My Detailed Experience of John's xFactor Adsense Strategy

[ronb107]

Originally Posted by togdil

Hi ronb107,

I didn't quite understand what you mean by:
.You can have only one Adsense account which you can use on any number of your sites.

That said, I would suggest statcounter.com for tracking visitors to your site.
I have been using it for years and find it highly useful as it gives lots of data such as where the visitors come from, the pages visited, keyword that got the visitor etc.

In fact I have found lots of long-tail keywords which I never optimized for but were bringing traffic to my sites.

And it is free if you are happy with 500 log records. More than that and you have to subscribe to its services.

Hope this helps

I appreciate the reply togdil.

There are a number of reasons why one would have multiple accounts to track, including servicing customers. So the ability to track across accounts would be helpful. As for the FREE AdSenseLog, I understand that multiple setups can be made, but each runs independently.

I already have a tracking system that provides the same data that StatCounter provides (thanks for the recommendation). It is helpful in locating unknown long-tails which we rank well for due to content.

Actually, what I would love to find is an adsense tracking system that will tell me when an ad is clicked on, what ad was clicked, the adsense size, and the adsense colors. Apparently there were many tracking programs available till Google changed its internal structure for generating adsense making it impossible to track (you just have to love Google).

There are some workarounds, but the accuracy is just not there. I suspect the best thing is to use a service like Chitika et al.

Thanks,
Ron

[togdil]

Ron,
Here is one more: ClickAider Click Tracking System: Advertise with Confidence

I was using it some time back and if I remember it right, it used to give me the adsense formats which were clicked and who clicked it kind of information.

[ronb107]

Originally Posted by togdil

Ron,
Here is one more: ClickAider Click Tracking System: Advertise with Confidence

I was using it some time back and if I remember it right, it used to give me the adsense formats which were clicked and who clicked it kind of information.

Thanks togdill. I'll check it out.

Btw, if there is anyone else successfully using an AdSense Tracking program, please let me know.

I may just go to Chitika if they can be tracked easily.

Ron

[buzzpoint]

Originally Posted by togdil

Ron,
Here is one more: [ClickAider Click Tracking System: Advertise with Confidence]

I was using it some time back and if I remember it right, it used to give me the adsense formats which were clicked and who clicked it kind of information.

Is that free?


Sajid

[togdil]

Originally Posted by buzzpoint

Is that free?


Sajid

I think so. I never had to pay anything for using it.

Just now I looked at it to answer your question and saw that you can create a new account at Sign Up! :: Click Tracking System and there was nothing about paid membership or anything like that.

However,you would do well to browse the site.

[ronb107]

Originally Posted by buzzpoint

Is that free?


Sajid

Yes, it is free.

Not sure how active they are in support. While the system is robust, there is no direct ability to drill down from overall info to detail info (this is all done thru menu selection).

Also noticed that if I had two AdSense ads on the page, the system thinks that the adsense group clicked is the last in the HTML. This is an error which I sent to them (waiting to hear back).

But, yes it is FREE.

[buzzpoint]

Thank you, togdil,and ronb107 for reply.

Sajid

[Tiz724]

Newbie here and about 6 weeks in following Johns plan. Have 4 sites on first page for google but none higher than 6th place, so not many click thrus from search yet at all . I had been submitting articles as discussed and then moving on to new sites waiting for the anchor links to get indexed before working sites further.

Is anyone else not having goarticles submissions being indexed by google? I have over 10 there and I am not seeing any indexed. What am I missing?

thanks
Tiz

[Kylerudy]

that's good method this is a diffrent

[Congrats]

Yes, my goarticles are not indexed too. Seems a bit weird what's happening. I didn't have that before.

[jes_bad]

Originally Posted by Congrats

Yes, my goarticles are not indexed too. Seems a bit weird what's happening. I didn't have that before.

I noticed that on a few occasions, quite recently, that GoArticles has requested a captcha verification to view the article. Maybe that is why some articles are not getting indexed by Goog. The only reason I discovered this was that I was trying to bookmark a live article in GoArticles, it was not bookmarking correctly. When I manually went to the article, it requested a captcha verification.



