My Detailed Experience of John's xFactor Adsense Strategy

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First, I have to say that this forum is about the most helpful I have found. After visiting this forum, I thought, "Surely there are more out there like this with all this great information!" I looked and looked, but found nothing. Most forums are lucky to get the traffic in 1 year that warriorforum gets in 1 day!

So anyway, here is my experience with John's xFactor Adsense strategy. I really just started this about 1 week ago, so I don't have months' worth of experience to begin with, but that should change over time.

September 23 - 30, 2009
1. Bought John's ebook and read through it that night.
2. Bought MicroNiche Finder.
3. Did some keyword research and chose keywords with these stats:

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LS = local search count
GS = global search count
PC = exact phrase count
SOC = strength of competition
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Site 1
KWD1 - 2,400 LS; 3,600 GS; 13,900 PC; 21 SOC
KWD2 - 2,400 LS; 1,600 GS; 7,040 PC; 11 SOC
KWD3 - 720 LS; 590 GS; 69 PC; 1 SOC

Site 2
KWD1 - 5,400 LS; 3,600 GS; 3,940 PC; 7 SOC
KWD2 - 1,300 LS; 800 GS; 19,000 PC; 9 SOC
KWD3 - 1,300 LS; 880 GS; 6,260 PC; 9 SOC

Each of these keywords have at least 12 advertisers and minimum clicks are worth more than 45 cents.

4. Bought 2 domain names with KWD1 as domain name.

Site 1
Domain name = KWD1review.com

Site 2
Domain name = KWD1.org

5. Submitted 10 articles for each site to ezinearticles and goarticles.

I rotated resource boxes this way: I always have my link to the home page of my site as one link with KWD1 as target keywords. I then rotate the KWD2 and KWD3 in the second link of the resource box. So right now I have 10 articles for each site with 10 links to the main page and 5 links to each secondary keyword.

I wrote articles on completely unrelated subjects that my keywords. I wrote on something that I can write on fast. I submitted the exact same articles to ezinearticles and goarticles.

6. I submitted my sites to Google, verified my sites, and submitted a sitemap. I created my own website design that looks very similar to John's.

7. Results so far

It took 7 days for both of my sites to get indexed. So far, only one page on each site is indexed, and neither of my main pages are indexed. Right now, none of my pages are ranking in any of the top 10 pages for my keywords, so I am still waiting.

However, I did earn 21 cents yesterday. Must be related to someone clicking on an article becaue I have no traffic from Google yet.

8. What to do next?

Just keep writing content and backlinks. I need to get my 2 sites up to five pages and keep writing articles for backlinks.

How is everyone's else experience coming along? I read of these people creating sites and having it rank #1 or #2 in a week and making $2 a day from each site. That hasn't happened to me yet, but I understand that there is a lot we can't control with Google.
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  • Good work. Keep it up man, you will start to see results and after that it will take a snowball effect. Just don't try and rush anything, like I did at first.

    Creating a steady adsense income does not happen overnight. Rushing greatly reduces the quality of your individual sites content and backlinks.
  • That's a great start!!!

    I am starting with John's program too, but I am still at the very first stage of doing keyword research!

    Keep up the work!! Good Luck!
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    • I think that you have done everything right, and now you just need to move on to another site (or 2) and just keep building more sites. Mine are taking around 3 weeks to start making money.

      This is just my opinion, but once you have done all the steps, best thing to do is stop hammering at that site and sort of have an "okay, I'm done with that for now" mentality and move on. See what happens over the next few weeks but in the meantime just build more sites or work on your marketing in some other aspect. As you slowly see which sites are doing better, you can write more articles for backlinks later.

      What I do is I have a "master list" of all my sites with their resource box info which I keep in a notepad file. I go through that every day and write articles for the sites I'm currently promoting which include Adsense sites and others. I don't always write for the same sites, I change up as I see some are doing well and others may tank. If they just refuse to make any money I stop writing for them. Invariably though, those same sites I gave up on will eventually start bringing in some dollars down the road but they just might take a bit longer. At that point you could add them back into your article writing rotation. The master list of sites and resource boxes just makes it easy for me to submit them to EA.

