Niche Websites 101
Since there are probably quite a few newcomers to this blog and I have been getting a lot of questions on Niche Websites, I wanted to point you to a past post that I wrote on the subject that may help clear things up a bit for you.
July 18,2007 - What Is a Niche Website?
If you have ever looked anything up on the internet and found a website with information and some ads, then you have come across a niche website. They are all over the place.
It is like form of online real estate investing. The more sites you have and the more visitors you have, the more money you make off of advertisements, etc…
I used to build my niche websites from scratch via HTML, but starting about a week ago I have been using Wordpress blogs (on my own hosting, not on wordpress.com) to create my niche websites.
Why not wordpress.com? Because they don’t allow any advertisements on their sites, which makes them pretty much useless for making money.
I used to be against niche blogs, but have been turning around due to the ease of setup. I set a goal to create 15 new niche websites/blogs each month.
No I don’t plan to write new posts to all of them on a regular basis, I wish I could, but that could really get out of hand. I will probably try and put a post on each one at least once a month to keep them somewhat fresh, but the traffic will mainly just come from article marketing.
Like I said, I just switched to making niche blogs this week. So I will update you on the results and if it is any better/worse than setting it up as plain static websites (non-blog).
Progress Overview
I hardly use anything but WordPress to build my websites any more. It makes it so much easier to update the content. I think you’re going to like it, too!
And the good thing about WordPress is that you can work the template so that it doesn’t really look like a blog.
Thanks for the post Amy…this really is helpful to those of us that are trying to keep up with all of the things you are doing!
That’s what I would use (blogs) to make websites. There really isn’t much of a difference between a blog and a website anyhow. It’s so much easier to get a blog going than setting up a website. I used to own and operate a music streaming website a long time ago which I built from scratch i.e. a blank text box. Using blogger for me is a godsend! lol. Much luck to you on the blog niches
Nichele
http://www.pleasehelpmyfamilyout.blogspot.com
I agree 100% with your new plan Amy. I’ve been using blogging platforms to develop websites for years. I have always been convinced that they are basically just another CMS option.
What makes a blog a blog? To me it’s a web site with regularly updated content arranged in a primarily chronological order. So if you have a blog that ISN’T updated regularly and is organized by pages/categories instead of date what do you have?… why a website of course!
I think you will be very happy with wordpress as a CMS Amy.
cam
I found wordpress is much easier to create niche sites with once I learned how to set it up, I am enjoying following your progress Amy,
Hi,
Wordpress is great, but I prefer to use it as a central blog with links out to my niche sites. Have a look at this wordpress post as an example of how I connect the niche websites to my blog:
A Practical Adsense Business Model
cheers
Tony