XFACTOR Will Always Ba an Adsense Legend

[mejohn]

I know that a lot of people have bashed him and said that his methods do not work. I, for one, know from experience that they do work. I had messed around with Adsense before, but had never seen results so kind of gave up on it. Then I read John's thread, which inspired me to give it another go. I just read his thread, and did not purchase the course, as per the advice in his signature at that time. I worked on Adsense websites very part time, and took months at a time where I did not work on them at all. Now, around a year later, I am starting to work harder on the websites again. This month I will finish off around the $350 mark. It is not much compared to what a lot of you are making, but I consider it a good income for the amount of effort I have put into it. The good thing about it, as well, is that for the most part, it is a residual income that I do not have to work for it again.

The long and short of it is that with Xfactor's methods, I have reached the $350 per month mark. With simple math, ten time the effort should get me to the $3,500 mark, and 100 times the effort should warrant $35,000 per month.

I, for one, am very thankful for Xfactor an how much he has given away for free, and worked towards helping people.

Thank you for everything you have given John. You will always be an Adsense legend in my books.

[FredJones]

Hmmm... I am always scared of the high click-through rates that such sites attract. What is the CTR that you are experiencing?

[mejohn]

This month I have (edited out) CTR, and last month was around (edited out). Click through rate is not a problem if it is legitimate. I find my sites with less traffic get a much higher CTR than my sites with more traffic.

[scrapgirl42]

I am on the same track you are, just over $400 this month from Adsense, working part time. However, I didn't make a cent until I read John's book.

Thanks John!

[Peter Lee]

Congratulations on doing so well in adsense.Oh BTW I don't think you are allowed to reveal your adsense CTR publicly as that's against Google TOS. You may get into trouble.

Originally Posted by mejohn

This month I have 8.2% CTR, and last month was around 9%. Click through rate is not a problem if it is legitimate. I find my sites with less traffic get a much higher CTR than my sites with more traffic.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by Peter Lee

Congratulations on doing so well in adsense.Oh BTW I don't think you are allowed to reveal your adsense CTR publicly as that's against Google TOS. You may get into trouble.

Thanks. I edited it out on mine. Please do the same on your quote.

[terryd]

Originally Posted by mejohn

Thanks. I edited it out on mine. Please do the same on your quote.

I'm pretty sure that you are safe doing that, it's more the screenshots that show you CTR along with impressions and everything else etc that is against TOS.

As far as Xfactor his original thread was truly a golden one and was a good kick up the ass to get me motivated which it did. I earn a lot more now than I did before his thread and using his method as a foundation my earnings continue to increase and there's a couple of other warriors I follow closely because they are actually out there doing it and not just preaching....

[Andrew James]

Well done with your success. You have proven to your self that it is possible to make money with Adsense so I'm sure you will have the motivation to keep on building more sites.

[Defunct]

I don't see what there is to bash about his method really.

Unless you are talking about lots of mini sites vs big sites.

His method works, others have shown that, it's just a lot of domains/hosting/management vs one big site.

He chose Ad Sense just because he wanted to, he could also use affiliate networks like CJ Amazon.

It's simple really, low competition, products because they convert higher, though unless you outsource it, writing a lot of unique content.

You could improve on his link building method, but it has worked for him using just article marketing.

Just my 2c.

[Clyde]

and 1000x effort would make you $350000.

Whats your point?

His e-book is FAR from perfect that if you had followed it to the Tee there's no way you could make a dime online. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time with his method and not make any money, FACT.

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

andd 1000x effort would make you $350000.

Whats your point?

His e-book is FAR from perfect that if you had followed it to the Tee there's no way you could make a dime online. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time with his method and not make any money, FACT.

He said he followed the thread...not the ebook.

And, back almost a year ago I followed his e-book to a T and I've made 5 figures since then from those methods alone.

I have since modified my business model and have been moving more towards large authority sites which is working even better. But, I still made many thousands of dollars with a method I learned in Xfactor's book.

Hater.

[Clyde]

Originally Posted by Jacob Martus

He said he followed the thread...not the ebook.

And, back almost a year ago I followed his e-book to a T and I've made 5 figures since then from those methods alone.

I have since modified my business model and have been moving more towards large authority sites which is working even better. But, I still made many thousands of dollars with a method I learned in Xfactor's book.

Hater.

No you didn't.

