Day 514 – End Of September Totals
Epic..
This past month my adsense revenue has continued to go up without me doing anything… I noticed that recently my main adsense account has been having $100+ days again, the last time that happened was before Mayday, back in May. Here are a few screenshots to show you what I’m seeing(images cropped to fit on screen):
My main adsense acct in August:
Acct in September:
As you can see, around the middle of September, it began breaking $100 again after not having done it for a little over 3 months.. It’s gone from a $70 avg to $94, almost a $15 increase..probably a bit more considering the change happened mid Sept…my avg from Sept 14th – 30th was $102.97.
This isn’t my full adsense earnings for this month as well…my total adsense earnings for the month of Sept was actually $3,321.69…pretty close to my highest adsense month which was $3,563.67 in March.
Here’s a full breakdown of the September earnings:
Adsense = $3,321.69 (up $721.40 from last month’s $2,600.29)
CB Hops = 4,903 (down from 7,095 last month)
CB Gross = $627.45 (down from $896.09 last month)
CB Refunds = 1 ($16.61)
CB Net = $601.07
9 UAW Sales = $187.60
2 BLS Sales = $58.20
Ebay = $16.26CAN = $15.77 US
Grand Total = $4,184.33 (up $395.07 from $3,789.26 last month)
-Mike
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LOL Epic video hahaha made me laugh for a good while
Well congrats on yor success man! Nothing better to keep me motivated
@Widmaer
Haha :> Thanks man…
Very inspirational! Keep up the good work. I hope I can achieve halft the results you are getting!! hehe
Before you started your goal of having a “salary” online, did you work a lot with SEO and stuff? I’m just wondering, say I’d start now, almost 0 knowledge, would you say it would be possible to achieve at lesast half the results u r having in the same amount of time?
cheers
@Wilesneles
Hey Wilesneles, anything is possible if you want it bad enough..The thing is if you’re new to Internet Marketing, you’re going to have to make it an obsession and spend every spare moment learning and implementing.
If you become obsessed and spend at the very least 3 hours a day learning and most importantly implementing/building sites, then for sure you will begin making money.
Thing is, it takes work, and LOTS of it! It’s not easy..but when you log in enough hours, it starts becoming easy and automatic…You just got to get a ton of real world experience with selecting the right keywords then building the sites, then once you get the hang of it, ramp up your efforts to the point of making 1-2 sites a day…When you’re at the point where you have 50-100 sites and you’ve backlinked them all with say a UAW run, I can’t see how you wouldn’t be making some decent money..
Mikeman,
thanks for the inspiring advice, really appreciated.
As for the “enough hours” and “want it bad enough”, it is just that I started a month ago. I used to have another job but got tired of it and decided to do what I love the most (e-business). I was already doing something, but then I decided to really go for it.
So I’ve quitted my job and now I’m putting around 12h a day reading/writing/searching/creating/developing (I even track with SlimTimer to check how long I’m spending in each project to see if it is worth or not) … even during lunch and dinner I just sit by my computer and watch some video tutorials … it doesn’t feel like work you know? it’s what I would do anyway, it just … entertain me, like I’m playing SC2
.. Even when I’m commuting to my home town I’m listening to some audio tapes that I’ve downloaded (last one I was hearing was Peter Drucker – Innovation and Entrepeneurship, excellent book btw).
Thank you once again
I apologize if you’ve already answered this.. I”m sure you have.. but, after you build links through ezine and UAW, what is your process after that? Do you rss, ping, and then move on?
And what links do you link directly to your money sites? And what do you link to just backlinks of money sites? (in essense, what is safe to link to your money site and what isn’t?)
thank you once again for taking the time to answer all these questions.
Nice figures, Mikeman! Good to see your AdSense is on the rise, love that.
Tippin’ the Mtn. Dew your way – it’s always an inspiration to see where you’re at, man.
Mike – just thought of a question I don’t think you’ve answered, I’ll keep it general just because I know it’s stupid to ask specifics on this note – but on your CB snipers – did you focus on non-IM products or on IM products?
Dude. That movie is really awesome in a creepy, extra-cheese, lookout Rambo way.
wow Man,
this video is really AWESOME…and congrats on your figures, Mike.
