Alright, I thought I would update my progress here:
I built 1 large site back in Feb and been doing extensive SEO. Around April the site were doing great on the SERP and in May alone I banked almost 6k from that single site. Just when I thought I was able to slip through the Penguin 2.0 then the site was hit on 7th June, cutting almost 80% of my traffic. Ouch!
I havent abandoned the site yet as it still brings me around 1k per month (estimate), but I did learn some valuable lesson here:
- How to convert traffic to buyers, which I think its the most important thing.
- I did some research and the ROI of my site is much higher compared to many sites with the same amount of traffic or even more. Amazon is proven to be a better route for affiliate markerter.
- Investing in content and user experience is a must
- Go easy on your Seo, no matter how whitehat you think you are, Google can still wipe you out. Building an authority site does not equal immunity from the big G.
- Google authorship is the next big thing.
- Track everything you do from the ground up to easily replicate.
I'm currently building up 3 smaller sites from the money I got and layout a total different SEO stratey. Already bought a whole range of tools: Ultimate Demon, GSA SER, Scrapebox, Proxy, VPS. Will see how these sites will perform. Will keep you guys update later on.
Bottomline, stick with it, test things out, you will get there.