Oh the joys of having my son home for the summer. He just cost me $93.29 and it’s not even 11 am yet. He decided to stick his DSi game card into the Wii disc slot and now its stuck inside of there. For those of you that can’t picture this scenario. Its like a shoving a puzzle piece into your car’s cd player. There is no way to get it out without them having to take it apart to retrieve it. *sigh*

Now onto the juicy stuff regarding my micro niche sites. Obviously taking the authority site route has been on my mind for some time. The one thing about Adsense is that it is totally unpredictable. One week your site could be doing very well with adsense and the next week do hardly anything. One thing that is clear is that there is no minimum amount of pages your site must have in order to rank. So you could essentially build a one page website and earn $20+ per day with it, of course it could also fail and bring in only $0.19 a day or worse. Likewise, building out a website that has 30-60 pages does not guarantee your website will bring in the big bucks either. I think that has been pretty obvious just looking at my first 3 niche blogs.

Here are those stats for those of you that are curious:

Niche Blog #1 – Success!
It ranks #1 on page 1 for its keyword and it had a pretty steady climb to its ranking and has sustained #1 for some time. Its 18 months old, has over 60 posts and brings in about $2-$6 daily with adsense for a total earning of $1,931.36 to date. This is the site that had an $11 day 2 days ago. There are 10,900,000 other competing sites and I am #1 with only 41 backlinks and I hate to say it but about 6 of the back links are from a UAW run. The rest seem to be blog comments and sites that picked up my ezine article and re-posted it to their site. Oh and the site has a PR1.

Niche Blog #2 – Medium success
It has never ranked for its keywords but gets traffic from many long tails. It’s 14 months old, has over 60 posts and has done only a total of $128.94 in adsense. It has done $139.89 in affiliate sales during this time as well.

Niche Blog #3 – Roller Coaster Success
It has 50 posts and ranked in the top 5 positions from its debut in December 2008 until October 2009. It has earned me $1,712.57 in affiliate commissions to date and $1090.95 of that was done during its prime of Dec 2008-Oct 2009 before it got sandboxed severely. I got it again to rank #5-6 on page 1 for about 2 months after doing Terry Kyle’s profile back links on it but after the Mayday update it dropped off the face of the earth again.

Taking Action For Your Xfactor Sites

With the Mayday update, which for me didn’t effect my sites until June 2, 2010;  I have watched my income fall like a landslide. I am freaking out. I tried to be cool about it but I can’t. I can’t site back and pretend it didn’t happen and take no action. Although my last 3 days of adsense have been a bit higher than they have been since June 2, they are still low enough numbers that are alarming to me.

I need to take action. I thought just focusing on an amazon site would help me forget about my xfactor sites and just let them settle. Oh they are settled alright…settled beyond page 10!

I need to take some action. The problem is I have 100 micro niche sites. Where do I start? How can I move along in a matter which will update my sites and get them earning and ranking again? But 100 sites is just so overwhelming?! Perhaps some of you can relate to this.

Best niche performers, Thanks Xfactor

I don’t think that micro niche sites are a bad method to make money online. Everyday new people make micro niche sites with the methods taught in John’s eBook and they still find that a week or two later they are ranking for their keywords and earning money. But at this point I don’t need to create any new sites. Instead, I need to look at my portfolio and focus on the sites with the best earning potential.

Unfortunately, when I created my first niche blog I was naive about CPC. I just wanted to be an affiliate marketer. The whole idea behind my site was to sell affiliate products. Well, as an added bonus I decided to place adsense on the blog. It started getting a click here and there. After its first month it did $12 in adsense and 0 affiliate sales. Each month I saw the adsense amounts increase and still 0 affiliate sales. I learned that for this particular niche, either I was pushing products that didn’t convert well or that for some reason the relevant ads were more enticing to my visitors. Anyhow, the CPC is ridiculously low. The site receives about 10-30 clicks a day but only earns about $2-6 a day. Pretty crazy.

Now, if I take my best earners and build them out just like my main niche blog then surely my sites can have the potential to earn $15-20 a day since all of my xfactor sites have a significantly higher CPC than my first niche blog.

Here are some screen shots of my best earners. The sites in red are duds that I will end up taking the content from and using as article backlinks and drop the domains when its renewal time. The green sites indicate decent earners.

You’ll notice I had some real winners on there. Look at site #6, #16 and nearly doubled their previous month’s earnings. #30 is actually the site that Backlinks Philippines was working on. #33 also look juicy. #44 was also performing pretty consistently with $42.38 for the month of May.

Now obviously I didn’t run down my entire list of all 100 micro niche sites. I just am taking the top earners that have some age to the domain already. I’m going to let the rest of my domains continue to age and I am basically leaving them alone.

Going From Micro Niche to Niche Blog

Now that I have my best performers highlighted, I am going to pick just 1 to start with. I find I am better if I can hyperfocus on one site and one method. So now I will pick one site. Probably one of the sites that was doing $40+ a month. Here’s my plan in a nutshell.

- Convert my xfactor HTML site over to wordpress via Dave’s walk-thru

- Over a 2 week period I will write 60 posts (about 5 posts a day and 300-500 words) for the blog that will include LSI words in the content and post titles

- Put my blog on auto pilot by scheduling out the posts so that 2 posts are being published per a week. It should take approx. 6 months for all the posts to be published. This is done so that google sees that my sites are being regularly updated.

- Once all posts are written, I will article market with a link pointing back to the main page and the first 4 inner pages that made up my xfactor site to begin with.

At that point I will most likely outsource some profile back links for my sites using Backlinks Philippines. Then, I will move onto the next site on my list, rinse and repeat.

I realize that this is extremely slow and many of you will be discouraged from doing this yourself. It’s not easy. I did it once before and decided after my 3rd niche blog that this was just too damn slow for me and that it wasn’t earning me enough money. The problem was my poor keyword research. Now after seeing which of my xfactor niches are profitable and which keywords are profitable, I know there will be money here!

So starting today, I am gonna work on my first site which is gonna be……#44!