mini-websites for Adsense + SE traffic?

bigbyte said:
I pushed my Adsense income from $550 a month to $1600 over a 5 month period. It is slow, but as mentioned once they are on auto-pilot you can work on new sites or new projects. Adsense is funding other projects of mine and that is the beauty of this type of business.

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auto-pilot....yeah, adsense have that beauty...I have a blog that I'm quit updating, but it still have some visitor.......something like that
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Damn, man! Why you gotta be giving away all the secrets?!

+rep for bringing it back to the basics.

efeezy said:
This is really good advice. I've built crap made for adsense sites before, and they never make any money. However, I have half a dozen really good sites that have excellent content and are of great use to the user. They make me around $9000 a month, so I'll take a few really good sites over a hundred bullshit MFA sites any day of the week. You sound like you have some skills to make it work, just find some niches and create something useful. The traffic and clicks will come.
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efeezy said:
My sites that do well have between 15-25 pages a piece They're very keyword rich and have #1 rankings for almost every keyword I went after. Each site averages 3000-5000 unique visitors per day and I have a 5.5% CTR. I have all of these sites on the same server, but split between a couple IP's.

Do some research and find a hot product or topic. See what kind of search volume it's main keywords are getting and check how much competition there is for those keywords. Once you've got that, get a good domain name with the keywords in it and start building content. Make your site unique with something useful to the visitor. Then start building links. Buy a social bookmarking package from Red_Virus in the Buy, Sell Trade section. Keep building links where ever you can and you'll start to see some results in the search engines. That's the best advice I can give you.



This sounds like fucking Digital Point. Read what I said above and start doing exactly that. It's not instant gratification like PPC shit. You have to be in it for the duration. It will take months to see good results...but if you put in the work, you will make consistent money every day. I have sites that I've worked my ass of on, built good content, links from every damn place on the planet and just never was able to get good search results. That can be hard to handle sometimes. To put in that much work and not get the results your used to. But I learn a lot from each failure, and make sure I don't duplicate it on the next project.

I nothing but respect for the guys who are kicking ass with PPC, but finding a niche and doing successful SEO, grinding it out trying to get good SERP's is equally as challenging but can be much more sustainable over the long haul.
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^^ LOL...I'm not too worried about any of my niches being overtaken with my sharing these methods. Not really any trade secrets in there unfortunately. Maybe it will help get a few newbies on the right track.
 
Hey efeezy, great comments, I still remember reading your post on when u chose to quite your day job, and I see that it is going great for you so far, great job.

Btw if its not a secret what type of wordpress templates u use?
For your niche sites... Are they blogs or... Idk, thanks in advance
 
Thanks. It's going really well, and I'm loving ever damn minute of it.

As for my templates. I don't think I use the same template on any two sites. I've got a few product review, informational type sites that I use a simple 2 column template on, and I have a couple of niche gaming sites that I go with more of a magazine style template. I just take the guts of the template and then tweak sizes and <div>'s to suit what I'm trying to do.

It's really not the template so much as making the site look professional and not like a cookie cutter adsense site. Give the readers some information, but not so much that they aren't still looking for more info...and your ads are where they'll find it.
 
I don't worry about KW density so much. I just make sure that I have the kewords on the page and that it flows naturally. Try not to stuff KW's...it sounds ridiculous and G hates it.
 
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+rep @efeezy (if I could, says I can't give you anymore, strange)

I've got a quick question if you don't mind, I'm having some problems understanding search numbers. When you target a niche, how much search traffic do you think it should have? I've looked at google keyword tool on exact match and a keyword will say 30,000 per month, then I go to wordtracker and it'll say 100 per day which is 10%. 100 searches per day doesn't seem like enough, what kind of numbers do you look for?

Congrats again on your new baby girl!
 
As a rule, I try to make sure that the main keywords I'm targeting for any particular niche get at minimum 300 searches per day. You will almost always pick up traffic from long tail versions of your main keywords. But anything less than 300 people searching for your keywords per day won"t bring you enough eyes and clicks to make money. This doesnt mean that you can't get good results with keywords under 300 SPD. Plenty of my sub pages target lower search volume keywords, but for your main keyword set, keep it over 300.

I've always used the SEO Book Keyword Tool which pulls from wordtracker, to get search volume for Yahoo, Google & Bing. You can also see how much people are paying per click for your keywords and a lot of other good data.
 
Feezy, when is the e-book coming out. I'll take the first review copy.

Nice information on this thread brotha. I'll rep ya in the AM. I have given out too much rep today.

feezy for the fuckin win!
 
