Build a Niche Store Empire – Marks Site Performance
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:
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Optimize the Hybrid Driver main category by doing longtail phrase research and adding subcategory product pages.
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Add a few more categories to the blog and configure feeds
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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:
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Optimize the one or two of the main category by doing longtail phrase research and adding subcategory product pages.
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Write / Purchase a targeted article and submit to article directories
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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.
Previously Published Articles You May Like to Read:
- Build a Niche Store Empire – Eric’s Site Performance
- Build a Niche Store Empire – Eric’s Site Performance (2)
- Build A Niche Store Empire – Cindy’s Site Performance












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