Building Niche Site the Blogs Way
We had a long discussion at Plaza Singapura - about 3 hours talking about what we had done over the past year. The last time we met was about a year ago. At that time, YC prompted me to start building content websites. And I built several, each pulling in 30-50 unique visitors daily. I put up Adsense to monetize these traffics.
YC and I agree that Adsense is probably the “easiest and quickest” way to make money online today. Even big time Internet marketers have turned to using Adsense to generate 4 figures monthly income. And the way to do it easily and quickly is to build content websites. Not just website but niche website. The advantage of building niche websites is that you will still have a good chance to harness some organic search traffic.
I tend to look for niches that are popular with Singapore and Malaysia searchers. I believe these are growing markets yet to be tapped. I am sure the big boys are not here yet so it is relatively easier for my to get into Yahoo and MSN search listing. By the way, Yahoo is the preferred search engine in this region so you will get some traffic if you are listed in the first page of http://sg.search.yahoo.com and http://malaysia.search.yahoo.com
While researching on this idea, I came across an article by John Taylor. He suggested to use blogs to publish niche websites. Apparently, major search engines such as Google and Yahoo favour blogs’ content. It seems to be easier to get a decent ranking with a blogsite than a traditional website. Here’s the article which outlines how you can build profitable niche site the blogging way…
http://www.onepageweb.com/niche/profitable-niche.html