Do Niche Google Adsense Websites Really Work?
Here is a question from Tony, one of our readers:
“Do you think adsense-niche websites really work? In other words, do they bring in money when monetized with clickbank and other methods for monetization as compared to other ways of Internet marketing?”
First off all, yes, Google Adsense can make you quite a bit of change. In fact, it is how I started out in Internet marketing.
I created a website in a small niche market, updated it regularly, and placed Google Adsense ads on it.
I started making a whopping $7 per day!
However, after applying the techniques I learned in Joel Comm’s Adsense Secrets e-book my earnings changed overnight to $30 per day, and eventually hit $100 per day (that’s around $3000 per month).
Considering I was in school full-time and working part-time (making about $20,000 per year), this was quite the profit to be making on a hobby!
Over the following few months I noticed my Adsense revenue going both up and down, and I started to make note as to why. I will share some of those observations here.
Before I get to that point, I want to talk a bit about the trend over the past couple of years to make “junk” Adsense websites (i.e. websites built only to get users to click on Adsense ads, and not really offering anything valuable).
I don’t believe in them. They may work for a short while, but in the long run these sites will lose everything.
And if you tick off Google, they’ll close your account with no warning and never open it again, thus killing your chances of revenue from this multi-billion dollar industry.
Instead, your goal should be to build quality websites that people actually want to come back to over and over again. This will ensure a steady flow of revenues, both from Adsense and from other affiliate programs that you use on your website.
Alright, let’s get to those observations now:
1. Great content = great Adsense revenue
Like I said before, junk websites will not give you the long term income that you are looking for. If you want return visitors (which equal to repeated clicks on ads), then you need to provide something valuable.
This should be in the form of great free content.
2. Regularly updated content = great Adsense revenue
Another important point is that your site needs to be constantly growing. This both attracts the search engines and your visitors.
Some people think that they can grab 1,000 PLR articles, load them on to their Adsense website, and then walk away.
However, search engines (and people) like sites that have useful content, but that also gets updated regularly, giving them a reason to come back over and over again.
3. Well placed ads = great Adsense revenue
This was my biggest mistake when I first started.
There are dozens of tips for placing ads that I won’t get into here right now. If you are interested in these types of tips, check out Joel Comm’s Adsense Secrets e-book (that’s the one I read that multiplied my Adsense revenue by more than 10).
I will give you one tip that is probably the most important - don’t use borders! You should make the ad border color the same as the background color.
The main reason for this is that you don’t want your ad to look like an ad. You want it to blend in with your site. This way people will still look at it, and click on links if they are interested.
4. Including an opt-in box = great Adsense revenues
My last tip for this article is to include an opt-in box on every page of your niche Adsense website. This way you can capture as many return visitors as possible.
Whenever you post new content on your website, you can email your growing list about that content and instantly gain more visitors to your website for the next couple of days.
This is the perfect way to “recycle” traffic and earn even more Adsense revenue.
Have fun building your Adsense websites!
Matthew Glanfield
P.S. If you have any questions about this article, or if you have other questions you want me to answer, simply leave a comment!
Matthew,
Is there any other program that is similar to Ad sense? I did make them angry for some unknown reason. I am unfortunately banned from the program. I even asked them for an appeal of my account, to no avail. Any comments are appreciated.
Hi Matt,
I’m in the process of building a website at the moment, through which I plan to offer an ebook for visitors to buy (I’ll also include free content in the form of a blog + advice articles). What’s your take on having Adsense as well? I’ve seen some advice that says if you’re offering a product for sale on your site you don’t want Google ads too as that encourages people to click off somewhere else, instead of staying to buy what you’re offering. Do you agree? Or is there a formula for having both?
Many thanks,
Paul
Excellent advice, Matt. I think many people feel if they just throw up a site with PLR articles, they will cash in on the adsense gravy train.
If you change the articles, rewrite them in your own style and offer valuable content you have a much better chance of success. Also Joel’s books on adsense are invaluable. Thank-you for some great information.
Dear Matt
What is the best program to use to build a affiliate or adsense blog? What can you tell me about the software program XSite Pro? Is it a good program to build a blog with? Thanks.
Matt,
Nice review of Adsense tips.Would look forward to more useful tips.Beatrix LLC : I have heard that if you apply from a different gmail and bank account for a new adsense account you might be accepted.People have reported being given new accounts.So leave the old account…in all probability they will never reinstate you…instead start a new one.Hope this works for you.
l have read joel comms book and brought his software adsense premier a great buy but l dont like the adsence tool for tracking the adsence doesnt track all the ads so l would not recommend this tool however the package is good.
Hiya Matt
Hope your having fun today
my question is probably very simple to you but i am a bit flumoxed haha
which is best ie safest an better long term
to use
my wordpress templates
my web 2 site bulder ie adsense clickbank amazone html
as above with that orrible php rubbish hehe
or just design my own unique html style site
OOps ron again i got cut off there hahah
i need to make a decision now and i cant so
it is holding me up big time arrghh
so direct ans please and i will use that as my decision
then i am off hahahh
thank you thank you
Ronnie
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My adsense blogs don’t seem to make any money. I get looks, but, no cash.
I agree 100%. And the more content then the more earnings.
What if you had 10,000 or even 50,000 articles
with your adsense ads surrounding each article?
Can you image how large your increase in income would be?
There is a New software database that contains over 600,000 articles to
use by relevant keywords of your choice.
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Adsense definitely works. It is a great way to monetize your websites
I find that the biggest factor is traffic. The more traffic you have going to your sites the better
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Struggling for success don,t make it to happen but looking unto the over all authority will bring it to pass
How do I get started?
Do I need to change my page constantly so as not to “annoy” Adsense?
Adsense provide more revenue compare to other ads websites. Adsense have a deep advertisement campaign. Which provide reliable and dynamic ads to webmasters. adsense really works
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Thanks for the useful post and thanks to all people who commented!
Marco
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i am a beginner in monetizing my blog with Adsense. i still need to learn more about the tips and tricks on Adsense. hopefully i might be able to earn a decent amount of cash on Adsense.
i really love Google Adsense. i could earn a decent amount of cash with this make money online program from Google.
Adsense is definitely a good money maker if you build quality sites geared toward providing value and getting repeat traffic. I wouldn’t base my whole business on Adsense just beacuse of the fact that if something happened you would be out of business, but it is a very important part of an overall business strategy with a diverse group of cash earning sites.
If you use PLR articles for adsense site content, be sure to rewrite them, they are already posted everywhere and most aren’t written all that well. If you rewrite it and add some value to it you will have a brand new article in half the time of writing it from scratch.
Well if you can get an adsense site to make $7.00 a day you could easily sell it for over $1500.00 in today’s market.
@ Beatrix LLC, try Bidvertiser or Yahoo’s publisher program.
if you want to create great quality content quick then there is a new web 2.0 app that is worth a look: Article Boxer
cheers
Tony
adsense really works for many website which target potential customers.
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I recently added an Adsense square ads on my travel blog. my adsense earning is still low since i dont have large volume of internet traffic yet.
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i ithink Adsense rocks
Adsense rocks. when you a doing white hat
thx for great post!
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I can definitely say that niche websites monetized with Google Adsense works, but it takes more work than what most people think.
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Don’t know about anyone else but from the beginning of the week around the 7th June 2010 I have found my adsense earnings really melting away.
Mostly old sites certainly that haven’t been promoted very much but it seems so sudden. Maybe another policy shift by Google?
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