Thanks. Yeah I should probably throw an ebook together and hock the shit out of it over on DP. A "Step by Step Guide to Making Money with Adsense" ebook would probably kill it over there. Building niche sites that can earn good money from Adsense is the one aspect of AM that I'm comfortable with and can speak somewhat intelligently about. Honestly, I wish I had a better handle on PPC, so I could run some successful campaigns along with my SEO & adsense efforts. Keeping the income diverse is always important.
 
efeezy said:
Thanks. Yeah I should probably throw an ebook together and hock the shit out of it over on DP. A "Step by Step Guide to Making Money with Adsense" ebook would probably kill it over there. Building niche sites that can earn good money from Adsense is the one aspect of AM that I'm comfortable with and can speak somewhat intelligently about. Honestly, I wish I had a better handle on PPC, so I could run some successful campaigns along with my SEO & adsense efforts. Keeping the income diverse is always important.
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Dude, hate to break it to you, but your ebook will totally bomb.

Unfortunately what you've outlined involved putting in consistent, real thought and work.

That will never fly with the ebook crowd. You need to package it up in a system that will auto build sites that get you loads of traffic and clicks for 61 days, but then get banned from google, and sell that shit for $5k with 60 day guarantee. :2drinkspit:
 
Yeah..seems no one wants put in any effort and learn how to build something from the ground up. Most of these noobs just want everything handed to them or they want to make $1000 a day with PPC from the get go.

I could put together a great training guide on making money with Adsense, from niche selection, keyword research, link building, etc. But unless it hands a check to these assholes on a silver platter, they won't spend $50 bucks for what could make them 5 times that in a single day.
 
efeezy said:
I could put together a great training guide on making money with Adsense, from niche selection, keyword research, link building, etc. But unless it hands a check to these assholes on a silver platter, they won't spend $50 bucks for what could make them 5 times that in a single day.
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fuck, I'd buy that and I'm not even a n00b. Well, maybe for SEO I'm a n00b but not for PPC.

Hey, I'll teach ya PPC if you teach me SEO.
 
efeezy said:
Yeah..seems no one wants put in any effort and learn how to build something from the ground up. Most of these noobs just want everything handed to them or they want to make $1000 a day with PPC from the get go.

I could put together a great training guide on making money with Adsense, from niche selection, keyword research, link building, etc. But unless it hands a check to these assholes on a silver platter, they won't spend $50 bucks for what could make them 5 times that in a single day.
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Just curious, efeezy - do you intentionally target high-paying keywords? In other words, do you use the Google Keyword tool to see how much specific keywords are paying out? Or is traffic the only determinant in your selection process? Reason is, I'm thinking of diversifying my portfolio with some Adsense sites, and am trying to think of the best way to select a niche/keyword.
 
hellblazer said:
Just curious, efeezy - do you intentionally target high-paying keywords? In other words, do you use the Google Keyword tool to see how much specific keywords are paying out? Or is traffic the only determinant in your selection process? Reason is, I'm thinking of diversifying my portfolio with some Adsense sites, and am trying to think of the best way to select a niche/keyword.
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I really don't. I go after moderate paying niches, and some may even say low paying. I tried busting my ass on a loan consolidation type site a few years ago. It took me a year to get top 5 rankings, and it lasted a week. I was getting $2.00 clicks, but I couldn't hang with the big sites for that long and I just lost interest. (If I had known about CPA offers back then I probably would have gone a different route and killed it). So now I just find niches with ok pay out, but more importantly, weak competition so I can dominate all related keywords. This isn't a 100% guarantee every time thing. I've got a couple sites that I just can't get good rankings on. So I'll dump them and work on another.

As for finding niches. Take something you're interested in and see if you can find a niche within the niche. Then see if that niche gets any traffic, what people are paying per click, and what the best keywords are. It sounds simple..and it really can be. I'm completely obsessed with golf. I've found a couple of niches within the golf niche that do very well. I know the subject, so I can write about it all day if need be, and it keeps my interest. Those are two important aspects of any successful site I think.



Ben89 said:
How often do you guys update these sites with new content?
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The sites that make most of my earnings only get updated every couple of months or so. Auto-Pilot. That's what it's all about.
 
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efeezy said:
Yeah..seems no one wants put in any effort and learn how to build something from the ground up. Most of these noobs just want everything handed to them or they want to make $1000 a day with PPC from the get go.

I could put together a great training guide on making money with Adsense, from niche selection, keyword research, link building, etc. But unless it hands a check to these assholes on a silver platter, they won't spend $50 bucks for what could make them 5 times that in a single day.
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I'm +rep -ing you again for the stuff you put in here.

I'm looking into a few ideas for building adsense sites right now. If you ever write that guide ...let me know :) I've read a few and they are so generalized I didn't get much out of it. I'm willing to bust my ass - plus I can type like a demon - cranking out 100 pages of content/week is no big deal for me when I get going and have the subject matter covered.
 
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