Follow me to $100 a day in Adsense in 3 months from 1 blog

[Steve Crooks]

I am currently doing a series on driving traffic on my 100 bucks challenge blog called Top 5 Traffic Tactics in it I will be covering:

1. The right way of doing link exchanges
2. The Google top 10 tactic
3. Article marketing - the lowdown on getting it right
4. Finding high PR, 1way backlinks
5. Web 2.0 strategies

The steps I go through in this series are my 5 favourite tactics for traffic.

Originally Posted by X900

I have a question ask to you : how do you drive the traffic?

[pixelcrafter]

Dear Folks,
Thank you for the advice about the video
Best Wishes,
-Pixel-

[jonnoryan]

Hi Steve.

Congrats on your very open and honest thread.

I have noticed that your site has dropped down to page 3 for 'European Cruises' .

1) How has this effected your traffic the last few days ?

2) Do you think you are been penalised in any way because of different reasons such as age of the domain, big surge of backlinks in a short space of time etc.

Getting your site to the top of google is not difficult using web 2.0 properties, however the difficult part is keeping it up there as web 2.0 techniques are seen as short term gains.

I would love to hear your views of above

[Steve Crooks]

Well, it only seems to be the US that it has dropped to page 3, most other countries including the UK and Germany are still on page 1, top 5 even..

1. I have noticed a small drop in traffic as a result but it is all part of the normal Google dance.

2. I don't think it has been penalised but obviously a newer domain is more susceptible to the google dance than older domains. The backlinks are not just from web 2.0 sites that is just one part of the overall promotion strategy.

I don't take anything for granted but I hope and expect it to rise up in the US again. I am mainly concentrating on promoting the blog for other keywords now.

Originally Posted by jonnoryan

Hi Steve.

Congrats on your very open and honest thread.

I have noticed that your site has dropped down to page 3 for 'European Cruises' .

1) How has this effected your traffic the last few days ?

2) Do you think you are been penalised in any way because of different reasons such as age of the domain, big surge of backlinks in a short space of time etc.

Getting your site to the top of google is not difficult using web 2.0 properties, however the difficult part is keeping it up there as web 2.0 techniques are seen as short term gains.

I would love to hear your views of above

[biaobao]

you really should publish a paper based book based on this thread

[Steve Crooks]

Hmmm.. Amazon here I come.

Originally Posted by biaobao

you really should publish a paper based book based on this thread

[Evita]

Steve,
(Sorry if I missed it.... I did look...)

What is your strategy re. using articles from ezine etc?

What percentage of the content of your site is not unique? Do you add a paragraph before and after the article to add some unique content? (I did not see that though)

Your site looks absolutely fab, and I love the adsense placement. Too bad we can't discuss CTR.... but this layout outperforms a lot of other layouts, yes?

Best,

Evita

[Heli1]

Thank you Steve. I am just starting out on making money online this has got me excited about some things I am working on. You have answered a lot of questions I had in areas of adsense and how to go about it. Good Luck but I can already tell you will do it have a great.

[hoooba19800]

nice information but with no proof

[sndas]

Hi,
I couldn't found $100 in a week . So what was the reason?
Can you email me?

[webhosting134]

I'd rather to build a adsense website by creating a site instead of using free blog

[Steve Crooks]

My strategy with using articles from Ezine and the other directories is quite simple.

1. The article has to add some value to my blog.
2. The article has to be good and interesting.

I tend to start with a keyword phrase that I want to get some content about and then search the article directories until I find a suitable article.

I do add a paragraph to the start and end and also add a new title but I always make sure the original title is included as a header in the article so I am not breaking any rules. The reason for the new title is so I can ensure my keyword phrase is in the title for SEO purposes.

I do sometimes add articles without doing the steps above though (being lazy I guess) and I have to say I have less luck with getting ranked highly. So it is certainly worth taking the extra steps when using articles from directories.

The layout of the blog and in particular Adsense is the result of me testing various placements, colour schemes, adsense types etc. I demonstrate the technique I use in my free guide to Adsense placement avauilable on my 100 bucks challenge blog. Yes, it does have a good CTR!

Originally Posted by Evita

Steve,
(Sorry if I missed it.... I did look...)

What is your strategy re. using articles from ezine etc?

What percentage of the content of your site is not unique? Do you add a paragraph before and after the article to add some unique content? (I did not see that though)

Your site looks absolutely fab, and I love the adsense placement. Too bad we can't discuss CTR.... but this layout outperforms a lot of other layouts, yes?

