Had a good day today with adsense, question about amazon on site

Hey, amazing to hear your results Sillysoft. From here just scale up but Im sure you are already planning to. Wow, think of what 10 sites, 15 sites will do for your income. Can't wait to hear all about it

Micro niche. Its very simple process for me. I dont use any paid software, I just use googles keyword tool. I find the low hanging fruit and "bottom feed". Specifically I find a generic term, usually 3 words, that has low competition and no more than 5000 searches a month. But the key for me is that generic term must have at least 100 different variations. So just for example purposes lets say there is a keyword term "I love cars", then there is "I love red cars", "I love blue cars in summer" etc. Once I see a keyword term that matches this I then go to Google and search a few of these keywords and see what shows up. If there are a bunch of micro niche sites showing up then I dont go for it, but if there is a bunch of sites on the first page from places like ask.com or yahoo answers then I will jump all over it. This part is something you have to learn as you go along, to me its a gut feeling/decision based on experience.

See I dont make my money with people going to my main site, I make all the money in the long tail keyword matches. So if I registered a domain ilovecars.com, then I use on page seo via content and url to make sure I will match for long tail keywords. So in this case I will have a page dedicated to i love blue cars in summer with the keywords in the url.

As I go over this process again and again I find better ways to do this, plus as a developer I create database driven sites so all I do is copy one site to another, switch a few settings and Im done. Im doing all of this with 7 sites as of right now, just launched my 7th 2 days ago and already I almost had 200 unique visitors yesterday.

There is more to this process but this is the gist of it, nothing I have said here is ground breaking, or new. Hope this helps anyone out.

I do not use any services for back links. I make all back links manually by hand. I find news articles related to my niche and every night I actually read the article and put a legit comment with a link back to my site. Eventually the back links start working for you as more and more people pass your link around the net either socially, bookmarks or just simple back links from different websites. One site it only took me 3 months to average over 2k uniques a day with a PR3. Remember, the new google updates will penalize you for unnatural/spammy back links. Doing it yourself is the only way IMO.

This is very time consuming but well worth it to me in the long run, to give you an example yesterday I made over $200 in one day with adsense only.

I'm sure no one will believe me, but I figured out types of sites that require hardly any maintenance. In fact I average maybe 1 hour per site per month. Being a developer helps automate a lot of things as well. The main work actually is done building back links. This all started several months ago when I had it working for the man and wanted to make my own money. I had one side site that I threw up a couple of years ago that was getting decent traffic. So wanting to make money I learned about adsense, read up on how to optimize it and implemented what I learned. A few months later I landed my biggest adsense check, $1600, and I ended up selling this site for over 10k on flippa.

After I sold it I decided to continued researching adsense and optimizing it and decided to launch more sites. Fast forward to today, its now going on 5 months since I started my first site for my second round of sites, I made almost 2k last month and so far this month Im averaging over $100 per day on adsense, with yesterday being my best with over $200 for the day. My goal is to continue perfecting this and make as many sites as possible, if this keeps up I could quit my day job and do this full time.

I have outlined my process in previous posts. If you want to know just search posts from me, its in there somewhere.

Yes picking the right keywords is tough. I actually stumbled across a niche that has been very easy to rank for and all of my sites are in this niche. I wont leave this niche because I continue to find more and more sites in this niche.

Like I said, I look at who is found for the keywords on the front page. If its a bunch of big time players like amazon, yellow pages or other micro niche sites etc I tend to stay away. But if its full of just general sites like ask.com or about.com or yahoo answers then I will move forward. Sometimes I will take on keywords that has other niche sites in search results, but only if I feel I can out rank them with my SEO techniques. But again this is gained from experience and gut instinct.

Thanks! One day Im hoping to have earnings like yours in your sig. Can I ask one question? How many sites did it take to get to that point? Right now I have under 10.

Nope, I will post links even if they arent linked at all, just text. Because I have found that though search engines might not pick it up, humans will copy the url and paste into the browser. Then once the user is there you have a chance for them to click an ad and or forward the site to another person or book mark the page. So I dont care if its a no follow or just plain text, I will post it either way.

No tools, just googling around

I write ZERO content. I pay nothing for content as I dont need content outside of what is already on the site. Like I said these are truly passive income sites. I hardly have to do anything with them once they are launched. The main amount of time I spend is creating manual back links to these sites.

Your absolutely right and this is what concerns me which prompted my initial question. Should I use the traffic Im getting from my adsense sites to also promote products via amazon affiliate to diversify my earnings? Or should I just start fresh with a different method/site to make money with something like amazon?

Doh! Just purchased a mid level vps from Liquidweb.

Well if you are only trying to link for search engines then I guess it would be pointless. I don't add links just for search engines, I also add for humans to visit my site. Search engines don't click ads.

I hate wordpress, I dont use WP. Everything is custom made from scratch by me.

Cant help you there, sorry. Never used courses, I would recommend though reading up on Adsense's blog and video channel on youtube. A lot of great information.

I never said there wasn't any content. I said I didn't have to create ongoing articles. The content is a one time thing consisting of information people look for everyday online. I just optimize it where its easy to find via search engines.