June Earnings Update
Written by mbpage on July 2, 2008
Another month has passed and I have been using BANS now for 3 months. Store building has continued and I now have a total of 34 stores. I have another 10 domains or so to develop and a couple of stores to covert to .co.uk domains (as discussed in earlier posts).
This month has been my best yet and I have earned $600 in income from my Build a Niche Store Empire. On the surface this appears a great result but there a lot of undercurrents which cause me some concern. My first half dozen stores made few if any sales this month and despite much link building have slipped down the rankings and indeed show few if any backlinks in Google. Everything I have read suggests they come back but non the less it is disconcerting. In theory there is a Page Rank update this month so this could help.
Google also appears to be looking for content more and more and I am of the belief that 200-300 words are needed on each page of my sites. This is a big task but I will test before I make a commitment to roll out this strategy over all my sites.
This month I need to reveiw all my stores. Check keywords, optimization, server logs and continue link building. In amongst that lot I need to build another 4 or 5 stores and continue my experiments with Wordpress. It’s going to be pretty busy. I’m also hoping to crack $1000 but I think that could be a step to far at this stage and it might take a couple more months. Still you’ve got to have a goal.
Earnings Summary
Total earnings $600
34 Stores - 26 made sales 8 did not - 5 of those 8 stores where the first I built (4 of the 5 performed well in their first month)
Actually there are too many stores for a more detailed breakdown but the bulk of the earnings came from 9 of the 34 stores the majority of these offering items that cost in excess of $1,000.
Also notable this month was the return of the ACRU. I had 1 in April, 0 in May and 10 in June. Looks like eBay has fixed the tracking problems.
Until next month…..
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3 Responses to “June Earnings Update”
Congratulations on your good month!
I too am having my first wave of ACRU’s come in, which is helpful!
Keep up the good work, it sounds like you are making a strong stand for Quality AND Quantity, which is the way to go!
By Niche Store Journey on Jul 2, 2008
Cool man, £300 not bad, this is my second month and i did £100, which im petty happy with cause thats with only 3 sites. Gotta keep building though i suppose.
I agree with the unique content issue, though i dont think it acatually has to be quality content some general text will do, G doesnt really know the difference i think.
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By Paul B on Jul 2, 2008
It’s normal for your stores to do well during the first month it’s indexed because Google ranks new websites well with optimized seo pages. Many of your pages will be in the first 1-3 pages of the index results for about 2-3 weeks. After this initial period, Google drops your pages down and they end up ranking on the 10th or lower pages of the search results even after link building. This is from my personal experience so I wasn’t surprised that your original stores dropped in revenue after the first month. So if you want to make money every month, you have to build a new store under a new domain name and try to maximize the earnings during the first month. Hopefully by the end of the year, the original stores come back strong in Google.
By Boo on Jul 3, 2008