Show me just ONE of your websites that have ranked from submitting articles solely to EZA (as outlined in the book). It's been proven that his method doesn't work. Back when I was allowed on his private forum (which has now been closed due to a law-suit), I've known a few stay-at-home mom's that wrote 100's of articles only to have their AdSense account making 20c/day.

Not sure what happened to him, but last time I heard people were still waiting on a refund (on a video course he never delivered). but hey, let's leave that for another day ok?

Anyway Jacob, you seem like a nice guy and I didn't mean to get into an argument with you. John's thread inspired a lot of people and that's good. His e-book? Not so much.

Back to the topic,
OP, good that you're making *some* money but you wasted few months on a site only to have it making $10 per day.. How many years before you reach $100/day? Time to go back to the drawing back and re-asses what you're doing, IMHO.

Advice?

Outsource.

Automate.

[andyj00]

Yes, the methods certainly work. They have worked for me and a mate of mine who followed the book too.

However, it's getting far, far more difficult to choose domain names that are made up soley of the keywords. So many have been now taken for .com .org and .net compared with a year ago. Choosing the correct domain name for these micro niches is really what makes them work IMO.

Seems the method has been a victim of its own success as everybodys doing it (or tried it at some point).

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

No you didn't.

Show me just ONE of your websites that have ranked from submitting articles solely to EZA (as outlined in the book). It's been proven that his method doesn't work. Back when I was allowed on his private forum (which has now been closed due to a law-suit), I've known a few stay-at-home mom's that wrote 100's of articles only to have their AdSense account making 20c/day.

LOL, why would anyone show you a money making site?

Are your telling us, the only backlinks pointing to your site is from a single source (EZA)?

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

Back to the topic,
OP, good that you're making *some* money but you wasted few months on a site only to have it making $10 per day.. How many years before you reach $100/day? Time to go back to the drawing back and re-asses what you're doing, IMHO.

I hope that was a joke.

$10 x 365-days x 10-years = $36,500 - 25% tax = $27,375

Not bad for a part time job, with zero future maintenance.

Now, just scale up... OP, already knows what it takes to earn $$.

[Natlex]

You can't really put that as 10 years. Try one year because most likely exact match domains will eventually lose some power (which a LOT of these websites rely on). I'm sure it's possible to get rank #1-5 using only ezine but ONLY with an EMD and very low competition (which probably at bare minimum means a keyword with under 1k searches/month).

Anyway, his course was great in some ways... Interestingly when I started IM in February I was doing exactly his course and then I read his ebook... In some ways I wish it never was brought out because I would have so many more domains available . I stopped relying on getting EMD's to rank for keywords though, something inside of me tells me that this MAJOR advantage cannot last for ever especially with all the ****ty EMD websites that are on the first page of google destroying the user experience for some keywords.

[Wakunahum]

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

and 1000x effort would make you $350000.

Whats your point?

His e-book is FAR from perfect that if you had followed it to the Tee there's no way you could make a dime online. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time with his method and not make any money, FACT.

I have more than a few websites ranking from ezinearticle links alone and making money each day.

I don't know why you say it's not possible.

If you pick the right words you can be on page one making money with NO backlinks so why would some backlinks from one source not rank?

I don't get your point at all.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Natlex

You can't really put that as 10 years. Try one year because most likely exact match domains will eventually lose some power (which a LOT of these websites rely on). I'm sure it's possible to get rank #1-5 using only ezine but ONLY with an EMD and very low competition (which probably at bare minimum means a keyword with under 1k searches/month).

Anyway, his course was great in some ways... Interestingly when I started IM in February I was doing exactly his course and then I read his ebook... In some ways I wish it never was brought out because I would have so many more domains available . I stopped relying on getting EMD's to rank for keywords though, something inside of me tells me that this MAJOR advantage cannot last for ever especially with all the ****ty EMD websites that are on the first page of google destroying the user experience for some keywords.

I have a 4-year old exact match EMD, Adsense site that I never update, still makes money (very consistent earnings).

My math was based on my own experience + six years.

I doubt EMD will die out, a keyword is a keyword!

[Clyde]

Originally Posted by yukon

LOL, why would anyone show you a money making site?

Are your telling us, the only backlinks pointing to your site is from a single source (EZA)?

No, I'm saying that's what the Xfactor's e-book tells you to do.

Launch 100 websites and see how many articles will it take for you to submit to EZA to rank all the sites. It's just a scientific fact that it will not work nor is it any cost-effective.

Originally Posted by yukon

I have a 4-year old exact match EMD, Adsense site that I never update, still makes money (very consistent earnings).

