Best way to make money with adsense - don't use adsense!!!
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The words in the title were the the ones that finally made me understand what internet marketing is. After a bit over one year of building couple niche sites that were getting between 100-150 unique visitors a day but making couple cents every other day with adsense I stumbled upon a video by Pat Flynn of smartpassiveincome.com with a title similar to what I said here.
That was a month and a half ago and since that day I've removed adsense from my sites and wrote two pluigins for a larger piece of software that would help the people in the respective niche work way faster. This coming Monday it will be one month since I've launched the first one with no preselling, no list, no traffic, no squeeze page (mostly because I had no idea about that part of marketing), just a simple HTML page (no wordpress as I wanted to launch the darn thing faster rather than redesigning my website) showing the features in a few images and demo videos.
The results:
- traffic on my plugins pages - 4,940 unique visitors with 6,178 visits and 13,594 pageviews - the only thing I did for traffic was to put the scripts in the news pages of the related forums and tweet about them a couple times.
- sales - $1269!!!
Don't think it was easy as it wasn't, it was a lot of hard work making sure those plugins will work flawlessly and that the documentation for them is top notch. Once the sales have started, I've got some bug reports and support emails that I strived to answer within couple hours from receiving them. Also one thing I haven't expected was the flood of emails with simple questions regarding the possible uses as all of that was explained pretty well on the sales page... But no matter how simple the question was I answered as soon as I could in a very professional manner.
Now, looking backwards, all I can say is if you want to make money with adsense, get rid of it!!!
I hope this helps somebody,
Anton
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