Building MiniSites, Picked $$ Niches, but Super Low EPC?! Need Expert Help!
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Fast forward, decided to try mini-sites, but didn't (couldn't?) want to invest in 10 at one go (cost of having articles written). So I thought, I'll try two, and if I see a glimmer of hope, I'm going ahead full force. So I opened two, mostly following Spaulding's $5 formula. Went to SpuFu, picked high-paying niches (dog allergies and hair restoration for women) and opened the sites up. Paid someone to write me 28 articles for each topic, submitted 20 articles to Ezine, Amazines, ArticlesBase (ArticleDashboard isn't sending me a confirmation email, so I couldn't use it), and am continuing to submit 10 of those articles to other directories.
Then, I set up another one of those themes with big rectangle front and center, skyscraper on the left, a search box top right, link unit under it, list of pages, link unit under that, another big rectangle at the bottom.
Immediately, I'm getting some traffic from Ezine, between 7 and 14 uniques. However, CTR is just dismal. It's not anywhere near the 30% Josh says he gets (does anyone really get this?), it's not even 3%. The other issue is that my first couple of clicks were barely more than a dime each.
This alarmed me, so I tried to read up a bit on Adsense, and I got rid of the underperforming channels/units from the gay cruises site, and reduced the ads down to a big rectangle at the top and bottom, and a skyscraper on the left. I also moved the rectangle at the top so that it was under the title of the page. Colours of everything match the site. I wait, and check again. First clicks... very low single-digit range in pennies. CTR, the same.
The mini-site idea makes sense to me in theory, but the problem for me is that I'm not hitting those EPC and CTR targets that I need. Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong?
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