Tom Goodwin

For me, the #1 factor by far is having the exact keyword as the domain name, in either .com, .net or .org variety. If I can't get one of those, just like clickbump, I move on.

meta description is irrelevant for SEO purposes, but obviously very important for click through rates when your site shows up in search results.

For onpage SEO, just standard good Wordpress SEO:

On-page SEO:
-- exact keyword Title
-- exact keyword <h1>
-- keyword in at least one more header tag
-- general keyword density of body text of approximately 3%
-- Even with as few pages as I have, 2 internal links with the exact keyword only, and I also add the keyword to the end of the about, privacy and contact pages, so I have 5 anchored text links all with my keyword in it
-- images have keyword in their title
--no superfluous header tags (like the standard WP template has -- Clickbump's template has this cleaned up)
--fast loading clean code
--xml sitemap
-- all-in-one SEO wordpress plugin
-- robots meta wordpress plugin


Note, not that I would recommend this (certainly would not) but I've had sites that I created with adsense on them and clickbump's template, with no post other than the standard "welcome to wordpress...this is your first post", and it still ended up on the first page of google within a week with no backlinks. So, zero content.

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clickbump

Hi jLady, I use forum signature links solely to get a site indexed out of the gate, not for traffic (or even backlinks, but that's a benevolent byproduct). See this post for more info.

dknyrob

Yea it's a way to get high page rank links to your site... You can do a search in WSO to find more on it. Now I do mostly articles to get links back to my site.

Clickbump.... The Google dance sucks but I guess most sites if not all will go through it... I one thing that is good about building a army of mirco niche sites so your not totally depending on that one site. Just like you mention a while back about the 20/80 rule...

Question to anyone what's your thinking on adding outbound links on your sites to sites like amazon, wiki, etc I heard it helps make your site look legit since your having outbound links and gives it a push in the serps i was thinking of adding them to the bottom of my site. Also I heard having a youtube video on your site helps with ranking... Overall i guess it helps in google eyes because you are giving your user other options instead of just Adsense which give your sites less probe to disable... Just a thought

YouTuma

And if there are 2 PR0 + 2 PR- sites - it it good keyword?

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Craig McPherson

Can I have it Jon?


Only jokin with ya. Keep us posted on your progress please

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I spoke to guy making a gazillion from Adsense and he said one of his tricks of the trade was to link to google on your privacy page. I link to google analytics on my privacy page even tho I do not use it.

Just a thought

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Mocephuss

It is very exciting to see someone making it even if it is on a very successful small scale so far, inspiring.
First time poster long time reader! i have an interesting question ans it would go great in this thread, being a newbie. I have bought the domain names I researched and even went as far as buying a few for each subject.
So the million dollar question....
what is the best use of these URLs? all pointed at one site? each URL its own site?
Or one bigger site where each of the pages in the main site are other Domain names?
I hope i asked the question right as I am curious as too buying a few good domain names in a similar subject... Look forward to the replies, Thanks in advance.

P.S. Anyone use WPMU?

Tom Goodwin

Note that for those of us that use the easy privacy policy wordpress plugin, if you click the google adsense button on installation, it automatically includes a link to Advertising and Privacy ? Google Privacy Center.

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dknyrob

Thanks Craig... Before I start pumping out tons of this sites want to make sure everything is right from the start so I don't have to go back and change up hundreds of sites to be in compliance as 20 is ok at the moment...

thmgoodw I like that idea just sending them to the opt out page from google. nice

Jon Mac

This will actually be my very first attempt with an adsense site, so yeah I'll probably be mentioning my progress with it. I've only been working with blogger pages and squidoo so far so it's time to kick it up a notch with my first domain.

Now THIS is how to write a successful ebook in any niche..... even if you have ZERO writing experience!

erazer

Do you also use any of the "Additional Keywords To Consider" down below or do you think that will muddy up the focus? I ask because some of the searches bring up a very short list of related keywords.

Also, do you think the Google Wonder Wheel helps any with the related keywords?

Bishop81

Out of my 6 sites that I put up on Thursday, they are all indexed (have been for a few days now) and 1 of them is now ranked #7 on Page 1.

I was getting impatient and tried a small experiment, too. My plan was to avoid all Google stuff with these sites (except for Adsense) and see how they do. Well, I decided last night to put Google Analytics on one, along with Adsense and even submitted it to the Webmaster Tools. I have both the .net and .org versions of this keyword phrase.

