Beginners Guide to Building Niche Sites - BANS

I watch bloggers everywhere struggle to make money online. It’s admirable, entertaining and yet sad all wrapped up into one. I say this because they are almost all following the exact same play book. You can’t blame them, if you listen to the “experts” then they will tell you how easy it is to make money blogging.

The Truth

The truth is that it isn’t that easy to make money blogging and the chances of you striking it rich are about the same as getting hit by lightning. That isn’t good, but if you want to make money online then have an open mind, there are LOTS of ways to make money online.

I enjoy blogging but the reality for me is that it takes far too much time. That’s the decision that I have made for me and my situation. I would much rather build a niche site, get it SEO’d and indexed, bring some traffic and collect the money.

It takes a lot of work on the front end to build niche sites but once they are built and indexed and drawing traffic, they are a passive income source. I can be playing golf or riding my Harley while they make money, which is far more appealing to me than having to write and promote content incessantly.

I want to blog because I enjoy it, not because I depend on it for income.

The Stats

Let’s do some basic math to see what is possible here with a few niche sites. If you build a niche site that conservatively brings in a dollar a day. Not a difficult feat to accomplish at all using the various monetization sources available.

$1 dollar a day is obviously $365 dollars a year. This is certainly not that impressive, but let’s say we have 10 sites…..$3650 dollars a year is pretty impressive…..now let’s jack that number up to 100 sites……now you are talking $36,500 dollars a year.

This is getting into the area where it will catch your attention. If you figure hosting fees and domain fees in there then you have approximately $1000 dollars in expenses. Still very good. Let’s really get crazy and let’s say your sites bring in $5 dollars per day on average.

Does that match have your attention? It should because it’s $182k dollars a year! How is your blog doing?

The Reality

I hear the skeptics right now, making every excuse in the world. The basic question would be is $5 dollars a day feasible? Absolutely yes it is. If you research and identify the right niches then you could find some that will produce $50 dollars per day, while others might produce $0.

The trick is to shoot for an average return of $1 at first and then build from there. A basic Adsense site with some sort of traffic should be able to easily turn out $1 dollar a day with very little trouble.

Don’t let me mislead you regarding the amount of effort involved because this isn’t easy. You can’t just throw up some junky site and hope for the best. It’s a LOT of work on the front end, but every time you have another completed site, it’s there for good.

It becomes an automated money machine if you did your homework.

The Tools

There are a number of tools out there than can make your niche site building considerably easy. One affiliate program that I have been doing pretty well with lately is the Ebay Affiliate Network. You can earn a percentage of any Ebay sale you send to their site as well as $25 dollars when a new user signs up and buys something via your referral.

At $25 dollars a pop, you can see new Ebay users are a very attractive proposition.

If you aren’t clear how to set up a niche site then the easiest way to build one is using Bans or Build a Niche Store software. This program makes it so easy to get started and get a basic site up and built. You can see a number of customer sites at the link to show you what is possible using BANS.

There are a number of other site building programs available but this is easily one of the best, especially for those who don’t really know how to program or are getting started.

I will be writing more on this software and other tools I am using to build my empire. I am up to 11 BANS sites total with a number of domains purchased to continue. My goal is to build 100 of these within a years time and to do that I have started automating some of my niche site building.

Conclusion

I’ll write more on some of these other tools later though. For this article, if you aren’t familiar with BANS then check them out and see what you think.

If you are considering becoming a niche site guru then BANS would make a great addition to your arsenal. Any BANS users in the house?