How to build online deals site for niche markets

Article by ShanK

More and more people are shopping online. Searching for best prices has become easy with various online deal sites and forums. While it is very difficult to compete against already popular deal sites, you can still create some value by postings deals in the niche markets. You can take the advantage of the fact that these online deal sites are very generic. They post deals on almost every category. If you are expert in some area, for example clothing,shoes,electronics etc you can find bargains and post on your niche shopping bargain site. While your visitors shop through your site, you earn commission on each purchase.

In this article I am going to show you how easy it is to build a online deal site for a niche market. On this site I have built deals page for home networking stuff. Each deal is contains an picture of the product,text description,rating and a buy button. A click on image,text link or buy button takes the use the site where the product is offered at the lowest price. To see the live working deal site go to Deals on Powerline Ethernet

There are various ways to build your bargain website. You build the site using combination of HTML,CSS,Javascript and PHP. But that too much to learn. Lets pickup the fastest and easiest route to get started with minimum amount of efforts. I suggest we go with WordPress which is best CMS systems out there. Importantly its fee and customization is easy.

Next issue is to pick up right theme. I have picked up theme called Arthemia. Arthemia comes in two versions,Free and Premium. Everyone love Free so lets use Arthemia Free theme and modify it to build great looking deal site.

Now lets get down to the task of creating our niche deals website. First Install WordPress and Atrhemia theme in themes folder. Create your Arthemia website using the steps given in WordPress Arthemia customization guide.

For the complete article with pictures and illustrations, please go toBuild your own online deal site for niche market

About the Author

Author is founder of the website Infopint.com. Author writes easy to follow articles on building websites,niche shopping sites and various tips and tricks for webmasters. Authors area of expertise is wordpress phpBB,CSS,XHTML,javascript and php.

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