How YOU can REALLY reach $100/day + w/Adsense!

[Chris-]

Originally Posted by vema123

2. For anyone who's tried his idea of making $100/day, how's your project going on? Any success?

Thanks
Silvia

Here's my experience so far (after about 7 weeks of having 4 sites running using most of the suggested method) . . .

On the income per click, yes, following the advice of finding high-CPC keyword groups, I am getting about $1 per click. But that's my only "success" so far with this system . . .

On click-through, I am getting about half a percent, ie. a tenth of what is said to be possible. No idea why this is . . . I am using the BlueSense theme and doing approximately 300 word articles that are fairly mediocre and obvious in content, so no idea why doing exactly what the method says produces results that are a tenth of what they "should" be. If anyone here is getting anything like the 5 to 10% click-through quoted, I would very much appreciate you having a quick look at my sites and telling me what I am doing wrong (please PM me, thanks!).

As for visitors . . . I've had 4 sites up for about 7 weeks now, and was getting a handful of visitors a day until last week, when all those sites dropped to an average of only about 1 visitor a day. I guess Google changed my sites from being categorised as "new" to not-new, and so they dropped in ranking. So far I've posted a new Page or Post nearly every day, Dug and Stumbled all of them within a few days of posting, and submitted to EZA and GoArticles within a few days of a page or post being indexed by Google. I also posted a bunch of posts in relevant GoogleGroups (Google doesn't seem to count YahooGroups posts as backlinks at all!) and done some commenting via CommentKahuna, and commenting on Blogs via a Google search. So I guess it takes many months to get any kind of reasonable traffic. I have only just disovered UAW, so hopefully will speed up my backlink numbers (my best site has twenty-something backlinks now, after 7 weeks), but of course that costs money, so it looks like I'll be making a loss for at least a few months before the backlinks build up enough to give me decent amounts of traffic. I have found that Google takes at least 5 weeks to find a back-link for the EZA and Digg, and even slower for anything else.

As with every other system I've found or bought, the reality is nothing like what's promissed, not even a tenth of what is said to be attainable. Whether the guy who started the thread was exagerating hugely to get customers for his product, or what, I am not sure.

[SergeLight]

Thanks for this great post! You really inspired me to dive in the world of adsens

[Fraggler]

Chris, you can't judge your CTR if you are only getting 1 visit per day. Don't worry about messing with your template until you are getting 50 to 100 UV a day.

Across my sites I get a CTR of 7 to 15%. Work on traffic generation first.

You already have some sites up so pick the easiest keyword you have that you want to rank for and work on it until it gets onto page 1, then move onto the next one. Once you can get some confidence that the system will work then you can look at expanding. A good way to pick a keyword to target is to look at Google Webmaster tools to see which searches your site is appearing in (but not quite high enough to get clicked).

Just remember, it does take about 3 months before a site really starts to kick in.

[FivestarHB]

I have read all 556 posts - yep it took me all night whilst dinner was done, kids to bed and the wife gets some relax in front of the tv. Now the finale of this epic tale has been a big let down, to say the least. However I have learned a great deal, and believe there is some good insights in what IM99 has been saying (despite his obvious misdeeds as described by GlobeTrotter et al).

I have been applying the microniche adsense route for some 6 months or so, using the great ideas of Xfactor (yep, I got his book), Clickbump (yep I got his WPthemes), DrivenFor (got GoogleGrinder too!). They are all variations on a theme, and it is a good theme - find a low competition, high searched, high paying keyword, super-optimise a site for that keyword, build, backlink, rise and repeat.

IM99 adds value to this conversation by challenging us micronichers to find 10 related keywords, same criteria, and building a a bigger (not-so)micro niche site. I like it. Makes sense. I was a little worried about the "thin-ness" of a single keyword site, and its longevity. Now, I think I can build 10 in one, and aim for a higher daily Adsense take. Also another thread along these lines is How I make $100+ Per Day with Adsense from a Single Site - FREE WSO $97 Value Lisa has a useful book.

