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Learn to Make WordPress Niche Sites in 6 Easy Steps - Free Tutorial with PotPieGirl | Step 3 - “C” Is For Create

Step 3 - “C” Is For Create

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“C” is For Create- Welcome back to Six Step Niche Sites. You are now reading Step 3. If you are new, please start at the beginning and find out all we’ve learned about creating profitable WordPress niche sites.

If you are continuing from Step 2 - Congrats! and Welcome Back! Step 2 is a tough step for many - it’s the ‘decision-maker step’. Many folks find they are not ready to invest in owning their own WordPress niche sites - or they decide that learning how to install WordPress is much too difficult to try and learn. YOU took the time and learned… and it really wasn’t hard at all, was it? Congrats to you!

Now then, since you are reading Step 3, I feel it is safe to assume that you know what you need to make WordPress niche sites, you’ve done your niche site keyword research, and you’ve got WordPress installed on your site and your theme and plug ins all ready to go! Great! Let’s move forward.

Content Creation Day

The good news is that content creation for a niche site is free to do. Seriously, all you need is Google and your brain. What the goal is for this step of the niche site system is to create about 5 - 7 blog posts of about 300-350 words a piece. If you are not familiar with your niche topic, do some Google searches and gather some research so you feel better equipped to write about the topic.

There are also PLR websites where you can buy pre-written content that you have rights to change and add your name to. Please be sure to change any PLR articles you get. Most likely, these articles have already been used many, many times and you want the content on your niche site to be unique. (Read about using PLR content on a niche site here)

Many folks like this content creation software. Personally, I love it - especially when I am trying to write about a subject that I am not overly familiar with. It is a real time-saver for content creation for niche sites, Squidoo lenses, and articles for article marketing.

Some affiliate programs offer content, too. This can be a wonderful help - just be sure to change the content to make it unique for your site.

However you get your content, be sure to get the keywords you gathered from your keyword research into the titles of each blog post. Also, try and get your keywords within the content of each blog post about once per every 75-100 words or so is a good rule of thumb - but that is not a hard-fast rule.

How Often Do I Post New Content on a Niche Blog?

There are two schools of thought on this - and honestly, I use a combined method of both (I will link to both methods here in a second).

Personally, I usually get all 5 - 7 posts up right away. Fact is, Google will not index every page of your site all at one time so to the search engines, it won’t appear as if a site suddenly appeared in an unnatural fashion. Besides, 5 posts in one day is not extremely unusual. There are many shared blogs around the internet that have different bloggers all posting on the same day. Bottom line, don’t be afraid to put all your starter content up at one time.

The other method is to post a 250-300 word post every day - each with a targeted keyword phrase in the post title. I do this too on my more successful blogs. If I have a new niche blog that starts to earn revenue from AdSense or affiliate sales from just the 5 original pages, I will look at my stats and keyword research and continue to add content. Heck, if 5 pages are good, 15 pages MUST be better, right?

But for right now, get at least 5 posts up on your WordPress niche blog. Be sure to use what is called “keyword sniping”. I will link to complete instructions on this method in a minute. Basically, with keyword sniping, you will choose one or two of your best keywords and make sure each is in every blog post you make. Then make sure those keyword phrases are linked back to the home page of your niche blog. This is good SEO and helps make your niche site just that bit more powerful. I like to use the aLinks WordPress plug in to make this process easier (read about it on my Favorite WordPress Plug Ins Post)

Recommended Reading:

Keyword Sniping

How To Launch a Niche Blog

How Big Does A Niche Site HAVE To Be?

Again, there is no blanket rule for how large a niche website HAS to be in order to be profitable. In the WordPress GoldMine system, Mark talks about he has TWO-PAGE niche sites that absolutely kick a$$ in the profit department. He shows them and shows how to make them….and how to make them profitable. Other successful bloggers will swear you need 20 posts… or 50… or no less than one every day. However, we are talking about small, tightly-focused, and tightly-targeted niche blogs. We are not building huge, time-consuming authority sites - we are building information resource centers that have one or two ‘calls to action’. The ‘call to action’ of your niche blog is your monetization, or a mailing list, or maybe even to click through to another site you own. That decision is up to you, but be sure you have at least ONE ‘call to action’.

