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I am starting up a bunch of niche sites within the next few weeks, and I am trying to settle on some details.

For all of you who have niche sites, do you allow comments? If so, do you allow them across the board, or based on the topic of the site (informational vs. product based for instance)?

Also, what are some other small things that I should consider, that would be different than setting up a blog?

I haven't started my niche site yet but I definitely plan to allow comments. I think discussion is key in building readership and respect for what you have to share.

You're right FB. A Nice Blog and a Nice Site are two different things. We shouldn't interchange the terms.

The Financial Blogger said:

I don't. To be honest, I've published all my article on whatisdividend.com back in March and April and never went back until September to add a few more articles. Since then, the site is growing slowly and earning roughly $100/month without me even thinking about it.

the purpose of a niche site is to provide useful information to readers while it provides you with steady PASSIVE income. Allowing comments, would allow interactions, would require time.

An niche blog is like… a blog that is very specific (for example, The Dividend Guy Blog). I post twice a week and allow comments since it is a blog… but only talking about dividiend investing ;-D

But aren't you a full time blogger? I just have a question. What happens if someone else starts targeting the same niche as you. Do you heat up and try to beat them, or back out?

Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog said:

The Financial Blogger said:

I don't. To be honest, I've published all my article on whatisdividend.com back in March and April and never went back until September to add a few more articles. Since then, the site is growing slowly and earning roughly $100/month without me even thinking about it.

the purpose of a niche site is to provide useful information to readers while it provides you with steady PASSIVE income. Allowing comments, would allow interactions, would require time.

An niche blog is like… a blog that is very specific (for example, The Dividend Guy Blog). I post twice a week and allow comments since it is a blog… but only talking about dividiend investing ;-D

But aren't you a full time blogger? I just have a question. What happens if someone else starts targeting the same niche as you. Do you heat up and try to beat them, or back out?

I only work 10-12 hours a week on my blogs. So I can't afford spending too much time updating my niche website. however, I track my income and traffic so I would not (about 2-3 weeks late) that another competitor is aiming for the same niche. There are a few things you can do to prevent that (mind you, it's not bullet proof):

- Select niche where you need a high level of knowledge (it reduces your number of competitors… like the one I did on dividend investing).

- Use your network of site to promote your niche site and link to it (I do it right now but not aggressively, I could put a text link on each of my homepage toward my niche website for example).

- Do so much backlinking that it's impossible to reach your level (unless you have a lot of resources)

then again, those are ways that will reduce your risk of losing your niche but it's not a guarantee ;-)

I didn't do much backlinking at the moment (as I mentioned on my site, I concentrate this year on content and niche site creation). Next year, I'll have my portfolio of niche site ready and do backlinks.

I'll do something very similar to Pat Flynn's method. In fact, I've tried Mark Riddix's services and it did crated a lot of backlinks to one of my site ;-)

Right now, I use my own network to do my backlinking ;-)

The Financial Blogger said:

I didn't do much backlinking at the moment (as I mentioned on my site, I concentrate this year on content and niche site creation). Next year, I'll have my portfolio of niche site ready and do backlinks.

 

I'll do something very similar to Pat Flynn's method. In fact, I've tried Mark Riddix's services and it did crated a lot of backlinks to one of my site ;-)

 

Right now, I use my own network to do my backlinking ;-)

I plan to use some of the services that Pat Flynn uses to build backlinks as well. I never thought about doing it only after building up all of my niche sites first. Is there a specific reason why you won't worry about backlinks until after you have fully developed the sites?

That makes a lot of sense. I have about 10 niche sites that I want to develop in the near future, so I can definitely see the benefit in putting up all the content first. That may be the way to go for my sites as well – except for the Yakezie niche site duel.