Building An Ultimate Niche Site

Task Description

Planning (PLN):

Decide if you will do all the keyword research, partially or completely

Decide if you will write the content, partially or completely

Decide if you will outsource any link building

Decide if you want to keep your links pure and clean (white hat vs gray hat)

Keyword and Product Research (KWR):

Brainstorm and idea generation

Review Amazon product categories to get ideas

Use Long Tail Pro or Google Keyword Planner to analyze search volume for potential primary keywords

Use Long Tail Pro or Google Keyword Planner to analyze related keywords and secondary keywords

Select keyword(s) to research further for Front Page Competition

First Page Competition Analysis (FPC):

Use Long Tail Pro to analyze keyword competitiveness

Perform Google search on keywords

- Check for keywords in page titles and meta descriptions

- Check for other niche sites

- Check for forum posts

- Check for Q & A sites

Set up free accounts with Majestic SEO, ahrefs, and MOZ

Install the MOZ toolbar

Review the Page Authority and Domain Authority values from the MOZ toolbar

Check the first 5-10 pages of search results for Niche Sites

Select your keyword or topic

Selecting a Domain and Hosting (DH):

Select and purchase a domain using the selected keywords

Set up hosting at Bluehost (or other hosting company)

Install WordPress (use one click install)

Install plugins

Select & Install a theme

Create a custom header

Set up Google webmaster tools

Set up Google Analytics

Set up Google Authorship (can use a pseudonym)

Create About Page

Create Contact Page

Create Privacy Policy

Create Disclaimer

Content Creation (CC):

Write the main post (2000+ words) and publish.

Write 5 additional posts that can be product reviews or related topics and publish.

Write 5 more posts/product reviews and publish (in a week)

Write 5 more posts/product reviews and publish (in a week)

Write 5 more posts/product reviews and publish (in a week)

Write 5 more posts/product reviews and publish (in a week)

Write 5 more posts/product reviews and publish (in a week)

Applying for Amazon Associates and Adding Affiliate Links (AAA):

Apply for the Amazon Associate program

Wait for acceptance email from the Amazon Associate Program

Add links from Amazon to your main page

Add links from Amazon to your other pages

Audit to make you sure all your links work correctly

Promotion: Outreach, and Link Building (LB):

Create list of relevant blogs for link building (goal ~200 blogs)

Create social profiles

Comment on 1/4 of blog list (in a week)

Comment on 1/4 of blog list (in a week)

Comment on 1/4 of blog list (in a week)

Comment on 1/4 of blog list (in a week)

Email people that you have commented on to compliment them

Wait a week, then email them again asking for a guest post.

Optional - Gray Hat Link Building (LB):

Write 4 unique articles and submit one each to 4 article directories

Write 3 unique articles and submit one each to 3 article directories

Submit to web directories

Create a wordpress.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a tumblr.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a blog.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a blogspot.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a weebly.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a livejournal.com blog and publish 3 articles

Create a webs.com blog and publish 3 articles

Ranking Checkpoint:

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Check the ranking of your site in the google search results each week

Advanced and Additional Tasks:

Analyze the backlink profile for your domain.

Use fivrr for insulated link building

Attempt to add wikipedia links

Continue to target related products