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Giving Up On a Niche
iloveflash
Published on December 7, 2012
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I've decided to scrap my first niche website, http://howtowritestories.net.
The reasons are numerous.
This one has a clear profit model in place, the only trick will be getting it traffic. With all the skills I've gathered here, I'm hoping that won't be too much of a problem. The niche SEEMS like it SHOULD be competitive, but I've done some extensive searching and I honestly have yet to find another site like it. There's one main competitor who dominates the rankings under the main keyword for the site, but one perusal of the site told me it will be easy to outperform them in a number of areas, which should translate to outranking them, search engine Gods be willing.
This site requires a significant more amount of work because it is a service I'll be offering, not bits of advice. I may have to hire folks to help out down the line if I start getting traffic and clients, which is a whole nother ball game that both excites and terrifies me. In any case, I'm going to take it slow and try not to overwhelm myself. Bit by bit, just crank out new content.
Wish me luck.
Update on StumbleUpon:
Rather than talk about what incredible results I've had with StumbleUpon over the past three days, I'll show you:
The reasons are numerous.
- There's way more competition in this market than I initially expected. WAY. MORE.
- Search engine rankings got as high as the second page...with my main keyword under quotes. Without quotes the page was/is nonexistent. This still baffles me and I've yet to receive a straight answer from WA as to why this happens. An educated guess would say that keywords ultimately don't matter to SEO -- but if so, what does?
- There's nothing to sell. A few books on Amazon...not much else.
- I still don't think I'm an authority on how to write stories.
- I still don't see myself becoming one.
- I still don't want to.
- What I really want to do is build a business, not a website. There's a huge difference there.
This one has a clear profit model in place, the only trick will be getting it traffic. With all the skills I've gathered here, I'm hoping that won't be too much of a problem. The niche SEEMS like it SHOULD be competitive, but I've done some extensive searching and I honestly have yet to find another site like it. There's one main competitor who dominates the rankings under the main keyword for the site, but one perusal of the site told me it will be easy to outperform them in a number of areas, which should translate to outranking them, search engine Gods be willing.
This site requires a significant more amount of work because it is a service I'll be offering, not bits of advice. I may have to hire folks to help out down the line if I start getting traffic and clients, which is a whole nother ball game that both excites and terrifies me. In any case, I'm going to take it slow and try not to overwhelm myself. Bit by bit, just crank out new content.
Wish me luck.
Update on StumbleUpon:
Rather than talk about what incredible results I've had with StumbleUpon over the past three days, I'll show you:
So yeah, StumbleUpon is heavy. Some of that last day's traffic is from Reddit, I think. Sadly Reddit's submission process is something of a pain in the what.
I'm now starting to look at Digg and Mixx. They seem a bit on the elitist side of things, but we'll see.
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