Just so you know Squidoo is noindexing a lot of their pages that they think are low quality. So I'd be careful before using a Squidoo page as now most of them won't even be viewable to Google.

Otherwise it seems like you are on the right track, but it is almost impossible to judge how difficult a keyword is to rank just by whether it has a yahoo answers listing and an about page. Both of those sites very often appear on high competition search terms.

Your on the right track for sure. I would also try to get some relevant in content backlinks from sites in your niche.

I would say try some forum commenting in a relevant niche. That would be a daily addition to your site. Just put the link in the signature. Thats 60 links a month!

After sometime passes, try further article spinning and submission.

Social Marketing will get you traffic, not SEO
All the rest is SEO mainly.

Just my 2 cents

Any other suggestions?

You're on the right track no doubt and $50 a month is definitely an easy goal.

I'm curious though that's a lot of content for only 1 keyword I really hope you're targeting more than just that with all of that content

your home button is broken
and i wouldnt post your website here

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you should read this thread about linkin the pages (silo)
there is another thrad from yukon where he explains it better but cant find it right now

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ml#post4791871

I woudn't post your website, remove it if you can, other people can and will use it to go after your niche and then you will have even more competition. Link velocity is also an important component to consider, IMHO.

Honestly, I'd say that goal is too low.

Some guys on here have put up exact methods as to how they went from $0 to $2000/mo within 3 months.

But as far as being on the right track- have long articles and diversify your backlinks.

Hey bro...

You should have NO PROBLEM hitting your $50 a month profit via adsense. You're def on the right track.

But first I would always say diversify as well. When adsense money starts coming in...look for other ways to get income from various places my friend.

-Omar

Taking advice from the above suggestions I am planning on making 2-3 posts a day online to build back links. Would 1 post at each of the following sites be a good place to start: yahoo answers (Im high enough that I can post a link in my signature), wiki answers and a PR2 or higher forum with do follow links (still searching for this)?

Hi, how are you going with your site. Just wanted to know as this seems to be interesting. Taking advice and telling about your testing is good way of learning. Please share with other warriors !!!

50 bucks a month? you must live on a very tight budget. Why even bother having that as a "goal"?

i would advise you not to use squidoo maybe use blogger instead

That is a very nice approach - taking small steps. I know most people set a big goal like $5000 a month and soon they get frustrated because they come nowhere near it.

If you are hiring others to write for you, then you have to be extra careful because you might end up getting duplicate content. I suggest that you write yourself.

I wish you good luck

In my opinion, it shouldn't take too long to get your website up, running and earning.

Also I think you can do A LOT more than $50 starting from your first month

Just join a few good Forums related to SEO and Marketing (one in my signature too), start taking in information and don't be shy to take advice from the experts.

Hey Scoyne2, Your goals are yours and you are wise to set it at the level you are comfortable with, once you reach those goals (AND YOU WILL) then you can raise them again, and when you meet those goals raise them again. You are awesome to be working full time, going to grad school AND taking on IM. Dude you rock! and You can do this.

P.S. I'm glad you took your keyword/site reference down buddy.

A question about backlinks for formws: Once I have 10 posts on a forum I can then post my signiture, thus giving my 10 backlinks from the forum, should I then continue to post on the same forum, or move on to another?

OK, a couple of notes as I've been where you are now (although it was a long time ago).

Tip #1: Test your niche for viability BEFORE you build a site and kill yourself for no return. How to do this? Create hubs for all the keywords you want to test out. Throw some links at your hubs and watch their progress. You can also make money while doing this. Using their statistics, you'll soon see which ones are winners.

Tip #2: Take the winners and build a few sites. Test the waters by creating at least one 1,000 word post and ten small (100 words or so) related keyword posts. Make the large post sticky. Get a few links and let the sites age.

Tip #3: Over the space of a few months, you will see which sites Google likes a lot and which ones are just nowhere. Take the winners and implement your plan above.

