Hello everyone. I am sorry that I have not been following up on this thread. My family and I ran into some complications. We found out that the house we were renting is foreclosing. So we have been busy packing our stuff and trying to find a new place. What a nightmare... Anyway, I am glad to be back. I want to answer some questions for you guys, but I am still in the middle of moving, so I am sorry if there is a gap before I get on again.
Do you send the xrumer blast directly to your site/inner pages or to your articles / buffer sites?
Typically I don't even do Xrumer blasts. If is a site that I think needs it, I will just blast my main page. Not the inner pages. Depends on the competition though. If you are making a bigger site and you want the inner pages to start ranking, you may want to blast those. It's just not my style.
So with the IP issue, does that mean you have 100 different IP's or 100 different hosting servers?
I'll be honest with you, I do use a couple of different IP's for my hosting. But I have a friend that owns a hosting company, so I don't really ever have to worry about being screwed by my hosting company. I have never experienced and penalty in the serps for having sites on the same IP. Not yet anyway.
Great read, thanks. One quick questions, these "easy niche" sites you target, whats the average amount of time before you start seeing good results in the SERPS, weeks months?
It depends on the competition again. I have seen a site rank and start getting searches in as little as a day. I have also had sites that take a few weeks. If you have an exact match domain, don't give up on it. You will probably rank well some day. I made a site that I did very little backlinking to and added minimal content. The searches were not super high so I didn't want to put a lot of work into it. I didn't get any serp love for the work I did so I decided to give it up. The search volume did not constitute me doing any more work on it. So I moved on. About 6 months later, it hit the first page and is doing nicely. Brings me in about 20 goog hits a day. That's not much but it typically get's a click or two thats good for a buck or so. I would say it was definitely worth the work I put in. Trying to predict the amount of time it is going to take is almost impossible.
Thanks for the informative post. Lots of great tips in your OP and your replies, but the best advice you gave is this: Get out there and start working. The best way to figure out what works is to just do it. No better way to learn than to get out there and do it.
I agree!
May I ask how much $ per site can you earn from those Micro Niche site?
This is another difficult question to answer, but I can tell you what some of my personal sites make. The way I figure these numbers is by simply taking the monthly income from that individual site and dividing by the number of days in that month.
My lowest site made me $0.25 a day. Probably 10% of my portfolio are these sites.
A site that is about middle of the road makes me about $3 a day. Probably about 75% of my portfolio are these sites.
A higher end site makes me about $15 a day. This is my best site, I only have one making that much. The other 15% of my portfolio is making anything from $5 to $7 a day.
Again, I am sorry everyone that I haven't been here to answer all your questions. I hope that helps you out!