This month has been kind of slow and I have not really had any new sites launched. I have been pretty much been trying to figure out ways I can free up more time and automate more tasks in the process of researching, building and launching my micro niche AdSense websites.

So far the most time consuming and energy wasting task that I have had up until this point which I was not outsourcing had been doing keyword research. I now have a new tool which I have been using instead of Micro Niche Finder which literally finds thousands of niches with low competition on auto-pilot! I’ll be announcing this tool shortly.

So now I have my keyword research, website content and back link building wither outsourced or semi-automated. The actual process of building the sites and putting them together is quite fast once I have my content ready and written. I’ve been using a WordPress theme called ClickBump with a special plug-in that installs the site and configures it with a click of a button, so basically now all I have to be concerned with and what takes up my time is link building.

I’ve been searching for new link building networks to juice my sites up with and have come across Brad Callen’s new service called SEO Link Vine. Now up until now I’ve just been doing some social bookmarking with Bookmark Wiz and using Backlink Solutions as my main link building network.

I’m really excited about SEO Link Vine. I just got done submitting my first spun article on a brand new site recently indexed. What’s really cool about SEO Link Vine that I have not seen in other similar blog link building networks is the ability to track your articles and see where they are published as well as details on how your own sites are ranking in the SERPS and the specific keywords which you target and where they are ranking. They also allow you to submit your own blogs to the network so that you can receive lots of fresh unique content from other members. Powerful one way back links from thousands of blogs on unique IP’s and fresh content for you own sites, and the ability to track published articles and your sites SERP rankings? For only $47 a month I think that’s a great deal. Now only time will tell if this network can live up to the power of Backlink Solutions. I already like it better because BLS limits you to 1000 links a month and SEO Link Vine is unlimited, plus you can spin your anchor text and URL’s to hit up every page on your site for some serious internal deep linking.

I’m hoping this is what I need to give my sites that extra link juice to get those above the fold rankings on page one that we all are desperately trying to obtain and hold. I suggest you go over and check out SEO Link Vine. They might be raising the price soon and it’s really cheap right now. I’ll keep you posted on my progress with this new network and how it’s doing with my AdSense sites.

Total Earnings for March 2010: $279.83

This was my best month ever. My income has been steadily increasing and my traffic and CTR are improving with time. It’s now time to scale this operation up and start getting a lot more sites launched while I tweak my old sites and try to improve the traffic and earnings on them. I try not to touch my old sites that much because this is all about set and forget hands free maintenance, but it’s always important that you have a steady stream of back links linking to your sites from unique IP addresses. I’ve discovered that some sites however due to extreme lack o competition can get by with just a few links and maintain a steady first page Google ranking.

Now here is a couple of things that I have noticed……

My best performing sites are my first launches that have all original content and just a few back links from some Ezine Articles. The second batch of sites that I launched were based on a more lazy approach and were thrown up fast with some dupe content, auto blogging plug-ins and back links from social bookmarking websites and blog networks. These later sites are earning money but not as much as my initial sites with all original content and stronger back links. Based on this I started going back to an all original content format, but I don’t think that getting links just from one IP source is the best strategy. It’s my theory that the original content will outperform any sites with dupe content, even if they have more back links. Even though these sites will cost a lot more to launch, they will be profitable much faster and earn more in the long term.

Do not fear the Google dance!

I’ll have to admit that this is a very dangerous business. Your basically putting all of your fate in the hands of Google. Any major change in the algorithms and your sites can all be de-indexed, banned, rank beyond 100 or worse you can get your account banned. I’ve had sites de-indexed and then show up again. I have had sites rank first page then drop to 300 and then show up on page one again. From what I can see is that as long as you deliver Google what they want which is great unique content you’ll be ok. If you rank well right off the bat it’s a good indication that your site will rank well in the future even if your rankings fluctuate in the beginning. I think it’s just big G’s way of feeling you out and seeing if you are a spammer or not.

I am going to start experimenting with different site formats and see which ones draw more traffic and earn more. Next I want to go a little broader and add more content and have a tight internal silo structure which I’ll talk about in my next post. If my first sites are an indication of the direction I should be going in I think this format might be the most ideal to stick with.

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