Adsense Success!

[mejohn]

After years of experimenting, I have found the formula to success with Adsense to be exact phrase domain names (.com's and .net's work best) with high traffic and high bids with Adwords.

What's your story? What has worked best for you???

[internetmarketer99]

While an exact-match keyword domain name by itself won't beat well-SEO'd or stong competitors, it does give you a huge benefit - for that one keyword phrase. The benefit starts to 'fall off' for "broad match" keyword phrases.

I always try to get an exact-match domain name for at least one of the keywords/phrases I'm targeting with a site, preferably the primary keyword/phrase.

Mark

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

While an exact-match keyword domain name by itself won't beat well-SEO'd or stong competitors, it does give you a huge benefit - for that one keyword phrase. The benefit starts to 'fall off' for "broad match" keyword phrases.

I always try to get an exact-match domain name for at least one of the keywords/phrases I'm targeting with a site, preferably the primary keyword/phrase.

Mark

Thanks for your input Mark. I'm new here. I have been reading your thread lately, and it's a gem. Any opinion on one page adsense sites?

[clickbump]

Originally Posted by mejohn

Thanks for your input Mark. I'm new here. I have been reading your thread lately, and it's a gem. Any opinion on one page adsense sites?

Hopefully Mark can chime in with his impressions, but I've got several one page adsense sites that are consistent money. When I say "one page", I mean one keyword page, which is always the home page. All my sites have the essential supporting pages (about, contact, privacy, etc)

The key is that your one page site has enough relevance and link juice to stay on page one for your exact match keyword phrase. The amount of link juice (backlinks) will vary depending on the competition for the KWP.

Hope this helps!

[FredJones]

Nothing can beat exact domain name, given that you have done the same amoutn of active SEO.

Additionally, it works well also for Bing and Yahoo!

[mejohn]

I'm big on SEO. Internet Business Promoter has worked wonders for me. I now have many sites #1 in google for my keywords.

[geekology]

To me it is just traffic ... the exact match may help with some initial help but a well optimized site will ALWAYS bring money.

[Kael41]

An exact match plus being well optimized will make you money period. You've already beat half the field with that game plan.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by Kael41

An exact match plus being well optimized will make you money period. You've already beat half the field with that game plan.

Very true. Do you do one-pagers or multi-pagers?

[affiliated survivor]

For 1 page websites like your "adsense make money" and "Da Vinci Kalani Crib" websites having the exact keyword in the url will probably work best.

But I wonder if the idea of making mini-sites like this is the best way for adsense/affiliate sites. With larger websites you get more PR in time and new pages rank faster and easier. And you get high PR pages which you can use to link to other sites.

I don´t know how you get your traffic, but assume it´s from writing articles. You can profit from articles in three ways.

First: The traffc the articles bring in by ranking in the serps.
Second: You get backlinks for a website.
Third: On each page of this website you can insert links to another website. To a few selected pages (high traffic money pages) that get a lot of these backlinks and will once reach Google´s first page.

I think in the long run a few larger websites will be more profitable than mini-sites. You also can submit RSS Feeds that will give you a lot of extra links.

[Kael41]

Originally Posted by affiliated survivor

I think in the long run a few larger websites will be more profitable than mini-sites.

Yes and no. You never know which site format will take off while others will bog down. If you find a minisite (mine are between 5-25 pages) that does really well..build it out! If not, move on to the next one. I've got 8 page sites from 2005 still sitting out there making good money, and i've got several 1000+ page sites that make decent money.

Moral of the story is you never know until you try.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by affiliated survivor

For 1 page websites like your "adsense make money" and "Da Vinci Kalani Crib" websites having the exact keyword in the url will probably work best.

But I wonder if the idea of making mini-sites like this is the best way for adsense/affiliate sites. With larger websites you get more PR in time and new pages rank faster and easier. And you get high PR pages which you can use to link to other sites.

I don´t know how you get your traffic, but assume it´s from writing articles. You can profit from articles in three ways.

First: The traffc the articles bring in by ranking in the serps.
Second: You get backlinks for a website.
Third: On each page of this website you can insert links to another website. To a few selected pages (high traffic money pages) that get a lot of these backlinks and will once reach Google´s first page.

