I have for many years know had several businesses that earn money online. I can't claim to have made millions (yet) although gradually I have learned many things about search engine optimization and getting traffic online and it seems lately I'm learning more and more about adsense and how to go about trying to earn money online with adsense the right way.
Several years ago I had a blog. It was a computer/tech related blog and I still have it actually. I had just got a chance to stick adsense on there and lo and behold I was making money. Not a lot at first, but some money. Of course, this had me thinking about a few other web ideas which I plunged ahead with and didn't see a great amount of money from, but the "spark" was still there. you know what I'm talking about by that "spark". It's that moment when you see that it's possible to make money in a way you never really considered before. "I could be earning money in my sleep..." Well, I pursued the blog with all my free time throwing post after post up. I had an rss feed reader on the desktop and would watch for potentially hot stories and try to be first to cover them. I did fairly well to tell the truth. I had a few days that were in the 50-60 dollar range and really thought what I was doing could replace my offline work.
It was exhausting to keep up with and it didn't last long. The great Google had their Big Daddy search update and my blog went from being in favor to lost in cyberspace. I hadn't been doing anything shady with regards to getting links. In fact, I really hadn't thought about getting links at all. I hadn't promoted the site at all. I went from an average of 10 dollars or so a day to an average of 60 cents a day.
There were other things happening in my offline work and I really didn't get much time to investigate what happened. But, slowly I learned that backlinks to a site were going to be very important in relation to how a site ranks overall or for a specific search term. I studied everything I could find out about search engine marketing and search engine optimization. I read the details of every "google bomb" that I could and finally in the last year or so decided I had studied enough and it was time to put what I had learned into practice.
So, I started promoting several of my sites and before long I have now made it north of $300 a month again with my adsense earnings. I was fairly pleased. Although, I was finding that it seemed as though 3 of my sites were accounting for 75% of my earnings and although I had great click through rates it seemed that my average earnings per click weren't what I would like.
So, now, I've completed some deep study of that issue as well and have come to a new approach moving forward. This site is where I will share many of the things I've learned and tell you how my new focuses approach turns out.
If what I have come up with is successful I should start to see some good progress (assuming I have time to implement it) in coming months. If not, I'll try to learn from what happens and adapt and move forward.
So, why am I telling all of this? Because I want to keep a handy reference for myself first and foremost. I have more text document and references related to adsense money making than I can count. Putting it in a blog makes it easier for me to find. ;-) But, won't someone just copy what I've done? Yes, they may if they have the persistence. But, if they had the persistence they would probably figure it out eventually anyway. Plus, many of these things are things I was told to do long ago and was too thick to see that they were right.
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