My Journey Using the Clickbump/Xfactor Method of Site Building

[tijay]

I am starting this thread in order to track my adsense journey using some of the methods used by warrior Clickbump and Xfactor. This is really my way to keep myself focused on my goals and resist the urge to slack off, as I have done so many times in the past.

I have read Clickbump's and Xfactor's popular threads and my intention is to use their guidance to start making decent income using adsense.

Before you go thinking I am some full time IM'er who has time all day to spend researching keywords and putting up sites, I am not. I am pretty much just an average Joe just like the majority of the people on this forum who enjoys learning about this stuff. I have a full time job and hopefully, this is step one to getting rid of that thing.

Anyway, I intend to share a good deal of the information about the sites that I launch without, of course, revealing the exact site and niche.

Ultimately, I would like to help others as I try to achieve my own goals.

Wish me luck!

LIST OF GOALS

Goal #1 - Launch 10 Clickbump/Xfactor sites by the end of March 2010 - CHECK
End Goal - 50 sites completed by 30 Sept 2010 making $100/day - FAIL

PROGRESS (update 25 Jul)
SITE, SERPS
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


TiJay

[cucat]

Hi,

As a special gift for you, I will give you a free copy of my QuickXfactor CMS. It will help you build Xfactor/ Clickbump Site faster. PM me if you think you need it.

Regards

Tuan

[JayYamada]

Hi, I'm also interested to start up a xfactor method styled niche website, can you send me a copy of the xfactorcms?

I can't PM you due to my postcounts, thanks!

[cucat]

Originally Posted by JayYamada

Hi, I'm also interested to start up a xfactor method styled niche website, can you send me a copy of the xfactorcms?

I can't PM you due to my postcounts, thanks!

Sorry guy, because the owner of this thread give me some inspire so I decided to give him free. ^^

Have a nice day

Tuan

[garryc]

TiJay

I'm in the same position as you, full time job, just starting out, etc....just looking to learn and earn.

So far I have 3 XFactor/Clickbump sites up and am looking at putting a few more up in the next couple of weeks. I use Clickbump's wordpress templates for my sites, I haven't looked at Cucat's template but it does look interesting.

Garry

[azmom07]

good luck on your journey...

[cucat]

To unlimitedsubmissions :

Can't send you PM. Plz contact me by email : admin@nganhtuan.com

[cucat]

Originally Posted by garryc

TiJay

I'm in the same position as you, full time job, just starting out, etc....just looking to learn and earn.

So far I have 3 XFactor/Clickbump sites up and am looking at putting a few more up in the next couple of weeks. I use Clickbump's wordpress templates for my sites, I haven't looked at Cucat's template but it does look interesting.

Garry

Hi, you can see my CMS work at :

http://www.nganhtuan.com/quickxfactor/

My CMS also can change template and currently it has a clean template which has CTR>15%

[tijay]

Thanks for the kind words of support.

cucat, thanks for the invite. I will definitely take you up on your offer. I will PM you for more details.

It is a little late where I am so I am going to sleep in a few minutes. I made some good progress today. My plan is to write up a detailed report tomorrow about my thought process when choosing a micro niche and what SEO factors I need to see in order move forward with purchasing a domain name.

TiJay

[cucat]

Hi,

I can't send you PM. Please PM your email.

Thanks and Have a nice day

Tuan

[tijay]

So, I built 3 sites yesterday using Clickbumps WP templates (more on that later). It took me about an hour and a half to build these sites because I was having some issues with the templates. After adding my content, I would navigate to the page to see what it looked like but there would be nothing there. After banging my head against the wall for a while, I upgraded to the 3.4 version of Clickbump's templates and that seemed to fix everything. I am thinking from now on, it should take no longer than 10-15 minutes to put a site up using his templates.

Also, I plan on giving cucat's site building product a shot and seeing how fast it takes me to build a site using that tool as well.