As for me, I am all about Marks WordPress System. I’ve been doing what he teaches long before I read his system. When I DID read his system, it was like reading my own ’secret strategy’. Guess it’s not a secret, huh?

Another point worth mentioning - be careful just how much you give away. Yes, this is PotPieGirl saying that - the same woman who is spending hours and hours creating THIS niche site that gives away all the guru’s secrets for free! But seriously, while more is usually better, too much can be simply too much. It is possible to ’shoot yourself in the foot’ by giving away too MUCH free info - and then no one feels the need to buy the book and learn more. Get what I am saying? I’m not saying get all ‘hypey’ in your content - but be careful just how much you give away. Got it?? Good. Let’s move on.

Optimizing Your Niche Site

Hopefully, you read my post about my favorite WordPress plugins for niche sites. On that list was a plug in called AllInOne SEO Pack. Get it. Use it. After adding each post in your blog, be SURE to fill out the fields underneath it in the SEO Pack. Give each post a unique and well-keyworded title. This is the area that will make your title tag ( <title> ) unique. Your title tag is what changes the words you see up to your left in the blue area of your browser. It is also the title for your page that is seen on a Google search result. This is a VERY, VERY important area so be SURE to optimize it. Do not over-look this.

Also, be sure to fill in the description area and give your post some keywords. This gives each post its own unique meta data for keywords and description. Use it.

Once all your posts are in, and your site is monetized and ready to toss out to the world, submit your site to Google WebMaster Tools. By submitting and verifying your site - and giving them a site map - you will allow Google to help YOU. Google will give you great stats about your site and your site map will help ensure that your site gets indexed completely and accurately.

Also be sure you have statcounter, or another free analytics program, installed on your niche blog. Stats are the key to creating a profitable niche blog. You will need to know how often your site is visited, what keywords are used in order to find your site, what pages viewers read, where they came from, etc. Stats are power. Install statcounter.

6StepNicheSites.com Example WordPress Niche Site

Surely by now you are wondering when I am going to link to the test/example niche blog I made to go along with this tutorial website. Have I linked to it already? No, I have not. Why not?

I haven’t linked to the example niche blog mainly because I want you to go through the steps and learn - I don’t want you to copy what you see. I want you to DO what you LEARN. The only ‘wrong’ way to create WordPress niche sites is to NOT CREATE A SITE. Whatever you put online as your first niche site will be right. Better yet, it will be YOURS and it will be the building block that will teach you how to make each following niche site better and more profitable.

I want you to learn - I don’t want you to copy. Got it? Best of all - you are half way done! After this step is complete you have your very own niche website online!!!! A Big round of applause for all of you that have made it this far! I promise, I will let you see my example niche blog - and some others - when all the learning is done =)

Step Three Review

1. Create Content - Either use your brain and Google - use PLR - or use this content creation software. Either way, get unique content on your niche site.

2. Be sure to use the SEO Pack WordPress plug in and optimize your niche blog posts.

3. Make sure you monetize your site and have at least one ‘call to action’ for your niche blog.

4. When your site is ready, submit to Google Webmaster Tools.

5. Add StatCounter to your site to have records of all your niche site activity.

Step Three Thoughts

To me, this is the most exciting step (well, next to making money…haha!). I love to see each new niche site come to life. I love creating and developing and adding the content that will be online working FOR me in future days - it is a real thrill for me. In time, make a goal to eventually be able to hire the content creation part out to others, but in the mean time, just enjoy the creation process!










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Comments

12 Responses to “Step 3 - “C” Is For Create”

  1. Carter on July 10th, 2008 3:35 am

    My next new question- I’m so confused about the world of Private Label Rights (PLR) articles that I would love it if you could give an explanation in your awesome PotPieGirl way. I’m not really sure how to find quality PLR and the right way to use it- this seems to be an important part of the 6 steps. Any advice?

  2. PotPieGirl on July 10th, 2008 2:40 pm

    Hi Carter =)

    I have a page here on the site all about using PLR content on niche sites.

