Niche Site Case Study Week 1
August 23, 2007
Well it's been 9 days since my niche site case study site was officially launched, and I wanted to give you the first update on how things are going. The site is plugging along well, with a few pleasant surprises.
Here's the overall traffic screenshot for week 1:
I'm up from 5 unique visitors (which were all me) to 47. I've only visited the site 2 or 3 times since it first launched, so maybe 7 or 8 of those visitors were actually me. That means I've gotten a good 40 visitors from other traffic sources. Those sources are shown a little further down in this update.
My EzineArticles.com submissions were not approved until two days ago. That's within their time frame of 2 - 7 days, though, so I really can't complain. Both GoArticles and EzineArticles have already generated some traffic, as you can see in the screenshot below (the link which is blacked out is from the 3WayLinks.net network, and is blacked out for security purposes):
According to the statistics that EzineArticles itself gives you, the article has been viewed 147 times. Not too shabby for the first two days:
My site was partially indexed by Google within three days of being live, and it now has 5 indexed pages listed. So far neither Yahoo! nor MSN have indexed any pages. However, the site itself has been fully spidered by all of the big 3 (Google, Yahoo! and MSN), as seen below.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Google has actually started sending a little bit of traffic to the site despite its newness:
What has all of this resulted in financially? AdSense reports that the site has gotten 115 page views and 3 clicks, which have resulted in a total of $0.91. So I'm averaging 10 cents a day, though of course at this point I'm not expecting any real revenue at all. It's kind of cool that it's already gotten some clicks, though.
Well, that's it for week one. I'll post a further update next week. I'll try to keep my updates coming on Thursdays, though it may vary somewhat.
You can read about exactly what I did to build the site on the original case study post.
Please leave your thoughts and questions about this case study in a comment below.
Comments
35 Responses to “Niche Site Case Study Week 1”
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Jonathan Leger has been earning his living online full-time since the fall of 2004. He regularly posts advice about search engine optimization (his current passion), AdSense and Internet Marketing. 
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Very cool Jon! I'm close to purchasing the niche finder product you referenced in your previous post. That seems like a tool which could prove to be very beneficial!
Looking forward to the next update!
Chris
Google ads are a ripp-off. Niche sites can be profitable with organic search engine rankings. With Google Adwords you will get fraudulent clicks in a matter of 30 minutes that will eat up your entire advertising budget. Waste of money.
John, looks like you have some good results here!
Anthony Tomei
How many articles did you write? 10?
Anthony:
I'm using the AdSense more as a way to see the growth percentages of profits than to show the actual amount of money the site can make. For that kind of testing Google's reporting is useful. I know I could probably do much better with affiliate ads selling the actual devices themselves.
Dan:
10 articles on the site, 10 articles submitted to EzineArticles. The submitted articles are completely different from the site content articles.
Chugging right along.
It always seems to me and I would assume everyone else that does this for a living that there is the initial few hits and visitors and then around week 6 there comes a small explosion and then on about month three the campaign hits like a critical mass and goes into exponential growth that cant be stopped.
I'm very curious to see if that will be the trend for you.
If it is I guess I'm on the right track.
Looks great Jon! I'm in the process of building a lot of mini adsense sites, so I'm definitely going to follow this study closely.
Jon this is a great case study. Your a brilliant guy.
Can you give me any estimates as to what traffic you expect the site to generate on autopilot once things are going?
freekeyword wordtracker shows 199 searches per day for "rowing machines"
overture tool shows "24759" per month
I love to quantify things… Can you give me a modest estimate for what you would guess traffic to be.
It would be great if you would project a number, and then see how far off you were - knowing you were going to be wrong ahead of time.
2 questions on "How did you write the 20 articles."
1. How many do you write in one sitting
2. How much time do you take per article
Hi Jon,
Would you please tell us what is the basic difference between HyperVRE and XsitePro?
Nice study Jonathan!
Are you going to continue to add content and submit articles, or just leave the site alone?
Did you submit the site to the SE's? Can't wait to see how the 3 way links ramps up over time.
Ted
Interesting update Jon. I am keen to see your ongoing results, as so many people look to putting up webpages and expect to make thousands in a few days or a few weeks. These things do take time, but can develop into something big of marketed properly and a bit of patience is practiced.
Thanks for keeping us posted.
Ii it just from article marketing? Do you use video marketing?
Hi Jon,
I love this case study.
