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Does Google Adsense Work In Your Niche Blog

If you are a blogger who is in the niche of bloggers who blog about making money online and participate in the Google Adsense program, then more likely you are NOT going to be successful with the program. It just blows my mind to see the number of blogs that are emerging that blog about making money online but don’t actually make money online. Is this a catch 22? How can people blog about making money online when they don’t?

Honestly, I am not trying to sound rude… I am writing this post because I really care and I want to see more people out here get rewarded for their efforts. The Google Adsense program is an awesome program to participate in. I am terribly shocked to discover the number of bloggers who are failing in participating with the program. It’s shocking! I really is… and it shouldn’t be like this. Google Adsense is a great program, assuming that you know how to use it.

Google Adsense Tips People, if you want to find success with Google Adsense, you have to create a blog, site, etc… and target people who don’t know about the program. This in itself is by far the easiest way to become successful with the program. The problem at hand is so simple: It’s when blogger choose to roll out campaigns on their blogs which attract other bloggers who are doing the same thing.  When this takes place, 9 out of 10 bloggers discover failure. Why do bloggers expect other bloggers who know about the Google Adsense program to click on their ads? Overall, this isn’t going to happen! And that is the main reason why I don’t apply Google Adsense ads on this site. No One Is Going To Click! Why… because everyone that visits my site here, knows about the program, participates in the program and has their own group of readers who also know about the program! Literally, we are a niche group of bloggers who want to make money online… and commonly, most of the bloggers in this niche have Google Adsense being displayed on their blogs and they never get clicked on! You can’t continue to do the same thing and expect different results. And to put my cards down on the table here, it doesn’t really even require a lot of traffic to find success with Google Adsense.

This Isn’t Rocket Science!

Put yourself in the shoes of the end user (the person you want clicking your ads). What is the end users pattern? First off… how did the end user get the computer? Where did he purchase it? What kind of computer is it? If you don’t know where I am coming from… lets roll through a scenario:

Mr. Smith, who is a first time computer user decides to purchase his first computer from Dell. 10 days later, he gets his Dell computer is shipped to him… and two hours later he is online.

Where is the home page set to? and what Internet browser is Mr. Smith using?

 Mr. Smith, who is unaware of Google Adsense and experiencing the Internet for the first time… Turns on his computer and clicks the “Internet” button… and is quickly delivered to Dell’s Co-branded Google home page using Internet Explorer.

He has no clue about Firefox. He has no clue about blogs. He has no clue about Google Adsense, Text-Link-Ads, the Amazon Associates program, Commission Junction, etc…

Mr. Smith is just a guy who finally after all these years bought a brand new computer.

Now Do You Guys and Gals See Where I Am Coming From?

Mr. Smith = money! Target this guy… not people within your same niche! Why in the hell are you wasting your time attempting to make money online by expecting other bloggers to click your Google Adsense ads when they are trying to do the same thing on their blogs? I don’t click Google Adsense ads… Do you? If and when I actually click Google Adsense ads, I am just being nice to the blogger because the ad somewhat interests me and I know that the blogger will get paid a few cents for the click. This is nothing compared to the percentages you will receive when you target people like Mr. Smith!

I have around the area now of about 60 dot Com blogs. For the people who follow me pretty closely, you guys already know my deal… However, for the ones that don’t… I can sum it all up in one paragraph. I am very successful using Google Adsense because I don’t waste my time trying to make money online by presenting ads to people within my niche. I target people who are inexperienced Internet users and I attract only people who are interested in the ads that pay big bucks.

So many people ask me, “well, how do you know which ads generate the most money?” The answer really isn’t that difficult…

Rule of Thumb:

Google Adsense Tips If the ad generated on your page is an expensive item or service… then 9 out of 10 times it pays an expensive CTR. If the ad generated on your page is a cheap item or service… you can expect to be paid just only pennies on the dollar.

