Are Adsense microniche sites using Clickbump or CTR themes still working?
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I think the big downfall for my sites might have been using BMR for these sites, but then again other sites got hit as well that did not use BMR and my own SEO site that used BMR actually moved up. So my next theory is that I might have been hit with the overoptimization penalty where I was using pretty much the same keyword (80%+) as anchor text for backlinks that were mostly pointing to the homepage and few to internal pages.
So now I want to start new sites again with the ones that previously making me money with Adsense when they were ranking on 1st page of the SERPs.
However, my question is whether these types of sites (using Clickbump or CTR theme) will still be able to rank well if the offpage and onpage SEO is done what Google likes? Or using these themes now is no good as far as rankings goes? I guess what I'm trying to get at is if the having this sort of website setup can be harmful now or is that not an issue, but it's more with how we do our offpage SEO that really matters with rankings? As long as we we don't do keyword stuffing or over optimize the onpage content then it is not a matter of which theme or setup we use (of course we shouldn't have many ad blocks on above fold, etc.) but how we do our offpage SEO.
What I've noticed though that in the SERPs I hardly see any more of these type of sites when doing keyword research. Here is a site I found..."www[dot]cordlesstablelamps[dot]org". The site is ranking #5 for it's main keyword "cordless table lamps". So I guess some sites still rank, but I have noticed that majority of them are no longer on the first page like before.
Anyone have any insight or feedback if I should start these new sites again though I won't be able to get the exact domains any longer and it might take a bit longer now to rank, but if they can still rank and make me money in the long run than I'm not concerned. Anyone started doing this with some of their sites that got hit?
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