What are the most important factors for success?

Niche Selection

Before you get stuck into creating content and articles for your Adsense Sites, it is important to think seriously about the niche you are targeting. Is there an audience out there for what you are writing about? Will they pay money for products relating to your topic? What defines the niche, is it mostly women or men? Young or Old? All this information will help you select an appropriate design for your target audience. It is also important that you ensure that there is good money to be made from your niche before you start. Because if clicks for your niche only pay a few cents, then you are not going to make good money out of it, and maybe you need to re-think if it is worth your effort. It is also important that you have a good knowledge of the niche. If you can’t write good quality content about it easily, then it is going to be hard work. I know for a fact that “Pay Day Loans” is a profitable niche, but I wouldn’t know the first thing about the topic, nor would I know where to start if I had to write an article about it. So I am not going to waste my time. If you are prepared to pay others to write content for you, then this isn’t such a big problem.

Keyword and Competition Research

Once you are happy with your niche, you need to research what terms you are going to target in the search engines. For the most part search engine traffic doesn’t just come rolling in with no effort. You need to know what terms will bring you a significant amount of traffic, and which terms will pay a good amount for each click. It is also important that you target terms that are at the right level for the authority of your site. So if you are just starting out I suggest you stay well away from writing about credit cards, or Insurance.

For keyword selection, the best free tool to use is the Google Adwords external keyword tool. It will give you a good range of keywords that relate to your Niche, plus it will tell you roughly how many visitors that term will bring in each month. It will also give you an idea of the value of clicks in your niche if you turn on the CPC column…this amount isn’t exact as it is giving an advertiser to cost of buying the click. You won’t get all of that amount. But it is fair to say that the higher a click costs the more you will make.

For competition you need to search for the term in Google and find out who currently ranks for it. If the sites on the front page are all established authority sites, with high PR, and lots of backlinks then it is not worth the effort. However, if the sites are nothing special, then this is a good term for you to target. SEO quake is a great plugin for Firefox that will help you with competition research. It gives you the vital details discussed above for each result in a SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

SEO – Building backlinks

To make good money from Adsense sites, you need to build the authority of your site. A site won’t rank well if it doesn’t have a good amount of incoming links. There are two main theories about how backlinks should be built for your site 1) That you should just create good content, and if it is good enough people will link to you. 2) You should build links yourself. The major advantage to the second method is that you can select anchor text for backlinks that you have built yourself. Having control of the anchor text of a link allows you to make that link target a keyword you are after. Still, it will make your life easier if you have good content that people want to link to.

A few sources for backlinks to your Adsense sites

• Writing Blog Comments
• Link Directories
• Article Directories
• Forum Signatures
• Link exchanges with other web masters

I hope this article on Adsense Income tips has given you some helpful tips to get you started on your way to success with creating Google Adsense.

If you’re a newbie starting out and asking this same question ”how much can you make with google adsense?” This article is for you.

First and foremost, your chances of making a killing with google adsense are pretty slim if you don’t know how to play the numbers. This business is a numbers game and as such if you lack the necessary tool to make a website in auto pilot, you’ll be frustrated.

So Why Is it a Numbers Game

Based on findings, the average earnings from a single adsense optimised page can bring you $7 to $10 a year. I don’t know about you but my grandma can do better than this.This is why the pros at this game understand it’s a numbers game. They use software’s and tools to help them create adsense optimised sites on auto pilot, so  if they want to make $10,000  a month with google adsense, they’ll use that number to create thousands of web pages, all on auto pilot.

On the other hand, newbie’s make the mistake of doing everything manually, and so they burn out and get frustrated. Again, how much you can make with google adsense boils down to your understanding that it’s a numbers game.

It’s sad to see websites that gets people mislead that google adsense is a short cut to wealth. With fake testimonials and fake google account 6 figure cheques, it’s no surprise to see frustrated newbie’s ask this same question, “How much can you really make with google adsense”.