Hi Mike man,
Congrats on your adsense earnings skyrocketing
By the wat the video is hilarious, also i like the girl in the video.. she is beautiful one..
Hey mike,
Hows UAW treating you these days? Its getting on a bit, and there are tons of new networds out there that look pretty good (build my rank etc) Are you finding that the links UAW provides are still enough to get your sites ranking well?
@Wilesneles
Np man,
Damn…OK, so you’re new and looks like you’re in research mode..cool. Ya I know the feeling about it not feeling like work, that may change just a little when you shift over to building up your sites, but you’ll get used to it and come to enjoy that too :>
I used to listen to Tony Robbins in my car and on the Subway to work, good times…
Looks like the next order of business is for you to transition out of research mode and into building mode, once you figure out what money making model you want to use. Be careful where you are now because it’s really easy to get caught in research mode where you’re not really building your business.
@Chris
Hey Chris, I do the RSS submissions and pinging before the UAW/EZine.. After that, the process would be more UAW to my inner pages.
And all of these links are direct to my money site..earlier when I was talking about building links to Web 2.0 sites that then link to the money site, that was another link building method, one that I haven’t employed.
I find submitting UAW to my money sites at a rate of 10-15/day works well.
@JamestheJust on Elance
Hey whatsup James? Thanks man..
For CB, I went for non-IM products. It seems as if my income from CB has been cut in 1/2, I used to make 1.5k/month now it’s at $600-700…The main reason for that though is due to massive competition for the keywords I went after, and at this point I don’t feel like trying to boost those sites back up, but rather forget about them and just focus my efforts on Adsense if anything.
@Lucifero
lol, ya.. thanks Lucifero.
@Bhavesh
Haha, ya..thanks Bhavesh :>
@Dan
Hey Dan. There are always going to be new shiny programs/memberships out there, and many people are quick to jump from one thing to another. When I get back to building my business I’ll probably experiment with various other backlinking methods, but UAW is a staple for me.
Regarding UAW, it is still working as usual…I have a friend who is making many times more than me using it.
Mike – don’t talk to Lucifero. Your head will start spinning and you’ll puke green stuff.
Just a warning. :/
Changing subjects – thanks for answering that – I’ve always wondered at what people target with CB. In any case – have you changed all your themes yet?
I know you use XSitePro2 – but just wondering if after you changed some of your themes as you mentioned a number of posts back – did you notice any negative impact?
Judging from your current numbers I’d say no – lol, but then the question is: did you maintain the same approach in ad placement, etc., as the SuperOptimized template?
Wondering because I’ve read about Ruth (Webcareergirl) losing an XF’ctor style site. I actually use his exact template still. :/
AND just read the rather depressing post from Ben (it only took me about 6 months to find it) – that was from April right before MayDay.
Anyway, wondering if you were inspired by Ben to change it all up – I walked away from his post thinking I’d be changing some things on my Ads3ns sites.
Oh – and for anyone wondering about “does UAW work” -
YES! I’ve been paying Mike since…what? February? And have tried a ton of others – I do use others besides UAW but to tell the truth, UAW is still top dog.
It seems to get the most BL’s, is the easiest (you don’t need to spin, and the results are a clean copy/article just in case people actually read your stuff) – and the distribution is still the biggest.
MAN and AMA don’t get results, neither does SEOLV…at least in my experiments. Nothing really packs the same whallop in terms of #s (IMHO, I’ve tried a number of them).
BUT I’m thankfully able to use UAW and others. UAW would be the last I’d give up.
Hi Mike,
Awesome results, which speak of your hardwork. So if I understand correctly
1. you search for kw using microniche finder
2. build one page site using xsite pro for adsense
3. submit 10 to 15 article a day to uaw
This is the whole process which has got these results? Amazing and advise us if we need to invest on tools other than xsitepro or uaw to get results similar to this?
Thanks
Hey Mike, great blog love the fact that you have stuck it out where many people would give up. One Question, if you were to start again knowing what you know now would you change what you did, ie starting with CB sniper sites?
All the best
Ste
Last question (for a while) I promise!
Do you RSS/Ping each page you build out? (Or what exactly do you RSS/Ping)?
Hey Mike 0_o
First of all congrats on the income picking up. Great to see your results and use it as fuel to keep me going forward.
