Lads 'n' lasses, I've been doing some research in the past couple of weeks into a particular niche and decided to set something up. I've got adsense on there and the first signs are very encouraging, with CTR's of between 7 and 17% and eCPM of up to $350. The best day so far has yielded just under $6 from a few clicks. This is with minimal traffic from a couple of links on other sites. What i've done since then is buy a couple of decent domain names relevant to the niche and i'll be spreading them around to try to increase traffic. If I can 10x my traffic (not difficult when it's so low), I could be looking at $50 a day from this site! Woohoo! Watch this space.
I'm assuming you mean from the several domains that have replicated the same content? In worst case scenario, if the three clicks were derived from a 7% CTR, you only had a bit over 40 visitors. In all honesty, you can get at least triple-digit visitors per day with minimal efforts (think social bookmarking). It may be wise to create additional websites when you’re confident that you simply cannot derive anymore visitors to your initial one. With your current impressions, this doesn’t appear to be the case so just market it further. Save the money you would spend on domain registrations, and reinvest your earnings into promotions. I’m confident you will do great; keep us updated!
I didn't, I said 'of up to $350', that isn't an exact figure, it's a range. It's actually in the range $0 - $350. Neither is the CTR range of 7-17% (I could say 0-35%), and neither occured on the same day, so you can't infer anything rigid about traffic either, all i'll say is, it's very low.
No, the content isn't replicated, the new domains point to the crappy subfolder of my hosting that is the url at the moment. The 40 visitors is an over-estimate, so you can see why I think 10x is quite possible.
I actually created a site yesteday with a ECPM of $394.94 cents, so I agree these things are very possible, targetting the right niche and right keyword is the right way to do it, I have been targetting health keywords using the adwords tool to determine the popularity and then buying domains based on the names, the hardest part is building up the traffic quickly and maintaining the articles on the site which you must write yourself frequently however if you begin making $50 a day from just writing a few articles every day then its well worth it.
..... to piss you off perhaps Seriously, to discuss challenging niches, profitable keywords, good integration and building traffic. Most of all, what is possible if you think about what you're doing and try to manipulate things in your favour. If that isn't your interest, you shouldn't be here.
I was excited to see my 1st big check delivered by courier. With the right tools (and the right mentality) all things are possible I guess.