      So bottom line - keep going, you are doing great. You will get results if you just soldier on.
  • Remember that if your domains are new, it will take some time for them to build up some history and credibility with Google. They may be sandboxed. It does take some time but what you're doing is absolutely correct, its all about moving on to the next niche, keep buildng and building. Just keep taking action, if you look at your AdSense earning all the time then its not going to happen but it seems you guys are cracking on with it.

    Good luck
  • @ Aboutusnow: How many pages did you create in total for each site? Although your search volujme is between the receommended 5k - 10k mark, you may need about 5 pages initially. Also, to get your homepage indexed, go to pingler but dont overdo it, just once should be ok.
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    • Yeah, to begin with I just created 3 pages per site. The next 2 pages are in the works now and should be up and running soon. Thanks for the advice about pingler. I will give it a shot.
  • October 1, 2009 Update

    I think I got a lot accomplished today. I did some more keyword research to add 2 more pages to each of my current sites. I also now have keywords to create 3 more sites. I am trying to stay below 20,000 competing sites and 20 SOC for now. I think John said at one time he even likes to see competing sites below 10,000.

    I wrote 5 more articles today. It only took about an hour. One thing that I like about John's strategy is that article writing is primarily for backlinks, not clicks. I don't mind writing, but I couldn't imagine researching and writing articles for each niche every time I needed another backlink. I will keep writing, but will save these articles for when my new sites are up.

    And good news! This morning neither of my main pages were showing in the top 10 pages for my keyword. Now one is on the 3rd page and the other is on the 5th. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of their climb!
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    • I've read John's product. It's good, the only thing I would recommend is more link building, espeically for the more competitive, two and three letter word keywords.

      Remember, though, the SEO part just gets you traffic. The ultimate thing that will determine the success of his adsense method is the CTR. If his template only gets a 1% or 2% CTR, then it's like any other site. The only way it can be successful is if you get a HIGH CTR.

      However, if you do link building, you'll get ranked, espeically for these product based keywords.

      For example, do a search for:

      danskin yoga pilates mat

      pilatesyogamatdeals.com is one of the sites we've done SEO on.

      It's a four word keyword, longer tail, but we got ranked within days of launching the site and we're ranked #1, #2. When the on page factors and the off page factors all align, you'll get very good results.

      Anyway, only other thing I'd suggest is don't waste your time writing articles. If you want to be successful, learn to outsource and manage.
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  • Thats the beauty of Johns guide. What John has achived is a way of ensuring that each page you build has a backlink to it. We're all guilty of building sites but not all pages have backlinks. His guide gives you a process with is uncluttered, manageable and whereby results can be achived very quickly.

    He doesn't discount any of the methods such as Social bookmarking, further article marketing etc as all these work, he is just using his experience. Its all about time management, working smarter and not just harder!
  • Is your GoArticle being indexed in Google as well? Recently I have been submitting my approved Ezinearticles to GoArticles and they don't seem to get indexed at all. I submit the exact same article with no changes.

    Usually after my Ezine is approved it gets indexed within a few hours. Then a few days later I submit to GoArticles, but in the last month or so none of them seem to get indexed. I had submitted a set back in mid August and when I check for them in Google either by the title or url they don't show up.

    What has been your experience with GoArticles recently?
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    • Sometimes they do. Like this morning I checked and two were showing as links to my main page. Just checked right now, and they don't.

      To be honest though, I try not to worry about it. I have tried getting my pages ranked before without a great deal of success, so for the most part, I am following John's steps in his ebook. If he told me to stand on my head while I wrote my articles, I would do it!

      Clearly, as I gain experience, I will learn what works for me. But right now I don't have that experience, so I continue to submit to GoArticles.
  • It's pretty simple.

    Build the sites with a layout similar (as close as possible) to the one in John's course. Focus on physical products. Don't try to write reviews - just talk about features. Place the Adsense blocks as described.

    Do this and your CTR will be 20%-50%.

    The other half of the equation is traffic.

