I really am not sure what's going on here. Maybe it's the auto blog stuff or maybe amazon, who i never have made any real money with. But look, keyword research, lots of it. Keywords that pay at least a 1.00 a cpc and have an estimated 2500 to 3000 broad searches monthly. A lot more preferably, but if competition is low, I"d rather have low competition than high traffic. Exact match url to keyword in either .com,.net,.org and maybe .info. UNIQUE content that is not some autoblog crap, maybe 30 articles or more kinda depending on traffic for keyword, and competition, lots of QUALITY backlinks, scout your competition and see where they got theirs. Mixed media. Pictures articles videos. Pay somebody on fiverr to get you a great youtube video, it really drives crazy traffic. Build link push sites and scrapebox the crap out of every site in your link push structure and your you tube video. Out of 87 sites in about three or four different niches, none more than 4 months old, I've never not made an average of a $1 a day per site. Of the sites I kept, which I think is a somewhere around 30, all make over $3 a day, which is my cutoff after 90 days. Either $3 a day or up on flippa they go. I know I'm not some genius and I know I'm not just lucky. Now I do spend anywhere from $150 to over $400 a site to get each off the ground, but check flippa and see what a site that just makes a $1 a day goes for. Write and backlink yourself and it wouldn't be anywhere near that much out of pocket. Seriously, I'm not getting what your not getting. I'm not very smart but PM if you have a question, I'll try to narrow this down for you.