Ok, first real post here. In short: good programmer, bad black hatter...No experience.

Got lucky by being amongst the first in a certain niche back in 1999 and
still make a decent money off that domain/site.

But I want more....So...

Created some 100 sites maybe a year ago. A few of them are doing ok,but (of course) not good enough so I decided
7 of sept to start a linkspamming campaign - first time ever...

Small scale, 3 sites, total 1000 verified links a day, i.e around 330 links per site/day. Really low comp niches, i.e not much money as well...
The sites had at this point started to die, i.e loose indexed pages in G.


Result:

SITE 1: visitors per day
7 sept 191
8 sept 569
558
595
686
732
452
297
1653
602
1162
816


SITE 2: visitors per day
37
58
91
63
99
125
69
48
67
67
64
69


SITE 3: Visitors per day
84
82
77
76
78
83
84
66
176
185
191
141


The overall goal is to gain inlinks so I get more organic traffic (not going for direct traffic from the link target), so (to stay a little safer as well) I place my links in old/forgotten posts so to speak. Which I then "cheap linkspam = gb,rss whenever possible etc,ping" to have them reindexed.


So it's small scale, I mean with these small numbers of visitors I can't measure the actual income, I can very well be lucky to get one sale from the 37 visitors day 1 and none from the 125. So traffic is all I present as well as

Number of Yahoo inlinks (these number are a few days old) has gone from
30+ -> 1099
218 -> 2628
178 -> 1423


So traffic gain proves that it does work. But it's not giving the effect I was hoping for. I was kind of hoping (knowing that the links they had from the beginning were pretty much low value) that taking the step to linkspamming would give me some "real" links and really boost the sites. Cause I do target the link targets so to speak, ehrmm I mean I place links to my "foo" site from other "foo" related sites.
And varies anchor text, linking to internalpages etc...

So is this "normal". Am I missing something obvious.?

Well umm, are you ranking higher yet? Or for more keywords?

oh, forgot that...

Ranking for *more* keywords, not higher for the existing/main so to speak.

The sites had started to die as I said, and I guess the fact that indexed pages count is a lot higher now also should count in on the positive side.

Maybe patience is the word for me. Two weeks might be too soon to expect a lot better? Or what do you experienced fellows say?

Should I even expect better? I.e is the answer just "now scale it up to 100 sites"