Lesson 3 - Choosing a Domain Name and a Niche store
Software!
Your keyword research is very important so make sure you really go through it. If you
did not, go back to it. But if you did, lets move on :)
Now let me explain a little more about niche stores and why this system works. First off,
people are not as happy to buy online from an unknown store! With so many people
having their identity theft stolen, people are scared to buy online. But when people shop
online, if they are taken to an eBay or Amazon store (recognizable name), they are more
willing to buy that product. Now, one niche store may only bring in about $10-20 dollars
per month (if the price is too low) (but if niche is chosen right, I KNOW it can bring
you in a lot more), but after the initial software cost you can build as many sites as you
want!
So let’s say you have 10 sites and each of them is bringing in $100 (which is easy to
accomplish) that is at least a $1000/month. Now add to that adsense profits and other
banners you display on your site, you may be making the 2-3K in a few months.
I will repeat that it is not easy but if you follow everything I outlined and other things that
are on the way, you will be making money within 30 days! I know it! Just put the work
into it, it is as simple as that!
So let’s move on. How do you choose a domain name? This is very important! You do
not want to pick anything that does not connect with the product! For example:
abcjennifershop.com is not a good domain name I know you love your kids as I do mine,
but Kevin and Jane Shop is not good domain either. What you want your domain to have
is the main keyword in it. So if you are selling baby carrier than your domain name has
to consist of those keywords. A lot of simple domain names are taken so baby carriers
may be hard to find, but if that is the case than try different options such as baby-
carriers.com or Baby-carriers.net (I try to stick with .com because people just remember
it a lot more) If that does not work, than try adding baby-carriers-sale.com or discounted-
baby-carriers.com or backpacks-baby-carriers.com. Just do not pick something too
generic, make it targeted! It helps you with getting more searches.
Also, I use Godaddy to purchase my domains,I know a lot of people are happy with them.
However, I do not use them for hosting, only for my domain names.
This is very important for you to read!! Do not pick a domain name that has brand
name in it! For example, you do not want to include Bjorn Carrier because you may have
a conflict of interest with Bjorn Company. So stay away from that. Side Note: it is
important to register a domain under private. It costs a little more, but it is well worth
it! I have heard of some sites getting hacked into that were not registered as private.
Keep your godaddy.com password strong!
As mentioned before, you need to host more than one site so I found hostgator.com It cost $9.99/month for unlimited domains! Since you need to plan on
having at least 10 domains, it would cost you a lot more if you went with some other
hosting companies. Since I use it personally, I have to say they are very reliable and they
have technical support 24 hours a day. And as a non tech person, I did ask many
“dummy” questions ?
O.k. So now you are wondering how you will build those sites, right?
You have few options here. You can build wordpress sites or regular HTML sites.
My opinion is that html sites are old news and Wordpress is currently loved by
Google. This helps you with Indexing your site in Google and that is why I
recommend wordpress plugin.
I use to recommend Build a niche store software, but I no longer do so! You see, I had
to take a trip from US to Europe. I was not able to work for about 5 weeks and Google
deindexed my sites. The reason is, because I did not keep my sites updated. I of course
was very upset. So I searched for another solution. First I bought the Wordpress / Build
a niche store incorporated blogs and store, but after testing it for 2 months, some of my
sites still did not get indexed!
For this reason, PHPBay Plugin for wordpress blog is so much easier. You will build
your site quicker this way.
Video to see PHPBay Plugin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlIsC42k9g
So bans is for the regular html site and PHPBay is a plugin for Wordpress Blogs. In
addition, under each post, you can have the eBay products!
Either way, you will need to have the FTP program to upload your files. I know there are
some you can pay for, but this one works just fine for me and the best of all it is
free :) http://www.coreftp.com/ Call me cheap but I wasted too much money on
unnecessary things. :)
Both products come with unlimited access to their forum where you will learn how to
make your sites better. But to be honest with online stores, they need to look o.k.,
friendly on the eye, and the price to be right! People will buy!
did not, go back to it. But if you did, lets move on :)
Now let me explain a little more about niche stores and why this system works. First off,
people are not as happy to buy online from an unknown store! With so many people
having their identity theft stolen, people are scared to buy online. But when people shop
online, if they are taken to an eBay or Amazon store (recognizable name), they are more
willing to buy that product. Now, one niche store may only bring in about $10-20 dollars
per month (if the price is too low) (but if niche is chosen right, I KNOW it can bring
you in a lot more), but after the initial software cost you can build as many sites as you
want!
