Road to Adsense Success

Good luck! Maybe this will also inspire other new publishers
to take action.

Just be sure to do something every day for your business.

- John

I've been experamenting with wp virsus static html. I have 6 sites in the test. followed the exact path as xfactor. 3 html sites were indexed and made money the first day. I'm still waiting for the wp press sites to break 100 in Google. two site did a two day dance and then cam back and site at pos. 6, 2, 5 for their keywords, not many searches, only 1600 approx. each but that's what I'm going for. Total about $10-12 per day began on the 21st of last month. I'm going to transfer the blog content to static, no more word press for me.

Just on the point of a new word press site, if you apply for a Google Adsense account, chances are you will be declined unless you have some original content on your blog that is.

Google is far more choosy about who gets adsense accounts these days. I kid ye not

Thanks for making me feel like I am already a success. I love the $1.00 goal - it is kind of like weight loss, people who have a goal of loosing 5 pounds have much more success than those who set the initial goal of 80 pounds. Don't misunderstand, those who set the 5 pound goal will loose the 80 pounds but in 5 pound increments. The old saying "By the inch, it's a cinch. By the yard, it's hard." fits for practically everything.

Hey Hamburglar,

Placing Adsense on your site won't affect your ranking.

Great work, especially in setting goals and envisioning success!

Keep at it; regardless of your initial earnings, this is how you go from theory to success - action.

Mark

So which adsense template do you have working for you? I have BlueSense. I have a template working for a couple of days, I did not doing any tracking, found I was getting clicks, and BAM! Lost all of my data, so I am looking for a decent adsense template!

Insecurity about writing - that sounds like me. I'm a perfectionist and want everything to be just right. TOO often that keeps me from making forward progress. One thing that helps me is to look at some of the really incomprehensible articles I see sometimes at some of the article sites and realize that I (hopefully) can come across better than that even if it's the middle of the night and I'm on benedryl. The other fix is to "timebox" yourself and just force yourself to produce content and produce it in a short time.

Avery

is ezine effectable, many people say that its difficult to get traffic from ezine

Stick at it, my friend. I feel your struggle, for I'm on the same path and I also struggle with writing articles quickly, haha.

Rest assured, though - money will follow if you take action.

Although not much, I've earned around $6 within a few days over the last week from two small sites I've made and put online, with barely any backlinking - no articles as yet, and only about 3-4 pages of real content (Besides contact page and privacy policy) on each site.

I expect as I add more pages, I will be found for further long tail keywords, and as backlinks are built my site will crawl up the rankings in Google and hopefully stay put with a little maintenance.

Anyway, this is your road to success - not mine... but I just thought you might find it inspiring to hear of my (admittedly quite meager) progress so far :-)

You just summed up what some people take a year to figure out, and many never do. You get it.

Now just add this to it and you've got all the components for reliably repeatable success:

Keyword research = ranking possibilties. Good keyword research = more realistic ranking possibilities.

Backlinking campaign = ranking growth. Sustained, diverse, quality backlinking campaign = faster, higher ranking.

Flesh it out with about 10,000 words of filler, and you've got a great WSO.

Mark

Yes, keeping this business as simple as possible is the best approach.

And never try to make your sites small on purpose. Start out with a few
pages and schedule your time to add a page per week if possible.

Of course the more sites you have, the harder it is to do this, but
there is never a perfect plan that unfolds as expected.

- John

I knew $1 was too low. Way to go man, congrats!

Patrick

Congrats Hamburglar!

Keep up the good work.

Welcome to the Warrior Forum! You've got *exactly* the right attitude and realistic enthusiasm. Read through the forum, ask questions, take baby steps, read some more, ask some more, and you'll find you're on your own road to success!

Mark

Good luck on your adsense challenge and I'm very sure you will succeed. I could see you are very determined and that means a lot. Most of the time, people procrastinate too much and never take action. You did!

Great stuff Hamburglar, the really important point that people should take from this thread is that...

1. You had a goal.
2. You set a plan of action.
3. You acted on that plan and you reached your goal.
4. Set yourself a goal that stretches you a bit more now and go for it!

Great Thread Hamburglar

I too have posted my success so far on this forum, and i too felt times when I felt i was fighting a losing battle. But each day, pennies turned into more pennies, then a dollar into dollars.

