Is an NBA Blog a Good Idea?

The Nix said:
Hmm, I agree. But am I not limiting the target audience? Let's say there are 10 Million Hawks fans in the WORLD, but there are 1 Billion NBA Fans in the world. Not everyone is interested with the Hawks (just an example).

I want to do one on my favorite team also, but as I said, I'm not sure how to start or how to go about this plan. I have the writing skills and the NBA knowledge to do this, but I just don't know how and where to begin.
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Do you really want to go head to head with big websites, with large staff and promotion budgets?

If you build a network of team sites on different IP's and hide your identity (whois), then you can link your network of sites to a big authority site at a later date
 
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The Nix said:
I have no idea how to monetize this though. I definitely won't bother with Adsense.
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That brings me to my second point

If you built a fan site for "Hawks" you would have a target audience for "Hawks" merchandise and memorobilia

As you are obviously leaning towards a "big" site, the other way is to build a silo site, with silos for each team, and a built in blog for the newsy stuff (not an amateur project though)
 
Don't worry about you belong to a niche that has 1000 sites already.
Uniqueness is not the only matter for the competition, there are 100's of blog on how to trade in stock market, but there are only a very few that predicts well the market, like wise do what you love. I will recommend you to first analyse all your competitors , their strategies, their back links , their CPA and calculate a fan base according to that.

put that in a excel and start achieving one by one. As a matter of thing, you already know the leads in this Niche, just follow them for the start, i mean not copy but how they market, how they design , -- in due times you can get something interesting like list of keywords ..;) it will reduce your visits to google keyword search

contact other blogs in your niche for great news and you can get a ton of backlinks , that will make yours popular , that will do better than a big ad campaign.

Good luck
 
You don't need to concentrate on teams, just find some keywords that aren't in the title & url of big competing sites, and you'll be fine. Something like "NBA Team Rumors" make sure that phrase gets some search traffic, get the EMD, and you're good to go. You can then write about news, teams, players, etc. You could even create subdomains for each team, star player etc. Money can come in from well adds, banners, Adsense etc. If you're doing team/player write ups, you can put your Amazon affiliate links with images right in there. Look up other sports/NBA products that offer commissions and do reviews on those. Just write a ton of content all the time, do some basic SEO work, and you should have a winner on your hands.
 
You could talk about NBA news like trades and injury reports. These things are very good for luring in NBA fanatics such as myself.
 
The best part about the NBA is that they are very lax in taking down videos on YouTube, they embrace the social movement. Creating mix-tapes, top-10 lists with video is super easy and little chance of you getting an account banned on YouTube (they are not the MLB).

If you do the work, they will come. Scraping emails from SB nation etc could also be an extra boost in targeted website regulars.
Anyway, since you are doing this after school etc I recommend that you try it, even if it's just to experiment with SEO etc, build a list that can be monetized later.
 
Do it.

Just remember, make it UNIQUE. To the extent of posting cheerleader pics once a week for uniqueness purposes. :D
 
It's a good idea but your blog should have USP. If you think you can be different and provide interesting information to your readers, it will be successful.
 
Make it specific to a team at least a general one will be hard to rank
 
The Nix said:
Hmm, I agree. But am I not limiting the target audience? Let's say there are 10 Million Hawks fans in the WORLD, but there are 1 Billion NBA Fans in the world. Not everyone is interested with the Hawks (just an example).

I want to do one on my favorite team also, but as I said, I'm not sure how to start or how to go about this plan. I have the writing skills and the NBA knowledge to do this, but I just don't know how and where to begin.
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Could you specialize in something NBA related? Perhaps look at NBA Fantasy and which players have performed well/will perform well ? Obvi it'll cover NBA news etc, and could be a great way to get followers/people bookmarked etc if you become their 1 stop shop for all fantasy point stuff.
 
It can be great but how you thought how you will reach people so that they know about your blog?
 
It sounds like a good idea to me. You need to make it at least a little unique, but that can be done with good writing and passion and an individualistic look at the game. You could affiliate it with memorabilia stores, that'd be one way of getting some $$$ out of it. Think about what will make you unique and really go for it. A touch of humor is never a bad idea, although steer clear of anything that might be considered libellous. And then backlink the hell out of it, obviously.
 
do an individual team.
follow players on twitter/facebook/instagram, and when they post something on their end ---> You post something on your end about what they posted
 
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