Part 3 - How To Create Niche/Authority Websites (Top Level Categories)

[Vita_Vee]

Hi,

This video is pretty basic but the steps detailed here are extremely important to follow.

You have probably seen a lot of websites (mainly adsense websites) with a long list of articles in the sidebar with the keyword repeated as many times as the number of articles.

For example:

Garmin nuvi 255w review
Garmin nuvi 255 w price
Buy a Garmin nuvi 255w
etc...

Those webmasters write an article for all the low competition keywords around their topic. While this can work in low competitive niches you have close to 0% chance of getting ranked with such a structure in a mid-competitive or high competitive market.

Niche websites in competitive markets are different, you need to go wide and deep and strengthen your niche topic by adding relevant categories.

Vita Vee

[hazard_mkd]

What you are doing is great.. Have a lot of respect for you fella..


I've spend all day and night watching the videos when you create the http://www.cotyewens.com/ blog.. there are a lot of them .. a little odd and funny is that you manage to beat established websites.. great job !

inspired me VERY MUCH..

but the biggest problem is that im into seo/internet marketing too, so competing against you would make no sense, , so the biggest problem was how to figure out what niche to exploit..

this 3 parts are exactly what i was looking for.. thank you VERY MUCH!!

[rstan251]

Good video. You seem to have good focus. I would have went off in 15 different directions when doing that type of research.

I found a long tail gps niche a while back but never launched. I am glad I didn't because this video changed my thinking related to the structure.

It is good information.

-RS

[fingerling]

Great video VV thanks for sharing

[lsargent]

Great advice on structure and approach of building out your blog, while allowing room to expand into an authority site.

It's interesting how you elected the "non gps related" keywords as top level categories. I would have originally thought that these keywords were so unrelated that they would be a hindrance to my efforts. You've proven me dead wrong.

[kfloke]

Hi Vita Vee,
I see you've bought a .org domain for this project, I know that the .com domain name was not available. My question is, why still go for the .org domain? I thought we should always go with a .com domain as it is more commercial and professional? Pls kindly advice.

Cheers.

[hazard_mkd]

@kfloke...
my view is that .com .net and .org are more respected in the eyes of the big-g. the best is .com.. if not you can register the other 2..

.info as a domain would sound much better.. for example CarGpsSystems.info .. but .info are dirt cheap and they are overused as spam sites..(and google knows about it) i mean you can register one for less than a dollar at godaddy.. so better .org than .info

again, this is just my view of things.. lets see what vita vee thinks about this..

cheers..

[oconn92230]

Hi Vita,
I am back for more & eagerly awaiting the rest of the vidoes. Building niche sites from popular products that people are buying is something I really do want to progress on.

Can I just ask how important the category levels are when building sites like these and whether there are wpress themes that can actually do this correctly.

For example in your niche you might have a category like the following

Car GPS System ( parent category )
--- Tom Tom ( sub category )
--- Garmin ( sub category )
------- Garmin nuvi 255w ( sub sub category )

Are there wpress themes that can setup categories like this. Is it possible to have say Garmin category collapsed by default and when you click on it the sub categories would then appear.

The reason I ask the above is if you are building out an authority site the categories could get overwhelming quickly enough & unsightly to the visitor too.

Maybe I am jumping ahead a bit here and you might be covering this in a future video but I have already selected a niche that I want to build an authority site around and this is one of the issues I have.

If you know of a good wpress theme that can nest the catagories like I mentioned above I would be grateful if you could share it with us

Regards
LOC

[sierra]

Vita, you really did a good job!!

I'm learning so fast those basic concepts that are so difficulty to find in the net..

I'm waiting for the new videos...

thanks again

[n0h4t]

Hi Vita,

I just wanted to thank you for this really great Forum, you have really opened my eyes to the possibilities that I would not have otherwise have had the fortune to have access to (Wow that was a complicated sentence- I'm not a native English speaker either).

You really have talent as a teacher and you have explained your techniques so well and so clearly that you put many native English speakers to shame. For this and all of the above I salute you, keep up the good work!

Kind Regards,

Dave

[Infinity]

Great one! Hope that you show us how to create sub-sub-categories in one of the upcoming videos.

[biang]

Thanks for showing the Google-way of building an authority website. Very useful for long term profit.

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Google loves silo structured website for greater user experience,right?

[Vita_Vee]

(10-12-2009 05:14 PM)hazard_mkd Wrote:  What you are doing is great.. Have a lot of respect for you fella..

I've spend all day and night watching the videos when you create the http://www.cotyewens.com/ blog.. there are a lot of them .. a little odd and funny is that you manage to beat established websites.. great job !

inspired me VERY MUCH..

but the biggest problem is that im into seo/internet marketing too, so competing against you would make no sense, , so the biggest problem was how to figure out what niche to exploit..

this 3 parts are exactly what i was looking for.. thank you VERY MUCH!!

