Eric's Estimate

How to Get Paid By Google Part 1

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Eric

Given that I wrote a post about how adsense has ruined the internet, I thought it would be nice and hypocritical to try and make some money using adsense. My current balance is below their minimum payout of $100. And so my goal is to hit their payout mark by the end of January 2010.

I’ll be sharing my progress so that anyone out there who currently has 50 or 60 bucks sitting in their account can follow along, and hopefully finally get paid by the ubiquitous giant G.

The first step is to revamp all of my old sites that got me to where I am with adsense. Most of these sites made some money at the beginning, but have steadily faded away due to lack of updates.

I have about 5 sites at the moment that were setup, and I have moved them all over to new hosting, and onto wordpress. They all have the basic wordpress theme, and I don’t intend on changing it unless I can find a wordpress theme that converts adsense clicks better than the default theme.

My next step is to go through all of my domains that are being unused and find some that I can build out. I have a number of domains that I have purchased over the years that are just being parked and get zero traffic. Most of these domains are long tail keywords that have little competition and decent search traffic. I will build these out in the same way as the original 5 sites and try to get a steady stream of traffic.

Goals:

My goal is to make the remaining 40 bucks or so of adsense revenue I need to get paid by Google. Given the historical data in my adsense account I will need about 5000 – 6000 impressions in order to hit this goal. Breaking that number down by day I will need ~140 impressions a day for the remaining 44 days.

Currently I am getting ~25 daily impressions to the adsense sites I have setup so I have a shit load of work to do… in fact, I’m going to start on it now.