Road to Adsense Success

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Hey guys,

I have been on this forum for the past 4 months, was on DP before. I have learnt soo much and feed off the positive atmosphere here.

But like many others I get stuck in the victim state mind and decided to change that. I am creating this thread as a journal that will start my adsense revenue from $0 and hopefully lead to something great. If not, then great lessons are learnt.

The point of this thread is to get me to take ACTION, no more wanting state.

This was insipired by Xfactor's and Internetmarketer99's threads of adsense. I have ready through their threads and find that I got stuck with questions. Questions to which the only answer lies in TRYING. There is no security.

Game plan:
After much research, I have an informative niche that has at least 3000 search's a month. It's not product but rather informative. This is going to be my test site.

Goal: To make $1 in a month. I set too many high expectations. This time it I am taking baby steps.

After this I will increase it to $2 so on and so forth.

Ultimate goal: to make $100 - $300/day, but that is far away. Patience is key.

Next step: I am going to buy a domain with the keyword and get content out.

This is my journal you can call it. If you would like to join, then go ahead. The positive atmosphere would be nice.

Time to make mistakes.!!!


Mods: If this is in the wrong area, I apologize. I thought it would be good here cause its for adsense.
#search engine optimization #adsense #road #success
  • Just bought my domain and going to setup wordpress and get ideas to get content going.

    I forgot to apply for an adsense account. Of all the things! hehehe.
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    • 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
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    • 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.
  • So far

    1) Set up wordpress, took me soo long
    2) Put up an intro article with keywords
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  • I had another website that is ranked high for a good keyword. Get about 400 uniques/month.

    I just placed my adsense on there. I hope my rank is not effected.

    Site #1
    Write one article by the end of today.
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    • 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
  • I understand your position on the small achievable goal. I would say though that it may be a little too low, but you need to do what works for you and what you are comfortable with.

    I am following XFactor's method. I've done a bunch of keyword research, bought a couple domains, installed WP on them, and then hit a snag with the template (which I finally got sorted out last night). I haven't been able to put much time in lately due to some personal commitments, but I have worked on one of the blogs that happens to be in a niche that I really like. I took that site from purchasing the domain, to being indexed on page one for the main keyword with 4400 monthly searches and making $1/day in under 2 weeks. If Ezine would stop being so slow to approve articles, I could get the darn thing from position 8-10 up to the top 5 and be doing much better.

    This is why I think your goal is a little low. Yes it is very achievable, but maybe setting it a little higher would give you more of a drive to get things going. Not that I don't think you will. You sound motivated and I wish you the best of luck. I will be following your progress.

    Patrick
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    • 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!
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  • Thank you very much for the feedback guys. I have been working on it off and on.

    I am going to add one article from an article directory to fill it with some good content.

    Bluesense is now implemented.

    Now the important part:
    Unique content creation.
  • Hamburglar,
    You are certainly on the right track and I want to place my bet that you will succeed.
    It is taking EzineArticles about 2 weeks to get my articles approved, but I just keep putting them in the queue.
    I have also submitted some to ArticleBase, GoArticles and ArticleAlley. Have had 2 day turn around from ArticleBase.
    I have 4 sites up now based on John's ebook. My keywords are bouncing around on page 1 and 2 of Google. Mine are not blogs they are basic HTML built with Dreamweaver. I do have a blog that is doing pretty good with adsense but I find that I'm more of a static site person than a blog person, so I probably won't do another one that way. It is just a personal preference. Nothing wrong with making your money with a blog.
    If you keep at it you WILL do better than your $1 a month goal.
    I look forward to enjoying your success with you. Please keep posting your success to this thread.
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  • I will follow your thread and hope fully you will get there which I know you can easily achieve. Actaully you putin your expectations to low. You could have aim for at least 3.00 dollars a month and then go on. this way you will be more active in fullfuling the Dream.
    I am helping a friend build her adsense empire and I put my clickbank links on her site and she is making at least 60.00 per month on one site. She started last year though.

    so good luck and all the best..

    Thanks
    Shellaine
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  • Wow,

    I greatly appreciate the support from you guys. I am truly moved. On one site I was selling leads from. So far today I have had 40 impressions on my sites.

    Static site: I fought about that a lot and wanted to start a static site but the flexibility to make it expand is a feature I want. My next site, will be for a super niche product static page.

    I am just trying to face my insecurity about writing. I always have trouble writing anything. Writing 300 words of valuable content seems like a huge burden. So far this is turning into an amazing adventure where I am facing my fears.

    So thanks guys.

    Back to work for me.
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    • 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
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  • Just submitted an article to Ezine. Took me an hour to write a good 260 word article.

    All in due time I will get there.

    I used the timebox method ajparker. Thank you for sharing that.
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    • is ezine effectable, many people say that its difficult to get traffic from ezine
  • Good to c u determined...I am also going to start building my niche websites from this weekend..

    P.S CONTENT IS KING.
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  • The 2 day mark!

    I made it this far. Normally I give up when I don't see results fast, but this is a long-term commitment. So since no clicks so far, the only thing I can control is promotions and content.

    I am going to launch a new site in a niche and based off a different strategy. Just testing to see how far it gets me.
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    • 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 :-)
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  • Today was a complete write-off due to catching a cold.

    So in the midst of being drunk of benedryl, I read the posts above. In order for this project to succeed I need to get good content and lots of it.

    More content = More market reach. Good Content = Better ranking and conversion. It is that simple.
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    • 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
  • Success!!!

    I earned my first dollar. I was feeling hopeless but got it:

    Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings
    AdSense for Content top channels 45 4 8.89% $28.35 $1.28

    Next Goal: Aim to reach $4.

    Its an uphill battle one dollar at a time.
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    • I knew $1 was too low. Way to go man, congrats!

      Patrick
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    • Congrats Hamburglar!

      Keep up the good work.
  • Congratulations on your reach of your first step...
  • I am searching through yahoo answers to find out what makes my market tick.

    I have just created one new article wohoo! A total of 2 articles on my website.

    My adsense for today is $.16

    I also am developing another niche website related to travel. It is a bit competitive but with good content I can become dominating.

    I have outsourced the articles approx about 20. I have set up 10 categories and aim to get at least 60 articles by the end of the month.
  • Thank you guys. I have never profoundly inspired by any discussion in the forum, like Iam in here. I feel that I am so lucky to find this place. And in particular, I like to thanks Hamburglar for posting his journal to Adsense success, I hope all the best for you. I've been wanting to do the same path myself. Ideas loaded my head, but no single real step taken. About couple days ago, I found some very interesting fact. I was googling using one of my niche keyword, and I stunned by the fact that no.1 website is still using .blogspot.com as its domain name. I went into research for this blog, and found out that, nothing really special had been taken, except that he had hanging around for more than 2 years, and more than 20,000 website linkback to his.

    I realized that time, I must do something -now or never-, coz this one is so easy to follow. No need my own hosting, no need domain. Just stick with blogspot and its monetize tab. So i started to pitch several domain name in blogspot. And I plan to make more in other different niche (to make sure, nobody gotten it 1st). Now all i need to do is to write the content, and make some link building effort all together.

    Inspired more by Hamburglar' journal, I think, my baby step will start today. If only, I wish, I have faster internet connection.
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    • 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
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  • I have been very sick as of late, so there are no updates except that my current site has earned me $2.68 so far this month. Past the 50% goal to $4.

    The only thing is that my conversion rate is sitting at 4% or lower. Gotta find ways to increase that.
  • I finally feel better, after one week in lying around in bed.

    My sites are up and getting a lot of traffic but no conversion into clicks so far.

    Account is sitting at $2.68 this month. Bahumbug. Time to pump out more juicy content.
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    • 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!
  • Update:

    I have reached my goal of $4!! Yay! I am actually $5.16 something. This is exciting. I am $5 richer yay!

    The key concept to making this prosper is having content. Moreover just not any content, having content that provides VALUE to the end user. That is what ultimately people want.

    Just got my 20 articles for my other niche and its now time to put them to good use.

    I am just not too sure about bluesense, comes of too spammy. I will have to look for other WP themes.
  • Congrats! I too am about to launch my own Adsense campaign, and was also considering using Wordpress as the CMS instead of static html.

    Be sure to let us know if you find a better layout or template! If I find one that converts well I'll be sure to pass it on.
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    • 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!
  • Back again; I was recommended (by a fellow Warrior) this free layout for Wordpress; it's supposedly based off of a recent "heat map" study done by Google for their Adsense.

    Adsense and Ads Ready WordPress Theme - HeatMap Theme
  • Time to amp my goals:

    I wanna aim for the $10 mark by the end of this month. I am half way there.
  • I just downloaded the Heatmap theme, perhaps a better choice, we will see. Wish you lots of luck!
  • I greatly appreciate all the above posters sending me their support.

    I also cannot believe internetmarketer, Xfactor and Steve Crooks followed this thread.

    Definitely means a lot.
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  • In the past 2 weeks, I have gone from excited to calm to dead. Dead in the sense of trying to push through the downtimes.

    I have gotten around $6 now in my adsense and am working towards more. I bought MNF and started 3 more sites to play around with.

    I am now facing what the other 98% IM's get stuck in. (Fear, procrastination etc...) On one end, deep down inside I feel I can do this. But when I see slow results I get dejected from moving forward. The risk of failing or I would like to call fear of failing. I see this everywhere and with everyone. Some people on this forum can admit to this bravely and some cannot. The point is that fear of failing does exist. Failing in the measurement of monetary value. The dreams we get sold about auto-pilot money making etc...

    Here's the catch to get through this. JUST PUSH THROUGH. You will fail. Its part of life. But no matter what you have to keep going. Anything I have done has never panned out the way it should. But in hindsight, I needed to go through them to learn a better way. Yea yea, I know you think this is all jazzed up and what not, but trust me on this. You just have to push through it.

    I am in the midst of my low state right now. Nothing is working, trying to make something out of nothing, staying positive and burning out. It happens.
    Deep down I know this will work, I just have to be patience. Things always balance out.

    So I hope this post gives you some insight on what you will face. Nothing is done within a day, watch any Tony Robbins video and you will see that things take time. Heck it took him 10 years I think or so.

    My friends don't let the fear control you, I hope this post helps you push through your fears as it is mine.

    Regards.
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    • 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
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    • 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!!
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  • "I have an informative niche that has at least 3000 search's a month. "

    Just a quick question... How do you get the data to make these determinations? I am an 'ideal generator' type. I got involved with a nudge from FK and have sat down and drawn up about 10 ideas that I think have potential... I need a little advice in the market research front.
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    • 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.
  • I am going to bounce back.

    The recent purchase of MNF has got my mind going in all directions. I am expanding my network of sites from 2 to 5 in the coming weeks. I have 2 active sites and working on a 3rd one.

    However, I am a bit confused as to how to use and understand MNF. I guess this will be trial and error ways. I have been reading threads and have come to a basic understanding on how to determine an amazing keyword.

    Hope this works out. Time to keep pushing forward.
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  • Thanks Burg!

    Looking for the TY button...?!?!
  • I got site #3 launched.

    I have bought 3 backlinks and submitted the paged to digg. I am in the process of working on site #4. Site #5 will be my test from Xfactors book, I will purchase it this weekend.

    I am avging about $.5 a day. I am on the right track but I have to build more and higher ranking sites. So far all traffic is coming from site, which I feel uneasy about.

    Two most important element I have learnt.

    1) Keyword research is crucial. Prior to MNF I chose keywords which I thought were easy to rank high in, well I guess I was proven wrong. I am waiting for the one month mark to see how well the sites do.

    2) Tracking. I have kept no track of each project. So tomorrow morning I am going to write down exactly what made me do those niches and what results I get.

    Hope this helps others.
  • hello
    I have just joined this forum. Quite new to online earning/adsense . trying to earn since last year my account just reached 8$. quite frustrated .can anyone help me step by step .

    will be greatful
  • here's a list of informations you want to know ...guidelines and utilities

    Google Adsense Tips and Tools Collection | SEO Consultant
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  • Hey Kamlajoshi,

    Here are some other great resources.
    XFactor's (John):
    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...s-learned.html

    Internetmarketer99's (Mark):
    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...w-adsense.html

    Another you might want a look at is Steve Crook's:
    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...hs-1-blog.html

    So I am excited. I earned another $1 today. I am at $8 this month.

    Now I just have to get my other 2 sites to rank high and I will start developing my hunch for adsense sites.

    This is exciting.
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  • That's great Hamburglar. Just keep building.
  • Goal #2 reached. I have officially earned $10 this month from Google Adsense.

    This is amazing. At first I started with $1 then moved my way up. My perspective has changed on adsense sites, I thought they were just fluff. Well most of them are, that I see anyways because they do not provide unique valuable content. For any adsense site to work, I am learning that I have write write write and write some more. I use to hate writing but now I actually like it.

    Now to revamp my goals.

    Next goal: $15.

    If anyone has questions or requires help, feel free to post them.
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    • 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 !!
  • As i've said all along, the time is now to make money with adsense. It's almost TO easy once you've done the keyword research. Congrats Hamburglar!
  • I have a quick question.

    I am using the great XFactor Adsense method, started Labor day, doing one site a week. Seems to be working.

    I am looking at a niche Keyword phrase. .net .com are taken, but it looks like a great phrase. .com is parked, .net i pathetic site, nothing over PR 2 on page 1. what do you think about .biz, .us domains?

    Thanks a bunch all

    Seb
  • Hey,

    I am also using Xfactors course now. I personally do not like using .biz or .us rather .net or .com

    Have you looked at .org?
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    • 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
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  • What a great to push yourself toward the road of success....

    One tip:

    Find subjects about the new ways people are using to create traffic to their websites. May be you'll find new tips that are useful.

    Kevin
  • I have about 5 site brewing in google.

    2 of them are pre MNF, one is with MNF and the remaining 2 are using Xfactors guidance.

