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Starting a Pet-Specific Website/Forum?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by m1ndless, Jul 7, 2010.

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    I am looking into starting a site for a specific type of pet, the market is very unsaturated, there is only 2 websites that show up on google relating to the pet, and they're both horribly designed and outdated, and I feel I could come up with a better functioning website to compete with them. I checked out the adwords keyword tool and the main keyword gets around 300k global search each month.

    I just recently got started doing web design, and have a pretty solid design going for the site and I have started to write content for the site already as well. The site would basically be how to keep and raise this type of pet properly, along with a forum for discussion, and eventually an online store.

    I am looking into domains for the site, not sure what would work best? I didn't list the actual name, just so no one steals my idea, you would repalce the word pet with the actual name. :cool:

    - www.petguide.com
    - www.pet-guide.com
    - www.petforum.com
    - www.allpet.com

    Which of these would work best for this type of site? I personally like the first one, but not sure if guide is an appropriate term?

    Any advice for a nich type of site like this for a beginner would be great.
     
    m1ndless, Jul 7, 2010 IP
  2. marry444

    marry444 Guest

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    Very nice. There are only few forums related to pets.
     
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  3. m1ndless

    m1ndless Peon

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    Do we know if the adwords keyword tool is accurate or not? 300k global monthly searchs seems like a good oppurtunity to me.
     
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    Sounds like a very good opportunity and if you can provide good info on the 'pet' then you should hopefully do quite well.
     
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    Pet niche is a very SMART idea! People love their pets and are constantly looking for other pet lover around the world. I personally like the petguide.com and petforum.com. I wouldnt add the hyphen, simply because it will be harder for people to get to that site.

    :)
     
    Gables55, Jul 7, 2010 IP
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    One thing - do NOT get a domain name with hyphens. People will not remember the hyphen.
     
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    Thanks for the replies, sounds like the www.petguide.com would work best.

    The main site I have for competition is about 5 years old, and it doesn't look like they've touched it since then, but it has a decent alexa ranking, over 50k backlinks, and ranks #1. How long would it take for me to rank up there with that site?
     
    m1ndless, Jul 8, 2010 IP