The race to $100/day in Adsense from 2010 - 2013
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Just a quick story of a few things I worked on from 2010 to 2013
Back in 2010 I had a fair amount of domains that I owned. Some were long standing domains that I had from a web hosting company I sold in 2003, and some were personal domains (tech stuff, hobbies etc…). I was seeing quite a lot of my associates making some decent money with Adsense and I wanted to give it a try. From my past experiences in on-line marketing (I’ve been in this field since 1997) I knew that I had to first research exactly how it worked, and what I could do to really have this thing take off.
My initial thought of Adsense was it was an answer to a question. From my analysis an appropriate adsense advertisement, if placed well, is something people actually want to click on. I thought if I built a website that the people who found it had an interest and/or had a question, make the advertisements the answer. At the time I was big into cell phones: Create a cell phone site people would find by typing in “How-to’s” etc… Create content about how to fix a cell phone, fix the screen etc… and if done properly the advertisements on the website would lead to these types of sites. With a little magic and persistence the site went from nothing to about $1/day in a few weeks. This was my 1st ever adsense site.
Once this started to take off I fully jumped into Adsense; I was a reading fool. I probably read over 100 eBooks, watched hundreds of videos, and visited a ton of websites. I knew ‘Knowledge is Power’ and the most I could learn *BEFORE* I fully jumped in, the better results I would get. I also knew, from researching, that I wasn’t going to see immediate results. My first site could easily have been beginners luck. I told myself that even if I make 10 other sites and they fail; keep at it. As long as I have a plan, and stick to the plan, it will work.
To begin… I had to have a plan. I needed to make sure before I did anything I always knew what I had to do, and when I had to do it. I never wanted to be in a position where I didn’t know what I had to do next. If I felt that, I failed my plan. This was my initial plan (generally speaking):
Research/Building of site: Create 10 websites for the sole purpose of Adsense
Get Organized: Create a spreadsheet with the following details
One of the things I learned in the beginning was some of my sites brought in a lot more traffic than I thought. I had, roughly, 65 websites and at the time none of them had adsense code. I promptly added the code to all my websites and within a fews day Adsense was bringing in about $10/day! Since I had my existing sites monetized, it was time to focus on the 10 new sites.
At the time, Article Submission was a pretty big thing. I invested in SEO Article Submission ($47/mo). I used their service to submit articles that I wrote. At the time, they had free spinning capability, so I spun my articles at 80%+. I took the spun articles and put them on my 40 blog sites; they needed more content. After a few weeks of doing this my existing blog sites started to pop. At this point… the account jumped up a few more dollars per day. After the first month I went from nothing to averaging $17/day.
I left the sites for a month as I had to deal with some personal matters…
Seeing my (network) grow to $17/day had me excited. If I can do $17/day… why can’t I really invest into this and hit $40/day, $60/day or even $100/day? What else could I do to really get thing going?
The 2nd thing I purchased was The Best Spinner ($57/mo). SEO Article Submission was ok, but I wanted something a bit more robust. I was able to spin 70 articles per day with TBS and this really helped with content.
The 3rd thing I purchased was 3WayLinks.I installed the code on all my sites, and saw a increase in traffic from this service. It did exactly what it said it would do.
The 4th thing I purchased was ScrapeBox, which at the time, worked extremely well. I never used ScrapeBox like most people did. I used it to find highly ranked sites similar to mine and manually submitted comments. Nothing spammy, nothing immature. Just honest reviewed comments with a small link in my name. I didn’t care about keywords, I was looking for websites that were relevant to mine, that had a lot of traffic. This dramatically increased traffic to my sites. I was seeing a 95%+ acceptance rate of my comments, and some of the website owners would contact me back. I started a lot of business relationships with these people (which later on helped me create 100+ tablet websites). Some of the websites we swapped links; and some were 7+ PR sites.
The 5th thing I purchased was VideoSwiper (It was version 1 back then). I purchased 10 .info domains at $1.00 (was cheap back then) and setup 10 sites ranging from country music, hip hop, to dolpins, quilting etc…
After I did all this; running Wordpress sites, vBulletin forums, personal websites etc… etc… I saw a huge jump in adsense. In about 3 months of everything I hit $95/day. From here I knew I could “rinse and repeat”.
Since then, I’ve obviously upgraded my arsenal. We utilize automated social networking, create thousands of videos, use SEnuke XCR, and all that jazz. The one thing I never stopped doing was: Research, Organize, and Implement. If my game plan was sound, I knew it would become a success.
Now… I know times have changed; but the simple plan hasn’t. If you’re wanting to make websites to make immediate money… you will probably fail. IM takes time, most people know this. If you stick to a realistic game plan, and implement it… most likely it will succeed. If you find something that works, “rinse and repeat”. If something fails, drop it and go to something else. Focus on what works… In the beginning I did have some sites that completely failed. My dolphin site was HORRIBLE. Within 3 months I made less than $0.20 = I terminated the site.
The ironic thing was, once I found a service that worked, I tried to sell it myself. We first started to use SEnuke XCR once it was released; I immediately saw how powerful this software was. Instead of using it for just personal (and/or company use) we decided to start selling packages. 4,000+ sold gigs on fiverr, and a ton of sales from our website; $45k+ later... it was an amazing investment.
