XFACTOR Will Always Ba an Adsense Legend

Hmmm... I am always scared of the high click-through rates that such sites attract. What is the CTR that you are experiencing?

This month I have (edited out) CTR, and last month was around (edited out). Click through rate is not a problem if it is legitimate. I find my sites with less traffic get a much higher CTR than my sites with more traffic.

Well done with your success. You have proven to your self that it is possible to make money with Adsense so I'm sure you will have the motivation to keep on building more sites.

and 1000x effort would make you $350000.

Whats your point?

His e-book is FAR from perfect that if you had followed it to the Tee there's no way you could make a dime online. A lot of people have wasted a lot of time with his method and not make any money, FACT.

You can't really put that as 10 years. Try one year because most likely exact match domains will eventually lose some power (which a LOT of these websites rely on). I'm sure it's possible to get rank #1-5 using only ezine but ONLY with an EMD and very low competition (which probably at bare minimum means a keyword with under 1k searches/month).

Anyway, his course was great in some ways... Interestingly when I started IM in February I was doing exactly his course and then I read his ebook... In some ways I wish it never was brought out because I would have so many more domains available . I stopped relying on getting EMD's to rank for keywords though, something inside of me tells me that this MAJOR advantage cannot last for ever especially with all the ****ty EMD websites that are on the first page of google destroying the user experience for some keywords.

With all due respect, I think when John posted his original thread ("6 months later, lessons learned"), it was still very viable to launch product-specific EMD sites and rank with only EZA links. In fact, it wasn't unheard of for those product-specific EMD sites to land on Page 1 with no backlinking at all.

That has changed. I think I recall John saying in the book & thread that this was his method, and he related his results. I believe he also eventually suggested 'stronger' backlinking efforts.

I can also say that thread was an incredibly generous and sincere effort, with no payoff initially. It wasn't until hundreds of posts in that people began asking John to put together a book.

bfas

Xfactor's methods DO WORK! For those that say they don't I would initially question your keyword research.

Using his methods, I have so far had 9 out of 10 sites succeed in making me money. Some of htese sites make money immmediately, but some have taken some time to produce. For example, I have one site that didn't make anything for the first 3 months I had it online. I did the Ezine and GoArticles submissions that is suggested in the Ebook and then left it there with no other work. After about 3 months, I am now making around $75 / month from this one site.

It is not a question of if the methods work, it is more a question of your keyword research. Pick the right keywords and you will succeed using this method. Pick too competitive keywords and you will fail short term, but even so, stick with it and you will eventually succeed.

I like a good combination of Xfactor and Clickbumped. Clickbumped's suggestion of looking for as many PR- to PR0, combined with good KW research and article marketing gives great results!

The XFactor method is definitely legit - I know lots of people who've made it work.

I would implement it myself if I had more time.

John certainly proved himself with his thread.
Approaching 12 months using his methods has put a modest 5 figures in my account over the journey.

It goes to show how things can happen on a thin thread. I glanced over his initial thread one night and the rest is history.
Accepy my thanks John.

John definitely gets my thanks too.

I'm not a fan of how the video series and new e-book were handled (i.e. the new e-book has probably broken over half a dozen deadlines and still isn't anywhere to be seen, many, many months after it was "almost ready" to be released..), but I definitely agree overall that what he did earns a lot of respect from me.

It's rare to see someone become pretty successful in the way that he did, and then share so much information in a public thread.

And now his online alias has given rise to its own method (i.e. the xFactor method) across countless message boards. And I'd imagine that the AdSense team have all heard the phrase too Pretty cool stuff.

Also whilst I didn't apply his methods as much as I could have, I still made money overall even about buying the e-book and forum access.

Now I'm onto authority site creation and much of that inspiration came from John, so kudos to him for that.

Has anyone read the new (updated) XFactor book? My understanding was that it was released last week - I've been waiting to buy until I saw some reviews.

Where can I find the infamous xfactor adsense course? I've never seen it but I hear it talked about quite often.

Is it the 'micro niche adsense course' via the link in his signature? (the signature of the guy who's forum thread you linked to in the OP)

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Any news on an update to the book? Hope he cuts some of the fluff out this time...

Let us all check the SPAM folder

Always great to know the formula for success, rinse and repeat until you are satisfied, the hard bit is getting that formula, will take determination, and lots of trial and error

With all the information John gave away for free, you don't even need his ebooks. He said in his own signature to read the thread first, and that if you did, you might not need to buy his book.

John definitely gets the thumbs up from me, I'm a workaholic but I've never been so motivated to do something so much in all my life.....in any other industry, to work and not see results for months would be considered a sign of madness but in IM its just how we roll! Do it right and you're in the money!

