How to create a niche content site and monetize it
86There is a lot of things that you can do to make money online and this is a simple, legal method that you can use to earn money online.
Create a niche based content website and then monetize it well. If you have some basic knowledge of how the internet works you can do this in a snap.
Even if you don't know how to start this hub will help you get off to a good start with creating a decent content website in a good niche.
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Develop the niche content site
Definition of content site
A content site does not attempt to sell you anything. All it does is give you a great deal of information about a specific topic or niche. There is no direct product to be bought or sales letter on the site. You are just sharing information with the visitors to your site about the niche that you have chosen.
Choosing a niche
You need to pick a good niche to develop a content site about. There is no point developing a site about a niche which no one wants to know about. This is an important step and you need to go through Google trends and Yahoo buzz to see exactly what people are looking up.
Keyword research
Once you have your niche all picked out you need to get the correct keywords that people type into search engines. Using these keywords on the site will make it easier for you to get organic traffic to the site. There are sites like Google's Adwords tool that can tell you which keywords would be most effective.
Getting content
You don't need to be an expert to write your own content for the site. You can outsource it to a freelancer. However if you don't have the money then you can use article directories and pick up articles that you find useful. You can use these articles as along as you keep the links intact for the attributed authors and have no problem setting up great content.
Setup site
I wrote a hub about 14 sites that allow you to set up free websites. Just go and open up an account with one of these sites to get your niche content site set up. Now add the content that you have already got. For SEO optimization you will like to use the keywords that you have found in your research.
Different ways to monetize
Now that the site is all set up you need to monetize it. You can use Google Adsense Publisher Id to get relevant ads on the site. Or you can use Chitika ads. In fact you can also use Kontera to get in text ads going. Another good site for in text advertising is Infolinks. They have no referral program but are good. Personally I found their rates better than Kontera's.
There you have it. A good website with content in a niche that people are hunting for. Now wait for a month or two for the site to get indexed in the search engines and you will have a stream of pennies dropping in from your site on a regular basis. Now repeat the process with another site.
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8 reasons why a content site fails
1. Weak niche selection - This is the crux of the matter. If you choose the wrong niche no matter what else you do it will not work. You can do everything else right but if you get into the incorrect niche it will be to no avail.
2. Inadequate keyword research - Just taking a look at the keywords in the list is not enough. You need to test which ones work at generating traffic and which ones do not. This means that you need to get serious about the research.
3. Poor or duplicate content - You must provide value for the reader and make them want to come back and share the content on the site with other friends. Remember the main draw of the site is the content that you put on it.
4. Not enough SEO - Considering that you will depend a great deal on search engine traffic for the site's success you need to spend some time and effort in getting the right SEO for your content site.
5. Lack of focus - If you have too many elements on 1 site you will divert the visitor's attention. Focus on a single niche with a single site. You can also build another site for a parallel niche that you feel will work well.
6. Give up too early - Like with anything else in life this method of money generation online takes time and practice. You will not hit pay dirt at the first go. You need to have patience to see it succeed.
7. No traffic plan - While search engines will generate organic traffic based on your key word research you will not see much traffic coming in from them unless your site pages get indexed. For this you need to have a good backlinking plan and also look at other free traffic sources such as article marketing.
8. Outsourcing in order to get more done - You can not leave your niche content site to a freelancer to run. It will need constant tweaking depending on what you niche content you have choosen. This means hands on work for you along with anyone else you hire.
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Very true AlexK. Although I find weebly quite good as they give you 50% of your adsense value generation
Good and Informative Hub.
Hi Cashmere. Always nice to read your writing.
I have just launched my second sales site since being at hubpages. I think your advice to design content rich sites without sales items is a great idea and rather use the other methods of generating income for the site. I must say with free websites, there is no risk. So thank you.
This is a great hub with lots of really good information. Thanks, Cashmere
Wonderful information. It is something that is definately worth looking into. I agree, not having a subject that people are interested in is a downfall for many new writers looking to make money this way.
So you do use Weebly? I've set up a couple of websites on Weebly and I've learned the interface -- simple to do. But I've thought maybe I should go with Wordpress. I have basic Wordpress but thought oh I need to learn how to download templates and more.
A nice hub. Easy to follow and clearly explained. Thank you.
Dale I am not an affiliate for any thing. Some how I can never think of myself as a saleswoman. All the best with your website.
