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

[routonc38]

Originally Posted by DinhTa

I am new and I'd like to make $100/day/blog.... actually $20 is ok with me. Do I go back and read this thread from beginning to end? Do I buy a guide from you Steve?


Thanks!

It took me about a week here and there, but I read it from beginning to end. There is a lot of information in here but it's hidden. You just have to find it. Post 21 was a good one, I took notes on it. Get the chance to read it from the beginning and you'll learn a lot.

[efrontiers]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Article marketing was just one tactic, there are other tactics I go through as well like web 2.0, RSS directory submissions, social bookmarking, blog commenting, link exchanges etc.. Incidentally I am working on version 2 of the cash cow guide which will update these traffic techniques with some cool stuff. All current customers will get it for free..

That will be great. Please include more details regarding these promotion tactics on the 2nd version in more in-depth discussion. Can't wait for the release.

[alvanpilot]

Hi Steve and thank you for all the grteat information you bring to light.

My question is..... everyone keeps mentioning using the Cash Cow Adsense formula to generate income from your blog/s.....

Therefore, I ask you, do you have to use this formula with blogs to be successful or can this formula also be used on regular niche websites?

Thanks Steve and Horraaa!

[rankinghero]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Yes, I have been earning a good income from adsense since 2004. I used to do the mass site building approach when it worked but was lucky to keep my adsense account due to not knowing what half the content was on my hundreds of crappy sites. Had a couple of warnings from google and then I decided to take all my sites down in one fell swoop. My income dropped to zero overnight.

Strange, I don't know the 1st professional that will decide to take their sites dow. If you have crappy sites with the risk of being banned, well... go and change them to affiliate, sell your own products, EPN, CJ, Clickbank..

mmm strange.

[routonc38]

Alvanpilot, I am using the strategy for my websites and I don't have a "blog" per se. If you read the description of Steve's cruise site, it's not really a blog either. You can use blogging software like Wordpress, but consider the posts to be articles and not a blog post. That is what I am doing and I am using his traffic ideas to help build traffic to the site.

[Steve Crooks]

Nothing strange about it, they were all keyword stuffed pages that were built on .info's. Maybe with hindsight I could have turned them into affiliate sites but to be honest I wasn't proud of them and they didn't sit well with my new way of thinking.

Originally Posted by rankinghero

Strange, I don't know the 1st professional that will decide to take their sites dow. If you have crappy sites with the risk of being banned, well... go and change them to affiliate, sell your own products, EPN, CJ, Clickbank..

mmm strange.

[Steve Crooks]

The cash cow guide to adsense wealth is my own personal strategy for making a good adsense income that I released as a guide (in my sig).

You do not have to use this formula at all as there are many different strategies out there to achieve a good adsense income. However, this is my strategy that I know works because I have tried and tested it many times.

Originally Posted by alvanpilot

Hi Steve and thank you for all the grteat information you bring to light.

My question is..... everyone keeps mentioning using the Cash Cow Adsense formula to generate income from your blog/s.....

Therefore, I ask you, do you have to use this formula with blogs to be successful or can this formula also be used on regular niche websites?

Thanks Steve and Horraaa!

[pearsonbrown]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Nothing strange about it, they were all keyword stuffed pages that were built on .info's. Maybe with hindsight I could have turned them into affiliate sites but to be honest I wasn't proud of them and they didn't sit well with my new way of thinking.

I did exactly the same thing when Google warned me. Sometimes being 'professional' means cleaning up after you've made mistakes.

Pearson

[Steve Crooks]

Yes, this strategy can be used on static HTML websites. At the end of the day every website is just a bunch of code that our browsers can interpret, it doesn't matter what site builder was used in the development. However, the reason I choose wordpress as my weapon of choice is that it is a fantastic platform that has many SEO benefits with it's use of plugins, RSS feeds etc. It gives you everything you need for perfect on page and off page SEO virtually out of the box. A static HTML site can do the same thing but needs a lot more effort from the webmaster.

Originally Posted by alvanpilot

Therefore, I ask you, do you have to use this formula with blogs to be successful or can this formula also be used on regular niche websites?

Thanks Steve and Horraaa!

[alvanpilot]

Thanks Steve for your quick reply. I appreciate it a lot.

