Broad authority website or niche specific, which is best?

There are 2 schools of thought on the best approach to choosing a domain name and building a website. They are (1) build an umbrella site that is broad and authoritative, based on one higher demand keyword or (2) build a niche site that is of course, specific to one or two keywords, with far less demand.

Which of these do you think is best, in relation to seo and making money? Please give reasons for your answer.

Answer
There are a number of pros and cons

BUILD AN UMBRELLA SITE

Pros:
- can grow to become an authority site, which means great search engine rankings for a wide variety of keywords
- can be a one-stop destination of target audience where everything they need is on one site
- if you lose some keywords, the site still has hundreds of other keywords
- huge traffic potential
- faster to get links as other sites are more likely to link to this big site

Cons:
- requires more resources to create, develop, and grow
- when you get hit with a search engine penalty, your entire business falls
- it’s like putting all eggs in one basket

NICHE SITE

Pros:
- easier to create, develop as it has a smaller scope
- allows you to dominate a segment, especially if the field is hard to crack with lots of authority sites

Cons:
- limited traffic
- hard to grow and get traffic
- to earn more, you need to have more of these smaller sites

For years, we’ve followed the broad authority website approach, and it works great for our business model (advertising). It is easier to attract advertisers to the site, and even using third party ad programs such as Adsense yields extremely good results because it is harder to be smartpriced, it has more diverse keywords, and traffic is better.

BUT — we got hit by a Google penalty 3 year ago, and lost 80% of Google traffic. That hurt big time, so we are adding other smaller niche sites to at least provide some backups for the main site.

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how do niche site generate revenues?

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It depends on what the business model of that niche site is.

Many earn by advertising. They typically

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
Yahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/
Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
Commission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com
Kanoodle Brightads http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.html
Clicksor http://www.clicksor.com/affiliate_programs.php
Contextweb http://www.contextweb.com/
Bidclix http://www.bidclix.com/
Bidvertiser http://www.bidvertiser.com/

3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: “no pain, no gain!”

4. Affiliate Programs – you sell other people’s products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)

There are also niche sites that sell their products or services. One example is offering their information through paid subscriptions.

There are also many niche sites involved in ecommerce. One example is Red Wagons http://www.redwagonsonline.com/ which is a small business offering a very niche product — the radio flyer products.

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I am involved with this affiliate marketing company and have made a decent amount of money earning from several income streams simultaneously

one more affiliate program to check out would also be this one:

http://www.empowernetwork.com/almostasecret.php?id=arkhamindustries

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Is there an inexpensive way to start my own online auction site. I have Windows XP.?

I have seen several free scripts for Unix. I don’t know Unix or Perl or any of those programming languages. I just want some simple inexpensive software (under $200) for starting a small site where others can upload items for auction. Similar to eBay. I have a niche I want to develop this auction site for that I think will work out well. Thanks.

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Unix is an OS, not a programming language. To host ANY website for minimal cost, you’ll use Linux or Unix as your OS, then run an Apache Web Server on top of it. You’ll need to find a website template to run on top of it, but I can’t see how this will be any east “cut and paste” task. You’ll need a little background in code or a big wallet to pay someone to do it for you.

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