I wanted to ask you in regards to the latest change in the Google keyword tool. I know you took a step away back but wanted to know your thoughts in regards to the change and how would you approach it.
Of course I am planning to adapt to it but it is cumbersome
Let me know your thoughts and thanks a lot.
Oh also, do you ever do more than 1 UAW submission per site? And if so.. how often?
yo Mike.
Quick question:
Do you target other similar keywords?
For example,
Main KW:
- iPhone App
Related KWs:
- iPhone Apps
- iPhone application
- iPhone applications
- apps for iPhone
And do you write your Title Tag like this?
TITLE: iPhone Apps and Application for You
instead of
TITLE: iPhone Apps
If yes, did the AdSense revenue increase?
I mean
instead of
TITLE: iPhone App
@JamestheJust on Elance
Hey, nah…I haven’t changed the themes on all my sites yet, and I don’t recall there being any negative impact when changing the theme…I did maintain the same ad placement as before.
And ya, it was around when that happened to Ben that I decided to try changing themes. That task has since dropped in priority.
lol at the 2nd post :>
@ps
Hey, ya, MNF or the Google Keyword Tool..But I don’t build a 1 page site, I start with 5 pages, then I later expanded a great deal of them to at least 10 pages.
Have you read this yet?: http://mikeiser.com/day-198-insights-into-my-income-how-i-create-my-adsense-sniperslong#more-653
After that I do at least 1 run of UAW to each website. I’ve also done EZine article backlinks and Backlink Solutions backlinks to some of my sites.
Later, I did a few more UAW runs to inner pages and again to the main pages of some sites…and that is pretty much all I did to get that adsense income, ya.
There are many ways to get to the same goal, but these were the tools I used and it worked for me.
@Howlingfish
Hey HowlingFish, thanks… If I had to start over, I’d skip doing the CB Snipers and just do adsense snipers from the start…Also, I’d make sure to expand all my sites to at least 10 pages, and some even more.
It’s just so much easier to outsource writing for adsense snipers and scale up your earnings..It’s also more predicatable/stable I find.
@Christopher Wang
Hey Chris, thanks for the sale BTW :> I ping the main page and the next 2 posts I put up when I build my site. There are 2 remaining posts that are queued up to post the following few days(5 total posts), but I don’t bother pinging those.
For the RSS, there is only one RSS feed per site that is submitted…check out the link that I posted above to learn more about what I do…that post is taken from the ‘Read Me’..
And ya, I do more than 1 UAW to a site at times, I do it when I feel like giving a site a boost in rankings, usually one of my top earners.
@Will
Hey thanks Will…I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I’d just start using the new tool and then through experience, find out how the new tool’s #’s correlate to what you actually see from your sites.
There are many kw tools out there and each one gives back different #’s..you just have to get used to 1 of the tools and stick with that. I built all my adsense sites off of the old Google KW tool + MNF without any problem, even though they are supposedly less accurate than this new Google KW Tool.
@calfred
Hey Calfred, ya, I target similar keywords like that for the inner pages.. So if the keyword for the site was “Iphone 3g Case”, I’d look for any other “Iphone” related keywords to add as additional pages of content.
At first I left the title as just the KW, but later I went and revamped a lot of my sites and added more to the title, like in your example (iPhone Apps and Application for You). While the title was changed, the page still remained as the keyword (ex: http://www.iphone3gcase.com/iphoneapps.html). I didn’t notice any change in revenue from doing this, but it does look more user friendly.
np. you deserve the revenue : )
Mike,
I’m hiring an over qualified writer at $3 for a 300 words article.
5 articles / day = $15 / day
150 articles / month = $450 articles / month
Planning to submit to 10 different article directories manually or more with these 150 articles costing $450 in total.
Is it worth it?
Need your advice on this.
Mike,
thanks for all the input.
Quick question though, is it still possible to change the adsense font size besides those offered by google in the “manage Ads” panel”? I’ve changed to Large, but they are still quite small. I’ve read somewhere that only premium users would be able to change it. Also, don’t they still offer different ad blocks sizes? In my account I can only see a default 250×250 and that’s all. Really limits what you can do with it.
Cheers!
@Wilesneles
I’m not Mike, but I changed from big to small.
