[Live Study] Are Micro Niche Sites Dead?
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"Are micro niche sites dead"
"Can you still make good money from niche sites"
"Is Adsense a viable option"
Now personally I have a large number of these sites that do well...but most of them have become well established and, to a greater or lesser degree, been built out to be more than their original premise.
So what I wanted to do was show that, actually, micro niche sites DO still work. Yes they take a bit more work than they used to, but given the money they can generate I still think them worth it.
Just before the weekend I was chatting with a mate who is struggling for a bit of cash - he runs a pub which is starting to take off, but a side income would be useful to him. Since he is often sitting in the pub in quiet times with nothing to do he figured there must be a way to make money.
I suggested to him we partner up on microniche sites. I have been struggling for time to carry on my building of sites as I take on new projects, so combining with a partner (one I can trust) makes sense from my end too.
The Basic Game Plan
The plan is a simple one...to build about 50 microniche sites a month. We will flip some - some profitable ones for quick cash, some of the ones that fail for us to hand to those that can get them to work.
But we anticipate keeping 15-20 a month, building up a stash of passive earners.
Details
Presumably every one is more interested in the details. To that end I will be looking at first of all keywords
Specifically my research will focus on keywords with 1300 exact searches or more a month (ideally local searches to US or UK), $.70 or above and with low SEO'd top 10 competition.
I only ever care about the top 10, the rest can go hang for all I care.
Oh and the EMD has to have .com, .net or .org available
We will create a minimum of 5 articles on the keyword and related keywords for each site before we go live, and probably add a few more on each site as we go.
We then SEO the hell out of it
Onpage
Images with keyword titles, captions, etc, the right headers, titles, keyword density, bolding, italics, underlining, interlinking etc, meta dexription, meta tags and the like
Offpage
Squioo Lenses and Hubpage hubs as tier 1 links, as will some EZA articles (for syndication more than the link). Then we will be using AMR to spin and distribute articles to point at our tier 1 properties - plus building out a few wide range niche blogs on blogspot and wordpress. We may look at things like profile linking to these depending on how it goes.
TIME
We know that the reality is that these things take time. We're not really going to even be looking at income for sites until 90 days after creation (other than for stats for this thread and a blog if we bother setting one up). At that point we will take a decision on flipping or keeping (some may go before, depending on what we need).
We'll be keeping the stats going on here, and showing (hopefully) that microniche sites work. With the level of site creation we will be doing we should find out within 6 months whether micro niche is dead or not...I suspect it is alive and well, but if not then we have learned that OUR approach to them is wrong.
If you have any tips you'd like to share so we can alter our approach, we're always open to new ideas! simply share them below.
Anyway wish us luck. Just chosen our first 4 domains, should look at getting started on development first thing tomorrow.
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