    Only 2 sites of the above have broken the google SERP in the 100's. No where near the top but I hope it will change.

    An important element of ranking high in google is backlinks. Not just any backlinks but quality backlinks. I personally have only known to buy backlinks from TLA or digitalpoint. Coming on this forum I have been exposed to article marketing, squidoo, and other a billion methods that I am overwhelmed.

    I honestly have no idea how to build good backlinks. I tried Angela's method but I honestly do not see the value in it. The websites they provide do have HIGH PR but that is only for the main page. Not the page where your link is displayed. This is just my opinion. I tried Angela's and I think its no value for me. Could be proven otherwise.

    There are so many services and methods that one could get lost. So I am going to just concentrate on what I know and write great content.

    This a lot more hard work than someone would first assume. Its a good kind of hard work. No hard work = No success.

    I am for now going to wait and see the google dance for these sites because I want to see some form of SERP jump around before I start building new sites. This way I can test the numbers from MNF and link building strategies employed.

    But most importantly, I want to build my GUT feeling on SEO. I thought I knew what it was but definitely this form has shaken that up
  • You've got exactly the right idea. AdSense is a slow build any way you cut it, but it's great once you get it going. If you double every two months, you'll be getting a check every month in no time.
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    • 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.
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  • Hey Hamburglar,

    Congrats on your success so far. I assume you're using a similar template to X-Factor. If not, I highly recommend that you do as increase in CTR could easily be the difference between $1 per day and $5 or $10 per day.

    Chris
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    • 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.
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    • 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
  • Way to go Hamburglar.....
    Just keep track your game plan, it a good start...
    When your there lets us know!
    Goodluck!
  • I almost never click on this discussion group.. But I am glad I did today. There are some free resources that are available to help you on your way to Adsense success.

    Scott Standke? offers a niche a day and includes key word lists that you can use. It is a free service with some niches that are quite unique.

    Also Daily Niche Idea is another site that gives you free complet niches with clickbank products and articles, header, etc. Of course this info goes to her entire list each day..But you would be surprised at how many people don't act on their dreams.

    Just some food for thought. There are a lot of Warriors who also offer Niches and ideas for fre..

    I am so inspired by the words in this thread. Great determination produces Great Result... Just keep at it. Success is at the end of the road.
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    • A lot of members keep asking the questions about Niche. You will not find one nor will anyone tell you here. You just have to do due diligence and research.

      In regards to ideas, there are tons. Just look at your own life and slice up all the products you buy.

      Here is an example I will give you:

      I buy hand cream.

      Also Richnana posted some great ideas on how to find good Niche's.
      There are 100000's of different types of cream.

      I like coconut butter cream.

      That is a very specific niche.

      All you have to do is put that in the google keyword tool and see if its worth your while.

      It sounds simple because it is. Keep it simple and you will prosper.
    • FYI, i don't think adsense is allowed on adult pages
  • So site #3 that was MNF and Xfactor is on the first page. Position #7.

    Now I will monitor the results from this site and see the true value of the keyword. Should be interesting to see the results.
  • With regards to finding niches, just look around you. If you're sitting in your living room or kitchen theres potentially lost of niches you can target. Just type something that you see arounf you in G AdWords tool or MNF and just take it from there. Some of them may be great niches, some of them may not but thats how you will find something.

    Scott Standke (Niche A Day) service is pretty good as he gives you ideas but if thousands of people are getting his emails then surely the market will get saturated, no? Its still a pretty good starting point to get your creative juices going.

    Good luck....now take action!
  • Some great progress.

    Site #3 from Xfactor's course has already gotten searched and clicked on. The rate for yesterday was exactly 33% just as he describes in his book. Now this is not a proper test because its only with one day of data.

    site #4 just got indexed and is at position #70. It will rise during the week.

    Site #1 and site #2 are duds. I was working on my hunches about the keyword and competition and definitely missed the mark. This was prior to MNF and XFactor.

    Very exciting results.
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  • great post! Happy to see the progress for Hamburglar, really inspires me a lot.

    I would like to know two questions:

    1. how do you get the number of backlinks to a site? Is it also included in the SEO Plugin for Firefox?

    2. How long will it normally take for google to index a new website in your 5 sites?

    Thanks in advance.
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    • 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
  • Just launched another site.

    It has 5 words as the keywords and has LSV exact of 6000. I hope it ranks well once it gets indexed.

    Time to build some backlinks.!
  • Thank you hamburglar for your answers, now i know how to count the links of a specific site.

    And another quick one. how many backlinks in the serps would you consider too much competition and let the keyword go?

    Thanks.
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    • 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 just found another site that is in my niche and has the same keyword I am going for.

    I wrote the content and already did the SEO and I just saw the other site. I am definitely not thrilled about this and feel bad. I want to take my site down out of respect but I have invested a lot of time into it. I guess we will see who goes to the top.

    In the same sense I have found 10000 similar adsense sites. Not exactly with xfactors theme but other stuff. I just have to change my layout of the site and I will rock the SEO.

    Gotta keep moving.
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    • 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$$ !!
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  • I found 2 sites this morning using John's template for 2 KWPs I want to target. This makes me excited (not sad), because I know a 1st page listing is coming for me.

    Kind of funny how some of us gravitate towards certain items.
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    • Thanks man.

      Definitely going to push harder now.
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  • With reagrds to people who want to make a quick buck, unless you have patience, don't expect much. Your loss is someone else's gain.

    Just a quick story I want to share with you all. I registered a domain just under a year ago, put a 500 word article and put up a rubbish looking adsense 468*60 banner there. In the last few days, it seems like this 1 page site has come alive, it has ABSOLUTELY no backlinks whatsoever and is ranking on Page 2 of Google Global and UK, this is a VERY competitive market and keyword, the only thing that it has is age and the fact that the keyword phrase is in the domain. Its getting a few clicks per day and earning me a few $$$s but the fact that it has come into the serps for a site with no backlinks is astounding!

    Now had I developed this (which I couldnt due to other sites being developed) I couldve made a killing. However, the moral of the story is patience is a virtue. Keep building today for tommorow, it will take time, but it will happen if you put the time in. Im not sure about John's (XFactor's) model, but my sites that are targetted (but not highly) targetted, tend to mature after about 10-12 months and this is when they show potential and rankings start to stable.

    Keep at it guys and the money will start to roll in.

    Good luck
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    • 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 !!
  • hard work always pays off, just work hard.
  • Thank you guys for your kind answers!
  • There are other programs out there and Ive never really bothered with them to be honest. Somehow I doub't they'll have the volume of advertisers that AdWords has and the CPC rates. I'm just thinking from an advertisers point of view as well, if I wanted to spend my budget, it would be on Google since I can get a lot more targetted traffic. However saaying that, I do remember that Overture/Yahoo did seem to convert better but the volume just wasn't there!
  • Man, this thread is so amazing.

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE POSITIVE VIBES HERE.

    Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Seriously. When I get down, I always come back here and read.

    I recently got dishearten due to seeing other people in my niche ( in their eyes I am in their niche hehehe) I feel really bad for overtaking them because they are trying to do the same as me. Man. But I have come so far. Very interesting feelings I get.

    But anywho, so far so good. Going to do a 500 directory submission on 5 of my sites soon. Hopefully that helps.
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    • I made my first penny yesterday using xfactor method
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  • Some fellow member maybe have an experiment ?
    Is there any simple wordpress template similar to xfactor- xsitepro template.?
  • Yeah, we should hold our pace. I remember John once said his 300 bucks/day came from his 30 or 40 sites, and he built those sites in the length of 6 month.

    That's about 5 sites each month, I really should hold my excitement and work on each site(not just register them.)haha.

    Cheers.
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    • 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.

  • I now have a pool of 4 sites from Xfactor. It is very hard to work on them when you are busy doing other jobs to pay the bills. But at the same time you must keep working at them.

    I got my plan laid out for tonight. Submit 1 article for each site.
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  • great idea , most of the people think on earning big big amount from the starting , they dont yet have live websites and they dream of big money .. to start with 1 and 2 $ earnings is also a big task..
  • Hamburglar, how you getting on? Any news on your sites? I think you'll find that lots of us are intrigued with your thread!

    :-)
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    • 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?
  • Thanks for the update, I appreciate that you had to take the time out to write all that.

    Like yourself I'm also busy with other things, I have other AdSense sites that do ok-ish so its quite tough doing Johns course. I launched a site the other day, and it still hasnt been indexed yet (although there was a previous install of WordPress on there which is showing up).

    Just added another page and about to submit to EZA and 2 to GoArticles. Im testing Johns method to the letter to see how effective it is. How long did it take you to develop your template?

    The only thing that I have changed slightly is that I'm making my About, Contact and Privacy Pages all nofollow so no PR (if it ever gets any) is passed onto these pages so it can be retained on the content pages, not sure if this will be beneficial but lets wait and see.

    Don't worry abotu the earnings, it'll happen, when you searched on MNF, did you carry out eh search for Google CA? Sorry I;m not questionning your intelligence but its something that can easily be overseen. Did you run an OCI on these keywords, I know its more affiliate marketing but it will still give you an insight into the buying power of the keyword. Are the ads that show up on the high ranking pages relevant? You need to try and see if you can maximise the site that is already ranking high as this shoudl be the site makign you money. Just give them time, you'll start making money.

    Well done for writing articles, just do it regularly and you'll see yoru work pay off.

    I'll let you kno whow I get on too.

    All the best
    Zaheer
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    • 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.
  • Appoloies for the typos, didnt get a chance to spell check that.... :-)
  • I think it's great to track progress like this. I set out many times to generate $100/day from one website then quickly realized the problems that involves! I found it much easier to set up 25 websites that make $2-$5 a day than 1 site making $100 a day due to the different traffic milestones you have to reach. I found it easier to get to the 200-500 hits a day range on many websites than the 20,000 hits a day range on one site.

    Nevertheless, great stuff, keep rocking and good luck!

    -Safe Travels!
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    • 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 am proud of myself tonight.

    Wrote 2 articles.
    Submitted one to Goarticles and the other to buzzle.

    My account on ezine is frozen because I have reached my submission limit. Now its in for review. It takes so long to articles in ezine. I had one article in there for review for about 2 weeks. The slow process definitely halts the ranking progress.

    I like Goarticles and buzzle. The submission is right away. It could be for the bad because its not monitored but I have nothing else to loose.

    Update on the $$$
    Today I made $1.36. Yay! I actually made $1 today.
  • Thoughts and new projects:

    I have created about a pool of 5 keywords. All have amazing exact searches. From 6000 - 27 000.

    The next sites I create will vary in design and structure. Everyone seems to be copying John's layout and quiet frankly it might catch google's eye. I know its all about information but call me a consipracy theorist, I think it might be negative as more and more get into Xfactor's course. Multiple his product a 1000's of same site.

    Not only that, it does not help differentiate the design. I am going to get a new design tomorrow with the same concept but more appealing to the eye.
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    • 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.
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  • Ok, I will updates my sites.

    I have 5 sites, and two of them are using john's method. one of the domains was registered in Oct.2, the other is Oct.4.

    I have written 5 articles for the first one(one article each day), now the key word is appearing on the first page(No.9). But only that page is indexed in google.

    I earned my 50 cents on Oct.5 from visiters coming from SB sites, and that is all I earned.

    The second site I only wrote the home page, so far not indexed yet.

    After 5 nights work, It is a little bit tired writing articles and submit them.

    And a quick question for Ham, how did you manage your one-way backlink? how did you get all those PR 4 5 sites? Any secrets?

    Thanks.
  • Trying out a new technique for backlinks. I am going to try some link exchanges with site #4 and see how well it ranks for the keywords.

    In regards to my high PR links, there is no strategy. I outright buy them. However I do have a procedure to assess how quality they are because some people just buy old pr domains and resell the links on ****ty sites.
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    • 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.
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    • 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
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  • My only problem with adsense is putting in too much effort for little reward...once you get your site to rank you used hours upon hours of time and maybe only get like $8.00 out of the deal.

    I'm no longer going for the instant traffic with articles to get adsense traffic anymore, because they take alot of effort and they are spikey and then die down. So if your site isn't pulling you may have just through away an article, however with the consistent flow of traffic from a search engine you don't have to worry about that you can get to the front page and just work on your ctr, which is what makes your plan of action good.
  • This is a brilliant thread. I would love to know how it's going for you now. Best of luck to you.
  • To rank high for your keyword ensure that your domain has your exact KW and NOTHING else.

    I had bought a domain name ( for site #2) and it read keywordphrasereview.com. I added the word review. In my testing so far, it has not made it to the first page.

    However, if you search "keyword phrase review" my site will come #1 in google even though I do not ever use the word REVIEW in my copy. I think this is a major breakthrough, for me at least, to rank high in google.

    My competitor site (another xfactor site) is ranking on the first page with links form link farm where as my site has one way pr 4 and pr 5 links. On top it also has ezine and go articles whereas the other does not.

    The reason I can conclude this is because the competition site is running on the same premise as I am and hence the only difference is in ranking, age and links. I have more quality links while he has more links. He has about 1 month/1.5 months on my domain. It just got indexed 2 weeks.

    Maybe I am jumping the gun, but nonetheless I can have some weak conclusions

    On the positive side, that same site is grabbing many pother unique keywords. It brings in about 10 unique a day. Very interesting.

    My adsense has been $1 yesterday and today. I hope it stays this consistent for the rest of the month.

    Will update soon.
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    • +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.
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  • Just launched my 5th site. Working on the 6th site.

    Site #1 and site #4 are ranking on the first page. 2nd and 3rd are no where near the first page. I just have to spread in as many niches I can and drop the sites that do not rank well.

    Simple enough equation to follow.
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  • Good sharing with newbie and all warriors

    This thread is really inspire to others who really want to earn money online.
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    • Before ny of that, you need to ensure you have the quality content which will serve relevant Ads which in turn will convert better. If you have that combo, the chances of success are greater!

