Showing posts with label adsense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adsense. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2008

How a blogger made $100 a week

Here is a post by a problogger who is making more than $100 a week way back in 2006, he might be earning even more now. Read on...
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Well it would appear that another year has quickly come and gone, but it has been a very eventful year for me in terms of my AdSense experience so I thought I’d share my experience over the last 12 months, and maybe throw in a few hints and tips that I have learnt in that time.


OK will start off with who I am and how long I have been doing this for? My name is Chris and I’m a 21 year old university student from Brisbane, Australia. I started my sites back in the middle of 2004 for a bit of fun and to apply some of the new skills that I had just learnt in one of the subjects I had just studied at uni. That said I did have a bit of website and SEO experience from a few hobby sites that I created back in 1999 – 2001 when I made a couple of sites while I was in high school, again just as a hobby about topics I liked. As you can see I have been a member here at DP since October 2005 so I have been here for over a year now and I have learnt SO much, and I guess this thread is my little way of summarizing a lot of what I have learnt and giving back.


So I guess what you all really want to know is just how much am I making from AdSense on my sites. Well as it stands I’m making around $120/day lately. Here is a graph of my earnings progress since I joined DP:




As you can see when I first joined DP I was earning a very measly $10/week from AdSense with my sites that were at this point about 15 months old. Once I joined DP I obviously had my eyes opened to the true potential of my sites, not just in terms of AdSense but also in terms of SEO and the importance of building a good quality site. With this, I quickly saw improvements in my AdSense earnings and my traffic to my sites by applying that simple advice that is scattered all over these forums, and within a few short weeks I was earning a very solid $100-$200/week which I was quite happy with.


From October 2005 through to May 2006 I saw fairly gradually, but small growth of my sites with the exception of two weeks in February where my sites were down for a few days and constantly crashing until I upgraded my hosting, which had become overburdened due the progress I had made. Then in May I got caught up with my university commitments and then I went on a couple of brief holidays which saw my sites’ growth stagnate until around August at which point I had a terrible drop in revenues as a result of Google supplementally indexing my sites and placing many of my pages into supplemental results, a problem which I would solve a couple of months later.


Then came September! As you can see on the graph I made significant progress in September. What did I do that made such amazing returns in such a short period of time? Simple – I got serious and started working hard and applying what I had learnt over the past two years.


How did I get serious? I took a bit of a risk, bought a few books about AdSense, SEO and general website development and dropped down to part time uni and started dedicating more time to my websites. I started writing articles that were on topics that people wanted to know about and topics that people were searching for, and I placed these articles into a highly optimized template that was just designed for these articles, then I went about building a few backlinks for these articles to help with the SEO. I’d have periods of maybe a week where everyday I would sit down and write an article two, often three or four, and I’d just keep writing, sharing my knowledge, sharing my expertise.


Why were articles successful? These articles each focused on an individual search term or topic within my industry. The articles were informative and useful. They were 100% original and completely unique in the industry. They were my thoughts, opinions and beliefs on topics that I was very knowledgeable on. They were detailed and lengthy. And the search engines loved them.


Why did the search engines love them? Because they were original and unique, and because they were getting backlinks and they were on my established sites which I believe have a fair amount of “TrustRank” because at this point my sites were well over 2 years old and had thousands of backlinks, because I had slowly but surely developed them over the previous two years. Plus the articles were all on niche topics that there wasn’t that much competition for, and I had employed very basic, but very solid SEO techniques. Things like:


- Giving each article an individual highly relevant page title.
- Using meta descriptions and keywords, but not abusing them.
- Using H1 and H2 tags.
- Using good keyword density and specific phrase targeting.
- Using good quality, unique, original and focused content.
- Building some well anchored backlinks.
- With a good navigational system between articles.
- Using an aged domain with good TrustRank.


These techniques are nothing special, and are the basics of SEO and when they are applied to individual articles and based around a well optimized AdSense template is the formula for high earnings and success with AdSense.


So what sort of template am I using? It is again nothing special. It basically is a simple article page that was 780px wide, with an AdSense links unit at the top, then a 100px high header image, then a left hand navigation bar. Then a large rectangle unit above the article, then the article itself with a H1 title, with H2 sub titles, where required, followed by another large rectangle unit after the article which was along side a list of similar articles, then a footer. Far from a revolutionary template design. I have attached the hand drawn version I gave to my designer so you can see how simple the design was.


Ok so that is the basics of how I went from less than $10/day in August 2006 to $100/day in October 2005, but before I wrap up this “little” post I thought I’d also share a few bits of wisdom that I have picked up along this 15 month learning curve here at DP.


