Build a Niche Store Empire - Marks Site Performance

March 16, 2008

I have decided to dedicate a Niche Store Performance category that will track the performance of my niche stores used in this series. The listing below represents a time-line of benchmarks and results.

Niche Site 1 Hybrid Golf Clubs For Sale Online (Hybrid Golf Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 02/23/2008
Date of last Performance Update: 03/16/2008

Costs: $49.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
$15.00 100 PR5-PR8 Manual Directory Submission with 3 urls, 10 anchor text titles.
$16.00 500 word (copyscape verified) article about Hybrid Golf Clubs
$10.00 Submission to 100 Article Directories

Earnings: $01.16 total (Updated 03/16/2008)

Notes:
This site was the first site I used as an example in the Build a Niche Store Empire in 12 Weeks Series.

Timeline:

• 02/24/08: Spotted spiders in logfiles, added robots.txt to site and xml sitemap.
• 03/16/08: Spiders coming daily - starting to receive targeted traffic

Indexed Pages: 31
Inbound Links: 53

From AWStats:
Spider Visits

Search Engine Traffic

Weekly things To Do on the Hybrid Golf Club website:

• Optimize the Hybrid Driver main category by doing longtail phrase research and adding subcategory product pages.
• Add a few more categories to the blog and configure feeds
• Obtain 10 inbound links to the Hybrid Driver category

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Niche Site 2 Buy Cabinets (Buy Cabinets Sitemap)
Date of first inbound link: 03/02/2008
Date of last Performance Update: 03/16/2008

Costs: $23.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
$15.00 100 PR5-PR8 Manual Directory Submission with 3 urls, 10 anchor text titles.

Earnings: $07.80 total (Updated 03/16/2008)

Notes:
This site was the second site I used as an example in the Build a Niche Store Empire in 12 Weeks Series.

Timeline:

• 03/02/08: First page spidered 
• 03/16/08: Spiders coming daily - starting to receive targeted traffic

Indexed Pages: 28
Inbound Links: 124

From AWStats:
Spider Visits

Search Engine Traffic

Weekly things To Do on the Buy Cabinets website:

• Optimize the one or two of the main category by doing longtail phrase research and adding subcategory product pages.
• Write / Purchase a targeted article and submit to article directories
• Obtain 10 inbound links to the optimized categories.

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Site # 3 In the Series: Fine Designer Shoes (Designer Shoe Sitemap)

Date of first inbound link: 03/14/2008
Date of last Performance Update: 03/16/2008

Costs: $23.00 total
$8.00 +/- domain name
$15.00 100 PR5-PR8 Manual Directory Submission with 3 urls, 10 anchor text titles.

Earnings: $00.00 total (Updated 03/16/2008)

Notes:
This site was the third site I used as an example in the Build a Niche Store Empire in 12 Weeks Series.

Timeline:

• 03/15/08: First page spidered 

Indexed Pages: 1
Inbound Links: 0

Weekly to-Do on this site

• Directory Submission status check
• Develop custom template
• Inbound linking from include files

If you recall, this is the site I stated I was going to test out the include file linking strategy on MANY of my other BANS sites. (Read more here) I will spend an hour or so at some point tonight getting the include file added to the other sites.

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Additional sites will be added this week.

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