So I am going to go back to my 15 or so Clickbump/Xfactor sites and find 6-10 related keywords with IM99s criteria ("My criteria for creating a site are that I can find at least 10 thematically-related keyword/phrases the EACH have at least 50 searches per day (1500/month), and competition under 40,000 (phrase-matched, or in quotes"). Make sure page 1 of the SERPS is not too dominated by authority sites, and build a page for each keyword. Go back and do the basic link building. See if I can build my $4 a day into something worthwhile.

I may be johnny-come-lately, but I th ink there is some great info in this thread, that IM99 can be proud that he has contributed to the community, notwithstanding the misdemeanours described.

[Crew Chief]

As a person who is succeeding with Adsense, I'm reading you post shaking my head, saying to myself, "He doesn't get!!! He just doesn't get! Not ending with your comments."

To succeed at Internet Marketing you must have a, "I will succeed mentality!" That means no matter what...

No matter that my current traffic is low.. I will get it to increase!

NO matter that my CTR is 0.5%... I will get it to increase!

No matter that I'm using a bland WP Theme... I will switch it to a better theme!

No matter that I'm making mistakes... I will admit them and move on!

No matter than most people fail at IM... I will succeed!

If you are going to succeed you have to place the responsibility of your success on "I" not on someone's system... and not in anyone's system.

And just so you know, virtually EVERYONE starts off with a low CTR and horrible amount of traffic. What separates those who make crazy amounts of income online versus those who constantly struggle is this.

Those who win made the commitment to win when their CTR was 0.5% and they were getting 1 visitor a day, and they had read 132 threads and bought a dozen ebooks and still hadn't made $0.25 cents to speak of!

This system that internetmarketer99 teaches in this thread works. The question is, "Are you going to stick with it UNTIL YOU WIN!!!


P.S. If you only have 20 backlinks in 7 weeks, you're definitely doing something wrong!

What you need to do is develop a system whether you are monetizing with Adsense, CPA offers, Clickbank, Amazon, Ebay, Paydotcom, PPC, Banner advertising, etc.

That is another KEY element that successful IMer's all employ. No system means no success!

Just reading your comments makes it clear that you don't have a system. For example, you state that it takes Google 5 weeks to find a backlink for EZA... that is totally incorrect.

You can post an article to EZA, push the EZA RSS feed button, bookmark the article to the top SB sites and RSS Feed aggregators and be indexed and counted for within a few hours.

Originally Posted by Chris-

Here's my experience so far (after about 7 weeks of having 4 sites running using most of the suggested method) . . .

On the income per click, yes, following the advice of finding high-CPC keyword groups, I am getting about $1 per click. But that's my only "success" so far with this system . . .

On click-through, I am getting about half a percent, ie. a tenth of what is said to be possible. No idea why this is . . . I am using the BlueSense theme and doing approximately 300 word articles that are fairly mediocre and obvious in content, so no idea why doing exactly what the method says produces results that are a tenth of what they "should" be. If anyone here is getting anything like the 5 to 10% click-through quoted, I would very much appreciate you having a quick look at my sites and telling me what I am doing wrong (please PM me, thanks!).

As for visitors . . . I've had 4 sites up for about 7 weeks now, and was getting a handful of visitors a day until last week, when all those sites dropped to an average of only about 1 visitor a day. I guess Google changed my sites from being categorised as "new" to not-new, and so they dropped in ranking. So far I've posted a new Page or Post nearly every day, Dug and Stumbled all of them within a few days of posting, and submitted to EZA and GoArticles within a few days of a page or post being indexed by Google. I also posted a bunch of posts in relevant GoogleGroups (Google doesn't seem to count YahooGroups posts as backlinks at all!) and done some commenting via CommentKahuna, and commenting on Blogs via a Google search. So I guess it takes many months to get any kind of reasonable traffic. I have only just disovered UAW, so hopefully will speed up my backlink numbers (my best site has twenty-something backlinks now, after 7 weeks), but of course that costs money, so it looks like I'll be making a loss for at least a few months before the backlinks build up enough to give me decent amounts of traffic. I have found that Google takes at least 5 weeks to find a back-link for the EZA and Digg, and even slower for anything else.

As with every other system I've found or bought, the reality is nothing like what's promissed, not even a tenth of what is said to be attainable. Whether the guy who started the thread was exagerating hugely to get customers for his product, or what, I am not sure.

