LibraryThere are lots of ways you can find information on a niche, indeed you should already have gathered quite a bit during your niche research.

Online

As you do your niche research you will come across websites, articles, blog posts, review, etc. I hope you stored copies of some of those article, posts and reviews somewhere.

Grab half dozen of the best performing articles from Ezine and ArticleBase or anywhere else that takes your fancy.

Offline

I do this a lot!

Go to your local library and take out 2 – 4 books on your niche. Go to Amazon online and BUY some. Books are cheap and are a fantastic way to really get into a niche. Read ‘em on your way to work, in your lunch hour, before you go to bed.

Get the “.. For Dummies” book on your niche. There must be one (or more) that covers your niche. These are fantastic and are written in a way that totally fits in with those “5 steps to” articles that you will want to be writing.

Next, create a campaign folder on your hard drive (or you could use Google Docs) and just take a copy of pretty much everything you come across. That’s the beginning of your reference library.

Let’s start straight away and say that it does you no good whatsoever to just copy the stuff you find and plonk it straight on your site.

“Plagiarism is a sin against scholarship” as my old college teachers would say.

“But how many people have truly original thought?” was what I thought in response.

And that’s the thing, unless you are a Shakespeare or a Da Vinci, you are going have to get your content from somewhere, right?

So, what I do is gather up a reference library… maybe 10 – 20 articles and a similar number of blog posts, anything really and just read through it all a few times.

Then, armed with my keyword lists, I identify which keyword phrases I want to target and write optimised articles around that pulling the knowledge from what I’ve just read.

Write 5 – 20 articles. I like to do 5 – 10 what I call “How to” articles covering the very basics of your niche. Articles that anyone could read and get a very basic understanding of what it’s about.

These will form the basis of the content of your website.

In the next post I’ll tell you how to construct your website pages. And like I said I work backwards…

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