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1:58 pm
February 28, 2013
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Club Thrifty
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Hey guys,
I've been doing some research on niche and micro niche websites lately. A lot of the information out there is pre-Panda and Penguin updates. Are niche sites still worth the trouble after those updates? Are any of you still able to make money on them? Thanks for the info!
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7:34 pm
February 28, 2013
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PK @ DQYDJ
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I think the problem with niche and micro-niche sites is ease of entry. If you find a good niche, someone will quickly come charging into it. Since AdSense is javascript, your publisher ID is public information – so if you want to find every niche that a blogger is operating inside, all you have to do it Google their Google ID (how ironic!).
So, hint hint, if you decide to do it, never mention it to anyone who might Google your ID.
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6:33 am
March 1, 2013
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Jeff Rose
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I've tried building "niche sites" but it's never worked for me personally. As a caveat, I consider niche sites ones that you intend to build and leave alone in hopes of making passive income.
I am developing other sites, but I'm adding content consistently, using YouTube to drive links and building interior pages targeted for specific keywords and geographic locations.
To me, you don't want to build a "niche site". You want to build an authority site in that niche. Look at Pat's Security Guard Training site as an example.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment. Doing so, unless you have the means to outsource, will eat up a ton of your time.
The question then becomes "Is it worth spending time growing a new authority niche site or growing your current blog?".
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10:10 am
March 1, 2013
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Lena Gott
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Jeff Rose said:
The question then becomes "Is it worth spending time growing a new authority niche site or growing your current blog?".
I've gone back and forth with this one, Jeff. I like the idea of micro niche sites, but the site maintenance is what would suck up all my time. I want to write on all sorts of topics, but luckily they can, for the most part, fit under the umbrella topics for my site. I figure if I'm going for search engine traffic, my main site can rank pretty well for any semi-related topic, so I'm going with that for now. I keep kicking around the idea of a niche site, though. I think up about one new topic per day. Maybe I need to find a dependable, inexpensive assistant before I go into that. I don't think there's any way I could keep up with more sites myself.
Has anyone have opinions on information vs product niche sites? Seems to me an information site centered around a cool/useful product would be fun and profitable.
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11:11 am
March 1, 2013
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Club Thrifty
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Thanks for the replies everybody. I'm with Jeff, as I would basically build an authority site in a niche – although once it is up and running I would hope to keep the content relatively static. I'm already swamped with our main authority site as it is, so what I'm looking to avoid is a time sucking site that will only clear $25 a month. I will definitely proceed with caution if we decide to go this route.
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2:44 pm
March 1, 2013
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First Million is the Hardest
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I think Jeff has got it exactly right. As Sam loves to remind us, Google is focusing more and more on quality content. So the days of slapping together a bunch of 4-5 page niche sites and making money are probably gone. The way to do it nowadays seems to be to create a somewhat larger "authority" site within your chosen niche.
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