Looks excellent Tim. Good luck with it.

Looks good. I would change the color of the 160 x 600 to all black, so more attention
is drawn to the blue links in the large rectangle at the top left of the page. You will
earn more $$

Just a suggestion, nothing more.

- John

I use the same template for HTMl sites and it works well.

I would also change the side colors to all black text, on my site with this template the side ad block has a higer CTR then the top which is totally against conventional adsense thinking?

that's a kickass wordpress theme! nice site.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the positive comments. It feels good coming for fellow warriors.
I'll take your advice and change the side bar to all black and see what happens.
I have been busy submitting articles to ezines and directories so this is the first change I've had to respond to your comments.

Thanks again,
Tim

The layout looks good but, no offense, the copy is pretty trite and poorly written. If you're only trying to bring in traffic for the links, it should work well. If you're actually trying to offer important information, I think the writing (and research) needs an upgrade.

The layout looks great. I think your copy could at the very least be organized a little better, i.e. start out with an intro then talk about the types of treatment rather than burying the treatment in the 3rd paragraph. The last paragraph doesn't belong on the page because it talks about prevention and you're talking about treatment. IMHO

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nice design and layout. but it seems like only one page.

I would not worry to much about duplicate content for the site, i have many sites with un altered PLR that bring in good google traffic. Plus if you are driving traffic with article marketing then it is not really an issue.

The content seems fine to me for what is supposed to do, bring in adsense money.

Although in the medical niche you may want to add a disclaimer page.

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Hi Tim,

Nice layout!

As far as the "writing advice" from natalie1 and write-stuff, I don't think they're getting the "Adsense" part of this forum board.

Great content and writing style is always better than mediocre content and writing style, but that isn't the point. The point is to convert traffic to clicks within the Terms of Service.

Mark

Thanks guys and gals for your input. I'll look my articles over and rewrite where necessary.

I really appreciate your help.

Hi Tim45,

Congratulations for your very first Adsense website! I am also in the process of creating Adsense websites. I like your clean layout! It must have been a lot of work to make this site in one day? Keep us updated on how the site performs for you! I am curious on to what layout or template works the best!

Thank you...this is a great post!

ok.. your URL is a bit long and you have some extra spaces between your url,

add a dash there and one thing, how many times that "understanding-breast-cancer-treatment" search in google per month?

I may target breast cancer treatment as the keywords instead of "understanding breast cancer treatment"

anyway it's my thought.

Hey, so how's this one going? Getting any clicks on it yet?

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I made 19 cents yesterday (one click) from my "understanding breast cancer treatment" website and I made $1.96 (two clicks) from the blog on my travel website. Maybe I should concentrate on the travel niche instead of the medical niche.

Hi can you either PM me or post the url to where I can buy the template?

Thanks,

you need to make sure that your links are working, which they're not.

plus you dont create page links like this

"some keyword phrase to another page.html"

you do it like this

"some-keyword-phrase-to-another-page.html"

replace spaces with hyphens.

Anyone care to comment on my SEO efforts?

Hi, Tim. Looks like your links are working now. It's not an SEO issue, but your About page talks about wordpress, something irrelevant to your visitors. Instead you might want to make a statement about "Your Site Name" is offered as a public service and shouldn't be used in lieu of consultation with a physician, blah, blah.

You have a heading up in the banner, but repeat that same heading below it in the page. I'd suggest that you make this second heading different. Make it a page heading for each individual page. Also, you should consider adding meta tags for description and keywords, customized for each page.

Good luck with it. - Russ

I tried your links from the "about" page and got 404 error pages. I was using Google chrome browser, if that makes any difference.
Plus I also got a page about WP themes on your about page.

Tim,

There is a good WP plugin you can add for SEo. It's called all-in-one-seo.

Also, you may want to shorten your urls on pages to just the keywords. You are using the whole title, but you could shorten. I'm not an expert here so maybe someone else can chime in, but I think a shorter, keyword file is better for SEO.

Also, I would change the adsense in your sidebar to blue links like you have above the post. Black doesn't look much like a link and your adsense clickers are usually less internet-savvy (they expect links to be blue).

I would not be putting all my eggs into the Adsense basket as they can close you down at the drop of a hat without any reason whatsoever. Just a warning as others have posted of their experience in other threads.

Hi Norma,

That thought has crossed my mind a few times
so I'll not put all my eggs into one basket.

When I get good at building websites I'll join Yahoo
and MSN and build websites for their advertising programs.

