50 hits Per Day = $5 Per Day & I Love It

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Just crunched some numbers on a small diy based site I own.

It gets 50 ish hits a day through 3 articles I wrote in 2008 (although yesterday it got 97 hits this was a blip).

Anyway it is monetised using adsense and the CTR is very good averging 21%.

Long story short this site brings in a steady $5 every single day ... not my best earner. However I really love this one because I do nothing to maintain it at all, it really has been a case of set and forget.

my magic formula

1) Find niche keywords - I actually used Micronichefinder for this one. But now use a different approach. All keywords are based around exact match traffic counts.

2) Build a mini site - I wrote content of 500 words minimum per page.

3) Article Marketing - I wrote articles for each of the pages created. However 3 in particular are driving most of the traffic.

That's it ... took me less than 3 to 4 hours work total and is making me a nice little amount each month.

John
#main internet marketing discussion forum #day #hits #love
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    • Hiya

      Yes am beavering away at it ... been really looking at what 'authority' means and not just adding a ton of new content.

      Might post about this at some point

      John
  • You should elaborate this more on the blogs.....It seems pretty interesting.....
  • Article marketing? How many articles do you upload and where do you upload them? I would say scale it up as much as possible!
  • Congrats! It's always nice when you get paid long term for some work you did way back when. Even if it's a little bit here and there the money all ads up for the work done in few hours or even a few days. You've got to love Internet Marketing.
  • Good for you. Thank you for sharing. I got some idea.
  • Hey Mango

    would love to check out your website and blogs any Chance of the Addresses

    Congratulations on your success
  • Hi Mango, do you use Xfactor template?

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    • In all honesty on this site I actually converted it to Xfactor ... in particular the positioning of Adsense blocks which really helped in my view.

      John
  • This is great - well done on your success..

    I love these nice little long-term earners that you don't have to maintain. Great stuff.
  • Shh..I envy you! I love success stories (really) Maybe you can elaborate your ways or anything. Last words to your fans? Any secrets? Maybe you can make a WSO out of your success!


    Andrea
  • Congrats on your success and on building this passive income!
    Kevin
  • I think it's a great formula and you are motivated John! Good job!
    Good luck for your earnings!
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  • GR8 work man! Hope u get more success in the future!
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  • Thanks guys my businsses continues to grow and I am now doing paid seo and keyword work for other clients.

    John
  • Congrats! That's one of my favorite perks of article marketing... you never know when your articles are going to give you traffic/sales/rewards. Just yesterday, I noticed a chunk of traffic that came in from an article I wrote back in May. Hadn't promoted it lately, hadn't even *thought* of it lately, and there is was, sending me traffic

    Keep up the good work!
  • When you think about it $5 a day is amazing for the work you put in a long time ago. Like Nicole said "that is one of my favorite perks of article marketing." Yesterday I checked and I had about a dozen articles pulling in consistent traffic that I wrote over a year ago.
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    • This is why I love article marketing ... done well you get LONG TERM traffic not just a sudden spike

      John
  • Good stuff! I'm currently building a DIY site out of some old how-to guides I wrote a while back. Just need to find some better keywords to optimize for.
  • Now image what would happen if instead of sending
    that traffic away, you would convert them into list
    subscribers and then into frequent buyers of products
    you promote?

    Tyrus
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    • If I was sitting in a room with you now we would be shaking hands.

      I am actually putting a lot of thought into list marketing to some of my tiny niches ... so feel encouraged to push on

      John
  • Can you believe how easy it is? Keyword research, a few articles and you can pay your cell phone bills with just one site.
  • when you get $5 every single day? in 2008 or now in 2010 you get $5 every single day from you'r article, which you'r wrote in 2008?
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    • It has steadily built to that ... think as the domain has got older it has made a difference.

      John
  • Note to newbies... NOBODY makes serious money with Adsense.... NOBODY, unless you get over 1 million hits per day... then you might make decent money.

    One Affiliate sale lets say on Clickbank can make you more then 5 months of Adsense earnings.

    Google is SO Eff'in greedy when it comes to the split.
    Some of my clicks get .02 for an image ad. Ridiculous.

    I steer clear of adsense.. its not a real way to make money... but i understand that newbie are so drawn to it because the idea is so cool.. do nothing, make some money.

    Things have changed...that was true 4+ years ago... That game is......

    O.V.E.R.

    Move on...
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    • You probably should have targeted niches that historically have keyword phrases with higher CPC values. I can't remember the last time I got a click for less than $0.25. Most of my clicks are in the $1-$2 range. I target niches like "insurance".

      I can understand your frustation. It would take you approximately 250 clicks at 2 cents each to make five bucks a day. It takes me just 3-5 clicks to get there.

      KateD
    • "O.V.E.R" for you, maybe. :rolleyes:

      +1 for having the guts to make ignorantly presumptuous blanket statements about the viability of a whole "business model", just because you've obviously failed to make much money with it yourself.

      I sure hope others' who make a living (or at least a significant portion of it) from AdSense don't see this. Perhaps we're all suffering from an hallucinatory mental disorder of some sort.

      (You don't need anywhere near 1 miillion hits per day to make what many would regard as a decent full-time living. Did you just pull that number out of thin air or what?).