    Your <title> for each page should contain your keyword near or at the front, but this title is also the blue link that's shown on Google so it should be written to pull in visitors. For example, "Stainless Steel Widgets" might be a keyword-rich title, but "We have the best Stainless Steel Widgets Information and Suppliers" might pull more people.

    The meta-description serves the same purpose. Again, it should contain the keyword, but it's also the rest of your "ad" in the SERPS.

    A page with a well-written title and description can pull in more visitors than a page ranked above it in the search results. Consider what a buyer is looking for then show them (in words) that you have it.

    Finally, work on backlinking.

    I like John's article methods and have included them in a larger, more comprehensive backlinking campaign.

    Ranking takes time. Sites and pages move up and down in the SERPS. It takes months for this to all settle down - sometimes they won't hit their final position until weeks after you stop your active backlinking.

    If your pages are somewhere on page 13+ and never reach the first page (even if only for a day or two), your problem isn't with understanding "the course." You have either missed something with the keyword research or you're trying to take shortcuts with the backlinks.
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    • No matter how many times I say it, so many people just don't let that
      sink in.

      I just got a complaint this morning that "my methods" do not work
      because it's been 4 weeks and the guy's sites are not making money.

      No questions, no stats for me, nothing - just gave up.

      4 weeks.... I had to chuckle.

      - John
  • Mine is pretty positive right now. I followed the course to a T and the results have been sorta shocking to me. My first site (based on the course) made over $100 in the last 30 days.

    I can give ya some details:
    • The domain name is based off a keyword that gets 720 search a month
    • My template is loosely based on Johns (made it myself)
    • My CTR is about 40%
    • The site is 5 pages
    • Each page is about 300 words
    • All my SOC's are 10 or under
    • None of my targeted phrases rank well, it's all accidental phrases...whatever works, but it still bugs me. Which gets on to my next point.
    • I only submitted 8 articles to Ezines and Articlesbase
    • Onlywired everypage
    My questions...things that eat at me...

    • How much PR is too much PR. Sometimes I'll find an SOC of about 5 (for example), but when I do a google search with seo quake enabled I'll see crazy PR's from 4-8 all the way down page one. I just wonder when you say..."yep...way too much PR...time to move on to my next phrase"
    • How many articles does it take to rank for a keyword that has an SOC of 10 and under. I know this is somewhat impossible, however I'm conducting an experiment on a 5 word phrase that has an SOC of 6. I'm writing and submitting an article a day for this phrase. I'm just curious how long it will take for the phrase to break into the first 100 results.
    Oh well, time to finish tonights article.
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    • Well, you are making money and that is the most important part.

      Keep in mind that I have only been doing this for about 2 weeks, so I can't really gauge results. But I don't target a keyword unless the first 5 pages in Google for that keyword are PR 3 or less. Unless I see Amazon - sometimes they have a rank of 4 or 5. But in John's original thread he said don't worry about Amazon as they are not that hard to outrank most of the time.

      To paraphrase, he said if you see Amazon as the top ranking page for your keyword, don't walk, but run and get started on that keyword.
  • I got a click yesterday worth 21 cents. Not a lot, but it is money!

    But I am having the darndest time trying to find out where that click come from. I can't even narrow it down to the URL - so clearly I have a lot of work to do on my tracking.

    Can someone point me in the right direction on the best way to track the performance of adsense ads?
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    • Look into channels, more specifically URL Channels
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    • Use URL channels in your AdSense account. In addition to this, you can integrate your Google Analytics account with your AdSense account. You need to simply add a bit of code to your sites and it tracks the exact pages, keywords, etc. This is a goldmine of statistical data which is soooo helpful.

      For example, if you know that a visitor only stays on a page for x number of seconds then you know that the page may need to be tweaked etc. Its excellent, I would take advantage of it....now go and take action!

    • You can use Google Analytics.. the tool is very helpful..
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  • It is so nice to see more people are using john's method!

    Guess what? During my keyword research I have run through several sites that have the similar layouts, haha, I have found some good web designing, and learned a lot from those counterpart.

    John, are you worried that maybe one day this method could become a red ocean?(too much competition)
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    • What "method" are you asking about?