Now im inbetween 32-40 dollars daily, in a period of 2 months, and just by reading what you have posted in this thread I know you will make something of this. And that goes for anyone, doing anything. Stick at it, and you will get there.FACT.

Good luck buddy, i see you on the other side

Hamburglar,

I have a suggestion for you to try if you wish along the lines of goal setting. I am a professional weight loss coach in the real world and I help clients set goals that keep them moving. One of the most important things is that they set goals that they can control. So, my clients don't set goals of "I'm going to lose X lbs. by..." because they really can't control that. What happens if they don't? They get discouraged and it can slow them down or worse.

I also do business coaching, and after having such great success with eliminating that type of goal with my weight loss clients, I decided to incorporate the principle into my business coaching. Here is how it works in case you want to give it some thought:

It's great to set a dollar amount that you are looking forward to, but to set it as your goal - in other words what keeps you moving, can be be defeating if you don't reach it. Instead - set behavioral goals. These you CAN control. For example, how much time you spend, how many new posts, pages, sites, etc. Keep a written list of your behavior goals along with a log of how well you are doing.

Then, put the dollar figures, the ones you previously had as goals, instead on a "dreamboard" - special landmarks you want to reach. So, there is no penalty for not reaching the dollar by a certain day - instead there is only a good feeling when you do reach them.

It's great to know you are after a certain amount, be it pounds lost or dollars gained - but for years I've seen how setting goals that you can control keep you motivated longer because your focus is positive and motivating.

If you don't want to try it, of course that's fine too, I just wanted to offer an alternative that might keep your energy up. Best of luck to you!!

The data IMO is from most free keyword tools. The top keyword tool is the google adwords tool.

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

Now when you search a phrase, ensure that you have selected sorting by either exact or phrase. This allows you to guestimate how well the demand is in that market.

Others use wordtracker, overture etc... but I stick to google keywords. Now remember that any of these numbers that result from these tools MUST BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. Just because there is a high search volume does not necessarily mean more clicks for you.

So for this look at the top 10 websites on the first page of google results.
1) How is their page rank?
2) How many links do those pages have?
3) Are they strong or weak backlinks (based on PR) ?

Another cool tool I use (free ofcourse) is keywordspy(keywordspy.com). This tools enables you to digress what keywords are profitable for companies that use PPC. (Pay per click i.e. paying to rank high)

Hope this helps.

Nice going , ham ! I remember over a year ago in August 2008 I was excited when I broke $7 for the month. And in September this year I hit $264 !!

So just be patient and you will get there !!

Thanks for your input Hamburglar. I guess I kinda like .us and .biz. Why do you like .net and of course I am asking cuz the .com is not available for a great phrase.

Seb

I am following your progress very closely and sharing with you all the excitement. I too have purchased Xfactor's ebook, MNF and xsite pro and I now have 2 micro niche websites to my credit. The first is on Google #1 position and yes I'm getting clicks, while the second site is new and awaiting to be indexed. Good luck.

I am using his template layout. Thus far, I have to conquer ranking high in google. That is what my patience is running slow on or getting me really anxious. Sorta like waiting in the dark to see how well it does.

I guess I have to occupy myself with other items I can work on rather than on google rankings. But its so hard not to when its your only source.

Went to your blog. I agree SEO ebooks and etc are just that. The problem is even when the product is not as promised. you have to stay quiet cause maybe they are somebody's friend. good post

Thanks for posting your efforts hamburglar, and everyone else thats joining in. I've been watching this thread since its outset, so its time i make myself accountable and join in. i've been following along and am up to site number 3. Like yourself, my first 2 were total duds. Not sure what went wrong but somehow i got the keyword research part all wrong. The numbers i recorded for my keywords originally were excellent, built the sites, submitted my articles, but nothing. So checked the competition again, and it was way out of my league! Don't know how i could have got it so wrong! Never mind, a learning curve.

Just as a matter of interest, how are you all getting around brand names? my site number 2 only lasted a day or two of activity before i got a letter requesting me to hand over the site! good thing i hadn't spent too much time on it.

Excited to hear how your third site is going hamburglar! here's hoping my number 3 does as well.

