Find a good niche in which you are already knowledgeable and then the key to good adsense earnings is lots of useful, original and honest content. Almost everything else is secondary. I don't have time to spend researching keywords, pretty graphics, endlessly fiddle with ad placement and fine tune the SEO, I just concentrate on content. I started 15 months ago with 3 months earning below $100. In November I just broke $500 in a month. Not millions, but signifigant money. But it can take over a year for a good content site to "take off". There is no quick earnings solution accessable to all: Those who think there is such a thing are not building a reliable long term prospect.
That is exactly the sort of comment that confuses Newbies. It is not a game to play and see if you are lucky enough to win - in the majority of cases, long term earnings only come from hard work.
Everybody here has great input. While it may be redundant, the lessons I have learned along the road are as follows: 1. ORIGINAL content Never, ever, copy content from another site. Do your research like you would for a school paper, and write your own material. Add content every day, or every second day. When I foresee my week being very busy, I write about 7 articles per site on the weekend. Each day I add one to the site. If you utilize Google Sitemaps, it makes it easy for Google to revisit your site and find the new content. Place a link on your main page to the new content, for both SE spiders and visitors to your site. 2. Links Talk to people in the community of your sites niche. Request and trade links in a professional manner. Join message forums, not for the signature, but to contribute to the discussions. People will follow your links because you know what you are talking about. Submit to search engines and link directories (these are low on the importance level, but help nonetheless). 3. Multiple Sites Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Have multiple sites about different topics. You never know what will take off, and on the other side, you never know which ones will never take off. 4. Topics of Interest Create your sites on topics that interest you. This goes hand in hand with the point below. There is no way you are going to stick with a topic/site if you don't find the information interesting. If you like what you are writing about, you are doing it for own satisfaction and will be more likely to stick with it. 5. Be Patient and Diligent This is the most important factor. In the vast majority of cases, you will not see the results you want right away. It may not happen for months, or even a year. Don't get discouraged. Keep working at it. Keep writing content, adding to your site daily. Your site will grow based on content levels, age of domain and links coming in to you over time. There are so many factors that go into a successful site. Some are well-known facts, others are intangibles that you will never foresee. The above points are the important factors for myself, and I have seen good success from it. Hope this helps.
You've also got to think about how search engines work; slowly. You start out, you work hard you get a few visitors for obscure search terms, a few clicks. you carry on working, maybe double your contents, maybe double your income, but still low. This continues, but then theres a google dance, you start ranking for some of your keywords, traffic goes up ten times in one day, as do clicks, you still add content. time goes on... now ranking for more terms, site ages, tonnes more pages, tonnes more traffic. This explains why the first few months you can be working like mad but see little changes, then all of a sudden, you go from low X a day to XX a day and seem to miss, the medium x a day.
100% false.. . You can make thousands of dollars from organic results each and every day. If your making under $1 a day you are one of two things, lazy or don't know what to do.
yea its a simple phenomenon ,either you spend money to get money or spend your precious time instead of money.those who spend money won't have to spend much time and those who don't have money to promote will have to die the whole day on promoting and sth.
I don't agree with that. It does take time and is a slow process. That comment above is not very helpful or encouraging to those working hard to achieve their goals and learning along the way.
If you find a good niche category, which everyone is interested in and bring in a decent amount of traffic, that's where the money starts coming in. No one wants to read about what happened to you on your way to work, for example. People want something interesting to read about, and if they search for something, they expect to find it. Traffic + Well blended ads = $$$
Well, there are many blogs that talk about there lives and do great. Just look at http://www.violentacres.com/, it has been a big success.
This question is wrong...Nothing is easy for anyone.. If someone is earning more than $100 in a day there is a lot of hard work, innovation and common sense involved. Profitable niche, Quality content, Good SEO and a well ad placement will do the trick... thats it. And yeah it all involves a quite heavy research work...
not always true. depends on niche and type of site. 40k pageviews a day, ctr=low ecpm=low. $20/day from adsense. 1 block on page. No matter the placement or colours it remains the same, though Im not worried as the site has other sources of income but traffic doesn't always mean $$$.
Dedication and motivation, you cant be lazy or give up, keep at it and you will be rolling in the thick stuff
Ive been working with another person, for the last 5 months on a website. Even though we started with a large audience, it can be hard. Traffic, yes can help. But if you run a forum and do millions of pages a day, your click through will probably be very low. Uniques is key and CPM advertising in that case. And we only recently got into google. And our keywords went from 250, to 900 in one month, looks like it will double in this month again. But Im not making enough yet. I still have more out than in. I pay for expensive servers mainly because I don't want the hastle of downtime. Or dealing with an incompetant host. How much time? 2 people by 12 hours a day(average)... and still at a loss. I dont have a job, im a student and the other person doesnt have a job. Is it worth it? Absolutly, because knowing in the next 2 years its going to be massive. Pierce