Adsense - Consistency is Key

With so many different Adsense threads I've seen lately, I thought I'd swing by here quick to let those who are still trying their luck at Adsense know that consistency mixed with a couple other simple things is what is really the key to earning a steady stream of income.

I've managed to earn money here and there with Adsense, and I've also had plenty of small payouts, but nothing very "consistent" so to speak. So, I decided to give it another go about 2 months back and see what would come of it.

I've always been good with my SEO and ranking pages in the "big G", so I put up just 2 Adsense sites and used my personal SEO plan to get them ranked. These were keywords that had mild to medium competition and also had a decent exact search count (around 4,400 for one and 49,500 for the other). Both are more "micro niche" sites, complete with roughly 5 pages of total content, as well as necessary pages (such as privacy policy, contact us page, etc).

Today, I cracked $10 a day. Sure, it's not a TON of money, however, for 2 websites and less than 2 months time, this can certainly grow to a larger number, especially once I get three more sites to page 1 (including one that's got 49,500 exact monthly searches and is sitting at #11 on page 2 right now for it's term). Once these other sites get up to the top (and they are VERY close), my overall earnings will explode.

UPDATE 9/2/11 - That site above DID get to #1 last month. And, my earnings are now roughly $70 per day. Not bad from when I first started this thread in July!

What's the point of this thread? To show you that making money with Adsense CAN be done. I managed to do this in my spare time to "test the waters", so imagine what can happen when I start to crank it up a notch!

If you understand how to build a website, optimize it and build some backlinks, you can do this. Anyone can, really. You just need to understand that it WILL take some time at first, but everything sort of "snowballs" once you really get cooking. It's not the road to "instant riches", but then again, nothing is.

Here is a quick outline of how I built my sites:

- Find a niche or subniche that you're interested in with plenty of advertisers
- Find a KW phrase that has 1,000 or more exact monthly searches and is a phrase people are bidding on (more is better, but 1,000 seems to be the number where it's worth pursuing).
- See if a domain is available to purchase for that exact KW phrase and purchase it (EMD's are best for this purpose)
- Use Wordpress as your website's platform. Install and configure your site
- Find 3 to 5 (or more) long tail KW phrases (for content). To me, search count doesn't matter. This just gives you a better chance to bring in people from other long-tail searches.
- Write content for your main page + other targeted KW phrases and properly optimize them for both Adsense ads AND the search engines, but make sure these are written well. All of my content is 100% unique and written myself, simply because I felt more comfortable that way.
- Outsource social bookmarking and other link building efforts

Of course, that's just a small outline, but it gives you an idea of how you can do this. It's really nothing "new", but it works. Like I said before, I'm definitely no "guru" or genius when it comes to Adsense; however, I can see that the formula to earn cash with it is nothing more than:

Excellent Initial Research + Consistency of Putting in the Work + Time = Money

There are quite a few people here I've seen that have started out small and are now pulling in 4 to 5 figures per month with Adsense. Now that I've managed to setup a couple auto-pilot earners, I can finally see how these figures are possible.

Remember - Doing SOMETHING is better than doing nothing, so go grab your slice of the pie, too