There's a lot of buzz around about how you can make a quick and easy fortune using this AdSense courseor that tool or this book. And they show you their incomes from AdSense too (though not necessarily THIS month). Now, is it justme or is something a little odd in all this?
Say, I'm making $5000 - no make that $15,276 a month from AdSense on my sites. And now I'm going to sellall my secrets on how to do that for $67 or $97 or whatever.
So what happened, did I get all bored with my filthy riches and decide to become a philanthropist andsell stuff that makes me 15K a month for a pittance? Or is it something else?
Am I saying it's impossible? Certainly not. I know people who make that more.
But a little reality. Those people don't have 5 or 6 or 50 sites. They have maybe 500 or 3000 or more.Few sites make 20 or more a day. Very few. Average income is probably less than a dollar a day. So with500 sites at a dollar a day, you've got your 15K a month.
Now the domain names cost you maybe $3500 to $4500. Then you need hosting and somehow you've got to buildthe sites and get traffic to them. There are excellent tools but the ones that will let you do this kindof thing in a reasonably short time are also very (very) expensive.
And you are continually dealing with sites that don't get indexed or get de-indexed or even get banned.Traffic today, gone tomorrow. Plus, if you're not real careful with those tools you may get an unpleasantletter from Google about a DMCA copyright infringement which could cost you your AdSense account.
You can make money, you can build an empire. But it isn't easy or quick no matter what you hear. Andit really isn't a business. It's not a long run proposition, it's not stable. You need to keep creatingmore sites as older ones fail - or you need to be smart and use those AdSense revenues to build an enduringbusiness.
You put up with this down to here, so here are the real 7 "secret" keys to AdSense.
1. The best performing AdSense type is the large rectangle. This has been tested over and over.
2. The best colors are blue for the link - surfers know that blue means click me. And darkish almostblack and grey for the text and url. No borders. The same background as your page. Will it merge intoyour content? No, that's bogus. There are maybe 4 surfers in this galaxy who can't tell a Google ad whenthey see one. They are not going to believe it's part of the text. Wake up, OK?
3. Another format which is being reported to more or less work is the full wide banner type layout withtext ads and images directly above the links. Try it and see if it works for you. Maybe it's a fad.
4. Keywords and related content are critical if you want targeted ads. If you want high paying clicksyou need to target the costly keywords AND have content that supports the keywords.
5. You need traffic interested in the ads. Which means your traffic generation techniques have to betargeted not scattershot. You might hear that 1% or 1.5% clickthrough rate is OK and 3% is good. Nonsense.Really successful people get CTRs that are often well above 30%. Even with modest efforts you shouldbe getting an average 6 to 15% CTR (per ad impression, not pages).
6. You have to track what you're doing and you have to test variations in ad layout, placement, colorand related content to optimize your income. No one can tell you how to do it except the traffic comingto your site. If you don't test and track, you're flying blind.
7. You need to keep building new sites.
You are now a member of the AdSense Illuminati. Quite possibly you already knew all that. So why areyou looking for something else? Really. This is all you need to start doing it.
Probably any course or book can help you if that's what it takes to get you moving and doing. Ultimately,no one can really show you exactly how to do it. You're going to have to learn the ropes and put in thetime.
Like everything in life - the greatest traffic generator, the ultimate course or the super MLM opportunity,if it sounds too good to be true, then it is. There's no magic bullet, no ultimate secret to buy. There'sno easy, painless, work free, certain road to riches (except, maybe, inheriting it and that can be veryhard on the heirs).
Whatever you do on the net, do it wide awake and with your brain actually functioning. The final un-numberedkey is that a technique, a shortcut, an idea that will make what you do easier, faster, or more profitable- one single tiny thing - is worth more than any book or course costs. One useable idea and you've gottena great deal. If you learned something you didn't know or had forgotten, then it's worth much more thanyou paid. There may not be any magic solution out there, but there are useful concepts, techniques andideas. You just have to see them for what they are, and then get busy and really use them.
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