I want to create a new site in the fitness niche. The site would be a "supersite" so-to-speak with multiple daily articles about many different aspects of fitness. I understand the market is very saturated, but my goal is to work on this site for a while (100% whitehat) while I work on other, smaller projects. I have a few questions though:
a) I want to buy an aged domain, but is it worth it to wait around for something that fits and hope it's cheap? Any aged fitness-related domain seems like it's going to be very expensive, should I just buy a new one and work on getting it indexed/backlinks, or should I spend a couple weeks writing content offline and see if I can snatch up an appropriate domain? I wouldn't have more than 50 bucks or so to spend on a good name.
b) Is the market just too saturated? I was hoping with good SEO and quality, unique content I could over a long period of time (say 6 months to a year) build up a decent traffic base.
c) If I use keyword tools and target some good, low-competition keywords, what are my odds of ranking for them by using them in my page titles?
i.e. www.domainname.com/beginner-strength-exercises
www.domainname.com/top-10-supplements
Obviously those keywords are not ones I'm actually going to target, it's just an example. Can you rank well in the SERPS for having keywords in that part of the URL?
d) If I wanted to start a forum, how do you get that started? Make a few accounts and have fake conversations with yourself? I know that if I checked out the forum on a site and it had ~10 registered users and only a few threads, I wouldn't waste my time. I don't really understand how you're supposed to "start" community-based sites.
Thanks for any advice.
a) I want to buy an aged domain, but is it worth it to wait around for something that fits and hope it's cheap? Any aged fitness-related domain seems like it's going to be very expensive, should I just buy a new one and work on getting it indexed/backlinks, or should I spend a couple weeks writing content offline and see if I can snatch up an appropriate domain? I wouldn't have more than 50 bucks or so to spend on a good name.
b) Is the market just too saturated? I was hoping with good SEO and quality, unique content I could over a long period of time (say 6 months to a year) build up a decent traffic base.
c) If I use keyword tools and target some good, low-competition keywords, what are my odds of ranking for them by using them in my page titles?
i.e. www.domainname.com/beginner-strength-exercises
www.domainname.com/top-10-supplements
Obviously those keywords are not ones I'm actually going to target, it's just an example. Can you rank well in the SERPS for having keywords in that part of the URL?
d) If I wanted to start a forum, how do you get that started? Make a few accounts and have fake conversations with yourself? I know that if I checked out the forum on a site and it had ~10 registered users and only a few threads, I wouldn't waste my time. I don't really understand how you're supposed to "start" community-based sites.
Thanks for any advice.
