Please read - Losing job so need to use my time effectively

Well Jodie

Adsense is all about content and having the keywords in the right places. The only other thing to really learn about Adsense is how to choose the right keywords that attract high CPC's with low comp.

So what about this:
Do any of your keywords especially those attracting traffic, relate to a problem or a solution?

If yes, have you searched online for a product to promote? Eg an ebook about the right Educational Course or How To Master Revision or something along those lines?

Because you could simply add an Aweber sign up form offering a free report - which would be something you could research and write in a day when you focus - then you would just write a few emails and promote within those the products you've found.

Or if Aweber is too much right now, just add the products to the website in the sidebar or on a product review page featured in your sidebar.

Have you checked the competition for your keyword in Market Samurai? You could reverse engineer what they've done and get your site ranked higher.

You know Jodie, many people try hard and get caught up with too many things. You've actually done well to stick to a core part of IM and work just on that but

Adsense successes come often with multiple sites or some have a mini team of writers just pumping out stuff day in and day out.

If you had 30 of those type of sites earning $60 a month you'd have $1800 which is nearer your target but if you spend 7 hours a day on one site, that is impossible to achieve.

Some keywords can get ranked within a month just using some simple free web 2.0, article submissions and social media (more important now).

Right here's the thing Jodie

You know how to build a WP site
You know how to optimize the site for your keywords
You know how to research for keywords that you can rank for
You know about social media/article/web 2.0
You do your own writing

You can therefore monetize your site for any niche, product, cpa offer or whatever

The main skill is in choosing the right niche/keywords to target & checking out the competition - choose buying keywords - something that solves a problem, something that the searcher wants or loves eg hobbies

The next most important factor is to ensure that the niche/keyword contains a product to promote - yes I'd use your talents now for product promotion as you will get a better commission than you can get with Adsense

Conversions are anticipated at a rate of 1 buyer per 100 visitors and if you're earning $30 instead of cents, you will make more money

Go for 1000 searches per month (local)
Scan the Google search page using SEO Quake (free in your firefox browser) and just check the sites, what they are offering, how they are monetizing and check their page rank, age and all that - you can of course use MS for this but a visual look over is important
Reverse engineer your competition (as above)

• Choose a main keyword with those 1000 searches
• Then choose related keywords /keyword phrase with 800 or above searches
• Write your content and post over 2 weeks - you can schedule automatic publishing of your posts in WP admin
• Start writing some decent articles that relate to each keyword
• Add a 'write for us' area to your website and get others to help you add content
• create a FB page and when you get visitors talk to them, encourage them to add content to your site - promote the idea by tapping into their ego
• Set new articles to publish, rewrite and add to ezine
• after ezine publish, rewrite and add to a web 2.0 property, add an image make it look good - link to your site page and the home page
• rinse and repeat

Do you have 7 hours to dedicate to your business every day? If so, make a plan

Keyword research for 2 hours
Build a site
Write for 2 hours

Etc

Get one base install of WP prepared and if you have a backup plugin back it up and download.

Then you can use the same base install for each new blog you build or

Create the site in Fantastico or Simple Scripts, then upload your Base Instal Plugins folder using Filezilla

You need to automate as much as possible and rotate the sites you are working on

You can do it, setting goals will help

Start at 6 months goals/target and break it down into what needs to happen each month/week/day

Hope that helps

Make steps, spend 7 hours making a plan and planning a strategy - then do it

Best of luck
Leah aka Larkrise

I would NOT start writing PLR.

That's just a disaster waiting to happen: jumping onto the next shiny object because the one you're using just now isn't working.

You are a good writer, so essentially it comes down to 2 things: marketing and sales.

What makes you think you will be able to make any money of PLR if you haven't learned anything about marketing and sales, which is evident because what you're doing just now isn't working.

If I was you I'd soak up everything about marketing and sales, try to understand it, test it, tweak it, until you are able to get people to a website and sell them something.

Then you won't be asking what you can do to make money: you'll be able to use any method, get visitors, then turn them into customers.

And while you're learning these life changing skills, I'd be testing them out with affiliate products, moving onto product creation down the road when you've built up the "skills."

It's very realistic - you could do many more than fifteen if you wanted.
You have enough good info in this thread to get where you need to be.

FIRST - take a couple days and learn to do good niche research! You need to be able to identify profitable niches that are neither too broad nor too narrow. It's a skill that only comes with learning the basics and with practice. Some niches will succeed - some won't. That's common.

The niches you choose, the keywords you use and quality content you add are the main keys to succeeding with the method you've chosen.

Adsense shouldn't be your only focus - but it's a good place to start. Yes, some people have problems - but many build small niche sites with bad content and expect miracles. Others use risky methods for traffic to get clicks and then are surprised when they get slapped.

You can add affiliate products and then your own products as you proceed in the months/years to come. You can always expand into other areas if you build quality sites to begin with.