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Recently I have been inundated with requests and queries on
how to make an alternative income online using the now wildly
popular Google Adsense.
As
a result I have been in contact with an SEO Elite customer recently,
lets refer to them as Spike (not their actual name
but for reference purposes) and I have to admit that even I was a
little shocked at the ease and duplicability of the system Spike had
in place.
This lesson will outline what path they have taken and
EXACTLY how they did it. You might wish to have a pen and
paper ready as you will no doubt gain some helpful tips from this
one.
Adsense Mini-Sites and Content sites, What
are they?
I
wont bore you too much here with the basics as I know you are
itching to get into the meaty content. Adsense Mini-Sites or
also referred to as Content sites are basically websites designed
solely around making an income from Google Adsense by driving
traffic to these websites which in turn, if built correctly will
result in a pretty respectful income.
These type of sites are taking off in the search engine and
usually will have quite a bit of original content aimed at being
highly themed to the topic of the website. Adsense
Mini-Sites are not to be confused with many of the "scraper" sites
around which are just rubbish and will have your site
banned and booted by Google faster then you can say "how much did I
earn in Adsense today".
The
purpose of an Adsense Mini-Sites as mentioned above is to create
content rich WebPages that are highly geared towards a specific
search term (to help improve search engine ranking's), attractive to
the visitor and providing you with another income stream.
Below I will guide you through the steps taken to create your
own profitable Google Adsense Mini-Site.
Saving your time and money...
As with everything there are many ways to go about completing
the same objective, this is still the same here BUT the difference
here is that the guessing game has been taken out of the equation,
allowing you to focus on building your Google Adsense
empire.
The guide which will be detailed below takes you through one
of the most effective way's of making money from Adsense due to the
fact that these sites are built to last, not just a useless spammy
site that will diminish with time.
An Income that continues
to climb and mature
In fact to outline how powerful this method is not only will
your Mini-Sites be earning you an income possibly within the first
month but that income will increase as each month passes for quite a
while.
Maintenance
We all know how dull website maintenance can be, even I dread
doing it from time to time, guess what? You guessed it
Adsense Mini-Sites are built for ease of use, ease of maintenance
and easy to upgrade.
Cost
Effective
Mini-Sites are very cheap to produce in terms of initial
outlay and continued costs. If you are starting from scratch
with nothing then it is possible to set up your first site for under
$200 and that includes everything. Once you have your hosting
up and running you can usually add new domain names under the same
account and it will cost you even less.
Spike, the SEO Elite customer I was talking to earlier
mentioned that he can now have a Google Adsense Mini-Site up and
running for under $50.
Time
Effective
Your first Google Adsense Mini-Site will probably take you
a little longer then usual as it may be completely new to you
but once you have completed a couple you will be able to build
a complete site in less then 3 days if you want to. Spike
personally has 3 Adsense site right now that he is working on
and has another 3 in the drafting stages, and this was referred
to as "taking it slowly".
Keyword
Elite: Generate 1000s Of Keywords In Seconds!
Your Action Guide To Adsense Profits -
Taking You Step By Step.
Now we are up to the juicy stuff. I am going to take
you through a very duplicable guide of only 5 steps which will have
you pumping out Adsense earning mini-sites in no time.
So what exactly are these 5 steps?
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Topic / Theme
Selection
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Profitability and
Keyword Research
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Website
Design
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Content Creation -
Monetisation with Google Adwords
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Article
Distribution
Now that we have the steps lets break them down into
practical examples with all the hints and tips that you can use to
build an Adsense Mini-Site in minimum time
| Topic / Theme Selection - What will your website be
about? |
There are so many ways to brainstorm and come up with
hundreds of topics or themes for a website, for your first Mini-Site
it is better to do it on something you are familiar with and enjoy
doing. Start off by writing down what you are interested in or
hobbies you may participate in. I am sure you could list at
least 10 different topics.
Lets say one of your topics was Ties (as in
neckties)
You would then brainstorm on this topic but we will go into
this further in the next section with Keyword research.
Another way to come up with a list of topics is to look
around the desk you are currently sitting at. What do you have
in front of you?
Drinking glasses
Coke
Hair
Brush
Pens
CD's
In the room I am currently in?
Picture Frames
Ceiling Patterns
Wooden
Flooring
The list goes on and on.
When looking for hot emerging topics the following recent
most searched for keyphrases can be used to try and determine a
niche or profitable market. Allot of the topics will be over
populated and not worth focusing on but you can find some real gem's
in there with relative ease
| Profitability and Keyword Research - Expanding your
topic |
This is all great but what if you have selected a topic that
is either too saturated or just doesn't receive enough
traffic? Well thats what this step is designed to do.
Help weed out the dud topics and increase the chances of you
building a profitable Mini-Site.
There are many Keyword research tool around but the grand
daddy of all research tools is Wordtracker, with Wordtracker not
only can you expand your topic into hundreds of possible extra
keywords but it will also give you a competition analysis that can
greatly help you determine the profitability of a website.
Wordtracker provide a solution that has yet to be beaten but it also
has a subscription fee.
You
can view their website at http://www.wordtracker.com/.
