So I guessed it would be time to get another post up here, since I have been meaning to post for a long time but can’t find the motivation to write here just now. Why is that? Well the most important fact is that I am making money and am too busy to write here, the other one is that I want to have some real materil that I am going to post here – not just fluffy posts that many bloggers post on a daily basis. It wouldn’t be very useful for me to write posts like “30 days for better blogging” and “Make money from home – I can and so can you“. Don’t get me wrong, motivational posts are great and nice to read and always get a lot of comments, but I am probably not the best person to be writing them.
I have been busy with my Make Money From Home With Micro Websites project – a lot more busy than I planned to be. I meant to be posting about it more, and I meant to be doing a lot more sites a lot faster, and I also planned not to be working on them too much, but as it turns out – I knew this already – backlinks make you the money; not the websites. Controversial? Nope.
I linked out to the micro niche websites post just aboe and after that I wrote this post about backlinks, which was titled Is It Worth The Work To Make Money From Home? and even thought it wasn’t meant to be about backlinks it turned out to be about that. I wanted to just make a point about how search engines rank your websites, and that you can make income with other traffic than SE traffic – even though it is a well known fact that properly optimized traffic from the engines can give you a pretty good conversion rate.
What I am going to talk to you here, is the rankings of my sniper sites. I am going to cease talking about my income and I won’t be giving you exact figures about how much money I am making from home, but I can give one thing: I am not working my dayjob anymore. All my income is strictly online income, and from the sites that I built back in december, and which I have been optimizing for a while now. I mentioned in a comment earlier an approximation about the money that I am making from these sites alone, but keep in mind that I have other sites also. Even so, it is not about how much I make, but what do I observer as I am building my income.
The stats that I have here, are from a batch of 50 sites and I am going to describe what needed to be done to make this happen. It’s not from a long period of time, but you should get the idea where I am getting here.
A few weeks ago I had a look at the rankings of my sniper sites and here are the rough values:
- 2 sites ranking #1 for their keyword
- 28 sites ranking on the first page for their keyword. These are all low first page rankings.
- 13 sites ranking on the second page
- 2 sites on the third page
- 15 sites ranking third page or higher, and the majority of these are above rank 200
So what was I going to do? I was going to evenly build backlinks for all of these sites but someone opened my eyes and adviced that it would be a great idea to work on those second page sites, and get them to first – since the money is on the #1 ranking, and if you are on the second page – no-one is going to find your sites. I started to work on those second page sites and only less than a week after that I looked at the stats again and here is what I got:
- 3 sites ranking #1
- 3 sites ranking #3
- 3 sites ranking #4
- 21 sites ranking #5-10
- 11 sites on the second page and these were all mid-high second page rankings
- 8 sites from ranks #20-60
- Rest were still too far back
I made some interesting notions here. I talked about the importance of the domain suffix here previously, and mentioned that .biz was sucking ass, but this proved me otherwise. One of the sites that I had on .biz were previously on ranks +200 and I wasn’t building links to it. Suddenly it jumped to #29 for its keyword. Now this is promising! I also made another observation.
I started one of these sites for a keyword that was supposed to get 880 searches a month based on the external tool of the big G, and 330 searches by the search based keyword tool. It was now ranking #1 for its keyword and suddenly pulled 200 visitors per day. Now this might be a bit seasonal traffic because of some New years resolutions that people like to do, but even so it’s getting a lot more than 11 visitors per day that the search based tool was suggesting. Still a lot more than the External tool was suggesting. Did the income from this site bounce up? Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to convert for adsense, and I am now trying to get some Clickbank sales with it.
I started working on those second page sites once again. This means that I would be getting backlinks for them. If you don’t know much about backlinks, then you need to have a look about this post made by Allyn, which tells you everything you need to know about backlinks. Seriously – he lays it out so that the simplest minds can understand it. I am not going to rewrite a perfect post about backlinks here, so you will have to check his post if you want to know what it is about.
Recently I had another look at the rankings and even if I am not yet at having 40 sites on the first page, I am sure that I will soon. This is what they are ranking right now:
- 3 sites rank #1 – one site that was previously ranking #69 jumped to #1. Why? You guessed it! Backlinks!
- 13 sites are ranking #3-5. That 200 visitors site that I was talking about… Well it dropped from #1 to #4, but still pulling 30-60 people a day. Looks like someone else noticed that they had lost their ranks and built a few links to their own sites. I’ll have to get it back up there!
- 16 sites are sitting #6-10. This is nice but it’s not yeat 40 sites on the first page!
- 11 sites are high second page
- 2 sites low second page
- 3 sites high third page
- And the rest? Well they are somewhere there
The next thing to do is to analyze how much money these sites are making and try to proportion it to the rankings. That way I can easily determine which keywords are money makers and which aren’t. After I get those sites up to #1 and build other sites on similar keywords and niches, I can ride to the sunset and make money from home – and lots of it. Based on that analysis I will…
Build Bigger Sites To Make Money
Yeah this is the ultimate goal here. No-one wants to be building hundreds and hundreds of sites all the time, but what we want is to have 10-20 websites that each make a $1000+ or more per month. Is it possible?! Well sure it is, but not as fast as I would think. It is going to take time and a lot of links to get a site to make that much money, but it is possible. I know it is. Once your website will get a decent amount of authority in a niche, it is going to rank easily on top second page with each post that you write, that are based on a keyword. After that it’s just about getting some – am I repeating myself here? – backlinks and boosting that post to first page. Just write as often as you can and get as much links as you can and you are constantly building more and more income with that particular site. And that is my plan for 2010 – I want to start those sites and get them making me money, while I sit at home – or at the beach in Bali. Not a 5000 word mega post today but heck who reads those anyways!
