End of June Totals: Huge Drop in AdSense Revenue! Moving Forward with a New Approach

Total AdSense earnings for June 2010: $153.95

June was a really bad month as I expected it would be with the Google update and crackdown on micro sites. I just ran a rank checker on all my sites and the good news is most of them are ranking in the top 10 on Bing and Yahoo, but all of my Google sites have been sandboxed and wiped off the first page!

As a result of this new Google update my AdSense revenue has dropped nearly 50%!

Now I was already thinking about giving up on putting all of my time and energy into building micro niche sites and only having AdSense as my one income source. It’s just way to risky to build a business model around an account which can at Google’s will be wiped out completely and have your entire income gone in one day. It’s already happened once before. Back in the day when you could build thousands of pages with scraper programs and stuff your pages with keywords for easy rankings, people were making thousands a day until Google changed the entire way it ranked pages and wiped out many accounts overnight by de-indexing thousands of pages from the index.

Moving forward I’m going to be building huge authority sites only and really writing great content that will be natural link bait instead of having to build artificial links in great numbers just to rank poorly written content.

I really feel like this is the way to go. It’s better that you really put the effort into writing great content and in return you won’t have to spend so much time getting it ranked where you need it. You have to remember that Google wants to deliver the most relevant results to the end user and by concentrating more putting more effort into your research and writing you will in effect have pages which spread like a virus on their own all across the web.

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