- Jes

[ladyfoster]

I have stopped using goarticles all together.. and just social mark and rss to get indexed and submit all articles to ezine.

[indie08]

Hello Everyone!

I just launched 2 sites three weeks ago. My plan is to keep adding content and a few links to each site every day! I'm looking to build more authority type sites. Right now I outsourced 20 e-zine articles for each site and I will be doing this every month.

The only problem I have with X-factor's method is the way he submits articles. I personally submit articles to get targetted traffic from them. If done right this can be a goldmine!

Keep up the great work everyone!

[mountainrunner]

Originally Posted by TristanPerry

Nope, Google doesn't work in this way.

A backlink is a backlink no matter whether the content is related or not.

I'm sorry for the dumb question..but I've been reading that multiple links from one domain don't really count for much beyond the first one. If that's so, why do people keep submitting articles to all of these directories I wonder..?

I don't know..it's just confusing when people are saying so many different things.

Any clarification would be very much appreciated!

Kyle

[Jason Fulton]

Originally Posted by mountainrunner

I'm sorry for the dumb question..but I've been reading that multiple links from one domain don't really count for much beyond the first one. If that's so, why do people keep submitting articles to all of these directories I wonder..?

I don't know..it's just confusing when people are saying so many different things.

Any clarification would be very much appreciated!

Kyle

Hi,

People keep submitting their articles to article directories in the hope others pick up their article and post it on their own sites & blogs giving you a new backlink on another domain.

Jason

[mountainrunner]

Thanks Jason

[mountainrunner]

Originally Posted by ladyfoster

I have stopped using goarticles all together.. and just social mark and rss to get indexed and submit all articles to ezine.

Do you have a favorite bookmarking site that really helps your pages get indexed..?

[Chris Kent]

Can anyone comment on what someone mentioned about John now only writing on-topic articles at EZA?

Is everyone else doing this now? Could your EZA get banned for doing it? I don't see any rules being broken but would be interested in your views and what you're doing now.

[jeswarrior]

It appears not a soul is making money with this method after many months. Where are those comments?

[Fraggler]

People have been making money using similar methods for years.

If you are aren't making any money from the method then you need to find out what the problem is before anyone can help you. Are you lacking 1st page SERP's? Low paying clicks? Low CTR? Low Traffic?

AdSense is such a simple concept that the only way you will learn is by analysing where you are going wrong and taking action.

[XFactor]

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

It appears not a soul is making money with this method after many months. Where are those comments?

You're not a member of my private forum then.

We have an entire section devoted to success stories, with some
reaching the $100 per day mark.

Also, like the previous poster said - making money from niches
like this is nothing new - been going on since 2003

- John

[carlos123]

Originally Posted by sarasayshi

You do want private registration though. otherwise they will list your registered address, phone # and email and THAT is stuff you do not want floating around on the web.

I know I am late to this thread but I thought I would just give a warning regarding private domain registrations. They are a joke. Or more correctly I suppose a marketing scam.

Private registrations are only good for denying your information to casual observers of your WHOIS record. Anybody who can make up a half way decent sounding reason for wanting your information can just request your data from your domain registrar and nine times out of ten it will be given to them.

DON'T rely on private domain registration to keep you private! It will help but it's by no means foolproof.

If you want to stay private, at the very least register your domains with privacy protection off shore. Outside the U.S. Registrars in other countries may not be as ready to divulge your private details as one's in the U.S. seem to be.

Carlos

[togdil]

Originally Posted by XFactor

We have an entire section devoted to success stories, with some
reaching the $100 per day mark.
- John

John,
I am using your strategy of article marketing and find that this way I have been able to write more articles in 2 weeks than I did in nearly two years. And without revealing anything for obvious reasons I can say that it works.

Yes, I am seriously thinking of joining your private form and will possibly do that before the end of the month. I am sending you a pm regarding this.

[sherlock116]

For those of you who are struggling to write articles for you article marketing I suggest you take a look at Textbroker dot com.
This is the cheapest article writing service I have found and, depending which pricing level you choose, the standard of writing is pretty good. You can get an article written for as little as $5 so it is significantly cheaper than hiring a copywriter.