      I ask because this isn't my method, it's just common sense and how
      the search engines work:

      Websites & Unique Content (I did not invent this).

      - John
  • The good thing about John's method is that it targets pretty much every niche you can think of so I doubt this method can saturate every market. The web is big enough for eveyone.

    Since John is reading this thread I want to congratluate you on an excellent course. Very uncluttered method and straight to the point.
  • I came across my first clone site today. It was a bit weird.
  • I think people thought they coudl literally copy absolutely everything...lol....
  • To be honest, its quite an easy thing to fall into, theres soo much going on, keywords research, design and development of templates, writing copy etc that I suppose its really something on the 'backburner'.
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    • I've bought John's ebook, launched 3 sites with 2 on Google's page 1 so I have to say John's technique works. I write and submit articles too but I used Angela's backlink building and that seems to help. My first site's keyword phrase is now on Google's #1.
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  • His system works, and this forum is the best for info!
  • I also just went out in got john's Adsense book! Gotta say it works and I'm putting it use as we speak. Starting out by working on 3 niches sites a week to I get the hang of it. Also using the outsource method for articles submitted to Ezine and writing my own content for the sites to speed up the process. Looking for some great results down the road.
  • Great thread and I'm glad to see people taking action.

    In my book I really try to give the advice of always add your own
    mix, always test, always be willing to try new things.

    - John
  • aboutusnow - It has only been two weeks. Take it easy my man, these things dont happen overnight. This is a very, very solid business plan, you are on the right track. Some sites make money quicker than others, thats just the way it is.
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  • Seriously... take your articles... spin them just a bit and post them on HubPages... you'll make more money because they already have the respect of Google. So you get the PR Boost you need without taking a year to rank your own site.

    Then use a couple of articles to point back to your hubpages content, build you rep, seed with affiliate links.

    I'm not saying to stop what you are doing completely. Just if you want to make money now this will make more.
  • Hi John,

    Quick question:

    - Is it okey not to include those about us , privacy policy, and contact us page in our own sites?
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    • You have to have the privacy policy to be Google compliant.
    • I'm not John, but you must have a privacy policy page on your site if you are using adsense, it's in the Terms Of Service.
  • I think I have a mental block with working this plan. I am spending so much time trying to figure out if "non-relevant" links in my resource box are "ok", or not. I don't want to get penalized by google for this, and I'm concerned that all of my work will go to nothing...so instead of doing the work, I am searching and searching for an answer to this.

    I see that John is saying that he has started to do relevant niche articles. Perhaps he knows something we don't about this. I think that's what's getting to me. I know it's probably been said in other forum posts, but please give me your feedback with this. I am quite happy writing articles...I just want to make sure I'm not doing it for nothing.
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    • Banned
      The only reason it's getting to you is because you're looking for an excuse to do nothing. If you're that concerned about it, why don't you just write on-topic articles? Problem solved.

      Know what you should really be worried about? Ezinearticles banning/dropping articles that link to these type of sites. It's only a matter of time, because...well, EA is good like that.

      In the meantime, stop over-analyzing, and take action. Don't worry about building 100 sites, just build one, and see how it goes.
  • You guys do know that you can:

    1) build a site
    2) promote it with backlinks from other sources OTHER THAN articles
    3) profit

    right? I know a lot of people get hung up on articles, writing, and promotion, but the web is a big place. You can look elsewhere for your site promotion backlinks. I've had sites built and placed on the first page of google with 3 weeks for my keyword/domain name site and all i had was 5 pages of content, 3 links back to my site from web 2.0 properties and voila - income generation.

    The big caveat is all in how you do your upfront research. This is the step that many fail at. Tools like micro niche finder and market samurai help adsense income earners to cut through the research and find that hidden gem to create. At least for me. Yes, i can build a site and get listed on page one of google for a term that has amazon and walmart on page one as well.

