Infinite Keith: Do you know how many fucking times I get myspace friends invite from independent bands looking for followers? That would be the target audience I would want to reach. Those bands desperate for any kind of air play. I don't think it would be all that difficult to get them and their fans to support a site.
Again, just ideas.
NOW, that is a great fricken idea. I have actually researched this niche and it is wide open in many areas. I think the biggest one is rap and that is all I am gonna say.
jbuds1975: I went to a few of your sites and forums and didn't see any adsense ads at all? And the only ads I did see were your own, for your own products and sites. If adsense is really that great why not have it on all your sites?
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www.LoanSafe.org and yes, not all of them have adsense. I am too busy with my forum, blog and show.
Andrew Scherer
D Bag I think there's pros and cons to everything and Adsense is no exception.
Cons:
-Slow
-Smart pricing, Google takes a big cut of the $
-A low earner compared to other ways to monetize
Pros:
Easy to monetize
Stable
Adsense is about 30% of my monthly rev
TRUE. I like the easy to monetize and stable part. It allows me to work and be creative as opposed to being a salesman or bill collector. I don't like affiliate companies because many burn you out of sales.
JohnCJackson: The people BUYING the ads are often affiliates. And they keep buying, because they are making money. Now if you own the content site you don't necessarily have to be a "buyer" of ads because you serve your own on your own real estate. Figure out what the adsense is paying, then check out the advertisers. Sign up for the relevant affiliate program and test that against and in conjunction with adsense.
I would rather work on other sites and building then going through all that. In addition, I have done that and the pain is not worth the money or instability.
I have a friend with a blog on a popular topic, gets a shitload of traffic during certain times of the year. he was running adsense and getting like 6 cents a click. Meanwhile the advertisers were making $15 or more for every 20-30 clicks. I tried to explain it to him but... So I just made my own sites around his subject with those offers. He's making pennies on thousands of visitors and I'm making 15-30 bucks or whatever on a few clicks here and there.
Maybe if I had a low paying niche, I would do affiliate stuff or my own direct ad sales. I can sell and can round up sales when needed be. But I don't like being a salesman 24?7. I like being a creator and working on future projects as opposed to chasing affiliate offers or checks. In addition, I wouldn't start a website in a low paying niche with the intention of working with Google.
Being an affiliate marketer does not mean someone is only running short term sites with hot offers through PPC. Just as creating content sites does not mean MFA/throwing up adsense on a page of content. Affiliates have been around selling real products a long time.
Affiliates are just online salesman for companies who go through other companies to get those products to sell and then they have to rely on the affiliate company to track and not burn them on sales. The facts are that they burn all affiliates daily and especially now in this economy. If I was going to be an affiliate, I would go direct to companies and pick up my checks direct with no middle men or women with their hands in my pot. Yes, Google is in my pot, but they are doing their job damn well at being my salesman so there is no need to divorce when the marriage is great.
Uncle Tony: In my experience you need huge sites with 100+ articles to do well with adsense. The problem with 4-5 page sites is they eventually start losing their SE rankings and require a constant flow of fresh links/attention. It's hard to actively manage and promote more than 10 sites. I make some change from adsense by spending about 20 minutes daily doing KW research for really longtail or viral/meme stuff + SEnuking them
500 sites making $2/day = 1k/day (some guy on BHW claims to have done this) with adsense but managing and getting fresh backlinks to 500 sites is a bitch. (assuming SEs are the main source of traffic.)
This can be done, but I am more into building big sites with loads of content. I'd rather have 5 sites making $200 a day or 2 making $15k and 3 making $5k, than managing 500.
Praxus:I've made over 50K with adsense; but now it's just a trickle of my earnings. The biggest problem is that Google can just cancel your account anytime. I'm on my third account now, and would never put much time into it since the ban hammer can come anytime - and I've never done anything shady, they will ban you if your sites are obviously created to make monies from adsense.
I made the most money in 2007 doing arbitrage with MSN PPC. That's very difficult to do nowadays since Google is way tougher with MFA sites, and Bing PPC costs are much closer to Google's.
Why did they cancel your account, from just making a website for adsense? It must of been violating the TOS. I am careful not to violate their TOS.