My results are that the site that hit Page 1 is the .org, which is NOT the one that I put everything Google on. I only put Adsense on it this morning after I noticed it in the top results.

Take what you want from it, I haven't decided if it's best to keep some things from Google yet or not.

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Chiayee

Hey Clickbump:

I may be missing something. however, you mentioned:
"Only work with exact match, top level domains"

And you built products specific pages.

So, my understanding is, your domains look something like this : product1review.com, doesproductYwork. Is that right?

But, a lot of product names are also trademark terms. Is it really safe to do so?


Thanks.

Bishop81

I've had a domain "ProductNameReview.com" for over a year now, made over $1K from affiliate sales on it, and never had a problem with it being trademarked.

I think people worry too much about that kind of stuff. A buddy of mine applied to an affiliate program through CJ, and was planning on using "ProductNameReviews.com". They said that he couldn't use it and wanted him to give them the domain. He just let things go, didn't put the site up, and they never pursued it. I mean, as long as you don't use the domain to slander them, then really they have no reason to consider you any sort of a threat and most companies won't care. In the end, if you're helping to sell their product, then what's the problem?

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clickbump

Hi Chiayee, I only have a few kwp sites that have a name brand in the url. I've found these to be more difficult to get to first page and they are overall more poorly performing than all my other sites. I've since decided to steer clear of these types of sites and you can read a real world experiment with one of these over here.
None of my sites have "review" in them. That sounds like an add-on phrase that gets put on when you cannot get the exact match domain. For example, if I'm doing a site on "wireless dog fence", my domain is going to be wirelessdogfence.com (or .org or .net)

If these were all taken, I'd pass on the site before I put up wirelessdogfencereview.com

...but that's just me, I know people who've had success doing the exact opposite :-)

clickbump

Yes and Yes. Use the tools you are most confident in and that prove out their worth over time.

It will be easy for you to determine if the suggested keywords are supporting or distracting from your central theme, the effort is a good one as the suggested results are in many caser spot-on in helping increase your site's LSI profile which is a key ingredient in attracting G love.

Bishop81

My .org site just got outranked by my .net site.

I hold #7 and #8 for the keyword phrase. It gets 2400 exact searches, earnings in spyfu of $.70 - $2.50.

Don't know any earnings yet, have to wait until I get home.

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Biggy Fat

Here is something interesting, guys. In the last week or so I've built three new XFactor sites, one .org and two .coms. The .org is indexed and ranked on the first page right now. One of the .coms is indexed, but nowhere to be found on Google. The other .com isn't indexed just yet.

I just wonder for the .com that hasn't been ranked yet, if I have been sandboxed. Has this happened to you guys yet?

Fraggler

It can take longer than 1 week to index a site. Google Webmaster Tools is a good way to track what the Google bot is doing.

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.org domains work very well for me too.

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SladeK

In determining if a keyword is viable in terms of outranking the current sites ranking for it, what all do you typically look out for with the Mozilla SEO information?

1.) At least 3 PR- and PR0 sites in the top 10
2.) Make sure each of those sites has less than 100 Y! page links.

What else? Or is that really the only criteria typically followed?

I am curious because I unfortunately do not have a ton of money at the moment to continuously make one domain after another to test the waters. I currently have 2 sites up following the criteria I just mentioned, it has been about a week and still waiting for them to index.

In the mean time I have been doing a lot of keyword research and have found a great deal of phrases that have 2500+ exacts a month with at least 3 PR 0 sites in the top 10, just want to ensure I am going the right route before I start throwing in more money purchasing more domains. (I know it can take a couple months for a site to "calm down" in the rankings, but I just wanted to confirm I was not overlooking another component in my competition research)

GazD

On the subject of LSI, google a search phrase. Click on show options, then under Standard View, go to the Wonder Wheel. The phases coming off your term might be some that you should include on your site to give it a bit more dimension.

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clickbump

Good idea, thanks for the tip Gaz. I'll be checking out WW for the next wave of sites I launch to see how well it fits into the mix...

kevin campbelle

This is not an exact science. You could build 3 more adsense sites with one .com and 2 .orgs and the .com might be the indexed one on the first page with the .orgs lagging behind.

Kevin.

adamsad

wow....I never know we could do that...thanks so much

clickbump

Hi Slade, here are the 5 fundamentals I listed in post #3...

