Are your websites ideas original?

Are your websites generally original? Or do you look at a specific niche and add your modifications/twist to it?

 

content 100% original, and so is the rest of it goes. Ideas and innovations usually not original but improved.

 

I stick to an already established niche, as that way I'm guaranteed to have a market.

 

I take a few things into consideration in terms of the topic:

• Is it going to be impossible to rank on Google (too much competition)?
• Is there a decent amount of people already looking for what I offer?
• Is it going to be a pain to create/manage?
• Do I have to come up with a community? (its difficult to populate an empty forum)
• Is it clean? (offshore webhosing can be a pain)
• Is it going to cost me my life savings before I make any money back?

Originality is always nice, but you have to make sure it's something people are looking for.

As for code and content I try to get as original as possible, but the navigation has to be kept somewhat standard if you don't want your visitors to get confused.

 

I try to keep to a niche that interests me and that has a good following.

 

Keeping to a niche often works, but it is also great to have unique content and unique ideas.

New content and ideas will grow on people just as easy so long as it's good content/a good idea.

 

i can write special script for me

 

It's all about "building a better mouse trap".

You do not need a new idea. You simply need to improve on other things out there. Same as Google and many others have done. They were not first. They simply improved on others.

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I've learned that old idea people want are better than original idea nobody wanted(or know about).

So I just take old idea and improve it with original idea then make profits!

 

some copy paste,... and 1 a month I will create my own article and post it,.. it help me a lot,.

 

Nowadays it is extremely hard, maybe even impossible to create something absolutely new and unique.
Talking about my website, it's neither original nor it improves other things that have already been created. Still, it gets more and more traffic little by little

 

Everything I do is original... as far as designing there is a bit of inspirations but its never the exact same way... I always have my own ideas... this is what makes it all fun.

 

when it comes to IM, I take what's popular, and build around it.

I'm more Microsoft than Apple - I prefer making mint in something that already has a demand than creating an entirely new market (as Apple is trying to do with the iPad)

 

How are you sure the niche you are choosing is the one that will make you some money? Surely there are some niches that are more popular then others?

I agree with you on those points. My question here is how to know if a community can even be created for a specific niche? For example, say I start a hot air balloon forum, what type of market research or just research in general would you suggest I do before spending money on getting a site developed?

 

I understand the point here, but what I still don't really understand is how you know you have "good" content or ideas. Obviously if traffic on your site grows each month, you know you are doing something right. But if you have a site, like the hot air balloon example I made above, how do you "get your feet wet" in that niche?

I agree, but this business seems to be very, very competitive, and I see many different variations of niches and sites that people modify and tweak in so many different ways, I sometimes feel that my ideas might just be "another website link on google", that doesn't stand out.

 

Have you noticed traffic increases before of more content?

Care to give us some examples of your original ideas? Which ones did you realize were a gold mine, and which ones were a bust?

 

well I think it's pretty hard to really do something completly new. In most cases it's enough to improove and combine things that are already there. Which does not mean copying from them

 

content and theme has to be original if i wish to attract traffic.

 

I tend to feel like many original ideas tend to be expensive, because there's often no existing CMS or code base to work from.

On the other hand, if you're just talking about coming up with a new idea within an existing framework, good luck.

In terms of articles, I write much of my own stuff so I know it's 100% original.

 

Well that is hard part if you are talking abt new market space for a new original product. It may be pretty useless to survey existing market cos the existing users may don't even know whether they will like the new product.
Examples are the photocopier , walkman.
Photocopier, walkman got bad reviews/ surveys from users when they were testing the existing market.