Just checking in with an update on my niche site building progress. For the last few days I have been feeling a bit under the weather along with feeling a bit burnt out, so I haven’t been very motivated.
 
I have 3 niche sites almost to a stopping point, I will do some marketing then build some new sites. I have 5 new domains already purchased for new sites but haven’t even thought about them yet.
 
Here is a quick list of where the sites stand:
 
Niche 1 – health
10 posts/pages live or scheduled
Squidoo lens with linkback
~ 6 social bookmarks
1 extra article for Article marketing
Outsourced – 1 article written and submitted to iSnare for distribution (not live)
 
Niche 2 – health
10 posts/pages live or scheduled
Squidoo lens with linkback
~ 6 social bookmarks
1 extra article for Article marketing
Outsourced – 1 article written and submitted to iSnare for distribution (not live)
 
Niche 3 – beauty
7 posts/pages live or scheduled
4 articles outsourced
~ 6 social bookmarks
1 extra article for Article marketing
 
I can’t decide when I want to submit the 1 article for niche 1 & 2 to the article directories since I have outsourced the writing and distribution of one article already. Not sure when exactly that will be complete and I think I would like to spread my marketing efforts out a bit. I am also holding off on more social bookmarking for that reason.
 
I know many people claim success going full throttle with social bookmarking and article marketing, but I still worry that the quick generation of backlinks will look suspicious to Google. So I’m holding off a bit for now.
 
Traffic on all the sites is minimal to non-existent but I guess I should expect that for now. Google hasn’t even indexed all of the pages yet on any of the sites.
 
I’m still waffling on how many pages to put on each site before sitting back to see which niches are most successful. I feel like the more content the better, obviously, but wonder what is the minimum amount of content needed to accurately predict long-term success. What if I see no results for a 10 page site, but 20 pages for the same site would have made a difference?
 
I’m thinking of letting the sites sit at 10 pages for now, but go back through and add a few more pages later once I get some new sites up and keep rotating through for awhile to determine which sites I should concentrate on. Since I am currently outsourcing most of my articles, that is an expensive gamble, so I’m playing it by ear for now.

The waiting game is the worst aspect of site building. Waiting for stuff you outsource to get done, wait for rankings, wait for traffic, yada  yada. It’s still early in the process but I am already impatient.

Related posts:

1. Niche Site Update
2. Niche Site Progress – Content & Links
3. Niche Site Link Update