I bought a new domain at the end of December – with the view to giving a niche a proper go. The domain I bought is actually a misspelling (more on this later!) of a type of fitness equipment, the reason I chose the misspelling was because it gets 4 times the search volume of the correct spelling.
I spent the first two weeks of January adding content in the form of product pages and exercise articles – and spending some time doing link exchanges, forum posting and article writing. The site got indexed within about a day of me putting it up initially – and last week it made about 4 sales, the total commission from these is about £5. So quite a small start, but I was happy that it was getting picked up for long tail searches – as currently it only appears as number 7 on the first page for its main keyword.
This brings me onto the issue of it being optimised for a misspelling – when you google the misspelling, the big G tries to correct your mistake and even inserts two results for the correct spelling above the rest of the results – so even if I continue to link build/add content then the best I can hope for is effectively number 3. A silly oversight really – and one that I could have avoided – I posted about this about a week ago on the A4U forums and the consensus is really that optimising sites for misspellings is a pointless activity as Google will only get better at correcting them.
So I will continue to add to the site and get it a few more links, then my plan is to leave it a while and see how it does. As the experience in terms of ranking etc. will be valuable. I am now on the search for a new niche to focus my main energy on – preferably one that I stand a chance of getting to number 1 for!
First Sales, Links and things…
I bought a new domain at the end of December – with the view to giving a niche a proper go. The domain I bought is actually a misspelling (more on this later!) of a type of fitness equipment, the reason I chose the misspelling was because it gets 4 times the search volume of the correct spelling.
I spent the first two weeks of January adding content in the form of product pages and exercise articles – and spending some time doing link exchanges, forum posting and article writing. The site got indexed within about a day of me putting it up initially – and last week it made about 4 sales, the total commission from these is about £5. So quite a small start, but I was happy that it was getting picked up for long tail searches – as currently it only appears as number 7 on the first page for its main keyword.
This brings me onto the issue of it being optimised for a misspelling – when you google the misspelling, the big G tries to correct your mistake and even inserts two results for the correct spelling above the rest of the results – so even if I continue to link build/add content then the best I can hope for is effectively number 3. A silly oversight really – and one that I could have avoided – I posted about this about a week ago on the A4U forums and the consensus is really that optimising sites for misspellings is a pointless activity as Google will only get better at correcting them.
So I will continue to add to the site and get it a few more links, then my plan is to leave it a while and see how it does. As the experience in terms of ranking etc. will be valuable. I am now on the search for a new niche to focus my main energy on – preferably one that I stand a chance of getting to number 1 for!