[Scott Henderson]

Originally Posted by sherlock116

For those of you who are struggling to write articles for you article marketing I suggest you take a look at Textbroker dot com.
This is the cheapest article writing service I have found and, depending which pricing level you choose, the standard of writing is pretty good. You can get an article written for as little as $5 so it is significantly cheaper than hiring a copywriter.

Why not support fellow warriors? Plenty of article writers for that same price in the Warriors for Hire forum.

[sherlock116]

I'm quite new to the forum so I haven't explored that section yet. I'll take a look.

Cheers

[Chris Kent]

Originally Posted by ProductCreator

Can anyone comment on what someone mentioned about John now only writing on-topic articles at EZA?

Is everyone else doing this now? Could your EZA get banned for doing it? I don't see any rules being broken but would be interested in your views and what you're doing now.

Sorry, can anyone comment on this? I'm wondering whether I should just write long tail on-topic articles instead. At least this way, I can leave the main keywords alone. Only problem is it takes ages to write such articles.

[XFactor]

Originally Posted by ProductCreator

Sorry, can anyone comment on this? I'm wondering whether I should just write long tail on-topic articles instead. At least this way, I can leave the main keywords alone. Only problem is it takes ages to write such articles.

I do both.

But lately I've been experimenting with Linkvana and several other
article directores, not to mention mass article submissions.

Soon the results will enable me to write about them for my course
customers.

- John

[brittlesnc]

John,

Is your 7-Day Plan outlined in your ebook not working as well as it used to the reason why you are looking at mass article submission, LinkVana, and the like? Because I remember you kinda discouraging using software that does mass article submission correct me if I'm wrong

Also, it sounds like you're really starting to change your opinion about writing articles that are on the topic of your website. Not to say that you discouraged it before, it just seemed that you didn't concern yourself with it too much and preferred to write on topics you liked and/or knew alot about.

Moreover, never thought to ask this before and tell me if I'm out of line for this but...when you started making $300-$400 a day in 6 months, did you mean in a grand total of 6 months? Or was it more like it took you a certain amount of time say 6 months to set up your 45 sites and then 6 months after that is when you started seeing that sort of income? Not to mention I think that figure included the 1 big health site you had so really your other sites aside from that one combine to bring in $200-$300 a day right?

I ask because I figured that if you could make $300-$400 a day in 6 months following your 7-Day Plan as an experienced Publisher that someone that's fairly inexperienced as myself could make $50-$100 a day in 6 months following the same plan. Is this a very reasonable expectation or would I be lucky to get to that point following the plan?

[XFactor]

Originally Posted by brittlesnc

John,

Is your 7-Day Plan outlined in your ebook not working as well as it used to the reason why you are looking at mass article submission, LinkVana, and the like? Because I remember you kinda discouraging using software that does mass article submission correct me if I'm wrong

Also, it sounds like you're really starting to change your opinion about writing articles that are on the topic of your website. Not to say that you discouraged it before, it just seemed that you didn't concern yourself with it too much and preferred to write on topics you liked and/or knew alot about.

Moreover, never thought to ask this before and tell me if I'm out of line for this but...when you started making $300-$400 a day in 6 months, did you mean in a grand total of 6 months? Or was it more like it took you a certain amount of time say 6 months to set up your 45 sites and then 6 months after that is when you started seeing that sort of income? Not to mention I think that figure included the 1 big health site you had so really your other sites aside from that one combine to bring in $200-$300 a day right?

I ask because I figured that if you could make $300-$400 a day in 6 months following your 7-Day Plan as an experienced Publisher that someone that's fairly inexperienced as myself could make $50-$100 a day in 6 months following the same plan. Is this a very reasonable expectation or would I be lucky to get to that point following the plan?

Good questions:

1) I still use and will always use article marketing as my #1 way of
website promotion.

Linkvana is just another form of article marketing as my sites are getting
to be a large number.

I have no idea where you read that I mass submit articles, so I cannot
comment on that.

