Do Higher Paying AdSense Niches Require a "Different" Approach?

[JoshuaG]

Most of my experience with AdSense is in suburban home owner
products/travel related micro niches and I'd like to get into
something more lucrative.

It seems like higher paying niches need to be approached
in a different way. From my perspective they cater to a
different demographic and are more competitive in terms of
keyword availability/the SERPS.

Are authority sites the only answer?

Micro niche sites don't seem like they'll have enough clout
to make page 1 in most cases.

If anyone with experience in high paying Adsense niches
would please be willing to comment I would greatly appreciate it.

All The Best,
Joshua G.

[JoshuaG]

I know a bump is generally in bad taste here, but I posted this when few were on the forum and I'd really like some feed back. Show mercy mods!

[simonbuzz]

Look at your signature..its about adsense...lol

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by simonbuzz

Look at your signature..its about adsense...lol

My product is about AdSense optimization techniques, my question isn't.

[Odhinn]

My feeling is that the bigger the site, the better off you are, in almost any niche. It lets you target more keywords, have more interlinking, and hit a larger variety of your audience. While you can rank with a minisite in really small niches, you'll do better with more pages, and for niches with large adsense payments, you'll have to develop lots of pages to rank for all the keywords you want.

[tonyalves]

Micro niche sites work the best for long tail non competitive keywords. The problem is that these keywords are not high paying because there is not enough bidding competition in AdWords to push the prices up.

In order to target the high paying keywords you need to build large authority sites with a lot of unique content for a chance at getting them ranking well in the search engines.

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by tonyalves

Micro niche sites work the best for long tail non competitive keywords. The problem is that these keywords are not high paying because there is not enough bidding competition in AdWords to push the prices up.

In order to target the high paying keywords you need to build large authority sites with a lot of unique content for a chance at getting them ranking well in the search engines.

Hey, great to hear from a fellow Ontarian.

What you've said is what I have also suspected. It poses a serious challenge because authority sites must not only be large but also credible in order to succeed.

If you don't know the subject you are building your authority site around, that means you need to hire someone who does...and that's expensive!

[xxxJamesxxx]

If you don't know the subject you are building your authority site around, that means you need to hire someone who does...and that's expensive!

I disagree.

I've build authority sites with nothing but spun articles.

It's all about backlinking and adding content on a continuous basis.

James

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by xxxJamesxxx

I disagree.

I've build authority sites with nothing but spun articles.

It's all about backlinking and adding content on a continuous basis.

James

Did you have access to highly relevant links from other authority sites in the niche in question? Or was it simply a matter of volume in terms of links?

I mean, the only reason I suggested high quality, credible content was because I thought it would be the only way to get links from other sites where the "link value" was high.

[imMindset]

I've had a lot of success building quality authority sites in very competitive niches and monetizing adsense. In my experience, what has really helped is the consistency of link building more than anything. It also hasn't been about the volume of links per se, but rather link diversity from high PR pages. But this is fairly easy to do yourself without having to "attract" links. Most of my links have come from blogs, and commenting. Sure it may help to get people to link to you naturally, but realistically you're not going to get those type of links very easily.

Also what qualifies an authority domain in terms of content anyway? Is it the number of pages, quality of content, etc.? Well for sure it's not quantity because most of my sites have less than 30 pages. Some have more but anywhere from 30-50 pages with good quality content is probably best.

Also, I'd consider setting up a social profile (i.e facebook, twitter etc.) and connecting the blog to feed into those sites using a service like hootsuite. This will definitely help build "authority" and presence online, and possibly help with SEO.

[markowe]

Interesting question, I see no reason why a high-CPC niche should be any more difficult if the competition is not proportionally higher. I recently found a $15-$20-CPC-type niche where the competition is not great from IMers - looks very manageable. Building an authority site would help, I am sure, but you can bet I will try to rank it with just a few pages of content to begin with and see how that goes.

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by imMindset

I've had a lot of success building quality authority sites in very competitive niches and monetizing adsense. In my experience, what has really helped is the consistency of link building more than anything. It also hasn't been about the volume of links per se, but rather link diversity from high PR pages. But this is fairly easy to do yourself without having to "attract" links. Most of my links have come from blogs, and commenting. Sure it may help to get people to link to you naturally, but realistically you're not going to get those type of links very easily.

Also what qualifies an authority domain in terms of content anyway? Is it the number of pages, quality of content, etc.? Well for sure it's not quantity because most of my sites have less than 30 pages. Some have more but anywhere from 30-50 pages with good quality content is probably best.

Also, I'd consider setting up a social profile (i.e facebook, twitter etc.) and connecting the blog to feed into those sites using a service like hootsuite. This will definitely help build "authority" and presence online, and possibly help with SEO.

Thank you for the informative reply, its great to hear from someone with experience. (and from yet another Ontarian...we must like adsense over here!)

When you say most of your links came from blogs and commenting, do you mean most of your links came from comments you left on high PR blog posts?

Thanks for the hootsuite tip. Makes sense it would help both in terms of authority and SEO.

[imMindset]

Good to hear. Yea, something about adsense which has always appealed to me. Same with some friends and family. Could be an Ontario thing?

And yes, a lot of my links come from high PR blog comments. But I also focus on publishing short, unique content (150 words or so) to high PR blogs (in-context links). 3-5 posts per day per site is sufficient. I use BMR for this and outsource the entire process.

In addition, if you can, start building a mini network of sites to get some homepage links. Not absolutely necessary, and not a big part of my strategy, but definitely worth doing. If you're already building a lot of niche sites, then you're already there.

Cheers.

[2423898]

Not really as long as you can write something off high quality for the keyword it should be ok.

[JoshuaG]

Originally Posted by imMindset

Good to hear. Yea, something about adsense which has always appealed to me. Same with some friends and family. Could be an Ontario thing?

And yes, a lot of my links come from high PR blog comments. But I also focus on publishing short, unique content (150 words or so) to high PR blogs (in-context links). 3-5 posts per day per site is sufficient. I use BMR for this and outsource the entire process.

In addition, if you can, start building a mini network of sites to get some homepage links. Not absolutely necessary, and not a big part of my strategy, but definitely worth doing. If you're already building a lot of niche sites, then you're already there.

Cheers.

Valuable information, thanks again!