My basic approach to niche site success revolves around five simple and proven fundamentals. Get these right and you are way ahead of 90% of those trying to make a way in this game...

1) Develop a passion for niche research - you really have to enjoy ferreting out the next niche and you have to be able to get yourself inspired to do this over and over again. This is the most important concept you can master. If you fail at this, no amount of expertise at the remaining steps will matter. You'll be fighting against the wind.

2) Only work with exact match, top level domains - I value .com, .net and .org all EQUALLY and I've got sites ranked in the top 10 with all three extensions.

3) Seek niches that have a minimum of 2400 EXACT match local monthly searches for their keyword phrase (KWP) - use Google Adwords Keywords Tool (GAKT) for this.

4) Look for three PR- or PR-0 sites in the top ten results for the KWP that you can unseat - Once you've verified 2 and 3 above, type your search term (without quotes) into Google using the SEO4Firefox plug-in to determine if you can meet the 3 site min criteria

5) Launch a tightly focused, insanely optimized, seo savvy, css based site that showcases your niche's KWP with laser focus. One page of content with 350-1000 words and 3 site pages (about, contact and privacy) is all you need. Develop or adopt a system that allows you to repeat this rapidly.

Fraggler

I use the Wonder Wheel to come up with the subject matter of my articles. Write a paragraph of each wheel property and you can get decent on topic content produce really quickly. It is great for picking up the long search terms too as odds are it will come from some combination of the items in the wheel.

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raphael7

Thank you clickbump, I learned a lot from this thread.

Based in your experience how many sites approximately do you think that I need to achieve 50$ daily?

clickbump

Hi Raphael, It really depends on the quality of your niche selection. I have one site that does almost that amount in a day by itself, however, that's definitely the exception.

My advice on this is to set achievable goals based on productivity (vs income) since you have more control over your own productivity than anything else. The more sites you have the more you are going to make so I believe a good goal would be to commit to launching x amount of sites per week and following the 5 fundamentals outlined above for each one. Don't get emotionally attached to any one idea or niche. If the numbers aren't there, let it go and move on to the next one.

Once you start working on this type of goal, the $50 a day becomes a byproduct of your efforts, but not the focus. Before long, you'll be setting your sites on $100 a day and it grows from there.

policy

Thanks for this wealth of information, I, and I know many others truly appreciate it!

I have one question regarding the signature trick, when you say the forum shouldn't underline the hyperlink...is that because it can be seen by a user and reported to a forum moderator/administrator, or is it because google won't index it as fast?

Thanks so much Clickbump!

clickbump

Thanks for the kind words.

The reason for the formatting is just to keep it from being a distraction. There's really no need for anyone to see or click on the link, otherwise, we'd just make our whole sig line a link. The only purpose is to allow the site(s) attached to it to get crawled and quickly indexed.

To my knowledge, the G bots only criteria for reading a link is determined by the rel attribute (follow or no follow). Is has no such bias regarding the link's color, size, appearance or stylesheet information.

Tom Goodwin

If a period or space or whatever hyperlinked link in a signature is underlined it stands out. That's the last thing we want. These signatures are supposed to fly under the radar of the forum. It won't make a difference to Google.

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Ethan F.

Hello all,

Great stuff here. I've been quietly following along xfactors/clicks methods in the background, slowly starting my empire So far, I have completed 4 sites in the last couple days, and have about 3 more in the works along with 20+ viable keywords. None indexed yet, but it doesn't bother me. I just keep on trucking. When these guys say to just keep building more sites and not sweat the small stuff, really try and listen to that advice... it's working wonders for me so far. I try to enjoy it as much as possible.. that's the only way you will succeed in my humble opinion. And I really do enjoy it, for example, last night I had a brainstorm session about niche ideas with my girlfriend. Females are shop happy (mostly), and more importantly CLICK happy when shopping.. you might pickup a gold mine or 2 just chatting with them.. I know I have (many of them). For one of the better keywords, we're talking 25,000 exact searches, $1 CPC, and the top 10 pages look like "PR0 PR0 PR0 na na na 0" Think outside the box as they say. Thanks for the inspiration guys, you have helped me finally stick to something and take action!

tradewiser

Hi clickbump,

Are you still using MNF? If not then what software are you using?

Als I know that MNF uses the ext adwords tool but does it use the sktool as well? The sktool has lot's of nice longtails.

