Update. The case study ended because I got focused on other projects that were more important at the time. The month after this post I made about $6,000 in total from niche marketing and other business ventures. Then in January I pulled in almost $20,000 with my niche websites and primary business. So as you can see, I had other more fun things to focus on. The project still ranks #1 as of today but honestly I haven't even monetized the website. Thanks everyone for reading!

I can say that I am using wordpress, yes However, this can be done on any platform. If I could get used to something like joomla or heck.. even a crappy forum template, it could be done