Sunday, June 20th, 2010 at
12:32 am
Well it’s has appeared to have finally happened. The ride is over and Google has cracked down on micro niche and Xfactor style websites in their index. Now I can’t say this for sure 100% and all sites are not effected, but I can say for sure that since the update last month most of my sites have taken a big dive and AdSense earnings are half of what they were.
What is really strange is that one of my newer sites I started to build had what I thought to be a higher quality of content as opposed to poorly written content or just poor product descriptions that most people implement to build there sites with.
Now as far as back links are concerned they are for the majority coming from the same spots. What even stranger is that my sites that I started out with which I solely linked only with EzineArticles links seem to be doing the best in the search engines and benefiting the most from those links which don’t have much IP diversity. So is IP diversity really that important as everyone preaches in SEO? That’s the main reason I abandoned the Xfactor method as far as link building because he relied solely on Ezine and GoArticles for back links.
I going to change things up a bit. If I’m going to be building all these sites I’d rather build a big authority site on a topic I have interest in and can write about as opposed to outsourcing some five page site with mediocre content and building lots of poor back links to compensate for a few powerful ones.
My verdict on the micro niche sites is this. Keep building them but only for short term income and fast profits for selling. I think they can still be valuable to flip and sell niche blogs as opposed to wasting your time building them up over time and trying to maintain above the fold rankings on page one.
Look at it this way, if you really spend the time to create some excellent content, people will link to you and make your job easier. Only poorly written content needs to be manipulated by people to rank high as it is not valuable to the end user.
Friday, March 19th, 2010 at
12:26 am
Today I’m going to officially start off with building my micro niche site empire. Now I’ve had an AdSense account for a very long time but never really thought it could be a profitable maintenance free business model. The maintenance is minimal and the setup time is very quick and also if you don’t want to do any work at all you can totally outsource every step of the process.
In a nutshell it all comes down to doing really great keyword research. The theory behind the micro niche business model is that instead of building one big authority site that earns a couple of hundred a day, you build smaller sites in the hundreds or thousands that each earn anywhere from $1-$5 a day. The advantage of this is that these micro sites will rank much quicker and stay there for a long time because of virtually no competition.
The process is simple and follows this order:
1. Do initial keyword research and pick 4-5 one to three word phrases that have high search volume and very little competition. I’ll get into details later on but to brainstorm niches I generally start out by using Micro Niche Finder. I like to find keywords that have a minimum of 2500 searches a month and under 10,000 competing pages in Google.
2. Get your web content written on your low competition keyword phrases. This can be the most time consuming part. I typically hate writing, but if I have to do it I’ll pick out some articles online from a directory and rewrite them using The Best Spinner. This seriously is an amazing piece of software. It’s about the closest thing you gonna come by that will let you literally push a button and get a semi-unique article in a matter of seconds. You can also manually rewrite articles very fast using your keyboard. Your other alternative for content is to hire a freelance writer. You can get articles written cheaply for about $6 per 500 words.
3. Build your blog, wait till it gets indexed and start an automated back links campaign. This is the third and final step and this is what drives traffic to your site, moves your site up in the rankings to page one and gets you paid from AdSense when visitors come and click on your ads. Without back links your site is dead in the water and will never be found. A strong link building campaign is vital to the success of any site you launch if you want to land on Google page one. Now again this is a process you are going to want to automate or outsource because it can be the most time consuming of all. Right now there are two tools I am using to automate the link building process. They are Bookmark Wiz and Backlink Solutions.
Once you get through these three steps you should be in a couple of weeks on page one and earning money. Now assuming an earnings of $1 a day minimum you should be able to break even in about one month if all you spent money on was a domain name ($10) and five articles ($25). After this your earnings are all profit and you can even take the site and flip it for ten times earnings on eBay or various forums online which list sites for sale with existing traffic and revenue.
I’m aiming to put up about 2-3 sites a week. My goal is about 200-250 micro niche sites that each earn a minimum of $1 a day on the low end and $5 a day on the high end. This should get me to the $400-500 a day mark with AdSense by the end of the year.
