specific disease niche
I want to start a site -- an authority site, I guess -- about a certain disease. The disease name alone has about 200k monthly searches with low competition. "[disease] diet" has about 12k searches with medium competition, and "[disease] symptoms" has about 10k searches with medium competition.
But the Google results seem to be dominated by Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Wikipedia, etc.
I'd like to start a site with numerous pages of general info on symptoms, treatment, etc. But I'd like the heart of the site to be a news blog, updated daily. I would monitor Google News for articles on new treatments, research, etc. and rewrite those for my site.
I'm thinking I could use Facebook ads to target fans who have the disease, so maybe that would generate some traffic? And also Twitter. Then I would monetize with Adsense and maybe affiliate links. I'm hoping for relatively high payouts because there might be pharmaceutical companies or supplement manufacturers touting their products.
But I'm unsure whether I could get much search traffic.
Could anyone critique my idea? I'm kind of clueless.
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