You're more than welcome Hazard_mkd
Don't overlook the IM field though, there's a lot of money in this niche and I'm not promoting all the launching products

(10-12-2009 05:17 PM)rstan251 Wrote:  Good video. You seem to have good focus. I would have went off in 15 different directions when doing that type of research.

I found a long tail gps niche a while back but never launched. I am glad I didn't because this video changed my thinking related to the structure.

It is good information.

-RS

RS, this is why it is so important to have a blueprint to follow. It helps a lot, with organization it's easier to stay focused.

(10-13-2009 04:16 AM)fingerling Wrote:  Great video VV thanks for sharing

You're welcome FingerLing!

(10-13-2009 01:33 PM)lsargent Wrote:  Great advice on structure and approach of building out your blog, while allowing room to expand into an authority site.

It's interesting how you elected the "non gps related" keywords as top level categories. I would have originally thought that these keywords were so unrelated that they would be a hindrance to my efforts. You've proven me dead wrong.

This is why so many niche websites can't rank well in competitive niches, they only focus on 1 topic while google is waiting for more (we can find out what easily just by looking at the ranked websites).

(10-13-2009 03:55 PM)kfloke Wrote:  Hi Vita Vee,
I see you've bought a .org domain for this project, I know that the .com domain name was not available. My question is, why still go for the .org domain? I thought we should always go with a .com domain as it is more commercial and professional? Pls kindly advice.

Cheers.

(10-13-2009 05:50 PM)hazard_mkd Wrote:  @kfloke...
my view is that .com .net and .org are more respected in the eyes of the big-g. the best is .com.. if not you can register the other 2..

.info as a domain would sound much better.. for example CarGpsSystems.info .. but .info are dirt cheap and they are overused as spam sites..(and google knows about it) i mean you can register one for less than a dollar at godaddy.. so better .org than .info

again, this is just my view of things.. lets see what vita vee thinks about this..

cheers..

Thanks Hazard, that's exactly that. When available I try to get in order of preference:

.com, .org, .net

You can rank as well with all of them. The best example of .org killer website is wikipedia.

(10-13-2009 10:47 PM)oconn92230 Wrote:  Hi Vita,
I am back for more & eagerly awaiting the rest of the vidoes. Building niche sites from popular products that people are buying is something I really do want to progress on.

Can I just ask how important the category levels are when building sites like these and whether there are wpress themes that can actually do this correctly.

For example in your niche you might have a category like the following

Car GPS System ( parent category )
--- Tom Tom ( sub category )
--- Garmin ( sub category )
------- Garmin nuvi 255w ( sub sub category )

Are there wpress themes that can setup categories like this. Is it possible to have say Garmin category collapsed by default and when you click on it the sub categories would then appear.

The reason I ask the above is if you are building out an authority site the categories could get overwhelming quickly enough & unsightly to the visitor too.

Maybe I am jumping ahead a bit here and you might be covering this in a future video but I have already selected a niche that I want to build an authority site around and this is one of the issues I have.

If you know of a good wpress theme that can nest the catagories like I mentioned above I would be grateful if you could share it with us

Regards
LOC

Hi LOC,

There is a plugin to do this with Pages, not with post categories. This is how I will build the site, I'm going to use pages.

Categories are very important but there are several ways to create a category.
You can create visible categories, a structure like what you wrote above.
But you can also create implicit categories. I mean categories that do not exist but by interlinking your articles in a specific way you can have google understand that they belong to a same category (even if they are not in any category at all)

(10-14-2009 01:21 AM)sierra Wrote:  Vita, you really did a good job!!

I'm learning so fast those basic concepts that are so difficulty to find in the net..

I'm waiting for the new videos...

thanks again

Thanks a lot Sierra. Some of the next videos are now available

(10-14-2009 01:48 AM)n0h4t Wrote:  Hi Vita,

I just wanted to thank you for this really great Forum, you have really opened my eyes to the possibilities that I would not have otherwise have had the fortune to have access to (Wow that was a complicated sentence- I'm not a native English speaker either).

You really have talent as a teacher and you have explained your techniques so well and so clearly that you put many native English speakers to shame. For this and all of the above I salute you, keep up the good work!

Kind Regards,

Dave

Hey Dave

You're welcome and thanks a lot
You said that you're not a native english speaker, where are you from?

(10-14-2009 06:42 AM)Infinity Wrote:  Great one! Hope that you show us how to create sub-sub-categories in one of the upcoming videos.

Sure

(10-14-2009 06:58 AM)biang Wrote:  Thanks for showing the Google-way of building an authority website. Very useful for long term profit.

---

Google loves silo structured website for greater user experience,right?

That's right Biang, and users love them too because they help to find the information more easily.

