A question about Micro Niche Sites.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by lobsang, Nov 12, 2014.

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    Recently started learning little bit of SEO. Since I am newbie, thought about trying Micro Niche Site.

    What I have learned so far is that Micro Niche sites are suppose to be easy to rank, with much less content than average sites.

    What I want know is.

    Does My Micro Niche Sites has to be EDM (Exact Domain Match with my Keywords) ?

    I already have hosting and Three domain under my name, The only trouble is I don't have anymore money to buy exact Domain match.

    So what can I do ?

    Will creating sub-domain on my original domain help for ranking?

    for example my keywords are "Paleo for old people" (Exact Domain Match = paleoforoldpeople.com )

    Since I don't hava any money at the moment. What If I create Subdomian on my original Domian (supersizelife.com) like this --> Paleo-for-old-people-supersizelife.com

    What I want to know is that, Is Exact Domain Match must for a Micro Niche Sites or Can I can make it up for it with Good content and few extra backlinks,
    and other SEO stuff.
     
    lobsang, Nov 12, 2014 IP
  2. matt_62

    matt_62 Prominent Member

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    BEFORE you start buying any more domains or anything, take a look at this guide:
    http://flippa.com/blog/why-micro-niche-sites-no-longer-work/

    That single link, provides a wealth of information, resources, and even links to step by step guides on how to do it. I cant find this other link I was looking for, but on flippa, someone did write how they started a niche site, and detailed their steps from start to finish. While they made a loss overall, they still sold the site and made some "quick money". Why their story is important is because it showed the costs involved. Sometimes you see a final price of a niche site and you think "oh, they must have made $100" and its not.

    The single most important thing to take away from that link I provided, is that people using this micro site technique have been having their adsense accounts banned.

    Right now, you might be looking around reading guides, ebooks and everything else saying how good an idea micro niche sites are, And right now, people are still earning from it, but in 2014, its not a good market to focus on.
    By all means, start and create a site. But dont use adsense on it.
     
    matt_62, Nov 12, 2014 IP
  3. The Simpleton

    The Simpleton Active Member

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    +1 for the link shared by matt. Building a micro niche site from scratch in November 2014 might not be a great idea.

    If you still wish to persue building a micro niche site, then perhaps you might find this interesting:

    Source: http://moz.com/learn/seo/domain
     
    The Simpleton, Nov 12, 2014 IP
  4. maneesh.rai13

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    EMD is dead , go for content, my words would be instead of taking headache of different micro site u can concentrate on a single web site and can generate quality and niche traffic .
     
    maneesh.rai13, Nov 13, 2014 IP