My 100 Niche SEO Experiment

Is there a way to stay updated without bookmarking? Id like to check in everytime you make an update...wondering how to go about it though.

Nice idea! This could be very helpfull for beginners. It seems that you plan to target only one keyword per website, does this mean you are going to build 100 websites with only one page each?

Very interesting. I will subscribe to the thread to follow your progress.

Are you, guys, writing all the content or using autoblogging or outsourcing?

Good luck and have fun!

I have a few things to say about this. Firstly I can completely understand your frustration. I actually used to be a one man show doing all the content, design and even senuke myself and I also struggled to do just one site. It was only when I opened my mind and began to JV with people that I really began to accelerate. Really we said 2 sites a week as a reasonable goal but we actually have three sites going so far this week and spoke extensively about speeding things up even more tonight.

In regards to link building and SEnuke I can say that the main problem I encountered with that software is how much it requires your time and/or you computer. We are currently using a few different tools that might assist you, namely article marketing robot. You can see all of them on our blog which you can find in our signatures.

My best advice is outsource, JV and think outside of the box. There is always a better/easier way. Hope that helps and thanks for following us.

Neil

I think I should try this and observe the results.

Sorry, I'm confused, did what work?

Thanks, yes this is nothing new, but we just wanted to help some warriors out who are struggling and think that you can't make money on the internet. With a little bit of work and dedication, anything is possible.

I'm always open to suggestions, PM sent.

Thanks for following, we'll have more updates tomorrow.

Yea, 100 blogs isn't that much as long as you break it down into small pieces and make sure you have a schedule to stick to. Also, by splitting up the work doing a JV, we both have to just do our jobs and the rest will take care of itself.

nice topic started kiloh.will sure look in detail.

I am manually deploying all these WP sites myself. I add the theme, add all the plugins, then I go through the setup and make sure everything is in place. We use a pretty standard setup but change some sites around depending on the monetizing method and product niche. We use the same plugins throughout each site. Yes it's very tedious and boring, however I've been able to put up the WP sites in a quick and effective manner. It shouldn't take me more than 15 minutes at most to have an entire site up and running.

We usually only purchase 1 year at a time, mainly .com, .net or .org.

Thanks for subscribing, we hope you can gain some pointers and learn a few things or two while we conduct this experiment. The blog URL is in the signature.

Why do you think you're not having any more luck with SEO? Have you tried other methods?

Sure thing, we'll be updating this thread every Wednesday and Friday. You can also get more detailed analysis of whats going on at our website that we setup located in the sig.

Thanks for the support! We are doing this full time but it is not our only job. We are also building a single authority site in the process as well. It seems like a tall task when you say 100 websites but over the course of a year it's really not as scary as it sounds.

Thanks for the support so far everybody. Things are looking up and we will be adding an update tomorrow!

We are on week 2 of this experiment and so far we are ahead of schedule. We were planning on releasing 2 sites per week, and as of right now we are currently working on 6.

Niche 1: We are steadily holding the #1 position for this niche. Product hasn't been released yet so we will be monitoring this daily.

Niche 2: The website if full of content and we did a blast of Article Marketing Robot and SEnuke. We are not found in the top 200 in Google but #61 in Yahoo. We will be building backlinks to this site daily.

Niche 3: This website is also complete with content, we are currently building backlinks to this site. We are not found in the top 200 in Google but we are around the 100 spot in Yahoo.com

Niche 4: We outsourced the articles for this site and have received them. Everything looks good and the keyword density. Now we will be doing a round of Article Marketing Robot and building backlinks.

Niche 5: We start this site yesterday and it's based on an electronic product. We also used a hyphen in the domain so we will be testing out theories if hyphens help or hurt exact match domains. It will be a mixture of CPA and Amazon to monetize.

Niche 6: This site will also be mixture of adsense and Amazon. Keyword has a high CPC and competition is low to medium. For this site, we will be experimenting with targeting the easy and low searched keywords first, and going from easy to hardest. Reason for that is we want to see if it's worth getting traffic from the lower searched keywords, while waiting to get ranked for the higher searched keywords.

We are learning more and more about keywords and backlinks each day, its a never ending learning process. For more detailed analysis, please check out the sig and visit our experiment site.

This is fantastic, just what i have been looking for!

Like you said earlier in your post not everyone knows were to start in this business and i take my hat off to you for doing something like this!

all the best in 2011 and i will keep reading!

Im gonna say wow, mainly because I'm new with all of this and Im having a hard time with one let alone 100 lol but great job...but a dumb question here, when u say niches Im kinda confused wat you mean by that, i thought it meant targeting a certain demographic if thats the right word, like i dunno certain careers or age groups or i dunno, can u please ( for my sake) really break it down what you mean when you say 100 unique niches?

