How I Profit From AdSense Sites

For those having trouble making money from their X-Factor/ClickBump sites, this quick overview should help you start turning a profit. It is what I do for all of my clients and it is how I'm building my AdSense sites.

There are several components to this strategy so there is some work involved. However, since I use an automated backlinking service, I don't do much article marketing so I save a lot of time there.

For starters, I spend a decent amount of time researching keywords. When I find one with more than 2000 "exact" searches per month and weak to moderate competition (low allinurl and low allintitle), I buy a .com domain with the exact keyword in it (usually a 3-word phrase). I will sometimes buy a .net or a .org but I prefer .com.

Once I have my domain registered on my hosting account, I install wordpress into the root and install my own custom Xfactor-like theme. I create my About, Contact, and Privacy pages and add them to the sidebar in dark text. At this point, I have a basic structure in place.

The next thing I do is add my main content (usually ripped from product descriptions and completely re-written by hand). I put this content on a static page and make that static page my main page in the settings. My main content usually consists of about 400-500 words. At his point, I have a fully functional site with a single 336x280 adsense block displayed prominently.

Now that my site is fully functional, I do an exhaustive SEO review of it to ensure keyword density is good, Meta tags are good, etc. Once I get a green light on those items, I start with my offsite SEO activities. For quick ranking, I build a small 6-property linkwheel with everything pointed to my main page. In addition, I submit by hand to a few social bookmarking sites. I will also ping my site and submit its RSS feed using automated RSS submission software.

At this point, I have a fully functional site that already has a few backlinks to it. More often than not, my site is indexed within 24 hours and it's sometimes even ranking for its keyword already but I consider that a bonus. I'm usually feeling pretty good about my site at this point.

Once the site is ranked, I submit my URL to my backlinking software and let the software do its thing. Generally speaking, I throw 25-50 backlinks at the site per day for several weeks knowing not all of them will be read by Google or even indexed. This usually results in several dozen and sometimes many dozens of backlinks with anchor text back to my site. By now, my site is ranking on the first page of Google.

At this stage, I install an autoposting plug-in like Yahoo Answers Autoposter/WP-Robot and set it to auto post 1 or 2 times per day. In addition, I use a free News Submission plug-in (name escapes me at the moment) to allow readers to actually submit their own posts. What this does is continuously add content (both automated and hand-written) to my site to keep Google happy. While all this is going on, my backlinks continue to grow due to the backlinking service.

Now, I know this sounds like a lot and I guess it is to some extent but like I said in the beginning, I don't do any article marketing so it's not so bad. A bit unorthodox? Maybe. But it works. I've gotten 15 out of 20 sites ranked above the fold in the last month alone with this strategy.