Firstly so many people out there are preaching you need to diversifying and make MORE sites if you want to make more money with AdSense, and often in this suggestion is the timeless of debate of which is the best way to make money with AdSense, with sheer quantity of sites or a few quality sites? Personally I’m a quality sort of person who believes that that with every page and site I’m creating and building an asset that will not just be of value now, but well into the future. I’m not working on a snatch and grab model of trying to create one spam site a day everyday for a month to hopefully earning $1 from each site so that by the end of the month I can be earning $30/day. Why don’t I work like this – because in life making money generally comes down to one thing – providing value, and sites like that are soon weeded out by refined search engine algorithms.


Whether you are a CEO of a large company or a factory worker working on assembly line you are being paid for the value you provide. When it comes to websites you also need to be providing value to your visitors for them to continue to use your service, and by providing value you will gain them as a loyal reader, and as a reader you can advertise to them. The more people and the more value you provide the more you will make. It’s a simple equation really. Now search engines are constantly working towards weeding out the “poor value” sites that are often referred to SPAM and whilst there may be loopholes at the moment with every passing year the search engines become savvier and are refining their search algorithms.


So for me providing value is normally about providing good quality content. So I make sure that when I’m creating sites these days I’m adding something to the site that makes it worthwhile for someone to visit and if possible try to make it so valuable to them that they are actually inspired to come back again and again. These sorts of sites are then normally looked upon favorably by search engines as they receive natural link development from all the fans of the site. This is a model of site development that doesn’t just work presently, but is a model that I’m confident that will work well into the future of this rapidly changing environment.


Another issue that is often brought up is the issue of creating lots of sites for high paying niches. Personally I have never wasted my time with such things because I’m focused on providing good quality expert content and if I’m going to do this I need to make sure that I’m knowledgeable in the niche that I’m creating the site on, and unfortunately for me I’m just not that knowledgeable on mesothelioma, cancer, debt consolidation or lawyers, nor do I have any passion towards developing my knowledge on such niches so creating a site for such things would just be a waste of my time and any visitor’s time that came by my site, because the information on it would be next to useless.


What is a much smarter idea, that I believe I got from one of Shoemoney’s posts was that you should establish a good quality site in an industry that you are familiar with and knowledgeable of then when you have built the site to close to its potential and you are looking to make a new site to diversify, you should look to make a site that is still in a similar industry but has only a degree or two of separation from your original site. So say you had a site about Sports Cars, instead of trying to start a site about Music or something else that is completely unrelated to your established site, you might try making a site about Car Sound Systems, or Luxury Cars, or something that is still related to cars. This way you can build the new site somewhat off the back of the already established Sports Cars site. Plus you already have a great deal of knowledge about the related industry plus it is easier to stay motivated if you make sites about topics related to your passions, and even if you don’t have expert knowledge to start off with, you will pick things up quickly when you have loads of related knowledge from your other expertise. This is so much easier than trying to develop a new site from scratch and is a very effective way of developing a successful network of sites that feed off each other.


In this game of making money online you really should be always experimenting and trialling new things, but you should also be looking to apply methods that you know work. Building on what you have with more of what has worked in the past and consolidating your position.


You also need to make sure that you are working hard and keeping yourself motivated. The online world can be extremely competitive and you need to make sure that you are doing your best to stay ahead of the pack. You should be reading diversely on a range of topics, AdSense and other earning methods, SEO, online marketing, website design and development. Reading diversely doesn’t mean just reading forums, I also highly recommend buying ebooks, books taking classes to extend your learning beyond that of JUST DP – there is a whole world of thinking out there and often I think that so many people are just reading DP thinking that it is a one stop shop for everything.


The reality is DP doesn’t have it all and a $20 book from Amazon on AdSense or SEO could make you thousands of dollars. Let’s face it, if you aren’t willing to part with $20 at bare minimum to extend your expertise, chances are you aren’t going to be the next person here making $XX,XXX/month from anything online. That said there are definitely exceptions to that but it's extremely rare. Plus you can certainly fast track your development and earnings if you are willing to shell out a few dollars to increase your knowledge, or get a good quality design made, or some special feature for your site. Plus if you have invested money into your projects chances are you will be a lot more committed to gaining a return from them which will only further contribute to your development.


The reality is there are millions of people online that are willing to put their time into making money online, but only a very small proportion of those are willing to put there time AND money into giving themselves the edge, and the reality is that for every person that had tried to make a few bucks online and succeeded there have been about another 99 that tried and made nothing. So give yourself the edge, and take the risk of losing a what is literally a couple of dollars – I can almost guarantee you it will be the best risk you have ever taken.


I mentioned above, it is important you stay motivated, and one of the best ways I know of staying motivated is setting challenging goals and targets that are very detailed and measurable. That includes, short, medium and long term goals, and often making them public like here on DP is a great way of making yourself accountable to them. I personally think that you should have your goals written down somewhere along with an action plan at least and renewed them at least once a month. There have been many goal setting threads started up here at DP before in the past, many of which I have tried to stay actively involved with in the past, and I have always found them be wonderful references for both your progress and to help with keeping to a target.


