I purchased Xfactor’s Micro Niche Adsense Course and read through the eBook in about 2 days. I got really excited after reading the actual testimony thread but I am more excited because Mike has been doing it for a few weeks and he has seen his earnings go up. And when Mike is fired up about a new system and goes all out on it, it gets ME motivated to want to try it.

The thing I like about Xfactor’s system is that is doesn’t seem overwhelming like niche blogging can be. Sure, you still are going to have to write a lot of content but its not that bad actually. The beauty of it is that you will make money much more quickly than with traditional niche blogs.

I was hung up on making my template for a few days. Xfactor doesn’t give away the actual template he uses for his sites but he does show you what it looks like and explains why it works so well. He and many others have used Xsitepro to build their template. I would say that my website building skill is a 6/10. I know HTML and I have picked up a little but of CSS through working with my wordpress blogs and from an attempt at learning it on my own through a book.

Anyhow, by recommendation; I purchased Xsitepro. It’s a rather pricey piece of software. It is comparable to buying Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS4 at $200.00. I installed Xsitepro and went to work on my template. Sure it was easy to use and it is ideal for a person with no knowledge of webdesign languages. After building my template in Xsitepro, I was left with this really ugly template. I wanted to make it a bit nicer and not so dull looking. Unfortunately, there aren’t very many tutorials explaining step by step how to spice up your webdesigns. Not how I wanted to anyhow. I gave Xsitepro a good go and played around with it for a full day. i wasn’t happy with my results.

I have Adobe Golive Cs2 on my pc so I figured I would give it a shot and try to create my template with it. I spent about 3 hours the other night fiddling with it and couldn’t get it just right. I couldn’t float my DIVs correctly so I was just making a huge mess.

I finally decided to search for Adobe Dreamweaver tutorials and came across tutvid’s videos on Youtube. He made the tutorials so easy to follow along with and he supplies the images and files you can download so you can follow along with him. So I downloaded a 30 day free trial of Dreamweaver CS4 and got started right away learning how to use it. The first tutorial I did of his was Create A Full CSS website. I got addicted and it was sooo easy to do. I ended up doing about another 4 of his other tutorials. I made up my mind that Dreamweaver is more my style and I feel like I have already learned a lot more CSS from it. I requested a refund today on Xsitepro and they have been pretty polite about it so we shall see when I can expect my return.

So last night I built my template in about 2 hours and I spent all day adding my articles,  fine tuning the “classes”, adding images and my adsense codes. I am so satisfied with my template and now I can just reuse this exact template for my future Xfactor sites.

Since you have to do quite a bit of article marketing, I plan on having my oDesk writers rewrite a bunch of articles for me so that I can use them for my article submissions. That will save me some time. I am going to shoot for getting up 3 sites a week.

Update:9/29/09 Xsitepro refunded my money within 24 hours with no problems. They get 5 star customer service! :)