$500-$1,000/Month Adsense Sharing Strategy...

IMO you will do better If you keep all 300 articles 100% focused on the same niche/root-keyword & link the articles based on relevant keyword anchor-text.

Don't go running in 100 directions (niches/keywords), it just makes things complicated not being focused.

May i ask you one simple question?
What 'if' google banned your adsense account?

You should got a backup plan, for that. Seriously,
it happens to a lot of micro niche site owners and they
wondering what they should do only after they got banned.

I'll probably suggesting you to expand and diversify
your monetisation system.

Best luck with your project btw.

I wouldn't build your project using Adsense as your primary source of revenue. I echo wahat "whathell" says because Google can disable your Adsense account overnight for whatever reason that they want.

I would look at creating your project with a focus to build a list, which in turn you can use to promote CPS or CPA offers. YOu can still monetize with Adsense, but not as your primary source of revenue.

My two cents.

Gauher

Why not put the content on your own domain ?

You all make valid points.

To date, my writers I hired were extremely disappointing. I basically have to rewrite all the articles myself haha.

So that was a waste of money. Damn! Looked too easy, should've known :-)

I actually have a 3 websites right now. One is a weight loss website, another is a paper and dice roleplaying website, and another on incontinence.

All 3 websites really make no moola right now, I could focus my efforts on them and see what happens I suppose.

As the owner of a growing rev share site and a brand new, younger site, I can offer the following advice to you based on my large amount of data I filter through Analytics each day. I have a good idea of what success takes in this particular industry:

1. Do not rely on CPC data from Google's Keyword tool, ever. That data is not for AdSense. If a CPC is $1.00, you are not really going to get $1.00 per click for that - Google pays you 68% of the value, so the maximum you would get in this scenario is $0.68, and even this is not reliable. I find the highest earning writers on my website don't have expensive keywords - they have buying keywords, which will entice people to either purchase an Amazon product from their article or click on an AdSense ad. Buying keywords don't necessarily have "buy" in them, but are focused enough that you can tell the person searching for that word is ready to either buy a product or service, or is looking for direct, focused information in a particular industry. For example "law firm" is not a buying keyword, but "Law firms in Los Angeles" is a buying keyword.

2. If you do keyword research for your articles, don't worry as much as "total searches" and "the number of competitors" like almost everyone else will tell you to. Instead, focus on keywords where the competitors are very weak. Use a combination of your own knowledge and experience when analyzing your competitors' sites and content, along with free tools like "backlinkwatch.com" to get a broad idea of the anchor text and number of people linking to your competitor. Besides, the same mistakes are also made when just considering total searches that people make with the CPC data - if a keyword has 10,000 searches per month, landing #1 in Google for that keyword doesn't mean you'd get 10,000 visits - you'd probably get somewhere around half of that, and even fewer if the same people continuously search for the keyword and have already viewed your article (repeat visitors are somewhat rare with organic traffic). Focus your efforts on long tail keywords with weak competitors, and focus on trying to earn a little with each article instead of a lot with one article.

3. Don't forget that revenue sharing sites increase the number of visits it takes to expect a click on an ad. I answer emails from the inexperienced, constantly, wondering why they aren't getting ad clicks with 50 views in their AdSense account. I tell them that at an average of a 1-3% click through rate, it would normally take up to 100 views for a click, but since (in the case of Seekyt.com) they only receive 70% of the impressions, that number jumps to around 140 views, which generally must all be on the same article. One view on each of 140 articles could still not earn anything for someone, especially when those views don't come from organic sources.

4. Link building is of incredible importance, especially when you are trying to rank an article against entire sites devoted to specific niches. Therefore, as has been posted in this thread, stick to very few niches and use interlinking to create a "mini site" on your revenue sharing site of choice.

5. Although you have certain factors that make the use of a revenue sharing site more difficult than owning your own site, you also have some things that make them a great choice: established page rank, audience, built-in interlinking (i.e., related articles, tags, etc.), community and tech/maintenance done for you. Just be aware of the following scenario that I was recently faced with and was lucky enough to survive: if one person on the entire revenue sharing website screws up and breaks Google's TOS, they are threatening the AdSense privileges for every single author on that website. Therefore, make sure you take advantage of as many of the revenue sharing programs that your site offers. I offer three on my website, but I've seen some sites offer up to six or seven different programs.

I hope this data helps you a bit. I'm not trying to discourage you or "school you," just trying to help you succeed like I do with all of my nearly 6,000 writers.

i don't know about your idea cause i prefer quality over quantity

It seems pretty good plan. Your main link building strategy seems to be contextual link building - That is really helpful to get good SERP to your site.

Make sure, you focus on onsite SEO as well, make sure content is unique and it is written for users but not for search engines, as well as make sure that your site is designed & coded for users but not for search engines - That kind of setup will help you to rank easily.

Good luck, Hope to get updates on your progress, Let me follow this thread

Am I the only one who sees the irony in GregTheWriter outsourcing his writing ...

Try iwriter. There is alot of solid writers on that I find.

Thanks Marcus, I'll check out iwriter :-)

And DeskCoder, it is an awesome irony I would have to agree. Alas, I would prefer to write my fiction than articles about dishwashers, which is why I outsourced it haha.

You are planning on using UAW for your entire backlinking plan?

Sounds like a pretty flaky business plan to me, what if you build and rely on your $1000 per month revenue and then Google deindexes the UAW network and you are left with nothing?

I would focus more on what you want to do with your SEO and split it among a few different sources.

Yukons suggestion of keeping all articles closely tied within the same niche is another wise move to take.

Also, in order to rank the articles you need to produce quality content, I would be questioning the quality of $3 articles. Perhaps you should spend $9 per article and create 100 articles initially?

If you could keep us updated within this thread on your progress after a few months we would be very interested to find out. Who knows, you may even make this a sticky

Good luck to you.

Agreed. Adsense can be a good source of starting your online earnings but in the long-run it cannot be your primary source of income (unless you are getting tons of visitors a day and have have high CPC keywords)