Hey,

For your answers, I normally run the link:sitename.com function that is provided by google in their search bar. I also use SEO quake to determine PR. I have not divested too much into yahoo backlink checker at all but it does provide insight on the link structure of a lot of websites.

2) This is dependent on a) backlinks and b) competition. If you get grat backlinks to your site then it could take up to a week for the website to get indexed. Competition is another factor, well hmmm let me rethink this. I think it does play a role but not for indexing. So I take that statement back.

However you should:
1) Launch the site.
2) Digg the pages
3) Create and submit to google sitemaps asap.

Hope this helps.

I've read XFactor's book several times, and have created a micro niche with 5 keywords and pages, plus I am writing all the articles for submission.

I am now waiting to get Google's ok on the AdSense account.

Just wondering: does Yahoo have a similar adsense program? Is it APT? And, is it any good?

I have tried to join, but the webpage does not display.

Also, are there other worthwhile adsense programs available from Google competitors?

Thanks so much,
Ron

You never really know. I have outranked sites that have had 150 links. Or some sites that have 20 links and I cannot rank above them.

It is all about quality backlinks. If they have quality then it might be hard to rank high.

Hope this helps.

I think many of you Over analyze this stuff. You worry about if this Niche is too competetive, whether this Site has too many backlinks to compete against etc..etc..

Pick a Niche that has a lot of Searches and a good CPC and just work it for the Long Term in a relentless and persistent way.

I dont give a rats behind if it is 'Weight Loss'....If you Post 3 Articles a week in it for 5 years you better be damn straight you are going to make some serious money eventually with some good backlinking strategy. The more competition the better in the long run.

THINK LONG TERM with this stuff and you will kick a$$ !!

Thanks man.

Definitely going to push harder now.

Yes I know what you mean. It does seem to work that way. For me back in March it was almost to the exact week for two of my Domains to jump in the SERPs and start earning considerably after getting them one year before.

PATIENCE and PERSITENCE. These cannot be overstated !!

I made my first penny yesterday using xfactor method

I know the feeling when you should be focussing on getting your sites live and submitting and writing articles but all of a sudden, the entrepreneur or the devil inside you just opens up Micro Niche Finder and starts to find other niches, MNF can be SOOOO addictive ,its very easy to get carried away. The one thing more than anything else in this business is to keep up the discipline.

Hey,

Ok so some update on my thread.

First, life is insanely busy. I run my own business and that consumes my life. Spending time on the ad sense has been very limiting but I do one article a day. No matter how tired or dead I am. I do one article a day AT LEAST.

Now I will discuss only my Xfactor sites. I had 7 in total. 3 were duds (Prior to MNF and Xfactor)

So the top 4.

#1: Man this site has ranked so well. I had the keywords in reverse order because the LSV for the reverse was really good. Now it ranks #1 in google.ca for the keyword in PROPER ORDER. Some good conclusions and testing here. In regards to Return. Maybe a $1.

However the return on the site is very poor. However I am looking past that and just developing the sites. I figure I have it for a year and see how things progress.

#2: This site was #62 then went back to #75 now back to #62. It is doing its dance daily. This site has a direct competitor who is also using xfactor. However, he has very poor links from link exchange directories etc.. Where as I am getting all one-way PR 4 - 6 links for my site. So I will see who out ranks who.

Again: this is all testing to learn for my future sites.

#3: This has 5 words for the domain. Its insane! I have not done backlinking like crazy for this as it is just brewing. Its still in the work.

#4: Not indexed as it was launched on Saturday. So again building links.

MY focus for the next month: Just build links to these 4 sites thats it!!
Then next month launch 4-5 sites. Sometimes its soooooo easy to get caught up to make more more more more more while if you just concentrate on selected few, they might just get there.

Returns: Very dissapointing this month. So far I am at $2.34. Not the best but hey, I am $2 richer *does not look at the cost/investment sheet*

Nothing so far in terms of $$ BUT in the learning curve i have HUGE HUGE RETURNS. My SEO skills are MUCH SHARPER.

So far so great.

Sorry for not updating a lot, just tons of deadlines on my neck.

How is everyone else going in their journey?

You may not have noticed, but OCI is not currently working. The problem lies with MSN taking two tries to get the results back.

Apparently MSN is thwarting programs from accessing the data with long delays.

