My 2 months Micro Niche site – 0 to 400 visits per day in 2 months
Micro Niche blogging has been told to be a really easy method to get some passive income using not much effort and with just proper on page and off page SEO.
There are many famous blogs who have described this method as an easy quick get passive income method of micro niche blogging. I was very much impressed by this post and decided to give this a try. After reading almost every possible article I could find about how to start micro niche blog and earn money fast, I selected a niche that gave me hope and encouraged me to keep going on and on. The person who generally quits after a week or so of making a blog (that’s me) and publishing content has now successfully completed 12 months of constant blogging on a new micro niche blog. I’m going to share with you the statistics and what it took me to achieve these stats, the lies about micro niche blogs that most blogs/people tell you and certain realities I’ve discovered from niche related blogging.
About my Micro Niche Site
I always wanted to have some extra money in my pocket but never really wanted to work hard for it. So after being introduced to the idea of a micro niche site, I started doing some research. Since I had made and abandoned some sites before I wasn’t a newbie with WordPress, the CMS needed to run my site. But at the same time I had also abandoned so many sites because I could not get success with SEO and could not built traffic, so this was again a new challenge for me.Now I had to decide on a topic of my choice to start blogging. For that I choose “Cydia and Jailbreak” as my topic. There were three reasons behind that topic:
- Because I could not think on topic of my own.
- Because I owned an iPhone so writing about it was easy.
- Because the article and person I was seeking guidance from had the same niche.Now for the domain name I settled on Yescydia.com from Hosting24. I registered it for 3 months and paid for 3 months. This was mainly because if the site showed no results of growth after 3 months I could simply discontinue my work. I bought my package on November 28th 2014 and activated it on November 29th 2014. I made my first post the day after it.
My statistics from December (2014) to January 30 (2015)
My stats graphs are shown in the pictures below. Initially I did not think that my micro niche site would do very well in a short period of time. I started many websites before but just gave up with in the first month. But now I have discovered a secret. I found a method to take any blog and grow it as soon as possible without any SEO knowledge.My traffic is constantly increasing day by day. It isn’t growing super fast but it’s growing steadily. Initially in the very first week of my site, I had no traffic at all. After I started posting and time started passing by, my blog grew more and more. Here are my stats for the last two months (December and January 2014-2015).
My Micro Niche Site December 2014 Stats (Traffic/Views): 4020 Views
My Micro Niche Site December 2014 Stats (Traffic/Views): 5685 Views
Views in terms of Days:
As you can see there are some ups and downs in some weeks and days. But this is normal and I had no control over it. It’s organic and referral traffic, mainly from Google.This was a huge hit for me. I also integrated Adsense to my micro niche site to earn some money but it didn’t work. Let me show you my Adsense reports.
Adsense with my Micro Niche Site
The main purpose of these types of blogs is to make some passive income without any effort. And the easiest way to do it is to integrate Adsense into the website.That was exactly what I did. But what I forgot was that Adsense needs traffic and 150-300 views was not going to get me more than 2-3 clicks which resulted in $0.7 USD per day.
My best and worst days with Adsense were:
A maximum of $0.71 in one day
A minimum of $0.01 in one day
As you can see that this isn’t much. This was just after two months of starting my blog and it didn’t have much traffic. I had around 100 visits per day on December, but that quickly increased to 200 per day the last week of January and 400 per day the last 2 days of the month.
What I did to achieve this
As you can see there were some certain rules and methods I promised to follow before starting my niche blog. These helped me improve quickly and encouraged me to go on and pursue more. I’m no SEO expert. I only knew how to do all the on-page SEO using SEO by Yoast plugin and mixed it with some keyword research inside Google Adwords Planner.Here is a complete list of what I did and what I did not. This is a practical method that you could also test if you are planning to start a new micro niche site.
1. Posted frequently
As described above, I purchased my domain name on November 28 and it went live the next day. I published my first blog post on November 30 and then published 10 quality 500+ words articles within the first 10 days and strictly followed my rule of posting at least 1-2 posts every 2 days.I even wrote 3 articles per day if I had the time…This was all to give Google the impression that my website was being updated with fresh quality content frequently and I could build some authority. You can go to my site (yescydia.com) and look into the archives to check the dates and get a picture.At the same time, I didn’t have a specific time for publishing my posts. I would just start typing and publish it.
2. I rarely used the Google Keyword Planner Tool
The first post I wrote was from a suggested keyword I found using the Google keyword planner. The keyword was “How To Do iOS 7 Jailbreak” which according to Google had good amount of searches, low competition and had a decent cost per click (CPC) for Adsense ads.But after some time, I stopped using the keyword planner because I didn’t know how to properly use it and also it was giving me not much of an advantage. Now my plan was to search Google for a keyword related to my niche. Open the first two links/suggestions, read the whole article and then publish it in my own words. When I was out of ideas on what to blog about, I would go to a top site in my niche category, look for the latest posts for topic ideas and write them in my own wording.I did not abandon the Google Keyword Suggestion Tool completely. From time to time I used it. Another great keyword tool I used was Wordtracker. It helped me get low competition keywords with high potential.
3. Posted several articles for the same keyword
