Lately i started a new project.

I found some good keywords with a decent amount of traffic and not that much competition as i couldn´t beat. Its in the archery niche, and four of the keywords i initally found are buying ones (buy arrow and bow, buy compoundbow, buy longbow, buy recurvebow). I tought - Umm nice, Archery equipment is pretty expensive, so it whould be worth the time.

I do marketing in german, so im not that afraid to share.

I then did some research, to get a basic understanding of archery and i found its best for beginners when they go into a club and try it out themselfes, bevor they buy some own equipment.

So the base line, and only real advice of all my articles on my page, is exactly that. I tought i will optimize it anyway (im on page 1 and 2 for my keywords, and i only did some bookmarks till now) and then try to make a little money with adsense.

A) because i dont feel competent to give any equipment advice or opinion - its extremely technical, especially the compoundbow - and b) because all the PRO´s say beginners should start with a visit at an archery club.

But i was not really shure if my posts really was correct as they where - So i decidede to regster to an archery forum and ask for tipps, opinions and advice (they have a section especially to discuss homepages).

So i asked into this Forum for help. First they was all helpful and cheering, said: You have to tweak this and that a little bit, but its a good job and the right direction.

Then somebody asked, if i myself do archery, and what the matter of my site is.

I did not think a moment of not saying the truth - Why should i?

But the anger that was brought up against me from this point on, is hard to describe. In a sudden, my whole site was crap, and i anyways have no idea from what i was talking, so i should better take this site down - That was the bottom line in the end...

So, what should i do if i get in such a situation again? Telling them upfront i want to make money with this site, and then asking for advice? How are you doing this?

Greetings, Peter

P.S. If you find some spelling errors, you can keep them - sry ^^