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Friends,

Several readers in the past have requested some detailed information on building niche websites.  I now have over 20 profitable niche websites online and was finally able to compile a detailed post on how to build one.

While most bloggers interested in this area talk about KW research and link building, they never discuss creating the actual web property – the underlying asset on hand, which I feel is most critical and the reason for my success.

My current post talks about building one in depth.  I spent several hours crafting the post and providing detailed examples so that the strategies can be understood, followed and acted upon immediately.  Here is a link:

http://www.easyextramoneyonlin…..structure/

Would highly appreciate your thoughts / comments and gaps that can be filled / addressed in the next post?

Hope you find it useful!

Glen – you can do either, depending on how much customization/differentiation you are going for.  Templates and themes can be copied so easily, another reason why this method of generating income online is so lucrative. I can get a site up and running full speed in 2 days (less than 10-12 pages).  Another 30-60 marketing and I am done. Rinse and repeat to the next one…

Appreciate that Jeff.  Hope the granularity makes it practical to take and apply immediately

Excellent post. It shows the power of doing a detailed keyword search at the outset and understanding two-word, three-word, and four-word keyword phrases — including understanding the keyword phrases nested within longer keyword phrases. And then, consciously implementing that keyword analysis within the structure of a niche website. Since the site is so targeted, you can have a rather low Alexa rank and even modest pagerank on a site and still get respectable search traffic and Adsense revenue over the long term, in part because the ad click prices tend to move up.

I also like your point about consciously interlinking within your posts. Not only does this flow the Google juice around within the site, it also has an added benefit of sometimes getting two listings within the SERPs — a left justified entry with an indented entry just below. This increases your chances of a click-through from the SERPs, since your site occupies two listings on the search results page.

sure  - looking forward to everyone's feedback. follow up questions / concerns are welcome

Great post. I got part way through and will have to finish it when I have a little quiet time. 

Thanks Sunil. 

Great post, really enjoyed the content and strategy.  I keep getting caught up in the process of actually finding a niche site topic… just can't seem to strike the right balance.  Thinking I should just try diving in and seeing how it goes, it's all good practice right?

Sunil, excellent post. I'm learning a lot already. 

Question, you created these site using SBI. I looked into it a while back, but did not end up using them. Does SBI make it really easy or Wordpress is good enough to create these sites?

Molly:  Sandy from 'Yes, I'm Cheap' today just emailed a link to this post!

I see that you do your keyword research on an excel spreadsheet.  Mike and I are looking into the marketsamurai software.  The demo was very convincing.

Mike:  I had to restrain myself from ordering it!

Molly:  Yes, keep that restrain on!  I'm savy enough on excel to create a sheet to hold our research but the lure of the software and all it does is tempting. 

Mike:  Any words of wisdom?  Have you tried it or similar software.  What's your reasoning behind doing it on a spreadsheet?

Sunil from The Extra Money Blog said:

Mike and Molly, rather than trying to cram all the info here, have you read my post on effective keyword research?  also, in my resources section, I discuss three specific KW research tools, either of which can be downloaded to excel. 

We did go back and read about 4 articles (plus hopped over to Entrepreneurs Journey).  We see where you discuss the KW research tool in several articles and the reviews but there's no mention of which are downloadable to excel.  

We'll keep reading!