The AdSense Startup

OK. I’m gonna kick off WorkingOnTheGo.com with a business you can start from anywhere and I’m going to call it my Adsense Startup. Over the past two years, I’ve been reading and studying Google AdSense and think that I understand the basics of how to do it. If you want to work on the go, from anywhere and make money while you sleep, this is a good place to start. However, I will tell you that it won’t come easy, it’s going to take some work. At the end of this post, I’m going to go through my 2 year plan to building my little adsense website empire.

A little background first. I have a day job as an insurance agent doing group life insurance so this isn’t my primary line of work. I’m going to be working on this in my spare time and going to see where it takes me. I’ve been playing around with adsense seriously for about a year. Most of it, reading about other’s experiences. As I start this site, I have 25 different sites of which about 12 are adsense related and around 4 I’ve been focusing on. Right now, my sites have been making around $25-$30 dollars a month for the last three or four months. I have received one adsense check and am on the verge of my second one anyday now.

But even though I’ve made a little from it, I still spend a lot of my time surfing through an adsense forum here, an adsense website there and any site that talks about it, I’ve been reading it. The doesn’t count the adsense login every five minutes just to see if anyone clicked an ad.

Hang on a sec…I’ll be right back…

Tick, tock….

OK…no money, I guess the next check will have to wait…lol.

Anyway, at some point you have to decide whether you are in it to make money, or in it to read about how much money everyone else is making. And if you want to make money with adsense, you are going to figure out what I know now. At a certain point, you have soaked up all of the knowledge you need any order to succeed. After that, it’s all about action.

The guru’s who teach this material and I’ll get to them in a second, all started with nothing. So, you cannot let not having anything going yet prevent you providing the only thing you are going to really need here with this project and that’s effort. Without effort, you won’t make any dough. You’ll make a little here and a little there and conclude it ain’t gonna work. With this site, we are going to prove that it can.

I’ll tell you what the main problem with making money online is and that is there are so many different ways that you can do it. There’s adsense, affiliate marketing, ebay, google adwords. I mean you name it and there’s someone selling you an ebook telling you how to do it. I know I was there. The first thing I saw about making money online was how to use a Yahoo! store. I bought several ebooks about it. I never made a Yahoo! store. I think the store that was the model storefront was one that sold armor for re-enactments or something like that. It was some obscure niche. But, they were making money at it….or so they said.

After that, I found myself on all of these email lists offering even new and better ways to bring in some online cash. And, you guessed it, more ebooks. I would surmise that I spent about $500 on ebooks, easy. I applied a few things here or there doing the one thing they all encouraged you to do-become an affiliate selling the same ebook you bought. Most of these ebooks I bought through clickbank which is an awesome service to make money. How do I know, I spent a bunch.

My favorite type of list offering was the one that only sold so many of their courses. And then they would shut it down. They had all of these bonuses if you bought it through them. It was then it dawned on me that it wasn’t likely that I would ever get to anyone before they did. I then unsubscribed to most of those lists.

Some where along the line, I ran across a guy named Griz. He had a site that talked about How To Make Money Online For Beginners. He was offering it all for free. And, from the looks of his site, he was actually practicing what he taught. Unlike the other guys, I’d read.

His site is ugly. Yet, it is packed with great infomation. I’ve read it all and applied it extensively more than any other technique I’ve come across. In a nutshell, (you can go read it on your own and learn) here is what he teaches. The first step is to pick a topic, or niche, that you want to talk about on your blog. Then, you spend all of your time talking about it, that one single topic, or those closely related to them. These topics are called adsense keywords. These keywords form the basis of your blog title, your post titles and the content of your articles. Once these articles are in place, you can then put Google Adsense ad units on your pages and when visitors click those ads, you make money. How much depends on how much the advertisers are bidding on them. That makes keyword selection important. But the purpose of this site is not to teach you the mechanics of how it works, you can read it from Griz, he explains it better than I can here.

After you read his site, then the next stop you should make is to the Keyword Academy. Court and Mark at the keyword academy have taken what Griz teaches and layed it out in such a superb fashion that thanks to them reinforcing what I learned from Griz to the point that now I really get it. I understand exactly what I need to do which leads me to the point of this post.

I guess the basis for what I am about to lay out to start generating a significant adsense revenue on a monthly basis for me is from two different sources. One is from Court and Mark. They are always doing these experiments and the don’t do them on a small scale. They’ve done projects such as 100 hubs in 30 days and 100 blog posts in 30 days. What happens when you do such large projects with massive effort? You get great results. And they certainly have. It’s inspiring. Really.

