Hey there guys.
Today’s post is a bit of an odd n’. What I’ll be doing, basically, is post here and there every month on news about one of the small niche sites I’m developing. Now, I’m “new” to this whole business, so it should be fun to see how it ends up.
To be honest, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these sites. I may build them up and then sell them on SitePoint.com or something, or if they’re doing good enough and make me over $100 a month, I’ll keep ‘em. We’ll just play it by ear for now.
One of the sites I’ll be developing is FidoTraining.com. Yeah, I thought the domain name was freakin’ awesome too. It’s going to be a site about, you guessed it, dog training. I have a load of pre-written articles here on the subject, and my plan is to update the site with them every now and then. Once I start getting some backlinks and a good amount of the site is indexed by Google, I’ll start to monetize it with something. Not entirely sure yet. I’m somewhat limited, as I only want to be paid via PayPal. (If you have any suggestions, go ahead and let ‘em rip).
I was thinking Kontera and Bidvertiser, and once the site gets a PageRank 1 (2?), I’ll throw in Text-Link-Ads or something similar.
I’ll be following the guide that Jim Karter put up on his site, where he is doing his own case study on one of the niche sites he put together about chemotherapy. You can see his latest update here.
The site is already making him about $70 a month and he’s only put in about a day’s worth of work, maybe, over the four-month period. His end goal is to be making $1000 a month from that site alone, so we’ll see how it ends up.
Anyway, lets get some stats on my site here. (You’ll notice that as of right now, all you’ll see on the site is a link to wikipedia’s page on “Dog Training.” This helps Google categorize the site.)
Website Case Study
Site : http://FidoTraining.com
End Goal : Make $100/Month After 6 Months
Total Time : 2 Days
Money Spent : $6 (Domain Name)
Money Earned : $0 (Not yet monetized)
Backlinks : ~5
Pages Indexed by Google : 0
Unique Visits : 0
I may have a “head start” from what Jim started with, since a Google search for “chemotherapy” returns 21,100,000 results, while a search for “dog training” returns 12,000,000. It’s still a crapload of competition, but since it’s significantly smaller that 21 million, I feel good.
Remember, I have a few other sites like this, except they’re all on different low-profile subjects - one of them returning only 3,080 hits in Google.
Anyway, go ahead and wish me luck, and give me tips while you’re at it if you’ve done this kind of stuff before.