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    To get any success in Adsense, you have to be super patience... I have a blog which I posted a few posts now and then, without any other effort on SEO, promotion, etc. It generated quite a bit of $$$ from it.

    Then once you get one generating some $$$ for you, move on to setup more, especially if you dun have too much traffic. LT works quite well with Adsense..
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    • Action is key, and you must make mistakes in order to be successful

      Thank you hamburglar,

      skyparc
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  • I appreciate all the love I get on this thread.

    One thing for certain is that Adsense is a huge mental game. I wrote about this many times but I never thought it would be this challenging. Trying to stay positive and motivated is hard to do. Like Xfactor mentions, this is the most uncertain business model. You really have no idea or control over you earnings. In a drop of a second, everything can change.

    So I just launched another site and will spend this week, SEO'ing.

    Total Xfactor sites: 6
    Earnings: $5 so far.

    I have read post/threads about how some make $20-$50/day within two months. I am finding that very hard to believe as I am following the process and getting low results. To be fair, I have only started this one month ago.

    Anywho, back to writing more articles.
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    • 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.
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    • 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
  • Hamburglar,

    Keep it up mate, you're doing a cracking job and educating a lot of us, even those of us who've been in the game a while. Its a time thing as well, once your sites have a bit of history just watch, they'll come alive!

    Also, how long did it take your sites to get indexed?

    Are your sites static or Wordpress based?

    Thanks

    Zaheer
  • Thank you very much Nettech,

    Normally my websites get indexed within one week. Also I am using a static design rather than wordpress.
  • Kingside, how many pages on average do you have per site?
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  • Just Launched my 7th site.

    Getting the content together is getting very easy. Takes me about 30-50min to write up a page.

    I am also now writing content for the first page only and if the site ranks high I go further.

    My concept is this: launch many site as possible, SEO the crap out of them. Keep the ones that work.

    Its that simple.

    So I am focusing on Volume of sites I have in my portfolio now.
  • wow

    I just have to share this.

    Today's Earning: $5.28


    $5 in one day!! I think this is just for today but nonetheless amazing. I cannot believe my eyes.
  • Just Launched my 8th site.

    Really tired. Hopefully I can launch 2 more tomorrow and get my portfolio to 10. Then its all just SEO the crap outta them.
  • Congrats on the $5.00 day!
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    • Yes u can put adsense on your site or blog immediately
  • What do you mean by "SEO the crap out of them" ?

    The course you are following suggests just submitting articles to ezinearticles and goarticles, no other seo or linking involved.
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    • 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.
  • Most of my sites are ranking in the top 30 just because of the domain name, nothing else. Then after about 5 article submissions to EZA, I can usually get on the first page.
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    • 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.



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  • Yeah patience is the key to success. People just start expecting a lot after making a website and adding google adsense.
  • I've just found another website similar to mine on first page of Google obviously built using John's method. That website was made one month after mine.

    I don't know if I should be angry or what... But at least I had a good laugh when I saw that title, in addition to keyword phrase, contains "Click here first!".

    Now, isn't that just pathetic?
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    • That's just business. Don't get too bent out of shape

  • Not only is that sound business, BUT, i don't think it really matters IMO if you put ads on sooner or later. Just my own personal testing.
  • Oh dear, seems like Google has wised up....hmmmm maybe time to change the approach...lol
  • Hey hamburglar and others, I met a huge problem and would like to hear what's your opinion on this.


    I found it is quite easy to get the main keyword(the one used in the domain name) indexed on the first page by google in just one week, but for other sub keywords, it is rather difficult for them to show in the first page(those pages or posts are indexed, but surely not in the first 100)

    Is there any difference of using john's method to different keywords?Did you guys met the same problem I did?

    Many thanks.
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    • 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.
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    • 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

  • I have something interesting happening. I am targeting a 3 word keyphrase, let's say "word1 word2 word3", and my domain name is "word1 word2 word3 guide.com". After a couple of weeks I'm ranked in around position 32 for my 3 word phrase, but for "word1 word2" I'm ranked at 8! Really interesting.
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    • That tends to happen when you have a good keyword domain - keeping those rankings will require work on your part though
  • Just finished writing 10 articles today.

    I am getting the hang of writing articles. It is actually really fun.

    Also. I reached my $15 mark!!! WOOOT!!!!

    Revised Goal: Reach $20 in a month now.

    Currently I am at $17.24 in my adsense account for october.

    Really exciting. I am not in the $100/day yet but I am going one step at a time.
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    • 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
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  • Guide to writing articles - 'Burg Style

    People don't like writing articles. Well not all but a very few selected. As mentioned over and over again, to succeed in google Adsense you need CONTENT and LOTS of it. So for the people who struggle at writing articles I have created this guide for you. I also hate writing articles....used to hate. I never did well in english school etc... but now I love it. Here is how.

    1) Pick a topic

    Choose something you love and of interest. Go to ezine and find an article that stands out to you. Ensure the topic resonates with your soul.

    2) Click on the article

    3) Copy and paste the article in a word document.

    4) Read the first paragraph and write it back in your own words. Read it out loud, then write down whatever you understand. Your perception will always be different and have its own twist.

    5) Rinse and Repeat.

    This is exactly what I do, word for word. I rewrite the first paragraph and by the end of it, my mind is already flowing with content. By the end of my 50th word, I lead into topics of my interest and come up with a killer 400 - 500 word article.

    The hard part about article writing is NOT KNOWING what to write. SO FIND SOMETHING THAT YOU DO KNOW ABOUT AND WRITE.

    I can now crank out at least 2 rough drafts in an hour.

    Hope this helps you guys.
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  • Sounds like you're chugging along.

    I tend to write a couple articles a day on average. Each new site of mine gets a couple articles and that's it until I see it moving.
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  • Best way to go, is to try and create a huge mega site and rank as many pages in your site on google.
    To make over $100.00 + a day with Adsense your going to need some huge numbers to pull it off . I figure maybe 150,000 hits a month.
    Traffic is the key.....lots of traffic.
    I think it's far easier to sell a product of your own online.....but I wish you all the best.
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    • 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.

  • hamburglar,
    If you really want to shine for a per day average - do this:

    research some keywords for the christmas holiday season. Find a keyword/domain name combo that is regularly searched for, but one that you know you can rank for.

    Develop that site out and do some backlinking. Now, reap the rewards

    I've got 3 halloween sites pulling in bank this year. 1 of them was 2 years established, and the other 2 were created AFTER last years halloween.

    I always tell people - create a site for something that people will search for. "how to" "how do i" "find" etc
  • Just got back in from NYC.

    My earnings right now are stuck at $1/day. I thought by now, with 10 websites, I sure would reach $5 - $10/day as others have with xfactors method. I still have yet to see this. I have followed his guide except for the part about writing sub content pages. So maybe that is my missing link.

    This week I am going to spend time creating 5 sub pages for each site and monitor my income growth.
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  • whoaah! I really like your discipline and the efforts you've put to reach your goals. It's really interesting and fun reading this thread.. thank you that you've started this.. Brings a whiff of inspiration to me.. 10 sites? nice.. nice..
  • Hambuglar: Do you have site with e.g. cordlesskeyboardreviews.com that rank high for keyword cordless keyboard? or do you have site with e.g. cordless-keyboard-reviews.com and still rank high?
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    • 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.
  • I feel your pain Hamburglar. After reading John's thread I set out to make $100/day. I have 18 websites built, but I'm still averaging around $2/day. I went a little too fast in the beginning. I'm slowly figuring out which ones rank better and why. Having that many sites to tweak helps me figure out so many details that I never would've thought about.

    I admire your honesty and work ethic. I learned that only through failure can we make great leaps forward. I used to spend hours trying to build 1 page because I didn't know HTML or CSS and had a ton of problems basically trying copy and paste my content into pre-made templates. When I completely messed up an 8 page website to point where it wouldn't work at all I forced myself to learn HTML. Now I make pages in minutes totally from scratch.

    It's all a process. My only goal is to keep learning. Money will follow later, hopefully. Thanks for letting us know there are other people in the same boat.
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    • Thumbs up for your perseverance.
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  • Don't be afraid to take on a more competitive niche. Micro niches are great, but you do hit a wall at some point where your need to create new pages of content and get backlinks is overwhelming. A Page 2 ranking for a more competitive keyword with higher search volume often pulls more traffic than a high Page 1 ranking for a long-tail keyword.

    Whichever path you choose, the key is maintenance. Keep adding content and never stop building links with good anchor text. You'll get there, as long as the keywords you targeted have enough traffic potential. Some don't pan out. Believe me, I've been there many times.

    Thanks for this thread, hamburglar.

    John
  • Thank you guys for the support.

    I have realized that for any of my sites to rank high I NEED GOOD BACKLINKS. So I have broadened my backlink campaigns. I strictly used articles and now am switching to TLJ(thelinkjuicer). I am in the test phase to see what works and what doesn't.

    Out of my 10 sites, I only have 4 sites that rank in the top 20. the other 6 are indexed but nowhere to be found. That puzzles me because I have thoroughly checked the competition and they have very low SOC. Once again, you never know what the big G is up to hahaha.

    Also, 8 of my sites only have one page of content. I am refocusing quality subpage content. I have developed a list of 10 more keywords to launch my sites this month.

    Yesterday I earned $4.55!!

    So my goals Thus far:

    Month of October: $46.77
    Month of September: $13.66

    I only started the Xactor stuff at the end of September, so it does work. BUT YOU NEED TO DO A LOT OF WORK. Its not simple set it and forget it. At least for now.

    It requires a lot of work.

    Time to keep pushing
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    • That is true that even with low soc, i will try to search that particular keyword and look at the competing sites on the top right corner. I have also found a keyword with SOC 6 but google search result shows 11Mil competing sites....For me, i will still look for competitions lesser than 500K.

      On the same project, i have also tried to look for spell error keywords, i did pretty well with this one page site with no backlink built, i earned $60+ purely from SE visitors, low soc as well as low competitions. But this only last me for 3+ months, and i found this site to be no where in google, but it is still indexed.

      SImon
  • In addition to the usual keyword research, I also use the SEO for Firefox plugin and look at the sites on the first page. If they are between PR 1-3 then worth optimising for. If there are a lot of PR4+ then I generally wont bother or try to take another angle.

    Good thread Hamburglar
    Zaheer
  • Great Idea .thx
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  • man i agree with you at this point, just start with a lower expectation,then you will never feel disappointed
    good luck
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    • Taking small steps is good but sometimes you have to think big and act big, especially when you see so many of success stories through Xfactor course. This is the main reason i setup 15 sites in 1 weeks...

      Simon
  • I have 10 sites launched and am earning around $1/day.

    I hope to increase this by the end of this month. I am trying to find various ways of building backlinks but realized I am moving away from xfactors book. Now I am trying to focus on what Xfactor said.

    Should be a fun ride.
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    • Remember, what works for one does not necessarily work for others. Xfactor's methods are definitely good, but if you can supplement what he is doing, you will be even better off.
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  • I just created a new design based on Xfactor's concept. It looks 10X better and is converting around 20-50%. Its only been one week though, so I will see how this template works in the long run.
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    • Care to share on the design. Couldn't resist asking.
    • Not at this moment. I am in a phase of testing the designs and my backlink work. The site is built of Xfactor's framework however it is a tad more appealing and focused to the eye.
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  • Just wrote up 6 articles.

    I am getting too lazy with this. The time is now to move faster and harder.
  • Man,

    Feeling a bit burnt. Working on the sites and articles. This is a very long and tough battle. I have to keep reminding myself to have patience. I am earning $2/day (taking a look at my last couple of days).

    I focused last week too much on people that were making $50 from a couple of sites. I have to realize that their work has nothing to do with mine. And I will get what I earn in due time. I just have to stay focused.

    Adsense is also a personal development game, if you guys have not noticed. Hehehe.
  • How many words do you have in your one page sites? I have 300 words for my one page site but I am unsure if I need to add more info.
  • Good work guys- yeap action is the key get them up get them some promotion, and keep moving, focus on solutions to challenges, like time, writing etc- and Go for it!

    I am also following johns advice......
  • The thing you have to ask yourself is if it's worth it, writing and making numerous sites for $20-$50 per month?

    I haven't seen ONE person say they are earning $5/day from each site, like Xfactor claims you should be making.

    Suspicious? There's reason to be.

    Either he's not telling everything like it is, or perhaps he's not telling it like it really is.

    I've read many accounts of people using his method verbatim and still not seeing anything close to $5/day per site.
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    • So quit. It's what you want to do anyway. And then go onto the Next Big Thing (guru BS)
      I make over a hundred bucks a month from two sites. It's not much but I see John's methods as a tweak to what I had been doing. But it didn't happen overnight. It took a number of months for my sites to take off. Just keep working.

      Or not.
  • I spent a good time reading this thread and it is truley an inspiration
  • Wow,

    Love the conversation that is happening.

    I am also looking into High paying CPC low comp keywords. I have 2 sites that are carrying my adsense. The others have a 1% CTR which is kinda scary.

    @euhlir: I understand your concern. Trust me I do. But I have one site that earns $3-4/daily. The only problem/challenge is that my other 9 dont. hehehehehehhahaha.

    Now if I can only multiply that site.

    Guys for this month I am avg $3/day. wooot! Slowly getting up there.

    I am working on this new template and it has yielded me the best CTR so far. Its at 50%. The clicks are very low paying though. Its been up for 3 days so far.

    Lets go guy's we can accomplish $100/day.

    Remember:
    Provide Quality and you will get Quality Money!
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    • I have the same problem as u did, out of the 15 sites i have, only few of them consistently getting clicks, others dont, now i am getting $2 per day consistently for 3 days. I am also with the passion in getting $100 per day out of this course,

      I am planning to file my "road to adsense success" in a blog, what you guys think? Or i should continue sharing the experience here?

      SImon

  • For the record, we're doing the Adsense thing too.

