Copyright 2005 Tale Chaser Publishing, Inc.
A neat thing is happening on the web. Sort of an e-renaissance
in a sense. A small but hardy and professional group of internet
niche site publishers is picking up on the boom in internet real
estate development. They are becoming WIRED, and it means
awesome, content-rich niche sites are popping up all over the
net.
Almost every surfer on the web has run into a junky site
intended only for them to click an ad. You know the kind of site
I'm talking about...no content, nothing of value to the visitor,
and very frustrating to land on.
This is the intention of the developer. They WANT you to be in a
hurry to get away...through one of their pay-per-click links.
These sites are fast disappearing from the big engines. This is
great news. What's even better is the sites that replace them in
the engines are starting to look very nice, both in design and
quality of content.
More and more searchers are starting to actually find answers to
their searches on the first try again!
Rest assured, the people behind these new content sites are not
the same people they've replaced. These are folks who actually
care about their visitor experience on their sites. They want
their visitors to come back again and are providing enough value
to visitors to actually bookmark them and do just that.
What "World Internet Real Estate Developers" have re-discovered
is that asset building is far more successful, responsible,
grown up, and profitable than building spam sites.
They are starting to build sites that they are proud to show to
the world, and the world is responding with great enthusiasm!
Even the engines are treating these developers with the respect
and admiration they deserve.
Good content makes good "cents" too. Of course that phrase has
been bandied about so much in the last year that it seemed as if
everyone was talking about it but few were actually practicing
what they were preaching.
The value of a fairly aged content site with a few hundred
visitors a day is very high compared to just a year ago. Many
people invest in one or two of these niche sites that are
already in the engines and getting traffic when they find them
for sale.
And a good investment it is! If you can get someone to part with
a modest traffic site that is already seasoned in the engines,
you are lucky to snag one for anywhere from $5,000-$100,000+
depending on the niche, products, and income of the site.
The developers of rich content sites are not only walking to the
bank with daily income that rivals the corporate salary they
replaced, but can cash out of a network of niche sites at very
tidy sums. A fairly large network of sites, from 100-1000 could
net the developer millions of dollars in fact.
Who is buying? Other large developers and even very large
Fortune 500 companies along with investors of all kinds who turn
the network traffic into gold of their own.
It is very much like the real estate boom after the last world
war. Many many developers lined their pockets by developing new
housing all over the country for returning soldiers.
The internet is in dire need of great sites. If you think the
net is full, you are only partially right. Combined with some
great sites with great information in hundreds of specialty
niches from fly fishing to scrap booking, there is also a great
deal of junk out there taking up a lot of space.
Anyone who has been on the net for awhile has experienced her
fair share of lost surfing time on disappointing, meaningless,
content-less sites.
Smart niche site developers are quietly building quality,
feature and content-rich sites to capitalize on this terrible
"year of the spam site." We all know content is king, but it is
finally starting to pay off for the people who develop
content-rich sites in a big way these days.
Hopefully the decline of "gimmick" sites will continue for the
good of the entire internet community. If the developers of
these sites are richly rewarded, then more power to them. They
deserve it!
While there is an answer to almost every question a person could
ever have somewhere on the net, for most surfers those answers
are buried far too deeply on obscure sites to find.
With content sites being developed in thousands of niches with
the goal of being found and utilized, surfers and researchers
are going to be able to quickly and conveniently find the
information they seek on pleasant, rich sites in the near future.
And the people who develop these e-real estate assets are
supported by the income these sites generate and any partial or
complete sales of the networks of sites that they build.
Sounds like what the internet was supposed to be in the first
place!
About the author:
Jack Humphrey is the managing partner for ContentDesk.com. More
information World Internet Real Estate Development (W.I.R.E.D.)
can be found at
http://www.contentdesk.com/csb and
http://www.contentsitebuilding.com