On to the meat of this thread. I really want to keep track of what SEO type factors will lead to a decent Xfactor/Clickbump site. What will make these type of sites super easy to rank and which factors make them earn the most.

Some of the more important factors I look for are based on the things I have read in the threads of Xfactor and Clickbump. One that I think is super important is the allinurl and allintitle factor posted by warrior Tom Goodwin:
The clickbump method? all your questions answered...

Factors I consider (all niches will be product based tangible items)
1. Exact phrase search of 3K-10K local search using AKT
2. CPC > $1 using AKT
3. Relatively even search volume trend using AKT
4. Allinurl < 1000
5. Allintitle < 10000
6. Allinanchor < 50000
7. First 10 results have low amount of backlinks to their pages
8. First 5 results should be "power" sites
9. No sites higher than a PR4 in the first 10 results
10. Exact match domain should be available (.COM, .NET, .ORG)

There is probably something that I am leaving out but that is pretty much what I am basing my micro niches on. If I think of anything else, I'll just add it in later. Also, I will try to describe each of these points in detail later on because of course there are exceptions to the rules.

You may be thinking, dude the site you just described does not exist. Don't let anyone tell you that. There are tons and tons of micro niches out there and many of them will fit into the rules that I described above. It's all about thinking creatively to come up with your niche. I hope to make a video later on about how I come up with a niche from start to finish.

Anyway, I am late for work so I gotta go. Hopefully, the factors listed above will help someone who was a little confused about what to look for when selecting a niche.

In my next post I will describe a the 3 sites that I found based on the factors above.

If you have questions, ask away. Hopefully I will be able to answer them.

Thanks!

TiJay

[tijay]

Here are the stats for my first 3 niches:

Niche #1 (interior decorating)
1. Exact phrase - 2900
2. CPC - $0.96
3. Allinurl - 900+
4. Allintitle - 1,700+
5. Allinanchor - 40,000+
6. Exact match domain - .ORG
----
7. WP blog
8. Exact match title
9. keyword density = 4.2%
10. Backlinks - 1 EZA, 1 Web 2.0, 50 profile backlinks

Niche #2 (construction)
1. Exact phrase - 5400
2. CPC - $0.56
3. Allinurl - 1,000+
4. Allintitle - 2,000+
5. Allinanchor - 59,000+
6. Exact match domain - .NET
----
7. WP blog
8. Exact match title
9. keyword density = 3.7%
10. Backlinks - 1 EZA, 1 Web 2.0

Niche #3 (kitchen appliance)
1. Exact phrase - 2900
2. CPC - $0.69
3. Allinurl - 2,400+
4. Allintitle - 4,800+
5. Allinanchor - 10,600+
6. Exact match domain - .NET
----
7. WP blog
8. Exact match title
9. keyword density = 4.0%
10. Backlinks - 1 EZA, 1 Web 2.0, 80 profile links

Some of the "allin" numbers are a little off because they were different the day I purchased the domains. The "allin" numbers have a tendency to jump around a bit depending on when you search for them. One hour they could tell you one thing and in the next hour they could tell you something totally different. I am just making sure that they are close to the criteria that I have laid out. They don't really need to be exact or right on the button.

The CPC numbers are way off and that is my fault. I really should have checked the keywords more closely before purchasing the domains. I think the monthly searches for the terms are pretty decent though so hopefully that won't be a problem.

Time to get these bad boys indexed and ranked. To do this I am going to submit an article a piece to EZA and also submit an article a piece on a web 2.0 property. I have always had trouble getting these types of sites indexed and ranked. And when I say trouble, I just mean it takes me much longer to get indexed than I think it should take.

I am hoping within a few days I can get these sites indexed and hopefully by next week (19Mar) they will all be ranked. If I did my research correctly, they should be somewhere on the first page.

I am still in the process of finding my next 7 domains. I will continue to use the same criteria to find my niches.

TiJay

[cucat]

@tijay:

Very good news from you.