    Took parts from here and there and a little tweak here and a little tweak there (here a tweak, there a tweak, every where a tweak tweak.. can you tell I have 5 little kidlets?

    We don't have an option for this working or not... hence, do or die marketing. A self-proclaimed guru marketer from the UK cheated us out of $18K at the end of September... that stung.

    Onward and upward. My partner is the calculator guy. He made predictions as to what we have to do to achieve X (whatever X is at that moment.) He's been exactly, spot on since the beginning. And that has helped us TREMENDOUSLY in figuring out what we have to do to get to where we want to be.

    We started on September 24, the day that self-righteous, self-proclaimed information marketing guru stiffed us out of $18K.

    Content + Products + Persistence = Money


    We'll get there. We will.
  • man! you warriors really raised the bar just about to go bed thinking how the **ll am i suppost to get adsense clicks as its been bugging me for weeks now and i am glad i have bookedmarked this post

    heres my problem, my site is sat at page one at the very top out of 44 million other websites however im just getting 1,5,6 clicks a day if possibile and i have a ctr of 1.43% so far form last month have only made £1.98 or in dollars thats $3 i think not too sure on exchange rate, some days i have been on the top of google yet no traffic, so frustrating however my other site is on bing page 1 also and yahoo page one 7 down but no were to be seen on google.

    I have been very slow at link building and blog comment also to make it look natural,have checked my keywords and there very low competition, sorted out my meta tags and headers,footers ect,

    would really like some advice to them people here who are saying im making $5 a day or 100 a day as i must be missing out on something,

    also i have some good pr blog comments and high directory submits on my site to plug traffic but when i do a backlink check i dont see the pr or links, how long does it take google to realise my pages have pr links

    andy
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    • although you are competing with millions of site out there, but did you make a research on the search counts? I do have a site with 3.3mil competitions, but the exact search only 880 per months, i am in the 4th spot for this keyword and having average 1-2 clicks per day, CTR 3-4%.....

      In contrast to this, i have a also a site with 4K search per month, but the competitions only 200K, that is how it works, having high competitions doesnt means that you would have high search. Just my 0.02.

      Simon
    • Andy,

      What is the search count estimate for Broad or Phrase or Exact?

      And, are you logged out of your Google account when you check your ranking?

      Mike
  • Don't get me wrong Adsense is a viable way to make money. There are just so many people following Xfactor's method exactly and then wondering why they aren't making $5/site.

    With the amount of work that you'd have to do with xfactor's method it just doesn't seem to pay off well for those who follow it exactly. There are easier ways to get great backlinks than writing 15-20 articles per site.

    If you look for ways to improve on his system then it may be worth it, but always think about the time you're investing and the payment you're receiving.

    If you have no problem spending 8-10 hours on a site to earn $7/month and having to keep it updated with fresh articles then that's your decision. You could write 1 article for a client and earn that in 15 minutes.
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    • Very Interesting. I understand your point but would have to disagree on the earnings potential. The example you gave is of a taxi cab business. "Fare" business. Once you are done working with the client, then there is no earnings.

      The beauty with adsense site is the perpetual income without being married to the end result. Also the scalability of the business model. In order to earn more you must produce more with the traditional method. But with adsense you can have only a handful sites that earn you more and more without the same relation to producing those sites.
  • @euhlir


    One of my sites is officially making .

    So to everyone thinks that it doesn't work, it does

    IT JUST TAKES TIME and persistence.

    My first day that I hit $7!!! yay!

    The new theme works wonders.
  • Congrats hamburglar.

    There's no doubt Adsense does pay off, coming from someone also making money from it everyday.

    How many niche sites are you up to now?
  • I have 12.

    yourself?
  • 3 years ago my arcade site got linked by a couple of big sites on Halloween for my game Mario Halloween and made 40 dollars in one day at about .05 cents a click, so it is very possible.
    Is there a template I can use that looks somewhat like your new theme?
  • Nice.

    I have 3 that would be classified as niche sites.
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    • i have 3 out of 15 indexed site since 2 weeks ago are earning consistently $2 per day, the rest are average in $0.5 to 0.8 YTD.

      I am submitting 2-3 articles per day to directories consistently for all the 15 sites, will see how the SERP goes after 1 month from now.

      Simon
  • Well done Hamburglar, its nice to see you slowly and surely achieving your target. One of my sites just jumped up from position 10, then was sitting at 7 and now has jumped up to 6th woo hoooo and I can see how much of a difference it makes.
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    • I think it is time to update my road to adsense success again today, i have built a total of 15 sites 3 weeks ago, 10 out of 15 are ranked with the main keyword in first page, 5 of the rest, 3 is in the 2nd page and 2 out of nowhere. I am quite happy with the result as i have only submitted 1 article to buzzle for each site, for sure, i will be keep on submitting to other directories in the near future. YTD earning is $70 and CTR at 20-30%, but i feel that there is still room to improve in term of CTR by the means of changing the template (FYI. i am not using Xfactor type of template)

      today i have purchased 6 more domains with exact keyword in the domain, but one of them having the word "store" at the back of the keyword, reason is i dont want to lose the chance in getting the piece of cake from the big pie (9000 searches with SOC14), for sure, i will be updating how is the result from this site in the coming future. Anyway, target to up all these sites in 3 days.

      This thread getting slow recently, come on guys, share your experience here to help each others. See you soon.

      Simon
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  • Hey Simon,

    It is excellent to read your progress.

    My progress thus far has been good. I hit $10/day with one of my sites.

    I now have a pool of 20 sites. I am concentrating on building those up now. Add more content pages, get better backlinks. There is not point in building more if these are not generating revenue.

    One more thing.

    1 site that generated good revenue got delisted/banned whatever. I think I know why and am very upset about this. My content was great. There were 2 other Xfactor type sites. They also got delisted.

    But this other guy COPIED my site word for word. Even the domain was mine except pluralized. WTF!!!

    So now I have changed up my templates and how my content is displayed/written. If google got me then its just a matter of time until they get the others. So for the next little while, I am focusing on building kick ass 20 niche sites that are much MORE than just simple product reviews.
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    • Could google be stamping down on these xfactor layouts? Is that possible?
    • Hi Bro,
      I feel your pain, i got the same "punishment" as well! I am not sure i mentioned this in my earlier post, but i have a site which is targeting wrong spelled keyword, it is doing extremely well in the first 4 months, and it earns me $30-40 per month (this is only a 1 page site with no maintenance at all in 4 months). it got delisted with the main keyword from 3rd spot in google, but the site is still indexed.....only getting 1-2 visitors per day with some clicks over the month

    • Must be the same guy who copied my site word for word, except I had the org domain and he took the net. I've changed my site around as well completely and from what I see, he's nowhere to be found in the SERPS and I'm #3 but it does suck to see people like that who only want to easy and unethical way out...

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  • @Zinc

    Google wouldn't ban a website just for it's layout. Google only wants the best sites to show up in its rankings so if you're site offers no value to a visitor, or is spammy, then yes there is a chance of it getting deindexed.

    If your site offers valuable content to a visitor then it will likely stick, if google ever does a manual review.
  • ^^^^

    that is sheer gold and very much needed right now.
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  • I am following johns formula as well, but like spoken above- I am focusing on things I can control, like the building of the site.

    These plans work well for me:

    1.Saturday- brain storm 2 niches for week
    2. Tuesday night- build first site (am using wordpress)
    3. Wed night build second site

    I the hand them to to an outsourcer to build the promotion articles, and keep moving.

    At the early stages (the first month) I check my adsense every few days, but dont worry too much about ranking- more to focus on moving forward, rather than looking at the flowers ($)

    All of the sites are making something- small at the moment- I expect google to jump up and down with them.(been around with SEO for a while...its all part of the process)

    My main reason for outsourcing was so that I keep consistantly moving- we have all been there get tired- lose interest and not keep moving.

    I asked willie crawford at a live event if he could sum up success online in one word- the answer was momentum....donald trump uses same word.

    I believe its the challenges that come up, its how we solve them amd move forward- no excuses, just keep moving......make mistakes (I have a lot of usesless domains)...just keep moving an improve while in motion.........

    Oh and keep focus.........
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  • Hey guys,
    Just an idea- maybe (if your interested) getting together on mastermind group via skype to talk about what is working in this strategy - (not the niches)

    I great to network with those that are "doing"- thoughts?
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    • Lets do it! Count me in.

      Simon

    • Great idea, lets get this set up asap!
    • Count me in as well. Just PM me with the Skype info and the schedule.
  • What a great discussion. After 206 impressions and 4 clicks, I earned $2.39. The most difficult task is to get visitors ? I'm stuck.
  • Hey Guy's,

    Awesome Idea about the skype.

    Sorry about not posting for a while. Insanely busy at work.

    PM me over the skype ID's if you guys want.
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    • I'm definitely interested in a skype mastermind room please pm me as well!
  • I was reading clickbump's thread and now it has disappeared.

    Anyone know what happened?
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    • Hi there Hamburglar. I'm not holding my breath, but I put in a support ticket to the support desk this morning to find out what happened. We had a ton of useful step by step instructional material in there. Good thing I had my tabs open overnight. I was able to archive every comment from both pages.

      I will be posting some of the step by step stuff (and have already started) in different threads over time, but it sure was convenient to have it all in one digestable thread.

      I'll keep you posted. Thanks for asking. Especially in your own thread :-)

      Back to regularly scheduled programming...
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  • Hi dude, thanks for supporting my finding, hope to listen more comments from the crowd out there.

    Simon
  • If they deleted your thread just so other members could make money selling your information then this forum has truly taken a turn for the worst.

    Why would they delete such a great thread with tons of info unless they don't want us to have it for free?

    Keep us updated clickbump.

    You should repost the thread on the other popular forum, I highly doubt they will delete it.
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    • Which thread is this?
    • To be perfectly clear, I've not insinuated that the "My first $100 dollar day on Xfactor method" thread was deleted because of the reasons you've indicated. But I understand the spirit of what you are trying to say. I don't believe that's the case.

      My sense is that someone posted something late in the evening, that got the thread removed, but I'm just speculating as well as you...

      I know there were a few members that had not participated in the thread, that posted some comments just before midnight, when I last visited the thread before morning, questioning the motives and purposes of the thread, because my sig, like a few other 1000s of people on WF, is pimping a product.

      I've opened a support ticket to get to the bottom of it, and if they answer it, and allow me to share the reasons, I certainly will.

      I'm a teacher by heart and success is best felt when shared. My feeling is that nothing is truly ours anyway, its all on loan. So sharing success is only a natural reaction to that perspective and world view.

      Anyway, I don't want to keep hijacking Hamburglers thread, but to avoid more questions on it, I hope this clears it up until I know something definitive...
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  • 4 week evaluation for a 4 exact keyword phrase is too short of a time. it takes time to get good ranking. we all just have to be patient!
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    • I totally agree. I am using domain names with a 3 word keyword plus an appended word (like store), and I am finding my website is slowly climbing the SERPs for my targeted keywords.

      Also, since I track all clicks to my site, I rank on the first page for long-tails that I am not targeting.

      It is way too early to judge domain name strategies with just a few articles and only a month.

      Keep in mind, driving traffic to your website is critical: the more articles submitted, forum and blog postings, RSS submissions, etc. that you create, the more back links and traffic you will get. As a result, the higher you will climb in the SERPs.
  • Grab the cached version
    My first $100 dollar day on Xfactor method site:warriorforum.com
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    • Thanks for the tip. I just pasted all the tips into Word.
    • Is this the .NET vs .ORG Real World live test with XFactor method?

      Thanks.
      Ron
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  • I have just launched 3 new sites that with incorporating the information that clickbump had on his thread. I was trying to find the thread but I couldn't.

    Here is what he said.
    1) Search a Niche like a mad man
    2) Find anything above 2500 Exact matches
    3) Green light = if there are at least 3 PR 0 or PR -(n/a) sites in the top 10.
    4) Buy KMD, if .org or .net taken then go to step 6.
    5) Move on.

    Simple and concise. I hope I did not miss anything.

    Will post my results based on clickbumps method.
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    • Hamburglar, I think you've pretty much nailed it. I've just amended your comments with a few clarifications in bold face...

      Sorry to get here so late. Folks over at XF forums been keeping me busy (in a good kinda way)...
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  • Yeah, you missed step 6
  • Oh I did,

    I meant step 5.
  • yea I just launched 5 sites with the clickbump method I will repost with my results as well
  • Try google-your-rank dot com (can't post links cuz i dont have 15 posts yet heh) fancy little tool that will save your time on finding your site keyword rankings. I have kind of a different, my own approach, because I am testing a new system which can supposedly make your site appear on 10 or even dozen keywords on Google page 1.

    I won't tell you the name for now until I verify it myself, all I can say it is not black-hat, and so far I got google page 1 for 2 keywords and google page 2 for another 2 phrases with only 13 or 14 articles submited. If I manage to get top 3-4 rankings i'll let you know.
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    • Have you guys formed the Skype group?

      If possible, I would like to join.

      Thanks,
      Ron
    • Your given website is really working.

      But however search ranking is not 100% accurate. But good to know approx and near rank as well.

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    • We will be more than happy to help you if you can post a little more constructive post rather than pumping up your post counts.

      Simon
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  • Hope you achieve your goal soon.
  • Great post and realistic goals...

    I"m making around $20/day, and trying to increase to $50/day....
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    • How many sites do you have up? How many produce and how many are duds?
  • Hey Scott,

    Would love it if it were posted in an area. I am still waiting for the results of your technique. One thing that I am most concerned with is that I have around 25 sites launched and am only doing $5/day. It has been that way since I had 10 sites. 20 are indexed and about 15 are in top 20.

    The target of reaching $50/day or $100/day seems almost impossible from where I am.

    I am now spending a crazy amount of time researching niche's. If I take my time with the niche's then hopefully everything will fall in place.

    Another thing, is Xfactor forum worth the $30? Anything of value that I cannot find here?
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    • Sometimes its easy to lose focus.