Wordtracker also have a free trial if you want to try them
out.
Alternatively you can also do this using some of the
free tools that are around, the best free tool that I have found so
far is http://www.123promotion.co.uk/ppc/index.php.
Not only do they provide the results of both the free version
of Wordtracker and overture. Also you can see how many people
are competing for each keyword in Google and a whole host of other
details.
What you are aiming to do in this stage is firstly
build a list of at least 20 different keyword phrases that are
relevant to your topic, preferably more. Then you want to
perform a competition search using either the free tool above or
Wordtracker, if you have your own tool and it does a similar job
then feel free to use that as well.
For basic Mini-Sites that won't require that much
effort you would want to have a competition base of under 100,000
people. Preferably around 60,000. This will give you
the opportunity to rank well in the search engines for that keyword
phrase with minimal effort.
By using the free tool above I have been able to
identify 10 keywords based around neckties that would be suitable
for building content pages all of them with competition of less then
80,000 in Google. This was in the space of about 5 minutes
worth of work.
As far as profitability goes you really will not
know how profitable a site may be until you build it and get it out
there. Spike has mentioned something very similar and has had
sites that he though would do poorly bring in $10 and $15 per day in
Google Adsense. The idea is that you build a site, set it up
and move on to your next one.
Now if you can build just 5 sites that average
around $10 per day then you are earning a nice $1500 in extra income
per month with no or very little further effort.
What if you built 10 sites? or 15? or even 20?
The passive income possibilities are very exciting to say the
least.
Find
High Paying Adsense Keywords!
|
Website Design and
Layout |
When designing your website for the purpose of Adsense
Mini-Sites the idea is to have a simple site that display's the
content in a neat manner whilst also drawing as much attention to
the Google Adwords as possible.
I will not go into actual website creation here as that is
beyond the realm of what we are targeting in this lesson
A great place to find free clean website templates is OSWD. Spike uses these
open source templates in allot of his Adsense Mini-Sites due to the
fact that they are free, most of them are in a very clean layout,
they all come with source files so they can be modified to YOUR
needs and they make for fast Adsense Mini-Site creation.
You can get to their free website selections at http://www.oswd.org/browse.php
There are many other template sites around but the above one
seems to stand out at being the best among free templates.
Alternatively you can also pay for what they call a "premium"
template which are usually of a higher standard but these are not
always better for the purpose that we need them.
Once you have your website template set-up and ready to go
there are some basic SEO tips that will help you make the most out
of each page you build. Most of these tips you may have seen
in previous lessons but I will outline them here again.
When building your new content pages name your page names
after the specific keyword phrase you are targeting.
Example: Mens Neckties becomes
mens-neckties.html
This simple step can make a very big difference in helping
you rank well for certain phrases.
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Ensure you also add the
keyword phrase in <h1> </h1> tags at the beginning of
your content page.
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Create proper title
tags for EVERY page using the targeted keyphrases
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Create proper meta
keywords and meta descriptions using targeted
keyphrases
When linking to your Content pages whether that be from your
main page or any other page it is best to use a text link and
include your targeted keyphrases. Otherwise you are wasting
potential SEO benefits of internal linking.
Effective Google Adword placement and
Style
When inserting your Google Adsense code there are certain
area's on your page that are proven to grab the visitor's attention
much better then other areas.
One of these area's and the area that I myself and Spike use
most often is the top left hand side at the beginning of your
content creation. You can see that particular layout at the
top of this page. Google bought out their own heatmap which confirms
this positioning of Adsense as being one of the best. This
can be viewed at at Google
Adsense Heatmap
Some basic Adsense Tips that can improve your CTR by
up to 15% sometimes 20% are.
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Where possible use only
one Adsense block per page. This improves the amount each
click will provide you
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Try to use the "Large
Rectangle 336x280" option. Helps improve your
CTR
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Do not use border's
around your Adsense
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Make the text and
heading color of Adsense ads the same as your content
color
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ALWAYS leave the URL
link at the bottom of each ad in blue. This is shown to
increase CTR (click through ratio) as this is the standard color
of all links on the Internet
By implementing just these few tips above Spike was able to
improve his CTR on one of his older sites by a massive
18%!
|
Content Creation - Building your
keyword rich pages |
Well now is probably the hardest part of the entire
process. Actually creating the content.
The main objective will be to create content for each
keyphrase you have selected and have it as a completely separate
page on your Mini-Site. Each page should be between 400 and
700 words.
When creating the content you would want to follow the basic
SEO principles mentioned in the website layout section as well as
naturally trying to include the keyword phrase through out the
text.
If you were for example creating a page on Necktie Storage,
you may want to write about the different types of necktie storage
available, which ones a better, the benefits of storing your
necktie's, how to prevent moth damage with necktie storage etc
etc.
The key is to try and create quality content that the visitor
will actually be interested in reading. Create content for the
reader, not for the Adsense income. I know this may sound
strange but if you create the pages for your reader, then the
Adsense income will naturally come.
One of Spike's secret method's is to use an article writing
company or service. This can drastically decrease the time you
are spending on one website and allow you to increase your
productivity and as a result income.
Two of the better article writing services
are
