various niche and category like news. Amazon is also focusing on product selling, it’s niche is not clear. It cover wide rang of products in it.
In technical definition of niche sites, there are 20 to 200 posts or pages in niche websites. Traffic may ranging from 200 to 2000 per day. Generally niche is targeted, so all traffic is targeted traffic. Niche website should not have 10000 per day traffic and if it receiving this much traffic, it’s called authority sites.
There is a website called flippa, from where you can Buy Micro Niche Sites that are created by affiliate marketers. Or you can buy micro niche domain from godaddy auction for your Micro Niche Marketing projects.
Overall sum of above content is simple as below. What should you consider while building micro niche sites is :
- Specific Subject
- Specific Content
- Less than 200 pages but more than 20
Niche Selection Tips
If you are using any keyword research tool, such as Long Tail Pro or Keyword Planner you are on the first step. Select any products or topics that is having low compitition and average search volume of >1000.
Things to consider
- Select Topic – You can search for the topic and products till micro level. e.g. If you are going to run amazon affiliate blog, you should select category first, in that go deep by selecting sub category items. Go deep by best selling items likewise do research for products you are going to promote.
- Make it True – Try to publish wow content, with unique and effective writing. Publish evergreen content like how to guide for your niche that would be evergreen and you would always get ranked for your niche. E.g. If you are running blog on USB mouse niche, you should also publish few useful how to guide like How to Fix USB Mouse Not Working Problem etc.
In my upcoming posts, I would guide on how to build it step by step. So stay tuned.