| Niche market websites are your way to dominate | | | | processor may have test card numbers or a test |
| and sell more than mega sites that are trying to | | | | mode. Run some transactions in order to verify |
| be everything to everyone. In a previous article | | | | that your shopping cart can process orders |
| entitled "Create a Niche Market Website" I go into | | | | properly. |
| detail describing what a niche market website is. | | | | Optimize your Niche Market Website |
| Use your favorite search engine to look up this | | | | Now make your site THE place to go for news, |
| article to learn more about what a niche market | | | | information and stories about fly fishing or |
| website is. | | | | whatever your niche is about. Not only is these |
| | | | items interesting for your visitors these are also |
| In this previous article I used a fly fishing website | | | | bait for search engines. |
| as an example of a niche market website. Let's | | | | Use article directories to help with targeted |
| continue this path to further examine how you | | | | content about your niche. Articles can be a great |
| can dominate the mega sites and earn the income | | | | source of keywords for your site. |
| you desire. | | | | You should also include a blog on your website for |
| Build a Dominate Niche Market Website | | | | your visitors to post their own comments. A blog |
| In order to build a dominate website you need to | | | | on your site can be a great source of fresh |
| become the expert on your site's subject. | | | | content and attract new visitors to your site. |
| Start with a website address that has your niche | | | | You should also participate in blogs about your |
| in the name. In our example of a fly fishing | | | | niche and make sure that your website address is |
| website you should purchase a URL with "fly | | | | in your signature. This will help bring pre-qualified |
| fishing" in the name. The problem that you are | | | | visitors to your site. Just don't make your blog |
| going to find is that most names are already | | | | entries an advertisement for your site. Blogs don't |
| taken. You are going to have to be creative in | | | | like that and will probably block your account. |
| order to purchase a URL with your niche name in | | | | Repeat as Needed |
| the URL and keep it easy for your users to | | | | A single niche market site may not give you the |
| remember. | | | | income you desire. Not a problem. |
| Next, you will need a reliable host for your niche | | | | Once you have completed and optimized you |
| website. Don't think you have to pick a local | | | | niche market website you can repeat the same |
| source for your web host. You are about to | | | | process over and over again. Take your design of |
| enter the World Wide Web. Think global with your | | | | your fly fishing site and create sister sites for |
| web host as well as your available market for | | | | bass fishing and deep sea fishing. Each site should |
| your niche product. Virtual servers are easy to | | | | include links to the other sites so you end up with |
| find. Pick a web host that has reliable up-time for | | | | a family of sites that funnel visitors to each other. |
| its servers, 24-hours live support and the | | | | You can continue to expand as you have the |
| bandwidth to handle the visitors and downloads | | | | confidence that you can handle the extra work. |
| your site will need. | | | | Your additional sites do not have to be related to |
| No idea where to go? We host our sites with | | | | each other in order to be successful. They just |
| GoDaddy. We buy our URLs from there as well | | | | need to be focused, optimized and continue to be |
| as host our sites on their virtual servers. The | | | | updated with fresh and relative content. |
| hosting plan we have with them allows us up to | | | | Do not be discouraged if your single site does not |
| 25 sites and 25 databases for a single annual fee. | | | | return huge profits. Some niche market sites |
| Through our GoDaddy account we also have | | | | never earn thousands of dollars in profits on a |
| access to a huge library of software to help | | | | monthly basis. The beauty of this type of |
| create or enhance our sites. To create your niche | | | | business is that you can easily duplicate your |
| market website you will need a shopping cart | | | | efforts. |
| software. GoDaddy has a couple to pick from | | | | If you want $10,000 per month and your single |
| that are free yet very feature rich. | | | | niche market website does not show any promise |
| Templates and optional modules make customizing | | | | to make that kind of profit then create multiple |
| your website easy. While knowing html and php | | | | sites. 10 niche market websites making $1,000 |
| programming is a plus, it is not necessary to | | | | each a month is the same as a single site making |
| create a very attractive website. | | | | $10,000. Same thing with 20 niche market |
| You will need a way to process credit cards. | | | | websites making $500 each. In other words, with |
| Compare rates. That is the best advice that I can | | | | niche market websites are like owning a chain of |
| give. PayPal and Authorize.net are 2 of the bigger | | | | convenience stores or a fast food chain. You |
| processors. There are differences in credit card | | | | won't necessarily retire on a single site. Real |
| processors and you should select carefully. | | | | income comes through repeating your success |
| Add your items and make sure that your | | | | over and over again. |
| shopping cart is working properly. Your credit card | | | | |