How much does it cost to build a micro niche site?

All looks about right except you left out marketing. You'll need more than $25 of Fiverr gigs to get it going.

Here's a post from earlier that I had posted about my problem with my micro niche sites ending up costing more to create than they take in. Can you help me find the problem?

Thanks

If you're paying $215 to get someone to build a site for you, PM me and I'll do it for $100.

I try and build 1 every 2-3 weeks for myself and it costs me a total of $10.87.

$10.87 domain name
$ 0.00 hosting (I have an unlimited HostGator account)
$ 0.00 content (I run a content creation company)
$ 0.00 setup (do it myself)
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From starting the researching to finishing the first day's backlinking, I'll invest about 4-5 hours into a site. I try to do this on Sat or Sun mornings when there's nothing on TV to distract me. After that, I'll spend an hour a day backlinking until it gets to the top of Google. If it doesn't make it in a month, I'll stop backlinking and give it 3 months to get there, but I'll be building other sites in the interim.

-- j

What is your budget?

If you want a simple microsite then it should cost you more than $75 for the domain, 1 year of hosting, and contents. With this price you just have to do the backlink or outsource it. Do you think buying backlinks from fiverr is still effective?

Thanks Jarycu, I may take you up on that offer. I actually have no problem building them and ranking them, however it's the content creation - the 500 word posts that are the real issue. I was thinking that I would need about 30 -40 posts at 500 words a post which i was guestimating odesk would charge about that much.

Do you write the articles yourself?

Also for backlinking what exactly do you do? Social networking?

Do you find that your sites do best that have a minumum of how many words per index/landing page? I heard that you should have no less than 10,000... is that wrong?

Thanks and I'm looking into PMing ya

Actually in the last few months since the last google alg update.. not necessarily. However I have had goodluck with the Fiverr social media gigs and article spins. I actually gotta say I've had little luck with the fiverr backlinking... they disapear before you know it and they all seem to be crap. I hear alot of people talk about it on here but I don't think I'd risk it now after this last update.

I guess im realizing my question should be...

"How much content do you need per micro niche site in order to be successful?"

I was going with the 10,000 words per index/landing page and 500 words per post to make that 10,000 words...

Does that sound good or too much?

I actually did some research on the forum about the costs to build
niche sites. The services cost around $97 - $397, but they come with
varying offers.

Personally, I use Global Domains International for hosting my sites as it only costs about $10/month to host a website there (which is nice in my opinion, and they are pretty generous about what the $10/month fee comes with). The only downside to GDI I am aware of is that the Site Builder editor they have does not always seem to work properly (it tends to be glitchy for me when I modify my websites), though they do seem to allow you to use other html editors (I know I am experimenting with Microsoft Expressions web). Thought that I would share that.

Thanks for the research Zuberr, is this service basically a warrior member building you a micro niche site? My only concern with paying $300 + is that I was under the impression that micro niche sites make only maybe $1 a day or so, the 397$ on top of you doing the marketing thru fiverr and whatever else on top of domain and hosting could be pushing $500 for only about $300 of revenue from the site. To me thats a $200 loss.

I guess the biggest problem that I'm having is making a micro niche site that is profitable. Yes my sites do make money but after domain, hosting, and trying a couple of fiverr gigs and content creation... im spending way more than i'm making. Content creation is key i guess... I just get soooo burned out from writing 10,000 words about a keyword that can be summed up in about 100.

Thanks Fedor50, but what's an authority site? is it different than a micro niche?


Hey Denemarek, that;s awesome for 60... Do you write all the content yourself? How many posts/pages and words do you usually write per site? I was thinking out outsourcing the content creation because I get so burned out (like I said above from 10,000 (minimum) words a site. With your fiverr backlinks and article.. where do you usually end up ranking in the search engines? Page 1? spot?

Thanks Buddy

Hey JT, even though we've talked in a few PMs now, I'm going to throw this out here for everyone else to read:

Be careful buying backlinks right now.

