$100+/Days with Adsense from one site

I do make that much from one site. I'm writing this because I see a lot of threads from people who want to make that much from Adsense (whether it's from one site or many $100/day seems to be a magic number).

So I thought I'd post and tell you how I was able to do it. And again this is from one site.

So first, here's a little on that site. It has about 40 pages on it. The pages have all unique content. They range from maybe 200 words up to 1,000 words all on a topic. The topic is pretty broad, I wish I could come up with an example for you, but don't really want to give away too much. I guess if you think of TV's as a super broad market, then my site covers something like plasma TV's.

What I did first was put together a big list of keywords related to my topic (so in my example, plasma TV's).

Then I organized the list and planned my content around it. I then either wrote the content or had some written up. I think for this site I did a little of both. I'd say the content on the site is better than 80% of the content on most sites, but that's really not saying much as junk content pollutes the web. It's unique and if anyone lands on the site they'll not just instantly click the back button. They might read a little, and then hopefully click on an ad.

I do have a couple of really good articles on the site and interestingly, that's how most people arrive at it.

At any rate once the site was up I started building links back to it. I made sure to use the right anchor text and pointed the links to various pages on the site, not just the homepage.

That's the strategy in a nutshell.

If you'll notice, I don't have a new and unique strategy for getting all this traffic to my site. I just build highly optimized sites. Here's some of the juicier details...

The trick is that the niche has a good Adsense payout and a high search volume. AND then on top of that I use a good Adsense layout. So I have 3 things going for me with my strategy.

I just want to point out that the payout isn't crazy high, like some niches. You don't need to find the highest paying keywords to generate earnings like this. But you do need a decent payout.

So if you're going to replicate this then the first thing to do is pick a market.
Here's exactly what I think you should consider when selecting an Adsense market.

1. Does it payout well? I'll show you exactly how you can figure that out and really quickly by researching Adwords.

2. Does it have competition? You want there to be at least one page if not several pages of Adwords ads running.

That's about it. As you can see, it's not rocket science.

And the nice thing is these two factors go hand in hand.

Finding High Paying Adsense Keywords

To find high paying Adsense keywords with competition, you don't really need to buy anything.

All you need is access to an Adwords account or the free Traffic Estimator tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/Tr...timatorSandbox

And then you'll also look at the Google search results pages.

Here's exactly what I suggest you do ...

Use the Traffic Estimator so you can see the estimated costs for Adwords, as if you're going to actually bid on a keyword.

Instead of using it for your Adwords campaigns, you just use it for research. So you'll want to make sure the keyword costs more than a few cents. It's got to cost at least $1.00 for page 1 estimates. That's my absolute minimum suggestion.

Checking the Search Volume

I don't worry about the Adsense competition at this point. Obviously, other people will be targeting these high paying, high competition phrases for Adsense. I just want to know if people are bidding on those words, if there are a lot of bidders and if they've managed to drive the costs up. If those major factors are there, then we proceed.

So once you've checked on the Adsense payout, then you want to make sure there is a decent search volume for the market. The trouble is, if your market only has 10 searches a month even if it pays out well, you're not going to make much money. You want a good Adsense payout AND a decent search volume.

So to check search volume, you can use one of Google's keyword tools or if you have access to a keyword tool that provides you with lists of related words and search volume, use that instead. You want to make sure there are lots of words and that at least some of them are getting a high search volume.

Here's a link to Google's Keyword Tool that provides search volume...

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

The whole point behind doing this is to keep you from going into a really narrow market. For example, one that only has 30 keywords that you can even think of and they each only get 150 searches a month (5 searches a day). A market like this will not be a big Adsense earner. You're not going to get a whole lot of traction because the search volume is too low.

But if you can come up with hundreds of related keywords, and they start at 100 or even 50 searches a day (3,000 to 1,500 searches a month) and go down, then you're in good shape.

So a good niche to target meets all 3 of the criteria. All the keyphrases should be above $1.00 a click for first page rankings (it's really good when at least some are over $10 a click), there's enough competition to fill an Adsense ad block, AND there are a ton of monthly searches.

You probably have an idea of the market you want to be in already. If you don't, I have some ideas for you below.

Health
acne treatment
hemorrhoids
panic attacks
weight loss

Computers
Registry cleaners
Webhosting
Spyware remover
Domain names

Fun & Entertainment
Satellite TV
Learn Spanish
Dog training
Online dating
VoIP

So these are very broad markets, but you can use them to get a good start. There are niches within these broad markets that you can target or you can target the broader keyphrases. I think you could build a solid Adsense site out of any of these markets either way.

Other things to look for in the market are specific products. If you're considering building an Adsense site for acne treatment you might consider proactiv or another popular acne treatment product.

I wouldn't necessarily say you have to build your entire site around those products, but you can write short articles on them.

You'll usually see significantly higher costs per clicks for these more specific search terms, especially product names. Do the same thing where you use the traffic estimator to make sure the ad costs more than $1 for the first page and it has lots of competition.

And that's all I do. I don't worry about finding that one golden keyword that pays a huge amount. No one knows how Google determines what they're going to pay you. So even if you find a word that costs $20 or above per click, you're going to get a lot less than that.

And remember search volume. If you can get a $5.00 pay out on a keyword, but you only get 1 click a day because no one's searching for that word, then that's only $5 a day ... and that's your maximum earnings. But if you can get 50 cent pay out on a keyword and you get 200 clicks a day on your ads, then that's $50 a day.

To summarize, all I do is use the traffic estimator and make sure the keyword costs at least $1 a click or above. Then I go to google and make sure there's at least a page full of ads if not more. Next I check the search volume to make sure there's enough searches.

Adsense Layout

Adsense is a case where less is more. And by that I mean although you can put as many as 3 different ad-blocks on a single page, you don't want to. It works out better to just put a single ad-block on each page. That way the highest paying ads show up in that ad block. So you put the single ad block in a good place on your page and you just let it do its work.

Don't worry about doing anything funny with the ad to make it stand out.

It's usually against google's terms of use to do so anyway. And again, I'm using this exact less-is-more strategy and getting $100+ days from one site.

If you play around in your Adsense account, you'll see there are lots of fancy ads to choose from.

But my favorite ad block is the boring 250 x 250 ad.

It's just a square. And I put one, very plain ad block wrapped within the article and that's it.

So anyway, that's what I've done to get $100+ days from a single site. I know there have been lots of other posts covering how to earn with Adsense so one thing to keep in mind is that there are many different ways to get this to work.

Another tip I'd give anyone considering getting into Adsense is to make sure to pick a market where you can monetize it with something else, like affiliate ads or CPA offers just in case your Adsense account gets banned. I've had my account pretty much since they allowed Adsense and I've never had a problem, but there are so many markets to choose from that you should really make sure you can monetize your site in some other way just in case.

And although Adsense isn't my main thing online, it's a great hands-off method of earning. One of the best things about is that you don't need to 'sell' anything. You don't need to be a good copywriter to get into this. I do think of my sites as a publishing platform though so I provide good copy and I think you'll see the best results if you do the same.

I hope that helps a few people out. You don't have to build dozens of small sites to reach this amount (but you can if that's working for you). I know many people are making much more than this from one site so there's really no limit.

Lisa