Nothing was going right.

Looking back, it was foolish to put all my sites even client sites into one network, let alone a public network that was advertised hint as private. I used it to develop a seamless workflow to rank sites.

For the most part, it was working. I had to explain to them that their domains were useless and it was all my fault. It was hard and it took me a while to tell them, because I wanted to have a solution in place. I figured out a solution and thankfully they stayed with me until I moved to another agency. The end of sucked. It halted my progression of my business one man agency that I was so excited to write about. So while my service business stalled, I was thankful that I had built and bought Amazon niche sites to help diversify my income.

Even though my niche sites were still hit with the same penalty, they are still making money albeit just a fraction of their total potential. With my two niche sites that I decided to stop working on, I was still able to get a decent paycheck from them. After seeing the same amount come in every month, I got used to seeing it and maybe I took them for granted.

Here is a screenshot of revenue total from Amazon. It covers my car payment completely. Or it covers my monthly grocery bill. So while I had always thought these two sites were failures, I think I can change my attitude and call them mild successes.

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A stepping stone to a better Amazon niche site. All it really takes is some hard and consistent work in the right direction. Keep working on it if you think it has legs and if not use that money to invest in content for your next site.

This is going to be a quick guide with links to helpful resources and some of my notes where needed. Proper research is very important before you start doing anything and buying a domain.

Tung Tran has a brilliantly thorough and straight to the point guide on keyword research. He recommends a paid software, Long Tail Pro. Just use the free Google Keyword Planner tool. When I bought my vacuum niche site, the domain name was bestcanistervacuums.

The major benefit of these kinds of domain names is it makes it easy to build links without receiving a penalty. That means, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. Be where your target audience is.

Content is the most important thing with building a niche site. The niche sites that last a long time will have good content that people want to read.

It would help if you actually made the recipes and took the pictures yourself. You could also make YouTube videos and subtly linking to the products you use to make the recipe. A content calendar helps.

Quality is always important, but typically the more the better.

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More content means you have more chances to be found or linked to. I use Evernote to take notes and the calendar on Basecamp to keep me moving. Begin writing the content yourself. At least once a week is something I recommend. If you have the capital, investing in a good content writer native speaker with considerable knowledge on your topic is good. Design should not be neglected.

Use a relatively small content width like on this site and BuzzFeed to make content more inviting to read. Relatively bigger fonts around 16px also help. Get a good logo by either using 99 designs or find someone to make you one on reddit. Also consider Fiverr if you want to keep costs low.

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Make sure the theme you pick is responsive and makes it easy to use Google Fonts. Something I wish I did was start creating an email list when I launched my niche sites.

An email list will be really beneficial if your content is good. You can put your sign up forms in the sidebar, at the end of posts, or in a popup I use OptinMonster. For email service providers, I like to use Campaign Monitor. Both need to have excellent content and something readers actually want in order for this to be effective.

Always test different optin headlines to see what works.

Sometimes no bonus works better. In other words, you will need traffic. There are three main ways to get traffic: Relying on only one way to get traffic. The big two are organic and social, while paid may not be cost effective for an Amazon niche site.

I made the mistake of relying all on organic traffic, so when my domains got penalized, I was left with a mere trickle of traffic. Social is great because not only can it get you targeted traffic, but it can also lead to natural links. The more people see it, the more it has a chance to be linked to by a reader who liked it. So social also helps with your organic search traffic over time. With an Amazon niche site, a conversion is someone buying something on Amazon using your affiliate link so you get a commission.

This is the number one thing you want people to do on your site. Not saying that is wrong, but I did not do that with my niche sites. Once you get your site up and running with these basics, you should be expanding your knowledge and skills with more research. Just use these basics, get your site started and earning some money, then look to expand your site and skills further email marketing, better design, interactive content, etc.

Learn from what went right and what went wrong and start another site. I hope this guide was helpful. Home Marketing Psychology Niche Sites Resume Add Me on LinkedIn. Reggie Paquette Blocked Unblock Follow Following Marketing Manager ServiceTitan. My First Full Year as an Active Amazon Associate With my two niche sites that I decided to stop working on, I was still able to get a decent paycheck from them.

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