Now A Free eBook - 7 Steps to Build a Profitable Niche Site Without Spending A Penny

[Ian Jackson]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

The big problem with this model is......

You're at the mercy of someone else - if Squidoo shut down or went offline ,or just closed your account or your lense... Your money stops and all of your efforts are for nothing.

I would suggest if you're doing this to spend $1 or $2 on a domain name (.info are cheap) and have that as the place, even if all you do is redirect it to your Squidoo lense, if the lense craps out - you just redirect to somewhere else and keep making money.

Andy

Originally Posted by JustaWizard

Good solid content.

I'd advise spending $10 on a domain name and $7 on hosting and create your own site using Wordpress as the CMS, and then use Squidoo Hubpage etc as other spokes in the wheel because although it's not likely that Squidoo or whatever free site used will crash and burn anytime soon, but relying on free web sites and not owning your own domain and having secured hosting means that if they do go down for any reason, poof goes your money site.

I realize the theme here is doing it free, but sometimes paying a little is worth quite a lot.

My $0.02

Best,
David

Originally Posted by Mary Gallivan

Hi Peter

Great information.

My thoughts are similar to some of the others who suggest get a domain name and have your own site. Wordpress is easy to use.

Mary

Thanks for great OP!

Please could someone recomment a source/URL for getting a (free) website template that would fit nicely with Peter's IM model?

thanks

[SMP]

Great post Peter.

I've noticed alot of people on WF are looking to establish themselves online and start working towards making money with minimal investment. This is just the sort of thing they are looking for.

This process you have outlined brings into focus that, as long as you are prepared to dedicate a bit of time and effort to put your business together, there's no reason that 'average Joe' can't start to make money online.

Steve.

[thebaddest101]

Nice post, a lot of people do not research competing websites enough

[Toelover]

Great article Peter.
I just joined this site ... kind of new to the whole internet marketeer thing and trying to make my first steps and your article certainly gave me a direction to follow and some great ideas.

tnx ! great stuff

[ajparker]

Wow - great post. I was unaware that the Google shopping results gave hints at what people were searching for. That tip alone may have me working for a few days....

Re: squidoo and other third party sites - they may not go down tomorrow, but terms of service can change abruptly. This might be a good method to test/hone with free sites and then once you have the right feel for doing your competitive research then move to self hosting for the center of the wheel. After a few experiments hopefully you'd have made some money to reinvest anyway.

[rimam1]

That was really good Peter. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to keep this in my file for later use.

[jujusan]

Originally Posted by JayXtreme

Fantastic stuff, Peter...

This is the kinda stuff that makes people cash.. and that's what we're here for

It's not my kinda business plan.. I much prefer starting from my own websites.. but for the n00b amongst us... quick cash to re-invest is possible with this..

There are many people who can take this info and act on it right away if they need to!

Peace

Jay

Hey i'm new to the forum and I'm psyched AND kinda overwhelmed by so much info about internet marketing, can anyone PLEAAASE point me in the right direction so that I can understand all this, so I can actually use it? Whoever is kind enough to reply thankyou very much

[Mohammad Afaq]

Nice list.

You can also Get Keyword Ideas from Amazon bestsellers lsit, ebay pulse and Google Trends.

That's what I can think from the top of my head.

[mukti]

Great content, Peter!!

[tonykoay2002]

thank for the sharing!

[didiert]

Very Usefull Information Peter

Good Content

Thanks for sharing

[bjpoly]

great post

[currypuff]

Great content here. For newbies, you can always start with Squidoo as a money site. When it has proven to be profitable, create your own WP site and change your links from your spokes to point to your money site. QED!

May

[Hackbridge]

Originally Posted by jujusan

Hey i'm new to the forum and I'm psyched AND kinda overwhelmed by so much info about internet marketing, can anyone PLEAAASE point me in the right direction so that I can understand all this, so I can actually use it? Whoever is kind enough to reply thankyou very much

Hi Jujusan

What you should do is introduce yourself to the forum and tell everyone what your aspirations are with regard to making money online.

Welcome

Brian

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by Ian Jackson

Thanks for great OP!