      A suggestion, by the way: try using text ads exclusively (if any are relevant for your site(s)). Image ads are notorious, I think, for attracting a lower CTR in a lot of cases, and lower CPCs to go with them. That's nearly always been the case when I've tested them, anyway. I use text ads exclusively.
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  • Adsense is doing okay for me but I have to agree that compared to affiliate sales it does not compare ... would not say it is over though. For some niches it works great

    John
  • John, what article directory do you use? Thanks.
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  • Article marketing is one of those fundamental truths that no one seems to talk about, however all the gurus are using this tactic. That's right... the basic marketing principles still work today, but with all of the Big $37 software launches and must join to succeed membership sites people tend to get sidetracked and forget about the simple things.
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  • Applause for sharing your magic formula...thanks!
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    • Congratulations. $5/day isn't going to pay your mortgage but it's a start and it's better than 95% of the internet marketing 'experts' out there.
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  • Awesome man any results big or little are always awesome.
  • Soudns like way too much work for me.
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    • I know what you mean..........hell , who wants to actually work for money.....:rolleyes:

      I have wandered away from Ezinearticles recently but this just reminds me how powerful it is, I mean $5 a day isn't much but when you multiply it by how many sites you have then it can really start to add up....

      Got my monthly report from Ezinearticles and had a quick look, one crappy article I submitted in 2008 got just under 1400 views in October but it has a clickthrough of 61% so that means that one little article drove well over 700 visitors to one of my affiliate sites last month......time to start submitting to them again me thinks!!
  • congrats Mangozoom.
  • Awesome, Congrats on your success... I've got one site in particular that brings in a good amount of revenue and I havent touched it in several months. Adsense is and always will be a good source of passive income.
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    • I'm working on building 100+ of these! Gotta love it!
  • That's awesome. You could use that method and potentially create hundreds of sites!
  • Do you link the articles to your main page or to articles within your blog ?
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    • Here is the joke part ... I am so untechnical that until last week I never owned one single blog.

      My first blog was started after I bought the Deadbeat Super Affiliate Package. The only reason I started one is because I want to expand my skills and knowledge and due to the success of all my sites have time to do the WP learning curve and get myself a bit more savvy.

      At this point all my sites are done in XsitePro ... moving forward I will only use this for mini-sales sites.

      John
  • I have found my keywords, hopefully they are good enough, started my blog and have been blogging slowly with about 250-300 words per post.Done 5 postsalready. If I were to follow your magic steps , how many posts do I need.? My content in the blog should be submitted to EZarticles to get traffic, is that what you mean?
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    • Personally I would make the blog posts a minimum of 500 words and then write related keyword rich articles in order to generate traffic.

      John
  • This is great. My shot of inspiration for the day.

    Thanks!

    Now - back to working on my own inspirational story... coming to a forum near you!
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    • Absolutely the right attitude.

      Ladida u can do this stuff

      John
  • how many pages is your website
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    • Including contact, privacy and about it is 9 pages.

      Another good day 117 hits and about $4.60
    • Must be Groundhog day as I thought I answered this question yesterday.

      Including all the legals and contact the site has 9 pages ... I just had to count them.

      Did over $6 on it yesterday ... the final hit count was 165

      John
  • well done i hope it continues
  • Congrats mate.. Its look like an easy money for you
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    • I do not think there is any such thing as easy money ... however because I built a good foundation and have learned some skills well it is much easier now!

      Listen anyone can do what I do and make serious money.

      John
  • This is great... Nice idea.
  • One day, I can earn those earnings. All i need to do is to follow what WF users guidelines on their little yet effective succes on IM.
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    I think you shouldnt rely on adsense and believe its the best.

    Try some CPA offers. You could surprise yourself with the results!
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    • I agree with you ... and do not only do adsense.

      Have not gotten into CPA but do Amazon and CB as well.

      John
  • This is exactly what I do ... no picture ads for me.

    I also limit the number of ad placements to 1 at the top and then in the margin.

    As a result I get nice CTR's and good rates per click

    John
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  • How many visitors per day do you need to make around $1 per day from Adsense from one site?

    Recently, i added my site www.myhealthcolumn.com to Add to Google in the SEO section in HostGator, before doing this the site was only getting around 20 visitors per day but i checked the stats today and the site had 197 visitors yesterday. Problem is, i haven't had even one Adsense click yet.

    Do you think the Adsense banner is just to un-noticable?
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    • Can't really answer that. It depends on the CPCs, relevance of the ads, and of course your site design.

      Your site is quite "cluttered", though. Not in a bad way, but in a way that doesn't help in drawing attention to your AdSense ads specifically.

      Have a play around with colour schemes and placements. You'll get some clicks eventually, but with that many distractions on a page I think you'll need a helluva lot of traffic to make anything too signifcant, since you're never going to have a particularly huge CTR.
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  • that sounds like a good idea, i will try that for sure, thanks
  • Wow really interesting income, did you do any backlinking on that site other than articles?
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    • I have started backlinking on other sites. However I have not done any backlinking at all on this site.

      All my traffic is driven by my Articles. Written well you can get a ton of traffic.

      John
    • I have started backlinking on other sites. However I have not done any backlinking at all on this site.

      All my traffic is driven by my Articles. Written well you can get a ton of traffic.

      John
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  • Anyone have tips for improving CTR? I get a good 300/day per site with absolutely no clicks, nearly all the traffic is from search engines. Whats going on? I have one ad under the article title, one in the margin, and one at the end.
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    • Similar problem here. I get almost 200 visitors a day at www.myhealthcolumn.com but no clicks at all. It's only been a few days since i started getting that many visitors though.

      Maybe i should remove all the ClickBank and CPA banners on the right and replace them with Adsense to see what happens.

      Have you tried the Adsminded WP theme.

      Ive put it on this site, www.free-offers231.net as you can see.
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  • Nice one, it's always great to find the formula, rinse and repeat, but to get to that formula can take months of tweaking, again well done
  • nice job. always nice to look back at something you did back when, and realize that it was worth doing.
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