Best wishes.

P/s : Besides, you should check the page rank of the first 10 results from search. Is therer any 0 or n/a page rank for all niches above ?

[tijay]

Good point cucat. I should be looking at how many PR0 and PR N/A sites are in the top 10. For my experiment here though, I am interested in how many 0 or N/A's are in the top 5. My feeling is that if you do your research correctly, you should be able to rank in the 10-5 range pretty easily. I am hoping that these sites will crack the top 5 for their respective KWs and in doing so, I will have this log as a reproducible template on how it that can be achieved.

Just locked up another decent micro niche. Here are the SEO factors:

Niche #4 (interior decorating)
1. Exact phrase - 4400
2. CPC - $1.36
3. Allinurl - 700+
4. Allintitle - 1,300+
5. Allinanchor - 58,000+
6. Exact match domain - .ORG
----
7. Cucat's Quick XFactor CMS
8. Double kw in title (singular and plural)
9. keyword density = 4.9%
10. Backlinks - 2 EZA

There are one or two sites in the top 10 that worry me for this niche but I think I'll be okay. Looks like a winner.

I will take a shot at building this site through cucat's site building software. I will post a review when the site is complete. I will also keep track of this site and see how it responds to the SERPS. Keep your fingers crossed cucat

I have submitted EZA's for the first 3 niches. They should be approved by tomorrow COB and indexed by at least (13Mar). If not I will give them a bit of a boost in order to force them to be indexed.

TiJay

[tijay]

Thanks for the kind words unlimitedsubmissions. Hopefully this experiment works out for me in the end.

The first three websites have been indexed but only website #3 has made it to the SERPS as of yet. As of today it holds the #12 spot. This is pretty disappointing to me because I would have thought that it would debut much higher (#7-9) based on the low competition and the SEO factors presented earlier in this thread. The one victory I can take from today is that I was able to index and rank site #3 within a matter of 5 days. Not bad.

Its all good though, I hope to eventually come up with a formula that will get these sites indexed and ranked like clock work.

My plan is to continue to find good niches so that I can make it to my goal of 10 sites built by the end of this month. Also, I plan on building my next site using cucat's software.

That's all for now.

TiJay

[Get Inspired Today]

Interesting thread...

It's kind of like reading a book! Thanks for sharing your experiences. I will follow along!

[robrave]

Nice. I'm also on the journey of following Xfactor and Clickbump method, I'm sticking to keyword research right now. I believe I could earn $100+ a day within 3 months

[tijay]

Thanks for following Get Inspired Today.

Just found 2 new domains. Actually, I just found 1 new one tonight and the other site I had a couple of days ago, I just forgot to post the stats.

Niche #5 (interior decorating)
1. Exact phrase - 2900
2. CPC - $1.11
3. Allinurl - 400+
4. Allintitle - 1,400+
5. Allinanchor - 58,000+
6. Exact match domain - .ORG
----
7. WP blog
8. Double kw in title
9. keyword density = 5.4%
10. Backlinks - 2 EZA, 50 profile links

Niche #6 (home furniture)
HOPING THIS WILL BE A REAL WINNER
1. Exact phrase - 3600
2. CPC - $1.50
3. Allinurl - 100+
4. Allintitle - 300+
5. Allinanchor - 8,000+
6. Exact match domain - .NET
----
7. XSP site
8. Double kw in title
9. keyword density = 5.0%
10. Backlinks - 2 EZA, 50 profile links

Going to fill out my bracket and hit the hay.

TiJay

[2d0k]

Good luck on your journey!

This thread is nice to follow, I already bookmarked it hehe..

[ormes21]

Motivating thread Tijay,

It's good to see someone on the same path. I started at the beginning of march after reading the xfactor method and getting the clickbump theme.

I currently have 13 up and running. Setting up 4 at the beginning of the week, rest of the week I concentrate on building content and backlinks so I can set, forget and move on.

