Newbie needs advice, not doing very well

Just a question: Have you done proper keyword research for your 30 niche sites? Did you include the keyword in the url? Are you posting keyword rich content on each site? Are you getting backlinks with the keyword as your anchor text?

Or maybe your sites are too broad and you are targeting keywords that are too competitive.

As far as the PLR goes, it sounds like you bought a package that is already mass distributed. There is nothing wrong with that, but you are going to have to substantially rewrite them before you post.

One thing that I notice you're doing is having 30 niche sites...why are you focusing on so many niches?

I've made all of 7 dollars my whole life from adsense and it's arguably a scam at this point....I hesitate to use the word scam but it's a "scam on your time" (for those who are going to flip out when they read adsense and scam in the same sentence)

If you're doing all this work (which I believe you are) you should be putting the effort into building a list.

I'm gatherin you're using wordpress so get an autoresponder account at Aweber, create a new list (there are videos there to show this step by step and Customer support is great), and drop a form in your sidebar to start collecting emails.

This way, when you launch a new article you can email those people and they will populate your site.

Basically, Adsense is done and is what made Google a bazillionaire. I don't know too many people who make a full time income with 10 cents a click (google gets a big chunk of what an advertiser bids on)

Building a list allows you to sell products where you make 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on commissions for working once (getting them on your list)

I guess the situation I see is you working really really hard (which is awesome...) doing the online equivalent of "flipping burgers for minimum wage...God making a living at McDonald's would be super hard.

Does that make sense?

Cheers,

Brad

Hi tjs,

This is such a common question and unfortunately also such a common situation you find yourself in.

I have been involved in the Stockmarket, Commodity and Currency field for about 15 years now, in both an advisory role and a more hands on pratical investing/trading role.

I see the same things coming out of your post as I regularly see coming out of clients in those fields. I will try in as few words as possible to simplify what I believe you should either do or be doing...

This is a pretty simple process (only about 5 steps - might be more but I am not going to re-read or re-edit this so give or take it's about 5)

In a nutshell it all pretty much comes down to focus...

1 - What do you enjoy doing ? What industry / field / hobbies are you involved in ?
you say you have about 30 niche sites in addition to your main blog. - Absolutely no offense intended but this is crazy.
Pick one niche, choose more suitable sub-niches from that main niche, learn all you can about that topic and concentrate on that

2 - Develop a plan - be it a simple business plan or something more complicated, you need to know where you are going and how you are going to get there.
Do not think of this as a one time write it and forget it deal... No... this is and should always be a work in progress. - go get yourself freemind (google search the term download freemind) and use it to brainstorm and map out your plan

3 - Get a List - You have got to stop getting onetime traffic to your site then never utilizing it again. Develop strategies for how you want to get that traffic to give you their name and/or contact details.
Your next stage here is to learn who these people are, their wants, needs, likes, dislikes, problems and worries.

4 - Learn to monetize - This is a little bit more of a play on what I would tell trading clients as they are strictly dealing with money and profit loss scenarios, BUT... You need to fully grasp your objectives for being online and you need to learn how to meet them.
There are so many ways to monetize a list rather than a flow of traffic that has randomly found its way to a page on one of your niche sites

5 - Continually second guess yourself - By this I mean monitor and scrutinize everything you do. Some guys online include this in what they call testing. To me it is easier to merely say monitor what works and do that more, monitor what doesn't work (and the mistakes you make) and do that less.


If you follow the above you will (IMO) produce far more consistent and far more enjoyable profits.

Hope this helps in some way.

BTW, you don't have to get into the IM and make money niches. There are plenty of others


Cheers,

Plutus

The niche I am working on the hardest only has 347,000 on a Google search. I used Sitebulider Elite to create the site and I am using everything I can find to submit the RSS page. On the PLR's, I bought the WP Unique plug-in from Steve to use on them to spin them etc. so they look original. I think I might do a WP blog on that same niche so I can use Steve's Article "uniquify" on that niche. Thanks to everyone for the helpful advice and I hope all of you had a nice Thankgiving, I know I did.

Tim

Some Quick Questions:

1. What is your level of traffic?
2. What CTRs (click thru rates) are you getting with Adsense?
3. Are you ranked for any of the above terms on a search engine?
4. What CPC are you getting from your ads?

If you answered a low number for 1, 2, 4, or if you answered no to number 3 then you might want to work on those.