Making Money Online with Adsense

Contrary to popular myth it can be done. You hear stories and complaints all the time from people making $1 a month. The reason is simple - they don’t know what they are doing. I like Adsense for one simple reason. It allows a complete computer illiterate like me to make money online. No skills required other than a half functioning brain and a determination to succeed. Well okay - it helps if you understand SEO and you should if you have been reading my blog. That is what I do and that is the secret to making money online. SEO is what drives traffic and traffic is all that is important. All modesty aside - I am really good at getting traffic and it has nothing to do with my good looks or computer savvy. It has everything to do with - write this down - Getting Backlinks. A little on-site tweaking and a lot of backlink building equals traffic.

I wanted to add the ever popular screenshots to this post but they are so small as to be unreadable so I will list my earnings using text as well. If any of my computer savvy friends feel the urge to tell me how to make a screenshot larger by clicking on it (like blogger does) please fill me in as I haven’t the patience to figure this out. (I told you I was mentally challenged when it comes to computers)

Monthly Adsense Revenue = Currently averaging $3000-$3500 on beginners blog (Best month = $5200). The top 7 blogs across all my networks bring in roughly 20K a month in Adsense. The shot below is for November and I added it to explain the slow start concept to you. Without getting into all the reasons (I’ll save it for the book) it is normal to see low earnings at the start and end of each month and higher earnings mid month. This month started out with a $60 day and is climbing back up to the $100 mark ($96 yesterday). It was at $23 bucks early this morning which tells me today will end around $110 or so. Mid month usually sees days of $150 - $200 per day and then trails off again at the end of the month.

The shot below shows my all time earnings with this account - just over $65k. This is for the past two years and includes about $8k from the other blogs. The main blog has earned roughly $46k this year and the remainder in year one. (Two of my other networks have earned more)

The Beginners blog has also earned just over 15K from affiliate sales this year - the largest source from Project Payday which sits quietly out of the way down at the bottom of the page - the least effective spot and I have wondered what it could do if I just put it where my posts are.

Overall the Beginners blog has earned a little more than 60K this year with total expenses (re: link building) about $1800. Not bad for a blog that averages 4 posts a month and costs me nothing to maintain.

Traffic

The blog averages 1500 - 2500 visitors on weekends and 3500 - 4500 weekdays. This is all search engine traffic. 90% from Google. On days I post I get an increase between 5000 and 6500 visitors - my Adsense earnings/affiliate sales don’t see an increase on those days and this is why I have stated that social traffic does not convert to sales. Traffic has increased steadily every month and is due to targeting new keywords. The site ranks on page 1 on G for over 70 related terms and I’m adding more every month.

That is my system - pick a keyword and get to the top of the serp’s with it. Then repeat with a new term. Over and over and over. It works and it gets easier to do as you build up authority for the site as a whole. Last week I showed just how easy I can claim top spot for just about any MMO related keyword I want. It took less than an hour for Google to rank me number 2 for “make money online in Canada” without quotes and number 1 with quotes. (12 million competing pages)

Now while this all comes across as bragging I’m not really that impressed with myself as I know that this can be done by anyone. And that’s the whole point of this post - if you are starting out online the chances are good that you are going to come across Problogger or John Chow or Shoemoney and then spend the next year trying to duplicate what they have done. You will fail - yes - you will. You just don’t know it yet.

The reason you will fail is because they don’t teach you how to make money online. You will copy them like Caroline Middlebrook has done or John Cow did - and then you will begin to wonder why you still aren’t making money even though you have 3000 RSS subscribers. Caroline still hasn’t figured it out (you don’t have the right traffic Caroline) or you will sell out like the Cow did when you realize how much work is involved in building a social site with no return on the investment. Most of you will never see 3000 subscribers to begin with so take a cue from them - they aren’t making money following the A-List and they are successful as far as social blogging goes. Closer to home two friends of mine Vic and Court are busy with new ventures in spite of 3000 and 5000 subscribers to their flagship blogs. Why? Because there is no money in just having readers - they are using the flagships to funnel traffic to where they can make money. All the people I just mentioned have talent and quickly grew a large audience - most of you won’t even get that far - far enough to realize that you are wasting your time chasing bloggers. I have readers as well and truly enjoy them but I don’t need them to make money.

And that is why my system succeeds while social blogging doesn’t.

If you are new here and made it this far then you have just experienced what I do - I write agonizingly long posts full of terms that Google is going to rank me for. When I finish I am going to go out and build backlinks for all those terms and the end result will be that G will send the same traffic to this blog as it does to my other one. This site will be making the same kind of money as the other MMO blog but in a quarter of the time. And then I will build another site and do it all over again.

There are 36 million pages telling you how to make money online in Google’s index - only one of them sits on top of the list and it doesn’t belong to an A List blog. Google it and then start reading.