I’ve found that the displayed fonts are not consistent. Everytime I hit refresh, a different AdSense font comes up.
I used the XSitePro integrated AdSense menu.
@calfred
Yeah, I’ve noticed that as well. I’ll check Xite Pro see if there is anything we can do with it. But even if we can, isn’t illegal to change any of the code on the google adsense code?
@Wilesneles
I wish I know about that. But I’m not a web programmer.
You can’t change the AdSense font in XSitePro. Only at Google’s Adsense page.
@calfred
Humm, so we are pretty much stuck with adsense not behaving the way we want? =(
Well, at least they are showing in my website and the change in colors are working, but font size, no-no.
Sweet dude i just hit $100 a day on adsense too. I think it’s that google insta thing + my promotions that i’ve been doing for the past 2 months. Finally decided to create a blog thanks to you high earners like Mike. Love reading your blog.
I think listening to audio tapes and stuff maybe get you into the mindset. I know i procrastinate a lot on things and those things would help me a lot as i know manual labor and tedious work get boring. But the best thing to do is to network with people who make money and ask them how they do it, implement and add your own twist. IM is awesome. I’m glad not more people do it or competition would be skyrocketing.
Wow that’s cool, I’m getting some sniper sites up and running as well, I have about 12 going right now, even though I’m trying to get them to rank.
How many websites do you think you have profiing for you Mike? Great stuff by the way, your monthly updates are incredible!
@calfred
Is this writing just for developing backlinks? If so, I wouldn’t do that.
It would be much better to outsource 3 rewrites of 1 article and use that as input into UAW, that would get you many more backlinks. Submitting to 10 article directories, you’ll likely only see 1 ‘registered’ backlink out of that.
When I submit to UAW, it goes out to 600-1200 directories usually, and I end up with around 25-35 registered Yahoo backlinks out of that. When doing UAW submissions though, the lower limit of what is accepted I ‘believe’ is 300 words, so I’d ask for at least 350 word articles. if you ever went down that route.
If this is for content for your website though, I would at least make it 400 words, you want to have a good amount of content on your site.
@Wilesneles
Ya, changes to the font are done within the Adsense setup..
However, in creating my adsense income, I’ve never bothered changing the default font. I’d worry more about setting up more websites and backlinks then playing with the font size.
This goes back to making sure you’re spending your time doing the ‘right’ kind of work that is going to grow your income. Spending time changing your theme/fonts etc. is not going to give you more money, you need to be spending the majority of your time, writing content/posting content and backlinking(heavy emphasis on backlinking).
You should be able to see more ad box sizes though from the “Format” drop-down menu in the “Adsense for content” section. If you can’t something is wrong.
@mrseotools blog
Nice man :>
Ya, mindset is key…if you procrastinate, setting up a daily blog will help with that, it’s all about setting up the right habits. Once you do something daily for about a week, it becomes ingrained into you and 10x easier to do. The key is to hold yourself accountable via your blog and not miss a day for that week it takes for it to become ingrained as a habit.
@Chris
Nice, you should get to the point where ‘at least’ 50% of them wind up on the first page…that will take practice in figuring out how to choose the low competition keywords.
I’m guessing you mean how many of my websites are profitable…Well, it usually comes down to a handful of sites that make you the majority of your income.
You have those handful of big earners, then you have a good amount of middle-ground sites, then you have around the same amount of low earners or stragglers. At least that’s how it is with me.
@Mikeman
Yeap, you’re right, I’ve found now the formats menu, somehow it was sitting just in front of me =/
I’ll start doing stuff right away! Just got the hang of Xsitepro (not that is hard or anything, it is an amazing software).
When you emphasise backlinking, how much less backlink power would posting on forums that are ‘dofollow’ (and even then ones that aren’t since Yahoo would use as backlinks) comparing to creating articles and submitting to ezine for ex? I wouldn’t just post the link, I’m already posting everyday about different subjects that I like, I would just add a link in the sig for ex.
It’s just that I’ve checked a few adsense minisites that have backlinks count quite high b/c the guy that created just use the links as signatures in his own forum. And since I can post, and hence create way more backlinks, than article submissions I was just wondering if it is better to have 1 ezine backlink or 10 foruns backlinks
Cheers!