I found the only sites I have been making anything off of are those that were in more competitive niches with more search volume that i worked for(more content, SEO and the like). Going for for the larger sites is where it is at. Steve Cooks course (the only other one I bought) was a lot more useful. He is has the character to really help out and give personal advice too.

hey back again...I checked out the course...'finally', I was surprised that there wasn't much in there I didn't know of already.

However, I must say that his particular strategies for development and promotion is quite unique, pretty straight forward at that.

I think I will try out his particular strategy, I would have never thought that the off-page SEO is all done from the same source, basically the same way.

Definitely a different approach than what I'm used to...I'm off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of keywords.

I always find it a bit humorous when people make a matter of fact statement as if they are somehow in the know above all others.

I just happened to be going through my domains last night, dropping ones that I decided not to pursue anymore or have time for. I went through a few to check their rankings because these were domains that I had intended to develop from the beginning of the year but hadn't gotten around to.

One was a domain I created for one of my xfactor sites. This particular site I obviously started and forgot about. I uploaded wordpress and created the site around the xfactor guidelines with kw domain name, seo wise and keyword criteria.

It is sitting at #3 on page 1 right now. It has no content besides the about, contact, privacy, and sitemap pages. It even still has the default hello world post displayed. It also has no backlinks to it. So even without article links, this site is achieving what is laid out in xfactors guide.

Now, granted I forgot about this site and obviously didn't monotize it yet, but the fact remains that the xfactor method does indeed work. You need very little linking power when you're working with these type sites. All of my other xfactor sites, which are only a handful which I created back in the day when xfactor came out to experiment with, are still holding at either #1 or within the top 3. These sites only had a few bookmarks thrown at them on a one time run. I've done nothing else to them at all and they still bring in a few hundred bucks every month. Not anything to brag about but for maybe an hours time in setting them up I think the ROI is acceptable.

So for someone to say that this method has been proven to not work or to dismiss warriors here who have had success using the xfactor method, is really kind of ridiculous...

I really think a lot of people don't realize that John (XFactor) has been in the AdSense game for almost 5 years now.

Plus, he got the years of keyword research advantage.

He has got the experience of running more than 500 domains in various niches when he was doing blackhat too. Imagine if you know about how almost every niche performs.

I think his keyword research is very highly honed in his own unique ways. His methods worked for him. He definitely knows how to pick low competition keywords if you read his

Health Authority Site Thread: The Warrior Forum - My Adsense Progress: $0 to $35 Per Day in 7 Weeks
and
Micro Niche Thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...s-learned.html

more than once each.

These years of experiences can really give a person the "SEO eyes" and more importantly, the patience.

Not to mention he was a Navy too. I'm very sure he has got the discipline part handled very well. How many people do you think can go on and on writing articles for hours?

If you notice his posts and threads, they all seem very simple and not too tricky/advanced/complicated at all. Yet, he seems to empower his success by one single thing, excessive hard work.

I mean, there were great reasons why people were attracted to his threads and books at the first place. The guy's an inspiration.

Experience definitely goes a long ways. I had 2 years of IM under my belt before I got into Adsense. John's thread, though, definitely lays some good foundations.

Just my .02

John's eBook really can help you make money. The truth is you probably want to have a niche website with more than 2-3 pages though (as he later suggests). You will also need to do his backlinking method on crack. His general concept still works for all of this, you just need to do about 10X what he suggests to get yourself ranked for that term. Use Market Samurai instead of Micro Niche Finder.

I (not edit) CTR, and last month was about (Edit). Click the rate is not a problem if it is legitimate. I think my sites with less traffic to get a much higher CTR on my sites with more traffic.

Such original posting...........

i think too many people spend time debating on the forums and not enough time trying things out and tweaking what doesn't work. Just because it didn't work for you doesn't mean it wont work for someone else.

Wow really great post, I love the passion that each of you have on this subject matter. I have never really found Adsense to be difficult and dare I say it???? I have always used autoblogging from the very beginning and have never had a single problem. My belief has always been to have many mini micro sites, however thanks to many of you I am looking into building larger niche sites.

In my opinion it all comes down to doing the right keyword research upfront.

I think product based MFA sites are much harder to get traffic for now, no because of saturation from all the micro-niche products out there, but because Google is much smarter now about identifying when someone is searching for a "product". To use an example from Xfactor's ebook, try searching for "outdoor weber grills", or for me personally, when I bought my last grill I searched for "bbq grills".

Both of these results present Google shopping results so now have to rank #1 or #2 to be above the fold. Sure, you could still get some traffic being below the fold on page 1, but keep in mind that that there was a sweet spot where you could rank #3-5 in the past and be above the fold. So to get traffic in a niche by being above the fold, previously you didn't have to rank #1 or #2 for most product keywords. But now that Google is showing more shopping results, being ranked #3-5 will give you a very small percentage of the search traffic.

