New trends for Adsense/ Amazon and Clickbank sites in 2014?

Dear friends: Two years ago I had more than 100 Blogs, first following Xfactor's, Clickbum's, Corey's, $100 per day and more methods, and trying to adequate them to Panda and Penguins changes after the effects of that wave extinguished, modifying one by one with many articles, videos, backlinks (high & medium PR).

Those sites were made thru Xsitepro, and I monetized them with Adsense/ Amazon and Clickbank mainly.
But despite I worked day by day trying to improve them, the monthly overhead of hosting + domains renewals + some Seo tools, WSO's, etc. made my profits insignificant and my whole effort meaningless, so I quit IM!

But after that long while, I want to hit the road again, learning from what I did wrong and moving forward again.
What WSO, blueprints and Seo tools do you recommend me to use these days to use as a fresh start?

Xsitepro or Wordpress sites?
Do I use my once most successful Xsitepro sites as a base and adequate them to the new trends or start everything from scratch once more?

I'd appreciate your help very much!
Thank you
Ben