Please could someone recomment a source/URL for getting a (free) website template that would fit nicely with Peter's IM model?

thanks

WordPress has been suggested as a basis for doing this type of thing. You can get a cheap hosting account with hostgator or similar with one-click WP installation. Then, you can create one blog posting for each money page. If you build it on WordPress then you have 100's of free templates to choose from. Just google 'wordpress template'. Is this what you were thinking of?

[vincentdee]

You might to want to try Examineurl.com as well to analyze your site... It could provide you useful insight information on its progress

[Viktor Bebel]

thank you for this post. This is very helpful!

[Ian Jackson]

Originally Posted by Peter Adamson

WordPress has been suggested as a basis for doing this type of thing. You can get a cheap hosting account with hostgator or similar with one-click WP installation. Then, you can create one blog posting for each money page. If you build it on WordPress then you have 100's of free templates to choose from. Just google 'wordpress template'. Is this what you were thinking of?

Not exactly Peter, but thanks for your reply anyway! I'm kind of used to, and familiar with, my Dreamweaver8 software, but do recognise what you say about WP.

I tickled about a bit with WP on my Hostgator cPanel fantastico several months ago, think I should get my head around it again; I'm printing Colleen's "Blog Inferno" as I type

Thanks for your OP

Cheers
ian

[Simon74]

Hi Peter,

thank you so much for the great post, really informative! I have learned somenthing new today thank again.
Simon

[sahanull]

the shopping link is great, never thought of clicking it myself

[VoodooMethods]

Thanks, you've summed up what I've been trying to find for a week now Already knew lots of the info, but some things I didn't.

Great post!

[fxmmorale]

This is a very informative post that takes away any excuses for not getting started and making some money... but...

The only problem I have with making squidoo the money site is those freakin' in context Kontera links they're using to steal my traffic.

I've noticed a few other article directories are starting to use these and that's a jacked up way to treat authors.

Other than... Great post :-)

[Joshua.E1]

Thanks Peter for the sharing.

There is something I think I need to add in is the search for phrase match.

Using phrase match to search for your competitors is not the good way, where I would suggest using (allintitle:Your Keyword phrase) is much better.

Because Google uses the title tag of the web page as the most important search relevancy (besides inlinks).

Anyway the SEO people who does promote the product knows that the keyword must be in the title.

So use the allintitle to find out your true competitors.

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by Joshua.E1

Using phrase match to search for your competitors is not the good way, where I would suggest using (allintitle:Your Keyword phrase) is much better.

Because Google uses the title tag of the web page as the most important search relevancy (besides inlinks).

Good point. Although I still think that both can be used. You may notice that the allintitle operator is in fact mentioned in the article:

Originally Posted by Peter Adamson

Do the search again like with the allintitle operator. Search allintitle:"fibre optic lighting". We get 1,400 pages that have our exact search term in the page title. Anything under 10K is good so we are still on solid ground.

I would appreciate remarks from experienced marketers as to the ideal number of competing pages.

[Beyers]

great post Peter, very easy to understand from a IM to be's pov. Certainly will be trying some of these ideas in the next few days, thanks!

[thegamecat]

Good post and a relevant method. I like the fact it's relatively modular - I can supplant my traffic method with yours and just use the niche detection method.

Thanks

[Jayson L]

I'm putting this to use today with the main site being my own!!

[Sam101]

Originally Posted by Ian Jackson

Thanks for great OP!

Please could someone recomment a source/URL for getting a (free) website template that would fit nicely with Peter's IM model?

thanks

Limedomains ( I am not an affiliate but a customer) is offering free hosting with domain registrations. I have just registered a few and am trying the hosting, which includes a lot of software including WP. Not bad until now, great for trying out some new niches without spending more than 10 dollars or so!

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by solongotgon

I enjoyed your article very much and I am attempting to do as you suggested. And I wanted to know if opening an account at squidoo is only for articles and not for products? If I choose a product to market, where should I have the money account? And is dropshipper the only option?

It's really up to you. I suggest Squidoo because they encourage commercial activity whereas some sites will ban you for it. So you could use a squidoo lens as your money page, yes.

However, as many have pointed out on this thread:
1) You don't own the site
2) Squidoo has distractions that siphon off your traffic, so HubPages may be a viable alternative.