Some of my sites are hitting page 1 and 2 in google.co.uk already but not in .com. Some that I set up are not in the top 100 results but im confident after a month or so they will be on page 1 based on my competition.

I will be checking back in this thread often to see how your getting on, I hope you start seeing some good results soon.

Andy

[cucat]

@tijay :
Hi, I sent you email. Sorry because I can't send PM due to Post count.

Have a nice day

[tijay]

research so far stinks, lol. More on this later. Also, good job setting a goal for yourself of $100/day in 3 months. I will follow suit and add a monetary goal for myself. I am thinking that each of my sites should be making about $2 per day (I hope). So, I will say that in 6 months my goal will be to have 50 of these sites completed and earnings $2/day which equals $100/day. I am going to add this to my goal list.

ormes21, glad to see you are on the same path. If you see anything that I may be doing wrong here (there's probably a bunch of junk I could improve on) please let me know. And if you feel up to, please let me know your progress. Good luck to you buddy.

So, onto the status of my first 3 sites. Noooot doooooing too good, lol. Site #1 and #2 finally made it to the SERPS debuting at...wait for it...#9 and #19 respectively. Obviously, something has to be wrong with some of my so called "SEO factors". No worries though. This thread was created so that I can learn from my mistakes and hopefully everyone else can learn right along with me.

Update on the cucat site. I am using my #4 site as a test of cucat's CMS system. I have been running into a few problems and emailing cucat. He is really quick to email me back with what I need to do. I will do a review of his system once I am done putting that site up.

TiJay

[tijay]

I found site #7 and #8 today at work. While everyone was goofing off watching the NCAAs, I was goofing off using AKT, lol. I usually don't do this but the .NET and the .ORG were available for this one so I jumped on it. Here are the stats:

Niche #7 (fishing)
1. Exact phrase - 2900
2. CPC - $1.00
3. Allinurl - 700+
4. Allintitle - 3,900+
5. Allinanchor - 123,000+
6. Exact match domain - .NET
----
7. WP blog
8. Double kw in title
9. keyword density = 4.5%
10. Backlinks - 2 EZA, 50 profile links

Niche #8 (fishing)
1. Exact phrase - 2900
2. CPC - $1.00
3. Allinurl - 700+
4. Allintitle - 3,900+
5. Allinanchor - 123,000+
6. Exact match domain - .ORG
----
7. XSP site
8. Double kw in title
9. keyword density = 3.9%
10. Backlinks - 2 EZA, 50 profile links

Yeah, I know my allinanchor is WAY outside the range of what I said. Well, judging by my first 3 websites, it's time to start breaking some of these rules and see what happens. My last 2 domains I am probably going to be breaking a few of the "SEO factors" to see what happens.

That's about it for now. Going to watch basketball. Sorry to any Notre Dame fans out there. I had them going pretty far in my pool.

TiJay

PS - Garryc if you are still out there following along, how is your progress coming with your sites?

[culvers]

Great thread, im doing the same thing. Got 5 sites up at the moment, concentrating on article marketing for them for the next week or so, then im going to build 5 new sites.

They have all ranked between pages 1 and 3 with 0 backlinks. Im not too worried really as i plan to add about 20 article backlinks for each site, plus some web 2.0 profile links and maybe even a link wheel, although not sure about that yet.

I too am aiming to have 50 sites built generating at least $100 per day. 45 more to go! lol but there are tons of niches out there...

Another thing is im not worrying too much about the allinanchor/title etc im just looking at the top 10 search results and going by that. Im experimenting with a variety of different factors with these first 5 sites, trying to find something that works for me, which i will then replicate.

The one thing I have been tough on is not touching anything with a cpc of less than $1....

What i am struggling on is content, im aiming for about 5 pages (not including sitemap/about/privacy etc) of original content, each page with over 500 words. I would like to expand to about 10 - 20 pages but its so difficult thinking of stuff to write about for some of the more specific tiny niches. What are you guys doing? Just adding pages about related stuff?

