Diary of a Niche Site Duel 004

You may have only just learned about this Niche Site Duel, but we’re four sessions in now.

Here’s parts one, two and three for you.

Setting The Niche Site

So, now we have the domain and the hosting set up, we need to create the site.

The easiest way to setup a niche website is to use a blogging platform. There are loads, such as as Blogger, Typepad & Moveable Type.

I will be using WordPress, which to be honest, is the most popular… oh and it’s free.

The hosting I have lets me automatically setup WordPress on the domain name I have chosen.

I won’t go into detail here about how to setup WordPress, I may do a separate tutorial on that.

Styling The Niche Site

I am lucky at this point as I know a fair bit about setting up sites in Wodpress, but to make the job a little easier as niche marketing is all about setting up the sites quick and letting them make you money.

When you start using WordPress you’ll find that you can easily change the style of your webpage with ‘themes’.

There’s a load of free themes available on the internet, just have a search around Google. However, if you want a really slick look, you could also choose one from Headway or Woo Themes (i’ll talk about these at a later point too).

Here’s what the site looks like. I created a big graphic for the top with a bit of a fancy logo.

Adding Content

Content is important to your site. Although the idea of the niche site is to sell products, we need content on the site to give some value.
So far, I have created the first article for the site entitled “What is Guitar Looping?” (see the graphic above).

I thought i’d cover one of the questions people ask that will get them onto the site.

If people have heard about looping, but don’t really know what it is, then they may find this page and then find out more.

Within the body text of the article I have placed a picture of the ‘Loop Station’. This seems to be one of the most popular pedals. If you click on the picture you are taken to the amazon page for that product.

To get the code to create the link to the amazon affiliate page you need to join us as an Amazon Affiliate.

Signing up is free and Amazon explain really clearly how to add the code to your page.

Now What?

To summarise, we now have niche, domain name, hosting, website setup.

Now we need:

• More content
• Setup Google Analytics (to check the amount of people that visit the site)
• Traffic (lots of it)

See you in part 5.