I picked my niche for my first site that I am going to build to combat the Mayday changes. I will be putting a lot of effort into this one site which is something kind of new for me. I usually just kept pushing out new sites and didn’t focus much on building them up. I will still share my site with you guys and all the details about what I do to them to promote them. I will only be doing one site at a time now and not start a new one until this one succeeds to my expectations or I declare it an complete failure. I have not decided yet how much it needs to earn to be considered a winner and move on to another site. I will think on that and let you know soon.
So far I got the site up with a custom header and one welcome post. I loaded it up with WordPress 3.0 which was just released yesterday. It is totally awesome! I love the new themes API! this revolutionizes themes in WordPress. I am not going to spend a ton of time explaining… just install it and checkout the new theme called Twenty Ten. That is the theme I used on this new niche site.
My next step is to do some more keyword research and get some articles on order.
I think this is going to be a fun process for me as I share with you how I build up this niche site. I just hope that it turns out for the best and at the end you will be able to see exactly what procedures I took to create a successful niche site for EPN.
One last thing to share with you in this post and that is the new niche site… and it is Antique Cash Registers.
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I heard lots of story about Mayday slap as well. My personal sites traffic decreased about half in June. So thin site concept is really under test now because longtail traffic is no longer as easy to get as before.
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