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Is Your Adsense Sustainable?

by cozandeffect
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I recently purchased Xfactor's video on adsense (which was awesome).

While I am committed to the amount of time it takes to create a huge site my concern is how long the income rolls in...

After creating 500 pages, can you begin to enjoy the passive income? Or is it like a treadmill, where if you stop it rolls for awhile, then eventually stops?
#adsense #sustainable
  • Profile picture of the author XFactor
    Originally Posted by cozandeffect View Post

    I recently purchased Xfactor's video on adsense (which was awesome).

    While I am committed to the amount of time it takes to create a huge site my concern is how long the income rolls in...

    After creating 500 pages, can you begin to enjoy the passive income? Or is it like a treadmill, where if you stop it rolls for awhile, then eventually stops?
    Always expect to do some maintenance, as nothing is truly sustainable to the
    point of never touching it again.

    - John
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    • Profile picture of the author cozandeffect
      Hi Xfactor,
      Thanks for your reply. "Maintenance" I can handle, but writing 10 articles a day will eventually burn me out.

      I realize at some point I could outsource the writing to someone else, using the ad revenue to pay them; just want to make sure this isn't a one-time payment.

      How many hours do you spend on maintenance per month?
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      • Profile picture of the author internetmarketer99
        Hey John

        I have a question for you if I may.

        You may recall I posted a pic of my current Adsense layouts that had been giving me pretty excellent CTR's.

        It's a pretty straightforward 'left nav, right content & ads' layout. My question to you is this:

        As that layout is currently, I can fit about 30 links along the left nav without stretching the page too far beyond the right panel content & ads.

        As such, most of these sites end up around 30 pages.

        I have just begun trying a 'silo' approach, by aggregating some of the nav links into somewhat similar groups, and dropping them 'under' a top-level link.

        Is this what you're doing for your larger sites?

        Any reply is appreciated.

        Mark
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        • Profile picture of the author cozandeffect
          Originally Posted by internetmarketer99 View Post

          Hey John

          I have a question for you if I may.

          You may recall I posted a pic of my current Adsense layouts that had been giving me pretty excellent CTR's.

          It's a pretty straightforward 'left nav, right content & ads' layout. My question to you is this:

          As that layout is currently, I can fit about 30 links along the left nav without stretching the page too far beyond the right panel content & ads.

          As such, most of these sites end up around 30 pages.

          I have just begun trying a 'silo' approach, by aggregating some of the nav links into somewhat similar groups, and dropping them 'under' a top-level link.

          Is this what you're doing for your larger sites?

          Any reply is appreciated.

          Mark
          Not really sure what this has to do with sustainability... Have you been able to generate passive income with adsense, or will the business model fail without active promotion?
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          • Profile picture of the author internetmarketer99
            Sorry Coz, didn't mean to hijack your thread.

            I have a few sites that have become almost completely self-sustaining. They were set up a year or more ago. When they were first set up, I spent a lot of time and effort on building traffic and links.

            Their initial content was done all at once, appx. 30 pages each of outsourced original content, specifically targeted towards keywords with decent search volume but low competition.

            From there I spent about a month submitting articles, generally one per day, and tagging each page that was being 'focused on' that day via article submission. I would Digg and Stumble the page, and bookmark it at a few social bookmarking sites.

            After that initial month, I did almost nothing further. The traffic and Adsense clicks rose pretty steadily for about 2 months then leveled off.

            Since then they have stayed more-or-less 'stable', with the exception of occassional upwards or downwards 'spikes'.

            So I would consider that revenue sustainable. I should mention they are in moderately competitive niches.

            My other Adsense sites begin similarly, but after my initial 'building' period, I continue to do some ongoing 'maintenance'. My newer sites all have a Wordpress self-hosted blog attached to them, and a Squidoo lens, a Blogger blog, and Wordpress.com blog all pointing to them.

            "Maintenance" consists of ongoing posting to the Squidoo lens and blogs. Generally, I'll pick one site each day, and for that day I'll add a post to each blog plus Squidoo lens, each focusing on one of the main site's keywords, with a link to that keywords page.

            All in all, it takes me about 30-45 mins. per day, rotating them so that I get to them all over a period of 10-15 days.

            This has been enough to keep good SERPs rankings, as well as pretty stable Adsense revenue.

            Mark
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            MY Expertise, YOUR Profit.
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        • Profile picture of the author XFactor
          Originally Posted by internetmarketer99 View Post

          Hey John

          I have a question for you if I may.

          You may recall I posted a pic of my current Adsense layouts that had been giving me pretty excellent CTR's.

          It's a pretty straightforward 'left nav, right content & ads' layout. My question to you is this:

          As that layout is currently, I can fit about 30 links along the left nav without stretching the page too far beyond the right panel content & ads.

          As such, most of these sites end up around 30 pages.

          I have just begun trying a 'silo' approach, by aggregating some of the nav links into somewhat similar groups, and dropping them 'under' a top-level link.

          Is this what you're doing for your larger sites?

          Any reply is appreciated.

          Mark
          Sorry I missed this - I replied to your PM.

          In a nutshell I have many categories on my sites, categories that cover sub-niches.

          - John
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          • Profile picture of the author Teddi77
            Hi All:

            One of my adsense sites has been around about 4 years. It took me about 6 months to make any money with it. It has about 40 pages of good content and all I did for SEO was optimize for keywords on each page, then trade links with other sites. It had a PR 5 at one point, when Google was not penalizing exchanged links but the PR is 4 now. It's in a very competitive keyword group.

            At first, most of my traffic came from Google, but actually now, this site gets more traffic from Yahoo and MSN. When I started, I wrote about 20 articles and put them all on ezinearticles. I've been making consistent income from this site for the last two years without doing anything! I've been busy with a full time job, so did not have the time.

            Now, I've decided I want to increase income, so my first efforts will be to put long tail keywords in all the articles (titles, headlines, body copy) instead of competitive ones and write some more articles. I'm thinking about writing a few "link bait" articles as well, to see if I can get traffic from digg or stumble.

            I also have a page design that gets much better click through, so plan to redesign most of the site.

            Teddi
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  • Profile picture of the author cozandeffect
    No worries Mark, I appreciate your feedback. Currently I'm writing 4 new pages of content a day, with a goal of hitting 300 pages by January, then I'll start article marketing the hell out of it.

    My thinking is that I want to focus all my energy on building something of value, THEN focus all my energy on marketing it. It seems like you've been enjoying some passive income for awhile, which is great!
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  • Profile picture of the author flashgordon
    I'd say my Adsense is sustainable in terms of what it is generating now. But if I want to increase my potential income, then I must continue to build pages, links, etc. So it is not sustainable in that manner. Really, for me Adsense is just one part of an overall plan for generating income online - none of them are stand alone, but all work synergistically together to make me happy.
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