Made some money, but now what?
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Like a lot of you, I'm relativity new to the world of Internet marketing. About 5 months ago I decided to dip my toe into the world of Niche websites and adsense. I've got a full time job, a wife and a 15 month old child, so my time is limited, but I wanted to give it a shot and see what happens. Also, I've taken this as an opertunity to learn about SEO, something that will help me in my day job.
As a rookie, I didn't spend a lot of time researching my keyword, but I was able to find an exact match domain in a topic that I has at least some experience in.
I decided to outsource the content writing to a very nice lady in Kenya through oDesk. 25 articles for $25. So all in, I've spend about $30 for this site (articles + Domain name, which was a .info, btw...)
To give you a little bit of of an idea of what my niche looks like, here are some basic stats:
Exact Monthly Searches: 600
CPC: Approx $1
The site doesn't see massive traffic, but here is what I've seen the past couple months:
May
Visits: 78
Pageviews: 137
Bounce Rate: 66.67%
Average Time On Site: 0:42
Adsense Earnings: $1.54
June
Visits: 108
Pageviews: 190
Bounce Rate: 79.63%
Average Time On Site: 1:28
Adsense Earnings: $0.97
July
Visits: 96
Pageviews: 165
Bounce Rate: 64.58%
Average Time On Site: 1:29
Adsense Earnings: $4.45
August
Visits: 191
Pageviews: 338
Bounce Rate: 68.59%
Average Time On Site: 1:26
Adsense Earnings: $12.51
Sept (so far..)
Visits: 248
Pageviews: 523
Bounce Rate: 66.94%
Average Time On Site: 1:36
Adsense Earnings: $10.44
Now, as you can see, the traffic and earnings have gone up a bit since August, which makes sense, because that's when I made it to spot #7 on the first page of Google for my keyword. It's nothing earth shattering, but it's at this point at least broke even. I haven't really done any backlinking as of yet (it currently has 25 back links, most are likely nofollow as I was playing around with Yahoo answers a while back)
The question I have is, what's next? Should I sit on it as it is and let it slowly bring in some money while I work on my next project? Should I reinvest the revenue I have made and have even more articles added to the site? Should I sell the site on Flippa?
What would you do?
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