Going to the Next Level

Today I have 5 established web sites, 1 stand alone established blog and I have recently started this site as well as 4 "micro-niche" sites that I am just getting started as an experiment.  Since this time last year, my income has doubled (a very good thing ) – but it has been flat for the last six months.  My own experience is that my income will take a huge jump in one month (sometimes doubling) and then go up and down from that baseline until it jumps again.

Since my goal is to double my income as soon as possible, I have been thinking about what steps I need to take to facilitate this.  In order to double my income, I need to double my search engine traffic.  I have been adding content to all sites on a fairly regular basis and I do think that is the only way to build a sustainable, grow-able site, I know that I need more incoming links for most of my sites.  I have been thinking about all of the ways I could accomplish this and have determined that writing and submitting articles to article directories is the best option for me.  I have written a few articles in the past and they have resulted in good links and traffic.

For some reason I end up putting off writing articles – but starting today I am going to be focused on writing and submitting articles.  Some people outsource their articles, but I have been very unhappy with the few articles that I have outsourced and I have ended up rewriting them – so I am going to write them myself.

Here is my starting point:

Site #1 – July 2008 unique visitors 25,045 – Home Page Page Rank 2.0 – This has always been the most profitable until recently.
Site #2 – July 2008 unique visitors 15,318 – Home Page Page Rank 3.0 – Currently the most profitable – making over half of my income.
Site #3 – July 2008 unique visitors 3.312 – Home Page Page Rank 0.0
Site #4 – July 2008 unique visitors 3,171 – Home Page Page Rank 2.0
Site #5 – July 2008 unique visitors 3,077 – Home Page Page Rank 1.0
Blog – July 2008 unique visitors 812 – Home Page Page Rank 3.0

I will be tracking my actions & results here.

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