Back in 2010 I had a fair amount of domains that I owned. Some were long standing domains that I had from a web hosting company I sold in 2003, and some were personal domains (tech stuff, hobbies etc…). I was seeing quite a lot of my associates making some decent money with Adsense and I wanted to give it a try. From my past experiences in on-line marketing (I’ve been in this field since 1997) I knew that I had to first research exactly how it worked, and what I could do to really have this thing take off.
My initial thought of Adsense was it was an answer to a question. From my analysis an appropriate adsense advertisement, if placed well, is something people actually want to click on. I thought if I built a website that the people who found it had an interest and/or had a question, make the advertisements the answer. At the time I was big into cell phones: Create a cell phone site people would find by typing in “How-to’s” etc… Create content about how to fix a cell phone, fix the screen etc… and if done properly the advertisements on the website would lead to these types of sites. With a little magic and persistence the site went from nothing to about $1/day in a few weeks. This was my 1st ever adsense site.
Once this started to take off I fully jumped into Adsense; I was a reading fool. I probably read over 100 eBooks, watched hundreds of videos, and visited a ton of websites. I knew ‘Knowledge is Power’ and the most I could learn *BEFORE* I fully jumped in, the better results I would get. I also knew, from researching, that I wasn’t going to see immediate results. My first site could easily have been beginners luck. I told myself that even if I make 10 other sites and they fail; keep at it. As long as I have a plan, and stick to the plan, it will work.
To begin… I had to have a plan. I needed to make sure before I did anything I always knew what I had to do, and when I had to do it. I never wanted to be in a position where I didn’t know what I had to do next. If I felt that, I failed my plan. This was my initial plan (generally speaking):
Research/Building of site: Create 10 websites for the sole purpose of Adsense
- Research to see what trends were popular at the time
- Try to keep them in the tech field
- Preferably have them a bit complicated; people are searching for answers
- Use a template/theme that was easy to navigate
Get Organized: Create a spreadsheet with the following details
- Domain Names
- Unique hits per Day/Week/Month
- How many pages/articles does the site have
- How many videos does the site have
- How many backlinks does it have
- Etc…
One of the things I learned in the beginning was some of my sites brought in a lot more traffic than I thought. I had, roughly, 65 websites and at the time none of them had adsense code. I promptly added the code to all my websites and within a fews day Adsense was bringing in about $10/day! Since I had my existing sites monetized, it was time to focus on the 10 new sites.
At the time, Article Submission was a pretty big thing. I invested in SEO Article Submission ($47/mo). I used their service to submit articles that I wrote. At the time, they had free spinning capability, so I spun my articles at 80%+. I took the spun articles and put them on my 40 blog sites; they needed more content. After a few weeks of doing this my existing blog sites started to pop. At this point… the account jumped up a few more dollars per day. After the first month I went from nothing to averaging $17/day.
I left the sites for a month as I had to deal with some personal matters…
Seeing my (network) grow to $17/day had me excited. If I can do $17/day… why can’t I really invest into this and hit $40/day, $60/day or even $100/day? What else could I do to really get thing going?
The 2nd thing I purchased was The Best Spinner ($57/mo). SEO Article Submission was ok, but I wanted something a bit more robust. I was able to spin 70 articles per day with TBS and this really helped with content.
The 3rd thing I purchased was 3WayLinks.I installed the code on all my sites, and saw a increase in traffic from this service. It did exactly what it said it would do.
The 4th thing I purchased was ScrapeBox, which at the time, worked extremely well. I never used ScrapeBox like most people did. I used it to find highly ranked sites similar to mine and manually submitted comments. Nothing spammy, nothing immature. Just honest reviewed comments with a small link in my name. I didn’t care about keywords, I was looking for websites that were relevant to mine, that had a lot of traffic. This dramatically increased traffic to my sites. I was seeing a 95%+ acceptance rate of my comments, and some of the website owners would contact me back. I started a lot of business relationships with these people (which later on helped me create 100+ tablet websites). Some of the websites we swapped links; and some were 7+ PR sites.
The 5th thing I purchased was VideoSwiper (It was version 1 back then). I purchased 10 .info domains at $1.00 (was cheap back then) and setup 10 sites ranging from country music, hip hop, to dolpins, quilting etc…
After I did all this; running Wordpress sites, vBulletin forums, personal websites etc… etc… I saw a huge jump in adsense. In about 3 months of everything I hit $95/day. From here I knew I could “rinse and repeat”.
Since then, I’ve obviously upgraded my arsenal. We utilize automated social networking, create thousands of videos, use SEnuke XCR, and all that jazz. The one thing I never stopped doing was: Research, Organize, and Implement. If my game plan was sound, I knew it would become a success.
Now… I know times have changed; but the simple plan hasn’t. If you’re wanting to make websites to make immediate money… you will probably fail. IM takes time, most people know this. If you stick to a realistic game plan, and implement it… most likely it will succeed. If you find something that works, “rinse and repeat”. If something fails, drop it and go to something else. Focus on what works… In the beginning I did have some sites that completely failed. My dolphin site was HORRIBLE. Within 3 months I made less than $0.20 = I terminated the site.
The ironic thing was, once I found a service that worked, I tried to sell it myself. We first started to use SEnuke XCR once it was released; I immediately saw how powerful this software was. Instead of using it for just personal (and/or company use) we decided to start selling packages. 4,000+ sold gigs on fiverr, and a ton of sales from our website; $45k+ later... it was an amazing investment.
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