Well, today seems like a good day to update my progress on my niche sites. One of my kids was up a good part of last night so I am too short on sleep to focus on content writing/editing which is what I should really be doing.

Here is an outline of where things stand

Niche Site 1 – health
Indexed: ~Oct 3rd
Current Pages: 13 posted
Yahoo BLs: 5
2 Ezine articles published
1 Squidoo Lens

Niche Site 2 – health
Indexed: ~Oct 3rd
Current Pages: 11 posted, 5 scheduled
Yahoo BLs: 4
2 Ezine articles published
1 Squidoo Lens

Niche Site 3 – beauty
Indexed: ~Oct 10rd
Current Pages: 10 posted
Yahoo BLs: 3
1 Squidoo Lens

Niche Site 4 – business
Indexed: ~Nov 8th
Current Pages: 4 posted, 6 scheduled
Yahoo BLs: 0

Niche Site 5 – health/lifestyle
Indexed: ~Nov 1th
Current Pages: 3 posted, 7 scheduled
Yahoo BLs: 0

Yahoo BLs are backlinks showing in Yahoo Site Explorer. The Ezine articles are all showing up, but the squidoo lens backlinks are only showing for Niche site 2? I also see one of my social bookmarking sites (Mister Wong) on Niche Sites 1-3 which reminds me I haven’t bookmarked sites 4 and 5.

Just a reminder, for my first niche site (not listed above) I had a change of heart after a few weeks and ditched. Unfortunately, I had put a good amount of effort into that one. Niche 4 and 5 are my two newest and I don’t plan to do much more with them for now. I just wanted to get them started up with 10 pages and then I will just let them age. I don’t have many plans for Niche 3 either unless it starts getting some traffic – I find it a boring topic.

Now that I have at least 10 articles on each site, my plan is to just focus on Niche 1 for awhile. Since I have been struggling lately to get much work done and feeling a little de-motivated by lack of progress (traffic), I decided I was spreading myself too thin.

Niche 1 has a high CPC, but it also has a lot of competition. But, it has picked up a couple of long tail keyword traffic so I am hopeful. After I focus on Niche 1 awhile I will evaluate the other sites to see which looks the most promising and focus in on that one.

I have been outsourcing all my content which is a huge help and found some good writers, but the cost has been too high. I have been spending some time at the DP forum trying cheaper writers, but so far cheaper has been a waste of time for the most part. I have also already been scammed out of money by two people on DP for content. Guess that is part of the cost of outsourcing online, unfortunately. Hopefully some day I will have some income from my sites and can afford the better writers.

My plans for Niche 1 now are to get more content on the site and do more article marketing. I also need to do some more social bookmarking. Seems like I had other plans but that is all I can remember for now.

Traffic on all my sites is virtually non-existent. One of the articles on Ezine for Niche 1 is getting some hits, but not many. The rest of them (two I outsourced for direct Ezine submission) are getting almost no views.

That is where things stand for now.

Related posts:

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