For those of you who are struggling with, doubting, and/or condemning the Adsense business model...

A spin of a post I made on another thread as a response to someone doubting the sheer simplicity of the niche site business model...

People that say Adsense is easy say that because it has the potential to be easy, if that makes sense. For me personally, it is extremely easy. It's all about the systems you put in place in/for your business. I have refined my systems to where they are almost as streamlined as humanly possible - from keyword research to domains to site building to backlinks, etc....

Contrary to popular belief, it really doesn't take much time at all to set up a great looking, high-converting site and put unique content on it, even if you write it yourself. Jason Fladlien has a product that teaches how to write articles extremely quickly, in 7 min. or so. If you pre-load your theme and plugins in your FTP then they're already there when you set up your site, and if you know what you're doing with the on-page SEO, you can completely set up the site in under 20 min. (10 or so for the site setup and 7 or so for the article) - this is 1 of the many examples of a specific system I use that is refined and implemented to expedite the entire process. Things like article writing (if you are 'paying a lot' for bad content, then you are using the wrong sources; I get high-quality native English content for $1 per 100 words.), on-page SEO, and backlinks would be subsystems of your entire system. I haven't even mentioned the fact that you can outsource virtually any system, and if it's refined and streamlined enough, it'll be cheap - an example of this for me would be backlinks. I have the few, select, quality sources that I use for backlinks and I simply outsource it.

Posts that people make complaining about the difficulty or complexity of the niche site process are usually misinformative and also somewhat misleading. Although I agree that most ebook-sellers are simply trying to push the idea that the Adsense process is super easy just so you'll buy their product, it does have the potential to be easy, so you can't generalize and say that it's far too difficult or time-consuming to be worth it, because that is simply not true. As I said, it can be easy if you spend the time to make it easy. I'm almost at the point where my entire system, the complete process from A to Z, is completely hands-free. I literally don't have to do anything, but I choose to. I have a database full of thousands of profitable keywords, so I simply pick one and tell my project manager, and he starts the 'system,' and I just sit back and oversee things. If I wanted to, I could go on vacation tomorrow and sit on the beach every day for an entire month without ever even looking at a computer, and my business would still run itself. I say that not to brag but to show you that once you have the proper systems in place, it can be extremely easy. Granted, you'll probably want to develop and refine the system yourself first, which is what I did. And if I wanted to (which I do sometimes) I could still simply implement the whole system with my own 2 hands without outsourcing (which is what I did in the beginning), and it would still be 'easy' because I have taken the time to refine almost every microscopic aspect of the entire process. If you keep that mindset from the start, you'll have a great system in place in no time.

Some people see other people struggling with Adsense and say "Ok so I'm definitely not doing Adsense because it's obviously so difficult," which is utterly false. Others like myself take up the challenge and do what's required. But if it's too hard, you are making it too hard. If it's easy, as it is for some of us, we took the time to make it easy. Do not get discouraged. Obviously these concepts apply to not only niche sites, but any business model, online or offline. Just keep refining, simplifying, automating, and outsourcing things. And aside from everything, remember Pareto's Law - 80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.

If this helps at least 1 person out there in some way, then it will have been worth my time spent writing this. Enjoy.