How are your XFactor sites doing?

We've got an entire section in the forum dedicated to success stories.

They range from a few dollars per day all the way up to $100 per day.

- John

The biggest thing for me is the backlink part.

I understand the concept of writing articles for backlinking, but when I sit down to write an article to submit to ezine I just think of all the reasons it wont work.

Let me get it straight - you basically write on any topic you are familiar with so that you can knock out these articles at a quick rate. Then just pop your backlink in the Bio box - even though its unrelated?

You see, the biggest reason why I think this wouldnt work is that the publishers who will end up republishing my content - I would end up getting many backlinks from not very reputable sites (ie. sites who scrape ezine)... does it actually work?

And also, what/how would I need to write in order to get my article republished as many times as humanly possible? And what would the best directory be to do this? Infact, do the articles get republished at all? Are there any other things you do to ensure maximum republishing (subscribe to any services/software)... it just seems like something is missing from the jigsaw?

Maybe I am thinking too much and just need to do it... as much as I dislike article writing Im willing to do it if it works, but maybe Im just stalling. But those are valid questions though arent they?

ps. John - thanks for the method

I am looking for someone to build these sites for me. Please pm if that is your expertise.

Don't be fooled by how easy it all sounds to make money using this method.
I've got over 15 sites and only make about $2 a day.

Maybe you should slow down and find out what is going wrong before expanding any further? You are probably transferring the issue onto all of your sites.

1. Find out why you aren't getting traffic first.
a. Poor rankings then check competition and build more links.
b. Lack of search volume? Find another keyword.
2. If you have the traffic and not the clicks then sort out your theme.
3. If you have the clicks but low CPC then sort out your content.

Craig - thanks for your reply... But:

whether you have 700 links or 7 links from ezine - it wI'll not matter - it will all count as one link in the eyes of google because it is coming from the same domain.

Also I read somewhere that article directories have been reduced in google algorithm, because of IMers.

Therefore I think the only point of article submission is to get your article republished on other sites.

Do you agree/disagree? In your opinion how many artiles does it take to move your SERP listing higher - an how long?

Thanks!

Does anyone care to explain which method the OP is referring to and where I might be able to access it...

-Heimir

Firstly, Lee, sorry for hijacking your thread my friend - I promise Ill quieten down in a bit =)

...the reason I am asking questions isnt to convince myself this isnt going to work, its to learn the intricacies of the method, and thus prove to myself this will work! Im not giving up on this, because I want to succeed.

Craig - thank you for your response

Ive written 2 articles today to start testing this. Am going to post back the results on this thread after significant testing.

Oscar - I agree!

I have only built one so far. It is still early and I picked one that has some pretty good competition but not too much. I spent about a week on page one and had good results then. I currently bounce between page three and four. I just need to get busy and build some more back links. I do plan on building more I have just been working on something else for now.

Here's my story so far:

I have only put up 5 sites following 'exactly' the X-factor method to include site layout.

Results:

1 Site not in first 3 pages (haven't bothered to go beyond that to see...)
2 Sites on 2nd page, minimal traffic but the occassional click ~1 every 3-4 days.
1 site on 1st page sitting at number 8, little more traffic and a click or two every other day or so.

and

1 HOMERUN !!!

I have one site that sits in the #2 position for a 4 word phrase that gets 12,000 (exact) searches per month. It has been there for going on 2 months now. Although it did give me a scare. On Nov 23rd it fell off the map completely.... still indexed but not ranked.

It came back in yesterday, right back in the #2 spot it was in, so it was out for just over 2 weeks.

Results from my home run... Let me check quickly for today....

OK, it is 1:45 pm EST and so far it has made me $12.19 just today, with a click thru of just over 40%...

Michael

1 homer in 5 tries, very nice Michael.

I run 4 sites but earnings are not that great.

Hi,

I have a site that was doing badly. It wasn't made for adsense in the way that John suggests. I just used the principles I learned from John and now (even though it is not a product site) my clickthru rate has increased by 11%, from about 3% to about 14%.

Built three sites specifically for adsense today, I am waiting for Google to index them. I am aiming to build four per week.

I think it really works, and at least I have to write fewer articles than when I was article marketing!

Best wishes,

Ruth

In my side I created 30 sites already but I don't have enough luck on it I am only making $5 - $8 a day. But hopping will increase soon. I made this 30 sites in 3 months.

I been using the Xfactor system since Oct and having some good success with it. Though I did have about 10 or 15 that's not make it within the top 3 pages but for the most part went from 3 dollars a day to about $17 and climbing. What I do is just keep building and building and adding more and more sites which I find my income grows.... Your going to have the home runs like a few members mention here and some failures.

Normally I just submit a few articles to Ezine and the rest to UAW and AMA which gets the job done for me.

Since I'm putting up so many sites I have my ezine article outsource for about a $1 which I would add about just 2 or 3 per site and the rest is done by UAW and AMA which allow my articles to drip feed a few articles a day. At the start most of my sites was 5 articles (keywords) but now i'm doing single pages now which now don't have to submit so many articles to ezine.