How to earn 5-figures per month (stable income) from Adsense + CPA using SEO
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First, I put this in the Adsense forum, but I've been earning through Adsense + CPA offers mostly through traffic driven by SEO. I'm not sure why people usually think they need to build either an Adsense site or a CPA site, you can put both on the same site.
The same goes for affiliate offers.
You can really mix and match things however you want. The main point is, if you build a site and get traffic to it, then you can and should monetize it with anything and everything that makes you money.
There's plenty of room on one site for good content plus several ads. You might be thinking it won't work, but it's working great for me. I think you'd be surprised how much advertising we're all willing to put up with to read an interesting article.
Having more than one revenue stream per site is also nice because then you don't have to worry about losing your single source of income (like getting the plug pulled on Adsense or a particular CPA offer). It's no fun to worry and as you earn more and more the stress from this only gets worse.
So we all know the first thing to do is to pick a market.
My advice is to pick one where you can earn from at least 2 different advertising sources. So Adsense and maybe some affiliate offers. For example, the registry cleaner market is a good one. You can get good Adsense earnings because there are a ton of different companies who've created registry cleaners that are marketing their applications on Google Adwords. So if you build a site on this topic you'll have no problem loading it up with Adsense ads that will pay a decent amount.
You can also join the affiliate programs people are running and earn through them. And the nice thing is there are a ton of different affiliate programs in this market.
So I consider this a great market because if you take the time to build a nice site and get traffic to it you can make plenty of money from it. And your income won't come to a screeching halt if an affiliate goes out of business or you happened to lose your Adsense account because there's plenty of other advertisers to showcase on your site. So once you have a steady stream of traffic, it's going to continue to make you money.
Along the same lines as registry cleaners, spyware removers, and antivirus software are all also great niches to build sites around. And the nice thing is they all kind of go together so if you got really ambitious you could cross promote all these things on one site. They're all in the computer utility market and anyone interested in one thing would likely be interested in another. So there's practically limitless growth for you in a market like this.
Again, to boil it down to two things, you want:
1. Lots of advertisers you can promote on your site.
2. Limitless growth (an extra, it's not absolutely necessary, but it's nice when you're in a market like this because then you can scale things to obscene levels if you want).
Health and weight loss are also great markets, there's a ton of niche markets within them with all sorts of advertising opportunities from Adsense, affiliate programs, and CPA offers.
The main thing is you want to be able to fill your site up and have no fear that you're going to build up a site complete with traffic and not be able to monetize it. But there's a ton of markets like this, think about things you see advertised all over from loans to car insurance to beauty products and online dating. Even internet marketing fits well into this category.
Anyway, once you have your market picked you're going to need to do keyword research.
Don't bother with SEO if you aren't willing to do this.
Figure out what keywords people are searching for and incorporate those keywords into your content. There's been a million threads started here on on-site optimization so you should be all set with that.
I start with small sites to begin with, but then grow them bigger. I like to have about 10 pages of unique content on my sites before I start promoting them. Even if you can't hire a writer to outsource this to, writing 10 pages isn't that difficult. If you do your keyword research right then you'll know exactly what people are searching for on your topic and just that will make the writing a lot easier. You already have an outline.
Then you need to go spend time searching online collecting research, it's like writing a school paper. I know no one really liked writing school papers, but I'm sure you managed it and it definitely wasn't something you got paid for. Just imagine, a 10 page 'paper' that you put together for your site could end up earning you $1,000 a month or a whole lot more so that should help you get through this part.
Again, doing the keyword research will really help because just by including longer keyphrases people are really searching in your content for you'll get some traffic. If you do all the other on-page stuff as well like title and meta tags, internal linking and RSS feeds then you'll see even better results.
I just want to point out that I don't go after an exact match domain. I target lots of different keyphrases, another part of the 'I don't want to lose all my income overnight' strategy. I'd like it to be stable for a long time.
By targeting several keyphrases instead of just one, you're going to continue to get traffic from SEO over the long-term. It's not dependent on one phrase, so you don't need to worry about algorithm changes for that one phrase knocking you out or a competitor overtaking your spot.
I just pick a domain that fits the site I'm creating. I'll usually try to put a related keyphrase in the domain, but there are times I don't even worry about it. Like my SEO site does have the word 'seo' in it, but I'm getting good rankings for words like 'seo training' and 'search engine optimization tutorial'.
So if I were building a site on antivirus software I might use the domain; antivirustips.com or antivirussoftwareonline.com - just something relevant. I really think exact match domains are over-rated, but know some people are doing very well with them. The problem is most of the time people building sites like this are only going after one keyphrase on their site and it's kind of limiting for them.
