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Make Money Online With 100 Blog Posts Update

August 3rd, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in Keyword Research, SEO  |  32 Comments

For the last week, I have been working as much as possible on my new make money experiment. The point of this experiment is to create 100 targeted blog posts within a 30 day period while tracking my earnings.

The first step in the process was to plan out the posts. That actually took almost a full week in itself. After I had everything ready I started writing.

Results July 27 – August 2

So far I have been able to write 25 posts and they’ve been absolutely killing it. I didn’t in my wildest dreams think that they would produce $371.98:

As you can see, I’m monetizing with Google Adsense and am using two ad units on the posts. One of the ads is placed within the post and the other is placed under it.

Obviously anyone would be happy with these results. Assuming that I don’t improve over the next three weeks, this experiment will put an extra $1594.20 in my pocket.

Planning Is Everything

Honestly I couldn’t have done this without a lot of planning. You can’t just throw up any 25 posts and expect this to happen. Before I even started writing posts I found 100 keywords with two important characteristics:

  • They had the potential to make a lot of money.
  • They were somewhat easy to rank for.

In order to make good money with Google Adsense, you have to have a solid foundation of keyword research and SEO. If you can’t pick the right keywords, you’re not going to be able to make it work with Adsense. The days of throwing up content and making a lot of money are over. You have to be a lot more put together than you did in the past. Choosing the right keywords to go after is crucial.

You can use the Adwords keyword tool to check both search volume and CPC and with these numbers, the higher the better. I use a formula to calculate exactly how much I think I can produce with a keyword in a month and these 25 keywords are worth $7366.47 per month. I honestly didn’t think that they would start producing this quickly but if you consider the potential of the keywords, it isn’t too, too crazy.

We talk about using this formula in our members area to decide which keywords will be worthwhile.

The Next Week

During the next week, I’m going to try to finish at least 25 more posts. The strategy is obviously working and I don’t see any reason to change it. I’m secretly hoping that I’ll be able to finish more like 35 posts but we’ll see how much time I have. Life is pretty busy right now!

Note to TKA members – watch for an update in the forums within the next two hours.

Can You Place Adsense Below Your Post Titles?

February 21st, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in Monetization  |  13 Comments

Lately a lot of people have been asking me about placing Adsense ads below the titles of posts because it’s something Google has partially discouraged as of late.

I keep getting emails from people saying that you aren’t supposed to do it anymore. For those of you that are running around saying this to everyone on the planet I would highly recommend getting your facts straight first.

Telling people that they can’t do it is wrong, because they can in a lot of circumstances. Google’s official position on this is that it can’t be done in a way that misleads visitors and encourages them to click.

Let’s say that our post title was ‘Top 4 Cell Phone Providers’ and right below our title we had a large rectangle ad unit. People would assume that the four links were the top 4 providers, right? This would be against Google’s terms of service for Adsense.

Now let’s say that our post title was ‘Top Cell Phone Providers’ and right below our title we had the same ad unit. Some people would assume the same thing right? This still isn’t a good idea because you are probably still misleading some people.

Now let’s say that our post title was ‘How To Turn Off A Motorola Cell Phone’. In this case, does having the ads below the title mislead people in any way? No, it certainly doesn’t.

For those of you that were contacted by Google, you were obviously using your titles in a misleading fashion – whether intentional or not.

The honest truth here is that you have to look at each of your titles to determine whether a person could be misled or not. If you’re getting crazy high click-through rates you’re probably misleading. It’s highly unlikely that 15% of people should be clicking your ads.

If you’re too lazy to check out each individual ad you should probably be labeling your ads with the word ‘Advertisements’, placing them above your titles, or floating them to the right so that they don’t appear below the titles. In my experience floating them to the right will still get a good CTR and in some cases placing them above the title will as well.

How To Create An Adsense Unit That Text Wraps Around

February 18th, 2009  |  by Court  |  Published in For Beginners  |  19 Comments

Lately I’ve been getting relentless questions about how to create Adsense units that text will wrap around, so I figured I might as well answer them all at once. It’s actually really simple if you understand CSS and harder if you don’t. All you have to do is place a small piece of code before the ad and another after. The one that goes before is going to look like this:

<div style=”float:left; margin:10px;”>

The one that goes after should look like this:

</div>

So, the entire code with your Adsense included is going to look like this:

If you can’t get these bits of code to work, make sure you type them instead of copying with your mouse.

There are a few changes you can make if you want. The ‘float:left;’ is what makes the unit float to the left, and if you wanted the unit to float to the right, you could change it to ‘float:right;’. I also added a little margin and that’s what creates a little space around the ad unit. If you want to make it bigger or smaller, you can adjust the margin number.

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