Which tool do you use for the stats you are showing ?
ciao
alexander
Hi Dusty,
With xsitepro you can build different website like the affiliate website, salesletter and a content site like the adsense site. One of the best feature of the xsitepro lies with flexible adsense placement. You can put your ads everywhere. With hypervre gold has built in rss and content grabber as the main strength of this software.
Eliseo
I am interested to know if you used any of those bookmarking methods?
Jon,
Thanks for sharing all your great resurces!
Feel free to advertise on my blog!
It's awesome. 10 cents a day is a pretty good result when you look at the time frame and the very little marketing efforts.
It's very good, you show to others that it can be done, and rather quickly when you have the right tools.
However Google Adsense .My profits still holding be 17$ start since Jun
People help me.My profit very slow
It's not everyday you're given the opportunity to see how to build or market a website be it adsense or the other.
I am appreciative of this insight, on how to build and market an adsense website. Hats off to you, thank you.
I shall be following your progress, and reading your tips on how to market an adsense website.
Hey Jon - excellent case study.
I wonder, I use articles a lot and there is often a big lift when EZA puts them on the first page, which falls off as the article goes back into the archives. Is your tactic to put all your articles up in one go a sustainable one and if so, how?
Regards
Martin
Dane:
No estimates at this time. I wrote 3 or 4 at a time, and each one took about 15 minutes.
Dusty:
I've never used XSitePro, so I don't know.
Ted:
I'm playing that by ear, depending on how well this site does as-is.
Blog:
No video marketing, no.
gtd:
The site's built-in AW Stats.
Varun:
No bookmarking, no.
Martin:
My tactic is to get them on other web sites as fast as possible, which is why I put them all up at once.
Would like to know how you tracked the response from
each search engine and ezine.
Nice case study maybe later on once this site is developed you can case study the results say from an affiliate site to an adsense site and see which makes more. And other techniques like leveraging web 2.0 sites and authoritive domains as discussed on my blog.
Later
Johnathan,
I decided to tag along with your efforts by doing one myself. I bought a copy of the Niche Inspector on your site (so I assume you got the credit) That worked good. I like it so far. I got a URL based on my keyword niche.
I admit I am not going to use HyerVRE. I will be using WAW instead. That is Website Article Wizard to build my site which will be geared for Adsense. So 2 things done so far. I may be stalled though. There is a problem with my hosting company. It is dragging things down for right now. A problem with a new WHM.
Bob
Great idea for some "extra income" (I hope!)
Any chance you could list a link to the software or access to the "5 Robots/Spiders" you use to monitor each of them? I checked on your "list of tools" on the original page but didn't see it. Would be very useful! Thanks!:)
Denny
Hi Jonathan
Good to see results coming in so quick.
Can you tell us how you get the robots/spiders visit data?
Thanks
Mayur
Who did you hire to write your articles so quickly? Elance? Scriptlance?
Thanks in advance for your reply. Great stuff Jon, your works are helpful, encouraging and amazing.
Thanks for the very quick reply Jon, I get the idea.
Regards
Martin
Jon, I appreciate your creative thinking. I like the fact that you test everything and display the results for the world to see. Keep up the good work and continued success to you.
Demond
Hi Jon-
Can you recommend another service for your paying customers
who have sites that are Holiday/Religious based that are not
allowed into your network?
Thanks!
Man Jon I come here and see the same info for a week man…You should think about updating more. You prolly dont have time. I update my Internet marketing blog every day.
Important question Jon.
About your article marketing and website articles.
You have 10 for each, both separate and unique content.
For the 10 ARTICLE Marketing articles:
Are you embedding anchor text for one of the 10 keywords you selected, in both the body, and the signature at the end?
Example: one of ten articles is targeting: "simulated rowing machines"
Are you going to use specific anchor text back to your adsense site with "simulated rowing machines"
or just "rowing machines" on all of your articles?
Can you explain a little bit about that?
Great instructional videos, but now I'm lost. I looked up your articles on ezinearticles.com and goarticles and was unable to locate anything on rowing machines. Is there something wrong with their systems or am I looking at things incorrectly? I am not trying to visit your site directly as to not skew your numbers but am merely analysing the process from "behind the scenes." Unfortunately, the process "disconnects" from the videos after I try to see them on ezinearticles. Your statistics are showing that you are getting traffic, but I'm not able to validate from where. Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks, and keep up the great work, it's very helpful.
Great stuff Jon
Richard,
When I went to Ezine articles and searched for rowing machines I found 12,171 maybe their system was playing up when you checked.