Thank you for the advice,
Tim

Adsense will only close you down if you do not stick to their guidelines. Affiliate links are the way to make serious money or even create your own product.

Hi Tim

Just a thought...

if you have a Clickbank id why not make the footer link to the template vendors site your affiliate link? I had a quick look in the CB marketplace and he pays $17.97 per sale.

Also, why not have this link open in a new browser window?

Cheers

Looking good Tim! Suggest you add more pages to it

Your site grow very fast, how can you do that?

Nice site!

I noticed you do not have a privacy policy. Google recently (February) added a privacy policy to thier TOS for Adsense.

There is a plugin for Wordpress that will generate one in seconds. I can't post links yet but if you Google "wordpress privacy plugin" you'll see it.

Good luck with your site.

Hi Everyone, I have been off line for a while due to computer problems. I appreciate your advice and I'll be working on my website soon. I'll add a link to the website templates and a privacy policy at the bottom of the home page. I'm also in the process of writting new articles for this website and new websites on different types of cancer, when I get them finished I'll add them here for your advice.

Thanks again,
Tim

Now why don't I believe that, why don't you just admit that you are selling the templates!

Hi Scott, looks like you're new here. Welcome to the warrior forum.

If I was trying to sell templates a link to the templates would be in my signature, right? Thanks for the tip though.

Hi Leanne, Thank you for your compliment. I'll stay with this niche. I have found a bunch of cancer related keywords with a high search volume and low competition. Its a rescipie for success, now if I can only get better at writing articles.

I think your site has potential. Not sure if you perhaps shouldn't integrate your google ads a little more less conspiculously into your site. You need to give the user lots of content!

I am having trouble with my adsense. When I tried to change the color for the titles for the google ads, they would show changed and then I would check my site and they didn't change. I have tried 3 times now. Also, does anyone have any ideas about how I could better monetize my ads??

Thanks!!

Hi guys,
That's a very nice adsense site you have there Tim45...

That's great... keep it up..

Now I have some questions about Wordpress..

Are they free to get this one just blogger.com which are free to use ?

Thanks,
Shellaine

Hi Tim, congrats on your earnings so far! If you are worried about your articles and don't have the budget to pay a writer just yet try using the everprofits toolbar with internet explorer. It fetches keyword related content for you ie an article and you can rewrite it by adjusting the percentages ie 50% etc. I'm a bit of a fusspot myself so I use it capture research and then I just rewrite that in my own words.

I hope that this helps you.

Leanne

Your site looks great- keep up the good work!

Hi Everyone, I have made changes to my website that warriors here reccomend I do. I rewrote the article on the home page, added an affiliate banner to the top and bottom of the page, added a privacy policy and a link to this template at the bottom of the page. your constructive criticism will be appereciated. Here is a link again to my first adsense website:
Understanding Breast Cancer Treatment

Thanks,
Tim

Hey Tim45,

good job, keep it up.

With all the varying opinions, I bet you feel like you're being pulled in a hundred directions.

I wouldn't worry too much about making each article perfect, as long as they're readable and make sense. That's not the main purpose of the site after all.

On the other hand, since it's in the medical/health arena, I'd second the recommendation for a disclaimer on each page.

All the best,

Michael

I'm no writter and my selling stinks, but I thiink your site looks great and wish I could make one as good. Good Luck
Dave

Hi Tim,

I think it looks great too. You've added the banner to your header too - a nice touch.

And I agree re adding a medical disclaimer.

After having my site that uses the same template dropped from Google a few days ago, I would strongly suggest you add the word 'advertisement' or similar under your article headings and above the article text. I'm not sure that this is what got me dropped from Google but it might be - see my site at Harmedia.com to see what I've done since then. Might give you some ideas. But I cant guarantee that I've correctly discerned what the problem was that got me dropped.

Google also removed this site from their indexes, which is a worse penalty - one you want to avoid if you possibly can.

Gary

In case you're wondering, the great big empty space at the top of the pages is where the Google ads would normally show.

Gary

I did some online research and compiled my disclaimers from what I found.

There are free sources. I think just search for something like 'free disclaimer statement'. Maybe add the word generator to that search.

BTW... I'm not saying the original template was at fault. Fact is... I simply dont know what caused my Google troubles.

Gary

You will convert best also with inline ads that mixes in with your content.

nice! keep it up!

