In arbitrary fashion, I now have the 26 domains that I will be focusing on for the duration of the year and possibly longer until they are all fleshed out and ranking.  I made this decision based on Safari’s Top Sites on the Small setting!  Hahaha.  I liked seeing all my sites spread out like that.

This month is amazing.  I’m about to hit my first four figure month, and breaking beyond that significantly!  Things are growing so quickly.  Increased revenue has allowed me to increase my outsourcing.  I’ve been able to test out some really interesting link packages, and I’ve been getting articles written by the boat load.

Google’s new algorithm tweak for content above the fold didn’t hit any of my sites except one, and it only moved it down two spots on the front page.  And I’ve already recovered one of those spots.  A lot of other folks got thousands of sites hammered.  That is why I build quality sites with quality content meant to engage users, not trick them into clicking.  Not meant for robots to rank.  Long-term business planning is the only sensible plan.

So these 26 domains land me in all kinds of niches and are meant to have activity all across the week.  The idea is to get a nice, level, stable income rolling in.  Right now I get huge spikes and dips.  We’ll see how it goes.

By the way, keep looking at the four case studies that are still rolling!  They are all making some interesting movement finally.  I can’t wait for them to hit #1 so I can start reporting income!  Keep grinding and thanks for reading.

I had an old site that was so beautifully designed but I really overshot as far as what I thought was possible.  Luckily I had about 15 articles written on one mini-aspect of that huge niche, so I got a new domain for it and used those articles for the re-worked site.  This will be far more likely to earn me some cheddar now!

My lady also took the initiative to design and write 10 posts for an EMD we have with 40k exact searches!  She knocked out a huge portion of that site in one sitting!  I can’t be thankful enough.  She’s super supportive and celebrates my every little victory.

I also scooped up a couple very interesting EMD’s in two crazy niches.  I won’t say what they are, but it’s about as fringe as it gets.  They will be extremely fun to write.  I plan on writing them both myself instead of outsourcing just as fun projects.  One is a 9,900 exact search term and one is 12,000.  They have about 60 cents to 1 dollar CPC’s.  Me rikey.

I’ve told myself I’m not going to develop beyond 26 sites until they are all ranking and earning.  This means they will all have all of the content I intend for them to have and are all being backlinked like mofo’s!  Those should easily get me out of my day job.

Oh!  By the way, I’m a third of the way there.  I’ve been having some of this highest days I’ve ever had as well.  More records being broken.  I remember when $15 was a good day.  Then I remember a month later that $30 was my exciting days.  Then $40.  Now I’m seeing in the upper $50′s regularly now.  I haven’t seen a zero dollar day in months.  My low days are now at least in the double digits.  Heck.  To Da.  Yeah.

Yesterday was glorious.  As a matter of fact, just as predicted (read: hoped), January has been incredible.  The daily income average is up by over $10 and two of the income goals on the “Goals” page was met!  $50 in one day is now marked off.  Ganksta.  So is $500 in one month.  Bawlin.

The lady and I have busted out some pretty decent keyword research over the past five days and found some good exact match domains that we’ve now scooped up.  I’m capping site development at 26 sites until all of them have my required amount of content and are ranking somewhat.  Unfortunately, only about 7 of those are even developed, so that’ll probably take us through the year.

The Case Studies are still moving along quite nicely.  Don’t forget to peek at those occasionally.

I also have over half of my domains at NameCheap now.  Some have to sit at GoDaddy until they’ve been in my account long enough.  By March I should be able to shift all of them over and bid good riddance to bad rubbish and also enjoy cheap privacy on the domains.  That’s what’s up!

I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Christmas.  We are having a slow morning at the Trickle Cheddar residence before beginning our family festivities around noon.  I wanted to take some time and wish everyone some clicks on what is probably the slowest internet day of the year.  Yesterday my account thrived on one single click, which I am grateful for as this may be the first month I’ve never had a zero dollar day.  Even this morning on Christmas I’ve already seen three clicks!  This gives me a lot of hope for January.  I want January to blow the hinges off of things and really build some energy and motivation for the coming year.  My plan is to try and match my “real job” income by December 21st, 2012 (just a fun date to choose because it is, in fact, supposedly, allegedly the end of days).

An interesting thing is that my big bad ten year old domain on Codename: Karma just got it’s first click at a solid $6.75.  And that’s what I should be expecting on most every click!  That is going to be a big earner!  That’s a good Christmas present, I think.

I’ve also come to realize the naivety in three of my sites from the early days.  So I’m going to cannibalize the content and purchase two new domains (one down!) and start new sites.  They were just too big to tackle as one person.  Also my very first site that is penalized for it’s main term is going to be 301 redirected to a new domain I’ve been holding on to.  I’ve put more work into that site than any other, so it’s homepage needs to rank for something and earn.  To much invested to just sit there and earn a click here and there on the inner pages.

That’s what’s going on in this neck of the woods.  Hope everyone gets a lot of goodies!  Note to self: Buy a new router during the after Christmas sales!