Perhaps I am years behind the game, but in an attempt to at least play - I have spent the last 2 months making, coding, buying and adapting over 200 adsense websites. I do have a background in making websites and have had success in organic SEO for small business websites, but this adsense thing is a whole new ballgame for me.
I should have started this blog earlier, as much for myself to see a journal of what i have done and learnt - and it may be able to help some other newbies shortcut to success faster.
My plan is to continue to launch adsense websites until the end of the year. By then my latest batch of adsense websites should be coming to age and i am going to actually promote, link to and market them. I guess I just wanted to blog about my experience as I don't believe i am the only one out their who has bought this dream lock stock and barrel. I honestly believe it is possible to earn considerable money from adsense. I just plan to blog about it from the ugly - making no money with adsense - beginning. Hopefully i get to become one of those success stories I keep reading about and then this just all gets put down to learning the hard way.
Really my journey with adsense began in January of this year. 2008. I am a member of www.boxedart.com from my previous life as a web developer for small businesses and they have a great range of templates that are easy to adjust in photoshop. Anyway, in january they added a new category "SEO Adsense Templates with RSS Content" so we bought two domain names and setup the following adsense websites exactly as I downloaded, just adding in my adsense pub-id of course.
I setup
www. latestyoutube. com
www. no1newssource. com
and then did nothing. Nothing at all for over 9 months. No 1 News Source has made nothing - NADA - Zippo!! Latest You Tube has made a grand total of $4.16 since January 2008 to now Oct 2008!! So the put it up and make a mint experiment has not exactly worked. Most of the traffic i get to the Latest You Tube site interestingly comes from the keyword "latest you tube" and from the yahoo search engine.
In about April or May I bought a black hat secrets e-book and it came with a free bonus of a case study by .... In it he talked about using hypervre to get adsense earnings of $9000 then $14,000 a month. That case study got me back onto the adsense thing seriously. I was trying to code up some speciality sites by myself, learning python and using the new google app server. But I kept hitting walls and sometimes doing stuff by yourself (even with google to "google" answers) is just too hard.
The black hat book had a link to a list of the high paying adword keywords and I used that list to select my first topic I was going to make money from. DUI defense attorneys and lawyers. The list said they these keywords were costing between $50 and $90. So i wanted to be on the recieving end of some of that. So I bought 3 more domain names and started writing articles about DUI so I could capitalize on this great paying keyword. The site defense-attorney-dui.com took me and my partner (who did most of the copy and all the articles) over a week to complete. And I still wasnt that happy with it. Anyway, as it isnt really a topic we were that interested in, we launched it and let it go. The other two domains sat unused as we didnt have the energy or motivation to go through that whole process again. So far since April 22, 2008 until now Oct 20, 2008 it has had 4 clicks and made me a total of $1.48 - not exactly much of a share of a $50 keyword.
Surely all these people out there selling these course and manuals are all lying about their income from adsense. Google itself is making record profits from adwords so somebody is clicking, advertisers are paying and I hope and pray somebody is getting paid for providing access to that click.
Monday, October 20, 2008
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