Is it possible to rank small niche sites, like back in the day? find a clickbank product, generate a nice seo optimized article with low competition keywords? I've been out of the game so long and I'm struggling. I'll probably get backlash for this, but i was thinking about buying a review site, and paying for a seo package on here.
small niche sites
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The difference now is that you need complete authority niche sites and they are regularly not small .. You need to dominate the niche information.
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@RoiBox is right, small sites don't cut it anymore.
I've had a small niche site (12 pages of content only) about 4 years ago and I've tried ranking it for 1.5 years. Well, I didn't sweat trying, don't assume that I've done some crazy stuff. But I did build links to it, optimize and update the content and stuff like that. I didn't create more content simply because I didn't know what else to talk about, there were like few 100s keywords in total in that niche and 60-65% of them were commercial keywords like: guitar classes near me, or ice sculpting workshops in Atlanta, etc...
And the few keywords that were informational I had already clustered in relevant big topics (hence why I only had 12 pages of content), and the highest I ranked was 14 I think... or 16, I don't remember, but it was on page 2 of google. And even that was for a keyword with 25 monthly search volume, so I wouldn't probably have gotten anywhere with that kind of traffic even if I ranked #1...
But anyway, I kept this site for 2 years and after not knowing what else to do to rank it I've decided to sell it (which I did), and I just checked it again and I can see that it has a lot more content now than what it's had under my ownership. The new owner had restructured it a little bit and added a blog and he keeps the site updated with blog posts (although, I can see that many of them are not closely related to the niche of the site, but I'm not surprised since - like I said - there wasn't a ton of keywords in this niche to target, so I can see why he's branched out into different, not very related niches...)
I didn't check the rankings, though as I don't have access to SEO tools, but he must be ranking for something, one can assume....
Anyway, the point is that small niche sites don't cut it anymore, you'll probably have to find a niche in which you can create few 100s posts at minimum in order to rank, even if you target long tail keywords. Google simply doesn't like the average Joe making money, they only reward the big dogs nowadays...
I've had a small niche site (12 pages of content only) about 4 years ago and I've tried ranking it for 1.5 years. Well, I didn't sweat trying, don't assume that I've done some crazy stuff. But I did build links to it, optimize and update the content and stuff like that. I didn't create more content simply because I didn't know what else to talk about, there were like few 100s keywords in total in that niche and 60-65% of them were commercial keywords like: guitar classes near me, or ice sculpting workshops in Atlanta, etc...
And the few keywords that were informational I had already clustered in relevant big topics (hence why I only had 12 pages of content), and the highest I ranked was 14 I think... or 16, I don't remember, but it was on page 2 of google. And even that was for a keyword with 25 monthly search volume, so I wouldn't probably have gotten anywhere with that kind of traffic even if I ranked #1...
But anyway, I kept this site for 2 years and after not knowing what else to do to rank it I've decided to sell it (which I did), and I just checked it again and I can see that it has a lot more content now than what it's had under my ownership. The new owner had restructured it a little bit and added a blog and he keeps the site updated with blog posts (although, I can see that many of them are not closely related to the niche of the site, but I'm not surprised since - like I said - there wasn't a ton of keywords in this niche to target, so I can see why he's branched out into different, not very related niches...)
I didn't check the rankings, though as I don't have access to SEO tools, but he must be ranking for something, one can assume....
Anyway, the point is that small niche sites don't cut it anymore, you'll probably have to find a niche in which you can create few 100s posts at minimum in order to rank, even if you target long tail keywords. Google simply doesn't like the average Joe making money, they only reward the big dogs nowadays...
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It's definitely possible to rank small niche sites. While the landscape may have changed, focusing on low-competition keywords and creating quality, SEO-optimized content is still effective. Buying a review site and investing in an SEO package can be helpful if you're struggling but it's important to thoroughly research and vet any services or sites you plan to purchase.
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Possible but I think you need more than a 'small niche' site. You may still succeed with the right keyword targeted. But I won't get my hopes very high.
No it is not possible to rank such websites. You can search for top clickbank products and see what type of websites are ranking for it.