Boffy Niche Blog #1 - Follow my Journey & Join Along: The Plan
In addition to attempting to starting a London Mastermind Meetup I intend to start my second niche site and document it on my blog as I go. I plan to update my WA blog weekly with my progress so far; starting next week with the planning and keyword research stage and building all the way up to a fully functional, profitable website.
If you haven't started your online adventure YOU SHOULD BEGIN TODAY! Join me now on this amazing trip as we set goals and hit achievements on a week to week basis.
Why am I Doing this?
- A Fresh Start: My current site has me bored - I want to try my hands on a new site following the advice I have picked up while being a WA member
- The Accountability: If I'm doing a second website, I better ensure I keep maintaining and building it up - WA can hold me accountable and will serve as a gentle goal reminder
- Mentorship Resources: Since becoming a member I have been helping several users within WA on their own sites. I want to have a site that I can share with them, providing a live example and a resource for them to review
- WA Affiliate / Success Story: When I create my own WA affiliate site I will have these posts to refer back to and add on my own site. The success from this project will provide me with the credability and opportunity to share my own success story.
What is The Plan?
- Blog each week with the current situation of the website, my goals for the week and what I aim to have done before the following blog post
- Discuss the good and bad experience of running a niche site
- Create and document my own 'system' to follow for additional sites.
- Test new strategies within the online business - whether its new plugins, different monetisation strategies or just concepts that I haven't attempted before.
Want to get Involved?
Please leave me a comment below and join me on this journey.
If you already have a site then let me know your current situation, if you are brand new to WA then 'Get Started with Level 1' while following my blog.
My Quote For The Week!
As this week will be about planning and keyword research I thought I would go with a relevant quote:
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin
EDIT: Post #2 is now live please visit https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/boffy/blog/boffy-niche-blog-2-the-niche-keywords to continue reading my progress
Recent Comments
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If you are bored with your blog does that mean it was not successful? Also do you build a new website? I'm just starting the training and am feeling uncertain about where I'll go.
This site was done without prior keyword research and was my learning curve before WA. The niche was something I was personally interested in so I wrote about it while learning.
It's made over £200 now and I would consider it a success but there are a few of problems with it:
1) While there is only 1 other site as competition for my main keywords, the traffic isn't especially large.
2) The site is basically book review portal on a specific niche. The books are teaching a digital product that is constantly updated - this causes books to be released already out of date and therefore it can be hard to recommend them
3) As the product is digital, the users tend to lean towards online tutorials - videos, articles etc...
4) the age and computer literacy of the users also means they would rather pirate the materials than pay £30-40 per book.
Where are you on the lessons and how can I help you? Don't ever hesitate to ask me, or anyone else in the community - we are all in this together :)
so you mean you made a website book review portal which is out of date? That's a good idea but it's changed many customer wants to buy Digital books because it's much cheaper than page books.
You could buy ebooks or physical books (all through Amazon).
It was the audience that wasn't researched.
I like your approach Boffy. Many thanks for the blog as I need to see how well organised and structured the process is for me to understand it more fully. I will catch up with your other blogs as I begin to work through the programme. Kindest regards. Gerry
Thanks for reading Gerr and I'm glad you found it of interest.
I'll be talking about website structure, plugins and general back-end set up this week.
I'm feeling the same way, Boffy. I'm bored with my site and looking to start a new one. I'm working on keywords right now. I'll be following along as well! Good luck!
It happens Emerald, the main thing to be aware of is constantly switching niche sites before making any money.
I found that writing at least 20 keywords and having at least 10-15 article ideas can really help decide whether this new niche will survive even when my interest drops.
My second blog post is out and I've sorted my keywords, this site has a chance for more visitors per month. All exciting stuff!!!
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Blogging about your site is a great idea, i will be following, and as i'm only a week old member of WA you'll be hearing from me soon.
Also, I think I'll borrow your blogging about your site idea. it will help keep me motivated
Do blog about your site. I'm a follower so I'll get notified when you blog :)
It's a great motivation tool and a way to measure your success.