All the best

[Pat Jackson]

Tijay, just a word of warning.

These "follow along" types of threads usually get deleted so it'd probably be wise to save a copy of all of your posts so that you can transfer them to a blog if it does get deleted.

[garryc]

Hey TiJay

I'm still around, haven't done much work lately as I've been out sick...

My sites are doing ok, have 5 so far, one doing very well.

I plan on getting back at it next week, found a couple of cool niches I want research a bit.

Garry

[JohnSuitcase]

Thought I'd offer you (or anyone) a few domains I bought a while back, and I just don't have the time or inclination to work them, really.

Just shoot me a domain transfer request from your host, and I'll approve them, free.

fenderreverb.com - Fender Twin Reverb Review (this one is on the first page for 'fender reverb' and gets a little traffic from 'fender twin reverb.')

bigsurveylist.com - Big Survey List - Get Paid To Take Surveys![/url] (not much luck, this is a competitive niche, and I just don't feel much love for survey stuff at this point.

electric-knife-sharpener.com - Thinking of Buying an Electric Knife Sharpener? - the stats for this search looked good to me, but I just don't really have any interest in the subject.

I'm just not really into the microniche stuff, I'm sure others have good luck with it, but I'm a recording engineer, and when I sit down to write something, I'm inspired to stick with what I know and love. So any time I spend on these sites just feels like wasted time!

Anyway, if you want them, they're yours, no charge.

Thanks,

John

[Chris-]

I've now (after about a month) got 3 of my 5 sites at #1 position (for exact search, #2 with no quotes), the other two sites at #4 and #8, and still getting little traffic and no profit.

On my best site I am getting less than a tenth of the traffic Google says I should, which will, over a year, just about pay for my domain and hosting. And that's by far the best site, the others are so far going to make a loss.

Chris

[Bajsich]

I have seen similar anomalies with some of my keywords, but you should not always go dot by dot at what some keyword tools will show you. If I was only using MNF i would commint suicide...the same goes for using only Market Samurai... both alongside google itself ( through pagewash of course ) give me a more realistic picture.

I have yet to see my main pages rank high ( been doing this for about 3 weeks and have setup 2 main pages only days ago - which are already ranking btw ).

To the owner of the thread I would like to say thank you for sharing, but you never mention how many backlinks or articles you have made in order to complain about poor positions. Which method do you use?

Sincerely, Base

[jabnamedia]

One of the things I really focus on with these types of sites is the first page competition. What I want to see is that most of the top ten are pages within sites and not home pages. In other words if most of the listings on page one are like this yourkeyword.com/additionalwords I have had better luck beating these types of listings. If they have more than 500 backlinks though I tend to pass.

[dick gallo]

Good luck tljay!

My goal, too, is to make $100/day-in-and-day-out within a few months.

What service do you guys use to make your websites?

I initially was leaning towards GoDaddy based on positive reviews, but then I read that some of their domains are "recycled" and tainted or something like that.

I hope to own 100 sites by the end of the year, FWIW.

[garryc]

Unlimitedsubmissions

5 sites/day...that huge, what are you doing for keyword research? My plan is to take this week and try to come up with about 200 phrases and then go from there. How many domain names are you buying at a time?

TiJay
How are things progressing with your sites? I got 2 more built on the weekend, was really surprised to get a .org domain for one that I think will be a hit.

Exact phrase - 8400
CPC - $2.90
Exact match domain - .ORG

I'm not using the "allin*" as I find these to be a touch misleading, but according to Traffic Travis it should be an easy niche to rank for.

Garry

[garryc]

Dick

I'm using namecheap for my domains, you can get most domains for 8.81 with a coupon and they throw in whois guard for the first year.

The only downside I've seen but I'm not sure if this is an issue with these smaller registrars, a couple of domains I purchased from GoDaddy ranked faster than with the ones purchased with namecheap.

