Ive often heard a strategy that people do, bit of research, buy a domain, 'throw a page or two up' and see if there is any interest before developing. In this instance, what do people look at when they 'throw a page' up. Do they simply aim for keywords in domains, some tagging and content, and see if it gets vistors before working on it? or maybe a minimum link and registration to at least give it a fighting chance?? Any thoughts?? Regards Alan
Hi Alan, You seem to have got it more or less right. Keyword research certainly forms the main basis for this sort of strategy, as such hub sites usually are developed to test markets with the least amount of investment in terms of time & money. As for the importance of keywords in domains, it always is useful, and can cut down on the amount of effort required in testing it, as organic traffic usually is the backbone of such sites. But the reliance can be mitigated by employing other strategies like linking, etc as you mentioned. Hope that helps
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I usually find a niche make a basic site with about 5 pages of content with long tail key words and see what kind of traffic I start getting in then I look at bounce rates, ways to expand on that traffic, ways to expand on key words, etc. If things look good I put more into it if not I sell it. Before I make a site I do research but research only gets you so far then you have to test that in the real world. Sometimes you will get traffic but the niche or market is too hard to make money off of or sometimes the niche is to hard to rank in, etc. So I bail before I waste to much time on it. If a site seems like it will not be worth the effort then I ditch it. Usually you will need to do a little more then just 'throw a page or two up' you will have to make the site rank in some keywords and feel out the traffic. But the basic idea is a good way to test the market before you invest to much into it.
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