Thank you very much for you input Mike.
Hey Mike,
We gotta catch up. I am so glad you are commenting more again. Can I ask you given that it’s harder to find domain names now if you will add a word at end (I know you don’t use dashes)? Or would you lower your exact search lower if you can’t find one? Also do you know uaw gives you more backlinks then just submitting to top 50 article directories? I would think the article directories have higher pr than blogs they go to in network. Great to hear you are doing well.
@Wilesneles
I can’t say what backlinks would count for more..but I can say that Ezine backlinks do count for a lot. I’ve seen sites of mine jump up to the #1 or #2 spot from being at the middle/bottom of page 1 from Ezine backlinks.
BTW, the # of backlinks you get can be deceiving sometimes…if you get a backlink on the main page of a site, it can inflate your backlink count by counting every page on that site as having a backlink, even though it’s just the side menu of the main page. So you can’t just go by the # of backlinks, you have to see the types of backlinks.
If you’re asking me though what I’d prefer, 1 Ezine to 10 forum backlinks, I’d take the Ezine backlink, since that pretty much always registers as a Yahoo recognized backlink and always brings a lot of juice with it.
@calfred
np
@Deb
Hey Deb, whatsup? I would never, ever add a word or a dash to a domain, it is just not worth it. It takes so much more work to get one of those domains ranking for the main keyword doing things that way…the main reason you see such great success through this method so quickly is due to exact match domains.
With every one of my exact match domains, the VAST majority of traffic/income comes from the exact match keyword.. Usually 80 or even 90% of it.
By not making your domain an exact match to your keyword, you’re making things harder on yourself unnecessarily. Even with the saturation for this method you see now, you can STILL uncover domains, they are still out there…granted it may take you a while longer to find them, but even if you find 1/hour, it’s worth it doing the digging.
The lowest exact searches # I go for BTW is 2.4k..
Regarding submitting to the top 50 article directories, I can say that I used Article Drip Robot for a time which submitted to many top directories…but I got many more backlinks out of UAW then I did with that.
Not sure if my previous comment went through.. I was asking how you slap proof your site. Do you have ads on the home page, do you wrap text, etc?
Hey Mike,
Thanks for answering my question and others. I will work harder on exact match domains now. Also you were saying that 1 link from ezinearticles is better than 20 forum links. But you said you had stopped your ezinearticles submissions and is that due to fact you feel uaw serves same purpose? Also, I am surprised uaw is better than article drip robot given the pagerank of directories, but maybe there is more ip diversity this way.
Deb
Hi Mike,
I have 85 blogpost up for tech blog. Now i am getting 50 visitors per day. Not very profitable. All my post is in 3, 4 page in google. If i will optimize them i will get good results.
Also, i am outsourcing heavily. 50-100 post per month. I will surely get 1000 visitors/day within one month or two. I hope i will earn many dollars per day soon.
Also, i started two more projects. Lets see.
Also my few hubs are giving good results. Which inspire me to write more on them.
Mike – Curious as to what your long term plans are. What are your ambitions over the next few years? This business model has served me well, but I can’t see there being much of a future for it (As in years) are you planning on moving on to other IM related things?
@Ash
Hey Ash, not sure what you mean about slap proofing…but I just try and keep good writers these days that write decent enough content for me and I ensure the majority of my sites have 10+ pages to them.
@Deb
Well, I didn’t say that exactly, I said that I’d rather get 1 Ezine backlink than 10 forum links…
I haven’t done EZine submissions for a while because ya, I was getting sufficient enough results out of UAW on it’s own and it’s extra work doing all those EZine submissions..but the extra step of adding Ezines does still help.
@All Is Well
Nice man…keep in mind though that if you want the income to go up, you need to be focused much more heavily on backlinking than adding new content. All increases in income come from mass backlinking…content without backlinks doesn’t get you any increases.
@Dan
Hey Dan, my plans at the moment are to relax, enjoy life, work-out and stay as good looking as possible
I’m not going all out right now so I can’t give you an answer to that…However the adsense business model has been around since 2003 and I don’t see it going anywhere. As long as you have strong web properties setup, they’ll have staying power and you can always swap out various monetization methods if you choose to.