[LadyL08]

I have about 10 micro niche sites. Only one is solidly on the first page but only around #9. I have between 25 and 60 links for each. MicroNicheFinder shows the competition MOB to be 0 to 5, but I can't beat them. My sites all range under 200 for Allin* data.

I don't want to create more sites until I get a few more of these on the first page. For the last three months, I have averaged around $100 per month.

I'm thinking of reinvesting my earnings and outsourcing more articles.

[big_t]

Hey Lady08,
Have you done analysis on the top 10 sites for each of your niches?
I would check their Page Ranks, backlinks, their domain names (if the KW is included), if they are top level domains, domain age, etc.
Because even if MNF gives you an MOB of 1 yet the top 8 sites on Google have high PRs (3+), a bunch of backlinks, and are TLDs, you're going to have a very hard time getting past #9.
Good luck

PS: That's a positive that you are averaging $100 month.

[JohnSuitcase]

just an update, I gave away fenderreverb.com, if anyone wants electric-knife-sharpener.com or bigsurveylist.com, shoot me a message or an email, I can push it to you for free, I believe, if you're a namecheap customer, too.

Email me at jmckay @ suitcaserecordings.com

[LadyL08]

Originally Posted by big_t

Hey Lady08,
Have you done analysis on the top 10 sites for each of your niches?
I would check their Page Ranks, backlinks, their domain names (if the KW is included), if they are top level domains, domain age, etc.
Because even if MNF gives you an MOB of 1 yet the top 8 sites on Google have high PRs (3+), a bunch of backlinks, and are TLDs, you're going to have a very hard time getting past #9.
Good luck

PS: That's a positive that you are averaging $100 month.

Here's an example. Take a look at the keyword 'glass lazy susan'. Tell me if you think it would be hard to reach a top spot.

[tijay]

WOW! Alot of people have joined the party since my last post!

culvers - Thanks for sharing your thoughts on ranking and good luck with your sites. As far as content goes, I am only putting up one page of content initially and then I backlink my sites (usually EZA or Web 2.0) to get the ranked. Hopefully, the site will rank high enough to start bringing in some clicks. Then my plan is to use the earnings to buy a few more outsourced articles for the site. My plan is to add a few content pages that are loosely related to the main topic.

Pat - Thanks for the warning. I have made a backup of my posts. Hoepfully they won't shut me down though because if this works out right it will be a good learning opportunity for some people.

Chris- Do the sites you are going after have much traffic (exact search using AKT)?

Bajsich - Smart not putting all your eggs in one basket (keyword tool). As for how many links I have pointed to my sites I will be submitting articles to EZA or Web 2.0 properties to get them indexed. As I do this, I will try to update the posts that contain the micro niche info. As you can see, I have updated the first 3 sites.

jabnamedia - Man, 500 backlinks in the top 10 seems pretty high. I usually look for 5-10 or less for the sites in the top 10. Have you been pretty successful doing this?

dick gallo - Thanks for the well wishes. I am using Clickbumps WP themes, XSitePro and Cucat's software (if I can ever get some time I will put my thoughts on this software on paper. Not enough hours in the day). Also using Namecheap for purchasing domains.

Unlimitedsubmissions - "I'm making it a point to build at least 5 websites/day" Holy crap! That's a bunch of sites. If I had the time I'd definitely try to do that many though

garryc - "Exact phrase - 8400, CPC - $2.90, Exact match domain - .ORG" NICE! Every now and then you really luck up with the these niches. Things are crazy around here but I am still researching. I am waiting for my writer to finish articles for sites #5-8 so they are not complete yet. So far the sites are holding steady in the SERPS (Site#1 = #9, Site#2 = #19, Site#3 = #11. I should probably use one of these posts as a holder for SERP updates. Maybe monetary updates too). I am in the process of hitting Site #3 with 80 profile links. We'll see what effect that has on the site. Of course I have to get those profile links indexed, which is going to be a pain.

