Adsense 100k Blueprint Question

I'm going to go against the grain here, but in my opinion only the top 10 matter. Look at the 1st page of Google for your keyword and see what is showing up.

Is it article directories like Ezine, GoArticles, Squidoo, Hubpages? Yes, then go for it.

If you click on the sites and look at them, do they look like crap sites? Yes, then go for it.

If they are all page rank 4 and above it will probably be tough, otherwise go for it.

You are not going to pick a winner every time, so don't stress over it.

You will make mistakes and you will learn from it.

Hope that helps.

thanks I appreciate your encouraging words i'm going to take several days to read the link you posted on keywords as well as join the forum. just wanted to be sure this was good for the newbies like me too :p before I decided to stick with it

Peter,

Have you watched the videos that go with the A100K Blueprint? There is a video on keyword research that is very helpful. Watch it several times, if you need to.

Over the long run, I think you run a better chance with success with A100K rather that autoblogging. Once you get some income on the A100K, you can outsource your content creation.

An established A100K site simply needs 'drip-feeding'. Plus, you can always sell your sites. It's a business and one needs to think of it as that- you are the CEO. Think of it as a business, run it like a business and you can have success.

Kay makes a great point, one I think people don't take into account: sometimes, even with all the 'right stuff', a site just ends up being a dud.

You can minimize the number of duds by doing everything 'right', but no one sees 100% successes, at least not indefinitely.

Conversely though, if you continue to create sites with all the fundamentals in place, you will see some "Homeruns", and even the occasional "Grand Slam".

Michael

I can easily understand your hesitation. I too wanted to make sure everything was perfect before I committed myself to it in the beginning.

Unfortunately theres no way around it. You are going to learn far more from trial and error than from anything else. If you are following a tried and true model, at least you'll have a better shot than many people who start in IM.

Keep in mind that with adsense, you will need a LOT of traffic and that will take some time. Focus on lots of good original content, highly optimized for as many relevant keywords as possible. Build lots of backlinks as often as you can. Simply do that and nothing else until it starts working and eventually you will get the traffic and in turn clicks.

Resist the urge to abandon your first site because you dont see any results right off the bat and lose motivation. Stick with it untill you are sure that you are ranking for as many good relevant keywords as possible. It takes patience. My first site had several hundred pages and several thousands of backlinks created before I ever saw any significant traffic. I almost gave up on it but then in around its fourth month, I finally ranked for my main keyword and and my traffic went way up. The site started making a little money. Now it grows every week.

Once that starts happening, you will be able to see what is working, what isnt working and where your improvements need to be made and this is where the real learning starts. Fight through that first project like a madman and you will never look back.

BTW you dont really need any fancy keyword research tools. The free adwords tool is fine. You can check your competition by looking on the first page of google for your keyword and evaluating the sites there. Those sites are the only competition that matter.

Pick your keywords, write and optimize your content, backlink, backlink, backlink, get traffic, be patient and you will get there. It's all about getting that targeted traffic. Good luck to you.