What You Need To Make WP Niche Sites

As much as I would love to tell you that there is no cost involved in owning your own niche websites, it simply is not true. When it comes time that you are ready to own virtual real estate on the internet, please be sure of the costs involved. The good news is that these costs are minimal. I can’t think of another industry that has such low costs involved than internet marketing does.

There are also things I am going to need to know that YOU know. I don’t intend to re-invent the wheel here at 6StepNicheSites.com - I simply want to put the pieces together so you can get rolling along making profitable niche websites. In time, you will tweak this system to make it uniquely yours, but for now, I am sharing my little system. However, the only way this will work is if you know the things I need you to know, and the things I will assume you know as I go through these steps.

Just a quick note: The 6 Step Niche Site System will NOT go into PPC (AdWords or other paid advertising). My goal here is to get each of you with many niche websites that bring you cash each month. My goal is NOT to get you to spend money each and every month to MAKE that money. We are going to have upfront costs and upfront work, but the result will be niche websites that work for YOU when they are complete.

Ok, here are the three things you must have before beginning a niche website with the RICHER 6 Step Niche Site System.

1. A low cost and reliable hosting account.

I use HostGator. For less than $10 a month I can host all the websites I want all on that one package! Let’s say I have 40 websites hosted on my one HostGator account - that costs me what, like 25 cents a month!

Yes, there are many other low cost hosting services (that link is to a list of 5 others) and you may choose to go with another company. Your choice. When I refer to hosting accounts here at 6StepNicheSites.com, I will be referring to HostGator hosting, so simply make the adjustments needed for your own hosting. Be sure the hosting account you choose is “WordPress friendly”. I know HostGator is.

I am also known to get on my soapbox about HostGator. Hosting must be reliable and the customer service team must be reachable. Recently, I had issues with about 6 of my sites. Unbeknown to me, all 6 sites were down (and losing me money!) HostGator emailed me and CALLED me to make me aware of the situation and worked closely with me to get my sites back up and running ASAP. I can’t say enough about HostGator. I won’t switch web hosting companies no matter what the ‘deal of the week’ is.

HostGator is also one of the only hosting companies that will allow you to pay month by month (no contracts - no pre-paying - none of that). I have the ‘Baby’ Package and right now, you can get the same hosting package for $7.95 a month through this link. (Oddly, I pay $9.95 a month, but at least my readers will save money…haha!)

2. Domain Names

You will need an inexpensive and high-quality company to purchase your domain names from. I tend to use GoDaddy a good bit - mainly because I previously purchased a lot of domains there and I like keeping them in one place (I am also a creature of habit…haha). I can pay anywhere from $1.99 a year for a .info domain names to $7-$9 a year for a .com domain name. I found a great discount for domain names tho - you can get cheap domain names here (I only use this company now)

3. WordPress GoldMine

I started making WordPress niche sites about November 2007, and folks, I learned it the HARD WAY. I had to Google every single step… I screwed up a LOT… I got some gray hairs, too…haha! Not too long ago I got to thinking that I should write every single step out with pictures and complete steps, tips and hints, and fixes for any possible error that could possibly happen. Thing is, someone beat me to it. When I bought and read WordPress Goldmine, I was in amazement… it was like someone read my mind and made it into a much better WordPress Niche Site guide than I ever could. What was really cool is that author made a TWO PAGE WordPress niche site that generated over $17,000 in about a month! TWO PAGES! And it is still cranking out about $100 a day. Yes, he tells how he did it =)

WordPress Goldmine is perfect for any level of experience of those coming into making and owning WordPress niche sites. COMPLETE newbies to this concept can feel comfortable that this guide will walk you through the whole process - from how to install onto your server, changing themes, plug ins, tweaks … the whole she-bang.

The guide then continues through the concept of content for your site (how much? how?), creating a list or NOT creating a list, where to find great niche ideas, keywords explained for niche sites, how to promote your niche sites, and so much more IN-DEPTH and SOLID information. The author will also show you one of his two-page niche sites. Its impressive and will totally get you motivated.

I do not recommend others to go pay for information very often. Actually, VERY rarely, but this system is awesome, complete, and will cut your learning curve dramatically. In this six step system, if WordPress Goldmine explains the details to a step, I will not re-explain it. You will need to know the information in this ebook.