      Keep in mind, that all you really need is:

      (1) Traffic/Visitors (combination of keyword search volume, search engine ranking and using appropriate titles and meta descriptions);

      (2) Good CTR;

      (3) decent Cost/Click through Adsense.

      Since yu are average 25 cents per day, it seems that the issue is with #1. How many backlinks to your indexed sites do you have? For me, I consider a site wasted if it isn't on the first page of google. 2nd page is crap. Of course you want #1, but if you aren't first page you aren't going to be getting any clicks.
  • Question for Clickbump or anyone else that knows.

    Sometimes when I research a niche there may only be 1 or 2 pr0 domains in the top ten, but when I look at the results the other pages that are higher pr are not even optimized for that term.

    Like lets say the keyword is Ivory soap.

    The 2 pr0 domains will be titled Ivory soap and be optimized for that exact term but the others are saying stuff like soap or dish soap and stuff like that and I think the only reason they are in top 10 is because they are high pr and have 1 of the keywords.

    Would it be possible to break into these kind of niches?

    Or should I just move on when there are not 3 pr0/- domains?
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    • Your logic is sound and I would trust your instincts and go forward under these conditions. Its a roadmap with many paths that lead to the same destination (ymmv)...
  • "Find anything above 2500 Exact matches"

    so we want 2500+ or more exact matches? I'm not understanding this. I thought the lesser the better?
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    • I don't think he means "matches" as in competition, but searches monthly.

      So, a KWP without at least 2,500 searches monthly (using "EXACT" filtering) is tossed.
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  • I have a formula that may help some. Let me know if your interested.
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    • i'm interested. please share
  • yeah please share pavionjsl, what cha got?
  • what exact phrase matches and SOC are you guys looking or have noticed produced better niches? Is there a rule of thumb for some ratio to look for, or what #'s to look for?
  • For instance:
    Global search: 5,400 Exact Phrase match: 26,300 SOC: 46
    I'm ranked #37 for my main keyword (first niche i did...only made $0.03 in 2 weeks) probably a bad niche to get into. Fighting against page rank 2, 3, + for this niche.
  • Global search: 1,300 Exact phrase: 8490 SOC:20
    I thought this niche looked juicy. I'm not even ranked for my keyword at all. out of 600 results. There's a lot of pr 0, 1 & 2 on the first 10 listings. What am I doing wrong?
  • GS: 4,400 EPM: 16,800 SOC: 9
    Ranked around 250 for main keyword (took 2 weeks)
    A couple of unranked and pr 0 on 1st page....I thought this looked great...

    Are my metrics off? any suggestions are appreciated.
  • How To make 15K a month at AdSense
    here's how it's done:

    Start with keyword lists from adsenseheaven dot com which guesstimates the most expensive keywords to bid on in the PPC AdWords side of the Google ad world. I generally ignore the top 1000, as they are very competitive and saturated. I am not concerned with the top payouts.

    Store this data every month in a mySQL database with the previous months data, and over time I am able to see which phrases are consistently in the lists and unlikely to disappear. I call them long term performers.

    Cross check each phrase with the number of pages currently indexed in google, to see how much competition there is for a each key phrase. It's usually easier to land a top 10 first page SERP position if there is less competition for the phrase.

    Also cross check each phrase with google trends data which has an RSS feed which is also collected and stored in a seperate SQL database hourly. If an adsenseheaven keyphrase is found to appear in my Google trends history database, it's flagged as hot. If there's less than a million indexed pages it's further flagged as a top candidate for a dedicated microsite armada.

    Once a month after the new list is released analyze the data after it's been processed and I pick a shortlist of hot key phrases that I am going to ramp up over the next few weeks.

    For this lesson the phrase selected is '**** Berry'.

    The estimated cost for the top position according to the adsense heaven list is $19, and it also appears multiple times in my Google trends history data. That means It Will probably going to make at least $5 for each AdSense click, and there's a lot of people searching for it.

    Head over your favorite registrar and find a domain name which contains the keyword at the beginning of the domain. Contrary to popular belief, the gTLD is irrelevant. I find that .info works just as well as a .com with all things otherwise equal.

    Get the new domain's DNS setup, and your webserver configured. Install your favorite Open Source CMS into the Docroot and pick a nice template which looks clean. Avoid dark colored themes. Make a nice graphic for your site logo position which contains your root keyword. (yes googlebots can read keywords with OCR in your site logo images).

    You now have the framework for your microsite, and a place to put your articles.
    Now we're going to mine long tail keywords for the selected phrase to use as subjects of my microsite subpages based on the root keyphrase. I use a couple different places for this, a good one for noobs is freekeywords.wordtracker.com. Then input the root phrase '**** Berry' and save the top 50 results into a text file. For this example we will limit to the top 5 after the root.

    Quote:
    **** Berry at Wordtracker
    7,401 searches (top 100 only)
    Searches Keyword
    4679 **** berry <- ignored, it's the root phrase
    371 **** berries <- variant of root phase
    238 **** berry supreme 1
    220 **** berry information 2
    181 **** berry research 3
    149 **** berry juice 4
    125 **** berry diet 5

    You can use however many you want. The more you have, the bigger your site will be, and the more expensive it will be to ramp up.

    I outsource most of my article writing to Justin at No Doubt Marketing. I pay them around $8 for each original article, and they are not scraped together garbage. I order 1 article for each long tail keyphrase. In 12-24 hours they'll begin arriving in a steady stream to my inbox. It's not uncommon to have 25-50 articles for your project. Your goal is to build a site which contains everything someone would ever want to know about your root keyword. It's also not uncommon for me to have $500-$1000 into each microsite by the time it's done. But, I make that back in two days.

    There are lots of other article writing services out there, and there is a lot of grey area. Some are more readable than others, and the general rule is you get what you pay for. I spent a few months testing all the top ghostwriters who advertised their services on digitalpoint, and some are very bad. I do not use scraped articles or spun articles from aggregation sites like ezinearticles.

    Now you have some original high quality meat for your microsite which is truly original content and is highly targetted for each long tail keyphrase. Create a content item on your CMS for each one, putting the longtail phrase in a H1 tag, the Title, and the Meta description. Do not make the title and meta description identical or the latter will be ignored. Insert the article, and do your html markup to split it into paragraphs, and add floating divs for your google adsense and CPA offers.

    Over the course of the next few weeks, repeat this process as your longtail articles arrive. By the third week you will have a pretty large site which is very useful and informative. It doesn't read like it was written by robots.

    At the same time, you work on link building. I will look at who is already ranking for the keyphrases I am looking to rank for, and I will attempt to contact each of the webmasters. It's easy to do a whois lookup on a domain (firefox has a plugin to do it from serp pages) and fire off an email to them. If they have a working phone number listed (they are required to) give them a call. I have a vonage account so I get unlimited long distance. I also have a telemarketing background so I am good at cold calling webmasters and socially engineering them into adding links.

    You will mostly get voicemails, so leave a nice message which is very brief and explains you have a relevant website which wants to become link partners. When you get the webmaster on the phone live, tell him how great their website is, how you added a link to it on your blogroll, and how it would help their rankings to link to your related site which is full of good content.
    Some people will tell you to go screw yourself, so you just move on. There are going to be hundreds of thousands of other sites to contact, so don't spend too much time with each one. I will ask them for their AIM handles so I can keep track of them. (did I mention I create a new AIM/Gmail for each new microsite?)

    There are lots of other ways to get links. I've tried most of them, and they all work. You can donate money to open source organizations which have a 'thank you' page. Most of them will include a link if your donation is over a certain threshhold. Check for nofollows and disallows in the robots.txt first.

    You can do a google blog search for your keyword and post an on topic comment which contains a single link to your homepage. Most places will leave your comment in the moderation cue forever, but others will publish it. You have a better chance of your comment getting published if your comment contains the keywords they are trying to rank for. Blog owners don't want comments that throw their keyword density off.

    You can search for forum posts using google which contain your keyword in the title tags and post a useful something into the thread. Don't just spam your URL or clearly it's going to get removed. It's also a good idea to make a few posts in other threads before you do any link dropping so you don't have 1 post when you do it

    There is roughly 260 million websites which will give you a free blog. Create a new one everyday somewhere new and make a couple posts about your keyphrases. You can take snippits out of your articles and rewrite them into blog posts, or even purchase some of that 'low quality' filler articles I spoke of earlier and use that for your free blogs. Be sure to choose good anchors when linking to your main moneysite.

    The bottom line is get as many links as you can, and spread them out as far apart as you can. You don't want to get too many links in a day or it will appear unnatural. So take your time, and work a little bit on each microsite every day. Try to make sure every microsite gets at least one quality inlink every single day from somewhere.

    One final observation: The longer a Google AdSense unit has been deployed, the more it's worth. Some of my top performing units are several years old. I think after a certain time they're internally flagged and start to show the top paying ads.

    Doug 12-23-2008 at BHW . Thank you for reminding me, copy pasted with out name.
    This guy makes a solid 15000 a month, but in the later part of the discussion it becomes clear.

    1. Keyword research

    2. Content - Good stuff not crap

    3. SEO site correctly

    $. The usual rinse and repeat
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    • i think i already read this from BHW
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  • so you don't pay attention to SOC or Exact Phrase Count in MNF?
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    • i just use free Google Keyword Tool and check the top SERP manually
  • I thought it was one of the best written guides ever. Guy does 15000 a month for real. Lot of work, and investment in time and money.
  • Tell you all something else, it is mind blowing what you get here as a member........spend the 37.00 bucks......
  • i just found a great niche, but has only 6 advertisers (in spyfu)...is that enough for ad support, or move on to the next niche? i know it should be 15-20 ideally...
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    • Plug it into google and check. Spyfu sometimes shows nothing yet there are 10-20 in google.
    • Spyfu is nice and all, but your own eyes work better.

      You should do a search and look to see what ads are actually showing up. If it's 6-10 highly unrelated ads, people aren't going to click.

      Also, if possible, click on a handful of sites in the SERPS and see if you can find sites with AdSense on them to see what ads are showing up, what stuff is being talked about, etc.

      I pass on KWPs all day that I find where I could rank for them easily because the commercial intent and $$$ isn't there.
  • Even though I did register here about a year ago I never gave the site enough attention. *hic* Now I know better. Go on we are with you all the way...
  • I am getting way too caught up in not making any $$ recently. Surely I thought I would be hitting at least $20/day. I have 25 websites indexed and yet only make $5/day as I did since the end of last month. Moving on to the next site is becoming difficult because you never have any idea of how well it will rank.

    Anyone else encounter this or is it just me?
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    • Have you taken a look at the sites that are not ranking well vs your sites that are, and noticed any different between them and their competitors?

      There are a lot of unknowns when launching a new site, don't sweat them too much and become frozen.

      One thing that I use when trading stocks is to keep a log, and write down why I was making the trade, what do I like it about. Then I come back when the trade was either a success or a failure and write down what went wrong or right. I then go back through this log every so often and always refresh myself on mistakes I made and things that worked well for me.

      The same can be done when launching a site in a niche. Write down why you are doing it, competitor stats, any thing specific you are trying as far as SEO, how you went about building backlinks, etc. Then a week, 2weeks, a month later check out the site and see how well it worked out and take notes. Review your notes and Im sure you'll find some valuable information each time you do.
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    • Don't let stuff get ya down, this takes time, give it that time it needs.

      Here is a very modest plan that can get you to where you want to go:

      ============================================

      If I can:

      Build 100 sites,

      All 1 page of content

      All averaging 50 cents a day, ($15 monthly).

      Outsource 2 articles per site @ $3 ea. (300 words each)

      Use 1 article for website content, Use the other article for EZA

      100 sites would cost me about $1370
      (100 DN's=$770 + 200 articles=$600 Total=$1370)

      Return on investment $1500 monthly
      ($0.50 x 30 x 100 = $1500 - after 1 or two months)

      Then do 1 maintenance article every month for each website, ($300 mo. cost)

      Of course - if a website does well, (the exception), add pages and more back links, etc.

      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      $1500 monthly for such little work and small investment is unheard of outside of the internet marketing world.

      Sell each site at the end of 12 months for $15 x 10 = $150 each, $150 x 100 = $15,000 gross.
      (this is After having generated $1500 monthly for 12 months)


      ============================================

      I posted this on xFactors Forum first.

      With ClickBumps methods, you don't
      even have to write/buy articles
  • THis is a vvery nice goal you have here. Keep up the work. Dont give up!
  • HI Hamburglar, dont give up yet, you have just started since 1 month back and making $5 per day is already good enough, do you know that the folks out there even not able to make $0.05 per day.
    My 0.02 is, you should continue to build backlink and get your site rank well, i am pretty sure that not more than 10 out of your 25 are in the first page? You should stop building new one and optimize the SERP.

    I just build a blog to record my road to adsense success journey, i will never give up until i hit $100 per day. If the folks out there are able to make it, why dont us!

    Keep it rolling dude, please!

    Simon
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    • Just keep at it and don't give up. Just make sure all your sites are SEO'd and focus on that instead of trying to fire out loads of sites.
  • This is my first website -> josspamDOTblogspotDOTcom - What tips would you give to make it bigger and make some profit of it.

    I have it for quiet a while now but just begingin to think of getting something of it.

    Jocy
  • HI Josspam, this thread is all talking about the xfactors method with micro niche site. You may need to post your question to other thread unless you want to join us with xfactor course here.

    Simon
  • Hey guys,

    Thank you very much for the support. I am not going to Give Up. I can't! been too long.

    I took Gazd's advice and made notes on my current domains. I am going to concentrate on SERP and building backlinks. Any page that is not in top 20 will be forgotten.

    Gonna make a list of good sites Tonight.
  • Hamburglar,

    You might want to take a step back and look at why you're selecting the KWPs you do. Perhaps you should increase your minimums as far as searches and cash go. Also, take a little time and think about the KWP before jumping into it. Is it something people really want (buyers)? Is the KWP a whole KWP or in reality a part of another.

