niche advice

Make your first niche site into an authority site and it will be saved from disaster follow through and never stop and all will be good.

i have read things about this ' authority' site.. but I seem to not understand quit well what is the real difference with a non authority site.. Does it mean that sub-niches are linked from there (that are obviously my own)?

Yes - you're right: that isn't a niche at all. It's a market, and a huge one.

Yes, that always helps. But who's going to read your content? And specifically who will read it if you don't target one small, specific niche?

There's a difference between giving up, and learning and correcting your course of action and direction.

I think this may not have been the best decision? :confused:

Yes, of course. Hundreds (thousands?) of marketers make money in self-development niches without having their own products. As affiliates, for a start.

Why "keywords"? Have you already decided to build a business that depends on Google for its traffic? If your experiences are anything like those of 99% of beginning marketers, the more you concentrate on search engine traffic, the less chance you'll have to build a profitable business. Personally, I always suggest to people that they shouldn't put time and effort into trying to attract SEO traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly (across every single niche represented in my business) the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use) but I'd hate to have to make a living just from that traffic. (A look around the forum will quickly show you large numbers of experienced affiliate marketers saying the same - but there are also, of course, a few people selling "SEO services" to newbies who don't like it being pointed out.)

You say "of course", but I use article marketing to make my living, and it wouldn't be an "of course" at all, to me. Keywords don't help me much, at all.

The important things to know (about articles, in this context) are ...

(i) Publishing articles just on your own site isn't really a traffic-generation plan at all: all that can ever bring you is some gradual, eventual search-engine traffic that's typically very low-performing, unresponsive and poor quality anyway, and in the overall scheme of things "generally not worth talking about". Using articles for marketing is about taking your content to the places where the targeted traffic you want to attract is already looking/reading/visiting (after publishing it first yourself, to secure the initial indexation-rights, of course);

(ii) Article marketing isn't about how many articles you have: it's about who reads them (relates to the point above, and to other considerations);

(iii) "Good content" is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors (either by publishing it or linking to it). That's a very simple, practical definition of "good content", but I think it's a useful one because it relates directly to how content produces income. Or, to word it the other way round (same thing, really), content that directly produces income is content that publishers in your niche, who already have access to the traffic you want to attract, want and choose to share with their own subscribers, readers and visitors.

You won't get the traffic just by publishing them on your own site.

No - not so at all. All that will give you is search engine traffic. :p

We can say that, but so far you didn't mention a plan to do that.

No.

It wouldn't have to be a disadvantage at all, let alone a "huge" one.

Yes - ClickBank (and others).

AdSense conflicts with affiliate marketing. With AdSense, you get paid (typically tiny amounts of money!) when visitors leave your site by clicking on a link which takes them somewhere else. With affiliate marketing, you want them to stay on your site, and opt in.

No.

If I were doing what you want to do, I wouldn't want my own product. I'd want to be an affiliate marketer.

This might interest you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7962879

But I also think you need to start from a niche - and you don't have one yet.

An authority site means that you understand the different types of people interested in the niche or any topics connected to the niche and create engaging content based on that wider understanding. if you show your site I could give some more specific advice.

What you are planning to do is one of the things that (most people here and) I do for a living. We make high quality content for our websites. That is what I do to make my page rank and I think, I am doing well in the business. Well, you should know that one of the things that you should always aim for is content relevance as it is something that is important for Google.

Alexa- Huge thanks for taking time to answer to me in great detail... You are completely right in what you say. And yes I obviously discovered the huge difference between a market and a niche a bit too late Of course you are also right that it might be better to not keep on going and try to change it into a real niche... however... i do have a bunch of ideas, and I do feel I know something about what people are looking for. my biggest advantage i think is, I am writing about my own experience and can deliver legit information.
I completely understand what you mean with the articles, and I will use that strategy to publish on other websites where the traffic already exists. Thank you for clearing up that google traffic is not everything at all

tdanz - thank you for your explanation. Unfortunately my website is not launched yet
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I completely understand that I just sound like ' yet an other newbee' and this is completely true... however I do have my reasons for grabbing this market like I explained earlier. And because I like to chase my dreams I want to make it happen within this market. I have a lot to learn obviously and I am just on the beginning of my internet journey.
thank you so much for all tips!