Alekhouse, Greentea, KK Gals,and Peter, thanks for your encouraging comments.
Don, I have three content sites on weebly now and of them one generates about 10 cents a day. Another one about 20 cents a day and the third one is currently under construction. So I find it quite good despite sharing 50% revenue with adsense.
Dale I am not an affiliate for any thing. Some how I can never think of myself as a saleswoman. All the best with your website.
Alekhouse, Greentea, KK Gals,and Peter, thanks for your encouraging comments.
Don, I have three content sites on weebly now and of them one generates about 10 cents a day. Another one about 20 cents a day and the third one is currently under construction. So I find it quite good despite sharing 50% revenue with adsense.
Thank you - your hub is a great pep talk and reminder. As I sat down today I said it was time to finish the blog I started (about 6 months ago) - and just never got back to. There is always something else to do.
But to create your own niche content can bring back a bit of enthusiasm and creativity to your writing.
So I am bookmarking your hub - because I need this pep talk every now and then. And yes, I will get that blog going - I already linked it to AdSense.
Rated up!
Very informative. Thank you.
very useful tips: clear, concise, accurate. Thank you!
These steps can be very effective if followed.
Very informative but I suppose it requires practical training to follow.
i learnt all this on my own with no training, it was all trial and error for me
Great article, I plan on starting a new website soon but I dont know which website is best for creating a website. I have very little html experience to build a website from scratch.
Lack of focus and Giving up way to early as you rightly pointed out is one of the bane of many online newbies.
Succeeding online require all the tips as listed out by you.
Thanks for doing great justice to this topic.
Well entourage with these free website building sites you need no indepth knowledge of HTML. all the code is placed in ready to use modules that you use like building blocks for your website, much the same as you use the capsules in hubpages.
Excellent Hub . It has given me ' food for thought ' about the way I should head with my sites .
Glad to have been of some help
excellent, this is well done, and it's so true content is as important as anything else. I would add that if you are wanting to make money you need links from different domians ( I said much teh same in teh sanswer I gave you...) great hub, I'll be back.
Great information!
Informative. New to hubpages and already feel dedication is going to be key and not give up, for me right now I am just pleased to be writing having people reading my work, I know it's going to take some time to make money.
thank you, very interesting information, I joined hub with idea's of learning to do this kind of thing.
Can't wait to get started.
COntent sites are outdated today, as you look to be pointing out above. Enough with content, get real and interact, actually sell something via ecommerce solutions, etc. and stop with the ad pages. Here here!!
Hello, Cashmere:
Interesting information. I hadn't thought so much about content sites; instead, I opted to go for affiliate marketing and article marketing for my website. We'll see how it pans out. Thanks for the info.
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Thanks Rebecca,and elmorin.
RosieG am glad I helped. Many hubs helped me kick start when I was a newbie. Glad to give back.
Jenny and Jerry marketing stuff also needs content in the site, doesn't it? You can't just say buy this and be done with it.
Cashmere,
Great hub, awesome information!!
Thank you GDiBiase. Glad you found it useful
Another great hub for you. I learn much from you. I thought we need hard work to make a great site and monetize this to get income online. But I promise we can passed all this by patience. Good work, my friend. Vote up. Love and peace
Prasetio
I just started my blog about 3 weeks ago and have seen a little traffic. I emailed all my family and friends and so did my wife. I also have backlinks on a couple of my friends websites as well. I agree that you have to stick with it and not give up too early. This is a get rich slow process in the beginning.
Thanks for the information, it is always educational and interesting to see how people are making money on the internet.
Number 6 is the important one, most people do give up too soon !
Great information. I am going to refer back to it as I take your advice.
this is actually really good.
Thanks Prasetio,in this method persistence really pays.
Mazzastick emailing friends and family is good they can pass it on to others and build your traffic, just don't keep bombing them with links all the time though.
Thank you thesweetlife,Dianemae and Johnny.
Very true tattoguy, its one of those things that you need to stick with for a while before it works.
That was very informative, I will put some of those tips into practice.
Hope the method works for you
I hop around the site and keep selecting your articles to read. No wonder. This one was really helpful. I bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks. I'm following you now. Linda
Thank you Linda, love the compliment.
Thank you for writing this article; the links you provided about where to go to build a website for free will come in very handy.
