One recommendation I’d have for your BANS site is to not use Adsense on it. Building sites specifically for Adsense or for eBay affiliate or feeds usually works better than mixing functions.

I have more sucess with volume sites and just weeding out the underperforming ones as I go along.

It’s usually easy to change direction slightly in a niche to pick up products that are selling well and/or can bring in good search traffic.

However, I wouldn’t recommend spending a lot of time tweaking one BANS site. It’s easy to get stuck nursing an underperformer. I’ve seen a number of people do this, myself included. Instead, just move on to the next site and make course corrections later if you need to do so.

I think that one of the best indicators is if things are selling in a particular niche. While an eBay affiliate will make money even if the seller is breaking even or losing money trying to sell low priced items, if there are no sales, nobody gets paid.

I’m glad you found the information helpful.

I used to wait, and wait, and wait before starting something new. Last year it was like wait, read stats, wait, build some links, wait, add content …it was very slow going. One of the most important things that Vic mentions is not get hung up watching stats, counting links and so forth but just to keep moving.

More recently I’ve been following Vic’s pattern of starting up a site and moving on quickly to the next. Generally it’s taking me an evening or two to go from researching an area to having it fully in my site update rotation which includes link building. My main slowdowns have been getting new domains hosted quickly. I’ve had ISP delays that were annoying sometimes.