LadyL08 - Are you hitting them with profile links? I agree with big_t, $100/month is not bad. We all gotta start somewhere.

More coming later...

[tijay]

Analysis on the term "glass lazy susan"

LadyL08 - Take this for what it's worth because I don't have concrete evidence to back it up yet using my experiment, but I dont feel as though this is a good niche for me to go after. Here are the allin numbers that I see:

11,500 for allinurl:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)
28,700 for allintitle:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)
778,000 for allinanchor:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)

Also, searching for this term you can see that there are 2 top level domains in the top 5:

lazysusans-r-us [dot] com
glasslazysusan [dot] com

I haven't researched the backlinks for the top 5 but just on those things I would not choose this niche for my website portfolio.

Of course, I would be wrong

TiJay

[big_t]

Hi ladyl08
I'm on the same page as tijay.
Based on my quick research of this KW (glass lazy susan) it doesn't seem to be an easy KW to rank #1 for. Doesn't seem impossible, but not easy.
I actually see 3 TLDs in the top 10 and more specifically these sites are 100% focused on lazy susans.

On the plus side, I see 5 PR-0 sites with very few backlinks.
I think overall it should be ok to get on to page 1 but not so sure about getting a high ranking on that page.

Just my opinion of course. I'm no expert.

[dick gallo]

So, it looks like I'm gonna go with namecheap.com or something else for domains (basically anything that's cheap).

My main concern is paying for the actual construction of the sites.

Does Wordpress allow you to build all of your websites for free?

I ask this because hosting ($3/month) doesn't sound that bad on paper, but that cost multiplied by 50-100 sites doesn't work well for a 19 year-old kid in college.

[4morereferrals]

Great thread so far guys...

From meet the faulkers ... got my eyes on you Tijay :-)

Ive stayed away from adsense for the most part due to the additional scrutiny it typically brings. But I must say if there are $100 days to be had by doing little to no SEO - and creating about 20 sites... I could have easily amassed a substantial virtual empire by now!

The devil'z alwayz in the detailz I know - so Im paying attention now.

Money being made yet?

Why NO seo - 1 article and a few content posts in a WP blog? [ i consider that pretty much NO offsite seo.

[Craig McPherson]

Keep in mind it is a numbers game.

Most of your income will come from a small percentage of your sites.

Be prepared to have some duds and dont waste time trying to flog a dead horse.
Give them 3 months of TLC and if they dont rise, dump em.

[LadyL08]

Originally Posted by tijay

Analysis on the term "glass lazy susan"

LadyL08 - Take this for what it's worth because I don't have concrete evidence to back it up yet using my experiment, but I dont feel as though this is a good niche for me to go after. Here are the allin numbers that I see:

11,500 for allinurl:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)
28,700 for allintitle:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)
778,000 for allinanchor:"glass lazy susan (too high for me)

Also, searching for this term you can see that there are 2 top level domains in the top 5:

lazysusans-r-us [dot] com
glasslazysusan [dot] com

I haven't researched the backlinks for the top 5 but just on those things I would not choose this niche for my website portfolio.

Of course, I would be wrong

TiJay

I want to go a little deeper if possible.
- MNF shows allinurl to be 125, which I thought was great
- When I do the search through Google, I get 2,570. That's without quotes. I would think without quotes would give a greater number. Title: 6,730; anchor: 219,000

- Yahoo Explorer shows
lazysusans-r-us [dot] com with 110 content pages, 46 inlinks. 90% are internal links and the other are mainly reciprocal links. PageRank of 1

glasslazysusan [dot] com has no links

My TLD - 8 content pages, 72 inlinks. 80% are from various article directories, others are web 2.0 and other websites that picked up the link

I thought we buy these products, MNF, Market Samarai, etc. because they make our work easier, but apparently we still have to do everything manually to get more accurate numbers?

