Couple of noob questions

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Ok total noob at this, but have been thinking of making an adsense site for a while. couple of questions however.

1. Apart from using methods like posting links on Digg, SU, Squidoo, ezine ect and other tips on getting "Free" traffic and pushing the site up the rankings? as a noob I would rather put some time into trying to get the site ranked rather than splash out on PPC at this time. And may learn more in the process?

2. What is the best adsense site you have seen? Doesn't have to be members sites or anything. I am just looking for what more experienced members would consider to be a solid well designed site so I can learn what is considered to be good as far as layout and ad placement ect.

3. What would you consider to be best for An adsense site? a wordpress based blog? or a more traditional website?



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1. Apart from using methods like posting links on Digg, SU, Squidoo, ezine ect and other tips on getting "Free" traffic and pushing the site up the rankings? as a noob I would rather put some time into trying to get the site ranked rather than splash out on PPC at this time. And may learn more in the process?


Go watch gurillas webinars on building backlinks by hand.

2. What is the best adsense site you have seen? Doesn't have to be members sites or anything. I am just looking for what more experienced members would consider to be a solid well designed site so I can learn what is considered to be good as far as layout and ad placement ect.

Anything with an above the content placement will have decent enough click through. Typically the best pay out is the 300 by 250 blocks. The thing you have to understand is that click through is not driven by ad placements. Click through is driven by traffic. If you have high value traffic that advertisers are specifically writing ads for your click through will be exponentially higher then if you have the same old placements on some stupid info term.



3. What would you consider to be best for An adsense site? a wordpress based blog? or a more traditional website?

Doesnt really matter. Wordpress is easy since it takes 30 seconds to set up on any web host with cpanel.
 
Just don't make the mistake as I did a million times - even before the site is up, you are already thinking about AdSense and such things. Just build the site, give it the best you got, build up traffic and then start thinking about earning money.

I know some people would disagree with me here, but it worked for me at least - as soon as I started worrying about building the site up and stopped worying about money all the time, guess what? I started making money.
 
I wouldn't suggest creating a site specifically to make money from Adsense anymore. In my opinion, it's better to make a site that is packed with great content that will be a good read today and ten years from now. Start with 10 pages of this type of content and grow it to 50 pages over a few weeks/months. Add a lot of value by adding resource pages, free downloads, tools that are relevant to the niche, etc.

I'm assuming (and I'm sorry if my assumption is wrong) that you want to make an Adsense site because you are under the impression that it's a great way to break into SEO. The most important thing you need to do when getting started is proper keyword research and competition analysis. Try to rank for a keyword that is appropriate to your level of experience. Once you rank on the first page, you can monetize it any way you would like.
 
Houdas said:
Just don't make the mistake as I did a million times - even before the site is up, you are already thinking about AdSense and such things. Just build the site, give it the best you got, build up traffic and then start thinking about earning money.

I know some people would disagree with me here, but it worked for me at least - as soon as I started worrying about building the site up and stopped worying about money all the time, guess what? I started making money.
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If you're building a website with the intent of making money from it, you should have a monetization plan for it. Some ideas just aren't worth pursuing if they can't be monetized well.
 
candy33 said:
If you're building a website with the intent of making money from it, you should have a monetization plan for it. Some ideas just aren't worth pursuing if they can't be monetized well.
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Yes. But monetization plan should not be only about money, if you catch my drift.
 
Thnx for the replies all. Are gurillas webinars linked anywhere on the site? The current plan is to not only make a little money if possible ( I know I'm not gonna get mega rich from this) but also to gain knowledge about what works and what doesn't whilst spending as little cash on tools/ads (if anything?) as possible
 
It doesn't matter much if you are going to use wordpress based blog or traditional website if you are using good LSI based contents, proper html tags(specially the header tags) and meta-descriptions.
 
Learn to find easy keywords and niches that aren't already over saturated. You don't know how to do SEO so you can't compete in an established niche yet. If you try to make a site that there is already 100 of you'll never make a dime.

Find something with little or no competition to start with. As you learn you can go after bigger stuff but before then just try to make a little money on the easy stuff.

Think longtail keywords. Even key phrases with 100-300 uniques a month starts to add up if you can get enough of them.
 
Thnx all, still working on content. Probably not as keyword dense as it could be at the moment but looking at improving upon that. Have manually added in the meta tags ect and seoquakes info tool says that they are ok for now.

Another noob question. Anyone know of any site that can check you search position for a specific keyword? Iirc i used to use scroogle a while back but this seems to have disapeered?
 
Hoody said:
Thnx all, still working on content. Probably not as keyword dense as it could be at the moment but looking at improving upon that. Have manually added in the meta tags ect and seoquakes info tool says that they are ok for now.

Another noob question. Anyone know of any site that can check you search position for a specific keyword? Iirc i used to use scroogle a while back but this seems to have disapeered?
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seoserp.com
 
OK so yet another noob question. Still tooling around with this as an a way of learning, I have gotten a few backlinks to my site manually, and yet even though I know they are do follow links they do not show in seoquake or many other backlink sites even after a couple of weeks. Is this normal?

Several of the posts i have made in the blog have gone in at say page 15 or so in google (Lousy i know, but i probably chose too competitive a keyword..) and then a day later seem to vanish off the face of the earth? Any ideas?

Similar with serp ranking, after looking at the Google webmaster tools it states I should have a ranking of 4 for one three word keyword phrase, and yet when I check said phrase it's not even showing in the top 20 pages :s
 
A word of caution about sites that are built just to do adsense. Make sure you have really good content. And that it's not obvious that the only purpose for the site is to host adsense ads. If Google decides that your site has no value other than to serve as an ad platform they can and will ban your adsense account and keep any money they owe you. Being the altruistic CS buddies they are they give the money back to the advertisers.
 
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