I've tried MS and it's a great software but it's pretty slow on my pc and I don't see that MNF offers a trial. The kw tool in MS is free so unless MNF has features to make it worth buying I don't see the point in buying it. I'm currently using the google tools, spyfu, and domaintools in 3 tabs. Works fine but is time consuming so anything that can speedup the research process would be great.

stoaf88

A question for clickbump or anyone else.

I had the wind taken out of my sails a little bit last night. I had 6 sites that were in the top 10 in google and when I checked with rank checker last night all of them are now on the second page.

All of these site are less than 2-3 weeks old. Is this normal? It seems as clickbump said his sites stuck on the front page for longer than this. I have followed the plan exactlt as described. What should I do? I would assume the answer is to just keep building sites but I am wondering why my sites moved down the SERPS?

stoaf88

I recommend MNF just for the domain availability feature. This alone saves me a ton of time.

clickbump

I'm not going to touch that one! But I will say that your approach is exactly what I'm trying to encourage to everyone who asks about how to improve the quality of their niche research. Don't limit yourself to what you see right in front of your computer screen. Get out into the real world, talk to people, experience things. Those are the times that you will uncover the absolute best project ideas. Great thinking Ethan!
Many girlfriends or niche ideas? Or both? :-)

clickbump

Hi Stoaf, don't worry over this. Depending on a ton of factors, you're sites are just dancing. Its part of the process and almost guaranteed to happen. Just keep following the plan and process and launching new sites while these are settling. Its a marathon vs a sprint...

Marhelper

So, you did steps 1-5 to include an EMD and 3 or more sites that were PR- or PR0?

If so, I would wait to see how things check out over the long run and in the meantime I would build backlinks to the sites.

clickbump

Hi TW, it sounds like you have all the tools you need. Perhaps just choose your weapons and settle into a routine you are comfortable with.

If you are anything at all like me (ADD and a tendency to want things a bit too perfect) then you need something simple and fast. I use GAKT along with SEO4FF as my primary niche research tools... But by far the most important tool I rely on is...

Inspiration!

This can be the key to unlocking your niche site treasure chest. Once you tap into this, the tools take a back seat and the joy of niche discovery and realization become your primary pursuit.

stoaf88

Ok thanks! I do have some automated blog commenting software that also posts trackbacks as well. I will build some links on the sites now. And keep making new sites too.

Marhelper

Clickbump (I love that name),

If I were to register a slew of domains (50+) with one registrar (Godaddy) would this be a problem that could impact my rankings? I ask this b/c I know you were saying that you would not have more than 20 sites on one HG acct for hosting. I was curious if you thought this was the case with a domain registrar as well?

clickbump

Hi Marhelper, and thanks for your contributions to this thread :-)

On the registrar question, imho its not quite as important as the hosting deal, but I'd say better safe than sorry. Spread the love around...

nuwav

Hi Clickbump

Thanks for sharing, I have noticed alot of micro niche blogs are in product related niches e.g. Anti Fatigue Floor Mats. Does sites that are non product related niches such as anger management etc..preform better or worst than product related sites?

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I've had the same experience. One site went straight to page 1 after 2 days, earned $200+ in adsense for the first month and approximately $1 the second month due to its vanishing from the first page. I did no backlinking to this site as an experiment. Will be doing backlinks now of course.

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Quote:
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So from your responses so far you are also seeing the same results with the one page sites..is 60

What's with this post then?

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post1203848

Intrepreneur

I was going to start a thread about all this "XFactor" and "ClickBump" stuff but decided against it for now!

This is my experience.

5 domains = 5 sites.

Week 1 content created.

Week 2 indexed

Week 3 ranking

End of week 3 GONE from Google

Week 5 Not back on Google.

Week 6 Not back on Google.

Anyone see a pattern?

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Marhelper

Did you follow the 5 suggestions EXACTLY?

Were there 3 or more competing sites on Google with a PR0 or PR- ?

Did you use an EMD in each case?

Side note: Did you backlink? How much?

Intrepreneur

No more than 3.

what's an EMD?

I backlinked like said in the course and did some more and some more and some more.

Result: not even $10 for five whole sites!

AND it cost me just under $9 per domain.

Plus hours of content creation.

Anyhow it probably does work as I see lots of sites ranked.. maybe just unlucky for me but just wanted to share my experience.

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Marhelper

EMD = Exact Match Domain (It is THE key IMO) ... Did you have the EXACT MATCH DOMAIN?