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This guide is going to show you how to get started buildingwebsites based around the Amazon Associates/Affiliate program,
that can eventually be converted into FBA or eCommerce sites,selling physical products that you buy low, and sell high.
The Goal of This Guide
How To Choose A Profitable,Low Competition Niche
Go with what you're already doing
Go with your passion
Go with what's already been successful for other people
Go with what you've been educated in
Go with your past work experience and training
Go with a new market, and learn as you go
Go with a current, trending topic
Go with a topic that's already in demand
How To Effectively BuildA Keyword List &
Research Your Competition
You’ll need to build a keyword list, and utilize a few time-proventechniques to discover your competition’s strengths, and
weaknesses, so you have an angle to take, and can effectively planyour attack strategy. Thankfully, there are quite a few different tools
to help you verify the level of competition and determine howprofitable your chosen topics, or niches, are going to be.
First, you need to understand that there aretwo main types of keywords:
Head keywords are generally shorterphrases, containing one, two, or sometimes
even three words, that are going to beharder to rank for and receive traffic from.
Longtail keywords, on the other hand, aregoing to be much easier to rank for, but
probably aren’t going to provide you withas much search volume as the shorter,
harder to rank for “head” keywords.
But, the longtail keywords will be yourtrue money-makers, and you should really
take your time and do the researchthoroughly in order to set yourself up for
success from the get-go.
H e a d L o n g t a i l
You can use a few different tools to help you come up withkeyword ideas, and determine how stiff the competition is.
How To Quickly & EasilyGenerate Content Ideas
For Your Website
Idea #1 ‐ Question & Answer Sites
When writer’s block hits, it’s time to hit the question& answer sites. Sites such as Yahoo! Answers, andQuora are goldmines of potential topics to write
about. By entering in a few of your keywords, youcan quickly figure out what questions people arehaving related to your niche, and then tailor your
content specifically to answering those questions.
Idea #2 ‐ Forums & Message Boards
Another great resource for finding content ideas isthrough the use of forums and message boards related
to your niche. These sites are chock full of usersdiscussing the most important topics related to your
niche market, with some of the best posts being“stickied” at the top of the different forums.
Idea #3 ‐ Research Your Competitors
Your competitors have, more than likely, already laid outthe groundwork for what makes a successful website in the
niche you’re targeting.
By spending some time figuring out who the biggest playersare, and then running their websites through research
tools, such as SEMRush and BuzzSumo, you can get a prettyclear picture of how you should be structuring your own
content.
I d e a # 4 - O u t s o u r c e T h e P r o c e s s
When all else fails, and you can’t crack your bad case of writer’sblock -- or you just don’t feel like writing -- you can alwaysoutsource the process. With the sheer number of writers
available on the internet these days, outsourcing your contentcreation is actually quite affordable.
How To Properly Setup YourWebsite To Rank & Bank
The main reason so many beginners (and seasoned veterans)build niche sites is because they’re simple. Simple to create,simple to outsource, and simple to manage when you start
getting more than a few sites in your portfolio.
To keep your WordPress sites loading quickly, and ranking well,there are only 3 main plugins that you need to utilize: Yoast
SEO, WP Super Cache, and WP Optimize.
While it’s highly recommended that you optimize yourniche websites manually, a lot of marketers prefer to use aplugin to handle the job for them. For these times, the only
plugin we can recommend to you is Yoast SEO.
It’s been a long time staple for many niche marketers, andwill continue to be for years to come. It’s continually
developed, making sure that you should not have issueswith the plugin failing, or causing errors with your site
loading down the road.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache creates a “cached” version of your page, orone that has been stored to quickly load up without
requesting information from the database.
In other words, the pages on your site are stored to quicklyload when visitors come to your site.
One of the biggest causes of WordPress slowdowns (outside ofrequesting information from a large database) is the use of
images, scripts, such as Java, and elements that are loaded fromwebsites on other servers.
WP Optimize helps clear up the majority of these issues byreducing the size of the images being loaded on your pages,
moving the scripts and other coding (especially code loaded fromexternal sites) down to the bottom of your pages, so that it loads
after the content is already being displayed, and reducing the sizeof scripts and CSS files that are hosted on your own server.
Designed for marketers, by marketers, Thrive Themes is amongthe best not only in terms of functionality, but also in page load
speed. The amount of options available with Thrive Themesmakes them almost a no-brainer to use.
With the Thrive Content Builder, though, creating amazing lookingcontent is a click (or a few clicks) away.
This is one of the first true drag and drop page builders that givesyou complete control over the theme, without all of the errors that
most drag and drop page builders seem to generate.
On top of working flawlessly, Thrive Leads lets you run a widevariety of tests to ensure that you’re only serving up your best-performing sales copy, generating the most subscribers in the
shortest amount of time.
The Best OnPage SEO Practices,From The Best In The Business
As previously mentioned, it is recommended that you actuallyoptimize your niche site, pages, and posts manually, to prevent
loading too many plugins onto your WordPress installation.Remember, the more plugins you use, the slower the site is going to
load.
To optimize your posts manually, there are a few areas that you wantto ensure your keywords are located. Keep in mind, though, that
long-gone are the days of worrying about keyword density, and howmany times you can stuff a keyword into various areas of your site.
