Table Of ContentXFactor 06-21-2009 03:43 PM
6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
It's been 6 months since I've posted because I had gotten
Waaaay off track from my initial goals.
I then decided to stay COMPLETELY off all marketing forums,
get back to my passion (Adsense), and implement a new
strategy to my business.
I have changed a lot of my old approaches and my opinions
on specific strategies have changed quite a but which I'd like
to share a little with you here.
To put it in simple terms... by branching out into dozens of
sites with super-targeted niches, using Google's keyword tool
instead of wordtracker, and some other specific keyword
approaches.
... My Adsense income has almost tripled to date, reaching well
into the $300+ earnings each day.
Some Lessons Learned:
1) I have seen the light in terms of making more sites instead of
focusing on 1 big one. My health site still does well on its own,
around $100 or so daily, but it takes more maintenance than
my new strategy to go specific with keywords and niche markets.
2) I now focus EVERY website on products that can be found at
Amazon, E-bay, Wal-Mart, etc. This is probably the reason why my
income has exploded. I had no idea just how much open markets
there are in these products.
3) I now shoot only for keywords that I know can get in the top
spots for Google but with enough searches to make money.
4) Some of my most stable earners are sites with less than 30
pages.
5) I now work on 4-5 sites at a time, getting each ranked and earning
natural search engine clicks within a week.
6) Some of my sites only have 1 page of content, yet remain earning
$2 to $3 daily without any upkeep.
7) My content is always about product descriptions.
8) I still using article marketing exclusively, but do not worry about
keywords, nor do I care if my article ranks.
9) Some of my sites rank in the top 5 positions of Google, make money,
and I did no backlinking.
10) I have changed up my template that now gets 50% CTR at times,
often reaching the 75% mark (mainly due to using product-only niches).
- John
Jimerson Farveez 06-21-2009 03:46 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
It is great, Thanks for sharing your "Some Lessons Learned" , Let us too follow that kind of
things and get success... :)
discrat 06-21-2009 04:09 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Nice Solid Income x-factor....Congrats !!
That being said I hope you are diversyfing with multiple streams of Income. By the way it
sounds like are you doing Affiliate Marketing since you are talking about Products from
Walmart, Ebay, Amazon etc...
This is very prudent as I would in NO way totally count on Adsense. You are at the mercy of a
Gloliath if you choose to do so. As this stream of Income can literally be taken away from you at
anytime and at a moments notice.
At the very least you should have a backup plan where you have Autoresponders in place to
implement and start building a list and selling products in case Google turns the 'switch' off on
you.
Sounds cruel but it is the Google World we live in ;)
P.S. It sounds to me with that $100 in Adsense Earnings with the Health Site you could really do
sooooooooo much more in Income with Affiliate Marketing or Product creation . That must be a
hell of a lot of traffic right there. You just need to capitalize off it.
Flyingpig7 06-21-2009 04:13 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Good to hear from you Xfactor and that you have progressed on your journey from the original
site. You sound happier as well, clearly you have taken the advice given before and have
monetized further.
Cheers
Keren
Kay King 06-21-2009 04:13 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
John -
Have you changed from the layout you were using in November?
kay
XFactor 06-21-2009 04:16 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by discrat (Post 901412)
Nice Solid Income x-factor.... I hope you are diversyfing with multiple streams of Income. By
the way it sounds like are you doing Affiliate Marketing since you are talking about Products
from Walmart, Ebay, Amazon etc...
This is very prudent as I would in NO way totally count on Adsense. You are at the mercy of a
Gloliath if you choose to do so. As this stream of Income can literally be taken away from you
at anytime and at a moments notice. Sounds cruel but it is the Google World we live in ;)
I'll be honest, I do rely on Adsense simply because it has always been a passion
of mine to make $15,000 to $20,000 per month with it.
However, that is only online. Let's not forget that smart folks invest into other
streams of revenue, like real-estate (I plan on getting "smart" soon).
As far as my Amazon earnings, they do not do badly at all, and you are right, should
something happen with Adsense - I'm still in the game.
- John
Texjd 06-21-2009 04:17 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Good advice for anyone, stay out of the forums and work. I also agree that Wordtracker has
become much less useful. Dropping down to subcategory level helps a lot with avoiding
competition too.
My only concern is that Google owns my adsense income, they can do some wierd stuff and it
has a ripple effect that makes me nervous.
XFactor 06-21-2009 04:18 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyingpig7 (Post 901422)
Good to hear from you Xfactor and that you have progressed on your journey from the original
site. You sound happier as well, clearly you have taken the advice given before and have
monetized further.
Cheers
Keren
Yes Keren, I am MUCH happier. I think the problem was trying too hard
to help people with coaching and my initial Adsense membership. That
was a bit draining and I found that it was not for me.
I did well with "Affiliate marketing" on the typical level, but hated it.