My website is now in third place for the term "understanding breast cancer treatment" on the first page of google. It is 10th on yahoo on the first page and 9th on msn on the first page, however this phrase is not bring me much traffic. I'd like your thoughts on what I can do to get more traffic.

Give it more time and write more articles for submission and to put on the site.

Zirkamer

Hi Worriors, This website has been up and running for about four months now and I'm not getting the traffic I was hoping for. Can you have a look at it and tell me what I can change or add to the site to bring in more traffic? Also I'm not getting many clicks on my adsense ads, can you tell how I can improve that as well?

Thank you,
Tim

hi,

how are you promoting the site?

Some things you could be doing:

1. posting articles to ezines and other sites to get traffic and backlinks
2. social bookmark your pages.
3. submit your RSS feed to as many sites as possible.
4. leave comments in related blogs and forums with your URL.

Are you still adding content to the site?
Give google a reason to visit your site by regularly updating your content.

have you tried moving the adsense around?

maybe try putting the link banner form the bottom of the page up to the top and move the big block so it is integrated with the text.

you could try moving the skyscraper on the left above the navigation.

hope something there gives you some ideas to get going with

ric

I'd try moving the ad units around on the secondary pages. Move the right side ad unit up to where the nav is and move the big unit down under the content. On the secondary pages.

Site looks great. Shows some effort in the design and look. Very good for 1 day's work.

OK Thanks, I'll try putting the same ad that's at the top on the bottom and let you know how it works.

I am impressed, nice layout!

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to update you all on the progress of my first adsense website.
I finally made my first 100 bucks from google! It's been a long time coming and an up hill battle to say the least. I can only hope the next 100 bucks I earn is a lot easier to achieve. I have learned a lot but I'm sure I have a lot more to learn.

Thanks to all the warriors here who gave me some good advice.
Tim

Hi Andie, I started using a traffic system a few weeks ago that is getting me more targeted traffic. The niche I'm in fetches about a buck per click so it doesn't take long to reach 100 when you have targeted traffic. My strategy from here on out is to set up niche blogs and have this traffic system post relevant content to it and monetize it through adsense, clickbank and amazon. I also write articles and post them to this traffic system and they submit them to a bunch of other relevant blogs which of course give me a bunch of back links. So far this system seems to work well, I'll keep you updated.

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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your input. Would you care to share the tactics you use to generate adsense income? How much income are your websites generating per month?

Thanks again,
Tim

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Hello Tim,
Well done!
Excellant site!
Very good for your first attempt at Adsense website; here is hoping you create many more.
I always beleive in simplicity as taught by Micro Niche Course (worth for you to read; I have no affiliation etc) and your theme is very good, simple and to the point.
One minor suggestion,
Make your links with target='blank' so that your site remains on the screen when someone clicks on any links; I know you do not have any control on Google Adsense Links but others you do.
This is the worst part of Google Adsense; once clicked, you have lost the browser/reader into oblivion! I hope Google improves on this 'lost' reader in their next re-vamp!

Tim,

looks great.
I used the same template for my mortgage site,
but monetized it only with AdSense ( not banners nor links ).

Your links in the footer look nice.

Very convincing general look,
congrats!!

Juhani

It is at the very bottom on the right side. It is "Niche Adsense Themes" text link. I'd put it here but I'm sure I'd get banded. Have another look at the home page. It is also in the side bar of ezgoarticles.com under resources.

Well, that's a nice site for a layman, work on providing quality content and useful information. Well done once again.

Thanks John, by the way, if anyone here is interested, I found a way to build adsense websites on auto pilot. What I do is set up an article website like this one Article Information Submission Directory I upload a plug-in that gathers unique content and uploads it to my website free. All of the content is pre screened before it is uploaded automatically. You can set the plug-in to upload as many articles as you want per day. I have about 10 being added per day. I added my adsense code and let it do its thing. I check it everyday to make sure things are running smoothly but other then that, it's all automated. I am going to focus on niche article websites from here on out and I'm going to focus on high paying targeted keywords such as cancer, anti aging, etc. It takes a little longer to get content uploaded to your website but it will be worth the wait.

Keyword targeted domains are a must these days if you want to have an seo advantage.

Nice!
Like the layout. Should have my first adsense site up in a couple days.
Thanks for the preview.
stephen

Stephen, I'll help you along the way if you get stuck. I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination but what I have learned I'll gladly pass on.

You have hyphens in your domain name.

Bad move. It's like buying .info's.

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nice. simple and fresh design. easy and simple navigation