Recently, I have changed my approach to marketing.

Initially, I was trying to "market my websites," which, for me meant shooting a single article to EZA, and then thru my established (largely automated) system.

Unfortunately, while this had the effect of improving the rankings of all my pages, it seldom had the effect of landing me on page one with that and nothing more (mostly, this is because I tend to pick keywords with higher SOC's than I probably should, but I am something of a contrarian...KNOWING that MNF is a popular piece of software and KNOWING that folks will naturally gravitate toward the lowest SOC's, I aim a little higher, counting on less in the way of "new" competition, and knowing that I can grind my way past existing, established sites with my existing system.

So the big change for me has been to focus on one keyword and one page rabidly (spend a full day setting in motion drip feeds for that keyword), then move on to the next one on my list.

Initially, I was worried that by doing so, I'd run afoul of Google, but thus far, this worry has not materialized (I mean, not beyond the "normal" dancing with Google when new links are incoming and they're trying to decide where to put me).

This means that for individual keywords, traffic develops more quickly and the site gets put on a paying basis more quickly, although on the flip side, it also means that certain OTHER keywords get outright ignored for longer, but, I tend to arrange my keywords by monthly searches (highest to lowest), so as a general rule, it's a tradeoff I can live with.