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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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FYI: According to a forum I was reading, the consensus says that it takes 6 months of quality posts to generate an income of $100 per month using Google's Adsense. Ref: MBN Forums :: View topic - How quickly did you make $100/month? -h |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tucson, AZ
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I only do a very very small amount of blogging as it is not my focus....I'm up to a whopping $.73 after 1 month. LOL Thad | |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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I put AdSense on my blog just to see how it works and actually it's just small block of few links. I didn't generate much, but it rises every day and I am happy to see that. Steve's $9000 per month is unbelivable |
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA
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I've been blogging for over six months and have a total of $34.27, but the first months were really focused on my personal development and primarily shared with my friends. Only in the past couple months have I been aiming for a more global audience, and spreading notifications on social bookmarking sites, and though I'm still not making much, the rate of earnings has improved slightly.
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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I was fortunate to earn $100 in my first month through multiple posts being referred to by lifehacker.com. I've been able to maintain about that level, although October wasn't a great month for me. Overall since mid August (2 1/2 months) I've made just over $200. My biggest question now is how to opptimize my site for adsense, search engine optimization (SEO), and other advertising. I would love to hear from Steve (or anyone) more detail on the following: 1. What the percentage break downs are from different revenue sources (I know he's shared some rough figures). 2. The break-down of where his traffic comes from (Delicious/Social Bookmarking vs. Organic search vs. Returning readers vs. posts from other blogs). 3. What 80/20 activities will optimize Search Engine results the most. 4. How did revenue sources change on Steve's site over time as the blog grew. I'm at over 10,000 hits a month and have been wondering if I should try to do some direct sponsorship deals or look into affiliate programs rather than relying solely on adsense. I would love to hear any advice on these questions. |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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There are many other ways to make money apart from Adsense. For instance you can create your own e-product (i.e: softwares, ebooks), and promote the website through organic traffic and of course the so called PPC. You can also use what's called the "Google Cash" model to make money. It's becoming increasingly harder to profit this way, but it's still very possible to make handsome income (i.e: 4 to even 5 figures per day) if you know what you're doing. Don't know how to create softwares? Then you could get one developed at outsourcing sites such as rentacoder.com, elance.com. Don't know or like writing? You can buy PLR articles and turn them into an ebook and sell it through, say, Clickbank. You can also preload these articles into an autoresponder sequence, and have these sent to your list as, say an online course spreaded over a course of 7 days, 14 days, etc, and promote your affiliate link this way...... Build your list: create a squeeze page, diligently post in marketing forums, create contests, use PPC...... Another income stream idea would be to create a membership site. It's a smart way to make money, I think, and if you do it right you can make handsome income. Pick a niche you like, do some market research on it, and just proceed with creating a high value membership site, which hopefully you can sustain for a long period of time. Answering your question regarding what 80/20 activities will optimize Search Engine results the most, IMHO it would be to get a lot of backlinks and reciprocal links from related sites. Of course you should still do onpage optimisation (pay attention to the tags and obviously internal linking structures of your site), but I think it's the offpage that counts more. Nonetheless the combination of the two certainly forms a powerful combination. However, don't get stuck solely in SEO-ing your website, because that's not the only way the search engines, especially Google, decide how to rank websites. You should know that Google implements a technology called LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing), which basically means that its robot decides the relevancy of a website not only by the frequency of the appearance of certain keywords, but also of those that are semantically related; hence, that's how you should design the contents fo your websites. Overall, write for your visitors and not for the robots. Readers satisfaction very often is followed by handsome ranking. Well I could go a lot more but let's stop for now and I hope the above has provided some useful insights | |
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Yokohama, Japan
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What do you people think? Is it better to have one blog/website and put all the energy into that or to have a few different ones. This with the risk of not focusing enough on any of them. I started a blog on Japan when I move here, but soon realised that the subject was to wide to monetize well with adsense. So now I have created a subblog that I call fightclub with only Martial Arts videos. Very small niche. For general funny stuff I created one I call Nipponsoup. In terms of trafic I am in the hundreds on these blogs (not fightclub yet), but adsense is not even two figures. I am wondering if it was right to create three separate sites or if I should merge them to one megablog. |
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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Quality content isn't all it takes. You also need to be a good marketer of yourself and your sites. | |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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a) Evolve my writing so it doesn't suck, and b) Fill my site with quality content so visitors don't come home to an empty site. I'm pretty new to all of this still so I really love all the advice I've been receiving. DmitryDavydov: So which article got dugg? I love digg. I was fortunate to join digg during the earlier stages (like I did with these forums). What does that mean? It means I can have the username "Henry". | |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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At risk of stating the obvious, Adsense income is dependent on site topic. For example, martial arts advertisers won't pay much for clicks If you want lots of Adsense income, you need to create a resource that both readers and advertisers value. Creating "quality posts" is not good enough. Last edited by MartialDev; 11-06-2006 at 01:38 AM. |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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I run several sites now on 5 domains and the leaderboards on top (always one or two) always generate a great amount of clicks, especially for traffic that will otherwise just click the back button. | |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006
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In my opinion to gain money with ad-sense you need to blog about a topic the pay. I'm blogging about trekking and hiking, very poor! :-( You need also to have a lot of traffic, but you need also that the visitor don't found all he needs on your blog, otherwise: why to click on another link? If someone reach your blog with the query "How to crack word password" and with your post he learns how to crack a password, he reach his goal, if on your post there's nothing that really explain how to crack word password, probably he will click on an advertise about " How to crack word password". I'm sorry for my bad English. |
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| Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Nashville, TN
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Wow, I really need to find some better topics to blog about then, lol. I've been with Adsense since December (maybe?) but I have yet to even earn a full $1. Then again I haven't put a lot of effort into it since I've been back in school.
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