Get WordPress Goldmine Here, but please, if you have no intention of doing anything with the information that is in this book, don’t waste your money.

4. Squidoo

I will be discussing how to use Squidoo in conjunction with your WordPress niche sites - it works like a charm! If you are unfamiliar with how to create pages in the Squidoo.com website, then please read my Squidoo Profit System. It is a BIG package for a tiny price of $6.97.

If you are brand new to internet marketing, let me share this with you. Squidoo is THE place I send all ‘newbies’ to learn online marketing. Squidoo is free to use (in fact, Squidoo pays YOU to create web pages). Squidoo is the best place to learn how to make one-page free niche ’sites’. During your education on Squidoo, you will learn about keywords, and traffic, and writing web copy, and search engine rankings…all that stuff you need to get your head around before you move on to owning niche websites of your own. These are the things I teach step by step in One Week Marketing. If you are not ready to own your own web sites, but want to learn the things needed to reach that point, read the One Week Marketing Action Plan.

Squidoo is also the ultimate testing ground for niche markets. Your Squidoo lenses (pages) will do all the research you need to make a kick butt WordPress niche site.

Learn Squidoo with Squidoo Profit System.

These are the only things you MUST have to create niche websites with WordPress. As we go thru the steps, I may mention things I use that make my life a lot easier, and the system a lot faster, but these are ‘luxuries’ for me and are not necessary. I will also mention free things I will want you to add to your site or will want you to read, but again, these will be suggestions and not requirements.

Ok - lets answer some common questions about making 6 Step NicheSsites up to this point:

Making Niche Sites - Questions and Answers

Q. ” What If I Need Help?”

A. I am a big helper.. I love to help, but here is my disclaimer - I help those that are willing to help themselves. Please ask me questions anytime - post a comment here, on my blog at PotPieGirl.com, or email me (potpiegirl at potpieworld dot com). But PLEASE, ask me questions for things you can’t seem to figure out, NOT about things you don’t FEEL like figuring out. Please don’t label any email ‘urgent’ in the subject line if it is not life or death, and please - do not spam me. Spam makes me cranky =)

I would also appreciate it if no questions were asked that are answered in WordPress GoldMine. Invest in it, read it, DO IT…. but please do not ask me to reveal details of the information that is contained within that ebook. The author worked hard putting all that together in such a fantastic way - I respect that and will not divulge his information. Don’t try and take the easy way… just read WordPress GoldMine.

Q. “How Much Money Will I Make With Niche Websites?”

A. Oh, I love that question! Let me answer that question with a question… How much money do you WANT to make with niche websites? This is one of few businesses that is almost completely in your control. You will get out of niche websites what you put IN to your niche websites. If you need to make $3000 a month from internet marketing, then you will need to clear about $99 a day. If the best you can manage is a niche site that makes $1 a day, then make 98 more of them =) The sky is the limit, but it won’t happen magically…. this business needs YOU to WORK it.

Q. “Will I Make Money Right Away?”

A. You might. I have had niche sites that started earning me money within days…and I’ve had sites that I have had to tweak and go thru a few ‘Hell Days’ to get any income coming in. That has nothing to do with succeeding or failing - it’s just the reality of the business. For an average tho, it takes the average niche site about 4 months to mature and realize its full potential. Now, this does NOT mean you make ONE niche site and then wait 4 months. No no no… KEEP MAKING THEM! In four months you could have a boatload of niche sites. Just follow the 6 Step System and don’t sweat it. Don’t obsess over stats, don’t obsess over earnings just keep creating the niche sites that very well may change the way your financial life is within a year. How were you doing last year money-wise? How are you doing TODAY money-wise? What if one year from now, it will all be different - and BETTER.

Q. ” How Much Time Is this Going To Take Up?”

I also love this question =) How much time do you WANT to put into making niche websites? That’s your answer. Folks, this is not a get rich, easy, fast, and over-night type thing (but if you find a system like that, please let me know…haha!). The time you put into your online business will be very closely related to the profits you see FROM your internet business.

Q. ” Why Are You Giving Your System Away For Free?”

A. Short answer - because it is the right thing to do.

Long answer - the decision to make this site took a good bit of soul-searching on my part. I asked my readers over at PotPieGirl.com what they thought - should I package and sell it? Should I create a membership site? About 99.9% of all feedback said for me to sell it because they would buy it. What a compliment!

