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Hi Orel,

Welcome to the forum.

Did you buy the domain after seeing the movie or did you already own the domain?

I'm wondering if you were caught up in the emotion or whether you own or breed the dogs?

As for ranking and all the SEO stuff there will tons of different advice you will receive from a wide range of respondents here on the forum.

There is a lot more to ranking than having an EMD with the emphasis now more on quality content and user experience.

The pet niche however is a strong niche and will always continue to grow.

Just the other day I was listening to an interview with Michael Frizell, the owner of Pet Circle, one of the fastest growing online brands in the space in Australia. From starting around 7 years ago with a handful of products to now turning over $70MM and doubling their warehouse every year.

You might want to do some research and read a bit about their journey---->
Pet Circle, Greencross position as pet care becomes Australia's fifth-fastest growing sector | afr.com

They understand what is in the minds of their customers and I would encourage you to do the same.

Don't think so much about the SEO but about what the owner desires and then craft your content and products around that.

Best of luck.

Kind regards,

Ozi

I'm not a fan of the slideshow at the bottom - could as easily be somewhat smaller images that are linked to articles/pages/products.

Good start on the site - I would be adding breed characteristics - special medical issues - and, importantly, how experienced an akita owner must be or how much time is involved in training/maintenance.

Unfortunately for dog breeds that become highly popular due to a movie or book....many who rush out to buy the breed end up mistreating them or mishandling them...or abandoning them.

If you are going to focus on a breed - I think you have an obligation to help protect the breed as well by highlighting the pros and cons of ownership...but that's just me.

Have you approached breeders to see if there is advertising to be found? Good products would be those aimed at large and highly active dogs and there are many good affiliate programs for those.

Just noticed Ozi's post and totally agree. Focus on the dogs and their potential owners and be as breed specific as possible. Easy with this breed as they are not a good choice for first time pet owners - but have a devoted following of those experienced with the breed.

Look at authority blogs on other med to large breed working or hunting dogs - to find more topics to highlight on your site.

Video will help you a lot. Create Youtube channel and start creating videos in your niche. Embed all videos to your site. You can create specific page for that in your site. Then you can add a forum to your site as well.

Add an optin form requesting visitor their name and email. You can add this on the right sidebar or ass a pop-up. Setup an autoresponder email sequence and market products based on this subniche.

That's why I mentioned it - I fostered an Akita a few years ago. Loved the the dog and was able to find a great home....BUT had to be honest - no small kids, no cats, someone with experience and understanding of dogs required.

Smart dog, but stubborn, too. My few months of experience indicated a novice pet owner would have problems with this breed unless willing to pay for professional training (for themselves and the dog).

The brush is good - could expand into a full section of grooming tools. Review of shedding brushes - shedding blades - and many other grooming tools.

By 'breeder ads' just a thought that when you are getting more traffic you may be able to sell ads TO breeders - where they would have 1/4 or 1/8 (webpage, that is) to place an ad for their breeding facility. Some dog trainers might also be interested in that - especially ones that have branches and franchises in many areas. Just a thought and don't know if it would work.

Everything depends on the number of competitors in this niche. If there are not so many of them, you can go to the top on High-frequency keyword.

LOVE the photo! I know what you mean - the only danger to a kid from my pit bull, Gracie, is that she might lick them to death! She adores people in general and kids in particular.

What other words do they contain? Buyer words like buy, breeder, price, etc.? Or are they curiosity words? The intent of the searcher is paramount to monetization.

Just because a lot of people are curious doesn't mean there is money to be made.

Several years ago I found a niche with 1.5 million searches per month. I spent about a month trying to devise a way I could make money from all those people. I never found one. Adsense clicks were worth $0.02.

Get this part right, and the rest will simply be a matter of time.

Ranking on Google is all about the user experience these days. Give searchers what they are looking for, and Google will eventually reward you.

Simply ranking high isn't enough. I explain why in this post on another thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...l#post11087462

I will give you props for actually choosing a specific niche you have a chance to compete in, rather than the common error of aiming for the "pet niche" or even the "dog niche".

As far as the number of searches containing a specific keyword, it doesn't always mean what you think it means.

Several years ago, before the rise of streaming services and endless syndication, I made some good money promoting box sets of popular TV series. I was using a combination of reviews posted to a blog and Adwords. My click throughs weren't as high as I thought they should be, so I took a closer look at the actual searches. By the way, the TV series I'm looking at here is Friends. My problem was that I failed to notice the large number of searches for the kiddie show Thomas and Friends from PBS. Once I add Thomas as a negative keyword, my CTR went up and my cost per click went down.

You might want to do a deep dive into your server logs and see how many searches are people looking for the movie, a book based on the movie, etc. Use keyword tools to do the same kind of deep dive. Look for the long tail keywords possible Akita owners might be using and focus on those. A good example would be the page about akita shedding and how to deal with it.

You may not make page 1 for Akita Inu, but you will rank for many long tail searches by your actual target market.

I am still crying from Hachi Orel; why bring it up LOL. Great movie. Great message of loyalty.

Your site looks solid. I would remove the slideshow up top. Post a big pop up opt in form to grow your list. Add an opt in form on the sidebar to grow your list. Publish content regularly. Remove archives and categories tags. Focus readers on latest posts and comments, to boost engagement.

I left you a blog comment

ranking totally depend on your on page optimization and off page SEO.
if you do proper on page SEO and OFF page seo you will be able to rank in google within few month.you have to build high authority backlinks,
you can also use parasite t rank within a very short time.

I knew I'd seen the dog or a relative of it somewhere before.

You could set up a donation for personalised photos to the groups of crypto-miners who mine and trade in DOGE - DOGECOIN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin

This could account for some of the internet searches you are seeing for the breed.





More info on the way to get involved is here--->Dogecoin

Best regards,

Ozi

Nice Blog. I like the Slideshow and fans of the dog will too. Not sure exactly what you decide with the dog breeders and monthly monetisation with that. That sounds like good potential.

But you might also have some way to collect visitors and their info. with an Optin Box on the right hand side. And get closer to them with some emails i.e Additional Content and more personable information to share with them.


- Robert Andrew

For some inspiration, check out Esther the Wonder Pig

The videos are cute, but it is the words that follow each video that really makes it funny.

The domain name will help. At the beginning, if the main keyword turns out to be very competitive, I´d start with "long tail keywords" that are easier to rank for.

https://ubersuggest.io/ is a good tool to find long tail keywords.

Cheers,
Kiril

Hi,
* Except Facebook other social media links are not working.
* Few menu links are also not working. You should fix them asap or hide them. Because I feel like the site is in development mode or a developer create it just for testing purpose.
* you should start a blog section Publish content regularly. That will related to akita & other dogs breed.