Using my pre-filtering approach, you will save months or years of niche hunting frustration. I hope this helps you get started. Best of luck. Oh, and never post your site anywhere for a review and NEVER put your main money sites in IM forum signatures!

Just updating for the sake of future reference:
I have installed SEO Quake for firefox (free) and am using it to find blogs to comment on.
You can sort search results by google page rank which works great when you pair it with google advanced search. That way if you find a do-follow blog or forum that is relevant, you can find the highest ranking page on the site and comment there.

I am also making a list of every backlink I make for my own records as to not duplicate.

One question? would it be worth it to stumble/digg/delicious etc etc the pages where I post a comment. All of my posts are relevant and not spammy if it makes a difference. Having read it many times here I am going for quality over quantity. I am also planning on making a youtube video with my keyword as the title.

Target some keywords that best suit your business or website and build anchor text backlinks by using blog comments,article marketing and other forms of offsite SEO techniques and get the top positions of Google and see the flood of organic traffic then and see a better income in adsense.

How about submitting to blog directories? I found a good list: Top 50 Free Blog Directories

Would submitting to 2-3 a day be a good use of time?

$50 is more than reasonable. I made a couple more niche sites back in January and was hoping to be at that point by now, but getting them to rank well has taken longer than expected. I realize everything takes time, but I just don't know how people rank top 10 within a month on a new domain. I just made my first couple bucks on one of them, and it was from amazon surprisingly, and not adsense... Keep us updated on your progress.

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$50 a month doesn't seem too difficult. If you have good content and low competition for key words it is well within reason. Once you start getting clicks it is merely a matter of math. Increase your visitors and you will make more money.

@Scoyne - sounds like you are on track to $50/month. It's a great goal to have, and looks like you are taking steps everyday towards it. I see you are building a diversified backlink profile which is good.

One thing that I would recommend is to rewrite your articles (the same ones you have on your website) before you distribute them to the article directories. Republishing a small fraction of articles from your site verbatim on ezinearticles or other directories should be fine. But try not to do it 100%. This is something I would personally not do myself for my own sites. There's a theory that Google's perspective, if they see that all of your site's content is also available elsewhere, they might not value your site as much.

It's my suggestion, and you can take it as you deem fit. There's a whole debate about duplicate content and article syndication, which you can research on. I bring this up as it seems no one else has pointed it out, and I think you should know about it. Best to you.

I'd say that's a more than reasonable goal considering what you say you have done yes...

It's ok to have a modest goal, but you have to know exactly Howe you are going to achieve it. That's basically 2 clicks a day on Adsense. So that's maybe 40 visitors a day at a modest CTR of 5%. That probably means getting top five for your main keyword. Or do you plan to try to rank lots of long-tail keywords and not worry about the main keyword. Just saying, your earnings goal needs to be reflected in a very specific strategy. You want consistency too, what if you get 2 $25 clicks by pure luck (not likely :-D ) and nothing ever again - did you make your goal? All I am saying is, online earning is too variable to allow such firm goals. Aim for 50, but know how you will get there and what you will do when you do because I guarantee you will want more very quickly :-D

Had 20 visits yesterday! Still no adsense $$, but Im just glad to see some visits. Ezine articles denied my submissions saying "Your article links to a page that does not contain enough relevant informative content." I had them linked to the homepage, so I resubmitted two, one linked to the page with excerpts of each articles and a link to them, and one linked to another related article, hopefully they accept one or both.

Your on the right track, I'm personally at about $48/mo. I recommend looking for aged domains, and have network of new domains that age over time. My older sites 8 months or older have picked up.