I wholeheartedly agree. I can handle creating a bunch of websites and have a few among them that might be absolute duds versus taking a chance with 2-3 websites that may also be duds or only earn pennies a day.

I had the same response to another poster who had the same concern. I would strongly suggest coming up with your own design. There are so many template options available. John provided a great foundation, even he states that his method is not the end all, be all. Think outside the box. This method can be twisted a ton of ways.

I think you may be right about the Xfactor's layout. I had 3 sites indexed fairly quickly and they wound up on page 1. Since then I've added 3 more sites. They have been crawled several times, but Google refuses to index them. The sights which were indexed appear to have been dropped, as the Page Rank indicator is now greyed out.

This is off-topic, but one way to check if a site actually has the pagerank it says it has is to do a info:domain.com search on google. If you get no result or a different domain name back, then you know it's fake PR. I don't know how it works exactly, but there is a way to fake PR by doing some kind of redirect to a high pagerank site.

Hey there,

I don't know the exact details of Xfactor's course, although I've heard it's fantastic!

In regards to links...

I think a good foundation is submitting a bunch of EzineArticles to point to each of your internal pages, but... using a VARIETY of anchor texts (containing your main keyword for the page) and NOT always using the same anchor text.

Plus

More links to the home page, than the internal pages.

I think you should definitely be patient with EzineArticles and get your account to the next level, because those backlinks are of high quality!

I would post at least 2-3 EzineArticles per page on your own website over time, plus of course backlinks from other places...

And a good clean site layout is important too -- with Ads in the top fold and not looking too much as made-for-adsense sites etc.

Cheers

+1 to that. I've tried a few keywords with appended "extras" and they don't do nearly as well out of the gate. I think as time goes on and more links are built, the actual name becomes less relevant, but for those who are extremely impatient like me an exact match is a must.

Action is key, and you must make mistakes in order to be successful

Thank you hamburglar,

skyparc

I think it's just a matter of volume. I'm a little over 3 weeks in and am doing $10+ each day, but I've been adding 5 sites a week where as you're only doing 1 or 2 a week. Not that that's bad, it'll just take longer for you to see results.

But I totally agree, the first couple weeks are brutal when you're spending time and money everyday only to get one 30 cent click or something.

Hamburglar

I think you are doing great - I am sure that your sites will start bringing in more $ very soon.

Your work ethic is admirable.

Good luck

Rach

That is true the course taught that. Along side articles, I am doing social, plus blog commenting.

I am testing everything and anything under the sun. Eliminating what doesn't work. Articles however are key but am also trying other stuff to solidify.

Site #4 has 0 articles but maybe 1 backlink( a great one). It ranks #8 within one week.

So I am playing around with what works for me.

May I know when you search for your niche sites what did you look for in terms of:
a. no of searches per month:
b. ad cost
c. strength of competition (inanchor/intitle/inurl counts)

to be able to rank in the top 30 solely because of your domain name. Just curious.

That's just business. Don't get too bent out of shape

Hey,

I am a bit confused in regards to your question. I do have difficulty ranking for the sub pages. I just think they would not rank as high because the keywords are not in the domain name. Other websites that have better optimization for those keywords will rank higher. That is my assumption.

However, I have been seeing some traffic coming from my subpages. I have no idea how they are getting there though, my analytics says 0 but yet people view them.

Interesting findings.

How close are your long tail keywords to your domain name? If they are very close then you shouldn't find it too hard to rank, if they aren't too relevant then you wont.

Best thing to do in your longtail keywords is to look for at least 2 keywords that are in your domain and stem from that.

That should give you a chance to rank at least in the top 100.

Good luck

That tends to happen when you have a good keyword domain - keeping those rankings will require work on your part though

Thanks for the info.

What are you earning typically per click? What CTRs are you seeing on average? And, are you strictly pushing products?

Thanks again,
Ron

Have tried this 100000 times. Never worked for me.

Also,

Selling your own product is easy but requires a lot of customer care. I know this from the experience of my family business. That is one road I do not want to travel.

Traffic is key... but, not going to need 150K impressions per month for $100/day. Should be 1/2 of that.. 60-70K.

Have you already solved why your earnings are stuck in $1/day? any other interesting updates?

I do not use and "-" in my domain names. I do not know how well that ranks.

You should try the "-" out and see how things go.

Thumbs up for your perseverance.