One of the biggest draws of building niche websites is the idea that you can build a passive income stream that produces a recurring flow of money with little to no work on your end. I know that for me, that was a big reason why I decided to go down this path several years ago. In the beginning, I had a vision of continuing to work my day job while my niche site brought…
Like most people, when I first found out that you could make money by building simple niche websites, I was looking for the quickest path to success. Not surprisingly, there were plenty of bloggers out there ready to sell me their get-rich-quick courses. This is how many people get sucked in. They see the potential for making money online and start taking all the “shortcuts” that they see on YouTube or on blogs for hitting…
If you spend any time researching the various methods people use to build niche sites, you’ve probably noticed that there are two strong camps when it comes to keyword tools: those who think they’re crucial, and those who say you shouldn’t use them at all. Both sides of the fence have good arguments, but does it really have to be one or the other? Is there really only one good way to find keywords that…
As I often talk about on this site, one of the biggest draws to building niche websites is how passive it can be at the end of the day. However, that doesn’t mean you should jump straight to outsourcing all of your content and tasks on day 1. Believe it or not, there are actually quite a few benefits to doing the work yourself. The biggest one probably being that you can iron out the…
When I got back into building niche sites again a few years ago, everything I saw online said to go small with your niche selection. The idea was that you could go small and quickly carve out a bit of space within a niche, which would be easier than going after a larger, broader niche. This concept made sense to me, yet I ended up going in a different direction. For the first site that…
Like many of you, when I first started down the path of looking for ways to make money online, I was inundated with “get rich quick” schemes. The people behind these videos on YouTube do such a good job of presenting that’s it’s hard not to get sucked in. Well, I can tell you based on my experience that it rarely works that way. While there are definitely some shortcuts you can take, if you…
Over the past few years, I’ve successfully built several niches sites, each to over 250,000 pageviews and several thousand dollars per month. I’ve been able to do this because I’ve done a lot of research and learned from my past mistakes. Part of me wishes I could say that I had this all figured out from day 1, but at the same time, my team and I wouldn’t be where we are without hitting those…
When it comes to building niche websites, some steps are more important than others. When you make a mistake on the not-so-important steps, you can usually adjust down the road and recover. On the flip side, if you screw up one of the more important steps, you can significantly decrease your odds of succeeding. One of those important steps that you don’t want to take lightly is choosing the right niche. While I truly believe…
When most people think about creating a high-traffic site, they look for ways to optimize their article. Something that’s easy to forget is that to get that traffic to your site in the first place, someone needs to find and click a link to your post. While keyword research and competition analysis are extremely important in getting your content found, equally important is getting people to click on the links to your articles once you…
What if I told you that following one simple piece of advice could put you ahead of the majority of your competitors? What if I also told you that the piece of advice required no extra work on your end? No-brainer, right? Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to lay out in this post. This isn’t a difficult, step-by-step process by any means. Instead, it’s a simple mental hurdle that you must cross that most…