2) I have always written articles on-topic for my niches and then I realized
I could do just as well with not writing on-topic. Now I'm back writing for
my niches.

Which do you like better? Whatever it is, go that route.

3) From late 2005 to late 2007 I used auto-generated software and some
very crazy black hat techniques to earn my Adsense income. I think I
owned and lost about 700 domains or something like that.

Once I wanted to build long-term sites then I did so using the same simple
formula I use today: Niches + article marketing.

I was able to triple my income in 6 months because I worked my ass off
during that time, focusing on easy-to-rank-for niches.

You may or may not be able to see the same results. A few do, but I was
also writing up to 16 or more hours in a day, working 5-6 days per week,
for 5 years now, give or take.

- John

[jeswarrior]

Is anybody making any money? Haven't read any such comments. Xfactor says so in his secret forum but not here? Strange.

[Marfling]

For gods sake, use your common sense...

If you knew the slightest thing about SEO, you wouldnt need other peoples proof that the ideas in his book work. You know why theres not 100 people on this forum shouting and sceaming about how much they are making? Because by they are far too busy researching and writing for their own business.

Tell me why it shouldnt work? -

Find a niche with little competition and reasonable searches.
Build a site based on the KW
Build backlinks
Tweak depending on CTR etc

Even if a few people did chime in and said they were making $20/$50/$100 per day - you wouldnt believe them so your just wasting your time - go and try and make your own conclusions...

[discrat]

Originally Posted by aboutusnow

OK...somebody tell me again.

Tell me that it takes time to make money with Adsense.

Tell me that it may take weeks or months for Google to find all of my backlinks even on PR5+ websites.

Tell me that this is a long-term business and not a short-term money making scheme.

Tell me that I can't expect to make money in just 2 weeks.

Tell me to quit checking where my pages rank and my website stats everyday.

Tell me to create a site, submit 15 articles per keyword, and then move on to the next site.

Tell me that if I am patient then all of this work will eventually make good money.

Tell me why human nature wants such quick results and that most people don't make money online because they don't have the mental discipline.

Tell me that the people that say they are making $5 a day in just 2 weeks is exceptional and not the norm.

Tell me all of these things again because I need to hear them just one more time!

Signed
- A Little Discouraged When I Know I Shouldn't Be

Jesus , is this guy looney or what ??
After one week of starting in Oct. and he is complaining about not making money and needs reassurance.

Word of Advice : Grow a pair and realize it might take even a year or more to see significant results.

By the way where is the little bugger ? He starts a Journal type Thread and quits after 7 days ????

[t3ch]

This is interesting,

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Marfling

For gods sake, use your common sense...

If you knew the slightest thing about SEO, you wouldnt need other peoples proof that the ideas in his book work. You know why theres not 100 people on this forum shouting and sceaming about how much they are making? Because by they are far too busy researching and writing for their own business.

Tell me why it shouldnt work? -

Find a niche with little competition and reasonable searches.
Build a site based on the KW
Build backlinks
Tweak depending on CTR etc

Even if a few people did chime in and said they were making $20/$50/$100 per day - you wouldnt believe them so your just wasting your time - go and try and make your own conclusions...

Weak. Very weak. Tell my why it shouldn't work? Hey seo genius, did you know that to start with you are using a keyword tool that is not even meant for seo but for Adwords? So your search numbers are fake.

[Gale10]

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

Is anybody making any money? Haven't read any such comments. Xfactor says so in his secret forum but not here? Strange.

Irritatingly, this is the second time you suggest that no-one is making money using Xfactor techniques.

I am making money. Adsense rules do not permit people to talk about their specific CTR and amounts. If you search carefully though, you will find that many people make money using adsense.

As for Johns forum, it is not a "secret forum" at all. People can join it, for a fee. No secret!

If you are not making money using Xfactor methods well perhaps you are not putting them into place in the right way.

If you have a specific problem, why not let us know? Then we will help you address it.

Best wishes,

Ruth

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Gale10

Irritatingly, this is the second time you suggest that no-one is making money using Xfactor techniques.

Never said such a thing. Weak.

Originally Posted by Gale10

I am making money. Adsense rules do not permit people to talk about their specific CTR and amounts.

