I have posted an article More About Silo Structuring on my Work From Home 4 Life Blog giving more details about how to structure your niche sites.

I have included a couple of links to diagrams that show a basic Niche Silo Structure and how to plan your niche site using a sitemap plan.

I hope this helps when you are working on creating your niche sites

Arrggh! The Internet - Gotta Love it - hate it - love it - hate it… Love it!.

As you can tell from my opening statement, I have been having some technical issues with our internet connection.

Although it can be frustrating when your internet connection is unstable, slow or broken, it’s not the end of the world.

It may appear that I have not been doing anything of late because of the lack of activity on my blog but the fact is I have been busy in the background of my work from home business when not online.

I have used my off-line time to develop more niche ideas, write articles for my niche sites and blogs, create content pages and websites, and more recently helping my 18 year old daugher get a niche site of her own developed so she can sell her hand made jewellery online.

In essence it is a niche site about hand crafted jewellery. It’s been slow going because she is so new to the idea of creating a niche site and she has a lot to learn about using html page templates, silo structure, writing articles, creating a newsletter, affiliate marketing to supplement her physical sales, and SEO.

We started with a silo niche site idea but she found this too confusing to begin with so we changed the platform to a static wordpress blog. She is somewhat familiar with blogging as she covered a unit of blogging in her iCreate course at school where the students set up a personal blogger blog as a project.

She is a lot more comfortable with this concept and is beginning to get over her barriers to writing articles for her site.

You can check out Mimzy’s Maiden NZ Jewellery Site here. She hasn’t uploaded any of her own products yet but she is working on content and such daily.

This can be a lesson for your work from home newbies, developing your niche sites is as much offline work as online. If for some reason you are without online access for a time due to technical issues, you don’t have to be stumbled by it.

Use the time wisely and do whatever you can offline so when you do get back up and running you can upload all your work and have more or less instant internet  real estate.

The video lesson on the instruction site shows the basics of downloading and installing a FTP Client and uploading files to your server. These notes cover the video lesson and specific details for members using the NZPCS Million Dollar Blueprint.

After you have completed your web-pages using your web-authoring program (we use NVU) you need to upload them to your server so they can be viewed online. To do this you need to:

• Sign up to a Webhost (if you haven’t already done so)
• Get FTP login information from your webhost (usually found in the webhost welcome eamil)
• Install a FTP Client Program onto your harddrive (several options listed below)
• Create webhost profile in your FTP Program (using FTP login information)
• Connect to the server
• Upload the files and folders of your site

FTP Client Software
There are a number of Free FTP Client Software Programs available on the web. I have made a list of some I Googled for you below.

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I have written an article that is more in depth in explaining the silo structure to use for your niche-sites.

This is a concept that I struggled with until I understood it fully but is so important to Search Engine Optimization that I felt it deserved a closer look.

Understanding what web-site structure to use, how it relates to the use of your keywords and site-map, makes it so much easier to plan and design your niche site more quickly and efficiently. After all you want to be able to leverage your work from home earning potential by creating more niche sites.

The Silo concept is closely akin to your keyword research so it may pay to go over the posts that cover keyword research in the niche site lessons as well. It will help consolidate your understanding.

The article “Setting Up Your Niche Site” is quite long so I have added it as a page. You will see it in the page menu in the sidebar.

I hope it helps you to understand how to design your niche web-site and have it optimized for SEO.

After setting up our keyword “Directory” folders, and creating 7 web-pages within each folder, we need to modify the menu, titles and headings for each page. We also need to add meta tags for SEO.

By the end of this lesson you should have 7 webpages (one index.html and six article.html pages) in each of the 5 Directory folders. That’s a total of 35 web pages added to your existing main index page and 5 product pages.

Each web page should have the keyword phrase for that page as the “Heading” <H1 Tag>; as the page Title <title> meta tag; and as anchor text in the sidebar menu as a link.

Create Index Pages For Keyword Directories

If you have not already done this in Lesson 4:
Use index.html already created in Lesson 3 as a template; copy and paste this index page into each of your keyword directory folders.

1. In each directory folder modify the “ index.html” page Heading and Title to keyword phrase for this page using NVU. (the keyword phrase is the same name as the directory folder)
2. On each index page create an article menu using the keyword phrases of the article pages you are going to create with this directory. (These phrases are the same as the notepad files created in Lesson 4)

Add Contextual Ads

If you haven’t already got Google Adsense installed onto the page, do this now, before you start copying the page. You can add up to 3 Google Adsense units on a page. Typically, one at the top in the header region, one at the side in the sidebar or content area and one at the bottom in the footer area. Use channel to identify which niche the adsense uniot is being added to.
If you don’t have a Google Adsense account, the easiest way to get one is to go to Blogger.com, start a blog and apply for Adsense.

Duplicate Directory Index Page For Article Pages

1. In each Directory folder, copy and paste modified index.html page 6 times to create pages for your six keyword phrase articles
2. Rename the pages to the keyword phrase you are using for this article page
3. Change heading and title to main keyword phrase for each article page and include keyword phrase as a menu item

Add Content To All Pages

Populate each keyword page with an article or “under construction” notice.

Write article using main keyword phrase for the page. Intersperse keywords singly throughout the article using synonyms and actual keywords but not  in the same order of the original keyword phrase.

Add Contextual Product Links

Link to cloaked product page wherever you use the keywords for that product page

Create Meta Tags for Each Page

Go to SEO Chat Meta Tag Generator Tool (link on instruction site) and create meta tags ( I prefer to use Adds.Me metatag generator)

Copy and paste the resulting code into the source code of your pages in the <head> area.