    An example of this might be "coffee maker." Seems nice, but if people are really searching for "Brand X coffee maker" and "espresso coffee maker" and "coffee maker filters" and "coffee maker recipes" or whatever, then that KWP is far too broad and will actually have money issues. You may even have a #1 listing, but since the listing isn't targeted to what the searcher wants, it's #2 who will get the most clicks.

    Here's a personal example. This week I spent roughly 20 hours (so far) researching for 2-3 site possibilities. Sure I could have spent an hour and came up with 10 "insert product here" or "insert info here" sites that I could rank for and had a decent amount of searches, but I don't build sites just because I can.

    I took all those lower level KWPs that met my previous minimum criteria for searches/cpc/SEOC (or SOC) and filed em away and keep moving on. Instead I'm looking for KWPs that meet my new increased criteria. Yes, it can take a little longer to find them, but they are there.

    I guess the point is this: rather than stopping your research and jumping in the pool when you hit a KWP that "works," spend more time looking for a bigger piece of gold that you can carry.

    If you're going to build say 3 sites in a week, reserve your buying/building until later in the week. Spend the first 2-3 days of the week doing crazy research to find the KWPs with the highest search/$$ to ranking ratio (that look solid from a buying standpoint) and roll with those.
  • I'm going through almost the same problems. I'm building up more websites - but my income remains the same.... And that's kinda frustrating.

    I like to think that everything will be fine after some time. I don't know... Maybe we are supposed to go through that. Anyway, failure is not an option for me. I will earn at least 50$ a day this time next year. I will work hard - but I'll get there.
  • Hamburglar,

    My 2 cents would be to have a look at where the money is coming from - From john (xfactors) course he didnt just build 1 site in a market, but where he saw cash- he build more for the same market eg: "Puppy toys" site makes money- build another for "black puppy toys" -

    At the same time- dont spend too long in "analysis mode" - can slow your momentum- just relize that johns course is about "throwing mud at the wall" and seeing whats sticks....some will take time and what you are feeling is normal.....

    Let me know if still up for Skype mastermind group: skype id: digitalawol
  • i hope you are still remember that i have 2 domains with 4 word phrase with "the" and "store" at the front and back of the keyword.

    Submitted 11 articles (5 different article directories) and did 10 angela backlinks for each of them, still no where to be found

    Hope to get some advice from the expert here.

    Simon
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    • Sign up for google webmaster tools with those sites, and submit sitemaps. It will index you pretty quickly.
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    • I've been reading this post since the beginning and lately have gotten frustrated at myself because I've been watching everybody else's success and not doing what I need to do.

      And yes, as small as it may seem, you are having success! Keep in mind that IM is not an overnight thing (for the majority of us.) It is not a couple of months success story either. My overall game plan is that if I can put up 2 sites a week that consistently make 1 dollar a day, then after one year I'll have 100 sites - that's $100 dollars a day. Anything over that is gravy.

      I've been watching you guys who are consistently putting up your sites and it is great that they are making a couple dollars a day. Keep adding. Aren't you in it for the long haul. There are so many people on this forum who have had adsense sites up for years and still haven't gotten a check from Google.

      I have about 8 html adsense sites. All have at least two pages of content. I consistenly make $2 to $3 dollars a day and most of my sites don't even rank in the top 100. My focus now is to submit 10 articles for each site to get them up in the rankings so the sites can get traffic not my articles.

      KEEP WORKING EVERYONE - IT WILL COME!
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  • Ad sense is called traffic business if you can bring traffic on your site you will get success
  • I have 3 sites that were ranked now POOF it's gone...I know it's the google dance thang, but do you guys have any recommendations what I should do to make sure to get the ranking back again?
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  • Truewarrior,
    Its noraml (almosted expected) - New content appears in the index- ranks, because it is new- the settles back down to nowhere.....

    Build backlinks, keep going, -No Gurantees......But action is the cure, and expect this happen again and again....age is they only cure.....all part of the game and understanding how it works..............

    Dont expect stability till around the year make........sorry no quick million dollars here..........
  • Hi sarasayshi, thanks for reminding me again Appreciate that.

    Yesterday, i hit the highest adsense that i have ever earned, $17.8 in a single day Almost every sites had 1 click and even article submitted to directories to also generate the clicks, although the sites are in the page 3 onwards and even no where to be found I love article marketing (articleblast is my favourite)

    Simon
  • Hey Guys,

    Simon. That is excellent. Wohoo!!1 My highest has been $11.68 yesterday.

    A bit of sad news: one of my sites got de-indexed. It was on page one and now when you search "site:domainname.com" it does not exist.

    I do not know how to recover from the de-index.

    SIMON!! WOOOHOOOO!!
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    • Hey dude, that is my biggest earning in my adsense journey since 2 years back, it will be excellent if it can hit that figure everyday But it doesnt, now my average earning per day is about $5-6, i am in the stage of building backlink by submitting articles and submit my site to web directories.

      About your site deindexed thingy, how old is that site? Probably is part of google dance? But GD will not deindex site right? What about trying to resubmit the site through www.google.com/addurl/? Just try it out. Good luck!

      Simon

    • Hey- Way to go Hamburglar - Keep Going. I have had sites de-indexed as well a while back- You can submit for a "Google reconsideration process"- I did it 6 months ago- totally rebuild the site, took off affiliate links, added more content, even told them what I did wrong. Never heard back from them and just moved on. I have never had a wordpress site de-indexed.

      I also had another do the same - I moved it to a different hosting (a service which also pulled fresh content from twitter, utube etc)

      The domain go reindexed about a month later.

      In this business people are looking for step by step path to follow, how ever I think each site is treated differently- Xfactors plan is a Guide (his words) there is no exact plan when it comes to how google works with the site.......... every site is different.....
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  • Hi hamburglar

    I am reading internetmarketer99's,and your forums. I have not finished all responses from your thread.

    In the mean while i am researching a keyword which has the following

    From Google Keyword Tool
    LSV 3,600 and Global 2,400

    From Google Traffic Tool

    Estimated Avg. CPC : $1.41 - $2.03
    Estimated Cost / Day : $1 - $2

    Competition
    first page one PR4 at 4th position
    rest are below 4.
    wikipedia at first position for few keywords in main keywords

    Do you consider this keyword.

    I am going to use this as an experiment to learn how things are going.
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    • Hi saravanan, we are neighbour (Sg and Mas)

      While awaiting for Hamburglar to answer your question.......

      I will skip for this keyword if i see a wikipedia post with this keyword, further more there are PR4 and "PR4 and below" post (i assume they are PR2-3?) in the first page.....With that amount of searches, you can get more keywords that are worth your time to work on.......but is all up to you if you are going to treat this as an experiment.

      One more advice is, never go for keyword with 4 words in length. Some may find success with this, but at least me and hamburglar dont....

      Simon
    • Hey,

      The search volume is great. However, I do not look at the google CPC. I go to Spyfu and look for at least .50 cent Minimum.

      I also look for (using clickbumps method):

      1) At least 3 pr 0 or pr N/A.
      2) At least 2500 Search Volume.

      Is this keyword a product? Does not sound like it if wikipedia is there. One thing you want to understand is the searches mental thought. When they search for X, what do they truly want/need?

      I gear all my sites towards ready to buy products.

      I hope this helps.
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  • thank you for your great response in Lightning speed. It is a actually a type of product. Shall I PM you more details on that?

    I am just validating myself whether my keyword selections research is going in a right direction or not. I will check spyfu now for more information.

    I finished reading ClickBumps thread yesterday only. So now started researching on keywords.

    I have already done big mistakes on my websites without reading valuable information here. So i do not wish to repeat any more.
  • Hi further updates as you advised me.
    The cost per click is $0.58 - $1.81 in SpyFu for my keywords.
  • For getting a rough estimate for CPC I use Spyfu and take the average amount (find it in the little graph on the right of the screen, hover your mouse over the middle area of the graph and it will show the current and historic average). I take that and multiply by 20%, I've found that gets me pretty close to my actual per click averages, so I feel that's a realistic number to use. Google's amounts are way off, same with MNF.

    Great thread Hamburglar - Thanks!!

    Robbie
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    • I have just checked few keywords in spyfu. It says it has 740 searches but daily clicks as 1. so daily for 740 searches we can expect only 1 click. Is this normal. Can we conclude that any keyword in this niche will behave something like this.
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  • Today is going to be the highest earning day ever for me.

    I just hit $12.

    I have not used MNF for my last 5 sites. 3 of them are on page one and raking in some good money.

    I am using ClickBump's method of at least 3 pr 0's and also combination of inanchor, intitle and inurl.

    My design: have gone 100% away from xfactor now. I loved his design as a starting point but now have a new template that converts 50 - 66%. Don't quote me just yet. I am waiting for at least 1000 impressions on that design to conclude properly.

    Gotta keep pushing. I almost gave up this weekend. Patience and Persistence is key for this.
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    • you have been doing so well....why did you want to give up?

      I just hit $2.48 yesterday...the day previous was $0.00. I wanted to give up myself...
      but i'm still in the game
    • Hi
      Great hamburglar, i glad you got 12$/day. Can you help me to figure out why my website is not getting atleast few clicks per day?.

      I have around 800 visitors and 1000+ visits per day. But i am getting one or two clicks. Most of the days there is no click at all. I have asked the same question in few forums. But the answer is vistors are tech saavy so they dont click advertisements.

      Can you please advise me what to do?
      Page:Freeze GridView Columns

      I am already started using CPM ads from another provider.
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    • Hi Dude, you really announce a great news and enlighten everybody here, i am also glad that your fire is still burning!

      Yes, work towards the goal and never give up until you got success That is what i always tell myself.....BTW, i have 40 sites now, 25 out of them are within first 20 results, 15 are falls between third page to sixth page, still working hard to submit article, but recently always stuck with EA and few of my articles are rejected because of grammar error (English is not my primary language). But i diverted those rejected articles to other directories, at least it still get me some credits.

      Average earning per day is $4 per day, and going to cash out via Western Union end of this month, about $230 Keep up the good work and stay focused!!

      Simon

  • Stay focussed. That is the real key and do not follow all the rabbits that cross your path.
  • I used clickbump's method, and every site I registered in the past week made it in the first page. No Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai used.

    I definitely say stick with clickbump's method.
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    • Amen to that.

      I have lost faith in MNF. I actually want a refund because I have only used it 5 times and its so slow on my computer. Keeps Crashing as well.
  • what's your update hamburglar? I'm hoping you went up another tier!
  • Can someone tell me that if I create a wordpress blog with adsense ads on it and then optimize the heck out of it good keywords will this be a good venture?
  • This is inspiring. I never thought that any one would have this courage and humility to post like this.. Good job!

    I would love to get track about your experience.. Don't forget to create videos about your performance because those videos can be used as products once you've started creating a "HOW TO MAKE MONEY" video series :-)
  • So an update:

    On saturday I hit my highest earning ever!
    $27!!!

    It is very inspiring that I went that high. I wish I could do that every day. Overtime I will.

    The cool thing is that I have not built any backlinks to my site, I am planning on building some backlinks this weekend.

    My avg earnings for this month is $14/day.
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    • Wow, very nice.

      How many sites are you up to now?

      I have 4 currently that are indexed and am averaging about $.75 /day.

      slow but steady...
    • That is awesome man!

      I keep reading your stuff and am glad to see your pennies day turn into dollars days.

      Good luck in 2010!
    • I have lost track on this thread before, guys thanks for updating us on your progress !!!
  • Great hamburglar

    How many sites do you have now
  • I have about 25 websites.

    Only about 15 are ranking high. I have my 6th sense for keywords fine tuned. Also finding new niche's is very easy.

    Just finding the ones with good CTR is hard.
  • Congratulations on your progress hambrglar. This thread is very inspiring as I am attempting to build a steady income with adsense also. I have 4 sites, all with the keywords in the domain. Each has 20 articles pointing back to them, and have been social bookmarked at 20 sites, not to mention blog posting. However, None of my sites show up in any google serps.

    I am not a pro at web design so I use a wysiwyg editor to design my sites. Does this have a major impact on SEO? could this be my problem?:confused:

    If so do you have any pointers. Any advise would be appreciated...
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    • hi embions, would you mind to disclose the keyword analysis data (i.e. soc, exact match etc)? Having keyword in the domain doesnt really means that you could rank well, based on my own research, a keyword with the following criteria works well:

      not more than 4 words
      soc <20
      exact match competition <10,000

      Just a small update on my progress, i have hit USD11 to USD14 in the past 1 week consistently, still working on submitting articles to directories and will update again after 2 weeks (2nd stage of my project-submit article).....

      Good luck!

      Simon
    • A lot of people have the same problem. I think the root of this problem is the keywords you are optimizing for. Are they competitive by nature? What is your current method of understanding competition and ranking.

      My first 3 sites went to ****s. I thought I knew what worked and what didnt. I spent 3 weeks building content and backlinks. They never broke the first 100 page listing. But after that I started to learn how ranking works and keywords.

      Keyword Research is critical for any adsense/cpa success
  • In one of the niches that I am concentrating on the amount of monthly searches is 5400 with an SOC of 12. The exact phrase count according to MNF is 7800. Google has 460,000 pages for the keywords that I am targeting. I have submitted 10 articles to ezines for this site, (6 have been approved), 5 to goarticles, and 5 to articlebiz. I have bookmarked to 20 sites, and about 7 or 8 blog comments.

    I am really kind of lost as to what to do next because all of my sites pretty much meet the same criteria as this one, I always focus on building sites with an SOC of less than 20 (preferably 15) some are as low as 4, and exact phrase match of less than 10,000 (one of my sites has an exact phrase match of only 736 and the SOC is only 2!) but I am still not ranking for these keywords but the domain name I purchased has 5 words in it, is that too many?:confused:

    I can't help but think that the problem may be in the site design/on page SEO. I have read that using a wysiwyg design can be bad because of the overuse of tables. The three sites that I am working on are only two weeks old though. I am just wondering if anyone has any tips?

