Creating Your First Niche Website

Selling anything online starts with an idea.

A website is a way by which you are able to communicate information online. The first question you have to ask yourself is: what information should you share?


Of course, you would want a subject you know. A subject that is closer to home, so to speak. You want a topic that you are perfectly familiar with. You will be able to share more about such a subject because of former experiences, unbridled passion, or overflowing interests. You'll be able to save up on research time that may be required in preparing the conveyance of information about the said topic. Spend a day or two finding an idea. If you still have no clue, here are some questions you can answer that might help:

1. Do you have some hobbies that you are very familiar with?

2. Have you visited a few captivating places that made you experience the territory as well as the culture they possess?

3. Where would you rather be right now? How familiar are you with that place?

4. Have you had any work experience that made you acquire some astonishing skills that not a lot of people know about?

5. Are you a fan of any particular sport? Do you know the rules, the mechanics, and the personalities involved with such a sport by heart?

6. Do you have a especial area of interest being served by a variety of products? Are you familiar and are you passionate about these products? Do you think you could write some comparative reviews about them?

7. Do you enjoy doing a peculiar activity, either alone or with friends?

8. There are times when you just don't want to work, right? During these times, you wish you were doing something else. What are these things you'd rather do whenever work seems so boring?

9. What are you good at? Giving advice to people, perhaps? If so, what kind of advice?

10. Is there something you've always wanted to learn? Though you may not be familiar with this subject right now, your desire to be well acquainted with it can incite you throughout the coming months.

Like I said spend a day or two thinking about this and brainstorming an idea that you would love to pursue. Remember, you must have a certain lovingness for this idea. This will prompt you to come up with updates for your website later on. Don't hesitate to consult with family and friends and look for their help. Two or more heads are still better than one, right? Then, make a list of the ideas that come to mind. The longer the list is, the better your opportunities are of coming up with a very fruitful subject for your moneymaking website.

Now, let's imagine that one of your ideas is about the general subject of computers. You are a computer whiz, for example, and you desire to share a lot of information about how computers work and how to fix some common problems with them. The question you should ask yourself is this: is such an idea profitable?

How exactly do you determine the profitability of an idea? With the example of "computers" at hand, run a Google search and have a look at the amount of available web pages catering to the very same subject. You'd have to compete with each and every web page to get to the first page of the search engine results. So, the trick lies in two approaches:

1. Finding a subject that has little competition; or

2. Pinning down your selected subject into a extremely particular sub-topic that your competition oftentimes disregards.

These two approaches all mean the same thing, however; that is, you have to find your own niche. A niche is a highly segmented portion of a given market that is serviced by few entities. Another example: The general subject of "Golf" may not be profitable fast but the sub-topic of "Golf Clubs" may have a lot of moneymaking potential. And if such a sub-topic is further cropped to, say, "Mizuno Golf Clubs" you would have a fantastic niche that could become a wonderful profit stream for many years.

There are no ifs and buts about it. You have to this to find a niche. Think of ideas, research them and narrow them down to targeted sub-topics. Finally, come up with a niche that people will want to be informed about without that many websites providing such information.

So, do your research, use keyword search engine tools like the free Word Tracker engine. if you do that using the example of "computers" you'll find out that "dell computers" and "laptop computers" are among the top 5 most profitable search phrases. If you want to stick with the topic of computers, these two sub-topics could be your starting point into creating your first Niche website.

These search phrases will also be your keywords. Keywords are very, very, very important for the success of your website. Internet users will use these keywords whenever they search for information on the matter. Once the keywords are used in search engines, the search engines will dispatch their spiders to look for indexed websites that contain the said keywords. If your website has the same exact keywords, then you'll have great chances of appearing prominently in the search engine results pages. So, the trick is in finding a profitable niche idea. It all starts from there then proceed to building your website.

By Daniel Cortes, ezinearticles.com