Welcome to part 4 of my semi-evil niche blog business experiment. I want to give you a short overview about my current progress with my niche site and what I’ve recently done for it.

It seems my little project is slowly picking up pace, although my earnings from my niche blog are still quite small. So far around 350 links were automatically sold via the great link selling service called TNX. The downside, each sold link is currently only worth 6 points and 1,000 points are worth $0.95. So basically this comes down to earnings of around $2, and I know that this is anything but  something to live from.

But on the other side it’s also worth to mention that my auto blog is still very young and therefore still ranked at the lower end when it comes to earning points via TNX. A Pagerank 1 webpage for example can easily earn you 100 to 500 points, per single link sold! Now I’m waiting for my backlinks to kick in since they will dramatically alter my ranking and therefore my earnings.

Oh yes, backlinks! Since I’m somewhat lazy when it comes to link building, I’ve done some outsourcing again. 4 days ago I ordered 2,000 directory submissions (PR 0 to 6) from a guy on the DP Forums. Today he sent me the final link report since he’s already done with his job. Awesome service! You can find his thread and more details by following this link. I paid him $28 for this service and I’m now waiting for 2K fresh backlinks pointing to my blog.

The traffic of my niche blog is increasing too, which clearly reflects in my Alexa rating. The only thing that lacks behind is my advertising revenue. I recently installed some advertising blocks from SpeedyAds (a good alternative to Adsense and such), but so far only earned some 10 cents or so. Well, seems I have to wait…

In general I love seeing my blog get filled with fresh content everyday. Several hundred posts were automatically published since I launched the site some weeks ago. And it’s worth to mention that I currently only use some Google News RSS feeds as my source for new posts (beside some articles frome EZA).

I’ll update you when my backlink campaign (hopefully) kicks in!

Cheers,
Querblogger

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