    Should I change the software that I am using? (I use coffeecup), build more backlinks? ect. Thanks alot....
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    • I have seen multiple posts on here saying to avoid buying domains with more than 3 words in them when making micro niche sites because they are harder to rank for. I am not completely sure why, and I am simply stating that I have seen it posted a few times around this forum.

      In my personal experience, I have 5 sites up with 3 word domains that indexed within a week; all initially ranked within the top 10.

      On the other hand, I have 2 sites with 5 word domains that are indexed, but nowhere to be found in the SERPS. These phrases had less competition than my 3 word phrases that ranked within the top 10 in under a week.

      So I now stay away from domain names that have more than 3 words for ranking in ,less competitive niches. Just my two cents...
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  • Hi hamburglar,

    Can share with us, what kind of backlinks method you think its worth doing??
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    • I am buying high quality back-links and doing little bit of article marketing.

      I tried link juicer, but my site actually disappeared from the serps.
  • I have no issues with ranking a website consisting of more than 3 keywords. My biggest earning X-Factor style adsense site is a 4 word exact domain match.org website that consistently produces ~$10/day.
    12,000 Exact searches
    8 - SOC
    ~7500 - competition in quotes.

    Its all in finding the right keywords if you ask me...

    Michael
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    • Amen to that. I have stopped using MNF. My highest earning sites are made without the use of MNF. MNF SOC was 20+ for all of them. I launched them and as soon as they were indexed, I was spot 5 - 9.

      I personally feel MNF is a poor purchase decision. It is excellent to get started but once you develop your own hunch then it becomes very easy to rank.
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  • One other tidbit of information that has really opened up a lot more product related keywords for me is this:

    Articles of clothing seem to be Popular Searches, but like most keywords all the usual suspects are taken. However, by adding a simple prefix or suffix, you will find some real winners. Adding a color as the first word is a good start. Popular colors to start with are white, pink, and black.

    Examples:

    Flower Girl Dresses
    110,000 exact searches
    All TLD's taken

    White Flower Girl Dresses
    2900 exact searches
    .net and .org still available (as of this post)

    Ivory Flower Girl Dresses
    2400 exact searches
    .net and .org still available (as of this post)

    Discount Flower Girl Dresses
    1600 exact searches
    .org still available (as of this post)

    and if that doesn't help you, you can also try adding 'for boys', 'for girls', 'for men' or 'for women' to the end.

    Examples:

    Leather Bags
    135000 exact searches
    All TLD's taken

    Leather Bags for Men
    2400 exact searches
    .org still available (as of this post)

    and Congratulations to the first person reading this to take advantage of this one:

    Leather Bags for Women
    1000 exact searches
    All TLD's AVAILABLE, YES EVEN THE .COM (as of this post)

    Think a little outside the box and don't rely solely on what MNF or Google Keyword Tool show as Keywords.

    Michael
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  • I found a keyword....the plural form has more searches yet the CPC is much much lower...it's like 0.05 compared to the singular keyword 5.00 per click... I'm just wondering why there is such a big disparity. Is this a mistake? How do I verify?
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    • I would go for it right away.
      Reason: The plural version will show ads from singular version because content is same.

      To verify, just look at the ads displayed in the SERP and listing pages.
  • I seem to be hitting a barrier of $20/day. I have been adding around 3 - 5 sites a week and I still cannot push past $20. The indexed sites are all top 10.

    Time to buy some heavy PR backlinks tomorrow.

    Kind of confusing to see myself sitting at the this threshold for a long time.
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    • One day it will suddenly blast way past the $20 and never look back. In my experience this is quite a common event.

      And it seems like you're putting in the work so it will definitely happen.

      Keep pushin

      -Peace
    • Hi Hamburglar,

      Do you mind telling us where you buy your backlinks?

      JB
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  • Working towards a goal, the very essential requirement! I'm gonna follow this thread!
  • Do you have any trouble with google's sandbox with your newly created websites?
  • I loved beginning my career on the internet. It's a great feeling when you see those pay checks build up in PayPal or your affiliate account.

    Good luck buddy i believe you will hit that $300 per day soon, just stick at it

    Sean. T
  • It definitely is a very slow process.

    There has to be great amounts of patience to continue.

    I have found a keyword on which I am going to try building a community around it. Forum/blog etc..
  • Hey haven't checked in on your progress in a while and was happy to see you're up to $20/day. That's awesome man.

    I think I'm gonna have to get back into this. lol

    I have one niche site constantly doing $1-5/day so I'm happy to see this is very consistent. I also don't know if it's just the holidays, but the clicks have been paying so much more this past month as well. It's pretty nice not touching a site for over 1 1/2 months, and the profits increasing.

    Keep up the good work bud.
  • Awesome work!
    Am sure all the knowledge that you got so far form this experience is going to increase your profits for this 2010!
    Working hard is the only way to get results!
  • good to go up day by day. it is something which is the result of patience. keep it up.
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    • I do not understand your questions.

      I am maintaining at $18 - 20/day

      Its a very slow growth process but nonetheless, its growing.
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  • Hi Hamburglar,
    Great work me friend - well done so far- you have inspired some people here. I wonder if its time to look at what takes the most time to get done and work what has worked the best so far - sort of a test and improve maybe.......

    All the best for Christmas BTW

    Paul
  • Have your older sites, 60+ days started to drop down the SERPs?
  • Hi Everybody, first of all wish you a merry christmas and happy new year!

    Just would like to know whether you see a drop in earning in this festival week? My earning is just drop from 15 per day to 3 per day! SERP remain unchanged but traffic abit slow.......

    Simon
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    • Yeah same here. from 10 to 7 a day.
  • Hi Simon,

    DOn't worry matey, you're not alone, I've had the same issues.
    My figures are very similar to yours and have seen a massvie drop. The first 2 weeks went absolutley crazy and I thought Id go t othe Ferrari showroom (NOT) but then the last week hasnt been to good. However, this is quite normal, the first 2 weeks everybody is looking and then you have to appreciate the fact that people go away etc.

    Just ride out the storm before you come to any conclusions.

    Good luck,

    Have a wonderful Xmas all.

    Zaheer
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    • Not alone and don't worry about it. My last 2 days are about 10-20% of my average daily earnings for the previous 2 weeks before that.
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  • Hi hamburglar, any update to share for the project?

    Simon
  • I havent had much luck with this, I was hitting about $40 a day. But I signed up with this other program and. . . . . WOW lets just say this works hand in hand.
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    • Whats the program?


  • Can I throw my experience into the mix here please?

    I started trying adsense about 15 months ago and made next to nothing for the first 4 or 5 months. I now make £600 - £800 per month, with the bulk of it coming from 2 sites.

    One alternates between 1st &2nd in Google UK and gets about 120-130 hits per day. This has a CTR of around 9.5% and earns between £300 and £400 per month.

    The other is 3rd/4th for its main term and gets around 70-80 hits per day. It has a CTR of around 7.25% and earns between £120-£150 per month.

    Both are 5/6 pages only, but with very focused, highly relevant content, and both are information sites, giving people who are generally looking to sell scrap metals and old coins (eg gold etc).

    I *think* the reason they work quite well is that visitors find the information and advice that they want, but when they've read it there is no service on offer from the sites.

    People still want to go somewhere to sell their stuff. Since they hopefully now trust me because of the genuinely helpful and correct information they've received, they can conveniently click the adsense ads that run down the right hand side of the page.

    I think having a site that is clear and concise and gives people good advice with no distracting banners, affiliate stuff etc, builds trust and gives people exactly what they want.

    Since adsense is great at putting relevant ads on each page they then have a choice of places to go to.

    I'm sure I could probably imporve the performance of these sites, but really I haven't touched them since I put them up maybe 12 months ago.

    The rest of my sites tend to have affiliate stuff on them, or not so focused content, or get low CPC and so don't earn anywhere near as much money.

    Hope that makes sense and is helpful to someone.
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    • This thread has slowed down - let's bring it back (unless we need to start another). I think it is really good and has inspired me, so I want to put my experiences on it to keep myself motivated. My goal is to make $150/day and I would like to do it through Adsense. Right now I'm doing about that much in a month. [This is the first time I have acknowledged this goal in public. It feels different than writing it on my own paper.]

      Since reading this thread, keyword research finally clicked in my head in terms of finding low competitive words. (i am focusing on 3,000 searches per month, SOC<20 and MOB of 0 or 1 from Micro Niche Finder) I also check Market Samurai, Google and SEOBook.

      I believe my major weakness is not taking enough action - especially articles. I seem to bog down at about 10 to 15 articles per website. I thought since the MOB was so low I wouldn't have to write many to get to the top. I have several that are lingering on page 2 or 3.

      I also find myself going three of four days without doing anything really substantial. Checking stats, modifying websites and other stuff is not writing articles. Right now I am sitting on a ton of PLR articles I can rewrite quickly for backlink purposes.

      My goal for this week is to rewrite/submit 10 articles. I submit them to EZA then use SubmitYourArticle to rewrite and automatically submit to other article directories.

      Since November I have created 5 niche websites, with about 4 subpages for different keywords. All have low SOC and MOB. I have a fairly high, single figure CTR and decent amount per click. I just need more traffic. I want a minimum of thirty articles per website before I move on and create another.

      I'll report back at the end of the week on my progress.

      FYI: Besides the individual articles, I submit my webpages to social bookmarking sites and submit RSS feeds of the website and article directory sites.
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    • Hmm...interesting Dave. Good example of Adsense success. Have you considered running the ads down the left hand side of the page instead of on the right? I've always heard (don't know this by personal experience yet) that putting Adsense ads on the left is the better alternative since people tend to read from left to right in an F pattern with very little attention usually paid to the right hand side of site pages.

      Just a thought that might improve your bottom line still more for what it's worth.

      Carlos
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    • I would say you think right. And this is one of the main factors that spells "longevity", which is good of course
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  • When you guys are looking at search counts do you only consider the local search count?

    So would go after a keyword that meets all of your criteria but has a local search count of 1000 but 8100 in global search count results in MNF?
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    • Hiya Slash,

      I personally would go after a keyword like that. I do not care where the clicker lives.

      It is an odd thing, but I have plenty of sites in the top ten on Google.com, and considerably less on the first page of Google.co.uk. And I am in the UK!

      First I didn't worry, then I did worry,(set everything to UK) now I don't worry again. Because if you do your sites to the best of your ability, and put decent content on there, then you will get clicks.

      All the best,

      Ruth
  • Its true people get trained by the popular websites they visit. Always a good idea to know where these sites put their naviagtion etc and instead place your ads in these areas.
  • Hamburglar, along with sage advice from people who understand where you are at. Thanks for sharing your determination, your success and failures. Your willingess to be so open helps others to look at the things that hold them back.

    Keep moving forward, keep taking action, know that you will make mistakes, know that you might fail. But know that if you do nothing nothing will happen.

    I remember the feeling of earning that first dollar, when things get tough or don't move as fast as you'd like them to just remember that feeling.

    wf is a great place.
  • great thread honestly this is good
  • I think all steps are good but you forgot the create adsense a/c.
  • Hi Lynne,

    Good Morning!

    The thing is, it does dip and dive. I was having a look at my stats earlier, and I have odd days where I get over $3, and some days where I get zilch. My nothing days are getting further and further apart though.

    It is a question of building, isn't it? Every time you do something for your business, it is like a brick. It takes many bricks to build a house. You have to keep on building those bricks and not get despondent.

    Very few things work on a perfectly level curve. You look at every chart, and there are bumps in the graph, where things didn't go so well. It happens, and it happens to everyone. The winners are the ones that didn't let it get to them.

    So, cheer up, keep building those bricks, and the even the low money (or no money) days get further and further apart.

    You are in this for the long haul and you do not want a get-rich-quick scheme, do you? (Hey if you do I know some goo roos who will flog you rubbish! LOL!)

    Keep ya chin up and take care. Tomorrow is another day,

    Best wishes,

    Ruth

    I dont think adding adsense to established sites would mean the drop. I did the same thing and my adsense just increased. It is just a flukey dip.
  • Daveshu,

    Very good point and thank you for sharing. On smart-pricing, it may be true because I have several sites and three of them were doing very well with CPC between $1-$3. Those were my first sites following XFactor method. As I continued to build more sites, I noticed a drop on CPC to $.01 - $.70 for my first 3 sites.
  • My google seems to be holding steadily. And mine had actually increased since the holidays but mine are geared towards education and kids - areas people are busy offline during the holidays. ANd the main goal on those sights is content, not necessarily $$

    I have 4 sites and I averagle $15 - $25 A DAY on google. Two of my sites are part of a different ad network - platefull -and am averaging $300 - $400 a month with them - been with them for about a year.

    I need to market my sights a bit more I think,
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    • Would you recommend this ad network? How is there payout compared to adsense?

      Tons of organic traffic.
  • I have added content to lots of my sites today, and they have all dropped in the rankings. It means I will have a few lean days, because most of them were on page one. I hope they will move back up to at least where they were in the next day or so.

    I am thinking about selling some of my sites. If you could buy the perfect site for adsense, what would it contain?

    Best wishes,

    Ruth
  • Build traffic to your site and the adsense earnings will come..
  • Yea, i am on the way too Hope our dream comes true!

    Simon
  • Hoping to get some advice.....

    Following the niceh site/AdSense method.

    Using Micro Niche Finder
    Exact Searches between 2,000 - 3,000
    Exact Phrase Count < 100,000
    SOC <= 20
    MOB <=1

    Check Google, Adsense preview, and if all looks good, I register the keyword as the domain name, top level (com, org, or net), no hypens.

    Build the site using Wordpress with 3-5 original content articles

    Submit 3-5 articles to EZA with they keyword as a link in the resource box. Submit 1 article to GoArticles. All article are original content written by me or outsourced.

