My Journey Using the Clickbump/Xfactor Method of Site Building

[2stayhome]

I built a good many one- to five-page sites last year but didn't do enough marketing when I first put them up - Big Mistake #1. I then spent a couple of months this year going back to those to do some marketing and they all tanked at the same time - Big Mistake #2. But I did learn from my experiences.

Build a site, do your promotion, and move on. Come back in several months for a review. If it's earning you money, build it out and promote some more. If it's not doing anything then just ignore it. If it pops later you can give it some attention but if nothing happens just dump it or let it ride. Don't waste time on the non-performers because they usually can't be salvaged.

In the review I've been doing of all my sites recently I've noticed two things. Age and size matter to Google. About every six months I usually notice a bump in the amount I'm getting per click across my various sites. And the larger sites seem to fare much better on a per click basis but I can't explain why.

So the micro sites are a good way to start and test out a niche but if they start producing then expanding them will get you lots of Google love in many ways.

Good luck on your journey!

Cindy

[gubwell12]

You should spend more time building quality backlinks from Article directories instead of adding more website without any traffic to previous websites.

[tijay]

UPDATE

So Site #3 is finished google dancing and the results are great. The site has jumped from #7 in the SERPS to #3 which is excellent. This sort of proves what I was thinking and what 2stayhome hinted at above which is a 1 page site may not get as much "respect" from google than a site with more pages. All I did with Site #3 is add more content and BOOM, it climbed 4 spots.

So that is the good news. The bad news is that I am not getting the clicks I think I should. So I took a look at my description and it turns out it stinks. I fixed the description and submitted another EZA. Hopefully google will pick up the changes once the EZA goes live and we'll see if I can start getting some more clicks.

TiJay

[misterkailo]

So this person quit already? These "follow me as I try to make a million XFactor sites" never last more than a few weeks lol!

[tijay]

Didn't quit misterkailo. Just doing more testing. What I was doing wasn't working as well as I expected so I am trying to see how adding more pages to my sites will affect the rankings.

[misterkailo]

The quantity of pages wouldn't boost you up for your main keyword unless those pages are getting link juice from somewhere else to pass it onto your homepage. The XFactor guide pretty much tells you everything you need to do to rank high... proper H1 tags, title tag, exact keyword domains, etc.

[tijay]

misterkailo, well on more than one of my sites, I have noticed a jump in the SERPS when simply increasing the number of articles from 1 to 10 with no other SEO done to the site. This is why I am testing to see if this was a fluke or there is real substance behind it.

[misterkailo]

Originally Posted by tijay

misterkailo, well on more than one of my sites, I have noticed a jump in the SERPS when simply increasing the number of articles from 1 to 10 with no other SEO done to the site. This is why I am testing to see if this was a fluke or there is real substance behind it.

After having more than 100 sites, I can tell you that is just a fluke..

[evertd]

Adding more pages might have an influence on your main page if they all link to your main page as part of well structured on site linking. But there are tons of places to get links other than EZA; just search for free blogs, loads of sites allow you to create blogs where you can drop spun articles and links.

[tijay]

LAST UPDATE

I have been getting a few PM's about the progress of my sites and I thought I should update it for the last time.

As many of you know, there was a google slap that happened in the form of the May Day update. Many people who had Xfactor type sites were effected by this. Amazingly, the sites that I built were not effected that much by the update. A few that were ranked in the top 3 may have dropped a little in the SERPS but eventually the ranking returned.

But the May Day update is not really why I stopped updating the thread. I started to read that people's adsense accts were taking hits from manual updates. The forum threads that I read said that after they reached $100/day, there was a manual review and many people were getting many of their sites deindexed and some of them getting their accts taken. Needless to say this worried me.

It was not the fact that I was anywhere near the $100/day mark because I wasn't. It was the fact what if I do all this work, eventually get to that mark (however long it would take me) and then some reviewer comes along and poof, it's all gone down the toilet.

Anyway, I stopped promoting my sites, backlinking them and on many of them I have stripped off the adsense. I am going to start over with these micro niche sites with a new strategy that hopefully will get me past the manual review phase. Who am I kidding though, no one really knows what they are looking for. Here is my plan going fwd for my next batch of micro niche sites:

1. Change themes – moving away from the classic theme
2. Add more content for visitors (and hopefully the reviewer)
3. Add another monetization stream (CJ, Amazon, etc.)
4. Add video(s) (Youtube)
5. Add autoresponder (Aweber)

I figure this will make the site look much more legit and when I finally do get to that $100/day mark, hopefully I will pass the test. I am not going to be worried so much with CTR and things of that nature. I just want to rank well, get visitors and if they click on my ads, that's great.

Just in case you are wondering, here are the results of the experiment as far as ranking is concerned:

Site#1 - #1 ___ Site#6 - #4
Site#2 - #9 ___ Site#7 - #9
Site#3 - #1 ___ Site#8 - #5
Site#4 - #10 __ Site#9 - #16
Site#5 - #6 ___ Site#10 - #6

I think things went pretty well with the sites, even after the May Day update. I think the top earner of the sites was Sites #6 which made about $230 (a little over $2/day) total.

Anyway, that's all I got. If you are into experiments like this one, check out my signature. I have a new site set up where I will be doing experiments like this one and sharing the results with anyone who is interested. The site will be sort of an “As I learn, you learn” type of site.

Also, I plan on setting up a list where I may sell off some of the micro niche sites from this experiment. I may do flippa, not really sure yet. As soon as I get my aweber set up, I will be adding that to the site.

Good luck to you all. Hope to see you on the site in my sig.

TiJay

[tijay]

If there is anyone out there having trouble finding good micro niche exact match domains, I have a free WSO discussing my technique I use to find them. Check out my signature for more information.

Here are a few of the stats of the domains I show you in the report:

(.net, .org available)
2900 exact/mo.

(.net, .org available)
2900 exact/mo.

(.net, .org available)
1300 exact/mo.

(.net, .org available)
1000 exact/mo.

(.org available)
3600 exact/mo.

(.org available)
1600 exact/mo.

(.net available)
3600 exact/mo.

(.org available)
1600 exact/mo.

(.org available)
1900 exact/mo.

(.net, .org available)
1600 exact/mo.

(.com, .net, .org available)
1300 exact/mo.

First come first serve on those.

The report is very short and to the point. Only 2 pages of real content. Check it out and let me know what you think.

TiJay

[Chris Stigson]

You guys who are serious about this, should keep going, but instead of doing 1-2 EZA article only, just submit the same 2 articles to SubmitYourArticle.com and it will get you ranked SUPER EASY.... then try UniqueArticleWizard.com, Seolinkvine.com, articlemarketingautomation.com too. 1-3 articles in those will get your site ranked guaranteed in a few weeks... I hire a guy to do 2 articles in SYA for each site I build making my total investment per site $15 or so... Really nice and works so far =)

[Suka]

I am on site number 5 and im already making $2 per day just a matter of rinse and repeat..

[valiantbearded]

I use my # 4 CMS test site cucats. I already had some problems, and cucat e-mail. He is very fast via e-mail me back, what should I do. I try for him when I finished putting up the site.