I think in the long run a few larger websites will be more profitable than mini-sites. You also can submit RSS Feeds that will give you a lot of extra links.

I hear you. I have some larger sites as well, but my largest Adsense site right now is 7 pages.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by Kael41

Yes and no. You never know which site format will take off while others will bog down. If you find a minisite (mine are between 5-25 pages) that does really well..build it out! If not, move on to the next one. I've got 8 page sites from 2005 still sitting out there making good money, and i've got several 1000+ page sites that make decent money.

Moral of the story is you never know until you try.

So in your opinion, 5 pages would be the minimum for a minisite?

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by mejohn

Thanks for your input Mark. I'm new here. I have been reading your thread lately, and it's a gem. Any opinion on one page adsense sites?

Originally Posted by clickbump

Hopefully Mark can chime in with his impressions, but I've got several one page adsense sites that are consistent money. When I say "one page", I mean one keyword page, which is always the home page. All my sites have the essential supporting pages (about, contact, privacy, etc)

The key is that your one page site has enough relevance and link juice to stay on page one for your exact match keyword phrase. The amount of link juice (backlinks) will vary depending on the competition for the KWP.

Hope this helps!

I spend a LOT of my time doing keyword research; for my own sites, and for others. A lot of that time is spent 'exploring' niches and very narrow 'keyword phrase groups'.

I routinely come across gems that are essentially 'stand-alone' winners, often some over-looked keyword/phrase that has good search volume, negligible competition, and high EPC (Adcost). These are like mini-lottery-winners (if you're using MNF, clicking on 'SOC' is like doing a scratch-off, and when you 'uncover' a low, green number, it's like scratching off a winner...)

I have a folder titled "Keepers" - essentially under-leveraged keyword/phrases and other goodies. When I uncover one of these gems, I'll stick it in the "Keepers" folder; I come across so many, I'd lose or forget most of them otherwise.

First thing I do is check to see if I can get a .com, .org, or .net exact-match domain name. If I can, I'll immediately grab it, write a 500-word article, and throw up a site. I'll use that article for the main page, and submit it to EZA. I'll add the site to my "daily ranking routine" list for a little while.

As Clickbump points out, these can often become 'autopilot cash machines'. I'd say probably 10% of my sites are these "one-page-wonders". Love 'em!

Mark

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

I spend a LOT of my time doing keyword research; for my own sites, and for others. A lot of that time is spent 'exploring' niches and very narrow 'keyword phrase groups'.

I routinely come across gems that are essentially 'stand-alone' winners, often some over-looked keyword/phrase that has good search volume, negligible competition, and high EPC (Adcost). These are like mini-lottery-winners (if you're using MNF, clicking on 'SOC' is like doing a scratch-off, and when you 'uncover' a low, green number, it's like scratching off a winner...)

I have a folder titled "Keepers" - essentially under-leveraged keyword/phrases and other goodies. When I uncover one of these gems, I'll stick it in the "Keepers" folder; I come across so many, I'd lose or forget most of them otherwise.

First thing I do is check to see if I can get a .com, .org, or .net exact-match domain name. If I can, I'll immediately grab it, write a 500-word article, and throw up a site. I'll use that article for the main page, and submit it to EZA. I'll add the site to my "daily ranking routine" list for a little while.

As Clickbump points out, these can often become 'autopilot cash machines'. I'd say probably 10% of my sites are these "one-page-wonders". Love 'em!

Mark

Thank you. That is quite informative. Do you ever build those one-page-wonders into largers sites, thus making them more successful, or do you just leave them be and let them earn?

[InternetMarketingIQ]

If you find something that works you stick to it.

Google only cares about relevance and qaulity. Then match user intentions with ads and you win.

[InternetMarketingIQ]

If you find something that works you stick to it.

Google only cares about relevance and quality. Then match user intentions with ads and you win.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ

If you find something that works you stick to it.

Google only cares about relevance and quality. Then match user intentions with ads and you win.

True enough. I have found a few things that work for me online. Expanding the repetoire is always nice, though. What have you found works best for you?