Thing is, in order for the information offered and the time required to complete a package such as that to be proportionate with the price charged, I would feel like just another ‘guru’ who was profiting from others learning curve. I do not want to be that person.

Everything here at 6StepNicheSites.com is information that you could eventually figure out on your own for free as I did. What I want to do is fast-track that learning time, cut about 6 months to a year of researching out of the picture for you, and get you making money online. It’s a real rush! haha!

If you appreciate the information you find here, please share it with others. Also, if you choose to invest in anything I recommend, I would greatly appreciate you clicking my links here to purchase. These little commissions here and there will really help compensate for my time to not only make and maintain this site, but also all the time it took to learn the info I am freely sharing. If you don’t care to use my links, then please don’t. Either way, thank you for being here!

Tools to Open and BookMark to Get Ready for the 6 Step Niche Site System

1. Cheap Domain Names

2. HostGator Hosting Info For ONE CENT

3. WordPress Niche Site Guide

4. Squidoo Profit System

5. One Week Marketing Action Plan

The Best Place To Learn Affiliate Marketing

Comments

7 Responses to “What You Need To Make WP Niche Sites”

art on June 22nd, 2008 6:14 am

Hi PotPie Girl:

I’m signed up but I gotta say I love it when women ‘talk straight’ like you do! There was a time when nobody on the net was talking that way. Nowadays, a few do, but not nearly enough.

(Does Rich Jerk count?

I already have an account at Hostgator. They happen to be in my HOR(Home of Record) of Houston. You’re right. They are nice people. I only wish they’d come down a little bit on their domain names.

I’m in the process of buying a bunch of domain names right now but I wanted to be sure that wherever I got’em had Fantastico. I’ve heard that Fantastico makes it easier to install Joomla and Wordpress.

I noticed something sorta strange though….when you buy from one of these host providers, they ask for some bothersome ID when you tell’em you’re in a foreign country (like I am over here in Korea). Sorta a pain, that is!

I’m pretty sure I’ve already got you Squidoo Profit System too but I’ll have to go find where I put it. I noticed that when i signed up for the update list, they said i was already on it.

Best regards,
Art
theWanderingSalsero
http://www.wanderingsalsero.net
PotPieGirl on June 22nd, 2008 2:58 pm

@ Art-

I tend to talk straight… I feel it is MUCH easier to learn from the truth than to learn from hype =)

One thing - Fantastico is found within the cpanel of your hosting account (it’s a little smiley face icon towards the bottom of the main menu). If you have HostGator, you’re set. It doesn’t matter where you get your domain names as they will all be on your hosting account.

Hope that helps!

PotPieGirl
Ed Kirwan on July 6th, 2008 11:58 am

Hi PotPieGirl,

Thanks for putting this all together, you are a girl after my own heart.

I’ld like to give encouragement to some of your readers who maybe a little newer to internet marketing than me. I have been following the free route and there is some good stuff out there as PotPieGirl says. It is slow but I have had some success (not enough yet though:-).

So, when you cone across it all laid out for you as here, grab it with both hands. It will save you a huge amount of time, money and most of all sheer damn frustration!

I’m learning a lot here.

Well done PPG and thank you very much.

Ed
Rob on August 28th, 2008 10:53 pm

Hi PotPieGirl

I’m just looking at hostgator for $7.95.
How does this hosting package work as opposed to a reseller package?. Will that work as well as a reseller package?
I’m new to websites, and find this side of things a little confusing.

Thanks

Rob
Jeremiah on October 12th, 2008 8:40 am

Hey Rob, host gator $7.95 a month requires you to pay a full year subscription for that to take place, otherwise its 9.95 a month. Just get the baby account and you should be fine. A reseller account is more advance for people who want to do different things with websites like host and sell domains and such. Just start off with the baby account for 9.95 if your sole intention are to just host personal websites.
Tony Morris on December 14th, 2008 8:22 pm

Hi PotPieGirl (Love the name), just wanted to let you know that I value your contribution to the education of the net. Have spent far too long being swamped with info (working part time) but your site has laid out in straight-talking short steps “blueprint” how to get going.Best of all it will bring those ideas together without loosing my cash first! Many thanks, TM