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If you sell products from your website then adding PPC ads (eg Google AdSense) will only start advertising your competitors.

How does this look in the eyes of your customers? Not good is the answer, trust me!

If you run a content / info site then google adsense can pay your hosting costs at a minimum, and help supplement your income if done well.

I've worked for companies where the company made all it's money, and paid all it's employers purely from PPC revenues - they had 500 good quality MFA sites (made for adsense). infact they didn't show adsense but showed ads supplied by a whole range of PPC ad agencies (not all on the same site, you're not allowed!)

Now I have my own company where I am developing ppc and affiliate advertising for contextual advertising on services.

I have a directorship in another company that I helped developed, and just launched, called jv members, check the sig link below to see how adsense / affiliate marketing can be done (without any financial involvement as well, if you want!)

OK Gold, what you're sugesting now sounds like a great idea but with some shortcomings.  Won't do you any harm if it does you no good.

Build the site on a subdomain so it costs you nothing, but your time and effort.

Now, suppose you set up this site and get 1000 visitors a month. OK, suppose you get a clickthrough rate of 3%, that's 30 clicks a month. OK, suppose you get 10c per click, that's $3.00 per month. US dollars, mind you. Google holds your money till you've accumulated US$100.00. Mind you, they're good dollars. Worth more than our Australian dollars. US$100.00 is worth about AU$130.00 so it'll be good money when you get it.

Consider the following, you'll have a good idea of whether it's right or not:

1)  People looking at a jewelry collecting site aren't looking to buy new jewelry. (?) Not targeted to your ads for new, big dollar jewelry. (?)

2)  With jewelry being a big dollar item, the price per click could be between 50c and a dollar. You see, the ads pick up on your keywords. You'll need to study what keywords are being paid high prices for and work those words into your h1, h2 and top few lines of content.

My experience is that it doesn't work. I'm still only half way to my first cheque after about six months. Maybe you can make it work better. Hope so.

There's a fellow, Beatledave, who used to post a lot. I think he still lurks around. Well, he has an information site, might have some products also, about the Beatles. You know, the singing group!

He used to make good pocket money as I understand it, but a whole set of problems developed for him. Look him up in the member list and check out his most recent posts. If you PM or e-mail him, say "G'day" for me, would you please.

Regards,
Laurie.

we run over 20 adsense sites that are full of good content.

We base our research for the content of the follwoing factors

1 - high CPC in AdWords
2 - high search volume
3 - low SERPs competiton

we're in the middle of develpoing a product that fives data for all 3, if you're interested, let me know and I'll let you know when it's available!

Laurie,
  Thank you for your imput.  If all I can make is $3.00 or so per month than I can think of many better things to do with my time.
  If I thought I could bring in $100.00 or so per month than it might be worth building a site for it.
  I find what Northie is offering with his website interesting although i don't think I could put in the time to be writing a new article everyday .
Happy Holidays
Goldsmith

Nice article. Thanks Matte and of course Northie. The only question left is how to determine what keywords cost higher? I have set-up a test MFA and it's not generating much since a single click sometimes costs just $0.05.

Cue thegypsy's photo of the $million check!

travelmake wrote:

I have had a similar experience with Adsense as laurie_m. For me Adsense is just a source of small supplemental  income, mostly covering the cost of domain registration and hosting. I try to minimize the space occupied by Adsense ads on the home page in order not to spook visitors away. My web site belongs to the travel industry, the average cost per click varies from $0.1 to $1.0 for me. Based on my own Adsense stats, one would need at least 5,000 visitors/day in order to earn ~$2,000-2,500/ month. Correspondingly, to earn $100/ month you would need to get at least 300 unique visitors every day.
If interested, you can check this list of 500 top paying Adsense words: http://www.cwire.org/highest-paying-search-terms.

On one of our travel sites we get around 300 visitors a day, producing around US $300 a month, and a similar figure from CJ..

Roger

bookmarked... thanks Northie...

Theres a good note Etcetera..... Scheme of the site.

In the market niche I'm targeting... all the top ten sites are ugly as sin. Some look like they've been made by a third grader. So part of my staying power has been invested in the 'look'.

The other sites are all dark, black backgrounds, etc. But mine is bright, and according to a friend of mine......

"Holy shit dood!!! It looks like we PAID someone to make this!!!"

I wouldn't go as far as saying 'pro', but in comparison to the other sites.... I blow them out of the water. I'm hoping this will be my 'staying power', and hopefully click through rates will increase.

On the other hand... I've been to sites where i've clicked on the ads, just to get the fu@$$ away from that god awful creation.

We'll see if my experiment works.

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There also seems to be a bit of spamming of the forum going on.

Regards,
Laurie.