To make the first blog post look less lonely I’m going to write about a niche site I made last year just before Christmas.
It didn’t make a fortune but it was some nice pocket money, the brand is in the domain name which was a bit risky but I didn’t realise about brand domains until earlier this year, now I avoid them like the plague!
The site in question is Philips Arcitec which is an electric shaver for men and I thought it would sell well being near to Christmas, girlfriends and wives buying these for their man and I was very pleased with the results from it.
I created the site in photoshop then chopped it up and saved as html, as you do, and added price comparison tables manually, which I was updating almost daily with the Amazon price changing constantly, very annoying! (Thank god for ECU!) I started promoting the site using Google adwords and then it started ranking ok and sat at number three in Google behind Philips and Amazon (I’ve just checked now at it’s currently number one, no wonder I sold one this week!) The site is now actually made using a css/xhtml template and using Easy Content Units for the price comparison, makes life a whole lot easier.
So as you can see, for the period of Sept – Dec 08 the site made £534.14 not amazing but nice for just one niche site.