The reason I asked about blogs vs websites is because I developed my website about 2 years ago now, using SBI. And, SBI, in the course of building your webpages, has it's own in house applications that require one to build their webpage in such a way that is passes a "Webpage Optimiztion" application prior to uploading it.

I am averaging about 3,000 to 4,000 uniques per month and was wondering if your program would be able to be used successfully with my website.

Thanks Steve and keep up the good work!

[Steve Crooks]

Yes, it will show you the process from start to finish of building a well optimized wordpress blog and how to integrate Adsense successfully. Your current website is already built and it seems to me that you should be concentrating on driving traffic to it. I do cover traffic generation but it is aimed at people who want to built a wordpress blog from scratch and make it a success.

Originally Posted by alvanpilot

Thanks Steve for your quick reply. I appreciate it a lot.

The reason I asked about blogs vs websites is because I developed my website about 2 years ago now, using SBI. And, SBI, in the course of building your webpages, has it's own in house applications that require one to build their webpage in such a way that is passes a "Webpage Optimiztion" application prior to uploading it.

I am averaging about 3,000 to 4,000 uniques per month and was wondering if your program would be able to be used successfully with my website.

Thanks Steve and keep up the good work!

[steptor]

hi steve! please i really want to know how i can generate traffic to my blogger sit which was created recently thoughtmanifestation account without using google asdsense since it requires money i guess though how can make profit from zero budget to attract traffic to my blog? i will be glad if you kindly advise me on this lingering aspect,soon.

[Steve Crooks]

There is plenty of juicy stuff on this thread already about traffic generation plus my guide and also my 100 bucks challenge blog. There is also a massive amount of info on various threads here at warrior.

Originally Posted by steptor

hi steve! please i really want to know how i can generate traffic to my blogger sit which was created recently thoughtmanifestation account without using google asdsense since it requires money i guess though how can make profit from zero budget to attract traffic to my blog? i will be glad if you kindly advise me on this lingering aspect,soon.

[efrontiers]

Hi Steve,

I noticed that your medium rectangle adsense in upper center of your best european cruise has a slightly better looking text than other adsense text. Did you do something to this?

[pixelcrafter]

Dear Steve,

Is there any news update for the adsense bootcamp?

Best Wishes,
Pixel

[angelah]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Finding a good adsense niche

The criteria for a good adsense niche is:

1. Has high CPC associated with it.

Time to open up google keyword tool.. I then paste this list of keywords into the keyword tool and click on "use synonyms". When the results are returned, I sort by "Estimated Avg. CPC" from high to low. I then look down the list looking for four things.

1. High CPC
2. High Searches per month
3. Consistent searches through the year
4. Could I create content for that niche?

I have decide to go for "European Cruises" for the following reasons..

1. It has a CPC of $6.51 associated with it.
2. It has approximately 6600 searches per month.
3. The search volume is reasonably consistent through the year.
4. The competition is 181,000 in google.
5. I can create content for this niche.

I'm still trying to learn about CPC, so I have a few questions.

When reviewing the keywords in Google keyword tool, which keywords do you choose based on CPC?

I'm wanting to create a site that will most likely start out as Adsense only, but I'm not sure how to pick my keywords based on CPC.
Is it worth using a keyword that has a CPC below $2, $1???? -
What is the lowest amount you would go for CPC?

What is the average CPC/per keyword for a site that is fairly profitable?

Thanks!
Angela

[Steve Crooks]

It all depends on how good the keyword is.. What I mean by that is, if you have a keyword phrase that has a really good number of searches and low competition but a CPC of less than a $1 then it may still be worth a punt. It would take a lot less effort to get to page 1 of Google and as such you could still potentially reap some good income from that keyword.

A lot of people call this going for "low hanging fruit". There is nothing wrong with this technique in itself but I would only use this as supplemental to the juicy fruit on th etop branches. It might take a lot more effort to get the big juicy fruit but the payback is more than worth it!

Originally Posted by angelah

I'm still trying to learn about CPC, so I have a few questions.

When reviewing the keywords in Google keyword tool, which keywords do you choose based on CPC?

I'm wanting to create a site that will most likely start out as Adsense only, but I'm not sure how to pick my keywords based on CPC.
Is it worth using a keyword that has a CPC below $2, $1???? -
What is the lowest amount you would go for CPC?

