I made semifortune with Adsense...without a single penny investment

Well, it will be quite some time until I am anywhere near Shoe's level but I do plan on sharing more and more as time goes by since everything has started to gel.

I also won't make public my own "proprietary" secrets because it's the one nugget of info that you have that noone else has that will enable you to make a living. However, noone can find it for you anyway. You have to find it yourself. If anyone thinks that any two posters on DP or any other webmaster forum do everything the exact same way (or even close) then they are sorely mistaken. I was going crazy for a while trying to learn everything about everything. It was only until I calmed down and actually tried stuff and experiemented that I learned anything at all. I have failed a LOT and I will fail a LOT MORE but that's when you learn the most.

 

One thing I will say is to concentrate on the word "niche." Seriously let it sink in what that actually means. "SEO" is not a niche, in this sense. "Computers" is not a niche, in this sense. "Hermit Crab Socks" is what I would consider a niche. Take that piece of advice and run with it.

 

I dont get it.

Your best pay out is from a site where keyword searched was only 600 times? you check using overture, which shows monthly results. So thats like 20 people a day searching for your niche -- I doubt all 20 would visit your site, unless your really lucky, or you have like the top 10 results on google. Then what is your CTR? Say its really good, like 40% -- and all 20 people a day find your site, thats 8 people clicking your ads -- and you said you get like $2 a click. Thats $16 a day.

-- I'm not saying your lying mate, i'm trying to work it out. I've never thought about going for keywords with such low search results. -- as i didnt think it could pull in the people to get any money.

 

100% agree with you. Keep on trying...it's really rewarding and satisfying to be successful after initial failure.

Way to go mate. I am pretty sure that we will reach to the level of Shawn or Shoe some day but by that time their level again will be higher so it's a never ending story.

Jamx

 

Personally, I count on that attitude from other webmasters when I make my sites.

I love it when I see "mesothelioma" sites. Keep concentrating on those, everyone!

 

Haha. Shawn and Shoe will soon be these huge entities upon themselves, taking on huge corporations by themselves and winning. In fact, those guys don't even really exist. They are Marvel comics characters like Wolverine and Spiderman. Something for everyone to aspire to, but nothing more than a dream in our collective consciousness.

SpiderShawn and WolverShoe!

 

You did perfect calculation. Very close but that is reality and that is the fun of highly specialized market. When you get a niche which has limited but seriously interested audience but not enough material on net exactly that is the result you get. Listen to Sd2001 "hermit crab socks" could be the niche.
btw, I checked the overture when I make site but it is not hard and fast number it can go up or down as well.

Jamx

 

very rightly said sd2001

Jamx

 

Cheers jamx03 and you other guys, a very informative and motivational thread.

I have started Adsense in the last week, so nothing to add, but I think a great deal to gain from this thread.

Cheers again

DD

 

Hi jamx03, nice to hear your story. How do you work getting links to your blogs ? or dont you ?

 

I really don't care about getting links because as I told earlier it is a small and highly specialized niche. If I see few other blogs in the same niche then I try to post a msg. as a comment but I realized that it is very hard. Now a days, I spend maximum time finding niche and then just build unique content and automatically people will come and some other sites will link because it is not MFA site it is genuine site.

Jamx

 

is there any other place to look for good keywords? somehow i cant go to overture to look for keywords, i dont know if i have right link, inventory.overture

 

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/

 

I don't understand how visitors are even going to know the site exists if you are not actively cultivating links. The sites are brand-new blogs so presumably they won't be performing too well in the search engines. So I don't see how traffic is finding its way to your new sites, and certainly not on the scale that you would require to make the kind of earnings which you've hinted at. I'm not doubting your word - I just can't make it all fit together because there's a gap in the narrative, and that gap is the traffic.

 

@ Coast,

If he is making sites about keywords where there are only 30 odd other sites about the subject -- he only needs to do better SEO, and it will soon be in a good position on google. (maybe a few backlinks)

 

I don't get why you people are so focused on how many searches there are vs. how many sites there are. If you think you can make your site better than the rest, then go for it, no matter if there are already 10 million sites about it out there.

I don't even check how many searches and how many sites there are when going after a certain idea. Granted, my planned sites aren't that specific, so I don't have to worry about very few searches a day. But when I have an idea I go for it, because I KNOW I can make my site better than the rest.

 

Yes Icheb, but there are a limit as to what makes sense. I wouldnt make a site on debt because I know i cant make it to the top in the serps.

 

It's checking out the competion before doing somthing -- and almost everyone does it. If you wanted to open a burger bar, you wouldnt open it next door to a mcdonalds. Everyone knows mcdonalds, and its the first thing they will see with their golden arches.

The less compition there is, the less you have to do. Less backlinks, your site will be higher up the search engine pages. More people will keep returning, etc.

You say you dont check searches and other sites results? what happends if you make this amazing site, and knowbody even looks for your keywords, you'd have made it for nothing. Or, you spend weeks and weeks making a cool site where people can watch streaming videos -- then find out about this site called "youtube".

It just makes sense to see if people need your site, if there is a demand for it, and if there is any compition. Almost all popular topics are going to have a "no.1" site to go with them, a site that everyone knows about. --- and even if you "KNOW" you can make a better site then the rest, the rest still might have years of backlinks and an aged domain making it basicly impossible to get the top spot.

(Sorry about the spelling)

Cheers.

 

Many interesting comments in an interesting thread

 

When you make a brand new blog you atleast make sure to ping it to different blog networks. Also blogger has a setting by which weblog will be automatically notified everytime I update the site. Now the best part is when you are working in a highly specialized niche market you really do not have to worry about backlinks because there are actually very few sites out there. Google is good at indexing blogger blog without any extra efforts and when you have unique content coupled with less competition it is very easy to appear on the top without backlinks. So far I have been lucky enough to find this small niches with high paying keywords for the same which I freely use when I post my content. I hope this helps.

The gist of the matter, focus...focus...focus on finding the right niche with high paying keywords...it is not easy but once you know how to look for it your mind will start thinking of it and then you will find it. I am not always successful but most of the time I am and that comes after few failures.

Good luck to you all.

Jamx