Help! My xfactor/ Clickbump sites not doing as well as I'd hoped! (detailed actual stats inside)
was excited to get started on a few xfactor/ clickbump sites a few weeks back, so I went ahead created 10 as a test. Most follow clickbumps method.
Unfortunately the results are not as good as I'd hoped and there's one case in particular, which I want to talk about. I obviously did something wrong and I'm hoping any feedback will help me improve with my next batch but also others who are starting out with this.
Notes:
- Sites were all kicked off on March 16th. Even though I did immediate forum posts, bookmarking, pining, stats site listings, etc they all got indexed about a week or more later (some several weeks), not within a day or two.
- Approx 3 weeks of adsense exposure for all but a couple of sites
- all sites are product related, mostly sourced from amazon
- all sites unique 1 page content by hired copy writers
- all keyword conducted according to clickbump's main rule of min. 3 PR0's in top 10, as you can see some have considerably more (couple of exceptions)
- all highly optimised for the keyword (did extensive research here), not clickbump's theme but same principles, very clean code
- since it's clickbump's method soc was disregarded for the most part, but still some have good soc, but also didn't do well
- counting one site which is doing well I had a 10% success rate, instead of the 30-40% I should be getting. However it gets worse, see further down (special case).
Key:
wo = number of words
br = is using brand in keyword
search = exact searches p/month
exact = exact search competition
adco = est. adcost p/click
soc = MNF strength of competition
pr0 = number of pr0 or pr- sites in top 10
pr1-2 = number of pr1/2 sites in top 10
rank = current G rank
H.Rank = highest ever G rank
V/day = visitors p/day
Visits = total visitors (most of the sites 3 weeks old)
$/day = income p/day from adsense
T.$ = total income (most sites sites 3 weeks old)
Spcial case Site 3:
- Easy to see this site's the only one making an income. Not great but ok. In fact it was gaining in both rank, traffic and income over the 3 weeks leading to the big "smack in face".
- About 1 week ago this site was kicked into oblivion by the big G, penalty, sandbox, what ever you want to call it. I'm still hoping it's just google dance, but super low ranking has been consistent for a week now.
- One theory is that it got a manual review and was penalised
- With it being the only site making some income and it now being basically deindexed, that bring my success rate to a grand total of 0% out of 10.
- Needless to say I'm pretty distraught over the results so far.
My questions are:
- Can anyone see any major flaws with my k/w research or in general that explain these results? or what improvements I need?
- Or was it just an unlucky draw and I just need to create more sites to even the odds?
- Looking at site 3's deindexing, has anyone else experienced this and what can I do to revive it or better still prevent it in future?
I want to kick-start my next batch asap, but obviously need to adjust my strategy. Any input is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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- You Can't Improve What You Don't Measure
- Why You Should Create Separate Desktop and Mobile Google Adwords Campaigns
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