Best,

Evita

[hangtimenino]

I am seriously going to work on this, and as for starters, I won't set up an amount for a goal. Any amount is worth it.

[Evita]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

I do sometimes add articles without doing the steps above though (being lazy I guess) and I have to say I have less luck with getting ranked highly. So it is certainly worth taking the extra steps when using articles from directories.

The layout of the blog and in particular Adsense is the result of me testing various placements, colour schemes, adsense types etc. I demonstrate the technique I use in my free guide to Adsense placement avauilable on my 100 bucks challenge blog. Yes, it does have a good CTR!

I BET CTR is good!!

OK, so you say you don't rank as well when not following those steps. Does that mean you do not use a new title and are looking to rank with the article title? Or, you omit adding a few paragraphs pre/post article and that is what causes you to rank less well for the title you added yourself?

Don't mean to nit pick, just want to be clear
And, what percentage of the content on your blog, more or less, is from article directories?

Thanks for being such a role model for so many!! (And answering all our questions!)

Evita

[mediaguy]

Originally Posted by Easy Cash

To put that much effort into Adsense is madness.

Google has the power to pull the plug at anytime.

Working a 9-5 job for 25 years and then being laid off is madness... I knew there would be someone that would offer up a plate of negativity...

[astevn816]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Yes I do, the lowest price I seem to get per click is around 20 cents, it doesn't really fall below that. Sometimes I get clicks over $2 as well and my analytics show me that the higher priced clicks are from the more competitive keywords that is true. It does average around 50 cents per click, obviously some days are a lot better than others.

For this blog, I do occassionally get a below $10 day still whilst other days it is up over $30. Once the blog started ranking reasonably high for the comepetitive keywords I am sure my site has been a target for some strategic placements as well which certainly boosts the income per click.

As always it is very niche dependent as well what sort of price you get for the clicks. You might find some niches that the competitive keywords have a high cost associated with them and yet a broader related keyword phrase is worth peanuts. This is why your backlinking and on page SEO needs to be good to leave Google no doubt what your content is about.. The trick is to make the content primarily focused on the expensive keywords.

Been following your thread and success everyday. You have been very inspirational to me.

[debtfreehispanic]

I need to write more articles in Ezine then. Looks like this will help drive more traffice to my blog. Very inspiring.

So Steve, I may have missed it, but what is your Adsense averages daily so far?

[pixelcrafter]

Dear Steve,

Is there any update for the Bootcamp?

BTW, If you have already open the registration,
kindly mention the operation cost per month
which the members have to pay (ex: hosting, other tools ... ) for following your path.
So, the members can prepare the money.

Best Wishes,
Pixel

[peter gibson]

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Can a mod please ban this knucklehead? I really get tired of the blatant spammers that come around here looking for backlinks and posting ridiculous nonsense. Grrr...

[EdithKoppa]

Have you achieved your goal that you set here?

[billythekid]

Steve,
Interesting project. Your niche is going to be European cruises. Well i have lots of articles already written which you could use and edit slightly to avoid duplicate content. PM if you're interested in adding more content.

[Steve Crooks]

Hi Pixel, hosting will be required and I can help with some reccomendations if the member does not have hosting already. As for tools, I am building this course so that people can do this using as many free resources as possible. Of course there are always payed tools that might make certain jobs easier but the emphasis will be on using free resources. Any other costs apart from the course itself will be domain costs and thats pretty much it..

It's all moving in the right direction, I will post on my blog when things are almost ready.

Originally Posted by pixelcrafter

Dear Steve,

Is there any update for the Bootcamp?

BTW, If you have already open the registration,
kindly mention the operation cost per month
which the members have to pay (ex: hosting, other tools ... ) for following your path.
So, the members can prepare the money.

Best Wishes,
Pixel

[Steve Crooks]

I will PM you.. Always interested in new content..

Originally Posted by billythekid

Steve,
Interesting project. Your niche is going to be European cruises. Well i have lots of articles already written which you could use and edit slightly to avoid duplicate content. PM if you're interested in adding more content.

[barbdear]

Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing such great content, I discovered this thread this afternoon and had to pull myself away at about the 1000th post. Great stuff. Just curious - do you keep track of how much money you spend to build and promote a site?

[havefunandlive]

This all looks very promising. I was just thinking about making a blog and this would fit that just perfectly.

Thanks for the info.

