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And this post really helps. One month in and I have learned a hard lesson (picked a niche that is hard to monetise.) So I set out to start again, armed with new information that I did not have before... and best of all...
This time I am going in with a plan (what I didnt have on my first site, although I did made $1.88 on adsense with it.) And the best part is, I have all that information from my first site to help me out, my failures.. but I had a really big success with it to build on.
In failing to realise a way to monetise it, and one way that I planned on not working out, I did learn valuable lessons on
SEO. I have had this site sitting on page 2 for a fairly competitive broad term set of keywords since about 4 days in (minus the 4 days I was sandboxed for changing my site around). And in researching my new niche, I figure I could take page 1, and can say so with confidence in knowing that it didn't take a whole ton of effort to get my other site where it is now (and the competition for this new keyword is about the same as my first site).