Micro-niches..anyone else do them

Use Social media to promote your articles, like FB, Twitter and Buzz... then convert some articles to video, send them to Youtube and promote your videos. This should increase your links and ranks, if you are diligent enough.

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Congratulations on doing the Micro Niche sites.
I find they are the best ways for people to get started earning online.
You'll want to bump those sites up to several more pages. If you are using Wordpress, post your articles but post date them to a later date so they go live on different days.
Its the "cheap" way to drip feed articles

My best money is coming from broad niches. Maybe conventional wisdom is wrong?

I also know that 90% of IM people have ignored a very lucrative area of income with very little in the way of SEO. Oh well more money for me!!!

Yes niche sites can work very well.

Don't be too focused on results for a couple months as long as your income is improving month by month you're doing well.

However I'd be careful if I were you....having too many 1 page sites might get the Big Google mad.

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Hey Mate,

Yeah I have created a ton of smaller niche sites. They work extremely well. However they are usually around 5-10 pages as opposed to just 1 page.

The more quality content the better.

To make sure your websites rank well you should add links from:

1. Article directories
2. Forums
3. Video Sites
4. Social Bookmarking Sites
5. Profile Links
6. Pad Submits
7. Guest Blogging
8. Blog Commenting
9. Directories
10. Web 2.0 sites

Just add links daily from a variety of these sources and if you have chosen the right keywords, your websites will shoot up the rankings and you will start to make good money.

Focus on no more than 5-10 websites at a time. Get them to rank well before you move on and create another batch.

You may also like to create videos and articles for longer tail keywords to start generating traffic quickly.

SIDENOTE: Christian, that was a stellar post. Short and valuable. Nice.

Abs,

Ys, I definitely do microniches. It's funny how many people automatically associate "microniche" with small search volume, because this isn't always the case.

I don't go looking for small, obscure niches. The best kinds of microniches for me have been found in the most highly competitive (and usually most search volume) mega niches.

Weight Loss, Acne, Debt, etc. Sure, if you are targeting them in a broad sense, you are going to have a difficult time ranking them well enough to ever see traffic.

However, if you target 1-3 closely related keyword phrases within those mega niches that has weak page 1 competition, you will have a MUCH easier time of ranking well.

Does that make sense?

KateD

It will help Google to rank you if you have the following pages:

contact.html
privacy.html
termsofservice.html

or something equivalent. Google wants to see that you are serious. Also you can link to authority sites in your microniches like wikipedia pages to help Google raise your ranking.

thanks for the replies all.

Yea, all my microniches templates use the same template (except for the changing of text/content) and all include at minimum

homepage
privacy policy
contact us
sitemap.xml


I also have my Micro-niche templates setup to work with WordPress and are exactly identically..so it makes adding multiple pages a snap. If you came to the site you would have no clue it was WP powered, even down to the URL.

Micro-Niches are an excellent way to break into the IM industry, and I have to give you full credit for not diving in head first as so many of us do.

It is almost sad in a way how people automatically assume that micro-niches mean micro-revenue and that they simply have to rank on the first page of Google for a major niche and super competitive keywords. It is those people that get frustrated after 3 months of using Adsense and only bringing in $5.

Build up your knowledge, learn what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong, and then consider using the revenue you bring in from a micro-niche to scale things up a bit.

Love the fact that you have hidden the fact that your sites are powered by Wordpress.

As Christian pointed out, the more content the better and just because you are focused on a smaller niche doesnt mean your site should be lacking in terms of unique and useful content.

Some of my sites are in "micro niches", eg. specific health conditions.

The problem with those niches is a relatively low search volume, 6000 Visitors/month is already "low"..on my best site in that regard i am currently getting 200UV/day from a #2 Google position.

The problem here is that even if 6000 visitors/month sounds good you have to take into account how many of those will buy.

According to my latest statistics its APPROX 30% of visitors checking out the offers, and then a typical hops conversion rate of 1:80 ish (plus/minus) of the people checking the offers who actually BUY.

Now seeing that such a site only gets 200 visitors a day it becomes clear that sometimes this doesnt yield more than one or maybe two sales/day. Mind you, this with a #2 google position and LOTS of work put into SEO.

At this point i would say, instead of making many "micro niche" sites with lower search volume (LOTS AND LOTS OF WORK)..rather tackling a "big" niche..work would be about the same, but afterwards you need only focus on that one site and it might simply pay off more.

I am about to start trying the micro niche thing as well, will keep you updated on how it goes.

You are doing great for 3 weeks, keep at it you will rank the rest in time.

Question.

So if come across a niche, and it turns out another xfactor graduate (black/green template) holds the #1 spot for a couple terms in that niche, should I abort/jump ship onto something else?

I do micro-niches as the foundation of my IM. I generally target 1 keyword per site, and I setup a WP site with 5 related articles. I point links using PostRunner from the Keyword Academy, EZA, Squidoo, Hub Pages, Info Barrel.... and then I also ask my network of friends to point a few links to the new site.

The good thing about doing this for a while is that, over time, your own network of sites will grow and you'll get links right away from some of your other sites!

Micro niche sites are a great way to get involved with online business. That was the first type of business that I started online. I have moved on to product creation but I still stay involved with my micro niche businesses.

Microniche sites are a great way to get started. Get the confidence to rank in smaller niches, and you'll know what it takes to go after the big ones.

Like someone above said, do around 5 sites at a time. Make quality sites that Google likes, build the backlinks, create quality articles, and then keep building more.

I wonder how could be a micro niche site? Is there any example site ?

Microniches are a great way to start.

One of my best performing sites is one that sells a particular type of seaweed called Dillisk or Dulse, that only a tiny proporotion of Irish people have even ever heard of.

Almost no competition, so with good quality design and good customer service you can get very loyal repeat customers.