    Hope that helps!

  3. Ed on July 22nd, 2008 9:45 pm

    Hi PotPieGirl,

    Despite not being perfect I have got my first wordpress niche setup and have started on Hell Day and all my thanks go to you because I would never have known about this system of IM, let alone how to go about it.

    I am keeping a record and this has taken me a total of 4 days so far and that will obviously get quicker as time progresses.

    I would like to ask some advice about the plugins as I struggled with those. For instance I installed a link cloaker , WP Link Changer, but it doesn’t seem to do the job or I am not doing it right! Is there another and are these things automatic because the majority don’t seem to come with any instructions other than to install and activate?

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Once again thank you for all the information you have provided…its marvellous.

    all the best,
    Irish Ed

    PS, I like your southern accent :-)

  4. Ed on July 22nd, 2008 9:54 pm

    Hello again PotPieGirl,

    I have another question which perhaps others may be wondering about too. How do you get the three columns in this site? Is that another plug-in?

    Thanks

    Irish Ed

  5. PotPieGirl on July 22nd, 2008 9:56 pm

    Ed -

    Congrats on getting your first site up and running! Four days for your very first site is wonderful - you deserve a pat on the back! Yes, each site from here on after will be much easier AND much quicker.

    As for a link cloaking plug in - I use this link cloaking plug in. There is a backend control panel in your admin area. You have the option to cloak ALL links or to only cloak links you specify. OR, you can go to another option in the admin area and have it cloak one link for you and it will track how many clicks it gets.

    I have been quite pleased with this plug in, and haven’t used any others since finding it.

    Hope this helps!

    Keep up the good work!

    Jennifer

  6. PotPieGirl on July 22nd, 2008 10:01 pm

    Hello Again, Ed =)

    The three columns of this site come with the template - nothing special needed to have them appear.

    If you go into your admin area, and click “design” at the top, then click “widgets”.

    Over on the right, you will see an option to configure the left sidebar or right sidebar with a drop down menu.

    Hope that helps =)

    Oh, btw, the southern accent comes at no-charge!

    Y’all come back now, ya’ hear?

    Jennifer

  7. Ed on August 17th, 2008 9:33 pm

    Hi Jennifer,

    Thanks for those answers. I realised I hadn’t clicked on your link for White Shadow’s link cloaker and used another one I found…silly me!

    All is well now , getting the hang of it and have 2 more sites up thanks to you.

    I hope my posts will encourage others because this is great!

    Between you, Mark and good ole Travis I am finally on the road to success :-)

    Thanks again,

    Irish Ed

  8. Ed on August 18th, 2008 12:48 am

    Hi Jennifer,

    I can’t seem to veriy with Google. I tried both ways. I’ll try another HTML file but where do I put the META tag as I don’t see where the tag is anywhere…I’m sure it’s easy when you know how, I just don’t know how :-(

    Thanks (in advance)
    Irish Ed

  9. Ed on August 18th, 2008 1:33 am

    Tis me again Jennifer,

    I worked it out! (I guess I’ll get there in the end!)

    Irish Ed

  10. Penny Gould on August 21st, 2008 1:25 pm

    Howdy y’all. I launched a site that I own, after working with Wordpress.org for a long time. I’m having “challenges” making the pretty page names. I want to get that fixed before I try to get the site indexed… I tried going to settings and permalinks but when I switched options it didn’t work… Any suggestions?
    Thanks!
    Penny

  11. Clefty on September 4th, 2008 3:39 am

    Hi. what section would you recommend putting the google analytics code in. i would love for it to track every page on the site! Thanks!

    PS. Loving this guide!

  12. Marilyn on October 14th, 2008 1:28 pm

    I bought OWM with an eye towards using the info to sell my own ebooks first, not CB books as an affiliate.

    I have a basic (stupid?) question: In using WordPress, am I pointing people towards a yet-to-be-created webpage where I have my actual “sales letter,” or is WordPress the actual point of sale, the call to action, that they buy my ebook from there?

    Thank you.

    Marilyn

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