Drip, drip, drip, the noise reverberates from your kitchen.

One of the most common, and annoying problems  home owners experience are leaky faucets. Most simply do not know how to deal with the problem. But thankfully, you don’t have to be a plumber to get it fixed.

All you need is 5 dollars.

If your up for the task and want to show that you can throw your weight around the house then by following these simple instructions you can become the true King of your household (with plumbing skills).

These are the materials you will need:

• Philips screwdriver
• Adjustable wrench
• A set of washers.

1. Always, turn off the water to your sink. Usually you can do this by locating the two valves underneath your sink. If you can’t or if their calcified, then head downstairs and shut off all the water to your home. Make sure to drain any water in the pipes by letting it out.
2. Cover the sink hole with a cloth so no tools or bolts fall into your pipes.
3. Pop the top of the faucet handle so you can get at the screw. Remove the screw.
4. Now use the wrench to take the nut off.
5. You should be able to see the washer or washers. Take them out and examine them. There may be some visible damage on one of them, such as a crack or a rip or even a whole part missing.
6. Take the washers and head to your local Home Depot or Home Hardware. You should be able to purchase a new set for less then 5$.
7. You may also see that it’s kind of dirty in the gap where the handle was, if you have a tool for it then clean it out. This’ll allow the washer to sit better in it’s proper position.
8. Now replace the washers and follow the instructions in reverse until you have your sink reassembled.
9. Find your spouse, and show them that you can and do fix things around the house.
10. Bask in your glory.

Congratulations! You’ve just solved the most common problem to occur at home. Now didn’t the garage need a new paint job…

Your dieing to know how it’s doing, arn’t you?!

Well, I’ve had a couple people enter the site via it’s keywords in Google. The number of backlinks has tripled but the SERP position is the same. However it is now moving up in multiple other keywords and is in the top 10 for a couple good ones. Daily visitors is around 6 now.

The site contains quite a few articles now and is fighting hard for it’s main keywords. I’m suspecting it to be on the first page within 2 weeks at this rate. Google seems sluggish in indexing other pages pointing to the site as is Yahoo, which is showing very few backlinks of the ones I have produced in the last week.

No money has been made from it just yet and it is not monitized in order to be more acceptable by conservative webmasters. On that note, I’m building around 5 links a day from different but relevant sources.

Tis all for now,

I figured it’s been 2 days and I feel like updating the blog so I might as well update it about the niche site experiment.

One website I established 10 days ago now is rankedon page 3 of Google for it’s term. It took 6 days to be indexed and I’ve developped 3 pages for it and it has 2 link sources but many more to be indexed in the following week I suspect. Around 50ish links already indexed so fair enough. My competition on that term is fairly limited and 2 of the top 10 sites only have inlinks.

Also bought a website yesterday for a term with over 100K searches and almost no competition on google, waiting for it to be indexed and already creating content for the site. Also started posting on relevant forums hoping for traffic and link love. So far from that other niche site I’ve had about 50 people visit and today was my first visitor from a search term and someone who I think was checking out my sites stats O.o .

So it’s going slow, but again I’m just getting into this online niche.

Yep, I’m not the first to try it but I’m interested in niche sites. I’ll be updating this blog with whats happening with my site(s) and how well they’re doing so I can help anyone else interested in getting into niche sites.

Created a site today on blogger in a niche market about computers. Over 10000 searches a month according to adwords. Comp. on Google is about 3 million and of the top 10 sites, few have links to those specific pages and low PR or none at all.

Using CJ as my revenue source. Found the niche in 1 hour, worked on website configuration for 40 mins and content for 2 hours for a total of 3 hours and 40 minutes so far. No banner to be designed and hopefully soon to find a new blogger template.

The niche site has the keyword as the domain name but few of my competitors do.

Tomorrow I start to build links, the worst part about niche sites. No spam and no purchased links, just relevant comments on relevant blogs which, hopefully, are accepted and dofollowed. Will be submitting a sitemap to google and will be adding statcounter code.

How do you find a niche market?

Honestly one of the hardest things to do. But here are some tips that will greatly improve your chances of finding your market.

1. Watch the discovery channel, especially when they feature niche shows like this one about logging.
2. http://www.vretoolbar.com/nichegenerator/
3. Random word generators
4. Affiliate websites, look at their featured products.
5. Objects around you.
6. Sub-objects around you. I see my skates, then I think of how blades are sharpened, then the machines that do that.
7. Commercials.
8. Google Trends.

So there you have it, good luck.