Well it think this thread is getting excessively long now so I will wrap it up, with a good old fashioned, if you work hard you will reap the fruits of your labor. So stick at it, and best of luck in 2007 may it be your greatest year to date.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

adsense-secrets very useful

adsense-secrets very useful
Here is a link that will show you how to make money on the internet with your blogs:
http://www.adsense-secrets.com/blogging.pdf
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

How do I Increase Adsense Income

How do I Increase Adsense Income by George Christodoulou
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One word, "experimentation". The only way to increase adsense income is to fiddle with your template. Basically, what you need to do is see what your currently earning and tweak everything on your blog. There is a little more than that, but this is what will increase your income when everything else is in place. If this is a little cryptic, I will try and clear everything up. I will give you the answers to a few questions you should be answering yourself.
How much content do you have? This is a major problem with many adsense income sites I see. Many people think they can create a site and make money. Many bloggers go into this state of mind that they can make money from a handful of pages on there site. News Flash: You will never make any real money with a handful of articles on your site. If you landed on a site for some kind of info your researching, you will be turned off by the fact that you've read all the pages in 5 minutes.

Remember, many people on the internent scan so 10 pages of content can be read in 20 minutes and shorter for most. This leads me to the point I want to make about return visitors. These visitors that come back again and again, are the basis of all income. They love to read content and they like it to be updated. If you write more content and increase the number of pages on your site, you will increase traffic and revenue. This goes beyond traffic because you will be creating an authority site that will give you a more legitimate look. Since many people are afraid of links leading to viruses, this will ease them into trusting you and the adsense on your site.
What is the quality of your content? This continues from the amount of content on your site. If your site has low quality content, you will have the "x" clicked on your visitors internet explorer. If you have content that is of low quality, contains bad grammar, and incorrect information, you will lose the trust of your readers and lose money. People will not take the chance to click on links on a site they think is suspicious.

Who is your audience? This is another problem people don't realize. I'll give you an example of this problem because you have probably seen this before. My partner/brother, created a blog about, "brain theory". He is not a professional blogger and he has no SEO or keyword research skills but he still wanted to create it and hope for an audience. Needless to say, he had many problems but still got a little traffic. This traffic was not converting. Now, I understand that a few visitors will not give you any money but he was not getting any money at all. When he investigated his ads, they where so off topic, they wouldn't get any clicks ever! Some of the links were for blogging because his title had the word blog in it since his site was a blog. It was just a description but it affected almost all the ads.

To fix this problem there are a few things that can be done. First, you can fix the words you write. Make sure ONLY the main key words you want in your ads are in your title tags. This will help when google bot scans your content for relevancy. To go one step further, you can add tags in your template that will direct the bots to the content you want them to scan. This way, you can close your body content in these tags which will change the ads by only focusing the bots on your keyword rich (and correct) content.

George ChristodoulouIf you are still asking youself, "how do I increase my adsense income", Please visit, http://www.internetbusiness-tips.com/ for more info andtips to help increase your sites adsense income.

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Adsense Websites: A step by step guide to making money with adsense websites

Adsense Websites: A step by step guide to making money with adsense websites by Nicherama.com

Making money with adsense is probably one of the quickest and easiest ways to make money on the internet. All you need is a website, an account with google and a little html knowledge and you are ready to get started.
In this article I am going to give you a few quick steps which will guide you through setting up adsense websites.

Step 1: Plan the site

This is a crucial step in making an adsense site. It is the difference between a site that makes money and one that doesn't. Planning a site involves the following:
- Finding a niche - Choosing keywords for that niche - Deciding how you are going to drive traffic to the website
For finding a niche and choosing keywords for that niche you can start by downloading good keywords (http://www.goodkeywords.com/).
Do a search on a couple of niches that you may be interested in building a website around, check how many people are looking for information or products in those niches. Then type the keywords that people are searching in those niches into google. Check out your competition. Visit their websites. If they are on the first page of the search engines they must be doing something right. Learn from them.
So, now that you have done your research decide on a niche to build your site around. Additionally pick keywords that you will write your content around.
Now decide how you are going to drive traffic to your website. Are you going to optimize your website for the search engines and focus on free search engine traffic? Are you going to pay for traffic? It is best to focus on 1 or 2 methods of traffic generation and work on them every day.

