Ranking micro niches

Hello guys,

I have been a lurker on bhw for a long time with sometimes contributing here and there. Last year, I bought 5 micro niche keywords. I made some posts for them but then lost interest since my adsense account wasn't getting approved and I couldn't rank the sites (even though I didn't do any SEO).

Half year ago, I decided to give it ONE MORE TRY with one of the domains which is in the diet niche. I made some posts (about 10) and ranked it using SEO Maximus. It is now on spot #13 and it earns me about 0,50 eurocents a day. Now i want to rank it higher and continue the micro niche thing cause I love it!

Now my question is, what is the bare minimum you need to rank these micro niches, bigger niches or even an authority?

I want to follow the tier building strategy building 3 tiers probably auto generate the tiers and uploading content which is unique. I was thinking licorne would do the job but I would also need spinning software and probably GSE Ranker with private proxies.

Am I overthinking this guys or do I really need these tools to help me scale things up.

Ps. Sorry for my vague explanation, english is not my mothers tongue. Thanks guys!

When you're that close to the front page, grab some high pr links direct to the site.

agreed, either get some high pr links or build 10-20 Manual Web 2.0's with unique content and use GSA for tier 2/3

Google doesn't really want these sites, unless they are the "best" information for a particular search.

Also use Unique content, it is must for blogs