    I've got 4 sites up now with the first one going live on 7 Jan. All show pages and links in Yahoo Site Explorer, but not a one has been indexed by Google yet.....

    What am I doing wrong?
  • $100 to $300 a day is a very ambitious goal. Your blog needs to become very popular and it should be in a niche that display CPC ads.
  • Check your WP privacy settings to be sure you're allowing Google in.
  • Unbelievable....

    Note to self and anyone else trying this:

    GoDaddy Wordpress installs are public by default
    Hostgator (where i'm doing my niche sites) Wordpress installs are private

    Also of note - Yahoo evidently ignores the settings because the sites are indexed in Yahoo.
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    • Actually, I think it's not a matter of whether Hostgator set it to Private as default. As the installation is done via Fantastico, it could mean that all webhost using cPanel/Fantastico had it set this way.
    • Interesting... I guess yahoo does not care , but as others have mentioned it's probably fantastico. Some versions of it have privacy setup by default.
  • For generating revenue from Adsense the Better ways is to Setup Wordpress Blog and Apply SEO Friendly Theme and update your blog with Unique contents so google give much fovourable preference to your Post and Index them Quickly As much as they .. and Also find high Paying Keywords and Optimize your webblog on those Keywords..

    thanks
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    • Indexing is not the same thing as ranking. You can have 10,000 posts indexed and make $0.

      High paying keywords are harder to rank for so that may translate to lower traffic and lower earnings. A balance must be attained between search volume and kw PPC cost.

      High paying keywords for Google search is not the same thing as High paying keywords for Adsense. That method worked a while back when people did not set different prices for Adsense vs Search.
  • You are correct. All cPanel/Fantastico installations of WP set the privacy to keep out search engines by default. You must remember to change it yourself.

    After you've made this mistake a few times and sat around waiting for Google to index your site, you'll remember.
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    • This very thing kept some of my customers coming back
      to me asking when their sites will finally get indexed...

      Problem solved...

      I've now setup my WP site-building tool to automatically
      check the privacy setting of your blog and display
      a warning if it's not "visible".

      I have previously wasted months (ouch) with sites that were
      not indexed because of this... Know better now :-)
  • Forgot to say thanks Retired, so Thanks!

    Doing another site today, and the first thing I did was set to public.....

    And Bretil, the first step to ranking it to get indexed. And one of the things I do is AdSense sandbox t see what ads are showing for my key term. No good ads, then I pass on it, even if everything else looks good.
  • hey, Im learning something here. Thanks
  • Thanks for the fantastico/Cpanel thing... I have went through this pain also,of not getting indexed.
  • LOL... this is the classic example of "How does the blind man eat an elephant?" Ans: One bite at a time.

    It seem a big target to aim for $100 per day, but once you get your first $1, you feel like you're on top of the world. Heck, even John Reese on manage $0.42 on his first day.
  • Any update?
  • A long time coming.

    I am resurrecting this thread from the depth's of the lost graveyard. A lot of things have happened in a last little while that has taken my attention away. Got busy with my business, clients, got a job etc.... Just plain ol life.

    However, my adsense sites have been the same and have not added any since Jan. They are all winter items and hence my low revenue of $8/day. My highest was $40 for one day back in december.

    I have about 10 domains I have bought since Jan that I need to get started on. I am trying to de clutter my life and stay focused. Now that I have income from a job I can focus on good keywords.

    One of my main faults from my previous adsense sites is the CPC. I went for high volume low CPC. It has not worked out that great.

    My focus now is on getting above $2 CPC to make sure I am making good returns.

    Lets see how this goes in round 2.

    Love the feedback from everyone.

    Hope you guys are also doing well.
  • Are you just monetizing your sites with just Adsense for content or are you using Adsense for search/domain/feeds. That too should boost some of your adsense revenue. May not work well if you are working only on micro niche sites.
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    • Adsense is really a good way of making money. Even better than the so-called adsense alternatives like adbrite, kontera, etc. Though Google is very strict with their TOS, one could continue to make money on autopilot if those things are followed.

      At the same time, one should not just depend on adsense. Even google does not want a site to be created just for adsense. That is why it is good to mix up the ads with other ones like clickbank, amazon, commission junction, etc. This is just to let google see you don't really depend on their adsense.

  • Nice to see you pop up again Hamburglar.

    And good luck with the new job. It may be a good thing for your online business because it will force you to be more careful and strategic with your time and resources.

    All The Best
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  • I would've given up if I were you. Re-asses who you're taking advice from man.

    It's not hard to find keywords with high CPC's if you have a tool that can run while you're asleep.
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    • Hey,

      Thanks for your reply. Why would you give up? Could you elaborate. Just a bit confused about your response.

      Thanks man.
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    • <<Hostgator (where i'm doing my niche sites) Wordpress installs are private>>

      Does Hostgator have privacy settings on the regular static sites also? If so, where do I check to see if mine are set to private? Since I switched from SBI to HG earlier this year my traffic and adsense have been in the tank. Now I wonder if this could be a reason.
  • Good luck, try to make huge traffic to your site and it will give you huge adsense earning to
  • Hi hambuglar,
    Good to see uyou back and acyive- hope is going well!

    Re:

    <Does Hostgator have privacy settings on the regular static sites also? If so, where do I check to see if mine are set to private? Since I switched from SBI to HG earlier this year my traffic and adsense have been in the tank. Now I wonder if this could be a reason. >

    Did you Page URLs change in the move?- that could a reason......
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  • Pretty quite here....this thread is one of my inspirational story, so keep it up mate
  • Fantastic, hope you the best, hopefully we shall all revell in your success, when it inevitably arrives
  • I made it this far. in general I give up when I don't see results fast, but this is a long-term commitment. So since no clicks so far, the only thing I can control is promotions and substance.
  • I went to local meetup.com meeting on internet marketing- got asked lots of questions, but mostly people doing nothing -( key: you have to take a lot of action)

    My adsense is at around $50 a day, i have to say thankyou here to the help I got here, but at the same time, I took a lot of action- not always right, but i fixed things up along the way- this is a get rich slow process!
  • This thread is filled up with great advice all over Thanks all for posting very good tips and sharing the knowledge gained through experience
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  • Good luck.... $8 a day is like free lunch.... Good Job! Well building your SEO for those websites you can also make some extra money link building with article directories that have adsense revenue sharing.

    Great extra income!
  • I've done so far. Normally, when I do not see quick results, but it is a long-term commitment. Therefore, since you do not click until now, the only thing I can control is the content and promotions.
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    I've done so far. Usually, I give when I do not see results quickly, but it is a long term commitment. Thus, when no clicks so far, the only thing I can control is the content and promotions.
  • I was really sick lately, so there is no change except that my current site won me $ 2.68 this month. Beyond the goal of 50% to $ 4.
  • Good luck! Maybe this will also inspire other new publishers
    to take action.
  • Good luck with your adsense efforts. I believe success will come if you stick to it.

    Millardsc
  • Patient is the key to success i also agree with that term
  • You should not only share the risk between several ad partners (i.e. adsense, clickbank, amazon etc.), but also you should have a wide variety of subjects.

    Before the crisis came, beauty websites made a lot of money with adsense, during the crises it was less in that subject, but other subjects grew.
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    • Be careful if you are including ads from other networks on the same page that you make the colors and format be different than your adsense ad blocks


      Competitive Ads and Services


      In order to prevent user confusion, publishers may not display Google ads or search boxes on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colours as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure that these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.
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    • Can some please explain this?

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  • Therefore, since you do not click until now, the only thing I can control is the content and promotions.Normally, when I do not see quick results, but it is a long-term give.
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    • It has been very long since I posted on this thread. Initially, I was reluctant to post anything because of my failure. I started this thread with such great ambition and only within 4 months, I lost steam.

      I let go of all my Xfactor sites except for 10. I got caught up in a new job and lost my top earning sites. Dejected, I became absent from WF and Adsense for 2 years. I threw everything away. For months I beat myself up for not being able to accomplish my goals.

      Fast forward to June 2011. Something happened inside me. I was constantly coming back on WF, even though I was not taking any action. There was something deep inside me that wanted me back in this adsense/IM game. There is this rush I get from thinking how amazing it will be to accomplish my goals.

      So I said **** it and started a site. This time around I focused on:

      - Niche(s) I am passionate about
      - Did not care about earning money but focused on content
      - I picked a niche with 22k exact search

      I launched my website in mid-july amidst fear and insecurity. Fear because of my lack of SEO skills and insecurity cause of my writing. I was never a good writer. But this time I said "**** you man, do the hard work and grind it out".

      I wrote 4 - 5 articles every week. Looking back, the first two months of my content was extremely poor. But now I can spit out a 500 - 700 word well researched article in under 1 hour.

      I worked constantly since July - present. Every day for 8 hours I would write, write and write some more. I let the SEO side of things be handled by amazing warrior's like Isac Choi and Matt Laclear. I cannot thank them enough. Also MartinJ. Seriously those dudes don't b/s. Just straight results.

      Also there is a quote I wrote on my wall that Matt Laclear always mentions on his thread when people get antsy. "12 months is not a long to rank in SERP". I always reflect on this because SEO/websites is about long term success rather than short term gain.

      November 28, 2011 is the day where I shed a tear. My website had actually 60 pages worth of content. My unique views jumped from 20 to 250+. I was ecstatic. I opened my tab, when to google.com, searched my keyword and BAM! I was sitting at #3.

      However, my CTR was sitting at 0%. Nothing earned. I brushed it off my shoulder. It stung that I didn't make any money but my effort was the best shoulder to lean on.

      I started changing the ad placement with the help of fellow warrior (YUKON - great guy for tips) and let it sit. I finally got my CTR to 2% - 3%. It earns an avg of $5/day now. The earnings are very small compared to the guys who make $50/day in 4 months etc...

      This does not stop me at all. It only motivates me as I know the universe is just giving me a lil teaser for what it has in store for me.

      So yea, thats it. I am going to be updating this thread periodically. This road is a long journey, I have come to realized. I am in it to win it.

      Short term goals (3 months):

      Financially: $20/day

      Sites:
      - 15 authority websites.
      - Write 2 - 3 articles per day for each website.
      - keep testing.

      Lesson's learnt

      Traffic and CTR
      Adsense is about Traffic and CTR. CTR is such a huge factor. My clicks are only $.35 but if those were even $3 - $4 each, then my CTR would be beautiful. Since my CTR is low, I must focus on traffic.

      My next step is to focus on niches with exact match > 6000 and CPC > $2. No exceptions.

      Niche Type

      My "xfactor" style sites perform better CTR than my main authority site. This goes to show the niche has a huge impact on whether people will click the ads. Also this gives me a direct line to the demographics of the visitors.

      Alright guys lets keep at this. This time I am here for good. I am in this for 3 years already and have only $5/day to show for it. No matter what, this will work.

      The road might will be long, will be hard but in the end it is I who has to finish.

      Regards,
      H
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  • This is why I think your goal is a little low. Yes it is very achievable, but maybe setting it a little higher would give you more of a drive to get things going. Not that I don't think you will. You sound motivated and I wish you the best of luck. I will be following your progress.
  • I know my goals are small. I can virtually set that to any amount I want. But here is what I have learnt with google.

    There are too many unknown factors for earning a certain amount. Example. 1 MFA site that gets 20 impressions a day earns more than my authority website that gets 400 - 600 impressions a day.

    Meeting a certain amount per day is based on trial and error. I can only hypothesize what works based on my experience. As in the other thread where Chase earned $40/day in 4 months. He has 48 domains out of 12 are 90% of his income.

    Too many variables. The only aspect that is consistent is the amount of EFFORT one is willing to put.

    I have a snapshot of Shoe' Money's adsense and I look at it every morning and reflect on when I can hold that in my hand.

    I understand where you are coming from though. Thanks for responding.
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    • Greetings Hamburglar! I followed this thread when you originally started it, and always wondered where you went...thanks for the update! I will look forward to following your new journey. Good luck!
  • Thank you very much for the love guys.

    I continuing my quest for good keywords. I have found about 3 that I can build Authority sites around. The payouts are very good.

    I will be posting Market Samurai pictures. The EMD's are all taken but I don't care for those any more. My passion and interest in the niche will make them rank
  • Wow, just went through all the pages on this thread... Glad to see you're back at it! I've been doing stuff off and on for a couple years, but basically just on one site. I'm getting a pretty good amount of traffic, but my CTR is terrible. I've tried quite a few things for layout, but it doesn't change much. I'll make my own thread on it though so I don't hijack yours, lol. Good luck!
  • Welcome back.
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    • Update:

      Today's earning: $3.21 @ 2% CTR.

      This is earnings from 3 sites including my authority site.

      Game plan:

      Launch Site #5 (Exact search 6000 $3.21)
      - Setup blog.
      - Setup categories
      - Add 3 pages of content.

      EMD not available so going with prefix.

      SEO Plan: Use Matt's article drip feed service.

      Content Creations attack:

      Find long tail keywords using GAKT then sort by avg CPC. Model articles around those KW's.

      Edit:

      I have made $83 this month so far!
      Last month I made only $81 in total.

      I will be making $160 this month at this rate! Doubled my adsense income!

      Yea!!!!
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  • Nice challenge, it's a great idea to start with baby steps, that way you know what works
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    • Where do you rank for your main keywords?

      If you need to track and chart your keywords (and the related longtail keywords), feel free to use the tool in my signature. This is exactly what it was designed for.

      Judging from your income $ I don't think you're realizing the full potential.

      Also look at the CTR % difference between your ad units. Once you have enough data (large enough sample), you will see that some banner sizes do a lot better (higher click through rate) then others.

      By changing the unit size (or the position of the ad), you get more $ without making any other change related to your SEO, link building or content.
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  • Hello guys if you have troubled signing up for an adsense account feel free to check this out seo-gigs.com/categories/Adsense

    thanks
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