My first website : beginners autoblog

Been writing articles for AC for awhile now, I started my first site about 2 months ago. Pretty much everything ive learned has come from this site so i figured id give back a little and show my results so far. Ill try to include as much proof and data as i can unlike alot of the 'success' posts here 

Not trying to promote anything or boost my ego, just showing my experience so far to spark some discussion.

This is basically 'shezblogging' as outlined in a large post here. Autoblog that tweets new posts to twitter. I use WP robot to run the blog, posts amazon affiliate items, youtube videos, flickr images, and yahoo news articles. I tried straight RSS feeds to start but got blammed with DCMA notices within 24 hours. Now i just use content that is offered out to be copied. Not spun or unique, but not 'stolen' either...

I dont do any active backlinking or anything, just some SEO plugins on WP. Still experimenting with which ones I like best. 

Started off with one blog on a .com, got good traffic right out of the gate. within a week had dozens of pages up on Google. Things died down a bit for awhile (was trying out some changes, twitter got suspended for a few days) but ive left things untouched on this site for the past month and traffic has been steadily growing. Getting around 75UV/day currently.

Heres a screenshot of traffic to my first test site. 



Traffic sources have been pretty stable at ~30% organic and the rest from twitter/other.



After getting a feel for things, started duplicating with other niches. Now have about 20 sites on .infos up and running. 

Monetizing with adsense, amazon, and clickbank. 

Got one big sale on amazon right away for a profit of $12  but seems like it might have been a fluke since thats the only one since... about 1% clickthrough but no more buys.

Get a hop through clickbank a few times a week but no sales yet.

Adsense has been steadily growing, now average about one click per day for a CTR of around .5%. CPC has been anywhere from 0.01 to 1.50. Last month averaged out to about 0.20/ day. This month is up to about 0.40/day  Theres a pretty steady rise across the board with clicks, CPC, CTR, eCPM, and weekly earnings.

After passing $10, my account got put through a standard secondary verification process. You can see how the CPC really went to shit the last week when they started putting generic ads on my main site till the verification passed. Also, the new sites start with crapy ads for awhile till they are more established and get the keywords settled out it seems. Hopefully this will pass in the next month or so like it did with the first test blog.










Its been a few weeks and the new sites are just starting to get a few clicks too. Overall traffic has really taken off after adding the new sites. Heres my total clicks through bitly from twitter inclusive of all the blogs. Averages about a dozen hits a day currently, some over 50, some only a few.



For the future I might try some backlinking, but mostly let things run on autopilot. Have things mostly figured out the way i like them so setting up a new one takes less then a hour. Using a custom theme I edited myself, clean and professional but pretty basic. Now that I have some parallel sites, I will start testing out some minor tweaks in ad placement etc one things get settled in.

Running on shared hosting, so right now am just about breaking even to slight profit. Hopefully G wont drop any b& hammers in the future, but can also work with other sources as well.

Any questions/suggestions feel free to ask. Will keep this updated every few weeks.