Great hub. Thanks for the helpful information.
Great stuff, this should be helpful for the newcomer and experienced.
Nice informative hub
Thanks for the information. It's always easier to learn with specifics. Too much general info out there, not enough practical.
Great information. I joined Hubpages a couple years ago.I am not an expert by any means when it comes to writing for the public. Anyway, I have been really looking at my stats and find the one articles having to do with men and women with felony convictions and umemployment is still getting attention and people are still asking me questions.I think this should be my area of concentration,my niche. I could definately use some feedback on this from you. Thanks
Great hub, well written and easy to follow.
I think #6 is true of most things in life, you've got to stick with it to succeed!
Thanks for the info!
L-speth that was the idea.Reagan, escrib, sarclair and Trinsick, thank you for stopping by.
Anna i think you already know the niche you should get into. Lucky you as that's the most painstaking step. Develop it in a few more hubs to be sure.
Very true Bob Big Wheels u have to stick with it to succeed.
A truly gifted writer - one of the best I have seen on this subject. Such an easy to understand hub - very well researched and written. You were straight to the point, were honest and genuine with your information and this is so refreshing to see. Top job.
Thanks for sharing your valuable information. Good hub.
thank you for sharing. a very useful hub.
I really wish I had found this a few months ago. I have a lot of money tied up in a website I will never see anything out of. Being on a fixed income it would have been better for me to try article writing or a free website before getting an unmade site and the training program to learn how to set up my own site. Everything was going fine till the credit ran out. Please anyone reading this "don't make my mistake" Research your niche for at least a month and make sure you can get affiliates or links before you dive in.
Thank you Kims3003, you made my day. Burning bush and giepuz thanks for stopping by.
Dear wheelinallover that is sad. You can still implement some of the strategies given above for content and try to break even with the site using google adsense. Hope it works out well for you.
Thanks for the info! Sticking with it real important. I hear of people complaining about no income and they've only posted about 3 articles on any given site.
This is a useful and straight forward hub. It paints a clear picture of how to focus and make the bounties of web income possible. Great job!
Very true Turtle Dog. It is the person who stays with the project who will succeed.
6hotfingers3 thank you for the compliment. Much appreciated.
I am off now to study those tips, thanks for your great advice!
Great information...making our content hang together around a niche is a big challenge. I wrote about it recently on Hubs just as an exercise so I could better understand what to do. I called it Blogging with Meaning (http://hubpages.com/hub/Blogging-with-Meaning)! I will link to this hub so I can refer back to it.
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Hope you do well Tylluan.
Sirrot thank you for the link up.
based on your suggestions i improved my content site http://www.goldjewelrytips.com/
Please give your opinion about the same
The layout and information is quite impressive. I'm sure the site will do well if you sustain it for a while. I'm not too sure how hot the niche is though...
@cashmere: Nice hub! Would look forward to read more hubs from you
@Dale: don't take the free websites for granted. I had one of my niche site hosted in a free server while I only paid for the domain name. I was cool until the day it started receiving 500+ hits, and started making $40+ a day and suddenly the free servers shut me off, saying my bandwidth quota was exceeded. Thankfully I noticed the downward spike in adsense account and cared to check it; if I were away it would have been easy to get a mild penalty from Google. They even blocked me from cPanel. Somehow I figured a way through their support system and moved my site to paid hosting.. Now everything is paid and secure.
So I would suggest keep your site in free server until it takes off, and then move it.
Hi If you thinking about writing anymore onthis subject you should include mastakes you have made along the way. the best way to learn is by making mastakes. Its even better if you can learn from someone eleses.
Thanks for the great information here. I'm still relatively new to all this, and niche selection and driving traffic (backlink generation) seem to be the most difficult to "get right". Would you say that it gets easier with experience?
Informative hub. Thanks.
Hey man great hub and very nice ideas and i like your writing style :)
This is a hub that we should all re-read from time to time. Very useful. Thanks!
Great hub and very informative!
Very informtive hub. Thank you for sharing all the great advice.
Great hub..everything you have said is correct but getting your page rank high enough to get seen is a real challenge with new sites.. or atleast it has been for me.
Great article--will certaintly use when writing my own articles.
What a fantastic hub Cashmere. You are right. Lack of focus can be a disaster online. Also, one needs to be extremely patient. I strongly recommend doing detailed keyword analysis BEFORE you do anything else.
