Expanding on Micro-Niche Websites

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Hey everyone. I've been doing a lot of reading lately in an effort to try and make more money off the sites already in my portfolio. I have 3 or 4 sites that aren't nearly at their potential for adsense or Amazon earnings.

The more and more I read, what I am seeing from the more experienced Adsense publishers is them adding many pages of content and hoping for a few hits from each page. Is the goal here to target long tails that won't show up on any keyword tool? I'm having trouble writing many pages of content about these very specific physical products.

Now, in product related niches I can't seem to find a whole lot of longtails for these products so I'm left wondering what I can write content about? For example, lets say I'm talking about karaoke machines. I can write a page about each different brand of karaoke machine, but in most cases these brands don't even get any searches. I know the point of writing many pages of content is to hit a bunch of long tail keywords and hopefully all of those long tails will add up to some decent traffic.

Let me elaborate on the above example even more.

Let's say I've got a main keyword that gets 12,000 exact match searches per month, and say 45,000 broad match searches per month. When analyzing the related keywords with Google's keyword tool there are only like 4 or 5 other variations of the main keyword with enough search results to supply data. This leads me to believe that there are quite a few long tails between the 12,000 exact match and the 45,000 broad match. Should I be writing as many articles about this product as I can and just hoping to hit these long tails? It's pretty straight forward product, there's not alot of forum talk about them and no yahoo answers.

I know there is a lot search volume out their for this term, I just don't know how to go about getting it. I will have that main 12,000 exact match term locked down eventually.

I remember reading that John (Xfactor had at least 50 pages of content on his micro-niche adsense websites. How can we go about getting that many pages of content about these specific physical product niches? And what is the point in having that many pages of content? Is it to hopefully pick up a couple hits off of each page each day? So if I have 50 pages and each one gets 5 hits per day, now my site is getting 250 hits per day and consequently adsense earnings. If this is the goal, which process do you use for creating topics for these articles? Especially in cases where keyword tools don't offer too much insight?


This post is long and probably pretty terribly laid out...but I'm wanting to build onto my micro-niche adsense websites and grow them into something more worthwhile. I have 4 or 5 that are only 1 real page of content + about and privacy policy. All of these 5 sites have some really huge broad match search volume and decent exact match. But how do I go about picking up some of this broad match search traffic?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
    Yeah those are my thoughts also...but I guess I'm more wondering how I can get more traffic until I get the website ranking for its main keyword. For example. I've got the one with a main keyword getting exact match 12000 searches per month. The 1 page of content can get me visitors...just not enough. I get about 4 or 5 hits per day right now with that 1 page of content. So this leads my thinking to, with 1 more page of content I should be able to get 3 or 4 more hits per day? Is this the right thinking?

    I'm on page 2 and get about 5 visitors per day from that term. However, broad match on the term is like 40,000. That means there are another 28,000 searches out there similar to the main keyword. How can I go about snapping up some hits from these people?

    I guess that's my main question. My second question would be: When people are targetting more competitive keywords, they will usually write a ton of content. For example if you read Steve Crooks $100 day challenge. He is adding tons of content in the hopes that each article he writes will bring in a few visitors per day at least. I know he depends on some of the articles bringing in lots of visitors but it really seems like a numbers game there. If he has 400 articles up and they are all getting 3 or 4 hits per each, thats 1200 hits per day and 10% CTR 120 clicks yada yada yada.

    Where is the logic behind adding a certain amount of pages of content will equate to a certain amount of traffic. Especially when a lot of the keywords targetted are too small to register any data with keyword tools. I know it works for people, I just don't know how. I want to know how adding tons of content can equate to getting more visitors. That seems to be what I'm hearing.

    Get lots and lots of long tails and you can make up for those bigger search terms. Is that why writing a lot of content helps? Just to hopefully hit those unheard of unrecordable long tails that are like 5 and 6 words long?
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  • Profile picture of the author inter123
    This is utter rubbish. To suggest if 1 page can't get vistors then 50 will bring in nothing is just so un-true.

    Of course 50 pages is going to bring in more traffic. Assuming 50 page each have unique content its going to bring in traffic for the broad searches.
    If the exact search is 12,000 and the broad search is 46,000, there are other phrases people are using. For instance if the keyword is "Hair Salon", this brings in 12,000 and other phrases like "Best Hair Salon", "Celebrity Hair Saloon", "Hair Saloons in New York", etc etc are going to account for the remainer 34,000 seaches.

