Some of you that follow me on Twitter may remember me mentioning that I was working on a side project about a month or two ago. I said that it was indeed a small niche site I was developing to create some decent side-income that I can then replicate a few times to create a nice cash flow. Since then, I haven't created anymore due to my schedule and the fact that I dedicate myself more to WordPress and this website, but seeing the amount of traffic this niche site of mine is getting leads me to believe I'm doing something right.
In this three-part post series, I'm going to be giving you guys an overview of what I did to create this website from the very beginning stages. Now, I'm sure there are things that I did that are wrong or could be done in a better way, but I really don't care at this point. I'm just writing this today to give inspiration to some of you out there that want to create your own small mini-site.
Firstly, Why Make Niche Sites?
Well, before I get to that, let me quickly explain what a "niche" is. "Sports" is a very general niche. "Baseball" is a significantly smaller niche that branches off of "Sports". We can take it even farther and go down to "Baseball Betting". You get the idea, right? A niche site is basically a small (usually article-based) site that is focused around a small topic.
Anyway, you may be asking what the purpose of niche sites are. It's simply to make money, on most occasions. You can either throw something like Adsense on them and watch the money roll in, or even possibly a CPM or an affiliate network. As long as the site gets a decent amount of traffic, odds are that it'll make money somehow.
Other people create a successful niche site and then turn around to flip it for a profit to someone else on webmaster forums like Sitepoint. If the niche site has a unique product associated with it (an eBook made just for the site, for example) and it sells decently, the flip will be extremely profitable for the seller.
My Niche Site
So, let's get to my niche site here, shall we? Go check it out for yourself over at MyBombayCat.com. If you can't guess from the domain alone, the site is about Bombay cats. (For those of you that don't know, I myself own a Bombay cat, hence my inspiration for this site.) It's a very simple site, as you can see.
Throughout this three-part series, I'll explain to you things like how I managed a steady flow of traffic leading to 4,700 unique visitors in under 3 months, how I got to rank on Google's page number 1 for terms like "bombay cat" and "bombay cats", and how I plan to make some good money off of this site in the future.
Tomorrow we'll begin with how I get my ideas for niche sites, how I go about choosing which niche is ripe for domination, and how to design a simple niche-site theme for WordPress. Stay tuned!
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Problem niches are muuuuuuuuuuuuch better. Acne, excessive sweating, insomnia, you should check the search density of some of them, it's quite surprising lol.