My math was based on my own experience + six years.

I doubt EMD will die out, a keyword is a keyword!

You're right.

Same here.

[bfas]

With all due respect, I think when John posted his original thread ("6 months later, lessons learned"), it was still very viable to launch product-specific EMD sites and rank with only EZA links. In fact, it wasn't unheard of for those product-specific EMD sites to land on Page 1 with no backlinking at all.

That has changed. I think I recall John saying in the book & thread that this was his method, and he related his results. I believe he also eventually suggested 'stronger' backlinking efforts.

I can also say that thread was an incredibly generous and sincere effort, with no payoff initially. It wasn't until hundreds of posts in that people began asking John to put together a book.

bfas

[Bruha]

Xfactor's methods DO WORK! For those that say they don't I would initially question your keyword research.

Using his methods, I have so far had 9 out of 10 sites succeed in making me money. Some of htese sites make money immmediately, but some have taken some time to produce. For example, I have one site that didn't make anything for the first 3 months I had it online. I did the Ezine and GoArticles submissions that is suggested in the Ebook and then left it there with no other work. After about 3 months, I am now making around $75 / month from this one site.

It is not a question of if the methods work, it is more a question of your keyword research. Pick the right keywords and you will succeed using this method. Pick too competitive keywords and you will fail short term, but even so, stick with it and you will eventually succeed.

[mejohn]

I like a good combination of Xfactor and Clickbumped. Clickbumped's suggestion of looking for as many PR- to PR0, combined with good KW research and article marketing gives great results!

[Natlex]

Originally Posted by yukon

I have a 4-year old exact match EMD, Adsense site that I never update, still makes money (very consistent earnings).

My math was based on my own experience + six years.

I doubt EMD will die out, a keyword is a keyword!

Ah I suppose that's true... I've only been doing this for 7 months and so far theirs only about 2 websites I haven't worked on (besides changing adsense layouts to check different CTR's) for maybe 4 months that are still earning a consistent $1-4 a day. They should last for a long time but it seems too good to be true :P. Maybe 4 years from now I'll believe it

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Natlex

Ah I suppose that's true... I've only been doing this for 7 months and so far theirs only about 2 websites I haven't worked on (besides changing adsense layouts to check different CTR's) for maybe 4 months that are still earning a consistent $1-4 a day. They should last for a long time but it seems too good to be true :P. Maybe 4 years from now I'll believe it

I get a large chunk of my traffic from established forums.

Maybe that's the reason for my Adsense $$ being so consistent, been making $$ since day one.

If you have the same amount of traffic in 4-years, you'll at the very least be making the same $$ your making today.

My forum traffic has doubled from the first YTD to now.

I won't change it until it breaks.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by yukon

I get a large chunk of my traffic from established forums.

Maybe that's the reason for my Adsense $$ being so consistent, been making $$ since day one.

If you have the same amount of traffic in 4-years, you'll at the very least be making the same $$ your making today.

My forum traffic has doubled from the first YTD to now.

I won't change it until it breaks.

What do you do to get the forum trafic? I post in a number of forums, and see some traffic, but mainly just use the posts for the backlinks.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by mejohn

What do you do to get the forum trafic? I post in a number of forums, and see some traffic, but mainly just use the posts for the backlinks.

I research people, not keywords.

I find large forum threads, & own those threads!

Listen to what they are looking for, answer every question the best I can. If I don't know the answer I will point them to a site that isn't mine that provides an answer.

You might think that sounds crazy (why would I send someone to a site that isn't mine)? The thing is, it builds trust in forum members.

Help other members the best you can, & not only will they visit your site (sig) many times over, you'll get a few thousand other members that follow along, simply because they see you helping another member of the forum.

Forums are great for traffic, people don't have a problem telling everyone what they are looking for.

I also do SEO & backlinks, but not 1/2 as much as I participate in forums related to my own niche sites.

I don't run a sig in this forum, simply because I don't have any sites or products related to IM. Besides sometimes you just need a breather from promoting yourself/sites.

[Firstrate]

The XFactor method is definitely legit - I know lots of people who've made it work.

I would implement it myself if I had more time.

[Craig McPherson]

John certainly proved himself with his thread.
Approaching 12 months using his methods has put a modest 5 figures in my account over the journey.

It goes to show how things can happen on a thin thread. I glanced over his initial thread one night and the rest is history.
Accepy my thanks John.