What is the average CPC/per keyword for a site that is fairly profitable?

Thanks!
Angela

[Steve Crooks]

You are being extremely patient with me Pixel and I am sorry for keeping you and everyone waiting. I am working on the videos currently.. I wasn't happy with the first lot I did so I am redoing them from scratch again. Most of the text is done though, so it is getting there.. You will be first to know when it is about to roll!

Originally Posted by pixelcrafter

Dear Steve,

Is there any news update for the adsense bootcamp?

Best Wishes,
Pixel

[pixelcrafter]

Dear Steve,

It is simply because I have faith in you Steve.
I believe that you are the one who will guide me to the Adsense success.

I have read your ebook and learn lots of things and concept.
Now, I am working to put it into practice, changing the site layout, writing article, etc.

By having the boot camp, I believe that everything will be explained in depth as you'll give your hand to guide your member and let them see over your shoulder.

So, please, tell me if you have launched your boot camp.

Thank you Steve.
-Pixel-

[alvanpilot]

Hey Christina!

Thank you for your reply as it helped me make my decision.

Did this information personally help maximize your adsense profits on your site?

[routonc38]

Alvan, the short answer is no because right now I'm in the traffic building stage. I'm having to write articles myself for now, but I'm also using some content from article directories and plan to find some writers to freelance as well and write a few articles for me this month. I found that on an old personal blog I have been writing since 2005 I had a lot of content that I could use in my current enterprise, so that's what I'm working on now. I plan to re-write these posts, including pictures when needed, and building traffic with article directories and Squidoo lenses. My goal this week is to get five articles re-written and use three of them as link building tools and post two on the site as content.

I have not bought the Cash Cow book, it's on my wishlist. I am using the info from this post and the 100 days blog at this point.

My goal is to make $1 day with Adsense. I'm not keeping it on the one site, though. If I made $1 day between all my sites I would be thrilled! I've been on Adsense since 2005 and I'm only half way to payout.

[brixxyx]

Great work steve, i've been following your progress all along and am hugely impressed. Keep up the good work!

[jijaybajay]

Hi Steve,

I've been following your thread for these last couple of weeks and I'm on my way of making an Adsense-plugged website.

I've several questions to ask regarding your cruise blog.

1) I saw that you use All-In-One SEO Pack plugin and all the category-pages are not being SEO-ed. They don't have any meta description and keywords. To give it much worse, the plugin even let the robot to not indexing the page (<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />).

Isn't it much better (if possible) to optimized the category page too, or at least let it get indexed by the search engine?

2) You've set the URL permalink of each articles without adding the category-name prior to the permalink of single_post_name itself. Maybe it is better like this: eg. [domainname].c*m/[category-name]/[article-title] instead of [domainname].c*m/[article-title]

3) How to use Propeller social bookmarking 'properly'? Recently i've just submitted my mainpage (only 1) to them, and then tried to add another sub-page but suddenly I cannot login to Propeller anymore. Seems they have banned my account. Tried to write them emails but didn't get any replies. Then I found this h**p://webupon.c*m/social-bookmarking/dos-and-donts-in-propeller/. Any comment?

Anyway, very inspiring thread! Thanx! (joinned WF mainly coz of this thread!)

[efrontiers]

Hi Steve, it seems I can't see your site anywhere in Google. Maybe it's just me but si your earning not affected?

[Steve Crooks]

It depends what part of the world you are in.. Here in the UK, the blog's posts are doing okay, in the US, they are flying up and down like a yoyo. Yes, it has impacted earnings naturally, ranging from just a few bucks a day to over $40. It's the good old google dance, eventually it will settle, I am not worried.

Originally Posted by efrontiers

Hi Steve, it seems I can't see your site anywhere in Google. Maybe it's just me but si your earning not affected?

[beestongaz]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

It's the falling flat on my arse part that will be the driving force with this one.

LOL As a newby on the forum and ti IM I'll be watching like a hawk. Just as a matter of interest Steve, how many hours a day are you putting into this project?

[Steve Crooks]

Currently I am concentrating on a lot of other projects but I shall start adding content and promoting again soon. It will be less than an hour a day though when I do.