I guess it's a matter of just digging a little deeper.

[Andie]

Originally Posted by dick gallo

So, it looks like I'm gonna go with namecheap.com or something else for domains (basically anything that's cheap).

My main concern is paying for the actual construction of the sites.

Does Wordpress allow you to build all of your websites for free?

I ask this because hosting ($3/month) doesn't sound that bad on paper, but that cost multiplied by 50-100 sites doesn't work well for a 19 year-old kid in college.

Hi Dick,
I'm not sure what hosting you are looking at, but Hostgator has a pkg (I think it is the Baby Croc) that is just under $10 a month for hosting unlimited sites.
Wordpress is free platform to build your sites and you can use it in conjunction with Hostgator very easily.

hope that helps a bit
Andie

[dick gallo]

Originally Posted by Andie

Hi Dick,
I'm not sure what hosting you are looking at, but Hostgator has a pkg (I think it is the Baby Croc) that is just under $10 a month for hosting unlimited sites.
Wordpress is free platform to build your sites and you can use it in conjunction with Hostgator very easily.

hope that helps a bit
Andie

Sweet Jesus!

What a deal, Andie.

Would Hostgator work well with namecheap.com?

I know these kind of questions sound dense, but I am a complete and utter newbie at this point in time.

[Andie]

That's okay, we're all learning something everyday I hope!
Don't know why it wouldn't work with namecheap, I seem to stick to godaddy for domains.
I haven't had anything but good with Hostgator. check 'em out

Andie

[inter123]

80% of 72 is about 57. How long did it take you to write these articles?

Originally Posted by LadyL08

My TLD - 8 content pages, 72 inlinks. 80% are from various article directories, others are web 2.0 and other websites that picked up the link

[cucat]

My keywords selection :

Exact Search : 2400 - 2900
CPC : min 1 usd
Top 10 : have 3 websites 0 or n/a

That's all. This is the hardest part. For other things, we can outsource.

Wish you guys have a good day.

Tuan

[tijay]

Dick gallo – Yes, wordpress is a free platform. You can find hundreds of free templates by searching for “free wordpress templates”. For this particular experiment, I will be using Clickbump’s WP templates (ClickBump Engine v3|clickbump.com - no aff link). As Andie has mentioned, check out Hostgator’s “baby plan” (Web Hosting - Shared cPanel Web Hosting - no aff link). I have that plan myself and have not have any problems with it. When you start making some more money, check out hostgator’s other site SEOHosting.com which sells separate class c IP hosting. Currently, I have the 5 separate class C IP addresses and that is what I am spreading my 10 “starter” sites across in this experiment. Also, kudos to you for starting your IM journey early. I wish I knew about this stuff when I was 19.

4morereferrals – LOL! @ “From meet the faulkers ... got my eyes on you Tijay”. Money is not being made quite yet. I am going to refrain from putting my adsense ads up until my sites make it to the 7 or below spot in the SERPS. None have made it there yet. I haven’t done any SEO quite yet because I want to get to the bottom of what “SEO factors” listed earlier in this thread will cause a website to be initially ranked as high as possible. So basically, initially I’d just like to get these suckers indexed and see what the SERPS thinks of them. Hopefully, I can get to a point where I can say if I find a site that has “SEO factors” of X+Y, usually I can make it to Z in the SERPS with no problem at all. My first 3 sites were duds, so I will of course need to hit them with some links but hopefully this next batch will perform a little better.

Craig McPherson – Excellent point. Hopefully I’ll have more winners than duds

Taolaga – I have been going back and forth about showing a few of my sites after this experiment is over. If I think it will help out some people than I think I might just do that. Of course, I’ll have to strip off my ads first. For now though, I’ll keep them a secret.

LadyL08 – I don’t have my MNF with me currently. I’d like to analyze that term more and get back to you on that.

Cucat’s review is coming next.