[Steve Crooks]

Yes I do and it is essential to do this when it comes to bookkeeping and dealing with the taxman.

Originally Posted by barbdear

Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing such great content, I discovered this thread this afternoon and had to pull myself away at about the 1000th post. Great stuff. Just curious - do you keep track of how much money you spend to build and promote a site?

[debtfreehispanic]

Hey steve, just wondering if you are able to give an update on your daily average. been following this thread from the beginning, plus i've tried a lot of the techniques explained in this thread. So far so good, off to write an article.

[Steve Crooks]

I have a post lined up on my 100 bucks challenge blog with an update to be posted tomorrow. In short I had a day last week where it went over $70 for the day but since then my blog has been in the hands of a google dance and has decreased again. Full report tomorrow.

Originally Posted by debtfreehispanic

Hey steve, just wondering if you are able to give an update on your daily average. been following this thread from the beginning, plus i've tried a lot of the techniques explained in this thread. So far so good, off to write an article.

[barbdear]

Sorry, should have been more specific with my question ... I was pretty sure from previous posts that you track financials ... but can you share with us your budget for launching your blog? The total cost of outsourcing and promotion for the first 90 days or so? Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Yes I do and it is essential to do this when it comes to bookkeeping and dealing with the taxman.

[jonnoryan]

Hey Steve

Regarding your site falling down the listings, this is what I was asking about a few days ago . Unfortunately I don't think it has got to do with google dance . There is a lot of talk floating around the net with regards Algorithin changes google have implemented the last 2 weeks or so to sites that are perceived as using bad practises to gain backlinks. There are many other people complaining of the same thing as you, such as dropping far down the serps for their main keywords etc. I sincerely do hope that you site does shoot back up again as you have given many people, including myself a lot of inspiration with this wonderful thread.

[Steve Crooks]

I appreciate your concern and I am pleased you found this thread inspirational. Thankfully my site has bounced back onto page 1 of Google again for my target keyword at least in the UK anyway. A few points though..

1. Bad practices with backlinking is not what this thread is about at all. I am trying to demonstrate the right way to get backlinks from good neighbourhoods. This is nothing new by the way, it has been this way with Google for a long time.

2. My concern was specifically about using automated ranking checking software and whether Google can penalise a site for using one. I personally will not be using any software again to check rankings.

3. It is very easy to suffer with Googlenoia and I suffered with it myself earlier this week after seeing the ranking drop. I gave myself a good kick up the arse though and pulled myself together again.

Originally Posted by jonnoryan

Hey Steve

Regarding your site falling down the listings, this is what I was asking about a few days ago . Unfortunately I don't think it has got to do with google dance . There is a lot of talk floating around the net with regards Algorithin changes google have implemented the last 2 weeks or so to sites that are perceived as using bad practises to gain backlinks. There are many other people complaining of the same thing as you, such as dropping far down the serps for their main keywords etc. I sincerely do hope that you site does shoot back up again as you have given many people, including myself a lot of inspiration with this wonderful thread.

[twinmom]

Hey Steve
Did you see my post about SEO contagious? Go check it out.

[Steve Crooks]

Just read it now, that really is fantastic, it onwards and upwards for your son's site now!

Originally Posted by twinmom

Hey Steve
Did you see my post about SEO contagious? Go check it out.

[yonaswedo]

Hi, Steve. I'm from twinmom thread asking you here. Is your report Cash Cow Guide To Adsense Wealth | Adsense coverage what you did in this thread? If your answer, yes. I better buy your ebook other than follow page to page of this long... thread.

[Steve Crooks]

Yes it is...

Originally Posted by yonaswedo

Hi, Steve. I'm from twinmom thread asking you here. Is your report Cash Cow Guide To Adsense Wealth | Adsense coverage what you did in this thread? If your answer, yes. I better buy your ebook other than follow page to page of this long... thread.

[exit301]

Hi Steve,
Great thread. I am curious where you find the pictures that you added to the static page on your site? Is there a website out there that offers these nice clean looking pictures that are allowed to be used as content on anyone website?

[takingaction]

Hi exit301,

I'm sure Steve will recommend a few image sites shortly. In the meantime you can check these out:

STOCKXPERT - Royalty free stock photography community
Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
Royalty Free Photos, Download Stock Photos and Images Stock Photos Royalty Free Downloads

Prices are very affordable.

There are also blog/site building programs such as Artisteer (Steve mentions this program on his blog) that come with stock pictures you can use.

Cheers.