Not to be out done, I came across my third influence and that’s a guy named Ben at How To Make Money Online With Seo. He started creating a following for taking the massive effort thing to a new level. If Court and Mark could do 100 hubs, Ben was going to do 400. If they were going to do 100 blog posts, Ben was going to do a 1000. And, it sounds like it’s really working well for him. The great thing is, that these types of experiments really create a sense of excitement and everyone, including me, wants to know how they turn out.

The only problem is that as much as I’d like to match his level of effort (and Court and Mark’s effort) as well, I still tend to get only a few things done a day because I have so much to do. So, I spend more of my time looking for all of the adsense tips they provide than actually writing a gazillion posts. Even when you get that done, you’ve got to get back links which involves even more writing. It’s amazing to think that any single person could write the volume required to do it on a grandscale. If I don’t do it on a grandscale, how do I know adsense is working?

To complicate things, I’m also noticing a significant number of people skeptical of Google taking away what you build. There worried about the sandbox, getting de-indexed and getting banned from adsense. So, people are then talking about adsense alternatives when that happens. It’s really kind of comical the depth of thought that has gone into every angle. As for me though, I’m looking for one thing, performing my google adsense login and seeing a bunch of adsense earnings. Because I don’t think that there will be a better adsense alternative to choose from, I’m going to dive into my plan.

I’m lucky though because I already have an adsense account. If you don’t have one, you’ll have to go through a period where you have to earn the right to have one. How do you do that? Write a bunch of good content and then apply.

Well, I think I have laid the foundation to my overall plan which I am going to document on this website as I go along. I think if I have learned anything so far, rule number one is that you must write original content. And, alot of it. But how do you do that if you are crunched for time like I am. How can you compete against the massive effort that other people competing against you are going to be giving. What about those that are cheating? Because they are there.

How To Make Money With Adsense Without Killing Yourself

Here’s how. Original, compelling content. If there’s is one thing I have in my arsenal, it’s that I have the skill to write. Original content is a must. I’m telling you, people are lazy, they’ll have anything from computers write their content to people who hardly speak English just to save a buck here or there.

Step one is a commitment to write all of my own content. Eventually, Google will find a way to eliminate all of those adsense websites that are crap content. By making all of my content on my own, I’m going to see my google adsense revenue be more stable and good for the long term mainly because of that one single piece of effort. This is key.

My content is also going to have be long and thorough. It’s going to have to cover my topics completely and more extensively than anyone else in the niches that I choose and the sites are going to have to be big and target lots and lots of keywords and I’m going to diversify my adsense keywords as well. To get a hefty adsense income, I’m going to have to think big, bigger than I ever have before. I’ve got to be realistic at the same time. Somewhere between Griz, Court, Mark and Ben. Without further ado, here is the plan.

1. I’m going to choose seven overall niches.
2. After that, I’m going to pick one niche and make it my sole focus.
3. Each day, I’m going to post a keyword targeted post to that blog until I’ve reached a 100 articles on the site.
4. Each day, I’m going to get four backlinks to the site.
5. Once I reach 100 posts, I’m going to then write on that blog once a week and put it into maintenance mode.
6. Then, I’ll choose the second niche, write 100 posts on that blog and
7. Get 4 backlinks to that site.
8. Once I’ve reached 100, I’ll then put that site on maintenance mode by writing on it once a week.
9. At that point, I’ll have two blogs in maintenance mode and start the third.
10. This means that I can create about three and half sites a year, fully backlinked with seven supersites completed by the end of the second year.
11. At that point, I’ll have a post to write a week on each blog to keep it in action with new keywords.

At that point, I’ll re-evaluate where I am. I believe that I’ll be making money with adsense pretty well after two years. If not, adsense help me…lol….!

That being said, I’ll also have to squeeze in keyword research, site maintenance, commenting, blogroll link exchanges, research, reciprocal links and more. Which leads me to the goal of this site which is how the heck do you organize it all and get it all done. By breaking it all down into little steps, recording those steps so you know exactly what you are did and so you can repeat it.

In a sense, charting out your progress as you go along and creating a road map to repeat the next time. So, join me as I start this journey either by wishing me luck or joining me on your own adsense start up. It will be kind of like our adsense reality show as we go along.

Good luck!
Michael

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