Step 2: Build the site

We have now decided on a niche to build our site around and it is time to build the website. There are various ways in which you can build your site. Lets look at them:
- Build your site with a WYSIWYG editor. This requires HTML knowledge and may not be best suited to a beginner. There are many templates available for download on the internet. Be careful with free templates as the guys who make free templates sometimes use sneaky techniques to drive traffic to their websites through your site without you knowing!
- Use a blog or CMS (Content Management System). Blogs are a very easy way to get started because there is practically no technical web knowledge required. You can sign up at www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com and start posting up content you have written immediately.
- Buy a website. There are many websites offering ready built adsense websites for sale. One example is http://www.nicherama.com. When you purchase these sites you can upload the files right away to your web host and start promoting the site. When buying a website make sure that the website you are buying it from is reputable. Make sure the sites are easy to use (i.e adding new articles to the site), make sure you can customize the site you are buying and make sure that they don't sell unlimited copies of the website you are buying.
Remember that included in building the website is buying or writing your own content for the website. For a start you should put about 10 or more articles up on the site.
Once the site is built or bought, upload it to your hosting account/domain name and you are ready to promote it.

Step 3: Promote the site
In the first step we planned how we were going to drive traffic to our adsense websites. Promoting our website is taking our traffic generation plan and putting it into action.
You should have decided on 1 or 2 methods that you are going to use to drive traffic. If for instance one of them was using search engine optimization, every day we should do something that advances our site towards higher rankings. In this case it might be writing a new article or getting a new link into the website.
Promoting your adsense sites is an on-going process and you should definitely spend time on it every day.

Conclusion...
And that's it! Now it is time for you to go out there and take action. Grow your adsense empire by building/buying a couple of adsense websites each week. After a short while you will start getting clicks on your ads and you will be making a nice little sum of money.

Check out http://www.nicherama.com for some great adsense websites and other niche marketing products and resources.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

How to set up your Adsense for maximum profit [How to Use the Adsense Preview Tool]

How to set up your Adsense for maximum profit [How to Use the Adsense Preview Tool]

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Assuming you already have a site or a blog here are some tips that will help you maximize your AdSense profits. These AdSense tips and tricks have been proven effective by a lot of people including me, these steps also was highly regarded by Adsense Reviews.

1. At the Adsense Preview Tool first choose or click the text only feature of AdSense click on "AdSense for Content" when you get to your AdSense control panel or the "AdSense Setup". Because it has been proven that people already are immune to image ads and therefore do not click on image ads they way they used to a few years ago. People ignore image ads that's why I don't encourage you to use them. Text advertising also is more appealing to the usual internet surfer because it gives away a lot of information in a glance.

2. Choosing "AdSense for Content" at the Adsense Preview Tool you will be directed to a page that shows "Ad Unit" and "Link Unit" click on "Ad Unit" and then click "Text ads only". I personally use "Text ads only" for my weblogs because I've said this kind of ad has the least resistance from readers of my blogs. This is also the comment of a lot Adsense Reviews. By the way this is my primary blog http://olliestyle.blogspot.com this is where I post my freshest ideas and thoughts about making money on the internet.

3. Next click on the "Continue" button where you will be directed to the "Get Ad Code" page where you can chose the format of your Ad. If you have no idea about what kind of ad to use click on the "Ad Format" link to view the kinds of ads available for you to use.

Below are the types of Ads available to you at the Adsense Preview Tool:

Leaderboard (728 x 90)

Banner (468 x 60)

Button (125x125)

Banner (468 x 60)

Half Banner (234x60)

Skyscraper (120x600)

Wide Skyscraper (160x600)
Small Rectangle (180x150)

Vertical Banner (120 x 240)

Medium Rectangle (300 x 250)
Square (250 x 250)
Large Rectangle (336 x 280)
Small Square (200 x 200)

I did not include the formats for Image Ads, Video Ads, Link Units, Referral Buttons, and Themed Units Ads because our main concern are text ads but you may also see these kinds of ads at the Adsense Preview Tool. Chose the Large Rectangle (336 x 280) Text Ad, it takes in a lot of clicks according to a lot of Adsense Reviews.

4. Now that you are done with the format of your Adsense Text Ad. We'll discuss the colors, the default colors on the Default Google Palette are blue, black and green. Blue for the title, black for the text, and green for the URL or website address. I suggest you use the "Open Air" Adsense Palette. If the "Background" of your weblog is white on the Adsense Preview Tool you should use "Black" for your "Title", "Text", and "URL". After choosing the appropriate colors for your Text Ad click the continue button below the screen.

5. Clicking the "Continue" button will direct you to a page that would ask you to search for a channel. You don't need to do anything on this page simply click on the "Continue" button.

6. On the next page you will see "Your Adsense Code. On "Adsense Preview Tool" box Click on the Adsense Code after clicking it will be highlighted. Right click on the highlighted code and the click on copy. You may now copy your Adsense Code to your weblog.

There you go. I've given you the steps on how to put Google Adsense on your website or blog. Experiment and study how the Text Ads work for your site, you may play around with the colors and the types of Text Ads to use, and if you need to see how the Text Ads look like always use the Adsense Preview Tool.


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