First $100 day with Adsense!

**Update January 9, 2012**
I've had lots of $100+ days since this post with Adsense.
I also had a crazy $1440 day with a product from cj.com
I came within $700 of hitting $10,000 in December 2011.
** End of update **

I’ve came a long way in the last year…in July 2010 I made $14 from my efforts online.

Last month in August 2011 I had a new baby on the 5th, took a solid 10 days off without touching my sites then worked about 15 hours per week the rest of the month….I made $5,885 last month from Adsense, Amazon and CJ.com.

I really got started last August and you can read about my “big” $930 month last November here. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...i-ve-done.html



I finally hit $100 in adsense yesterday! (Plus $20 from cj.com & $90 from Amazon). It was $99.91 to be exact, but close enough for me. This is from about 15 or so sites. As you can see in the screen shot that most came from 5-6 sites.

I’ve had lots of $50-$80 days, but yesterday several of my sites had a good day and it added up.

These are evergreen niche sites. They range from at least 6 posts/articles to around 30.
I also only use free traffic to all my sites.

The biggest earning site ($26) is for something the users can download for free that I made in photoshop and other programs. I also link out to other sites that have made these items for my visitors to download. This site ranks #1 for several keywords and the cpc from google keyword tool ranges from $0.38-$0.80

Three to four of these sites I rank #1 for the main keyword and the rest are all on page one for their main keyword. The site that made $15.31 yesterday is in spot 10 on page one for the main keyword…but like most of the sites well over 50% of the traffic comes from longtail keywords.

How do I backlink these sites? I don’t do much, I have text broker write most of the articles for the sites and have them write a few for the article directories. I usually send a few social bookmarking links to some of the posts (20-50ish), I usually have lexorsoft.net do a package of 30 forum profile type links to the sites, some I make a squidoo/hubpage for and I will do a few manual blog comments.

I pick keywords that are easy to rank for, some of my sites have shot to page one and stayed there with zero backlinks! In fact three have hit page one with zero backlinks and the default hello world post only…Google liked the domain name and the title tags (these three sites don’t make much $ though). I just try to pick the right keywords with little competition.

Some are exact match domains, but some aren’t and honestly the exact match domain name doesn’t matter to me anymore.

Over the last year I’ve researched a ton of sites that I would come across when doing keyword research or when I browse flippa. I’d study how they’re making money, how they’re getting their traffic and I tracked some of them for several months and I’ve concluded that I want to focus on quality sites with helpful information for the visitors on my sites. I’m focusing on long term sites and keywords. I’ve seen a lot of other sites with crappy content and super spammy backlinks rank high and then get kicked out of the top ten by Google at some point.

//Some tips

Shoot for keywords that get at least 3,000+ exact searches or more per month. A lot of people say 1,000 or more but sometimes that’s not much traffic from what I’ve found even in spot #1. **Update: Someone mentioned below that if you have the right keywords (buying keywords) 1,000 per month is fine...I think this is true...so it depends on you keywords.

Even if the cpc is $0.35 and you can rank your site in the top few spots and there is traffic you’ll make money….just look at my $26/day site.

If your ctr is low, change the theme and ad placement. I just did this to a site that was getting below 1% ctr…now it’s hitting much higher.

Just because a keyword has high cpc doesn’t mean you’ll get it. I have a gadget site that gets 1,000+ page views per day and averages 3 ad clicks per day and I’ve tried about 4 themes that work well in other niches. Think about who will be clicking around on your site, do you want a tech savvy dude like me or your grandma and her friends clicking on your site?

If you can make $20 per month with adsense/amazon then you can make $10,000 per month. It’s just more sites, time, experience, backlinks and content.

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I have a totally different mindset now than I did one year ago. I used to think $10,000 per month was impossible for me to make from internet marketing…now I know it’s not only possible but it will happen within the next year.

I’ll post again when I hit $10,000 per month. (It will be with the same techniques, just more time, sites and content)


Well, I just blew an hour writing this...now I'm off to spend the $400 I have sitting in my textbroker.com account.

-Gabe

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(I blanked out a few channels on the screenshot because I have a few channels for each site and then I have some entire sites as channels...some of the $2 earnings are different channels on one site)