Newbie w/ Bunch of Micro Niche Sites: To Flip or Not To Flip?

Hey final,

I'm currently building quite a few micro niche sites myself. Now I'm no expert but it has been my experience that when my sites "don't last" it's been due to building links in a shady fashion. I can't really say that's the only reason as i would need a couple more years on my current winners to say for sure. If I were in your shoes I'd keep them, and keep adding content regularly. We share the same goal in trying to get to $100 a day on Adsense...I wish you the best of luck!

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I would also like to hear an answer on this from a seasoned Adsense pro!

I've just put up 36 of my micro niche websites, go for it!

I guess the question to ask would be "Can I wait ~10 months to figure it out?" I mean if 5-6k is something that you could really use then I guess selling would be the way to go...

Thanks for the encouragement guys,

I think the notion that they "don't last" also comes from having to maintain / backlink / update these small sites to stay on the SERPs. If that is that case, you would probably want to sell the "time wasters" to be able to focus on the ones that make money then, right?

btw, good luck to both of you too. I learned a lot putting up these 50 micro sites. I guess my problem is what to do with them next

That's bad advice. Why would you want to sell your only profitable sites in a portfolio of 50?

Flip the 38 sites that aren't making any money and use that cash to invest further into your profitable sites. Add more content, invest into SEO and grow them so they are no longer micro sites.

If you sell each of the 38 sites for $100 on average, you'll have around $300 to spend on each of your sites. Should be enough for another ~20 articles for each site and some more on SEO.

Not all of the sites will do well, so sell the ones that don't grow and keep reinvesting into those that are most profitable and show further potential.

I hate selling sites, because I don't like looking back at them and seeing the buyer being successful. It makes me wish I never sold the site and worked harder to increase it.

@finalround
As a fellow newb I'm envious of your position Would filling me in on a couple of your strategies? i.e. do you use any automated software for blog commenting, profile creation, social bookmarking, etc. What is your overall linking strategy?

I used to flip sites — some for more than $90,000 a piece. Like chow said, you're likely to look back and kick yourself. That immediate payday is quite the poisonous apple — it may taste good but it's not a wise move in the long run. And hopeful your in it for the long run...

Is your friend a IM-self-made millionaire? No? Then don't listen to him.

If your finally up to $25 a day, don't lose sight of your $100 a day goal. Your domains are aging, they need more content and more seo and you'll hit your mark. Don't take your eye off the prize and don't quite till you hit it. That's my advice.

I would be more tempted to flip the ones that weren't making you any money and concentrate on the 12 that are earning, building up quality backlinks and traffic and scaling up those earnings.
You have done really well to reach $25 a day in a relatively short space of time- maybe you should write a WSO teaching how you did it!

Hey,

Every product (read website) has a life cycle. And the product life cycle for micro-niches is almost two years if you do not add unique content. But you can prolong that by adding unique content and building natural back links to them. If those 12 sites are making you $25/day, some simple math tells me that you are poised to make $750 per month, which is roughly $9000 per year.

If you sell them now, you may be able to get $10,000 or more. Now, you can use this to set up 50 more micro sites and even pull up the other ones which are currently lagging down. By doing so, you increase your portfolio to 88 sites. If you can manage to build these 88 sites to a point where they can earn you $1 each per day, then that would be $88 per day, $2640/month and $31680 per year. Lol. Now you can rinse and repeat this process and exponentially increase your portfolio and income.

If you chose to keep them, you will earn $9000 per year assuming you do not add more content or build back links to them. And at any given time, they will reach their peak and experience the decline phase (in terms of earnings). If you add some value to them, you may earn some where in the regions of $4000 per month.

So the decision depends on your outlook.

Of the two statistics above, which one allows you to reach $100/day faster?

And which one ensures that you reach your target of $100/day while maintaining cash flow (Having money at hand?).

I think both can allow you to do so. You can flip and build more. But you do not have to do so if you are so emotionally attached to your sites, because even the other route will allow you to build more sites with the monthly income you get.

Many newbies would be so envious of your position.