Niche Website Guide

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a set of optimization techniques used to improve the volume and quality of traffic for a website via search results for targeted keywords.

The higher it ranks in the search results, the more people will visit the website.

The most important things I recommend you for SEO are:

-         use unique content for your website;

-         make sure the website does not contain HTML coding errors;

-         make sure each page of your website has unique title, description and related keyword in the header tags;

-         use HTML tags like <h1> or <b> to underline the most important keywords;

-         build quality backlinks for your website;

-         try adding fresh content to your website periodically; many search engines will love this thing;

-         do not stuff your website with too many similar keywords;

-         do not use link farms for your website;

-         do not use black hat methods like hidden text or cloaking pages

I encourage you to go deeply in the problem and study different SEO techniques available on the Internet. The ones that I have just shared with you are from my personal experience and I do not guarantee you will experience the same results I did.

Now that you have the proper niche in your mind, let’s start by building the website.

You can start from scratch or you can use free templates found over the Internet.

If you start from scratch we recommend you using adequate software. You can find HTML software by searching the Internet for “website maker software” or “html software” for example.

If you have some basic HTML knowledge you can use free templates. You have to replace the logo, change the menu and add information and images.

You may ask: “Where do I get the information from? “

Well, you have to know that the biggest mistake is to copy from your concurrence. You can search the Internet for related information, but original content is a must. You can read other websites, but think and create your own text when making a niche website.

As we have discussed before, finding a niche topic by the number of search engine results is not enough. The topic itself must have relevance to the people.

For example, if we decide to build a website on a topic called “brown tomatoes”, we are discussing about a niche topic. If you search the Internet for this topic you will probably find a few next to zero results. Why? Because nobody is searching for “brown tomatoes” on the Internet. The topic itself has non-sense and it is hardly to believe that someone will ever find your website via the search engines.

Talking about search engines, these are the main source of traffic for websites these days. So, it is important to create a website on the proper niche.

How can you find the proper niche?

Fortunately, there are several tools available on the Internet. These tools will help you find the relevant topics.

Now start thinking about your first niche. It is not too early, you can think about it right away. We will see if it is a good niche or a bad one.

Now that you have a niche topic in your mind, just go to http://www.google.com and search for the topic. See the number of results and write it down on a sheet of paper. Fewer the results, better the niche.

The next step is to check for the topic relevance. Go to http://www.nichebotclassic.com and see how many times your topic was searched on the Internet in the last time. You will see the predicted daily searches for your topic. You will also be able to find related keywords – a good moment to go deeper with your search – and find a deeper niche or topics to write about in your first niche website.

Also try http://www.nichebot.com/v2/o/ in order to get the same information for specific countries.

Just finding the proper niche won’t help you go far.  But it is a good start.

Remember: the key for finding a proper niche is many people searching the topic and few websites discussing it.

A niche website is a website created on a specific topic.

One of the main characteristics of a niche website is that there are few similar websites discussing the same topic (subject). Once you have found a niche you must take advantage right away, because you are already one step ahead other webmasters which are creating websites on general topics.

Try to be different. This is a must if you want to be a successful Webmaster. The Internet is full of websites discussing the same topics. Let’s start by giving some examples.

A website discussing the subject “snails” is a niche website. The topic “snails” is a topic discussed on a relatively limited number of websites. Let’s take for example the topic “games”. This is not a niche topic because if you search the Internet for keyword “games” you will find millions of websites related to this subject. “Games”, “music” or “news” aren’t niche topics. They are too general. Fewer the search results, better the niche.

Let’s go deeper into the problem.

Even if the topic “snails” is a niche, you can take much more advantages from it. For example, the topic “snail recipes” is related to “snails” and has fewer results when searching the Internet. This means that “snail recipes” topic is a better niche than “snails” topic and you can take advantage from it.

So a niche topic could be divided into smaller niche topics. But let’s take “games” for example. As we have already discussed, this is not a niche topic. But if you go deeper, and think about “snow games” for example, you may have found a niche. It’s not the best niche of course, but try to go deeper with your search and find “snow games for children” for example. This is a better niche already.

Do you understand what I mean?

Start thinking from generally to particular. Choose a general topic and start dividing it. Go deeper and deeper and see what you get.

Niche topics represent small percents of all Internet topics. But even general topics like “music” and “games” can be divided into niches. Try to find out which are these. Use your imagination.