Hey guys, I am back with a report here that — holy cow, I’m making money with adsense. A couple of days ago, you might have seen that I had an $18.00 plus adsense day. For the month now, I’m now at $56.57 for the month. It’s a new personal best for me and it’s also more adsense income than I made in all of 2008 — all in one single month. But, that’s not all, I’ve actually sold two clickbank products too for another $52.56. That’s a total of $109.13 for the month. This is my first $100 month and I think it’s a huge milestone. There are still ten days left.
As, I’ve gone along, I’ve been setting little goals and after I reach one, then I set another. Primarily, these are activity goals, the post a day with the four links, but I set targets for what I’d like to see happen with my adsense as well. Here has been my progression with adsense income.
- I wanted to make a $1 in one day.
- Next, I shot for a $10 month
- Then I wanted to cross the $20, $25 barriers
- I wanted a $10 dollar day
- I was shooting for a $40 month and I’ve blown that out of the water and am hoping it will be over $60 for the month now.
- If that works out, I’ll probably want to reach the $75 threshold next.
The key here as you learn how to make money with adsense is patience and targeting. I’ve basically started with nothing and gotten it to a $100, there is no reason why you can’t do it too. The only thing that’s preventing you is yourself. There’s no rush here, and here’s the secret:
DO A LITTLE BIT EACH DAY!
By doing a little bit each day, you can make progress. Personally, I can’t do a 100 blog posts in 30 days. But if I really think about it, I can do one post a day.
My progression so far is probably not much different from a lot of people. The first thing I did was stumble across Griz who taught me how to make money with Google adsense. So then, I did a lot of reading and then because he got me interested in it, I started looking for other people who doing it and looking for tips where ever I could find them.
After that, I started copying what Griz had done and working with blogger. I spent some time creating a how to blog on time management but I discovered that it was hard to get the ads I wanted to show. I signed up with UAW and did a couple of article runs with that which still sends me traffic and provided me with some rankings. Now, while that blog gets clicks here or there, I couldn’t see optimizing it properly to make money with Google adsense. I think that even though that website wasn’t the ideal site, I did learn from my mistakes and that’s what this is all about. Do something, see what happens and make adjusments.
I had some clicks though, and it spurred me on to create some new sites which I started targeting better and putting content up. I found out that you can still get clicks with no backlinks and then spent a lot of time working on configuring wordpress and getting comfortable with it. Of course, I had to spend some time figuring out what themes I liked and where I liked adsense. I’ve toyed around some with the made for adsense themes. I researched to see where people put there ads and stuff. What you’ve got to do is work a lot of the stuff out yourself. Eventually, it comes down to traffic.
It was then that I came across the Keyword Academy. If you haven’t, here’s the link to join the Keyword Academy, I recommend it completely. It wasn’t until I watched the core videos and a few of the others that it all started coming together for me. You can see the results, I’ve started getting and I’m not even doing it all out. The best thing that’s happened to me is that I’m not really learning anything new so I’ve just started working it. After I found out the basics that is — what google never told you about making money with adsense — and started following the people who actually were, it really boils down to a set of a few simple steps.
- Research keywords that you can rank for
- Choose keywords with a CPC that’s worth going for
- Write an article that is targeted to that keyword
- Get some backlinks
I’ll have to admit, that it was number four that took the longest to click for me. Until you get significant traffic, it isn’t going to happen on a grandscale. When it’s all said and done, that’s what you’ve got to start working on. With backlinks, you really don’t know how many you are going to need, so just get a few good ones and move on. Later, you can see that with age, the accumulation of links will start to bring you some traffic, you’ll have a clearer idea of if that post needs more links or not. You won’t know right away.
Which leads me to my current objective with my financial site (which has brought in the most adsense revenue). I’ve got a post I’m working on that I want to rank number one for. I’ve started keeping a spreadsheet of the keywords for the site and started building links to the post. Right now, I’ve sent a total of nine links to the post. My site ranks at #364 for the keyword I am targeting which is where I was when I started. What is interesting is that it my homepage ranks and not the post page which will probably change I’m guessing. While I’ve been targeting that keyword, I’ve noticed that another keyword with about $450 a month in potential has started showing up for some long tails. (I’m at #349 for that keyword) so I’ll build some links for those search terms and let it go at that.
I spent a lot of time last night re-reading Griz’s make money with adsense site and as a result have created my first support blog to help me improve my rankings by trying to create a really strong link to my site for the keyword I’m experimenting with. It also pays to look at what he DOES as well as what he SAYS. Both will help.
So, get busy. Make some contents. Make progress each day.
PS. I should apologize to Dang Rabbit for mentioning clickbank. Here’s his site Get Backlinks | Easy Seo: Blogs I Read For Fun.
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Delighted to see your income ramping up that fast. I have been reading a (long) thread on the Warrior Forums by a fellow who makes about $100 USD a day from about 30 very simple web sites … mostly all AdSense. (and no, there won’t be any affiliate link hidden in my comment here
). He did this in about 6 months of dedicated keyword selecting, site building and article marketing.
The part that amazes me is the number of folks in the thread, many from 6 months ago right up to today posting comments like, “but what if Google does away with AdSense?”, or “what if you make some mistake and get banned?” and on and on.
In other words people want assurance the the world will never tilt, they will never stub their toe in the dark, no one will ever close a car door on their fingers, and the Cubs will win the Series.
Having outlived a lot of younger, smarter, often more talented than I folks who were (in my view) quite “unjustly terminated”, I can assure you, just as Cub fans can, that nothing in life is guaranteed.
Do something, each and every day to earn money. Grow your crop. If something dies six months from now, you have had 6 months of profit that the ‘wait and see’ guys never saw a dime of.
Seems like an easy equation to me, ut then again, I never studied any higher math.
Correction, the Warrior Forum thread involves a fellow making between $300 to $400 per day from what is now up to 44 sites .. he built 12 more in the past month or two.
This is something to touch on with regards to your stated strategy here, as opposed to making many more than 7 ‘simple’ sites … some with only 3 or 4 pages. A lot of people who haven’t yet got in the water are hesitant and mystified by the ‘large authority site’ versus ‘tiny, ultra-targeted keyword’ site.
In actual performance it makes little difference. A fact that seems to escape many of us from time to time is, Google never has ranked ‘websites’ … blogs or otherwise. Google indexes and ranks _pages_ . So several hundred pages of large sites ranked for a keyword, and several hundred pages on tiny sites are going to perform very closely when Google goes looking for a place to serve up an ad.
@Dave
I think if you are going to build links to a site, build them to one. I am amazed at Ben over at http://makemoneyonlinewithseo.com that he buys so many domains to put content on. You’d think that once you reach 200 domains, you’ve got a couple grand a year in domain fees. Personally, I think that Google wants you to focus on a topic and talk about it ALOT. Eventually it’s my feeling that all of the many sites will go by the way side and those building more powerful sites will win out. Your comments are always great Dave. Thanks very much.