[TristanPerry]

John definitely gets my thanks too.

I'm not a fan of how the video series and new e-book were handled (i.e. the new e-book has probably broken over half a dozen deadlines and still isn't anywhere to be seen, many, many months after it was "almost ready" to be released..), but I definitely agree overall that what he did earns a lot of respect from me.

It's rare to see someone become pretty successful in the way that he did, and then share so much information in a public thread.

And now his online alias has given rise to its own method (i.e. the xFactor method) across countless message boards. And I'd imagine that the AdSense team have all heard the phrase too Pretty cool stuff.

Also whilst I didn't apply his methods as much as I could have, I still made money overall even about buying the e-book and forum access.

Now I'm onto authority site creation and much of that inspiration came from John, so kudos to him for that.

[Ed H]

Has anyone read the new (updated) XFactor book? My understanding was that it was released last week - I've been waiting to buy until I saw some reviews.

[Adam Roy]

Where can I find the infamous xfactor adsense course? I've never seen it but I hear it talked about quite often.

Is it the 'micro niche adsense course' via the link in his signature? (the signature of the guy who's forum thread you linked to in the OP)

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[Andrew James]

Originally Posted by yukon

I research people, not keywords.

I find large forum threads, & own those threads!

Listen to what they are looking for, answer every question the best I can. If I don't know the answer I will point them to a site that isn't mine that provides an answer.

You might think that sounds crazy (why would I send someone to a site that isn't mine)? The thing is, it builds trust in forum members.

Help other members the best you can, & not only will they visit your site (sig) many times over, you'll get a few thousand other members that follow along, simply because they see you helping another member of the forum.

Forums are great for traffic, people don't have a problem telling everyone what they are looking for.

I also do SEO & backlinks, but not 1/2 as much as I participate in forums related to my own niche sites.

I don't run a sig in this forum, simply because I don't have any sites or products related to IM. Besides sometimes you just need a breather from promoting yourself/sites.

This is a very good tip - market domination. I watched some interesting Ed Dale videos on this. As you say if you build trust then more people will want to click on the links that go back to your own site.

[Ed H]

Originally Posted by friend

Where can I find the infamous xfactor adsense course? I've never seen it but I hear it talked about quite often.

Is it the 'micro niche adsense course' via the link in his signature? (the signature of the guy who's forum thread you linked to in the OP)

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Yes, that is the book. Adsense Masters Course - Adsense Masters Course

[serverunion]

Any news on an update to the book? Hope he cuts some of the fluff out this time...

[TristanPerry]

Originally Posted by vans

Has anyone read the new (updated) XFactor book? My understanding was that it was released last week - I've been waiting to buy until I saw some reviews.

Out of interest, where'd you hear that?

I've had no e-mails, and just checked the member's section (both the download page and - still closed - forums) and there's no sign of any updated book there.

To be honest I think that the new e-book project has regrettably been scrapped (John set a fair number of deadlines and broke them all, despite it being "almost ready" to release many months ago, apparently). But if you've heard otherwise I'd be happy to listen

[Ed H]

Originally Posted by TristanPerry

Out of interest, where'd you hear that?

I've had no e-mails, and just checked the member's section (both the download page and - still closed - forums) and there's no sign of any updated book there.

To be honest I think that the new e-book project has regrettably been scrapped (John set a fair number of deadlines and broke them all, despite it being "almost ready" to release many months ago, apparently). But if you've heard otherwise I'd be happy to listen

I sent John an email about 10 days ago asking about the date, and he said "This weekend". He said all current owners would get an email notification - so if you are a current owner, and don't have an email, I guess it is not out yet.

[calfred]

Let us all check the SPAM folder

[dagaul101]

Always great to know the formula for success, rinse and repeat until you are satisfied, the hard bit is getting that formula, will take determination, and lots of trial and error

[TristanPerry]

Originally Posted by vans

I sent John an email about 10 days ago asking about the date, and he said "This weekend". He said all current owners would get an email notification - so if you are a current owner, and don't have an email, I guess it is not out yet.

Sounds promising Yep, I'll be sure to post here if/when any e-mail/new e-book is sent out.

[mejohn]

With all the information John gave away for free, you don't even need his ebooks. He said in his own signature to read the thread first, and that if you did, you might not need to buy his book.

[COBSolutions]

Originally Posted by Bruha

Pick the right keywords and you will succeed using this method. Pick too competitive keywords and you will fail short term, but even so, stick with it and you will eventually succeed.