Vita Vee

[john]

Awesome, can't wait for this series to be finished because like hazard, I also don't want to mess with the product launches, or IM in general so I'd rather like to find out how to dominate the niches

One part confused me though when reading through the comments:

VitaVee Wrote:There is a plugin to do this with Pages, not with post categories. This is how I will build the site, I'm going to use pages.

Categories are very important but there are several ways to create a category.
You can create visible categories, a structure like what you wrote above.
But you can also create implicit categories. I mean categories that do not exist but by interlinking your articles in a specific way you can have google understand that they belong to a same category (even if they are not in any category at all)

So this blog you recorded the video about is going to be built only through sites, not posts? Is one better than the other and if so why?

Creating visible categories is what everyone does, but what do you mean with implicit/non-existant categories? and how does that work?
And again, one better than the other, and why?

Sorry for these many questions

[ddc]

Hi Vita,

I have a question related to domain subsription: do you hide who is details or do you use the exact same name and address details for every new domain?

Great videos!

[ddc]

(10-12-2009 03:45 PM)Vita_Vee Wrote:  Hi,

This video is pretty basic but the steps detailed here are extremely important to follow.

You have probably seen a lot of websites (mainly adsense websites) with a long list of articles in the sidebar with the keyword repeated as many times as the number of articles.

For example:

Garmin nuvi 255w review
Garmin nuvi 255 w price
Buy a Garmin nuvi 255w
etc...

Those webmasters write an article for all the low competition keywords around their topic. While this can work in low competitive niches you have close to 0% chance of getting ranked with such a structure in a mid-competitive or high competitive market.

Niche websites in competitive markets are different, you need to go wide and deep and strengthen your niche topic by adding relevant categories.

Vita Vee

Hi Vita,

I thought this was the way to go for adsense websites. I'm learning a lot from your videos and I'm eager to see all of them. Thanks

[Vita_Vee]

(10-16-2009 01:17 AM)john Wrote:  So this blog you recorded the video about is going to be built only through sites, not posts? Is one better than the other and if so why?

Not only through pages, I will also have posts but I will explain why I use pages instead of posts for the articles when we come to that part.

(10-16-2009 01:17 AM)john Wrote:  Creating visible categories is what everyone does, but what do you mean with implicit/non-existant categories? and how does that work?
And again, one better than the other, and why?

Sorry for these many questions

Look at wikipedia, it's a perfect example of website with implicit invisible categories.
All the articles are under one single category called wiki.

But the interlinking between them and with related keywords allows google to know that those articles are connected one with the other and that they belong to one top (invisible) category which is the main theme of all those pages.

(10-16-2009 07:39 PM)ddc Wrote:  Hi Vita,

I have a question related to domain subsription: do you hide who is details or do you use the exact same name and address details for every new domain?

Great videos!

I don't have the same details for all my domains and my domains are not all on the same server. I'm using the services of domainsbyproxy.com to hide my details and allow people using whois to contact me if they want (trough domainsbyproxy.com redirecting)

(10-17-2009 10:08 AM)ddc Wrote:  

(10-12-2009 03:45 PM)Vita_Vee Wrote:  Hi,

This video is pretty basic but the steps detailed here are extremely important to follow.

You have probably seen a lot of websites (mainly adsense websites) with a long list of articles in the sidebar with the keyword repeated as many times as the number of articles.

For example:

Garmin nuvi 255w review
Garmin nuvi 255 w price
Buy a Garmin nuvi 255w
etc...

Those webmasters write an article for all the low competition keywords around their topic. While this can work in low competitive niches you have close to 0% chance of getting ranked with such a structure in a mid-competitive or high competitive market.

Niche websites in competitive markets are different, you need to go wide and deep and strengthen your niche topic by adding relevant categories.

Vita Vee

Hi Vita,

I thought this was the way to go for adsense websites. I'm learning a lot from your videos and I'm eager to see all of them. Thanks

Hi DDC,

This is because most marketers teach it this way but it's not working anymore for many years now except if you pick low competition niches.

VV

[ddc]

(10-17-2009 10:59 AM)Vita_Vee Wrote:  I don't have the same details for all my domains and my domains are not all on the same server. I'm using the services of domainsbyproxy.com to hide my details and allow people using whois to contact me if they want (trough domainsbyproxy.com redirecting)

It seems one can use their services through Godaddy. But thanks for the tip on hiding domain details. Thanks for the info.

[searchguru]

another set of great videos - watched number 2 and 3. My drilling down process never got that specific and now i understand how to do it better - i was always of the mindset that when you have a site the customer needs to find everything they needed so it would entail everything in that category (always have to remind myself to be more specific) and the wonder wheel will help a lot - it used to be torture having to try and find other categories either just by google adwords and such but this has opened up a whole new way.thanks

[Mo_Taqi]

Hey searchguru ,

Yes indeed! Related searches has opened up a whole new way for marketers, now finding "related keywords" in your niche is pretty easy..

Keep us posted on your process




Best,