Do You Know What You Are Talking About?

So you just found a great keyword, and it passed all the criteria Court and Mark tought you at The Keyword Academy, what now?  If you don’t know squat about how to remove warts how are you going to build a niche site around it?  If you are making money with your niche sites you should consider sourcing the content for some of the more obscure niches you are targeting and that’s where services like TextBroker come in handy.  It just might be that you have found a great keyword that is easy to rank for but you do not have the funds to source the content for your niche site.  If that is the case than you are going to have to buckle down, do the research and write your own content.  Stay away from scraping for content or copying and pasting unless you plan on using the site for support reasons.  If you are serious about getting a site to rank and making money with it, then you will have to either source or write decent unique content that can pass a human inspection.  I find that for topics that I am not familiar with, sourcing the text is best.

When Time is a Factor

There have been times when I have found so many good keywords to go after that I just could not write the stuff fast enough.  I like to do niche site building in stages so I tend to do heavy keyword research, pinpoint what I am going to target and buy domain names in bulk for my niches sites.  I want all of these domains to have live sites on them like YESTERDAY, so I need the content fast.  I drill down on each of keywords (using Google’s Keyword tool) that I have decided to make focused niche sites for to find out what the article topics will be, then I put in an order at TextBroker for each niche site.  Five posts for each niche site is good but it really depends on the keyword and how deep you can go with it.  If you can have ten or fifteen posts for your niche that will give your site that much more authority, why not do it?  Longtail organic search results just make money so go after them!

Example of what the hell I just said:  Say I want to go after a niche site on the Blackberry Storm (I wouldn’t by the way.)  I would plug in ‘blackberry storm’ into the keyword tool, take the five or so highest searched for related keywords and build a site around those.  And since I am building niche sites in bulk I would need to source those articles.

While I am waiting for my content to be written and submitted to me I am installing wordpress on each of the domains, using different themes for each domain, hosting domains with different hosting accounts and pretty much making it very difficult for a competitor or Google to tie any of these domains to one another.  I do this for each domain in one session.

After I have each wordpress install done I use an FTP to go in and add the few plugins that I want, All in One SEO, All in One Adsense, phpBay (for my eBay stuff, not on every niche site) and maybe RSS Footer if I plan on putting more content up in the future.  I have these plugins ready to go in a folder that I just transfer over via FTP.  Then I update any that need updating and then activate them.

After that I work on some generic monetization and tracking stuff, again doing this in bulk for all of the domains I am about to develop.  Statcounter, adsense channels with All in One Adsense, whatever it is you might use for your niche sites.  You can use Google analytics to but I generally don’t at first unless I plan on making a rather large site.  If a site starts getting decent traffic, then I consider throwing in some Analytics code.

Now I go into each site and create the posts.  For example if I am going to create five articles for my Blackberry Storm niche site I spoke of earlier, I will create 5 posts using the terms I found with Google’s Keyword tool.  I will find an image for each of those posts and optimize the names and alt tags and captions.  I know some people say image traffic sucks and doesn’t convert at all, but my analytics account tells me otherwise, so I optimize for image results.  (Don’t get me wrong, Court has tought me a ton, and I am a happy TKA member, I just don’t think he cares about $5 a month per site.  I do.)

Then I do any editing these themes might need.  I try to take out all instances of ‘Date Posted’ and ‘Author Name’ and footer links.  Sorry theme builders, I just hate footprints on my sites and really I am doing you a favor, I mean sitewide footer links?  C’mon.

After doing all that work I’m typically starting to see my articles come in and ready for me to approve and stuff the articles into the posts that I already setup.

When To Not Source Content for Your Niche Sites

Don’t source content for niche sites if you are broke.  Don’t source content for super obscure stuff that not many people are likely to know about.  Don’t source content if you have found an amazing keyword that has high traffic potential and no competition.  I might sound a bit paranoid here but I don’t want to chance giving away my great keyword to some TextBroker writer.  Don’t source content for hubpages, ezinearticles, goarticles or any other parasitic sites.  I usually use articles that I have sourced and rewrite them for these types of sites, kind of like writing a UAW article set.  In short you only want to source content for your money sites.  If you have a lot of money to spend then, by all means source the other stuff to.

Knowing When To Source Content For Niche Sites is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

This begs the question: How much time should you spend on one site?  I have heard some very different ideas of how to spread your time between link building and on site work.  The Keyword Academy recommends spending about 20% of your time working on an actual site and the other 80% of your time building links!  This is pretty extreme but very effective.  It is well proven that a site can have very little content but, if it has enough links, it can still outrank a site with much more content.  On the flip side I have read other authorative niche site builders that 80% of your time should be spent on the actual site.  I can’t say either of those ideas is wrong, it’s all about implementation.

I have done well myself in the middle of these two ideas.  I spend about 50% of my time building links and the rest with on-site stuff but lately I have been making enough money with niche site building to be able to outsource a good amount of my work.  I love using Textbroker (I wish they had an affiliate system) to get my on site work done.  Writing unique content for my sites is a huge drag and tends to put me right to sleep if I don’t have some coffee in me.  There is only so much you can write about cordless knives before you go completely numb!

There are other places that are much cheaper than Textbroker but for my real money sites I want good content that someone would actually be willing to link to.  For that I use Textbroker as they are very good writers over there and after a few times you get to see who the really good writers are.  There are two ways to purchase content from Textbroker, you can put out an open order for the entire Textbroker community to fight over or you can ask an individual to write your content for you.

I have visited other places to source content from but have been pretty intimidated by the way those sites are setup.  Textbroker is so easy!  Very straightforward signup, very easy to place an order with a place to put in the topics you want written on and exactly the amount you want to pay.  It is amazing how soon you get your articles written.  Sometimes I get articles back within a few hours, very awesome.  You get emails letting you know your articles are ready and have the opportunity to reject or accept the article, or you can just ask for improvements.  This is an awesome way to leverage your time.  Recently I put in an order for fifty three 300 word articles and four 900 word articles and had them back in less than 5 days.  That is leverage.  It would have taken me quite literally months to get that amount of writing done.  The only time I spent on the site was adding the content using proper on site SEO and adding a bunch of pictures.

If you can outsource your content it makes it so that you can focus your time with your link building campaign (not something you want to outsource.)  If you have the money to spend on unique content rather than writing it yourself it is definitely the way to go.  This way you can build an authoratative site with the same amount of time it takes you to build a small site.  No doubt that a site with lots of content looks more authorative to the search engines and will beat a site with the same amount of links but less content.

I read a post today from The Honest Way blog where he was kind of bashing niche site builders that are trying to build authoratative sites.  I guess what an authoratative site is can be a matter of opinion.  I can toss up fifty-plus pages onto one site, build backlinks to the different pages and make it look authorative without spending lots of time on the site itself.

How To Leverage Your Time With Niche Site Building is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.