Thanks for enduring this,

Cheers

Qamar

How to Rank Well in Google

As I mentioned in my last post, Rand Fishkin outed the #1 ranked site for “SEO Company”. The post did not claim that the site used black hat practices, but it does use fairly obvious link building methods. Their links screamed link anchor text optimization, which is a solid sign that they are manipulating their anchor text. This is something we all do, but Google does not like. Our job as SEOs is to make our links as natural as possible so that competitors cannot publicly out you. So let’s dig in deep here and look at what factors are allowing this site to rank #1 for “SEO Company”. Not only has it achieved a #1 ranking for this term, but it has also received site links. Site links are read as a type of “authority” by searchers because it makes the listing look more important. So how did this site rank number one in Google?

How to Make Money Flipping Blogs and Products

I'll keep this short and to the point. It has been a long time since I found another marketer who impresses me. To impress me you only have to do one thing - show me a system that actually makes money and is easily duplicated. Ok two things - show me the system for free. That's not really asking much is it? The list of marketers who meet this criteria could be counted on one hand. In other words there are very few people that really make a living online using a system that can be divulged to others without it causing the system to stop working.

I tell people (for free) how to make money online using SEO and Adsense.

Earn Money Online with Google's Adsense

Easy monetizing of your blog with AdSense

Why should I monetize my website?

The more success you have with your blog / website, the more time and money you're going to invest to update it and host it properly.

At some point you may think: wouldn't it just be nice to have my site pay for itself?

Well, that is actually easier to achieve than it sounds! A decent hosting plan should cost you no more than $6.95/month. However, that's quite a low figure here and most people make many many times more than that in ad revenue...

By properly monetizing your blog site it is actually possible to have it pay, not only for the hosting, but also for the time you spend working on it.

Why AdSense?

First, because AdSense is a very simple and proven solution that already pays for hundreds of thousands of blogs/websites accross the world!

Also, AdSense is provided to you by Google which not only makes it reliable but also trustworthy. Once you have earned money from Google, you can actually trust them to pay it to you!
Finally, because the ads will be contexual, i-e they will be relevant to the content of your blog/site. This way, your visitors will not be offended for seeing the ads on your site.

How do I get started?

It's as simple as that:

1. Sign up with Google AdSense. (It's totally free!) Then follow the provided instructions to put a little javascript snippet onto your blog skin or any web page you like.
2. When visitors view your site they see contextual text ads that automatically adjust to the contents of each page / blog post so that they are always relevant. No flashing images, just relevant text links! :)
3. When a visitor clicks on an ad link, Google records the click and you get paid for it. Get ready for a monthly check from Google ;)

AdSense Tips & Tricks! Generate Traffic Boost & Maximize Revenue!

High Paying Ads. Extremely Important.

Ok Folks, a totally new subject. High Paying Ads.

One of the most obvious things about different ads is- they are different. (Well Daaa..)

Well yes, maybe it's really obvious, but there are still things you need to know:

Lets imagine together, that a new Hi-Tech company wants to sell a new product they invented. Lets call that company "Techy".Now, Techy wants to let every one know about their new product, so they produce nice commercials, and they place huge posters on the streets.

Oh! What a coincidence! They also use Google Adwords!

Ok so how is this stupid 'Techy' company story relevant to me? I just want to make some money from my site! (or Blog..)

Well if you want to make money through your Google adsense ads, you better listen hard. (Really hard.)

This Techy company, makes Millions of dollars every month. (Because their product is really good..). Now, remember that Techy is advertising their product through Google Adwords? Good.

Lets continue imagining.

Your Blog/Site, reviews "new High-Tech products", and you also have Google Ads.

If you haven't noticed yet- Google is very very smart, and their technology is amazing. Google knows how to put suitable content in your site's ads. That's how and why their adsense program is so successful.

And back to our story..

As we both now know, your site reviews High-Tech products, and Techy is a High-Tech company, who wants to let the whole world know about their new amazing product.

Since Techy company has Millions of dollars, they wouldn't mind spending a few bucks for Google to advertise their product.

Actually, because Techy are so rich, they are willing to pay Google lots of money for each click or impression, of their product.

This is where you and your site come in-

Google will place Techy's ads on your site, and you will earn huge sums of money for each click, or site impression which shows the Techy ad.

You can earn up to 54$, or more, for each click! Look at this short list, of what different company's are paying Google-

$54.33 mesothelioma lawyers

$47.79 what is mesothelioma

$47.72 peritoneal mesothelioma

$47.25 consolidate loans

...

For more KeyWords, just search Google for 'Adsense KeyWords'. You are welcome to use the search box on this Blog.

By now, you must be falling a sleep on your computer's screen. So wait, just one more second.

If you really want to make money from your Google ads, make sure you do not attract 'New Tooth Brush' or 'Check out this NEW Toilet Seat' ads.. I doubt they pay much..

Have a nice day, and make sure you have the right KeyWords.Amigo.