Oh please that's weak! Never asked about CTR anyway.

Originally Posted by Gale10

If you search carefully though, you will find that many people make money using adsense.

Weak.

Originally Posted by Gale10

As for Johns forum, it is not a "secret forum" at all. People can join it, for a fee. No secret!

Ok for a fee.

Originally Posted by Gale10

If you are not making money using Xfactor methods well perhaps you are not putting them into place in the right way.

I just asked a question. I never said I'm not making any money.

Originally Posted by Gale10

If you have a specific problem, why not let us know? Then we will help you address it.

Thanks. I just asked a question. I'm trying to find out if this is really working for people and are seeing any money from it.

[Gale10]

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

Is anybody making any money? Haven't read any such comments. Xfactor says so in his secret forum but not here? Strange.

You ask if people are making money. For the second time, yes.

You haven't read such comments - then you haven't looked hard enough, there are comments on this forum.

What is "strange" is:

*You keep asking the same question.

*Your attachment to the word "weak".

*You don't seem to be trying to make anything work, so what are you doing on this forum?

For the last time I suggest that, if you have a specific problem, let us know and we will help if we can.

Best wishes,

Ruth

[djleon1]

I am not sure why people think this doesn't work. Adsense isn't some secret method, mlm, list buidling, guru method.

You build a websute and put adsense on it - this works for millions of websites.

Now if you do some research to find a niche, keywords, themes, content, plug-ins, link building why people may actually go to your damn site and click on adsense - how freakin mystifying.

There is nothing secret about this.

I bought John's book a few months ago and have about 8 sites making around $220 a month combined and none are in the top 5 of serps so there is plenty of room to grow.

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Gale10

You ask if people are making money. For the second time, yes.

You haven't read such comments - then you haven't looked hard enough, there are comments on this forum.

What is "strange" is:

*You keep asking the same question.

*Your attachment to the word "weak".

*You don't seem to be trying to make anything work, so what are you doing on this forum?

For the last time I suggest that, if you have a specific problem, let us know and we will help if we can.

Best wishes,

Ruth

Weak. That's just ridiculous. I keep asking the same question because nobody answers. I'm trying to get a conversation here about whether members are making money with this system not just "yes people are making money" from a post from you which means nothing. I'm interested in individual experiences.

Guys, you are hurting Xfactor's sales with these comments. If I were a newbie I'd be glued to this thread after your silly responses to my question.

I don't need help but thank you very much for offering it.

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by djleon1

I am not sure why people think this doesn't work. Adsense isn't some secret method, mlm, list buidling, guru method.

You build a websute and put adsense on it - this works for millions of websites.

Now if you do some research to find a niche, keywords, themes, content, plug-ins, link building why people may actually go to your damn site and click on adsense - how freakin mystifying.

There is nothing secret about this.

I bought John's book a few months ago and have about 8 sites making around $220 a month combined and none are in the top 5 of serps so there is plenty of room to grow.

Yeah, Adsense is pretty simple. The trick is getting thin sites to rank top and keeping it there. Also, dealing with a ton of sites, ton of keywords, lose of ranking, backlinks, SB, etc.. Also dealing with Google's fake search result numbers everybody use. Every once in a while a thread pops up here on WF complaining "Google Keyword Tool said my keyword was searched [keyword] 10,000 times but I'm the first listing on first page and I get a visitor a month even though I have a very targeted and interesting title". That's why I'm asking if somebody is making any money. I'm trying to get a conversation on this topic here guys. It will also inspire the newbies if people report positive experiences.

[Heimir Finnson]

I'm making money with the "Xfactor Method"!

Although I don't want to call it that, its really just my method.
I started out with a plan similar to Xfactor's but I've edited and changed it a lot since I started.
I do article marketing like him, but I do more than that for backlinks.

I'm certainly not making a lot of money, but that's not my main focus atm.
My focus is on keep building sites and promoting them, income comes later.
My income has however been slowly rising each week.

It's a long term plan and I plan growing the winners and flipping the "losers".

