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How To Get Paid By Google Part 2

Posted on May 10, 2010 by EricNo Comments

Back towards the end of December 2009 I wrote an article on how to get paid by google.

Basically, it was an article about how to quickly get the extra cash out of your Google Adsense account and I wanted to give an update on how everything went.

I ended up not putting in as much effort as I would have liked, but I built out one of my domains to the point of getting no. 1 in Yahoo for a specific keyword.

This keyword doesn’t bring in a ton of traffic, but it does net the site somewhere around 20 bucks per month through adsense revenue now.

The site that I used was not this one, nor have I made any significant adsense revenue from this site.

What was my goal?

The original goal was to hit the 100 mark (I was about 40 bucks short) by the end of January 2010. That gave me 44 days and it ended up being a bit too ambitious for how much effort I was willing to put in.

How did I do?

Well, at the end of January 2010 I had somewhere around $79 in my account.

At the end of February I almost hit the mark at around 96 bucks, and in March I finally hit the mark in adsense revenue giving me my first Google cheque!

How much work was it?

Well, to be honest it was a breeze. I grabbed a 6 pack of beer and dumped a ton of content onto the website in about 4 hours and that was it. In about 2 weeks I had ranked for some keywords and started getting the traffic.

I used wordpress to post the articles over a period of time. So in other words the site posts a new article every day without me having to do anything! In fact, from those 4 hours of work I STILL have articles being posted once a day on that site.

I think that the revenue will continue to grow slowly. This site will definitely not be a money maker, but it’s good enough to bring in around 240 bucks a year… and that’s like 12 cases of beer that I can drink to make 12 more sites!

How to Get Paid By Google Part 1

Posted on December 18, 2009 by EricNo Comments

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.