- John
XFactor 06-21-2009 04:19 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kay King (Post 901424)
John -
Have you changed from the layout you were using in November?
kay
Yes I have, but not too much. It's the little tweaks here and there
that have made a big difference.
I now use very high-quality headers as well, and my menu is on the
right side.
Still using 1 Adsense block under the title.
All white backgrounds (no more colors).
- John
Saidar 06-21-2009 04:20 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Congratulations on your success!
I can't understand how you get such huge CTR's ?? Do you mind sharing with us your adsense
template? Where you put your ads etc
XFactor 06-21-2009 04:21 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texjd (Post 901438)
Good advice for anyone, stay out of the forums and work. I also agree that Wordtracker has
become much less useful. Dropping down to subcategory level helps a lot with avoiding
competition too.
Wordtracker was like one of these Ex's that you can't stand to be with, but
for some reason you go back for more.
I now use the Google Tool for all of my work, but with Micro Niche Finder.
- John
XFactor 06-21-2009 04:22 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Saidar (Post 901448)
Congratulations on your success!
I can't understand how you get such huge CTR's ?? Do you mind sharing with us your adsense
template? Where you put your ads etc
Nothing crazy, like always: 1 Adsense block above the content.
The trick is the niche itself - people searching for products and product
prices/deals just love to click.
I've been working smarter, not harder.
- John
discrat 06-21-2009 04:26 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by XFactor (Post 901434)
I'll be honest, I do rely on Adsense simply because it has always been a passion
of mine to make $15,000 to $20,000 per month with it.
However, that is only online. Let's not forget that smart folks invest into other
streams of revenue, like real-estate (I plan on getting "smart" soon).
As far as my Amazon earnings, they do not do badly at all, and you are right, should
something happen with Adsense - I'm still in the game.
- John
Thats great x-factor !! Glad to hear about Amazon. Honestly, if there was NO history of Google
banning people from Adsense with NO really credible reason to do so, I would totally
concentrate on it too. I also have a Passion for it but realize it is just not good to put all the eggs
in one basket.
wizlor 06-21-2009 07:38 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
hi John
Care to share what kind of traffic building methods you using for your sites?
Thanks
-woon
XFactor 06-21-2009 07:40 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by wizlor (Post 901885)
hi John
Care to share what kind of traffic building methods you using for your sites?
Thanks
-woon
99% free search engine traffic, with some from article directories.
- John
wizlor 06-21-2009 07:43 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by XFactor (Post 901889)
99% free search engine traffic, with some from article directories.
- John
So the backlink methods you using are article submissions, web directory submission, forum,
blog comments?
jspmedia 06-21-2009 08:25 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
nicely done...how many sites you have now? when do you put your adsense when you create
new site?
jlaw6402 06-21-2009 08:40 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
John, thanks for the Some Lessons Learned list, I learned a thing or two. One of my biggest
problems was I picked KWs there were way too hard. I've fixed that now.
ezimedia 06-22-2009 01:14 AM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
HI
John... thanks for the thread and your posts do you have a blog or newsletter..
Tom
ADSL 06-22-2009 01:44 AM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Hai Jhon....
Do you use blogspot to optimize your income from adsense....????
XFactor 06-22-2009 12:42 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: From $150 to $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by wizlor (Post 901897)
So the backlink methods you using are article submissions, web directory submission, forum,
blog comments?
No, just article marketing to about 5 different article directories.
But I do not need many articles to keep my sites ranked. Some sites
are ranked for my chosen keywords with just 1 article submitted, others
do not have any articles submitted.
I really dove into the low-hanging-fruit method and it's a gem.
I'll never go back.
- John
YoYoPro 06-22-2009 02:02 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
I was always wondering what happened to you, it's good to hear that your still around in the
background making a sweet killing with Adsense.
Sometimes it's posts like these that you need to really motivate you. For that, I thank you!
XFactor 06-22-2009 02:27 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by YoYoPro (Post 904317)
I was always wondering what happened to you, it's good to hear that your still around in the
background making a sweet killing with Adsense.
Sometimes it's posts like these that you need to really motivate you. For that, I thank you!
If you followed my posts from the other forum, I'm actually 6-7 months
behind my goal.
I wanted to be at this mark by December of 2008, but got sidetracked
with affiliate marketing trends and some coaching.
But that only stressed me out, so I will not be doing that again.
- John
LadyL08 06-22-2009 02:44 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Do you use WordPress or static sites?
Evita 06-22-2009 03:06 PM
Re: 6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned)
Quote:
Originally Posted by XFactor (Post 901355)
{SNIP}
2) I now focus EVERY website on products that can be found at
Amazon, E-bay, Wal-Mart, etc. This is probably the reason why my
income has exploded. I had no idea just how much open markets
there are in these products.
- John
Hey, good to see you around, John. :)
What does that mean? You run adsense on these sites or Amazon etc.?
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