    Google tries to match a persons' search query. If your article has something about "Hair Salons in New York" and there is not much competetion for it, your page will be on the first page.

    Its difficult to judge what phrases people are going to using for the broad searches since apparently google receives 30% of broad searches are unique and never been searched before.

    If you put up 50 pages of unique content there is bound to be things that matches with the broad query.

    I have a 25 page adsense site at the mo, its about 2 months old.

    The domain name is the keyword that was as part of initial micro-niche.
    It receives 14,000 exact searches a month, and its currently at 4th position. Everyday through this exact keyword I get 15 unique visitors.

    There is about 20 pages that is dedicated to other subjects in the same nieche. By which I mean nieche not micro-nieche. None of these pages have any meaningful rank, most of them ranked on page 9 only for it to dissapear from the top 100.

    But through these pages I still receive an additional 25 visitors per day. This is bearing in mind little or no SEO has been done. I'd imagine with good SEO in the coming months there is no reason why they can't reach the top.

    As for 4 toasters maybe you can write 10 pages on this specifically but then you expand. You move onto 2 toasters and all the other variations. And edventully you have an article directory for toasters. 4 toasters is the microneiche while toasters is the nieche. You certainly can have 50 pages on the broad spectrum of toasters.

    Originally Posted by unlimitedsubmissions View Post

    Hey, you don't need to have 50+ pages of content to make money, if 1 page of content can't get you visitors, 50+ pages won't get you visitors. Worry about ranking first, adding content second.

    but if you really wanna add 50+ pages of content than the Google Wonder Wheel can help give you some ideas.

    IMO, it's impossible for anyone to write 50+ pages of content about "4 slice toaster" without being repetitive.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
      Thanks for clarifying this. That was what I thought but I wanted to make sure. I have one website in mind that I think adding content will significantly help my earnings. The CPC is over $5 and the clicks I'm getting now are consistently over a dollar. The main keyword gets the 12,000 exact and 40,000 broad. This means there are tons of related keywords I can hit for this. Kind of exciting to think of how much traffic is really out their for such a specific product term. This site could potentially earn a hefty amount of money.

      Thanks for clearing that up. That makes it seem like the best way to build micro-niche adsense websites is to expand into the broad searches and long tails.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by Jacob Martus View Post

    I'm wanting to build onto my micro-niche adsense websites and grow them into something more worthwhile. I have 4 or 5 that are only 1 real page of content + about and privacy policy.
    The question is...

    How much buying keyword relevant content have you created today?

    How many buying keyword targeted niche marketing sites have you launched today?

    How many buying keyword targeted links to those sites have you gotten today?

    These are the important things to worry about. If they aren't getting done, then you're not going to make money. Don't get too wrapped up in the details, just do it and you'll refine your process and learn as you go.
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    • Profile picture of the author inter123
      I am assuming when starting with Adsense, the 'buying keyword' is how much traffic a keyword receives and the CPC. With a high CPC, google will have relevant ads to show for the correct keyword content.

      When expanding on a micronieche, the 'buying keyword' is effectively becomes adding more content. Even if a new related keyword has a small CPC, its worth writing for that keyword while incorpoating the high paying keyword to receive traffic for the broad searches.

      Its about creating so much content such that the site becomes an authority figure in the nieche. With so much info, it is bound to receive lot of traffic from broad searches as it probably addresses many of the broad keywords.

      Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

      The question is...

      How much buying keyword relevant content have you created today?

      How many buying keyword targeted niche marketing sites have you launched today?

      How many buying keyword targeted links to those sites have you gotten today?

      These are the important things to worry about. If they aren't getting done, then you're not going to make money. Don't get too wrapped up in the details, just do it and you'll refine your process and learn as you go.
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  • Profile picture of the author chandan_dutta
    There is no need to add more content. You can make money just adding one page and some regular pages such as Contact Us, Privacy Policy etc.. The key is here to Rank in Search Engine. You can rank just writing one page content (500 Words - 700 Words better). Get rank for a highly searched keywords and make more money ..
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