Last year, I started the Adsense Website Program. After 8 months hard working, it is the first time I reach $1000 target. Different from my friends, I use four sites to reach the goal (but he only uses one). What I did is just follow the process to build the website. You can read the original post How to make 1000 per month in adsense with 1 site
Step 1: adsense niche selection
- Information based
- Have new products being introduced constantly (will explain why later)
- The niche must have high CPC in general (over USD1 per click)
Step 2: Set up the site and post a couple of articles on it
Step 3: Build 100+ backlinks
Step 4: New post that target new products
Step 5: Backlink your most profitable articles until they are number one
2011 Adsense Monthly Earning Report
May | $6.22 |
June | $3.10 |
July | $4.30 |
Auguest | $33.11 |
September | $186.65 |
October | $458.23 |
November | $709.77 |
December | $1008.03 |
To be honest, the beginning is not simple and the cost is also very high, especially for me, whose native language is not English. There is no secret to create a website to earn money, but following the steps, keeping trying, spending your time and your money. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. So if you just want to spend little to get big fish, this is not the good way for you to earn money. In my case, I just break even after I reach my first $1k, and I don’t know if it will continue in next few months. Anyway, there are something worth mentioning. All of these are what I have suffered and the reason why I put here is just want to remind me not to repeat the same mistake.
Do not Choose Small Searching Volume Keywords with Low CPC
I don’t know if other beginners will do the same thing. But I really did it at the beginning. As a beginner, I though I should start with an simple and low competition keywords. So I chose an 600 monthly searches keywords, and the estimated CPC is only lower than $1. This was the first mistake I have made. I tried to get some experience before I really started. But for this kind of keywords, even you can rank them to NO. 1. This experience is valueless. It cannot prove if your approach is right at all. I think the best keywords for beginning is about 1k monthly searches with $1 above CPC.
Tips: Choose High Monthly Searches and CPC Keywords
Because of the poor keywords I chose at the beginning, I could not earn any money after two months. Then I start to find keywords which has higher competition. I found one which has 2900 monthly searches with about $1 CPC. After another two month promoting, I ranked the keyword to No.3, and the result make me a little bit happy.
Do not Mess Several Unrelated Keywords in One Site
The new keywords make me to believe that it is possible to earn $1000 if I just repeat the same process and find more these type of keywords. But the thing happened next gave me a big shock. And it was the first time to let me know the new keyword “Google Panda”. And my site drop 80% traffic. After that, I started to think it is time to build a valuable website.