    But my seo campaign will be drastically different than a campaign that I employ for a keyword/domain that has almost no competition. Just some food for thought.
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    • Hey Kael41 this is a little off topic but do you purchase a separate domain for each one of your sites or do you use a subdomain? I'm a prolific writer and could easily crank out two to three sites a day but purchasing a 10 dollar domain for each site would punch my wallet in the gut.
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  • nice experience dude, btw what is John's ebook ?
  • Ok I'm almost 3 months in this and here are my findings. The system works, period. However I've noticed that once the influx of articles has settled, the clicks on Adsense slow down (even though my site in the serps hasn't changed positions). I then write 1-2 more articles to Ezine and I get a higher number of clicks for a week or two again, and then it slows down again. Geez, this is a beast that needs constant feeding...
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    • I think so too, but... if you are getting a good result from these two articles, it could make sense to outsource the article writing, as long as you are making more than you are spending. This way you could put that on autopilot. Just a hint :-)
    • Can´t you put a link on the new sites to the older sites so that, while you are building new sites, you are making links for the older sites (feed the beast) at the same time?
    • Are you referring to the approach that I use?

      If so then perhaps you misunderstood my book or my posts.

      I say that because if you are relying on clicks from article marketing
      then yes, it will go up and down.

      The goal is not to rely on articles like this, the goal is to get your sites
      ranked for your main keyword (plus additional low-competition keywords).

      However, even these low competitive rankings can take weeks or months
      to stable out over time.

      - John
  • No no, what I'm saying is that my site is in quotes #2 in Google and without quotes #3 and it's quite stable that way for the last 2 months or so. The Adsense clicks slow down to 1-2 people clicking on it per day for a total of maybe $1. When I add a new article at Ezine, for about 1-2 weeks after my clicks go up as much as $5 a day. Then it goes down again to $1 or less a day. Although I am not relying on article marketing for this, I was just noticing the higher number of clicks when a new article is approved at Eza, that's all...
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    • John or anyone who can help,

      Are you choosing private domain name registration for all your domains? I didn't for my first domain and now am thinking of adding it and it's $10 per domain. (Maybe this was cheaper if I bought it initially). That really adds up.

      Are many of you not bothering to do it? I know alot of people who have alot of sites are posing with fake names so if anyone looked on the Whois Database they would see that you're being fake and think you are scaming them. So I would imagine you are paying for it.

      Until I get some money under my belt what's the best way to go about this. Pose as myself for the next few domains I make and then start using private domain registration or do you just use fake names anyway?

      I think John uses a Reseller account at Hostgator. I'm going to sign up for it once I get enough sites. Using the reseller do you pay for private domain name registration in bulk or is it per domain as well? I couldn't find nothing online about this.

      Thanks. I'm a newbie trying to find my way.

      Cheryl
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    • You should be looking at your traffic, not the number of clicks. Adsense is all about driving traffic to a site that you can control the CTR on. Mix this with the research of CPC for your sites niche and you can estimate your average earnings. Tweak the layout to improve your CTR.

      If your traffic drops off once your Ezine Articles are out of favour then your organic traffic isn't sufficient (if you are in a high SERPs) for the term and you need to find another one. Don't get disheartened when you have a dud keyword, just find another.

      For anyone that is getting a bit anxious - I had a site that for about 4 months slowly moved up to $5/day. In the next 4 weeks it jumped to $20/day. Another 2 weeks and it now gets between $30 and $45 a day. It takes time for all of your backlinking to trickle through to your entire site. It is not until this happens that you can really analyse what words work and what don't. Also, once your site has aged it will be A LOT easier to rank for new terms without the need for extensive backlinking. I know that the course seems to be focused around thin sites but just keep in mind the potential for future expansion down the track.

      While you wait you should be working on more sites and article - in a few months time you will look back and ask yourself why were you so impatient!
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  • Also, at GoDaddy, if you buy at least 5 domains at a time, they will give you free Privacy Registration.

    Michael
  • I just joined the forum recently, and I am looking into buying xfactor's adsense course but I have a few questions about it before I dive in. I noticed that the existing thread on it is closed so I hope it is ok if I post here.

    For any of you that have already purchased it, I don't want you to reveal anything that would be compromise the course but I would like to know that this product complies with adsense terms before I buy it.

