Why not just use a blog as a CMS for your site. You can add static pages and/or blog posts as you see fit. Saves a lot of time building a new layout etc etc etc.
Hi jeeplaw, It seems to me that you're just asking the basic "How To Get Near The Top Of The Search Results?" question. Assuming you've found a niche market with few competitors, it should be easy. Research what they are doing for SEO, and do it better. Bompa
Hi Bompa, It's actually a little more than questioning "how to get to the top". Any webmaster interested in making a lot of money on the net, should be aware of this site and many others that provide the pearls of wisdom to that question I'm actually interested in the systematic protocols that have been employed by those who have been successful in adsense- specifically with numerous sites built just for adsense. Example: 1)come across a high paying keyword that has not been played to death on the market 2)build a site in 1-2 days, utilizing static and blog pages centered around the keyword subject, make the material dense enough to be important, but vague enough to make the vistor "click through" the site- including the ads 3)submit this site to popular web directories(Free) or use the blog/ping method of getting indexed quicker? Or... 4)Assuming you already have PR4,5,6 sites with low outbound links, throw your new site with linktext onto the front of one of those sites 5)Sit back, and begin the process all over again for the next keyword Like I said, I'm not to interested in how you are specifically building your pages and what SEO tactics are being employed. Instead, I'm more curious of the mental automation that you've set up for your money making sites. Step 1, Step 2, Step 3..etc.
OK, here what many people do (I think). 1) find keywords: look for ones which you can get good SERPs for reasonably easy - not necessarily the highest paying keywords. 2) build the site: this should take less than 1 day and ideally use a standard backend which is skinable (ie you can change the look of the site at will just by changing one template). 3) find content for the site: use article banks, unique custom written content (by you or someone else), rss feeds etc 4) get the site indexed: submit to directories, link from your other sites, buy high PR links, use whatever options are available to you. 5) Once indexed, drive links into the site - use coop, LV, your own site network, directories, link trades, everything you can think of. 6) start at 1. 7) Monitor stats for all sites: tie adsense stats into webstats so you can see if a site is performing well or not - even if you're just cutting and pasting into a spreadsheet. If a niche site performs exceptionally well then generate more sites in that niche. At all times, have your own goals set as to what you expect a site to achieve. Measure your sites against your own expectations, never be swayed by what others think - by all means listen to them, take their views on board, but draw your own conclusions. Monitor SERPs constantly, have scripts that notify you that a site is dropping drastically. You need to know if a niche you're operating in is going to hell in a basket - it could be that something has decided that it doesn't like your tactics, or it could be a new webmaster has moved in and taken over. Monitor your earnings constantly. You're not looking for hourly trends, but if a site is bringing in $100 per week then it drops to $5 then something is wrong - you're in this for the money so keep an eye on your money sources. Always have more than one income stream. Never ever just rely on adsense. Be creative in how you create the site, there is always a way of plugging affiliate income into an adsense site. Finally, never get upset if people tell you that the way you're doing things is wrong. They're entitled to their views whether they agree with yours or not. Don't get dragged into pointless arguements on forums - it's easy to do and hard to resist - you would be better off creating another site. Are my sites built just for adsense, NO. They would work just as well with any other contextual advertising system (I think). Am I enjoying massive success with adsense, NO not compared with some people - but my adsense income is growing considerably month on month.
If you want to do some interlinking of your sites, its better to get domains on other IP addresses, so it seems. Links from (sub) domains with the same IP address suppose to have less value then from domains in an other IP range.
Some of the best advice I've seen on the forums. Thank you very much...going to go try that out right now.
Effectively it's no different to the process that you use to create any type of website. You start with an idea, turn that idea into a site, promote the site, monitor the results. That's all there is to creating any website.
I've been really impressed with NetShops. You can read my thoughts about them on this recent blog post: http://clicknewz.blogspot.com/2005/08/check-out-netshops.html . Of course, there's tons of great networks: CJ, LinkShare, etc - and tons of great individual programs out there...
I think bad things have been said about every single affilaite network at some point or other. Personally I'm interested in 2 things when looking at a network. 1) do they pay on time 2) do their merchants provide datafeeds via ftp. A no to either of these will put that network on the back burner. Unless the site is converting exceedingly well, then I will not update a site unless the datafeed download can be scripted. I will not jump through hoops in order to download a datafeed. Other people expect different things. So which are the best affiliate networks will depend upon exactly what you are looking for.
This is a good point. I am thinking of converting my newsletter into a blog. Easier to archive...once a month. D
You're going to have to explain what that means - the question doesn't make sense Datafeeds normally come in .csv files which once downloaded you can run scripts against to put in a format to fit into your database structure.
What data feeds are you downloading from merchants? Do you mean you just want the ability to download your stats in a format which you can use to import into your own DB for analysis?
A datafeed (when it comes to affiliate sites) is a download which contains (often in csv format) information on all products offered. It has things like thumbnail url, description, purchase url, categories etc etc. It allows you to build a 100% custom sites based entirely on the merchants product line. If you like, it's one step below offering a direct API (such as AWS) which very few merchants do. Some merchants only offer banner links into their sites, that at the moment isn't of much use to me so I ignore that type.
Just to bring back the discussion t o forefront, Any other successful multi-adsense site webmasters want to give their input into what they're creation protocols are like?