Comments on: New Experiment: Building a Niche Website With Wordpress

By: Ryan Cote

Ryan Cote — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:51:10 +0000

I need to make a long overdue update to this experiment! I will do that very soon.

By: Niche Guide

Niche Guide — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:54:15 +0000

Nice case study. The allinone seo plugin is pretty cool stuff

i think that you just go to prove how adsense is still a viable source of online income

Niche Guide’s last blog post: Can You Really Make Money with Google Adsense?

By: Internet Marketing Uncut

Internet Marketing Uncut — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:54 +0000

Some really quality info here. Thanks for the read.

I’m new and am just about to check out these wordpress themes.

By: » Update 1: Building a Niche Website with Wordpress

» Update 1: Building a Niche Website with Wordpress — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:53:15 +0000

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By: Ryan Cote

Ryan Cote — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:24 +0000

Sure thing. Here’s the theme I used:

http://www.longren.org/wordpress/unwakeable/

That being said, I had a custom logo created and tweaked the design and layout a bit…but it more or less looks as is.

Cheers,
Ryan

By: mkander

mkander — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:23:06 +0000

Can you give some details on the killer wordpress theme? I am looking for a good theme for a niche site at the moment.

By: Ryan Cote

Ryan Cote — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:58:46 +0000

Hi Frank, thank you for the information.

Right now I’m adding my content as posts so I’m getting the SEO benefits. The only pages I’m adding are reviews of the four products I’m promoting throughout the site.

As far as comments, I do have them turned off…I’ll think about turning them on though.

Thanks again,
Ryan

By: Frank C

Frank C — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:54:07 +0000

Just so you know, using Caroline’s method of using pages instead of posts negates some of the SEO advantages of WordPress blogs. Pages don’t ping like posts.

Also, she recommends turning off comments, another mistake, since this adds new content and keywords to your article and insures quicker Googlebot crawls. Moderate comments, don’t turn them off.

Frank C’s last blog post: Boring Memo WordPress Theme

By: Web Site Building | Domaining

Web Site Building | Domaining — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:21:50 +0000

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By: Ryan Cote

Ryan Cote — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:01:35 +0000

Good questions Fred.

I don’t want to reveal my niche, but I can answer your other questions.

Right now on my site I have adsense as well as some banner ads for affiliate programs I’ve had some success with in pay per click. This is all subject to change, but I’m pretty happy with how I have it set up so we’ll see. Also, the affiliate programs pay out pretty well, from $25 to $60 per sale.

The plugins I installed include All in One SEO, a banner rotator plugin, a ping optimizer and a sitemap plugin that creates a sitemap after each post and sends it to the major search engines. I have a few others installed, but these are the important ones.

Good question on the amount of visitors I think it will take. Honestly, I’m not sure. I’m going to see where I’m at during the 3 month mark and re-adjust my strategy if need be.

Thanks for taking an interest in my case study…let me know if you have anymore questions.

Ryan