[Steve Crooks]

Yeah, I use all of those plus a couple of others like dreamstime and Jupiter images also.

Originally Posted by takingaction

Hi exit301,

I'm sure Steve will recommend a few image sites shortly. In the meantime, I recommend:

STOCKXPERT - Royalty free stock photography community
Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
Royalty Free Photos, Download Stock Photos and Images Stock Photos Royalty Free Downloads

Prices are very affordable.

There are also blog/site building programs such as Artisteer (Steve mentions this program in his blog) that come with stock pictures you can use.

Cheers.

[kimaroc]

What a wonderful thread !! I'm doing Seo since 2007, but I never passed 5$, My psychology dictionary website is in the first page in google, but no serious earning !!
any way thank you for this amazing adventure, and good luck everybody

[shan05]

Reading this thread has motivated me to start taking action to increase my adsense earnings.

[dadaas]

Very intresting. I will try to copy your work, but 100$ a day is allot.

[ella2009]

Hi Steve,

What tool do you use to track your adsense data?

Thanks.

[Steve Crooks]

I have used many different tools, site supe tracker for one but I just stick with Analytics in combination with my adsnese account. The information this gives me is invaluable.

Originally Posted by ella2009

Hi Steve,

What tool do you use to track your adsense data?

Thanks.

[Steve Crooks]

Hi lomboz, I will look into this for you and sort it out. I am away from my office at the moment but will give it my urgent attention when I get back in a few hours.

Originally Posted by lomboz

hello!Steve,

I have pay for your ebook,but redirect to a page said:You have an error in your SQL syntax;

And I want to login in this page: ccdownloads
but my password is wrong,I want to retrieve my passwd,it shows that
:Error, could not locate the email .

Please help me! Thank you!

[raymagnetic]

Thanks for the information. It's greatly appreciated.

[webmatic]

Wow ... This thread got a hell lot of replies and i got tired reading all of them so just read few of them that were really worth reading and thanks to everyone for sharing some great information and tips regarding adsense.
Thanks
Webmatic

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[Crafty Blogger]

Hi Steve,

Believe it or not I've read through this entire thread plus all your challenge blog posts (don't ask how long that took!) and found it very inspirational and motivating.

I had a question about the number of articles you ended up posting to your website, however. At various point you suggest you need to post 300 to 400 articles in order to reach your goal, but in a post in mid March you say you decided to only post 80 articles and focus on backlinks to these articles.

I was wondering what was the total number of articles you have submitted to date to the blog (especially given you recent increase in daily amount coming into adsense) and whether you had any thoughts/evaluations about the math you used to start out (regarding average number of hits you hoped to receive per post, and the number of posts needed to reach your $100 goal).

Thanks again for sharing your experience!

[Steve Crooks]

Wow.. You surely win the endurance challenge!

Yes, I was (am) going to be posting a lot more articles. I decided that I would concentrate initially on promoting a small selection of the better articles first though. My goal is to get those articles indexed in the top 10 of Google and then slowly keep posting more and more articles over time.

This brings up an important point which I should have mentioned earlier. A lot of people think about website promotion as being about promoting the site itself which is a huge mistake. It's a subtle difference but the best way in my opinion is to think about promoting each article as it's own entity. The site as a whole will look after itself if you care for the internal pages..

When I have mentioned this in the past, people immediately start asking whether that means they need to start sending thousands of articles to ezine articles and other places for backlinks to each page. Not neccessarily, some articles will be easier to get into Google's top 10 than others, so it is very dependent on that.

To answer your question, I have around 100 posts up there and I am actively promoting around 15 to 20 of them currently and letting the others float until I get to them. Although this process takes time and energy, it is very worth it in the long run.

Originally Posted by Crafty Blogger

Hi Steve,

Believe it or not I've read through this entire thread plus all your challenge blog posts (don't ask how long that took!) and found it very inspirational and motivating.

I had a question about the number of articles you ended up posting to your website, however. At various point you suggest you need to post 300 to 400 articles in order to reach your goal, but in a post in mid March you say you decided to only post 80 articles and focus on backlinks to these articles.

I was wondering what was the total number of articles you have submitted to date to the blog (especially given you recent increase in daily amount coming into adsense) and whether you had any thoughts/evaluations about the math you used to start out (regarding average number of hits you hoped to receive per post, and the number of posts needed to reach your $100 goal).

Thanks again for sharing your experience!

[Crafty Blogger]

Thanks for your answer - a very useful point to keep in mind!