But even if you have an exact match domain and it's doing well for you, there's no reason you can't find related keyphrases, write content around it, and add it to your site. It'll probably only increase your earnings and help keep them stable for longer.
Anyway, once you have your site put together with 10 pages of unique content written around keyphrases people are actually searching for, then you need to do some link building. Again, it's been discussed here time and time again so I'm not going to get into it too much.
Directory submissions, press releases, article marketing, 3rd party sites, bookmarking, RSS feed submission, contacting webmasters - all that stuff works. It's boring and time consuming, but even if you can't afford to pay someone you *can* do this. One thing I notice is a lot of people do a little bit of this and then give up.
You can't give up with this stuff! If you do there's not going to be any money in it for you.
The only thing I can say about how much link building you've got to do is if you aren't seeing much traffic, you didn't do enough. There's no secret method that all of us earning money are using that we're not telling you about. We're just doing this stuff the same as you except we're doing a lot more of it than you're doing.
The only thing I want to point out with link building is that you really need to get links from lots of different sources. Even if you go to town with one of the link building tactics, you might not see the results you would if you got links from a variety of sources. Again, that's another way to help make sure your income is stable so that one change in the Google algorithm isn't going to send you crying.
For me, once I've got my 10 pages of content and have done some link building I'll start seeing traffic. From that little trickle of traffic I start building momentum and keep going.
It might take you 3 months to see a few thousand unique visitors a month with this. It might take you a lot less or even longer, but don't give up with it and you'll get where you want to be.
I like to put Adsense or one affiliate/CPA offer on my pages to start with while I'm working on the link buidling. It's really nice if the ad itself has a built in tracking feature, then you can just login to Adsense or whatever and see how many unique visitors you're getting along with what you're earning. If Adsense pays out well in the market then I'll usually just start with it because it's fast and easy to add to all the pages of your sites plus they track all kinds of things.
There's no reason to spend hours on conversions when you don't have much traffic. If you're in that boat, then your time is probably better spent getting more traffic. That's my philosophy at least.
Just build a site with 2 columns and wrap the 250 x 250 or the 336 x 280 text block into your content. You can put the big vertical banner on the other sidebar and/or some navigation to start with. Later, when your site is bringing in more traffic you can add in affiliate/CPA offers into that sidebar and even start testing which formats people are clicking on most. That's a real smart way to increase your earnings without doing a whole lot of work.
For me, if I'm seeing income from my site, then I'm excited and I start coming up with new ideas for more content. If all you do is write 10 pages and do some link building and you even get to $100 or so a month then what would happen if you kept going with that same site? I know I've been lulled into thinking I'd rather start a new site, but every time I continue on with the old sites I'm always shocked at how much more money I start making.
And it's way easier.
It's almost like if you were a builder and you're trying to build a small housing development with 12 homes on a block vs. 12 homes spread out all across your state. The builder trying to create the housing development only needs to contact one city for all the permits and can keep all his equipment in one place. The guy spreading things out has to do practically 12 times as much work.
This goes the same for a domain. You've got all the housekeeping stuff like your terms, privacy, contact us, about us page all done on that first domain. You've got some preliminary link building done so now the search engine spiders come back to your site every once in a while and check for new content. If you just decide to build another site somewhere else you have to start completely over.
So leveraging is great.
So I go find more keywords to write related content around and put that on my site. I also do more link building. The traffic to my sites snowballs and I get a minimum of 10,000 uniques per month on up which usually brings in at least a couple thousand dollars a month every month per site (some are much more). From my experience, even just 50 good, well researched articles written around keyphrase people are searching for can get you to this level with some decent backlinking.
From there increasing conversions is a priority. You can do this with an ad tracker like openx.org and add in related CPA/affiliate offers. Test the offers. But I don't waste time with this until I see a fair amount of traffic.
Another thing is even though my sites are only Adsense/CPA/affiliate sites, I try to start a newsletter of some sort. Then instead of just having people come to my site once and click on ads and go, I keep recycling them.
They come, sign-up for my newsletter and keep getting valuable content from me weekly. Sometimes they click on my ads, sometimes they don't, but this drastically helps keep my income stable. Although I should start a newsletter immediately, I usually wait until I see about 10,000 uniques per month to do it because it takes some time to get it together.
The newsletter is usually just short bits of related content with links back to my site. You can also throw in a newsletter issue that's just a CPA or affiliate ad too every once in a while, but I do try to provide valuable content with them most of the time.
Anyway, I think it's time to wrap this up. There are a ton of different ways to make money online, I realize mine is just one.
It's really important for me to have a high, stable income and this is my tested blueprint for getting it. It's working great for me so I hope it helps a few people out.
Lisa
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