Kiloh,
Are you wacking them on separate ips ? Guess you have to be super organised to pull all these together - Keep up the project and dont go crazy launching the sites

You bring up a great point and it's one we have been discussing in depth lately. We have not yet defined a set system for tracking with the sites we have going so far. In the weeks to come we have been talking about doing this through a few different techniques from same site/same niche different monetization to same site/same niche different backlinking strategies.

That is truly the whole purpose of this site is dial in on what works and laser focus our efforts on that. I can tell you we are learning a ton already and can guarantee there is more to come. Thanks for following along!

Kiloh is out enjoying his Superbowl Sunday so I will be posting this weeks part two update. I should note that from now on we are going to be updating every Wednesday as usual but have moved our Friday Updates to Sunday evenings to give us more of a week ending recap.



Let's get to the site by site updates...


Niche #1 - We continue to maintain the #1 spot in both yahoo and google for the product name. In addition we are now holding down the #3 spot for the product name+review. We are keeping a close watch on this one.


Niche #2 - We have moved up from the #61 spot to #39 in yahoo but are still not showing up in google. The only thing we did to this site this week was point a drip feed blast of 2k profiles at it. We will be running several more rounds so Article Marketing Robot as well as blog commenting for this site next week.


Niche #3 - This site has not seen any movement in the rankings since the last update. We did a little reassessing of our goals with this site and we came to some conclusions about this niche. What we realized is this is a competitive niche with a high search volume so it's going to take longer for us to rank for this. We plan to build backlinks steadily but aren't expecting any serious results for several months.


Niche #4 - This site is very similar to #3 in that it's going to take some time before we reap the benefits of our work. For now we have 5 articles on the site, are building backlinks steadily and trying to be patient. So far we are not ranking for any of our keywords at this point.


Niche #5 - This site now has 3 articles on it and the design complete. As with all of our other sites we have done a round of Article Marketing Robot and blog commenting so far. With this site we have taken a bit of a different approach than with our other sites and so far it seems to be paying off. For this site we are only working on one keyword which is the exact product name and we have it in the domain as well. We have 3 keyword dense articles on the site and so far we are ranking #107 in google! This could be a sign that a more laser targeted approach pays off faster. We will see how quickly it moves up the rankings in the weeks to come.


Niche #6 - With this site we have mostly just added articles and worked on the design to this point. We have done one round of Article Marketing Robot so far as well. To this point we have not shown up for any of our target keywords.


In addition to all of that we have set up hosting and wordpress blogs with one post for all of our domains that we plan to use over the next few months. This should help them begin to age and save us a lot of time once we start trying to ranking them.


Next week is backlinks mania as well as adding some additional content to the existing sites. We won't be starting any new sites until later next week or the beginning of the following one.



That's all for now!

I definitely agree with you that there can really be no rhyme or reason to google sometimes. I think EMD's definitely help with ranking quicker even for difficult words. The problem is that these days unless your on it before a product comes out it's VERY hard to find an EMD for a good keyword.

Also thanks for your encouragement in regards to seeing some results in the next couple weeks. We are surely hoping the same. That can really be the tough part of doing SEO, waiting. I have seen a lot of posts from people in this forum about how they built a bunch of backlinks and haven't seen any movement. I tell them all the same thing I tell myself, be patient. This kind of strategy is about building assets and setting things up long term, not quick cash.

I just registered an EMD a week ago and I am number 6 on page one right now in a relatively competitive niche targeting a low to medium keyword.

It has to help.

I'm currently using just a regular shared hosting plan, and I did get an email stating I'm slowing down their servers because of the bandwidth I'm bringing in. I'm going to give them a call and see what's up because they do advertise "unlimited" bandwidth.

I mean even just getting to page one should cause a decent increase in traffic but there is quite a big difference between the number one spot and all of the rest.

So far we have converted a few leads from one of our CPA sites but other than that not much yet. We didn't anticipate earnings for the first few weeks.

We will have a full update in a few hours, I have a BBQ to go to! Gotta love Southern California

Which linkbuilding strategy do you use for these 100 niche sites?

There is some linkbuilding strategies out there, which is claimed to be easy to follow. But when it is about 100 sites, it is very difficult to implement these link building methods for 100 sites.

A minimum of 3 but generally 5. One article per keyword were targeting usually.

Heenal, you managed 5 page sites, 9 of them in a week? How did you go about these microniches set up? Im guessing you must have had the articles prepared before hand or you got them outsourced? Would pm you but need couple more posts to do so ... darn

I guess Im just going to put an instant email notification for this to stay updated, no other way to stay updated?

EMD = exact match domain

ie. niche= blue widgets EMD= BlueWidgets.com

It's hard to love 100 of anything. Even a father with 100 kids would eventually ignore 70 or so of them. I imagine these websites have all fallen into neglect.