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Choosing A Niche For A Membership Web Site

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Choosing a Niche For a Membership Web Site
By Margaret Winfrey | Submitted On August 06, 2011

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A membership website can make you a great deal of money if you choose a good niche, although most people have difficulty in this, tending to paint with too broad a brush to capture those interested in the detail. More on this later on, but first let 's discuss the benefits of running a membership site, also …show more content…

If you choose the right subscription site software package, the work you have to carry out to maintain it will be minimal: all you have to do is customize the software to your name, and your domain name if you have one, put your name to all the promotional and information documents provided, and that 's it. Simply wait to be paid each month by each customer than joins.

Choosing a Membership Web Site Niche

So where does choosing a niche come into this? In fact, it is critical to your success. A good membership site should focus on one niche, and seek members interesting in that niche. It should contain information related to the subject, and that information should be updated monthly.

We shall discuss this by taking the niche of fishing as an example. If you have no interest in fishing, and even if you think it a cruel sport, it doesn 't matter. The same principles apply to any other niche. First check out the number of web pages listed on Google using the term. These results were correct at the time of writing:

Enter "Fishing" and you get 525 million results - that means there are 525 million competing web pages on Google using the word 'fishing ': That 's too many for you to compete against, so try "fly fishing" = 34.7 million, still too many. Try "carp fishing" =1.36 million. Now that is better! 'Carp fishing tips ' is only 705,000 - perfect!

Now check the demand for these keywords for your membership site using the

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