Since most of my online income comes from using pay per click to drive targeted traffic to landing pages, I’ve decided to diversify my efforts.

Caroline Middlebrook released a free report not too long ago titled: “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress“.

In the report she describes how to use Wordpress to build niche websites that eventually rank organically in the search engines. These types of sites are usually monetized using Adsense and Affiliate Marketing.

I was thinking about it and it makes perfect sense. Using Wordpress to build a niche site gives you an advantage. First off, it’s free. But more importantly, Wordpress’ plugin functionality gives you the ability to custom create a SEO monster — a website on steroids.

Unlike a normal website, when you post content to a Wordpress-driven niche website (set up correctly), a sitemap is created/updated and sent to the major search engines, pings are sent out alerting even more engines that fresh content was just added — and depending on what other plugins you use, even more can be done — and it’s all automatic.

So a light bulb when off in my head and I’ve decided to take a swing at it because it will be the perfect way to diversify my Affiliate Marketing efforts.

I won’t give you ALL the details of this experiment for obvious reasons, but I WILL keep you up to date on my progress and give you some tips and insight along the way. Basically, I’ll give away as much info as I can while still protecting my profits.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

• Decided on my niche topic;
• Registered a domain and installed Wordpress on it;
• Found a killer Wordpress theme to use and customized it with certain plugins;
• Had my designer create a logo;
• Had my writer start creating articles for the site;
• Got my Adsense and Affiliate Marketing ads put in place on the site; and
• Started promoting the site thru article marketing, on-page SEO and link building.

I posted my first article of content on the site 3 days ago and Google has already indexed 2 pages.

I think that speaks volume for the potential here. Only 3 days — brand new domain — multiple pages already indexed.

If you’re not comfortable with Wordpress, or don’t know it as well as you’d like, take action NOW and teach yourself. Caroline’s free report is a good place to start.

We’ll see if this new website earns me money. I’m pretty certain it will — my goal is $1,000 per month after 6 months with no ad spend. I think this is very doable.

Stick with me on this blog and I’ll keep you updated on the progress of the site like earnings and traffic. I’ll probably make updates every 2 weeks.

If you have any experience with creating niche Wordpress sites, please leave your thoughts by commenting below.

Cheers,
Ryan

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Tags: Caroline Middlebrook, Niche Marketing, Niche Websites, Wordpress