End of March AdSense Totals and Some Observations

Total Earnings for March 2010: $279.83

This was my best month ever. My income has been steadily increasing and my traffic and CTR are improving with time. It’s now time to scale this operation up and start getting a lot more sites launched while I tweak my old sites and try to improve the traffic and earnings on them. I try not to touch my old sites that much because this is all about set and forget hands free maintenance, but it’s always important that you have a steady stream of back links linking to your sites from unique IP addresses. I’ve discovered that some sites however due to extreme lack o competition can get by with just a few links and maintain a steady first page Google ranking.

Now here is a couple of things that I have noticed……

My best performing sites are my first launches that have all original content and just a few back links from some Ezine Articles. The second batch of sites that I launched were based on a more lazy approach and were thrown up fast with some dupe content, auto blogging plug-ins and back links from social bookmarking websites and blog networks. These later sites are earning money but not as much as my initial sites with all original content and stronger back links. Based on this I started going back to an all original content format, but I don’t think that getting links just from one IP source is the best strategy. It’s my theory that the original content will outperform any sites with dupe content, even if they have more back links. Even though these sites will cost a lot more to launch, they will be profitable much faster and earn more in the long term.

Do not fear the Google dance!

I’ll have to admit that this is a very dangerous business. Your basically putting all of your fate in the hands of Google. Any major change in the algorithms and your sites can all be de-indexed, banned, rank beyond 100 or worse you can get your account banned. I’ve had sites de-indexed and then show up again. I have had sites rank first page then drop to 300 and then show up on page one again. From what I can see is that as long as you deliver Google what they want which is great unique content you’ll be ok. If you rank well right off the bat it’s a good indication that your site will rank well in the future even if your rankings fluctuate in the beginning. I think it’s just big G’s way of feeling you out and seeing if you are a spammer or not.

I am going to start experimenting with different site formats and see which ones draw more traffic and earn more. Next I want to go a little broader and add more content and have a tight internal silo structure which I’ll talk about in my next post. If my first sites are an indication of the direction I should be going in I think this format might be the most ideal to stick with.

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