... search engines. Since Google and other engines no longerreward new sites of any kind with immediate results, only themature, savvy e-real estate investor will win the day in 2006.Smart niche site network publishers have been gearing up for2006 with solid, well-thought-out site designs, contentstrategies, and niche research to place content rich sites upwith no other goal than to let them grow and season into veryvaluable properties in 6-8 months time.Having a site entrenched...

... in the search engines means you havebeen around for at least 3 months - and that is stretching it.Rewards are coming to those who wait patiently. And only tothose content site publishers who build real sites, not thespammy sites we were all waiting anxiously to disappear from theengines last year.Finally, content, which has been referred to as "King" foryears, (but treated in reality like a cheap whore untilrecently) is truly the focus of smart investors looking to builda network of sites on special niches to attract lucrativeadvertising and product sales revenue.Many virtual investors and developers who have built now popularsites are selling their networks for millions today.And this is the real "out." Smart virtual real estate investorsnot only build to profit in the short term, but are buildingpopular sites and networks of sites with an eye to cash out bigin the coming year.All it really takes is good research, creativity in isolating amarket, and most of all - patience. The longer you let yournetwork grow and season and the more popular you make it withstrong promotion tactics, the more it is worth to investors whoare looking for any site network that moves traffic.The second level of virtual real estate investing is buying upnetworks of content sites and focusing the traffic on profitableproduct lines, affiliate product sales, services of all kinds,and for advertising revenue.Investors who sell traffic via banner advertising, pay perclick, and any number of text linking schemes always seem tohave a higher demand for ad space than traffic supply. This willcontinue to be the case in the coming years and smart niche sitepublishers are banking on the advertising industry's insatiableappetite for good targeted traffic.Once people get over the Adsense boom and bust period of 2005,they will start to realize that Adsense is merely "fundedresearch" and the big game is the virtual properties themselves.Biggest mistake in 2006?Spam sites! Once they are dropped out of the engines, and theyall have been or will be soon, they are totally valueless.Complete and utter failures from the domain name to the time andmoney poured into them.Yet publishers who go the extra mile and exercise a modicum ofrespect for their industry are still floating the wave ofprofits by creating real sites.Think about it this way: A publisher who starts from nothingtoday and builds one rich content site per week in 2006 is goingto have about 52 sites this time next year.With a good marketing plan for each site which includes no SEOtricks and nothing even "grey hat" in the mix, she should havethe ability to isolate 10 sites in her network worth spendingmore time on than the others. This is given that the revenuemodel for each of the 10 sites is producing at least $10 per day.Turning those 10 sites into $30 a day earners can pluck up over$100,000.00 in revenue in a year's time! With good research onprofitable niches to provide with good content, and a simple butsolid marketing plan for each site, anyone with the propertraining and patience can get into the game.Now the publisher in the above example is pulling in $300 perday with just 10 sites. Last year it took upwards of 100 or morespam sites to do the same thing with no hope it would continuefrom day to day depending on when the engines caught up withthem and de-listed them.The publisher in the above example can keep that money rollingin indefinitely without fear because her 10 sites are perfectcontent sites that search engines love. No tricks and no spamsoftware involved.A publisher can then go on to find the next 10 winners in theirnetwork or continue to focus on the current 10 with an eye ondrastically improving one or all of the sites' profit marginswith ramped up marketing and content development.Now comes the great part. A publisher who finds their 10 winnersand develops them into sites that average 300-500 visitors perday each now has a network of sites pulling in 3000-5000eyeballs each and every day.Depending on the markets served with the 10 winners, a sitenetwork like this, which has proven revenue and traffic, caneasily value from $150,000.00 and up these days.Why? Because of the traffic, proven profits, and the quality ofthe sites themselves. This is something that was totallyforgotten in the Adsense spam site days. The guys who built 5000sites with no more value than a single, traffic-less affiliatecasino site have lost everything they worked for. Once they wereout of the engines, they were out of business.And they have nothing to sell. No assets. No content means novalue. No search engine rankings means no serious traffic and norevenue.But the publisher who built just 10 content sites last year thatare now doing at least $30 each per day is sitting on not only$109,500.00 gross yearly revenue, but also a network worth farmore than that which they can sell to rabid investors lookingfor just such a deal to land in their lap each and every day.Again, all it takes is knowing the niche publishing industry andthe tactics for creating and marketing content rich niche sitesand a little patience.This is what the market wants. All you have to do is give it theelbow grease it deserves to reap massive profits down therelatively short road to success.