how can u mass produce a successful micro niche site?
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I've been reading for the past few months about people on here and success stories with micro niche sites and would like to share my micro niche story.
So, I've been reading all these posts for some time now about all these guys that make tons with micro niche sites and are now fishing bonita fish with mark cuban off the coast of catalina on the weekends, bought a professional sports team ect.
"I got the bug!" I mean c'mon, I wanted to make money too so I dove in head first. I've learned what I know about SEO and IM through one of my previous sites in the guitar playing/learning niche so I have a decent amount of knowledge.
I decided to choose a keyword in the guitar niche. According to the google keyword tool... this keyword has:
2,400 searches
$3.36 cpc
I used Market Samurai to look at the competetiveness of the keyword and once I realized that it could compete, It was go time.
I bought the domain of the keyword, and then did 500 word blog posts daily with an avg. of 3% keyword saturation per blog post for 30 days. I also did the appropriate SEO promotion on social networking sites and was able to (by the 7th day) I was on googles first page. Day 11-29 i was doing the "Google Dance" lost on the web... but then came back at day 30! Currently holding spots 2-6 with my one domain for my given keyword!!! I'd say a huge SEO success.. wouldn't you?...
Well here's an interesting issue tho...
This site makes approximately only $0.30 per day and gets anywhere from 50-85 people per day to it. So yearly this site ranks in a whopping $109.50/yr
so the cost of the domain and hosting together for one year is $36.00
Not to mention this time I wrote all my articles myself and to think that I wrote probably 20,000 words on a keyword that can be COMPLETELY summed up by maybe 300 words... What If I would've paid someone on Odesk to write for me... it would've cost $150-200 for 20,000 words...
So let's think about this...
109.5 revenue
(36) domain and hosting
(175) outsourced article writing
(40) fiverr gigs to help my SEO
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-141.5$
I just lost $141.5!!!!!
granted I wrote my own content so I saved myself $175 but if I outsourced it, like most people do, it would've destroyed my pocket!!!
so in reality I actually made $33.00 per year
Am I missing something? $33.00 per year is horrible.. considering the amount of time it took me to build the blog, write the articles, promote it, etc. There's got to be another way. How do all these super successful micro niche guys do it? What does their revenue look like per year? And are they targeting keywords that get more than 2,400 searches per month?
I mastered the SEO, I beat Google!!! Landing spots 2-6!!! There's gotta be a way I can make money w it.
Any thoughts?
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