[cloteria]

Did you take some sort of seminar or course? or is this just the result of working in this field for a loooong time?

[DrGUID]

Listen to Crew Chief!

I make good money from Adsense. But the big bucks come from...

1. My own products
2. Affiliate links

If you build these microsites with adsense alone you'll probably make peanuts. But throw in your own eBooks, software or consultancy services etc. etc. and site income could grow by 10x compared to just having adsense alone. Having your own product also makes it easier to get backlinks.

[Kenneth Holland]

Hi Mark,

I see that you can't be PM'd any longer. Can you let me know of the SPEED PPC course you said you recommended earlier in this thread?

Thanks!

Ken

[affiliatesuperdeal]

Great post! Lot's of useful tips that I'm already playing around with.

[bfas]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

As a person who is succeeding with Adsense, I'm reading you post shaking my head, saying to myself, "He doesn't get!!! He just doesn't get! Not ending with your comments."

To succeed at Internet Marketing you must have a, "I will succeed mentality!" That means no matter what...

No matter that my current traffic is low.. I will get it to increase!

NO matter that my CTR is 0.5%... I will get it to increase!

No matter that I'm using a bland WP Theme... I will switch it to a better theme!

No matter that I'm making mistakes... I will admit them and move on!

No matter than most people fail at IM... I will succeed!

If you are going to succeed you have to place the responsibility of your success on "I" not on someone's system... and not in anyone's system.

And just so you know, virtually EVERYONE starts off with a low CTR and horrible amount of traffic. What separates those who make crazy amounts of income online versus those who constantly struggle is this.

Those who win made the commitment to win when their CTR was 0.5% and they were getting 1 visitor a day, and they had read 132 threads and bought a dozen ebooks and still hadn't made $0.25 cents to speak of!

This system that internetmarketer99 teaches in this thread works. The question is, "Are you going to stick with it UNTIL YOU WIN!!!


P.S. If you only have 20 backlinks in 7 weeks, you're definitely doing something wrong!

What you need to do is develop a system whether you are monetizing with Adsense, CPA offers, Clickbank, Amazon, Ebay, Paydotcom, PPC, Banner advertising, etc.

That is another KEY element that successful IMer's all employ. No system means no success!

Just reading your comments makes it clear that you don't have a system. For example, you state that it takes Google 5 weeks to find a backlink for EZA... that is totally incorrect.

You can post an article to EZA, push the EZA RSS feed button, bookmark the article to the top SB sites and RSS Feed aggregators and be indexed and counted for within a few hours.

I have to agree wholeheartedly with CrewChief. I have followed this thread and system virtually to a "T", and not only done very well, but have proven for myself almost everything that was stated in the OP.

As with anything, circumstances vary, and I've learned a great deal over time, so there are areas where I've tweaked and experimented, but I have to say on the whole, this is A1 top-drawer stuff.

bfas

[tipsources]

Thanks for this great post! You really inspired me to dive in the world of adsens

[tedzmaniac]

i haven't mate
still stuck in $20 a day here

[HCLee]

Originally Posted by FivestarHB

So I am going to go back to my 15 or so Clickbump/Xfactor sites and find 6-10 related keywords with IM99s criteria ("My criteria for creating a site are that I can find at least 10 thematically-related keyword/phrases the EACH have at least 50 searches per day (1500/month), and competition under 40,000 (phrase-matched, or in quotes"). Make sure page 1 of the SERPS is not too dominated by authority sites, and build a page for each keyword. Go back and do the basic link building. See if I can build my $4 a day into something worthwhile.

Another possible way of improving your adsense clicks is to focus on your best 3 to 4 sites that you know are consistent at making money. Then write more pages using high CPC keywords that may not necessary rank high but they must be related to the topic.

[darkonetoo]

Thanks for the insightfull thread and all the great posts!!!

I realize that I have gold in my own sites that I've not been digging.

DarkOneToo

[mowens17]

You dont really specify what type of search numbers, title comp in search etc to target or in your experience what works best, it can be confusing about what to aim for at times.