As far as SEO goes I have a site that had no backlinks and no content and ranked on the first page for its keyword so Im sure one EZA backlink will be good enough for some niches it all depends on competition

His methods work as long as you put the time in. Sadly he owes people (me at least) a fair bit of money and the excuses have been constant. So respect the process, but at this point I have no respect for the person.

It's a waste the video project never reached the public's hands.

It'd be great to see the management of so many websites and still doing productive work.

Even if his video thing never pans out, John has given so much to us here at warrior forum. I made over $600 last month, and I owe it all to his inspiration.

I hear xfactor sites work great so I am tempted to look further into them but I have also seen a lot on here about xfactor sites getting slapped and thats the last thing I want to happen...

I have to give thanks to John AKA XFactor as well. He REALLY got me started on Adsense.

I worked on John`s system for a while and here are my thoughts:

1)Dont use the very common yellow green template.. This theme is flooded all over... Try to customize it according to your topic

2)Write neat content and be very focused on the topic you are trying to address

3)Get diverse backlinks not just ezine

4)Niche research is the most important task for micro sites to fetch money

Any comments or review's on John's new ebook?

Still waiting on my refund... for someone who supposedly makes $500/day its taken him over 4 months to refund me $794.

I'm still waiting for my refund on the video course, have you guys received yours please?

John won't refund my money either.
He owes me $99 Plus another fee
he said he would refund.
$129 total.

This has been owed to me since August
and I've emailed him a lot about it.

I was thinking he might have lost his
adsense account - happens a lot
with these Made for Adsense
websites, since they go
against Googles TOS.

I have been thinking about using one of
those online, $35 "Look Up" services
to find out who he really is. I will do
that if I don't get paid this month.

Jim ><>

NEW: I talked to John, in fact I know who he is now, (confidential).
He has had some financial set-backs from another business
venture but fully intends to pay folks back. That is the
last word from him to date. Purchase his ebook,
it is a good one.

Sorry to hear of the bad experiences. I just know how much he has helped me with his free information. I am seriously considering purchasing his new book.

Hello,

yes, the xfactor m,ethod is great stuff.

But,how i make 30 niche websites?

Think about it; you will have 30 niche sites, there you will be DAILY writing 5-6 ore more blogposts and 10 articles or so ech every day x 30 niche websites?

I does not possible when the day has only 24 hours.
This would be 30 websites x 6 blogposts every day = 180 blogposts wirting each day!

30 websites x 10 articles a day= writing 300 articles a day!

This is not possible, how you have capital, and have 10 ore more students they write for you for little money every day.

Could anybody here explaine me this?

with best wishes
marco005

Hello ,mejohn

thanks for your fast answer

Yes, i must do writing or pre wrtiting own articles.
But in hell how writing articles and blogposts for 30 niche websites every day??????

I work 4 months 24 hours an day without sleeping, LoL......?
I must begin with 3-4 blogs self writing and when in make enough money, then i hire an wrtiter.

I think with amazon products, i make more money with the xfactor method.
Example; 300 users a daxy after 2-3 months blogging and article writing 10 articles every day,
so when i have there 5% ore more conversion rate, this be 15 sales a day on amazon, by products up to 100$ each item.

15x100=1500 x 20 days= 30.000 x7% amazon commissions= 2100 $ in month income

With adsense bei 20% ctr an ca. 0,75$ adsense earning per click;
60x0,75$ =45$ x 30 days= 1350 in month income

I think only promoting amazon products is very effectives than adsense.


best wishes
marco005

Amazon hasn't worked for me, personally, yet, but I have had success with Adsense as much as $600 per month. The key is sticking with what works and working hard at it. Adsense is working for me, so that is where I am going to spend my time and effort.

Hello mejohn,

can you explain the different, why amazon not works for you, but adsense?

So you have both perhaps on your site, also adsense and amazon?
So you have both, then it is so, on case studys i have reading, when you combine them, also amazon or others with adsense, that your visitors always click on adsense not on amazon or your affiliate products.

Why? I can not explain,why this is so, sorry. The case studys does ist not explain too.

with best wishes
marco005

Many many months later, and still enjoying the residual income from Adsense, and haven't put any more effort into it.

Thanks XFACTOR!

You guys been hustled, XFactor doesn't exist.

It's similar to "The Rich Jerk" persona, the author created it to sell more products.

His address is just a PO Box, and nobody has every met him in real life.

Smart guy regardless.

So you're trying to say that John doesn't exist? His principles are what got me started in Adsense. The man behind the XFACTOR name is a great inspiration to many people.

I never paid for any of his advice. I just used what he gave away for free, and am quite grateful for it.

yer cashing in on the xfactor movements is life changing guys