Important Factors To Consider

When it comes to google adsense, its important to stress the importance of choosing the right niche and supplying constant traffic to your web pages. Some niches pay well, while other pay peanuts per click.

Your traffic source is very crucial. Google frowns at illegal traffic sources and you can get banned if your caught sending illegal traffic to your web pages.

In answer to the question, “how much can you make with google adsense”?  You can make serious money with google adsense. From the start you may not make any reasonable money, but like I said it’s a numbers game. Get automated, build more sites, choose a high paying niche and send quality legal traffic and you’ll be smiling to the bank.

Step 1 – Select a Niche

It needs to be a niche with significant traffic, and there needs to be money involved or we won’t make any money from our PPC ads.

Example: Photoshop Tutorials

Step 2 – Select Keywords that relate to your niche

A good free tool is Google Adwords Keyword Tool – Just Google search “Adwords Keyword Tool”

• photoshop tutorials – $3.46 – 201,000
• photoshop tutorial – $2.36 – 201,000
• adobe photoshop tutorials – $1.71 – 18,100
• tutorials for photoshop – $0.99 – 5,400
• free photoshop tutorials – $1.01 – 9,900

Results reflect average search results for Google.com – and does not include regional Google searches

We have 5 significantly searched terms, they all pay an at least decent amount.

If the Adwords tool says a terms will cost $3.46 it buy, we as Adsense content providers will make roughly 80c to $1.20 per click. This is because It works out less for content ads and Google takes a nice cut of the profit too.

Step 3 – Set up platform

The best free platform for money making sites is Blogger. It is owned by Google, so they make it easy to integrate Adsense and there are plenty of different free themes.

Go to blogger.com and signup for a new account.

When you are setting up your new account make sure your main keyword in in the name of the blog. Something like “Sweet Photoshop Tutorials”. You also want you keyword in the url as well if possible.So sweetphotoshoptutorials.blogspot.com would be a good choice.

You will also need to create a Google Adsense account. After you have set up your account you can add ads to your blogger template using the built in function of blogger. I recommend large box ads at the top of your posts.

Step 4 – Create keyword rich content

We are going to need to get people to come visit your site. So we need good content. For this project I would create no less than 5 Photoshop tutorials. I would make sure I used my 5 keywords above in the titles of my posts/article. I would use all of the above keywords in a small blurb right at the top of my theme under the heading. I would make category names that had my main keyword in it. I would also put an anchored text link in the footer of my theme that aimed at my homepage.

Step 5 – Build Anchored Backlinks

Building anchored backlinks is the hardest part of this process as it involves getting links to your site on other sites. When I say Anchored, what I am referring to is the text you use for your hyperlink. If we are hoping to rank for the term “Photoshop tutorials” we will need to build up lots of backlinks that aim at your site using the term “Photoshop tutorials”. Photoshop is popular software, so it will be hard to rank for. It this is your first project you will want to go for a term with less competition.

If I search for Photoshop tutorials on Google.com I find just over 3,500,000 results. You may want to find terms, or a niche that has less competition. Between 800,000 and 1,500,000 would be a good starting point. The lower the competition, the lower the traffic, and the less potential we have to make money though, so the playing field is fairly clearly laid out here. The harder the term, the more money you can make.

Here is a great blog to read with more information on this: Blogsnd

Easy anchored backlinks

When your site is not popular or if your niche is not a topic where there are likely to be lots of readers, or other sites about it it’s hard to get links from other regular sites. Some easy links include:

• Do follow Blogs – search for ones that let people drop keywords in the name field. And use a name like “Photoshop Tutorial Guy”
• Free article sites like Ezine, Article Dashboard and Go articles. If you write them a small article they will let you drop some self promoting anchored links in the resource box.
• Bookmarking sites…some of which are do follow.
• Forum signatures. Plenty of forums allow you to have an anchored link in your signature. Post on forums that relate to your topic. You can also drop some anchored links in posts. But don’t spam, only post where relevant.

The aim here is to set up a small niche site that makes money on auto pilot and doesn’t require that you add new content often. Goodluck.