Ya…that would explain your results for sure..I’ve seen some keywords under 2.4k exact do well, but it’s only when they have real high CPC…and you definitely want to pay attention to the trend graph over the past year and take that into consideration as well.

by MS, I’m guessing you mean Market Samurai? I don’t look at that to find out if I’ll rank well…check out my read-me to see what I do.

Ya, if your sites are not recovering, you probably didn’t do your UAW/BLS submissions at a gradual enough rate.

As for what you’re going after, 2.4k+ exact is fine…and I sometimes go as low as 40 cents minimum in Spyfu…

To be honest though, it doesn’t make sense that ALL your keywords are like this or better and all of them are on page 1(not even all of mine are page 1) and you’re only making $40/day out of 200 websites…

also my sites are purely adsense….on clickbump templates…wordpress..i do only one page static mns….and when i look up my kw they have at least 2400 searches per month…

when i go to spyfu as long as the minimum is 50 cents i pick it….do u guys do something different? I figure that means i get 25 cents a click or so…should be going for higher cpc estimates?

Hey Jon, ya, you’ll never get someone giving out example sites unless they’re selling some course and created a separate site that is not linked to their network in any way as an example or something.

But there’s nothing that different about my sites. I’ve designed them pretty close to what you see in the XFactor course.

About your situation…are your sites Clickbank sites or Adsense sites? Either way, $40/day is a bit low for 200 sites, I would stop and analyze which ones did well and try and refine your keyword selection.

You should be doing that after every 10 or so sites until you get to a point where you think you’ve figured it out..

It’s hard for me to give you any more help not knowing if you made CB snipers or adsense snipers..

Also, if your sites are sandboxed, when you type in:

site:http://yoursite.com

into Google, you should see no results. If you see that, they’re sandboxed…are you sure they’re sandboxed?

It could be that you are not getting sandboxed but just seeing a drop in ranking due to building links too quickly.

More accurately… you are building a bunch of links over a short period of time only to have that followed by a period of little to no links(which looks suspicious to Google and results in ranking drops).

The rest of your questions are pretty much answered in my FAQ.

@JamestheJust on Elance
@Josh

tnx for jumping in James and Josh

@Steve

Mainly because Human Rewriter is good for rewrites, not new articles…

They actually do have the option to create original articles but you have to sign up for their premium account which is like $67/month…I don’t want to have to pay extra like that for original articles.

I’ll ask Matt Cutt.$ the next time he comes over.

On a serious note, if you go to clickbump, you’ll see the templates more or less exactly, though I know Mike changes his a bit and has changed some of his templates recently (per a comment he’s made).

I’m personally not really changing up from what’s been working any time soon. The XFactor special, except I have changed the CSS to make the font a bit more readable and make affiliate links stand out a bit. Otherwise, it’s not a broken template…

I have read that some niches have a kind of “micro sandbox”. If you are going after any of the high paying niches this could be whats happening.

I had UAW set at 50 for a while like James and none of my sites ever got sandboxed. All that really happened was that they didn’t go up. Rather than 20-30 registered yahoo links I got more like 0-5.

Also, Mike gives a lot of examples but none of them are of an entire site. In the readme you will see examples of how he promotes the sites, a keyword he would go after, the theme he uses etc… Put it all together and you should get a pretty good of what one of his sites would look like.

Jon :
Is there any examples of your sites….

I don’t think Mike or anyone’s going to show you an example, but if you want to see roughly what they look like, you can check out “clickbump” in your browser – the template with the green/black/yellow or the “XFactor” style templates are more or less an example.

i also seem to have almost 20-30% of my sites sandboxed for no apparent reason they would be like #3-5 for like a few weeks then when i recheck rankings once in a while they just disappear…the only promotion i’m using is uaw…and sometimes BLS.

Not sure if this is link velocity or what – at what rate do you send out your articles thru UAW? I set my first runs at the standard 50/day…then got sandboxed for about a week per site…Mike’s set his up for 15/day – that seems to work well.

(sorry, Mike, just wanted to chime in)