2 Months into XFactor's Adsense Method...

[msfreemind]

I've been applying XFactor's Adsense Method pretty much to a T for the last 2 months. I've created 8 different websites using his template and linked to them mostly from EZA.

Each of my sites has an additional 4 long-tail keywords and all of my pages have a minimum of 500 words of content.

I've learned that for 5K-10K monthly searches, it really doesn't mean much unless your site is in the top 2 positions on Google. Anything else and you will maybe get pennis every day.

I've had some days where a site made a few dollars, but nothing more than that. The problem right now is that a lot of my sites aren't well-ranked yet. Each site has around 20 article backlinks and I also submit to traffic bug.

I think there are a few things I need to adjust:

1. The SOC number from Micro Niche Finder doesn't mean too much. I always checked the top 10 sites in Google for that keyword, but I think I was too liberal in my choices. I need to be fairly confident that I can take the top position.

2. Sites may need a lot more backlinks to get ranked than the 15 articles that the "7 Day Action Plan" recommends in the ebook.

3. I've found that the exact monthly search counts pulled from Google are often inflated and don't reflect the real number of people searching for that term.

4. I may need to use another backlinking method besides article writing.

I realize that it can take time for websites to rank as well. However, half of my websites have had more than a month to rank.

Obviously I'm going to continue making more websites, while promoting my old ones. I'm just curious if anyone has some suggestions, primarily with backlinking. For example, should I just pump out more articles? Publish to different article directories? Use an alternative backlinking method as well?

And what is the best way to assess competition for these types of sites?

[Clyde]

This is what I've been saying all this time.

Lesson learned time to move on.

Forget submitting 20 articles to EZA but try article networks instead, UAW, SEOLinkVine. Mix it up with High PR profile backlinks, High PR blog comments etc

Use Market Samurai to do real competition analysis.

[Kay King]

Msfreemind -

Have you read this update thread by xfactor?

Xfactor Adsense Myths - The Updated Scoop

I realize that it can take time for websites to rank as well. However, half of my websites have had more than a month to rank.

In the land of new sites and newly registered domains - one month is nothing. I've uploaded sites that hit just before a google update and were almost immediately ranked well - and others that took 6 months to get anywhere.

kay

[Highdefinition]

Hi,

I suggest you try to vary your backlinking method, do not just build links using articles, use blog commenting, profiling, web2.0 sites, using forums etc.

[Easy Cash]

One month?

C'mon.....you ain't gonna get good results in 1 month.

It can take 3 - 6 months to get a decent rank. Your site might bounce too - if it does, be prepared to wait, as it will come back, eventually.

[lexilexi]

When you say 5,000 - 10,000 monthly searches, do you mean "exact match" or broad match?

[msfreemind]

Originally Posted by lexilexi

When you say 5,000 - 10,000 monthly searches, do you mean "exact match" or broad match?

Exact match

[twayneking]

I really haven't been trying to pick topics for their ability to jump to the top of the ranks. I have, however, "borrowed" some of the subjects from the badly garbled titles that Demand Studios hands out and did the articles for them according to what their editor believed the search that generated the title was about, collected my pay from DS and then wrote on my own blog, an article that went directly to what the search was obviously about (though badly stated). Most of those are How-To's, but suddenly my How-To blog is doing 8 times the business my other weblogs are doing with a lot less promotion on my part.

I've been using DS's flawed title generating process to find out what people are looking for on the web. As a result a few of my pieces wound up on the first page of Google searches with no work on backlinking or promotion on my part. If I can figure out the rest of that process and can support my site with some effective marketing, I may be able to figure this thing out after all.

[trytolearnmore]

The Xfactor method is good, but it just takes too much to write those freaking articles. Maybe it is better to post at forums and social bookmark your sites.

[24kWing]

Internet Marketing, and adsense in particular, is a long term venture. Just as everyone has already said, "One Month Does Not A Career Make". You need at least 6 months of data to form a gameplan.

Good Luck!

[sulmaanaslam]

Why dont u spend some bucks and do link building than making more websites that wont rank? work on your current one's

[munstersg01]

After checking Google external keyword tool using exact matches, I usually will counter check with Google's search based tool, to make sure that the keyword is actually getting searches.

So far I have found the Google's Search Based Keyword Tool provides more accurate data.

For example, for a keyword (that I have been ranking number 1) has about 8k exact searches in Google External Keyword tool and in Google Search Based tool it shows that the keyword gets about 500 searches a month and on average I get about 400+ impressions a month.

Yes, I personally feel that it is better to have a variety of backlinks. This is because how Google wishes to index or crawl your backlinks no one knows, it is always better to have a healthy variety at a good link velocity to build up your website rankings. it also looks more natural that a website is getting backlinks from different sources. Well only my own personal opinion. So far having a variety of backlinks has work well for me.

You may wish to try this service, I personally find it more convenient than article marketing it is like linkvana but more economical. That being said you still need to wait for your blog posts and articles to be approved by the admin usually it takes 2 days. So far backlinks I get from this network are usually PR 1-6

It is Build My Rank at buildmyrank.com

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For Micro Niche Finder I do find the SOC useful. If you use it together with the 1st page analysis that msfreemind mentioned about, I always find that a green soc with a 1st page analysis (that first 10 sites have an average Page Ranking of between 0-2), you can always rank pretty well and pretty fast.

For first page analysis try using Traffic Travis (free option) or nichewatch.com (there is a free firefox add on), these 2 are free tools.