    I have seen quite a few adsense ebooks with information about adsense placement in order to get a high ctr and they usually put the adsense block right under the title of the main page.

    adsense.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-look-at-optimizations.html

    Please take a look at that page and let me know if it is not violating this rule. I don't want to spend money on something that is based on things against adsense guidelines.
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    • If you follow what John suggests in the ebook you will be fine. From what I see on that link you posted, that is a violation because it is tricking the visitor to click on the ads. That website shows the website creators links followed by an adsense block and then more website created links.

      In John's book, we are not tricking the visitor. The ad is made to stand out on it's own with no confusion.

      It is honestly a great book and you won't be sorry about your purchase.
  • My system is slightly different than John's, but I've experienced similar results to him.
    After reading some of the posts in this thread, I wanted to comment on something that can "kill" your niche content site business.

    Speaking from experience, one of the major pitfalls that one may (or perhaps will) fall into is "overanalysis". In other words, building a few sites then getting wrapped up with minutia of those sites (nursing them to make them rank in the SERPS).

    The trick with micro niche content site promotion is to keep building sites without "worrying" about what's happening with the site you put up yesterday.

    My advice is that once you've done the work as laid out in the plan... move on to the next site. Check traffic stats once a week or two, if you find that nothing is happening point more links (write more articles or what not) to your site and let it sit for another week or so... while you build more sites.

    Eventually your sites will "catch up" and you'll start to see more traffic and some revenue come in.

    I'm all for getting the most out of each site (and tracking and analyzing data) but you won't know what that is until the site has matured in the search engines. This business is about taking massive action and having "faith" in the system.

    Have fun!
    Steven
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    • You are so right Steven. In fact I think they should set up a group similar to AA for those of us who get addicted to checking our adsense account lol

      Build a site, promote it and move on to the next. Now I just need to keep repeating that to myself to get it to sink in :rolleyes:

      All the best

      Rach
    • Some good advice there because even though you may have a system in place to rank sites well in the SERPS there are still numerous factors outside of your control and each site will behave differently which is why I like to build 5 - 10 at a time and then have a look at your results in terms of commission and SERPS. Never build 1 or 2 and become over analytical wondering why your SEO system is not working.

      Dave
    • Fantastic advice Steven!

      I personally solved my over-analysis through outsourcing. I now have a full time person who puts up one site after another, because I personally couldn't keep on doing it as consistently. Always got sidetracked. Consistency is definitely the way to go :-)
    • Well said Steven, I completely agree. Your next site just might be the one that carries the day when the others are bouncing around.

      I have a list of niche sites I'm rolling out in the next week. I don't know which one of them will break out of the pack, but I can almost be assured, that one of them will. The other 4 might not be *day savers* but they will likely pay for themselves many times over in the long run.

      (I have a few of what I call "day savers" and these are the sites that make me smile at the end of the day, because I can almost always count on them to compensate for lower performing sites. It's almost as if it were orchestrated that way by the "adsense angels" if I didn't know better :-)
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  • i think from now, you should build backlinks for your webiste, so seo for your blog, and then you can see the effect, seo is a long term business, like we always say Rome is not built in one day, so , you should do seo, fresh your blog everyday, then, someday, you can see the effect
  • Reading these post makes me feel better. I have the sites up. I feel discouraged because they have made any money yet and I dont quite get it. I would think someone would have clicked something by now.

    I have been at it a month and got a few sites up and would think someone would have clicked something. Well one site got one click one ad for a whopping 19 cents. But still I am going to keep at it. It has to work. How is it possible not to work? Statistically it has to
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    • On the contrary, statistically it can also be a failure if you are not
      getting the people to come to your site that are looking for the
      products/services that your site is about.

      What I mean is that if you have a site up for that long, and
      getting targeted traffic each and every day, and no earnings...
      then something is terribly wrong.

      - John
  • I subscribed to John's course two days back and here is what it has done for me without doing anything:

    • It has taken out the fear of keyword research - something which has always confused me and I was never good at though I have sites which rank on 1st page of Google for many keywords - some of which I never optimized for. In fact I am a rank newbie as far as serious IM and SEO is concerned so I wonder how I hit upon these keywords - perhaps that was beginner's luck working for me. Now with John's method, I feel that it will be a breeze because I don't have to use lots of keyword tools and calculate too many parameters.

