How did you make your Adsense fortune?

Yah some over-used keywords would be student loans, mortage loans, plastic surgery, real estate, uhm... can't think of anymore, braindead. Anyone?

 

I agree with this one.

 

Hi, I have a commercial website (www. marineyacht. com, we're a yachtcharter company) but I'm somewhat reluctant of placing adsense on it. I hate to lose a visitor off of my site for a few cents (maybe to a competitors website) whereas he might eventually book a yacht if he stays on my site. Any thoughts or experiences regarding this?

 

Blogging does well, although content is king, you need a site thats perfectly laid out, ads placed perfectly, and you need good content. Afterall your clickers will be clicking relevent ads.

So use your head.

 

Been there done that with three little kids in the house!

I have two high traffic sites and a couple of small sites so I guess 1 & 2 for me. I have all my sites on their own domains.

 

I have four ecommerce websites and know I could make money with adsense on them, but I am ultimately trying to gain customers so I won't add adsense to those sites. I have competitors who do this and when I look at it, it sort of conveys that the products they are selling aren't good enough and that they are recommending other websites. Not conducive to creating brand loyalty LOL

 

My point exactly!

 

high traffic sites+quality and original content

 

Another good tip is probably just get a one flagship domain, fill up good contents with it. 1-2 months, the SERPs will pick it up, and you get pageranked by Google.

Then, when you have another genre in mind, instead of getting another domain name and start from scratch, just make a subdirectory in your initial highly-ranked domain. eg: yourflagshipdomain.com/yournewtopic - then the page rank can easily be passed to your new pages and easily picked up by Google and other SERPs.

This is what I've been experimenting these past few weeks. No more new domains (and the slow waiting).

 

I think you're right. The waiting for G to completely index my new website is really killing me. Well, almost

 

I'm waiting to hear from you. Do you have many websites on one domain? Maybe that's a lesser explored, but big money making technique. It surely worked for msn.com.

 

I think it's hard to theme a site when each sub directory has different subjects or categories. MSN can get away with it because they have the branding behind them and it's a portal, but if i had a high traffic site selling fishing tackle, then added a fishingtackle.com/gymequipment/ sub directory, from a users surfing perspective I'd value the site less than a gym-equipment.com address.

 

Problems start below this line.

Problems start above this line.

 

Find a niche that you are passionate about... In my experience, it is easier and better off to have one focus site...

 

Well tell me has it worked for you and been a success my44?

 

one important thing i have learned in this game, is that there is more disinformation than information on webmaster boards. the true skill is seperating the signal from the noise. all of these webmaster forums are full of noise, but every once in a while you'll get a small signal of truly important and educational information. but you have to be in tune to receive it.

 

Work you way up, not down, Dont start with google. Start with MSN. MSN has much less traffic than google but they index very quickly. Once you have some content you should get a few visitors a day wth search traffic.

 

Join the club!

The first few days I upload my site, I checked my AWstats religiously to see, "Has he come in yet?" LOL

By "he", I mean Googlebot

 

True also.

So maybe for those who are about just to start from ground zero, maybe he/she can get a universal sounding domain.

For example, I do a lot of travelogues. So maybe buy a domain mytravelogue.com then create subdirectory of many different travel themes eg: mytravelogue.com/fishing or /camping. When ever you have new contents from recent winter break holidays, add another folder.

I do agree that fishingtackle and gymequipment would be weird.

 

Well, I have awstats too on my site and I can see that Gbot is there every day again right up to the moment that awstat makes a new "run", but I'm having some troubles with some ugly url's that G doesn't really like to crawl. Hopefully the webdevelopers can finish their mod_rewrite today so things go a bit quicker.