[Adam Roy]

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

How YOU can REALLY reach $100/day + w/Adsense!

Now create your content. You want to target ONLY 1 keyword per page. Use that keyword in the title and H1 tags (if you're using Wordpress, put it in the post title - that's your H1 tag).

Actually, Post titles are h3 tags in wordpress.

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by friend

Actually, Post titles are h3 tags in wordpress.

Actually they are different for different themes. All of mine are H1. But I'm not sure that it actually matters what size heading you use...so long as you use one with the primary keyword you're targeting.

[Adam Roy]

Originally Posted by Jacob Martus

Actually they are different for different themes. All of mine are H1. But I'm not sure that it actually matters what size heading you use...so long as you use one with the primary keyword you're targeting.

What themes do you use? I havent come across one yet with h1 tags in the source

[pennywrites]

This is amazingly helpful information. Thanks for the post and also to those who have added by adding questions and comments. Keyword searches are vitally important and really confusing. Every guru has different advice. I do make money with Adsense but only pennies per click. I will definitely try your plan.

I use eLert Gadget for blogging and article posts. It is connected to Google and is part of the desk-top options from Google gadgets. Have you any experience with this? You can post to WP, and all the biggies all at the same time.

[kgloh23]

Yes, making $100/day from adsense is possible. I had see $0.50 for 2 clicks in my site. But the problem I have is no traffic. If I can get 5000 thousands visitor per day, it will become reality.

[mariahm]

Thanks for this post. You have a wicked way of explaining.

I follow pretty much the same steps as you and I can say that it does work.

[mascomasco]

Wow,what a wonderful post here.Good information,quick support and nice responses.Thanks a lot

[victoriakeenato]

I do this, but I divert traffic to my site clicks that have higher value. When they come to my site I say, "Hey, you look, but I also found this on another site."

[stevenjotello]

Thanks for the informative post Mark. A question about your target keywords: When you say 50 per day or $ 100 per day, which means that broad match or exact?

[Duc]

Thanks for this great thread. I am still a newbie but what I read again and again is that adsense is not the best way to monetize your traffic.

- List building
- Selling your own products
- Promoting CPA and Affiliate products seem to be the methods of choice.

They, however, require additional work, which would speak for adsense as a business model per se.

I am still trying to figure out the best strategy for myself. Right now this is my plan.
1. Building a bunch of Adsense site (10)
2. Get them ranked
3. Pick the best 3 sites and add optin
4. Sell the unprofitable ones
5. Testing and optimizing the best sites for conversion
6. Promote related products to list

I guess with this strategy one could earn a decent income online. Thanks again for the great insights.
Cheers, Duc

[cryterium]

Originally Posted by pearsonbrown

This post takes me back to the 'good old days' of the Warriors. Lots of excellent content, based upon real experience and no hidden agenda.

Great effort.

Pearson

Hi, I had a look to yout link about english grammar lessons, and I must say it has been a help to me I will share with my friends in facebook!!

Greetings from Spain
Lydia

[superSEO2011]

Hey thanks for this post to the op

But is he banned now?

[superSEO2011]

Has anyone actually made $100 or anything with this method? Would like to know!

[Albern]

Hi, thank you so much for this great and useful information.

[fannyballard]

Thanks for the informative post Mark. A question about your target keywords: When you say 50 per day or $ 100 per day, which means that broad match or exact?

[iresh]

Great article Thank You very much, i also wandered about this things for while so thank you again

[Autobot]

This is the root of all internet marketing: KEYWORD RESEARCH!

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

...good stuff..

[networm]

I love reading the article... This is my first step to Adsense, I just get approved. I already earned $4 within few days after the approval.

Now, I'm starting to build my first Adsense site...

[billo]

hey i done the same

[billo]

ya i found nothing please post original link

[Soulofinfamy]

Yea it's amazing how the secret to making money really is just doing something!

[richeerich]

thanks for sharing, i thought stuff like this you would keep secret. glad u haven't ; )

[chinedu86]

The OP has been banned,i wonder why.Can anyone point me to a site using the BlueSense theme,i want to see what it looks like and is there any best converting adsense theme at all?

