How Build a Niche Site With a Blog

Building niche sites all rage these days.

The basic strategy very simple. Find a niche market isn't oversaturated. Develop a list related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized each one your keywords. Once you have your articles, upload them your site. Monitize your site with affiliate links Adsense.

For this kind niche site be effective make money, imperative you get free traffic, a lot it. And that's exactly where a blog can be your best friend.

At its very simplest, a blog just a structure. It's bones a web site. A blog a simple way publish display your content online. Most us think blogs a chronicle news events, or commentary news items interest. Or personal diaries.

Few people stop think you can build any kind website with a blog. In reality, a blog can be used very effectively build a niche site. The fact matter is, a blog easiest way publish your niche site content. But biggest reason use a blog can drive traffic your site a lot faster than a statically-built site. A niche site built with a blog a very powerful strategy.

First, choose your niche research your keywords. Write your first article based one those keywords, just you would when building a regular site. Then set up your blog publish article. Your niche site now live.

To make your site structure most effective, be sure choose a blog allows use Categories, such Word Press or Moveable Type. Use your 10 most important keywords name your Categories. Then file all your secondary keyword articles under those Categories.

Why this so important? If you keep building your site with keyword-rich articles, eventually you could have hundreds pages. Each those pages will have a link your 10 Categories. And each those links will use anchor text your most important keywords. As a result all those internal keyword-rich links, your site will end up ranking very well search engines your Category names.

Now it's time set up your traffic strategy. This where a blog can really shine. There are many special RSS/blog directories that are hungry feeds. By submitting your new blog these directories, you can start getting traffic almost immediately. Quite often these feeds will result a lot more traffic than all major search engines combined. This why makes so much sense build your niche site a blog. You can have twice traffic, get much faster than with a static site.

Here a list some top RSS/blog directories you should submit your site to: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Once you've submitted your site directories, you can get indexed by Yahoo almost immediately by adding your RSS feed your MyYahoo page. If you don't have a MyYahoo page, just go http://www.yahoo.com. Now click MyYahoo link at top set up your free account. Once you have your account set up, click Add Content, then add URL your blog RSS feed into Find Content box.

When you go back your MyYahoo page, your blog plus your first post should be shown. If you go look at your web stats your site, you'll find that Yahoo spider has already made a visit! Your new site should be indexed Yahoo just a couple days. This a strategy that some marketers were selling $50 just a few months ago. And works like a charm.

Every time you add a post, you can alert RSS/blog directories by "pinging" them. There a wonderful site at http://www.pingomatic.com that makes this very easy. You just have type your blog URL Pingomatic will send your ping Yahoo about 15 other large directories. That will bring spiders back your site almost immediately!

During first month, I would suggest that you write add a new article every day. Blogs that are frequently updated get most traffic. And you'll find that major search engines will spider your site every day. At end a month, you'll have a 30-article niche site that already getting a lot traffic. If you've monetized your site with Adsense related affiliate programs, you should also be making money already.

Once you've started building your niche sites with a blog, you'll never go back doing old way again!

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