So let’s say you have 10 sites and each of them is bringing in $100 (which is easy to
accomplish) that is at least a $1000/month. Now add to that adsense profits and other
banners you display on your site, you may be making the 2-3K in a few months.
I will repeat that it is not easy but if you follow everything I outlined and other things that
are on the way, you will be making money within 30 days! I know it! Just put the work
into it, it is as simple as that!
So let’s move on. How do you choose a domain name? This is very important! You do
not want to pick anything that does not connect with the product! For example:
abcjennifershop.com is not a good domain name I know you love your kids as I do mine,
but Kevin and Jane Shop is not good domain either. What you want your domain to have
is the main keyword in it. So if you are selling baby carrier than your domain name has
to consist of those keywords. A lot of simple domain names are taken so baby carriers
may be hard to find, but if that is the case than try different options such as baby-
carriers.com or Baby-carriers.net (I try to stick with .com because people just remember
it a lot more) If that does not work, than try adding baby-carriers-sale.com or discounted-
baby-carriers.com or backpacks-baby-carriers.com. Just do not pick something too
generic, make it targeted! It helps you with getting more searches.
Also, I use Godaddy to purchase my domains,I know a lot of people are happy with them.
However, I do not use them for hosting, only for my domain names.
This is very important for you to read!! Do not pick a domain name that has brand
name in it! For example, you do not want to include Bjorn Carrier because you may have
a conflict of interest with Bjorn Company. So stay away from that. Side Note: it is
important to register a domain under private. It costs a little more, but it is well worth
it! I have heard of some sites getting hacked into that were not registered as private.
Keep your godaddy.com password strong!
As mentioned before, you need to host more than one site so I found hostgator.com It cost $9.99/month for unlimited domains! Since you need to plan on
having at least 10 domains, it would cost you a lot more if you went with some other
hosting companies. Since I use it personally, I have to say they are very reliable and they
have technical support 24 hours a day. And as a non tech person, I did ask many
“dummy” questions ?
O.k. So now you are wondering how you will build those sites, right?
You have few options here. You can build wordpress sites or regular HTML sites.
My opinion is that html sites are old news and Wordpress is currently loved by
Google. This helps you with Indexing your site in Google and that is why I
recommend wordpress plugin.
I use to recommend Build a niche store software, but I no longer do so! You see, I had
to take a trip from US to Europe. I was not able to work for about 5 weeks and Google
deindexed my sites. The reason is, because I did not keep my sites updated. I of course
was very upset. So I searched for another solution. First I bought the Wordpress / Build
a niche store incorporated blogs and store, but after testing it for 2 months, some of my
sites still did not get indexed!
For this reason, PHPBay Plugin for wordpress blog is so much easier. You will build
your site quicker this way.
Video to see PHPBay Plugin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlIsC42k9g
So bans is for the regular html site and PHPBay is a plugin for Wordpress Blogs. In
addition, under each post, you can have the eBay products!
Either way, you will need to have the FTP program to upload your files. I know there are
some you can pay for, but this one works just fine for me and the best of all it is
free :) http://www.coreftp.com/ Call me cheap but I wasted too much money on
unnecessary things. :)
Both products come with unlimited access to their forum where you will learn how to
make your sites better. But to be honest with online stores, they need to look o.k.,
friendly on the eye, and the price to be right! People will buy!
Very important! Both programs come with the manual. PHP Bay also has Video
Tutorials. As I said before, I found that PHPBay plugin is much easier to use and quicker
to set up your initial store. It should not take you more than 3-6 hours even if you are a
total newbie.
Lesson 1 - Getting Affiliate Links
Lesson 2 - Research Niche Market
Lesson 3 - Choosing a Domain Name and a Niche store Software!
Lesson 4 - Optimizing your Niche store!
Lesson 5 - Write Articles to Get Traffic!
Lesson 6 - Keywords for website and for article
Lesson 7 - Promoting your Site with Articles and Ads
Outline of what needs to be done!
Don’t let those visitors go away!
Submit Your Site to Directories! On Autopilot!