    • Getting backlinks doesn't look a big task now. Bookmarking social sites has never been my thing though I have done it a little. Posting comments to relevant blogs also puts me off. With what John says now it seems easy. This is because I like writing. I have been doing this since my teens for magazines and newspapers. And when I started my sites, I have done all my writing myself. No borrowed content. However what I was afraid of was that I would have to churn out article after article on my niche but what John says suits me. I can write original articles on my chosen subjects without much difficulty. This is why all of my sites have original content written by me.

    • New Insight into Adsense: I have been using Adsense since long. But after reading John's course, I have got a new insight on how to use Adsense to earn good income with the program.

    So while starting my niche sites I am going to test John's recommendations on my existing sites and see what results I get.

    And yes let me tell you that subscribing to the course was a big decision for a newbie like me. I didn't have enough money to do that and I missed the boat when John was offering it at a discount but I am glad I was able to manage it somehow.
  • Ron,
    Here is one more: ClickAider Click Tracking System: Advertise with Confidence

    I was using it some time back and if I remember it right, it used to give me the adsense formats which were clicked and who clicked it kind of information.
    • [2] replies
    • Thanks togdill. I'll check it out.

      Btw, if there is anyone else successfully using an AdSense Tracking program, please let me know.

      I may just go to Chitika if they can be tracked easily.

      Ron

    • Is that free?


      Sajid
      • [2] replies
  • Newbie here and about 6 weeks in following Johns plan. Have 4 sites on first page for google but none higher than 6th place, so not many click thrus from search yet at all . I had been submitting articles as discussed and then moving on to new sites waiting for the anchor links to get indexed before working sites further.

    Is anyone else not having goarticles submissions being indexed by google? I have over 10 there and I am not seeing any indexed. What am I missing?

    thanks
    Tiz
  • that's good method this is a diffrent
  • Yes, my goarticles are not indexed too. Seems a bit weird what's happening. I didn't have that before.
    • [1] reply
    • I noticed that on a few occasions, quite recently, that GoArticles has requested a captcha verification to view the article. Maybe that is why some articles are not getting indexed by Goog. The only reason I discovered this was that I was trying to bookmark a live article in GoArticles, it was not bookmarking correctly. When I manually went to the article, it requested a captcha verification.



      - Jes
      • [1] reply
  • It appears not a soul is making money with this method after many months. Where are those comments?
    • [1] reply
    • You're not a member of my private forum then.

      We have an entire section devoted to success stories, with some
      reaching the $100 per day mark.

      Also, like the previous poster said - making money from niches
      like this is nothing new - been going on since 2003

      - John
      • [1] reply
  • People have been making money using similar methods for years.

    If you are aren't making any money from the method then you need to find out what the problem is before anyone can help you. Are you lacking 1st page SERP's? Low paying clicks? Low CTR? Low Traffic?

    AdSense is such a simple concept that the only way you will learn is by analysing where you are going wrong and taking action.
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  • I do both.

    But lately I've been experimenting with Linkvana and several other
    article directores, not to mention mass article submissions.

    Soon the results will enable me to write about them for my course
    customers.

    - John
    • [2] replies
    • John,

      Is your 7-Day Plan outlined in your ebook not working as well as it used to the reason why you are looking at mass article submission, LinkVana, and the like? Because I remember you kinda discouraging using software that does mass article submission correct me if I'm wrong

      Also, it sounds like you're really starting to change your opinion about writing articles that are on the topic of your website. Not to say that you discouraged it before, it just seemed that you didn't concern yourself with it too much and preferred to write on topics you liked and/or knew alot about.

      Moreover, never thought to ask this before and tell me if I'm out of line for this but...when you started making $300-$400 a day in 6 months, did you mean in a grand total of 6 months? Or was it more like it took you a certain amount of time say 6 months to set up your 45 sites and then 6 months after that is when you started seeing that sort of income? Not to mention I think that figure included the 1 big health site you had so really your other sites aside from that one combine to bring in $200-$300 a day right?

