So, people have been asking the same questions over and over again. This question was given by Kathy from Texas.

Question: Jino, how do you build a niche site? And how long does it take?

First, thank you Kathy for your amazing question. This single question was brought up at least 30 times in a single month.
So, I decided to do some live demonstration on picking a niche domain name, and how much of work is actually involved in this painful process.
Too many times people jump right in to building a site without even doing any type of research. Everything is based on assumption rather than actual facts (numbers).

So, rather thank just talking and talking, let me run a quick experiment for all of you from scratch.

First, pick your niche domain

Duration: 1 hour
Goal: Choose a potential name that will get 1 page on Google
This process took me about 1 hour. After an hour, I found about 3 or 4 niche domain names, and then I narrowed it down to 1 niche domain name.

Step 1: Start crawling up ideas by using Google prediction
If you have no idea where to start, just start typing in ‘how to’ on Google search. Thanks to Google keyword prediction, it tells you popular keywords for you. That’s right.

Start typing in ‘how to’…. ‘g’ or any other letters.

I found a cool keyword. “how to get rid of acne.”
After finding your niche keyword (long tail), go to step 2.

Step 2: Evaluate the value of keywords on Adwords Tool

Goal: find out three things

1) Competition
2) Local Monthly Search
3) CPC

Again, this is a real time example. I am writing this as I am typing. I am evaluating these keywords.

1) Competition: look for low competition. Even though you have a great keyword or domain name, eve the exact match domain will be hard to get on the first page Google. Too much work will be involved. Always look for low competion as possible.

2) Local Monthly Search: look for high number. I wouldn’t even bother looking at it anything that’s lower than 10k searches per month. Also, make sure to look at Local Monthly Search. Local my friends.

3) CPC: you want anything higher than $2.00 (at least for me). Let say that CPC is at $2.00. This can be translated in to about 60 cents per click (close to 30%).

Picking your domain name

Again, this lesson is on building your NICHE WEBSITE not an authority site. Meaning, you are not trying to build an authority or branded website. Your only goal here is to pick rich keywords, and get it on first page Google.

Duration: 1 hour
Goal: Picking exact keywords, picking aged domain names (at least 2 years old)

Only Step: Go to Godaddy.com and get yourself a nice domain name
As mentioned above, you are looking for two things: 1) exact match keywords and 2) aged domain names.

You will be surprise to see how many people are dumping their domain names left to right. You’re not there to judge or to figure out why they are dumping them. Just get the one that you can generate income.

After searching for the exact match, of course, it was not available. So, do I give up? Of course not. You can always find a way to get that keywords.
So, did I get it? Of course.

I bought this domain name with a very small price. 2 years old.

Moving on.

Setup your WP immediately

Duration: 5 minutes

I didn’t even think twice. I setup as soon I got the domain, and I started to write my first article.
Do I know anything about pimples? Not really. I start reading some articles about pimples, and there were tons of information on the site.

WARNING: Do not duplicate!!!

I say this now. Do not rephrase, copy, or even imitate content. You will need to fully digest the article and spit them out in your own words. Explain what you have learned. When you start rephrasing sentences, Google will not recognize them as a genuine site. Don’t do it.

Build your content

Duration: 2 hours

After launching my WP, I quickly start writing some content.
I wrote total of 4 articles. Were they quality articles? They are so so.

After I wrote these 4 articles, I checked my Ranking for my niche keywords “how to get rid of pimple”

Here was my result after 3 HOURS:

Here is my Google result after 3 Hours

Conclusion

Well, that is it for now. What am I going to do now? Get this site on 1st page Google by the end of this month. Start applying Google Adsense, and go for other keywords.

I will keep you guys posted how everything went!

Best of luck to everyone.