Originally Posted by beestongaz

LOL As a newby on the forum and ti IM I'll be watching like a hawk. Just as a matter of interest Steve, how many hours a day are you putting into this project?

[jijaybajay]

Hi Steve, would you mind replying my post above. I really need answers for the questions since they've really made me confused.

Thanks anyway.

[Steve Crooks]

1. The main problem with indexing the category page is that you might then suffer with some sort of dup content penalty or the category being indexed instead of your actual post. The category page tends to have all the posts you make under that category unless you change this.

2. It is a personal choice but the important thing is that you have your target keyword in the URL. If you want to include the category as well then there is no harm but it might dilute the SEO of the actual URL if it is a bit to broad compare d to your target keyword.

3. Looks like sensible advice to me in that article. If propellor do not reinstate your account then put it down to experience and move on. Open up a new account and do things like they say in that article.

Originally Posted by jijaybajay

Hi Steve,

I've been following your thread for these last couple of weeks and I'm on my way of making an Adsense-plugged website.

I've several questions to ask regarding your cruise blog.

1) I saw that you use All-In-One SEO Pack plugin and all the category-pages are not being SEO-ed. They don't have any meta description and keywords. To give it much worse, the plugin even let the robot to not indexing the page (<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />).

Isn't it much better (if possible) to optimized the category page too, or at least let it get indexed by the search engine?

2) You've set the URL permalink of each articles without adding the category-name prior to the permalink of single_post_name itself. Maybe it is better like this: eg. [domainname].c*m/[category-name]/[article-title] instead of [domainname].c*m/[article-title]

3) How to use Propeller social bookmarking 'properly'? Recently i've just submitted my mainpage (only 1) to them, and then tried to add another sub-page but suddenly I cannot login to Propeller anymore. Seems they have banned my account. Tried to write them emails but didn't get any replies. Then I found this h**p://webupon.c*m/social-bookmarking/dos-and-donts-in-propeller/. Any comment?

Anyway, very inspiring thread! Thanx! (joinned WF mainly coz of this thread!)

[jijaybajay]

Thanks Steve, the answers open up my mind!

[Steve Crooks]

I am glad as this is my intention..

Originally Posted by jijaybajay

Thanks Steve, the answers open up my mind!

[exit301]

Hi Steve,
Just wondering if you are using a wordpress plugin to social bookmark every post. What is the best to get social bookmarking up and running on my blog?

Thanks

[Steve Crooks]

Social bookmarking demon is a great tool for the job plus auto social poster is good..

Originally Posted by exit301

Hi Steve,
Just wondering if you are using a wordpress plugin to social bookmark every post. What is the best to get social bookmarking up and running on my blog?

Thanks

[exit301]

Thanks Steve - do you know of any good free ones? Are there any that work specifically with Wordpress?

Thanks

[fl0w]

Hey man steve you are the man ... thanks you dont just talk but you walk the talk...

[kel]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

The main keywords always take time and energy to get ranked highly for and I guess it is a good thing really. Once you hit those big keywords, you don't want some upstart coming along and upstaging your site with a brand new website with just a few backlinks would you? Google are not silly and they know which keywords are the most valuable generally for webmasters to rank for and they want the best sites to rank for them.

The good news though Pete is that if you keep doing what you are doing then you will get those top slots you want, you just have to match and then do better than your competitors which sometimes is not that difficult.

Steve,
Been following this thread from the start and wow, it IS interesting. Quick question. Why do you write articles for backlinks instead of using a service like Angela's monthly backlinks package?

[Steve Crooks]

Articles when done well in a popular category can become viral and get used on many different websites. This is an organic way of getting backlinks that hopefully steadily grow over time.

The links from high PR sites like Angela's backlinks provide are another source of getting some link love but I wouldn't rely on them alone. The more strings you have in your bow, the sweeter the music..

Originally Posted by kel

Steve,
Been following this thread from the start and wow, it IS interesting. Quick question. Why do you write articles for backlinks instead of using a service like Angela's monthly backlinks package?

[game]

Thank You.

[roger6000]

Steve, It took an year for one my site to reach $50 a day average & you seem to achieve it much faster. Hats off for sharing soo much cool info .

Please keep updating this thread with top 10 tips for optimising adsense earnings.