Adsense Tips - Adsense Help - Adsense Techniques

It goes without saying that we all need more traffic to our websites. This can be achieved in numerous ways. I'd like to explore once specific traffic source a little deeper.

Although it maybe prudent to mention a few to start with, some will be obvious and some will be not so obvious. Natural search engine rankings, advertising, articles, blogs, newsletters, rss feeds, videos, joint ventures, press releases, social bookmarking, social networking and the most important ingredient that should run through the whole of these is quality.

One of the areas, blogs, has always been a grey area for me personally, until I discovered a few important facts. Perhaps I knew them, but when put into a certain context they meant more.

Allow me to explain further...

We all have been told that within our strategy we must link a blog to our website; in fact as many blogs as we can muster the energy to do. So yes I'm sure we've all gone out and made ten blogs. As a consequence of such effort we have seen very little traffic. So as a natural result we've returned our attention back to our websites, made them bigger and better and sat back and waited, checking our adsense revenue a few times a day.

Despondency sets in and we can't see the wood for the trees. So what's going on?

First we must remember that blogs get regarded has having more value than a 'normal' website. We know this to be true as we see them ranked above most websites. Yet our own blogs on typical blogging sites never seem to get anywhere in the rankings. There is an important distinction here to. A blog on a 'blogging site' will also rank higher than a blog on a normal - mywebsite.com website

Should you wish to test this theory out, put the same content on your website with a Page Rank of 4 and then put the same content on a blog with a zero page rank. The result sadly is that the blog could well rank above your own website.

That said... It would appear we are working 'upside down' on our efforts. If we put 2 hours of work on our blog, rather than our website per day, we may get the blog to a page rank of 5 quicker? In doing that, we achieve backlinks to our own site from a better page ranked site. Plus if we have adsense on the blog we are killing two birds with one stone.

I am only half way through fully testing this theory and it may require a further six months, but all the evidence suggests that this will work. If we have a website that sits nicely in a niche, then to have a blog or two back-linking, will only increase our websites inner page ranks and they will appear higher in the search engines.

As we add content to our website, tweak a little and add it to our blogs. The end result will be a page rank of 4 for our website and a page rank of 5 or 6 for our blog. When this happens, funnel the links back to your own site and it should nudge the page rank up one notch. The blog of course should be 'subject' relevant to your own site.

Seven Ways to Increase Your Blog’s AdSense Revenue Without Being a Sellout

It seems that when it comes to AdSense on a blog, most bloggers are either all for it, or completely against it. If you don’t necessarily want your blog to be a moneymaking machine cluttered with ads, but would like to at least cover hosting charges while staying tasteful, then here are a few simple strategies for including ads on your blog without looking too cheap.

Localize Your AdSense – Keep your AdSense just on your individual post pages. That is where there will be the highest concentration of information that relates to a specific topic (if you follow the rest of this post). Or, find the posts that have really hit a nerve on Google, and load some AdSense into just those few posts. Set up AdSense Channels for those posts, and experiment with different colors, if willing.

Use Section Targeting – “Blogging Tips.” “Start Your Own Blog.” sick of seeing ads like this on your blog? It’s probably because you have a blogroll or other blog-related things on your – blog. By inserting AdSense Section Targeting, you can target regions for AdSense to take into account, and for AdSense to ignore, when choosing what ads it serves up. You’ll start having more relevant ads on your pages.

Don’t Get Slashdotted (or Digged, if You Will) – It may be exhilarating to see that your latest post getting tons of traffic from a very popular site, and you may think that will bring you ad revenue, but the fact is, you’ll be paying a ton on bandwidth overage and those users aren’t going to be clicking on your ads.

With That in Mind, DO Get Googled – Slashdot user path: visit Slashdotted post, leave flaming comment, leave, visit next Slashdotted link. Google user path: search for something, click on your site, read useful information, see enticing ad relating to that information, click on ad.

Pick Your Topics Wisely – Forget about finding a niche topic for your blog. When going for AdSense revenue, user loyalty is overrated (so much for not being a sellout). You don’t want users in browse mode, you want users in search mode. Find a niche topic for this post, because that’s what is going to bring in people who are looking for something in particular, whether it’s a product that fulfills a niche need, a frightening yet poorly-documented medical affliction, or strange bugs killing their plant.

Write Good Posts – Before writing a post, think about what that post is about, then ask yourself what someone searching for that information might Google. Try searching for that string. If there is too much competition, you may want to target a slightly less popular keyphrase. You may even want to try the Overture Keyword Tool if you need suggestions. If there is still too much competition, reconsider your post. Do you really have anything new to say about this topic?

Blog Like No One is Reading – All of the above sound great in theory, but who really knows what will strike the balance between high-search rate and low competition? Blog about things in your life – things that you know – using descriptive keywords, then see what gets the Google traffic. Learn. Repeat.

I hope following these guidelines will help you collect an AdSense check while maintaining some peace of mind.