Title Tag:This is, arguably, the most important place you need to
include your main keyword. If possible, try to includevariations of the keyword so that you can target more
than one, laying a “blanket” across multiple searchresults.
H Tags:Your H tags, such as H1, H2, H3, and so on, are crucial
for telling the search engine algorithms what yourpage is about, but also for breaking up the content intobite sized sections that make it easier for your readers
to quickly navigate through.
URL:Another great way to let the search engine spiders
know what your page is about is by inserting thekeyword into your URL, or permalink.
Alt Tags:If you include images that are relevant to the
keywords you’re targeting, it’s highly advised toinclude those keywords, and descriptions, inside of
the alt tags of your images. You can change thissetting when you add the image to the post, under
the “Alt Text” field.
Strong/Em Tags:While not as nearly important as the first 3 areas
you need to cover, using strong (bold) and em(italicized) tags will help the search engines figure
out what your pages are about.
Meta Description:The meta description isn’t used to rank your pageshigher in the search results, but is still an area that
you should include your keywords.
The meta description is best optimized to enticeyour visitors to click through from the search
results, which benefits your search rankings in anindirect way.
OnPage SEO Practices
How To Build A ContentSilo And Theme Your
Niche Website
Creating a content theme, structure, or “silo” for yourwebsite is not only a good way to help organize the
content so your visitors can easily navigate through it,but it’s also a great way to let Google and other searchengines know that you’re the most relevant site for the
search queries you’re targeting.
Categories:This is going to be the primary backbone for siloing your blog posts. If you have head keywords thatyou notice tend to get updated more often than they remain static (based on the pages alreadyranking) it’s a good idea to use those keywords in your category titles and descriptions.
Posts:When you have keywords that are related to each other, but not close enough to be includedon the same post, you can silo the content by creating posts based on the keywords, and thenusing internal links to connect the pages together.
Pages:For keywords that don’t require being updated as often, and content that is on the longer side,or considered a “hub” for the rest of your content that doesn’t make it’s way into a blog post oryour categories, it’s a good idea to use pages. You can still utilize internal links to help flowtopical relevancy through the site -- or limit where it flows to -- and include the page links insideof your navigation menus. Using this strategy is a great way to have your “SiteLinks” show up inthe search results, when you’re ranked #1.
How To Build HighlyEffective Backlinks
The 5 strategies listed below are among the most highlyeffective uses of your time when it comes to promoting
your content and building highly targeted backlinks thatwill actually make an impact on your rankings.
Guest Posting
This is one of the single most effective uses of your time, when itcomes to finding high quality backlinks for your niche websites
Unfortunately, with the work required in terms of creating contenton your site that’s actually worth linking to, and then finding website
owners who are willing to accept a guest post and link to yourcontent, a lot of marketers tend to avoid guest posting like the
plague.
That’s great news for you. Since the majority of marketers refuse todo legitimate guest posting and outreach, it means that if you spend
even a small amount of time on the strategy, you’ll be puttingyourself light years ahead of your competition.
I n f og r aph i c s
Now, with infographics, you do have to spend a bit of time doing theinitial outreach, letting people know that you’ve created one, but once
it begins to take off, the links will start rolling in automagically.
If you’re not a designer, you can find one on sites like Fiverr andUpwork that will happily create infographics for you. Then all you have
to do is let other sites in your niche know about the work, and givethem an easy way to link to it.
Web 2.0s
Web 2.0 sites, or sites that allow user generated content, have gotten a
bad rap over the last few years. That’s where you have an opportunity to
step in and get a few free links pointing to your site that will grow in
age. First, you’re going to want to create multiple posts on these
platforms. Then, you’ll need to interlink them together, flowing the link
juice back and forth.
Finally, spend some time gathering link juice from other areas of the
platform, such as your author profile and commenting on other user’s
content, all while including links back to your own posts. If you use the
strategy properly, you’ll build up authority on the platform.
Skyscraper Technique
First, you’ve got to uncover content that’s already been shared, and linked
to. This content is your starting point. Once you’ve determined that the
piece of content is link-worthy, you then begin improving upon it -- adding
new floors to the top of it, creating your own, bigger skyscraper.
After improving on the foundation, and building your own new floors, you
need to get it in front of the people who have previously linked to it, as well
as a new, fresh set of sites related to your niche that you also believe would
link out to it.
Remember, it’s not just about creating great content and expecting people
to link to you. You need to create the content, and then get it in front of the
right people so that you not only receive the same links as the original piece,
but that you also generate a new set of links to help push it even higher in
the search results than the original version.
P r i v a t e B l o g N e two r k s
Building your own private blog network can be tedious, but it iswell worth the time and money invested to create a proper
network. Be advised, though. This is a strategy that requires yourfull attention to ensure that the blogs you’re putting into yournetwork are high quality, and can stand on their own two feet.
The best way to get an idea of how to build a natural private blognetwork is to look through existing authority blogs in your nicheand start duplicating the type of results you see in their backlink
profiles. Authority bloggers have the best type of backlink profilebecause it’s built using legitimate, whitehat strategies.
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