[anon_builder]

1) Depends on what you call a niche.

2) Yes.

3) How many what? Links?

4) I started out in the niche without knowing any SEO at all. Started building a product and built a lot of links for traffic. The authority and product I built then were the fundament for everything else. Not annoying my users, and building a strong site were always very important, as opposed to doing short-term black hat stuff while forgetting about content. I continually do keyword research; always keep my eyes open.

5) Not just Adsense, some other ad networks as well. All display ads though.

6) Depends. There are many keywords, some rank #1, some page #1, some don't rank at all. Depends on the quality of the content as well, I continually work on that.

7) For this project, yes. I've done PPC on other projects, but it doesn't seem to be profitable so far for this one.

8) Depends on what you call black hat. I've never spammed anything. Have bought a link here and there in the past, but I do have a huge amount of natural links as well. I guess that for industry standards, I'm pretty clean.