Last week, I updated you on my Niche Super-Site Project, History of Elvis. My strategy of going after long-tail keywords paid off, and I demonstrated a front page ranking for history of elvis using link directory submissions. (It is important to remember that there are links from this site to the Elvis site as well). This organic search engine ranking is starting to “pay off.” In the last 30 days, most of the traffic to the site has come from search engines as seen below:
It is interesting to note that 15 searches in the last 30 days came from AOL and MSN. I never pay attention to those engines, but I have heard it said that the people using AOL and MSN are generally less computer saavy and have higher conversion rates than their Google bretheren.
What are people searching for?
In any case, it is not surprising to see that the google searches are hitting for history of elvis. As of this writing, I have moved up from the number 10 spot to the number 7 spot. Other search terms that are starting to hit include some products:
This is cool, because you will recall that I enabled this site with and eBay store using phpBay and other affiliate products using PopShops. This probably means that I need to revisit my keword strategy. As it turns out, Elvis is not a great niche for Adsense revenue because the amount of money you can get from each cleck is low.
Value of Elvis clicks
As you can see on spyfu.com, this is not a great niche if you are going after PPC revenue.
So, no one will get rich collecting money from Adsense on this one.
Next Up, Article Marketing
In my next post on Elvis, I'll talk about Article Marketing. After reading Article Marketing Domination, buying a copy of Article Post Robot and outsourcing the creation of 20 Elvis articles on Scriptlance, I am ready to roll!
Talk to you soon.
Best regards,
Mark
%RELATEDPOSTS%
I am definitely going to try and find a very small niche like this to work on. I am having trouble trying to find something that will hold enough of my attention to keep working on it. I guess once you have one going well you will have the knowledge to work on less exciting projects.
I have not read all your posts regarding this so you may have answered this already…. Have you managed to make any sales through PHP Ebay yet with this?
Thanks,
Forest.
Forest;
Short answer is “Yes” — I have made sales through PHPBay. The program is great, and the support is excellent.
The key is traffic, just like everything else on the internet!
Thanks!
Mark
One thing to note: I have found that quite often a long-tail phrase and low competition words will rank better on MSN then on Google initially. Mainly, because of Google’s emphasis on links. This means you can get quite a lot of MSN traffic early as you are building your link strategy and earn some income at the same time.
Did you any more followups after this one? I’m interested to see if you hit your $2/day goal.
nice. i checked the site and it looks pretty good considering it doesn’t contain a lot of articles. and its got a good rank too! do you mind revealing how much this site is earning on a monthly basis?…