Choosing a niche and domain name. Adding a layer and changing Site Title later.

byJewelia

1.4K followers

8 years ago

Hello All -

Walking through the training step by step with zero knowledge at start, I followed Kyle's advice and chose a narrow niche: semi-precious gemstones. Well, I thought that eventually I'll get to the plural, but I'll start targeting even narrower niche - malachite lovers.

I thought that when I accomplished more learning and my first niche content looked well fulfilled, I'd move on and start working on another niche, and then another one. This seems like a common practice here, and many people in WA run several websites focusing on different niches. I started thinking about what else I am interested in... wood artworks, glass artworks, ceramic artworks, hand-painted silk artworks, mixed-media art, embroidery, photography, music, dance...

Do you see where I am going with this? Yes, I am interested in applied arts. Yes, the concept is too broad for one niche, but... as I move forward, I don't want every niche to have its own domain, and I don't want to manage multiple websites, because these niches well over-cross. Eventually, I'd like to have one website, which will help artisans and art lovers. Luckily, I thought about this before selecting a domain name for my site. Therefore, I chose the name tied to arts rather than directly to gemstones.

I am sure that some beginner artists may want to do some research on what's involved in blowing a glass vase versus making a ceramic one, or versus carving a wooden one. I'd like to offer them such information all in one place. Art-lovers visiting my site, may also enjoy looking at a variety of materials and products across the niches. If I am to write all this content, I better keep it all in one place!

This is the architecture I'd like to build:

And... here comes my problem! At this moment, the structure of the website I started is: Semi-Precious Gemstones (Home page with blogs) -> malachite, amber, charoite, rhodonite, jasper, agate, [other], About Me, Privacy Policy (static pages). The new architecture I envision, adds a layer to what's proposed in the training. This means that at some point, I would need to change my site's title and menus. Pages will move one step down as it's shown in the schema above.

• Could someone please tell me the kind of problems I am running myself into, especially with changing the Site's Title later on and moving pages? Will Google have to re-discover/re-index my site? Will I have to change all my affiliate links and AdSense since pages they are on have changed their URLs (relatively, but still)? What else can give me trouble?
  
• Do you think I should make this change rather sooner than later?
• Can you suggest WP theme, which should best handle this scenario?

Thank you!

~ Julia