Correct advice, pick a very low competitive keyword, you will make money faster, but then it saturates very fast, scope of development is NIL. Pick a heavily competitive niche and you will make money lot slower, but once you hit the first page in SERPs you know for sure it will make money and scope of development of the website targeting long tail and lesser competitive keywords becomes much more easier.

[mejohn]

I'm not sure where all the Adsense and Xfactor critics get their facts from. If you do things right, you will make money and your account will not get suspended.

[nettech]

John definitely gets the thumbs up from me, I'm a workaholic but I've never been so motivated to do something so much in all my life.....in any other industry, to work and not see results for months would be considered a sign of madness but in IM its just how we roll! Do it right and you're in the money!

[JoshuaG]

I found some of the tactics in his course are a bit out dated now.
Googles updates have made these sorts of sites harder to rank.

[Roland]

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

Not sure what happened to him, but last time I heard people were still waiting on a refund (on a video course he never delivered). but hey, let's leave that for another day ok?

I'm still waiting for my refund

[fortony]

I found the only sites I have been making anything off of are those that were in more competitive niches with more search volume that i worked for(more content, SEO and the like). Going for for the larger sites is where it is at. Steve Cooks course (the only other one I bought) was a lot more useful. He is has the character to really help out and give personal advice too.

[Tom L]

Originally Posted by fortony

I found the only sites I have been making anything off of are those that were in more competitive niches with more search volume that i worked for(more content, SEO and the like). Going for for the larger sites is where it is at. Steve Cooks course (the only other one I bought) was a lot more useful. He is has the character to really help out and give personal advice too.

John's trademark is that he doesn't like dealing with people and gives answers that cannot in anyway be questioned!

Such behavior is quickly dealt with by either silent treatment or an additional smart remark.

As it comes to his book update... lol.. e-mail him in a few weeks and ask when its coming out and it will still be "this weekend."

Thank him if you want and leave the poor guy alone. He got in well over his head with the coaching, e-book, video courses.... thankfully he didnt try and run for governor of California at the same time.

[Adam Roy]

hey back again...I checked out the course...'finally', I was surprised that there wasn't much in there I didn't know of already.

However, I must say that his particular strategies for development and promotion is quite unique, pretty straight forward at that.

I think I will try out his particular strategy, I would have never thought that the off-page SEO is all done from the same source, basically the same way.

Definitely a different approach than what I'm used to...I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of keywords.

[mejohn]

Originally Posted by friend

hey back again...I checked out the course...'finally', I was surprised that there wasn't much in there I didn't know of already.

However, I must say that his particular strategies for development and promotion is quite unique, pretty straight forward at that.

I think I will try out his particular strategy, I would have never thought that the off-page SEO is all done from the same source, basically the same way.

Definitely a different approach than what I'm used to...I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of keywords.

In my opinion, the xFactor methods are a great start for anyone looking in the Adsense direction.

[Nexus7]

Originally Posted by Al Mukmin

Show me just ONE of your websites that have ranked from submitting articles solely to EZA (as outlined in the book). It's been proven that his method doesn't work. Back when I was allowed on his private forum (which has now been closed due to a law-suit), I've known a few stay-at-home mom's that wrote 100's of articles only to have their AdSense account making 20c/day.

His method DOES work, but it's not without its flaws. He states this in the course and he never guaranteed 100% success with his method. Some sites will do well and other sites will do terrible. In some cases, a site can do well for a few months and then the clicks will dry up due to seasonal changes or ad campaigns that end. I never expect consistent earnings.

I guess those stay-at-home moms didn't know what they were doing or didn't have the patience to wait it out. Some sites will take a while to rank well after doing article submissions. Some will require more content with targeted keywords. Some will just outright fail. Building up backlinks too quickly can be a problem as well. A number of things can happen and you just need to keep working on them or move on.

Anyone that thinks Xfactor's method is a quick way to riches is fooling themselves. Set a goal for $100 a month or a few bucks a day and work up from there. I made that after two months and it wasn't that hard to do. If you're only making $.20 a day after two months, you might want to look at other ways to make money.

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by friend

I think I will try out his particular strategy, I would have never thought that the off-page SEO is all done from the same source, basically the same way.

The goal is to not to rely on Ezinearticles solely for backlinks but to write good articles in popular categories with hopes that the articles get syndicated to lots of other websites.

The power of EZA is not in the backlink from their site but in the backlinks you can get from a good syndicated article.