Where you go after reaching whatever income goals after that is totally up to you…there are many other things…Amazon, CPA, paid advertising(Facebook/Adwords).
Thanks for the answer, my first comment which was a bit longer didn’t go through.
What I meant was, there have been famous (eg Ben from make money with seo) cases of people having sites deindexed, etc. Now I know those were very thin sites, but I know a lot of people are taking additional steps to stay safe. For instance, I think TKA people use a magazine style theme that keeps ads off the first page.
Personally, I put ads on the first page. i don’t wrap text yet.
So, some specific questions to be as clear as possible. I hope you don’t mind me asking, I am really just looking for some reassurance about the stability of this model
Do you put ads on the home page? And do you wrap text (so the ad block is not in the middle by itself).
Hope this comment is a bit clearer! And thanks for the quick replies to the comments, although I don’t comment much, I do read your blog frequently for inspiration.
@Ash
Hmm, sorry about that…Not sure if you tried to post a link, but if its your first time posting and you post a link it winds up in spam(rather than pending) which I never check..
I don’t know why you’d want to keep ads off your first page though, that would not be smart with this method since 90% of your traffic winds up on your main page for your main kw, you’d reduce your income to nothing..
The truth is no one knows for certain what all Google looks for when determining if they should remove someone from the adsense program or de-index them, so all you can do is focus on putting up decently sized, quality sites.
Will changing the theme + wrapping text help? Who knows..these are all guesses on everyone’s part…do what makes you comfortable..the important thing is that you’re not paralyzed by fear and that you do something. There’s always going to be something to fear regardless of what model you pick, don’t let it get to you and just build, build, build :>
Hey Mike thanks for the really detailed response. Your blog is very inspiring in how productive you are
Yeah, I’m hesitant to take off ads from the first page since that is what makes the most money.
Hey Mike,
When All is Well was talking about adding another 100 posts to his blog you said, “you need to be focused much more heavily on backlinking than adding new content. All increases in income come from mass backlinking…content without backlinks doesn’t get you any increases.”
I know often you talk about just building out new sites and working on content being the highest priority. Is that because starting lots of new sites can get you good rankings for the index page out of the gate? And what he is talking about is adding more inside the site that can take a while to get traffic (unless it’s backlinked)?
@Ash
Np Ash, thanks :>
@Deb
Well, OK, to cover all bases…the only other thing other than backlinking which can lead to big increases in income is putting up many, many keyword targeted websites as I did. And yes, it’s because those new exact match domains can very easily, without any backlinks in many cases, still rank on page 1 for their given keyword.
As far as me adding pages to my existing sites to flesh them out, I completely realize this is not going to result in any increases in income, I am doing it strictly to fortify my network of sites, to flesh them all out so they are not thin sites. I’ve been focused on that as of late since I’ve found some good writers and I figured that while I have them working at a good pace here, I might as well take advantage of that and get my content on all my sites up to a level I feel comfortable with.
Once I get all of their work up on my sites though, I’m going to have to switch over and do a massive amount of backlinking to realize some increases in income for all this newly added content.
So yes, adding content is all well and good, but unless it is backlinked sufficiently, you don’t realize traffic/income increases.
Hi,
I’ve just had around 50 sites deindexed by Google and they were on two different hosting accounts with different companies.
Moving foreward I’m trying to figure out the best ways I can try to prevent this from happening again.
I did’t use private registration because I know Google could find your information anyway, so I don’t know if this would have helped or not.
Is there any steps you take to prevent Google from finding just one site they don’t like and then deindexing all of them?
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
Steve,
There’s no point in having two different hosting accounts if you have the same Adsense code on all of them.
The code you put on the sites ties them all together regardless.
I would suggest you use different hosting accounts for different Adsense accts. i.e. One hosting acct. for your personal Adsense acct. and all those sites, then another hosting acct. for your business Adsense acct. so that they aren’t linked in any way.
This will prevent future de-indexing that affects your entire empire.
Hi Mike, I appreciate you clarifying that you add content only to make your sites appear less like thin content sites, I was thinking that you would backlink all 10 pages/keywords. Backlinking takes time/money and sometime backlinking the inner pages may not have an ROI, thanks for clarifying on that point.
I guess I will just take a deep breath and move on