The whole goal of the Penguin update was to clear out tons of spammed backlinks that had no relevance. When you let someone else do your backlinking for you, you have no real control over what they do. You want to try and get backlinks from relevant sites. If you're doing a site on pink zebras and you have links coming from sites on omelettes and baby bibs, Google's not going to think a lot of those links. You need to stay with sites that are about zebras.

For this reason alone, I would NEVER EVER EVER hire someone to backlink my main site. Now, my second and third tier sites are another story.

-- j

Just say no to Fiverr backlinks.

If you're truly diving into micro niche sites you don't need a ton of backlinks. Quality over quantity.

Depends how much you do yourself and how much you outsource, so it's kinda hard to put a number on it. But sometimes my micro niche sites can easily run over $100, because I would rather outsource SEO and content writing, than do it myself.

With unlimited hosting and by creating your own written content the dollar cost average per site will decrease as you build more sites.

How much content do you recommend nick? would you say 10,000 words per site in 500 word pages or posts? just wondering, thanks!

Also how would you guys recommend on building micro niche backlinks? What would you say would be the best way?

I've e-mailed webmasters of high pr sites but never get back to me because "what's in it for them". I've commented on blogs but rarely they are do follow and I've tweeted, stumbled and facebook my posts...

any other suggestions?

I think 10,000 words is sufficient for starter. Post one 500 word article per day until all 10 articles have been posted.

When you have a new site it is best to build its backlinks slowly but surely and consistently. Since you have to consider the G00gle trust factor it is better to create backlinks at a slow pace and once your microsite starts to age then you can increase its backlinks.

Obtaining DoFollow backlinks to your websites will definitely benefit your website's overall ranking. However, you shouldn't discount NoFollow websites that are related to your niche because they can bring your website some organic visitors as well.

You always have fixed costs or estimated costs, and the rest depends on how much you´re willing to outsource.

1) For domains I usually invest about $10 if I buy a new one on GoDaddy. For aged domains usually between $20 - $50. Privacy is about $10-$15 extra per year.

2) The hosting is probably the cheapest investment for any domain if you already host more websites.

3) For content it varies a lot. fweez.com you can outsource content for $0.6/100 word if you use the promo code. I like to use content from this website for my internal pages. So a page of about 500 word costs you only $3, and if you set up a website of 30 pages, that cost would be $90. For the homepage however I like to invest into a really great piece of content (mostly self written, sometimes outsourced). If outsourced I pay around $10 to $25 for the homepage.

4) The backlinking costs are really hard to estimate, and depends mainly on your strategy.

How many keywords do you intend to rank for?
What kind of keywords do you intend to rank for?
Do you want to keep the website or sell it?
..

If you buy an exact match domain with your keyword, you should always rank the homepage for the main keyword, plus a few additional keywords.

You definitely should backlink to your internal pages as well to keep the backlinking balanced. You can also vary anchor texts here.

You can only estimate costs in any project, but you can set a budget for the month!

I spend about $500.00 on each site. This includes hosting for a year, domain name and the biggest expense, content. I pay for most, probably 70% of my content. The rest I write myself. Paying for the content saves me a ton of time. I often use just one writer, but sometimes I'll use 2 or 3 depending on the niche. It usually takes me about 7-8 months to break even from the time I post my first article on the site.

For a micro niche site that looks too much for me.
Why don't you get an unlimited hosting account and host on it as many niches as you want?

All depends what you want the site to look like, Sure you can get a site made for $97.00 fiverr outsourced articles you'll need to edit. Don't forget to tell them don't put keywords in 400 word article more then 3 times .Good luck on them making it look natural. You'll look like a dog hearing a funny noise when you read them. All cheap articles read like a 6th grade history book, boring. It's the cultural thing not their fault. Don't forget to make the font to small that you have to be a bald eagle to read it. Ways To Make Money Online With Making Money Websites - Minisite Buzz thats us will have a wso going soon. You can check us out.

Just $ 10 for domain

$ 15 fee per month

Write your own content.
Marketing by yourself.
It's very reasonable amount.

I guess we just have differing views on business.