Here are the current stats for my portfolio for the last 7 days. This should give you an idea of the results that I get out of the work put in.
My portfolio consists of 7 sites monetised with Google AdSense at the moment.
- Site 1 – Weight Loss – 800 UV (9 months old)
- Site 2 – Home Improvement – 184 UV (8 months old)
- Site 3 – Health – 276 UV (6 months old)
- Site 4 – Beauty – 104 UV (3 months old)
- Site 5 – Beauty/Health – 192 UV (3 months old)
- Site 6 – Health/Diet – 62 UV (3 months old)
- Site 7 – Beauty – 36 UV (1 month old)
The Weight Loss site is beginning to increase back to its old levels (before the C&D – 300UV/day) which is very promising.
I have stopped focusing much time on Site 2 and Site 3 due to a limitation for expansion. The clicks are high but traffic is too hard to come by. In comparision to the latest 4 sites, the competition is very tough. I do have have keywords on Google Page 1 though.
I wouldn’t attempt to do a site for similar keywords these days. You need to have as much room as possible for more and more long tail words. If the site works and pays well you really want to milk it for all its worth. It is easier to get a page up the ranks on an established site then creating a new domain and making it into a thin (worthless) site.
I spent a lot of time trying to nail those sites but after 6 months I discovered that there are a lot more easier words to tackle. It is very important that you spend time in finding the right keywords. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experiment. If I didn’t try to make those 2 sites successful I wouldn’t have found out that it is possible to rank for what now seem impossible keywords. It helped find my limits.
I will be posting regular Market Samurai SEO screenshots and highlighting where my page sits for those terms just to give you an idea of what is and isn’t possible.