Of course I bring up these questions right as I notice my first site got out of the google sandbox, but knowing how the process CAN go I am considering getting the jump with my next site (so if I get sandboxed with it, it was in development anyways).
My first niche is one that is really low maintenance, and probably just as low marketability. I do promote some affiliate products on the site, but expect adsense to really be the primary income. I am totally fine with that, I think with as much info that I can plug onto that site, it will serve that purpose well.
Back on the subject... I have probably a dozen ideas for niches in my head, one of which I would really like to start building up (I keep a notepad with ideas on the others, so I don't lose em). But, I have a few questions on it.
1) Should I start with a test blog first, like on Blogger, or just start with a real domain? Im kinda mixed on this. I would love to test the niche and concept before dropping any money, but the thought of building traffic towards this site will prove counter-productive if it does prove lucrative and I need to move base off-site. The cost of domain registry isn't that high of a cost, and I already pay for unlimited hosting service so the only loss would really be in the registry if it fails. But the upside of Blogger is that when I do put the main site together, I can (and will) link to the main site from it.
2) How advantageous is it really to have the keywords in the URL? I should know this answer seeing as my main niche was accidentally (stupidly) more broad than it really should have been (I didn't think long enough on the keywords, although I think I can work around it.) With my next niche, I am really targeting long tail keywords... so much to the point that a URL of Longtailkeywordthatisreallylong.com seems kinda silly to me. I was thinking of a related URL name, but using article marketing to help me really hit this keyword (seeing as there are only 45 or so articles in the "all in" search.) There is a .com and .net of this longtail keyword already (haven't checked the availability of .org yet). What are your thoughts?
I should have mentioned too, I will be doing SEO/Article marketing to promote the site beyond the normal link building process. PPC isnt going to be an option for a few months yet.
My first niche is one that is really low maintenance, and probably just as low marketability. I do promote some affiliate products on the site, but expect adsense to really be the primary income. I am totally fine with that, I think with as much info that I can plug onto that site, it will serve that purpose well.
Back on the subject... I have probably a dozen ideas for niches in my head, one of which I would really like to start building up (I keep a notepad with ideas on the others, so I don't lose em). But, I have a few questions on it.
1) Should I start with a test blog first, like on Blogger, or just start with a real domain? Im kinda mixed on this. I would love to test the niche and concept before dropping any money, but the thought of building traffic towards this site will prove counter-productive if it does prove lucrative and I need to move base off-site. The cost of domain registry isn't that high of a cost, and I already pay for unlimited hosting service so the only loss would really be in the registry if it fails. But the upside of Blogger is that when I do put the main site together, I can (and will) link to the main site from it.
2) How advantageous is it really to have the keywords in the URL? I should know this answer seeing as my main niche was accidentally (stupidly) more broad than it really should have been (I didn't think long enough on the keywords, although I think I can work around it.) With my next niche, I am really targeting long tail keywords... so much to the point that a URL of Longtailkeywordthatisreallylong.com seems kinda silly to me. I was thinking of a related URL name, but using article marketing to help me really hit this keyword (seeing as there are only 45 or so articles in the "all in" search.) There is a .com and .net of this longtail keyword already (haven't checked the availability of .org yet). What are your thoughts?
I should have mentioned too, I will be doing SEO/Article marketing to promote the site beyond the normal link building process. PPC isnt going to be an option for a few months yet.