      I ask because I figured that if you could make $300-$400 a day in 6 months following your 7-Day Plan as an experienced Publisher that someone that's fairly inexperienced as myself could make $50-$100 a day in 6 months following the same plan. Is this a very reasonable expectation or would I be lucky to get to that point following the plan?
      • [1] reply
    • I was pretty certain I read a comment about you trying mass article submissions---here it is. But thanks for your email support, you have been so great about answering my questions that I'm sure must be pretty tedious for you at times .
      • [1] reply
  • For gods sake, use your common sense...

    If you knew the slightest thing about SEO, you wouldnt need other peoples proof that the ideas in his book work. You know why theres not 100 people on this forum shouting and sceaming about how much they are making? Because by they are far too busy researching and writing for their own business.

    Tell me why it shouldnt work? -

    Find a niche with little competition and reasonable searches.
    Build a site based on the KW
    Build backlinks
    Tweak depending on CTR etc

    Even if a few people did chime in and said they were making $20/$50/$100 per day - you wouldnt believe them so your just wasting your time - go and try and make your own conclusions...
    • [1] reply
    • Weak. Very weak. Tell my why it shouldn't work? Hey seo genius, did you know that to start with you are using a keyword tool that is not even meant for seo but for Adwords? So your search numbers are fake.
      • [1] reply
  • This is interesting,
  • I'm making money with the "Xfactor Method"!

    Although I don't want to call it that, its really just my method.
    I started out with a plan similar to Xfactor's but I've edited and changed it a lot since I started.
    I do article marketing like him, but I do more than that for backlinks.

    I'm certainly not making a lot of money, but that's not my main focus atm.
    My focus is on keep building sites and promoting them, income comes later.
    My income has however been slowly rising each week.

    It's a long term plan and I plan growing the winners and flipping the "losers".

    This method works, just like most IM methods. The "secret" is persistence and patience.
    I have spent almost a year now going from this method to the next and made just few $'s.

    From now on, I will stick to this method and nothing else.

    -Heimir
  • Another X-factor beneficiaries.... Just like me! I did not buy John's ebook but I followed hi thread and it was almost like buying the real stuff
    • [1] reply
    • Yes the system works and will make you money. It isn't rocket science and honestly nothing John reveals in his books hasn't been posted a dozen times or more on WF by John or others. The guide John sells is the BEST guide I have found on the topic. I'm sure someone will make a better one...I believe John has something up his sleeve to that effect.

      This system is work. If you want quick money with little effort, head over to BHW and see how far you get with your whiny repetitive posts demanding to be spoon fed.

      You get out of it what you put into it. Slack off and it's a slow boat to China. Bust your a$$ and you'll be rewarded quickly and often.
      • [2] replies
  • A bummer - I was doing really well with half a dozen sites, someone at Google has taken a dislike to me though and shut down my account with the very helpful reason: "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers." No explanation as to what this means, or what I did wrong, just the arbitrary slap...

    Have launched an appeal, see what happens
    • [1] reply
    • Have you had any other monetization option son your site EXCEPT AdSense?

      I hear that Google dislikes sites that rely only on AdSense and prefer sites that offer other sources of revenue, such as affiliate banners, Amazon widget or the like... The obvious reason is they don't want you to make strictly "Made-for-AdSense" sites.

      So, can your website exist and make money even if you take away AdSense? If so, then perhaps Google will like it... perhaps...

      Of course the most annoying thing is Google doesn't give you the exact reasons. But I have heard some AdSense veterans suggest the steps mentioned here to possibly avoid the slap...
      • [1] reply
  • how much do you earn before getting your account banned? How long have you been with adsense?

    Simon
  • Banned
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  • Guess what? During my keyword research I ran across several sites that have a similar provision, haha, I found some good web design, and I learned a lot from these peers.
  • I have 10-plus Adsense sites up and running with the CTR template. I understand backlinking and on-page SEO optimization. I have more than 300 articles on ezinearticles.com. Do you all think I would gain that much new knowledge if I purchased John's new book?
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