@ Sam2san I agree. Free sites with promise that are already earning should be shifted to paid hosting to not compromise your income.
@nickpage its the mistakes that you make that really help you along the way.
@ahmiz, yes it does get easier as you figure out what to spend time on and where the effort is wasted.
@vaiebhav, totally agree, keywordsa re the KEY!
This one is getting bookmarked for future use, I especially like that you outline the areas where most people fail. That tends to be overlooked, you can find what to do anywhere but it's more difficult to find what not to do.
Thank you for this info. I was able to follow your suggestions and lay out a plan for my next sites.
Great tips! Content sites can be a lot of work to get started but they can also be very rewarding if you do it properly.
This content gets better and better. Great work. There is so much to learn for a newbee like me. Your insites are very helpful. Thankyou
cashmere, thank you for this concise tutorial on monetizing a Hub blog.
@ keith I did want to let people know why they could fail even if they followed all the steps.
@ SD I'm glad it helped
@ Lender I agree wholeheartedly. getting it up is tough but if it takes off its great
@ nick this is not part of any contest. Its a stand alone hub
@junkyour925 thank you. I did not think of it as a tutorial but I guess in a way it is.
Thanks for giving wonderful ideas.
My Pleasure Austinhennry
Inspirational. Thank you
Very informational. I don't really write content and have never even thought about using articles on directories. Thanks for posting this!
Very encouraging!
Thanks from a real newbie!
One aspect that you appear to have missed is building page rank. Sites will fail to get hits if the PR value is not built-up by getting backlinks. This is the most difficult part of niche marketing and the most important.
@ Step and Tamaram thank you for your kind comments.
@ dsmythe Glad I made you aware of another source of content you can use.
@ Janderson99 organic page rank will come your way in a couple of months if your keyword research is solid. And in any case PR is no real indicative of earnings.
In reply to your comments "@ Janderson99 organic page rank will come your way in a couple of months if your keyword research is solid. And in any case PR is no real indicative of earnings."
I disagree on both counts:
Content builds PR and without PR there will be not hits and no money. Good Luck1
This is a site full of nothing but content Janderson99.
And besides a few well picked photos there is little else but keyword rich solid content. The PR will come naturally.
Hi cashmere,
great article and advice. I too have started from nothing. I have been working on my page. But I learned html frames from an online site then upgraded to a css with style sheet webpage. I do have a couple of affiliate accouunts now that I recently started. You are right it is slow going.
Don't give up larry it will come together as long as you keep the basics strong
I feel so lucky I found your blog today. I am new to blogging, and I feel like cat chasing its tail most of the time. I am going to research more,and find a niche and stick with it.
Thank you so much,
Bobbi
I know what you mean, sometimes I feel I still haven't caught the tail yet.
All the best Bobbi.
I'm new here and have bookmarked your hub! Voted up & useful. Thank you!
Welcome to hubpages. Hope you find your niche soon :)
Thanks for sharing these information. A lot of people (including me) will surely find it very helpful.
Hi Cashmere
I enjoyed reading your Hub.Very precise and informative.
If you can spare some time, please read the very first Hub I made on the real date for the New Year and kindly comment.
Thanks.
Glad that it helped you!
Hi Cashmere,
I believe content sites still serve a purpose as well as non-content sites. I also believe in giving people more than just a site filled with ads, but that's my opinion. Why not try both methods and see what works best. After all, if you're in affiliate marketing, testing to see
what works is what it's all about (not to mention making money).
In the future I plan on making more content niche sites using Weebly. Will see how that goes. Thanks for the article Cashmere, it was very informative and refreshing.
Great hub and it really helped me because i am also planning to build up a niche website. Thanks for sharing Cashmere..
Glad that the hub helped you
Very informative and very useful information. Niche content is the way to go in this day and time when it comes to making more money. Thanks again for the wonderful and useful read.
Hope you found it very useful.
This is one of the best articles I have seen on this topic. Thank you for writing it. I have a site that I have started on and will change it up a bit using your advice.
Thanks again.
Thank you, am so glad it was useful to you.
AlexK2009 Level 4 Commenter 16 months ago
I found this very useful. Only thing I can add is, if you are using a free website, check their policy on advertising. The free sites tend to be supported by advertising so may not share revenue or allow your ads.