I would aim higher. $500 a month adsense site could take you 2/3 months with the right attitude and plan even as a newbie, but $50 a month for the niche is about right providing it's got a good cpc around $0.40 for 8000 exact searches would bring you approx $50., but don't expect Google to give you all that $2, they won't.. They'll line their cut pockets first LOL

I don't go for anything that I can't get 1000 pageviews per day out of, I feel it's pointless otherwise as it takes just as much effort building the site and content so you may as well aim higher then there is less disapointment when things don't go right. If your plans don't go right, don't give up, just learn some more and have another go with a keyword with a lot more traffic, you'll get there in the end.

Just to note your cpc and click through, your site is new, Google will pay more for well estabilished and aged sites, plus they will be alot more optimised for the right advertisers. Some of my sites are high traffic, high pagerank, low cpc (through adwords tool) but have a RPM of $10.00+ so work that one out!

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$50 is more than achievable as long as you stay dedicated to your posting regime.

Just a little update, I have signed on to myblogguest.com and am going to try and submit one unique article to a blog each week.

Also I am learning about the tiered structure: I have a squidoo, free wordpress, blogger, weebley and hubpage with spun articles and links back to my money site. I also have these sites linking to each other, but in a non circular structure.

I have saves the address of each site I commented on with links back to my money page, I will go back and leave separate comments on each site back to my secondary pages. One way I have been finding places to get backlinks is by finding my competitors websites(or even sites in similar niche but not direct competitors), punching their url into a backlink checker online, and then checking each site and adding my own comment if possible.

I bought a fiverr gig for some backlinks to my squidoo page, more as an experiment than anything.

I spend about an hr a day working on posting comments, bookmarking articles etc, which at my $50 a month goal ends up being $1.67 dollars an hr good thing I enjoy this or it would be silly. I know understand why so many people said $50 was to low of a goal... but this is more of my pilot project so im sticking to it.


A few questions for the masses: I have the funds to do a dripfeedlink project split between my secondary sites, should I give it a try?
Are there any good social bookmarking paid services out there that I can direct to my secondary sites?

Tip in regards to researching keywords: Go after High CPC low volume or Low CPC High volume. This is what I think works best.

Good and bad news, hubpages blocked my outbound link to my website saying it violated their TOS, on a good note I made $.75 on adsense yesterday, its a start!

A little update: My page is up to PR2! Im making about $1 a day in adsense which is fine for now, one day I had $5, but it didnt last. Im still not on page 1 of google/yahoo/bing, but every so often I will show up at the bottom of yahoo page 1. I have added some amazon and clickbank advertisments sparsly throughout my site, and a mailing list sign up on the sidebar of every post. I am very happy with my progress, and glad to see some small results. I have about 80-100 backlinks depending on the checker used, and am adding more every day.

who is the hot chick in your picture?

$50 in a MONTH? IT CANNOT BE DONE

Backlinks over time is proven to be the best method. It is not just about making the backlinks it is being able to maintain them or increase and never decrease. If you start to decrease the amount of links you are putting on it shows to Google then your site is becoming less popular

You are definitely on the right track, and don't forget to check your PM.

Things are not moving as fast as I would like, I have been posting 2 articles a week, and getting 3-4 backlinks via comments per day, and using a few fiverr gigs, which had some short term results. My site does have a good bounce rate, and pretty good interaction, but Im still nok making much on adsense, no more then $.25 a day now that my adwords campaign ended. Im not giving up, just working to learn what Im doing wrong. Here is a screen shot from the last two months.

I'm a little concerned about your low CPC - that's looking like a trend right now, and to be honest CPCs usually don't vary that much. Have you tried some of your keywords in SpyFu to see if there are a lot of advertisers and what CPC they are paying?

I mean, low CPC doesn't have to be bad if you are going to get thousands of visitors, but if you were banking on making a couple of bucks a day off a couple of dozen visitors (perfectly doable with a decent CPC, I have sites like that) then you could have problems with your choice of niche/keyword...

If you have yet to rank high on page one for a high-volume keyword then OK, sit tight and see what happens when some major traffic starts coming in.

i would buy targeted traffic, and write articles it works like a charm

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