Introducing “The Ultimate Guide to Building Niche Product Sites”

Posted in Niche Product Sites Guide on Apr 14th, 2010 | 5 comments

This is something I’ve mentioned that I want to do a few times now, and am now ready to move forward on it. I’m going to be going through a full niche product site build, from niche and keyword research, to choosing the right domain, designing a theme and coding the site out, creating or finding a product to sell, link building, and periodic status updates after all of that to show you how things are going. I will be showing you why I make the decisions I do as I build out this kind of site. It’s gonna be fun.

Why are you telling people about this?

Honestly, because I like writing about how to do things. I think a lot of things that people wonder about will get covered in this, and I know that most people, like myself, are always dying for case studies instead of hypothetical numbers. So this will hopefully serve as a good place for people to reference when getting started with these types of sites.

No seriously. Why are you telling people about this?

Alright, you got me. There’s honestly two reasons why I felt compelled to put together this guide. The first reason is that I’ve been meaning to kick myself in the ass and get a bunch of these sites rolled out anyways, so what better way to get moving than to write a damn guide about them. 99% of the reasons why people fail at Internet Marketing is simply because of execution. You can be the smartest guy in the world when it comes to this stuff, but if you simply don’t build and test and try, you’ll never make a dime.

Secondly, and this goes along with the last point, is that I’m really not too worried about a bunch of people leeching these ideas and beating me to the punch. Nothing I’m about to write about is ground breaking in any way whatsoever, all I’m really doing is putting a bunch of information in one place and adding in my own knowledge where I can. An industrious individual could find everything I’m about to write in an afternoon of searching.

What is a Niche Product Site?

Niche product sites are simply sites that are optimized around a certain product/service/offer and are pretty limited in scope. These are not portal sites and are not really trying to rank for more than a few keywords at the most (oh yeah, did I mention this was an SEO case study?).

Generally with these sites, you are searching for a high search volume exact match keyword domain name. That’s right, a high search volume exact match keyword domain name. These are the diamonds in the rough of this type of site. I’ll go into the details of what constitutes one of those domains and how to go about finding them in later posts in this series.

When it comes to the product you’re trying to sell, this can be a number of things. The main things you can promote are:

• Affiliate Offers
• Third party products (wholesale or drop sale)
• Your own products

For this guide, I will covering how to sell your own products. I won’t go too much into the ins and outs of how to create your own product in this guide per se, but I will cover how to sell digital products, what to look for in content and creation of the product, and how not to create a bullshit product that will get you flamed on all of the boards.

Dude. Really. An eBook?

Yeah, a damn ebook. For these sites, I will not be creating bullshit “Hey, you don’t have a degree unlike all of the PHD’s at Google, but we still want you to work for us!” Make Money Online offers. These are going to be specific guides and books about certain niche markets that will add value to the market and be useful to the people who buy them. I’ll cover this in more detail later as well.

What Next?

I have an internal list going on right now in terms of planning out the next few posts. This whole series will probably span a dozen or so posts, each one hopefully covering what you guys care about in as much depth as possible. In order to prevent any data skewing, I will not be outing my niche for this guide. Maybe one day.

I am using this write up as a proof of concept for about a half dozen other sites that I have domains for and am looking to build out. Once you get the process down and dial in your work ethic, you can seriously pump these out. We’ll see what I can pull off.



5 Responses to “ “Introducing “The Ultimate Guide to Building Niche Product Sites””

1. abroms says:

   April 14, 2010 at 4:57 pm

   I’m excited.

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2. eywu says:

   April 14, 2010 at 11:09 pm

   Sounds interesting. Looking forward to the series!

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3. Tipjar says:

   April 15, 2010 at 5:23 pm

   You have a follower, keep me posted

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4. vilesyntax says:

   April 19, 2010 at 11:53 am

   keep us posted!!

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5. PedroGoneWild says:

   April 22, 2010 at 1:33 pm

   This looks great! I’ve been meaning to put up a few sites like this as well.

   I will be keeping a close eye on this. Thanks!

   Reply