First Post - Question for Adsense Experts, Please

[JB Jiles]

Hello all, I'm hoping those of you who are making consistent income with Adsense would care to give some feedback on my overall strategy.

I chose a niche in the home improvement area. CPC on keywords the I chose pay anywhere from $1.30 - $15.00, but mostly land in the $2.00 range.

I want this site to be at least 100 pages. And the site structure has categories. The home page has a "related articles" section linking to each and every category and post. (I'd like to include a unique summary for each category and post, but have yet to do that).

Each category page has a full article of at least 1000 words and at the end of the article are links to each and every article within said category. On top of this, I try to find as many keywords within each article's content to link to whatever page on my site is optimized for that specific keyword. And I mix up the main keywords with long tail keywords when linking to these pages.

Right now, I'm too impatient to wait until all of my articles on my site are written and published to begin backlinking. So I backlink as I go. As soon as an article is published, I bookmark and ping. After they are indexed, I manually submit to about 40 article directories with different keywords within the links of the resource box with each submission.

My next plan is to submit to about 8 document directories (also mixing up main and secondary keywords within the links), a few blog comments a day on blogs within my niche, and have created about 6 blogs on places like Tumblr where I take portions of my original content and create a inter-connected links and links back to my main site.

So far that's all I have done, and the site has a CTR rate of about 7% and the average click is about 30 cents. Bottom line is about $1.00 per day after a week or so. So far so good, I think.

In addition to this, I create a Google alert for each article to keep track of who may be republishing my articles so as to contact them for additional articles.

Here's a question, though. Do any of you who have a nice system down that simply takes the original content from an article on your site to submit everywhere else on the web? That is what I am doing and it seems to be working. I can't see a reason why not. I don't want to spin and I also don't want to spend the time writing an original article for an article directory.

I'm not worried about an article directory outranking me initially for the same content because those sites won't have backlinks built for them. So I view article directories outranking me in the beginning stages as temporary and accept it.

It takes me a while to write a 1000 word or more article and I think my best chances for other site owners to want my content on their site is to send my best work to the article directories. Plus, I do think the links help rankings. At least at this beginning stage, which is partially why I submit to so many directories. At least that is quite a few for me. Automated submission tools that submit to 100s of article directories don't seem worth it to me.

This post is getting long, so I'll wrap it up. Please let me know what you think. Thank you!

[paulgl]

I would not waste your time submitting articles.
Backlink instead of article submit.

I would not have a small summary of a bunch of articles on the front page.
It muddles things. Many sites that do that are just FUBAR and confuse
the visitor.

I would do a general intro article on the the front page, all sub pages/directories
nicely linked. That leaves backlinking for now to just the main page. That's
what you should do the majority of the time anyway.

1000 words may be too big for an effective adsense site. Remember, you are
selling the adsense, not the article.

Some of my articles are bigger, but most take up no more than 2-3 screen
heights. Most are barely more than one. In other words, the visitor scrolls down
no more than 2 or 3 full times. If they are bigger, it bogs down the adsense.
Notice how the big news sites do it? They do long articles over multiple
pages instead of scrolling down.

BTW: I'm no adsense expert. Just giving you what I have seen that works
for me. The bottom line is what works for you.

Paul

[JB Jiles]

Originally Posted by paulgl

I would not waste your time submitting articles.
Backlink instead of article submit.

Thank you Paul.

I sort of thought submitting articles was also a form or backlinking, even if not so effective any longer. I guess what I am hoping for, more than anything else, is to get my articles republished on sites in my niche that would hopefully provide more of an SEO impact.

You don't submit any of yours to article directories? Is content syndication a concern of yours when doing SEO for a site?

Would you care to share some backlinking methods that have proved effective for you?

Originally Posted by paulgl

That leaves backlinking for now to just the main page. That's what you should do the majority of the time anyway.

Would you care to explain your reasoning behind this?

Originally Posted by paulgl

1000 words may be too big for an effective adsense site. Remember, you are selling the adsense, not the article.

That's interesting. The main reason I am writing longer articles is to hopefully rank higher in the search engines for many keywords and also increase my chances for syndication, which hopefully will provide the most beneficial backlinks.

I have been interspersing small text links within the body of the content of the article at least twice so the reader has a chance to click on these longer articles.