Earlier in Blogging Fever, I launched my niche site and posted a long post on how to build backlinks. I failed completely although I see some light in the middle of the journey.
First of all, the niche site started with nothing and then I got up to about 30 visitors a day by ranking on page 1 on Google for one of the keywords I targeted. After that, my site dropped again to nowhere and now I can’t even see how far it goes.
There are couple of reason why I can’t maintain and move on from there.
Lack of link building effort
As you might had already know that I am missing in action for several months and stopped publishing posts. During that time, I did not do any link building to bring up my site after dropping.
However, I understood very well why my site failed and working on a better strategy to reconstruct my link building strategy.
UAW investment is too much
It is quite difficult financially because the monthly subscription for UAW is 67 USD. This also means that in order for my niche site to be successful, I need to earn at least 67 USD a month and that is not including the maintenance for web hosting, Spin Rewriter and etc.
As a result, I finally dropped UAW after 4-5 months of using their service. I would not say that their service is bad but my next strategy will really try to avoid building lots and lots of links.
Rely too much on Squidoo
If you had seen how I build my links from my post, you will see that the key to success is my super post and I rely completely on Squidoo to be the best place for my super post.
This is because Squidoo has high authority and high PR and it makes your site easier to rank. However, on the other hand, you need to maintain a high quality content over there where otherwise, Squidoo will de-index your lens.
I don’t write a good content there and as a result, all my lens are de-index and my rankings all dropped. Also, I had sent too many do-follow links to Squidoo via UAW and I think that de-index my lens as well.
Lesson learned: Write not just good content, but awesome one at Squidoo.
Not updating my niche site regularly
Lastly, the reason why I failed is I don’t update my niche site regularly. I believe a great niche site exists because of its contents, and not the number of quality links that it has. As a result, I probably have 1-2 good contents in my niche site and everything else are normal.
Even visitors are able to land on my contents, they probably bounced off after that when they don’t find any other better things to do.
And finally…
I am reviewing my niche site strategy now. The next post you will see from me is going to cover what mistakes that I had done and I certainly hope to get a better results after that.
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I am not expert, but I know the key of success is research an easy to rank keyword, because you do not need to put many effort on link building for easy to rank keyword.
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Do you have any micro niche site on which you work?
What should be the link building strategy? Its not content that matters I think..
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At the moment not really, Dhruv.
I had stopped building my niche site.
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