How To Build A Profitable Niche Site Within 27 Minutes

Building niche a portfolio of profitable niche sites is a great way of developing a recurring income stream. A typical niche mini site may only earn you $60 per week but at that rate, four such sites will generate a yearly income of over $12,000. I'll let you figure out the earnings potential of 100 mini sites! The niche mini site strategy is very straightforward. First, find a niche market with profit potential that isn't already oversaturated with competitors. Identify a list of related keywords that people are searching on and then create keyword rich content pages that is optimised for each one of your keywords. Traditionally, once you have your content pages, you would normally upload them to your site and monetize them with affiliate links and pay par click programmes such as Google's Adsense. However, why not make it easy on yourself and gain an added search engine advantage... We now have access to an easy to use and versatile content management system that means that building a niche mini site can be done on the fly. Yes, that's right - The Blog! At its very simplest, a blog is just a structure for managing web content. It's the backbone, or skeleton, of a web site on which to hang the flesh. A blog is simply an easy way to enter and publish your content online. Blogs don't just have to be journals, rants, personal commentaries or diaries; blogs can take on a wide variety of forms and functions. In fact you can just about build any kind of web site with a blog. Just think about it - a blog can be used very effectively to build a niche site. In fact, because they are so easy to use, blogs are one of the most effective niche mini site building tools. More importantly, one of the most important reasons for choosing to use a blog is their attractiveness to the search engines and the effect that can have on attracting targeted traffic. According to a study released earlier this month by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a full 27 percent of all online users now read blogs, a 58 percent increase from the early part of 2004. So, how can you take advantage of blogging technology to build a successful niche mini site? First, choose your niche, identify your primary keyword phrase and pick out about ten secondary keywords - the remaining keywords that you discover will be used later in the process. The next step is to compile some relevant content based on your primary keyword phrase, just as you would when building a regular site. Then set up an account at http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55 As soon as you've submitted your site to the directories, it's time to get it indexed by Yahoo! by adding your RSS feed to your MyYahoo! page. If you don't have a MyYahoo! page, just go to