I'm starting this thread partly to help keep myself accountable, track my progress, and because writing everything down will help show where I've made good and bad decisions and the consequences for both, rather than just guessing. I've read several other progress threads on here, which have been helpful for me, so I think this could be helpful to others going through their own processes as well.
I decided on a niche a couple weeks ago and purchased a domain name and hosting. The main keyword for the niche gets about 200k avg monthly searches and the industry has magazines, books, retail and affiliate products, along with a ton of sites (This would have scared me in the past, but now I realize that this means there are a lot of needs for this niche). I'm targeting several long tail keywords that total about 5,500 avg monthly searches, which appear to have little competition, rather than go after the main keywords that are really competitive and highly saturated.
After throwing $hit at the wall for the last couple of weeks, this morning I decided to write out a plan for the next 3 months, with a goal of uncovering a need that I can fill at the end of these 3 months. I'm only planning out 3 months because after I find the need, it will help determine my long term strategy, at which point I'll share my next steps.
3 Month Goals & How I'll Achieve Them
So that's the plan for finding a need in my niche. If you see any holes in it or have any suggestions please let me know.
I decided on a niche a couple weeks ago and purchased a domain name and hosting. The main keyword for the niche gets about 200k avg monthly searches and the industry has magazines, books, retail and affiliate products, along with a ton of sites (This would have scared me in the past, but now I realize that this means there are a lot of needs for this niche). I'm targeting several long tail keywords that total about 5,500 avg monthly searches, which appear to have little competition, rather than go after the main keywords that are really competitive and highly saturated.
After throwing $hit at the wall for the last couple of weeks, this morning I decided to write out a plan for the next 3 months, with a goal of uncovering a need that I can fill at the end of these 3 months. I'm only planning out 3 months because after I find the need, it will help determine my long term strategy, at which point I'll share my next steps.
3 Month Goals & How I'll Achieve Them
- Traffic (how will I get people to visit my site?)
- Content (Videos, Articles, Reviews) - 1 piece per day minimum
- SEO (Just learning this but here's what I've got so far)
- On-page SEO (keyword density, H1 tags, article/page titles - installed Yoast SEO plugin)
- Facebook page - can share links, articles, videos, etc...
- Twitter - same as Facebook
- Pinterest (definitely a visual niche, so posting images on Pinterest to link to site)
- PPC (have no idea what I'm doing here, so will need to learn)
- Make sure the site is easy to navigate and understand
- Email List (once people visit the site, need to turn them into subscribers)
- Signup for MailCheat(Chimp)
- Figure out a reason visitors would want to subscribe
- Short eBook
- Free giveaway
- Free giveaway, just pay s&h (saw this on here somewhere)
- Other...
- Find Need
- Ask for it on the site, on Facebook page, Twitter, from email list, etc...
- What are people searching for?
- What are people asking for?
- Hot topics in the niche
So that's the plan for finding a need in my niche. If you see any holes in it or have any suggestions please let me know.
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