*UPDATE* $100 a day in Adsense in 3 months from 1 blog

Thanks for giving us an update Steve. You may not know me but I've read some of your posts and they are really helpful! I like you make money from Adsense...although I'm still a long way off to $100 a day but...I'll get there.

$10 a day on autopilot from 1 site is decent money which ever way you look at it. You'd only have to multiply that by 10 times to reach $100 a day easily achievable.

Anyway keep up the good work.

Hi Steve, thanks for a very informative post. Definitely some interesting information there that I want to work on applying.

Would you be able to elaborate on what you mean by this though? If thats not how you start, then how do you start? How do you come up with the general niche in the first place?

Thanks again!

I'd like to say congratulations. A year and a half to a constant stream of $10 a day while doing nothing is very nice. That's a free meal a day! These are the threads that inspire me as I'm working on a large content-based site as well. I hope to incorporate products to sell later, but in the immediate I'm trying to bring in traffic for Adsense. I agree, start on small achievable keywords and grow from there. I'm hoping that extra link juice will make the harder keywords easier to take in the future.

Anyways, I just wanted to pipe in because this is extremely relevant to my work and gives me motivation to keep chugging along. Thanks for sharing!

nice sharing

Thanks for sharing your research with us ....
But ....

What do you mean by that ?

Can you please explaining it more clearly ?

Thanks
Nazbir

Congrats on your success, bro. I would also consider adding in an aweber lightbox or slide-up opt-in to build a mailing list.

Best,
Josh

Steve, thanks a lot for doing this!! I have learned a lot from your old thread and I also got lots useful information from your blog and the 100 bucks challenge forum you have there. I will also be following this thread to the end.

Creating SEO optimized content is also very important, I have a 6 months blog with over 1,000 page views / day, and whenever I create a new post, I don't care about whether or not the keywords are search able in Google, I just post it, because of the Google's LSI algorithm, it is smart enough to combine keywords from the title, description, thus creating a targeted long tail keywords to your blog.

nice to hear from you again Steve, waiting for your updates

Your post and updates gives me hope - I have my own site promoting my products.
Have adsense on each one of my pages and barely any income.
Just started to write some articles and submit to ezine, worlpress and so.
Hopefully I'll get more from it.

You made some great points but I don't fully agree with coming up with a market before any intitial keyword research. I do agree that you should do full research into the niche once you know there is potential there to get the traffic.

Many of the people creating Adsense sites are just writing pointless articles rather than creating a site for their market. They aren't interested in useful sites, just trapping the traffic. I believe your advice will miss the mark with this type of webmaster.

The examples that bgmacaw provided are actually decent sites that meet the need of the browser (with 1 or 2 exceptions), even though they lack text/article based content. If you want to buy allen keys this is the type of site you want to see.

I think it is a waste of time putting a lot of effort into analysing a niche market only to come to keyword research and find there is no potential due to low traffic OR the market being dominated by a few big players. There are many huge markets that just don't get google'd. These markets have resources and close communities that don't need Google.

If you do your keyword research properly (and first) you can pick out markets that use Google, have a large potential and low competition and then spend the time on finding a smaller niche to research and target. Everything else you said still applies once you have your main keyword/set of keywords.

Focusing your effort on a niche you enjoy is all well and good if the traffic is there. If the traffic isn't there then your traffic generation must come from other methods - this affects the way you structure your articles and site. Not everyone has the talent to create effective link bait and not every market is suitable for it either.

Just say you are passionate about allen keys. You decide you are creating a site for this niche before doing and keyword research. You get really involved with learning everything there is about allen keys - you know that heaps of people use them. You finally come to keyword research and see that the traffic is low and competition high. The first warning to stop is the low traffic - people aren't interested in allen keys. You persist and decide that you will get your traffic through social media and viral marketing because you don't want to lose all that time spent researching.

Your site is built around products and reviews as your market research showed this is what people wanted. These articles sit ignored in the large queue of social media buzz and nothing you can do will jazz them up to create a feeding frenzy on your content.

If you did you keyword research first you would have seen that this market wasn't viable for a website. You may also have seen that garage hand tools was in huge demand and started your thorough research from there.

If you have a passion for a particular subject it doesn't mean it is suitable to organic traffic or AdSense. If you can't find other ways of getting traffic to it then you really should give it a miss and move on. Otherwise write it for personal reasons and hope that one day someone will take notice.

Steve,
Do you still monetize with Adsense on these sites where you put in all this time and research and content?

do you have examples [ $$$ approximations ] [ ohhhh and I'll take your word ] of sites where you've used the newer approaches above and achieved those goals - $100 a day/week/hr/nanosecond etc ... ?

What ever details u care to share - I'd appreciate.

Ive shunned adsense all this time as everyday I read about a slapped site or closed adsense account or deindexed or i wish id never spent so much time on adsense and done ..... x .... y.... z?

For every thread of good adsense news - I seem to read 4 bad days ...

I agree with Fraggler. He's pretty much on the mark IMHO. Doing KW research before you build is sensible. And even deciding to montise with adsense as your business model is fine, just build useful sites with good navigation, articles, video etc. Provide quality, well written information. You'll never make every searcher happy, but you can do your best to give your site some value.

How many 'successful' business people build the business without looking at the demand? Very few I suspect, we'd all laugh at the idea of doing that wouldn't we?

Find a niche you feel happy to work in, put a KW list together that will provide reasonable search numbers, make sure there are some advertisers, and get a great site up that you can build with pride.

This is sound business planning, not an attempt to rip off G and it's advertisers. Adwords advertisers WANT the clicks, but they want them from people that are potential buyers. If one creates a targeted site then that is exactly what you are going to send them isn't it???

It is obviously the site design, content and format that creates the MFA site, not the intention of the webmaster.

Your mistake seems to be my strongest point.

Hm.. weird.

Also, you might add to mention to always create fresh and unique contents.

Hi Steve, have you got any bad experience of using this kind of backlinking pattern?
Some people say there is no way those kind of backlink methods will harm your sites, otherwise people would happily do those kind of backlinks to their competitors.