End of April Totals & Updates

Total earnings for April 2010: $258.36

Well April was a pretty lazy month, I got no new sites launched. The good news is earnings are steady and pretty close to March totals so I’m happy with the results. What should be learned from my laziness this month is if you take no action you get no results, so if you want to earn more from AdSense then your going to have to put the work in and scale up your operation.

Part of the reason for my reluctance to put up new sites was dreading the time it was taking me to do keyword research and find profitable new micro niches. Well I got a new tool that’s taken care of that for me, but I am starting to think I should spend some more time building broader sites rather then put all of my eggs into micro niches. I am definitely seeing saturation start to kick in and now might be the time to get out or slow down because I’d rather have a couple of mega sites that rank well over time then take the chance with 100′s os micro sites that could possibly be de-indexed.

It’s also getting very difficult to find exact match domain names for these sites because of the saturation, but to be honest my best earning sites are not exact match domains for the keyword and have words added at the end of the domain after the keywords.

I’m going to start implementing AdSense click fraud prevention scripts on my sites because I’m starting to get nervous about some sites that get a lot of clicks out of nowhere and seem to be coming from the same IP. Also with all of these new competitors in the micro niche arena, it’s only a matter of time before a competitor comes along and tries to get my account banned, which makes no sense because it’s site rankings that will earn your more money and not getting your competition banned. If your evil enough to do this you not only will risk potential legal action from Google and publishers, but your competition will just find other ways to monetize and still outrank you anyway.

When I start to implement this new AdSense Click Lock script it’s also going to let me experiment with some other ways to monetize my sites with links from Amazon, ClickBank or Yahoo.

I just got finished launching four more sites at the start of May. Going to start working on my mega sites this weekend. I’m thinking about going with some insurance niches, because from past experience with other sites they always payout very high in the $3-4 per click range.

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