Mini sites result and some help

Hi - new to the forum and especially new to internet marketing. Figure I'll start off by sharing my progress and hopefully get some help on it. I read through the entire threads by xfactor(great stuff).

First thing I did after reading that thread was to not to ask questions or find more information but I just sorta... just do it. I spent 1 month so far and have created about 39 of those mini sites and here are the results so far below.

• 10 sites are currently on Page 1 (highest position is #4)
• 14 sites are on Page 2
• The rest are either in the 100s or not index yet

It was really basic when creating these types of site. I just did the necessary keyword research using the google free keyword tools. I downloaded that seo plugin thing that allowed you to view Pagerank and Domain age and # of backlinks. I just went with any keyword that have a exact domain name available with about 2k in exact search.

My problem thus far...

I used wordpress to create all these sites and used the all-in-one-seo plugin thing. My problem is that when the search engine index my site, for the description they always seem to just pick a phrase in my article even though I have a meta description that I want shown there instead.

So when I view my page source for my site and at the top it would have
<meta name="description" content="blah blah blah my keyword blah blah blah">

but instead of showing that description in the search engine listing, google would pick one of my
phrase in my content instead. I'm not exactly sure how to fix this and it's frustrating.

Oh and my revenue so far have been jumping around $3-6 a day. That results is actually godsend compared to my other result where I invested about $1k in a program(wpmage) + thousands more for domain names and such and end up making pennies.

Thanks for any help in advance.