Just a quick update where I am with this challenge.. I now have 5 low hanging fruit type niches up and with around 10 posts on each one and a UAW project setup for each blog. As a sidenote, I have added plenty of variations to the resource boxes in each project to ensure that each post gets some backlinking.
The first 2 blogs I created are now indexed on page 1 of google for my main target phrases which is really cool. The first blog is pulling around 150 unique visitors a day and the second blog is pulling slightly less than that. The other 3 blogs are all indexed and getting traffic for some long tail keywords but the main target keywords are still buried deep in the Google indexes for now.
Not bad results so far and now I am moving onto the next phase also of testing some more difficult competitive but ultimately more lucrative niches.
Great results. It was an interesting read.
Thank you,
Franck