Well, I’ve been pretty busy lately. In the last week of January I decided that I needed to really go for it; to just do more of everything in the same time – to ramp up my productivity, as you may have read in my last post.
The plan was to produce four microniche sites per week, each with six posts scheduled for release over a few weeks and also some web 2.0 articles to support the sites. I am pleased to say that, give or take a few hours, I am on track so far, with 12 sites up and running since the start of the project three weeks ago.
It really IS difficult. I read the other day how someone who shall remain nameless reckons you can get one of these sites up “in a couple of hours”. Well, it takes me nine. There’s keyword research (average two hours per site); product sourcing (30 mins); domain, hosting and Wordpress set-up (30 mins); content creation (four hours); social bookmarking and setup in Google tools (30 mins); and finally web 2.0 articles (2 hours). Total: 9.5 hours. So as you can see, doing four a week is hard work when I have to fit in all my other stuff.
The other thing is that I will have to wait and see what results I get. I’m taking, broadly speaking, the Thirty Day Challenge approach to these sites – they are all on “test” to see if they are viable. I will be somewhat gutted if I get to the end of the project and find I have only a small number of sites that “pass” the test and are worth continuing with. It could take a few months to reach the decision point on all of them – we shall see.
Right, better get ready for site number 13.
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Yeah the couple of hours claim was a little hard to believe! I went through a phase of setting these up and even though the sites slowly made their way to page one on Google they hardly get any organic traffic so I have to promote them via PPC.
This is ok when they work but sometimes they just don’t convert and for higher priced items you can be paying 30p per click.
Also some merchants don’t convert at all so when you are doing a price comparison and the prices change and a lame merchant becomes the lowest price you don’t get any sales which sucks.
I gave up on micro niche even though the large comission was nice, it never came often enough.
Good luck though!
Thanks for your comment Joe. I have had some good results so far – a few sales which is nice considering the sites are so new – I think a few of the sites must be in that Google honeymoon period where they race to the top for a short while..
We shall see how it pans out over the next few months..