Adsense Secret Advices

My name is Adam Franklin, and my business partner Michael Ullman and I would like to share a true, very motivational story about a very successful blog we created about a year ago.

This blog went from zero to $100/day in 90 days, and now generates up to $400 per day, all through Google Adsense. It was this blog that helped push us to create “Adsense $100k Blueprint”

Here’s some more background on that blog:

By late last year, we had condensed the steps that make up the Blueprint. After many ‘trials’, testing, tweaking, etc., we had more-or-less systematized our  process and distilled it into the basic “step 1, step 2…” plan that’s in the book. One of the first efforts to follow the ‘plan’ exactly was that site.

We had become enamored with the vocational training / adult ed / education niche (hint, again: still hundreds of huge, wide-open opportunities there… start with “certificate programs”, “vocational training”, etc). We had been poking around the ‘medical training’ niche using Micro Niche Finder. Some of the terms we had come across that we felt warranted further examination were “nursing school”, “medical assistant”, “medical technician”. Drilling down on “nursing school” we came across some of the terms mentioned in the ebook.

we took one as a ‘seed’ keyword, and found about 5 other related keyword phrases, all of which had decent search volume. Two of them had thousands of searches per month, with very ‘light’ competition.

We then registered the domain name, set up a WordPress and  outsourced 10 articles, 2 each for 5 keyword phrases. 1 was used as the target “Page” URL, and one to add after as a supporting “Post”. We loaded the 5 Pages, plus we wrote the initial homepage Post.

Now it was time to launch the site. It was indexed in about 48 hours. Once it was indexed, each article was submitted to Ezinearticles. We also created a Blogger blog, and Squidoo lens, did the basic Social Bookmarking, and created 1 article set for Unique Article Wizard.

In about 6 weeks we had low Page 1 rankings for 2 of our target keyword phrases. We outsourced another 10 articles or so, and continued to add content & backlinks. We were starting to see about $10-$20/day (this particular site was averaging $.50/click). At about 8 weeks, we had Positon #2 or Position #3 for those two keyword phrases, which gave us about 400 visitors per day total. With roughly 20-25% click-through, we were now at $40-$50/day. Right around the 90 day mark, one of the phrases hit Position #1, more than doubling traffic, and topping $100/day. About a month later we put the site on Flippa, showing a $115/day earnings, and getting $32,500 for the site.

As part of the sale, we agreed to continue on ‘managing’ the site – agreeing to write 2 articles per week, and doing an hour or two of backlinking per week – in return for 25% of the revenue above what it was at sale time. This also let us continue tracking site performance.

At 5 months, there were multiple Position #1 keyword phrases, and many of them had spots #1 & #2 or #2 and #3 indented double-listings. The site hit $300/day right about at 6 months. Two months later, it hit a high of $415/day.

Needless to say, not all of your sites will perform that well – all of ours don’t perform that well either. But it shows what happens when you ‘hit’ on all cylinders: good niche selection yielding high-volume, under-leveraged keyword phrases, a ‘smart’ content & backlinking campaign, ramping up over time but not too fast or hard, and a layout that converts well.

That is the crux of the “Adsense $100k Blueprint” , and while we all get some ‘duds’ even when everything checks out, this plan insures reliably repeatable successes.

I hope you’ve found this post to be motivational.  The reality is that there are an endless number of opportunities on the web, and you can almost guarantee your success with hard work and perseverance.