During the process of building a Niche this is our basic checklist. A list that comprehends the basic tools that will allow you build a niche website in the fastest and most efficient possible way. Of course, you will find alternative options to the elements that we have checked here but these are the ones that have proven effective to us for at least a couple 100 websites that we have built.
Note: there is no need to buy any of the tools listed below, if you are just starting you could build your first website only spending a couple of bucks between a domain name and a hosting
Step. 1 in the list Keyword Research: actually the more time you spend here the least time you will actually have to spend maintaining and building you site.
Market Samurai high learning curve but once you get the “jist” of it it would prove invaluable
Niche Finder easier to use than “market samurai” at least for us in the beginning
Youtube keyword tool its good to know how your search term ranks on youtube
Step. 2 Buy a Domain, simplify your life and buy domain and hosting in the same account
- Bluehost easy to install wordpress that’s why we like it
- Turbonacho hosting its our personal favorite!
Step. 3 Install a WordPress Themes, there are many themes but for Adsense sites stick to the following and you will get good results
- CTRTheme! if you wanted you could run your site just with this standard theme setting and pretty much have a money site as soon as you deploy content
- ClickBump, its hard to believe that such a simple theme can offer such high CTR, as high as 35% for many of our sites.
Step. 4 setup your WordPress Plugins, see our full toolbox here
- All in One SEO our best sites run with this plugin
- Antispam Bee, Akismet is still one of the best but this one does the job.
- Google XML sitemap, if Bing grows bigger than google then you would install their counterpart for now you need this
- Digg Digg you want your content to be shared? right?
- Quick Adsense, if you are running the recommended themes you probably dont need this pluging, but know that it is one of the best
- Yet Another related post plugin, improve your linking structure with this plugin
- Disclosure & Policy, This is not optional you NEED to have it otherwise you wont comply with Adsense TOS
- SEO smart link Plugin, interlink your site with this plugin
- Google Analytics for wordpress
- Google Analytics : Dig in to see which pages are ranking high
- Google Webmaster tools : it quickly gives you the terms your website is ranking for, only problem is it gives you a 30 day average
- Sescout, if you did good KW research then you should track the main keyword as well as the permutations that build your site. You can daily snapshots
- iwrite, clean easy to use interface
- The best spinner, write and spin your article for multiple uses
- WPspin!, grab and spin content from multiple feeds
- Instant Article Wizard, get help writing articles
- Aweber, you only need this if your building a list, otherwise skip it
- Feedburner if yours is a “build and forget site” you probably wont need this
- RSS Directories, or this
- Twitterfeed, or this one either, use them only if you post content on a regular basis
- Bit.ly
Step. 9 If your article is not crawled you wont get any benefit
Step. 10 -the tricky part, how much of each service should you use? We actually use them all and currently combine them under our own statistical approach (what we have learned)
- Build my Rank, currently closed.
- Linxboss
- Linkvana, good but pricey, writing 100 word blog post if not outsourced can become annoying.
- Back Link Banzai simply the best
- SEO destiny
- Unique Article Wizard
- SocialAdr, social bookmarking
- Fiverr, this guy is good, more Fiverr Gigs coming soon
Step 12. Blogs and Web 2.0 properties or really what we like to call buffer or soldier pages, these are the ones that take the heat the pawns you will sacrifice