This method works, just like most IM methods. The "secret" is persistence and patience.
I have spent almost a year now going from this method to the next and made just few $'s.

From now on, I will stick to this method and nothing else.

-Heimir

[big_t]

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

I keep asking the same question because nobody answers. I'm trying to get a conversation here about whether members are making money with this system not just "yes people are making money" from a post from you which means nothing. I'm interested in individual experiences.

Ok, so you are looking for specific testimonials basically? Not just a "Yes, I make money" reponse.
But just from the tone of your posts, you seem to have a negative view on the method. And I will agree with many people that have posted before, that this method isn't something brand new, complicated, or brilliant. That's why so many people are saying "Why wouldn't it work?".
It's a simple formula. If you play your cards right and put the work into each step, you should make something.

I have 1 site, very new, in a highly competitive (not as specific as I would like) niche, 0 backlinks, simple site with very good content, and it's making money.
I have plans for 2nd site where more KW reasearch was done and the keyword has virtually no competition and a few thousand searches/month. I'll let everyone know how that goes.

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by big_t

I have 1 site, very new, in a highly competitive (not as specific as I would like) niche, 0 backlinks, simple site with very good content, and it's making money.
I have plans for 2nd site where more KW reasearch was done and the keyword has virtually no competition and a few thousand searches/month. I'll let everyone know how that goes.

There we go! That's the type of posts I was trying to trigger. Thanks Big_T. Keep posting your experience guys.

[Marfling]

Shock horror, GKT was developed for Adwords - thanks for pointing that one out.

Search numbers are working very nicely for me thanks and I dont just rely on one tool for KW reseach.

Seriously though, if you doubt the business model that much just find another one that you like :-)

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

Weak. Very weak. Tell my why it shouldn't work? Hey seo genius, did you know that to start with you are using a keyword tool that is not even meant for seo but for Adwords? So your search numbers are fake.

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Marfling

Shock horror, GKT was developed for Adwords - thanks for pointing that one out.

You still don't get it Marfling. Those numbers are not actual search done on Google.com

[Marfling]

Last months 6 niche sites that went straight to page one (top 7) must have been utter fluke then? I think ill stick with GKT whilst you sit on the forum doing nothing but hijacking peoples threads.

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

You still don't get it Marfling. Those numbers are not actual search done on Google.com

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Marfling

Last months 6 niche sites that went straight to page one (top 7) must have been utter fluke then? I think ill stick with GKT

What does one thing have to do with the other? We are talking about search numbers here, not rankings. Using GKT keywords without testing them with Adwords is just silly. You are working on faith. No wonder you see many newbies posting their frustrated stories on these forums after getting top listing and getting a couple of hits per day. They lay their foundations wrong. They don't do keyword research correctly.

whilst you sit on the forum doing nothing but hijacking peoples threads.

Weak. I got my own big flag site making me money with adsense and Amazon as I write this. This system peaked my interest but I see that it is a ton of work. Not highjacking threads. My posts are relevant and thread was dead and highjacked already when I wrote my first post. You just need to know how to read Marfling.

I can tell you aren't making any money with this system. Or am I wrong?

[Marfling]

Originally Posted by jeswarrior

What does one thing have to do with the other? We are talking about search numbers here, not rankings. Unless I'm missing something here...

Weak. I got my own big flag site making me money with adsense and Amazon as I write this. This system peaked my interest but I see that it is a ton of work. Not highjacking threads. My posts are relevant and thread was dead and highjacked already when I wrote my first post. You just need to know how to read Marfling.

I can tell you aren't making any money with this system. Or am I wrong?

You questioned my use of GKT as a basis to build my sites, I am telling you this is what I use and the traffic I see is pretty consistent with the figures it quoted me. My earnings hover between $50-$65 per day through Adsense and about 30% comes from niche sites.

Wait, dont tell me...."Weak".

[jeswarrior]

Originally Posted by Marfling

My earnings hover between $50-$65 per day through Adsense and about 30% comes from niche sites.

Well I'll be damned! lol! What took you so long Marfling? I shot at your feet and I swear you just danced for me! Now we talking! Good stuff, good stuff... So what's your secret?