[dpiper]

I want to thank you for your helpful info, plus thanking you'll help me find your post again, easily, for referrence.

[dagaul101]

Nice tips, the key that is worth repeating is the keyword research to find these profitable niches

[shanewhite203]

If you like 10 sentences of loans to students who meet the criteria (over 100 searches for phrases with less than 20,000 of the competition), how to decide which is the primary key for the direction and you just have to write?

[arshavin]

What type of budget do you need at first for the cpc? I know the answer to this varies greatly. Just give a ballpark figure if possible please.

[gforces]

I think I have got to spend a day or two reading through this thread and learning about this Adsense and PPC stuff. I am not fully understanding it as yet so I have a day (at least) of study ahead of me.

[highave1]

Wow!! such a beneficial post. I looked for...

[srinu]

good posting ... thanks for sharing your experience

[arshavin]

for the search numbers. are we ok with global or must it be local?

Also say i find a keyword and i search for it in google with "ikhi" and it comes up with big results like a million. Should i stay away from this?

[arshavin]

I am using niche finder to search through results.

There is a CPC field for each keyword. Is this the amount id recieve roughly for each click i received?

[zoeguy]

Originally Posted by chinedu86

The OP has been banned,i wonder why.Can anyone point me to a site using the BlueSense theme,i want to see what it looks like and is there any best converting adsense theme at all?

Recommend that you do some creative Googling: CTR theme vs Clickbump etc etc

For example:
CTR theme Clickbump site:warriorforum.com - Google Search

Eppie Vojt's CTR theme & Clickbump's "clickmagnet" theme appear to be the most popular.

Some interesting quotes from other threads:

Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat

The course is weak when it comes to discussing the best ad layout.....it pretty much doesn't. They say it is very important, and that they have done a lot of testing, tweaking, retesting and optimizing to get things just right. It says you need to do what they do to get their results, but then they don't tell you what it is they're doing to get 8%-50% CTRs. I can tell you the WP template they provide isn't it. In my experience using it on several sites over the past year or more, the CTR is terrible. Overall though, it's a decent product. If you do what it says, you should eventually see some success.

Originally Posted by coopthadaawg

If you haven't picked up CTR theme I can definitely vouch for it.. My income has gone from $5 per day to $10-30 each day.. And CTR is almost always double digits..

Originally Posted by John Williamson

Forgot to mention that prior to Clickbump I had tried HeatMap, BlueSense, Thesis, and a few others. My CTR's are now double what they used to be with those themes.

Originally Posted by Jeremy Banks

Some of my sites regularly get 25% CTR The most important factor for CTR is the niche, using the EXACT same template and location one niche has a 21% CTR over the last month, the other has 0.51% CTR

Originally Posted by clickbump

Niche is definitely important, but in my experience, the most important factor for CTR is getting *ranked* high enough in the SERPS for any of this to matter.
I can have a 100% CTR but if I'm only getting a couple of visits a day, I'm losing the battle.
The theme and the on-page optimization it helps enforce, particularly with G's latest round of algo updates, are more important than ever for a site's ability to rank well, particularly in the beginning life cycle stages.

Some more good threads to read here on the forum:

Best adsense/SEO WP Theme for niche site

Whats your Best Adsense Theme

Which Clickbump theme gives you the highest CTR?

[JackPowers]

I think it should be clear by now with all the Adsense making methods that there really aren't any magic bullets with making money from Adsense.

It's all about:

Keyword research (THE BIG ONE!)
Finding keywords that you can rank for AND which are commercial in nature. So many people miss this second criteria.

Content Creation
Best quality for lowest cost.

Backlinking
Having knowledge and means of getting effective backlinks EVERY time. This does NOT mean submitting an article to Ezines or bookmarking a few places.

Optimizing for max CTR
I consistantly get CTRs of 10%-20% and I don't use any of those cookie cutter ugly Adsense sites. CTR has as much to do with keyword research and content as it has to to with design.

It's really all there is too it, but many people fail to realize that there is competition in everything and you have to figure out how to beat out the thousands who also go for the same keywords.

Also, I think most niches will get higher EPC with affiliate links and that Adsense is really only best for niches with no physical product.