[cyberws]

I like the info on Lemonarian but it's identical to (a copy from?) a book Michael Campbell wrote many years ago called 'Revenge Of The Mininet'. About the comment that this strategy 'doesn't work anymore": it worked years ago, it works now and will work as long as linking is the basis for search engine placement.

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by cyberws

I like the info on Lemonarian but it's identical to (a copy from?) a book Michael Campbell wrote many years ago called 'Revenge Of The Mininet'. About the comment that this strategy 'doesn't work anymore": it worked years ago, it works now and will work as long as linking is the basis for search engine placement.

I have heard of that book before but did not realise it was at the origin of linkwheels. I think I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

[didiert]

Really appreciated this usefull info.


Have you tested the link wheel for real good amount of targetted traffic ?

[katiec]

I just printed this out - some things I knew, but I also got some extra out of it. Thanks!

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by didiert

Really appreciated this usefull info.
Have you tested the link wheel for real good amount of targetted traffic ?

As pointed out above, the method is very modular so you can take bits of it, and replace other bits with things of your own. I tend to use stars more than wheels, but I used the wheel in this example because it is known to give good results in promoting Web 2.0 sites and I wanted to keep the post as short as possible.

Yes, you can get lots of targetted traffic using social media to build links, if you keep at it. Once you make a bit of money doing this it is recommended to automate the link building as it is a never ending process.

[Colin Palfrey]

Ironic. I have payed for this information 7 times now in different guides and not ones ever was I told in a clear manner like this. Finally I understand and the light bulb above my head has gone Ping!

Thank you

[CRainey]

Thanks for this information, I have been searching for something like this for a few days and I have even paid and still no one has even come close to telling it any easier.

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey

Ironic. I have payed for this information 7 times now in different guides and not ones ever was I told in a clear manner like this. Finally I understand and the light bulb above my head has gone Ping!
Thank you

Originally Posted by CRainey

Thanks for this information, I have been searching for something like this for a few days and I have even paid and still no one has even come close to telling it any easier.

Reading this thread is giving me some ideas. If I were to make an ebook out of the OP, would anyone here be interested in using it as a free giveaway bonus with their offers?

[hubreality]

This article is helpful especially the google shopping stuff for getting Keyword Ideas. Just checking it out right now. Thanks for sharing.

[Strange]

Hi Peter, thanks for sharing i'm going to take action using your info as a guideline.
I have a couple of questions..

1.In the keyword tool when researching your niche does the "Broad" "Phrase" "Exact Phrase" come into the equation?

2.When creating accounts from blogger, wordpress, squidoo e.t.c do you think you would get penalize from google if you use the same keyword in all, like the url string and link to the main site?

Thanks again

[olympus]

Bravo!! I can't think of anything to add for now but I will someday..

we should really think and plan our marketing strategy and know when and how to start, reading your tips is a good jumpstart guide for internet marketers!

love it!

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by Strange

Hi Peter, thanks for sharing i'm going to take action using your info as a guideline.
I have a couple of questions..

1.In the keyword tool when researching your niche does the "Broad" "Phrase" "Exact Phrase" come into the equation?

2.When creating accounts from blogger, wordpress, squidoo e.t.c do you think you would get penalize from google if you use the same keyword in all, like the url string and link to the main site?

Thanks again

1. I think you are referring to the keyword tool in AdWords. In the OP I am referring to the free keyword research tool at adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal which only has one option, synonyms, which I leave checked.

2. Some say use identical anchor text, others say vary them. In the case of the link wheel they are few in number so there should not be a great risk.

Cheers,
Peter

[Peter Adamson]

Because this post has been so popular, I have made it into a free ebook. You can distribute it freely, use as free giveaway, whatever. It expands a little on the link building part, making heavy use of a free trial of my own product which I can't really do in the post.

You can download it at http://www.thelinkjuicer.com/7.steps....marketing.pdf

[rimam1]

Peter is one of the most trustworthy people I've come across on WarriorForum. There are many, many others also, but this post is golden.

[Peter Adamson]

Originally Posted by rimam1

Peter is one of the most trustworthy people I've come across on WarriorForum. There are many, many others also, but this post is golden.

** Blush **

[Sumit Menon]

Finally some nice soul has explained how to build backlinks!