[Jeremy123]

Been following the thread here and there,

are you up to $100 a day yet.

[beestongaz]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Currently I am concentrating on a lot of other projects but I shall start adding content and promoting again soon. It will be less than an hour a day though when I do.

Hi Steve
Thanks for the reply.
I started as an affiliate with 2u phones, writing articles and promoting my mobile phone site. I find article writing quite time consuming, and 2u look to be winding their operation down leaving my site and others high and dry as they no longer provide the auto phone feeds, so I am definitely looking to move into some other projects and this forum has been a great find for me, with some excellent stuff from contributors like youself.

[developerholic]

Woo! Goodluck, if you can do it then definitely I can make it as well

[Steve Crooks]

It does, and it is currently going through revision to version 2 which all current customers will get for free..

Originally Posted by AzOnlineMarketing

Steve, i just wanted ask that does your ebook for sale explain all the step by step instructions to maintain a healthy income through adsense?

[Mangozoom]

Hi Steve

I have had a little time off but did subscribe to this thread as I was fascintated.

Can you bring me up to speed ... how much is the blog earning a day and how long did it take you to get there?

John

[Steve Crooks]

Updates are on my 100 bucks blog but lately it has been between $20 bucks a day. The blog has been moving all over the place lately.. Nothing to worry about though just normal google behaviour for a new(ish) blog.

Originally Posted by Mangozoom

Hi Steve

I have had a little time off but did subscribe to this thread as I was fascintated.

Can you bring me up to speed ... how much is the blog earning a day and how long did it take you to get there?

John

[Steve Crooks]

That is great that you found the inspiration here and more importantly.. You did it, you made the effort and saw some early success.. The dropping down to position 300 is normal but I feel your pain, it can be very frustrating. More times than not it comes back up again, it is commonly called the Google dance. A new site will find it's pages jumping all over the place for a while, just keep doing the right things and you will get success.

Originally Posted by rjowais1

Hi Steve..
My Name Is Owais and I have been following this topic for a month now..
I got inspiration from you and started a blog.
I took all the steps you had told us in this thread and i shot up to 7th position within 2.5weeks!!
2 days ago I changed the title of my blog to make it more specific niche..
But you cant believe!!
I got back to 300th position Now I am in great tension of what to do..
Am I kicked backed by google and will never come up??

Will you please give your views on this problem??
Waiting for your response..

Owais.

[Mangozoom]

Thanks for the feedback steve ... $20 in adsense from one blog is more than respectable.

[angelah]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

Articles when done well in a popular category can become viral and get used on many different websites. This is an organic way of getting backlinks that hopefully steadily grow over time.

The links from high PR sites like Angela's backlinks provide are another source of getting some link love but I wouldn't rely on them alone. The more strings you have in your bow, the sweeter the music..

HI Steve,

When you write articles for popular categories, do you do any keyword research within the popular category to help the ranking of your article?
What strategy do you use to make sure your article in the popular categories are visible so that you accomplish the goal of receiving backlinks?
I'm wondering, if a person did an article in the very popular weight loss category, would the article ever be read since they're are probably so many articles in the weight loss category. What should a person do to make their article visible in the popular categories?

Thanks
Angela

[Steve Crooks]

First and foremost choose article titles that grab people's attention and try and combine that by using a well searched keyword phrase. If your research uncovers a well searched for phrase using a good old dog training example "poodle training".. An eye catching title might be "6 shocking secrets about poodle training". It is just an example but I hope you get the idea. You should also look at the top 10 in Google for that keyword phrase to see if the pages listed there are easily beatable.

Originally Posted by angelah

HI Steve,

When you write articles for popular categories, do you do any keyword research within the popular category to help the ranking of your article?
What strategy do you use to make sure your article in the popular categories are visible so that you accomplish the goal of receiving backlinks?
I'm wondering, if a person did an article in the very popular weight loss category, would the article ever be read since they're are probably so many articles in the weight loss category. What should a person do to make their article visible in the popular categories?

Thanks
Angela

[Josiah Staggs]

Originally Posted by exit301

Thanks Steve - do you know of any good free ones? Are there any that work specifically with Wordpress?

Thanks

Onlywire.com, I have no problem recommending them.