So, if you are truly serious about making money online using Google Adsense, my suggestion to you is to launch a blog and talk about things that will attract people who don’t know about the Google Adsense program and allow for them to click on things that are expensive items or services. Again, it’s not rocket science. I have around 60 dot Com blogs, total traffic is averaged at under 100 visits per day per blog… I am far from pushing a ton of bandwidth here… I am far from having “Tons of Traffic” to each blog. I am not going into specifics about how much money I make using Google Adsense (because I can’t… I am not allowed to) but I can tell you that my mortgage is covered, my car payment is covered and most of all my monthly utilities are covered this month by using Google Adsense alone. And… yes, this is my first “REALLY GOOD MONTH”. But, I finally got my head out of my you know what… and did something about it.

If you take as much time and effort you have put forth into your current blog and apply it towards a new blog that is specifically geared towards targeting inexperienced Internet users who are unaware of the Google Adsense program, you will quickly discover that your account will start to make as much money in one day is it formally did in an entire month. From there, the sky is the limit. :)

Good luck, and please feel free to comment, ask questions or offer suggestions.

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no imagegoldcoaster (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 04:18:12 Comment #3122

So, Garry, you are saying that you make x amount, enough to pay all your bill basically, with only 100 visitors a day ? Wow.
How many of those 60 are the new $1 blogs and how well are they going for visitors, please.

- GoldCoaster

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no imageHomemom3 (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 08:32:59 Comment #3134

I’m curious on this one as well. My guess would be those plane (jet) blogs but not sure.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 10:50:30 Comment #3143

Each site I own, minus this one and just one other get less than 100 visits per day for sure. But my CTR is very high. An example site, which regretfully I haven’t had much time to develop, maybe I will today, Apple iPhone Discounts focuses less on social networking and more towards concentrated keyword marketing in the search engines. Consequently, anyone who is looking for Apple iphone discounts in Google will find this page via the 3nd result listing which goes to MBL community page and 5th listing which goes direct to the site. Click Here to see the page. If you combine this by 100, yes! You are going to be making some money! :) This has been a terrible week and a half for me… so I haven’t been able to continue and push forward on this. However, I am going at it full force now. :)

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-24-2007 01:25:28 Comment #3402

Gold Coaster,
Here is a screen shot of yesterday results.

The first is the site that I have been talking about recently. I am providing an article indexing service, etc..
Now, to answer your question about the 60 sites… Yesterday I had 24 of them show up on the report. $89.31 (- minus) $62.88 (= equals) $26.43 from 24 of the 60. So, I am not quite consistant with all the sites… in fact I still have more than half to get really up and running. But, to me this is a great indicator that this will work for me. The type of traffic I target, I don’t have to focus on volume. All I need is a handful of traffic, high conversion and then I can call it a day! I hope this helps in answering your question. :)

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no imagetharsos (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 06:25:13 Comment #3125

You got me quite interested in the mechanics of making money with AdSense

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 11:02:49 Comment #3144

Kent, that is great. I read your site quite frequently. I wish more… but that isn’t the case. :(
Also, let me say that people don’t have to run a tons of sites to do this… My main point is to start with one. Put forth as much time and energy into a second site that is geared for targeting traffic that will make you money. You don’t have to do what I am doing… which I might soon discover that I run only a small group that make the most money. I can’t keep up with 60 let alone 100 unless I hire someone to help or manage my time a little better. If things keep up the way they do, I may do that.

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no imageK-IntheHouse (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 08:06:39 Comment #3128

You have got me thinking on a second blog as mine is a tech blog and I am guessing my readers must be aware of Adsense only too well. Or may be I should consider other kinds of ad revenue. What do you think, Garry?

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 11:18:44 Comment #3145

Tech won’t work… well, it can, it is possible… but its difficult because of how many tech blogs already out there. You have to spend some time thinking into it. One you have to put yourself in a newbie’s shoes. Secondly, your site has to quickly find its way into Google by finding a keywords that doesn’t have a lot of competition. Thirdly, you have to write content that attracts these people to your site. What else do you like besides tech… what else can you successful write about and not worry about running out of content? Do you like shoes? You could launch an online shoe store… register a great domain that has these keywords in there, design the blog using wordpress. Install a 160×600 on the top left side, write a few posts (good ones) that talk about shoes or a particular brand or style of shoes, spend 30 days commenting on other blogs that are related to your own, contact other blog authors where you would like to have your blog listed in their blogroll/links page and do exchanges. (Commenting attracts their readers and blogroll/link exchange increases backlinks). After 30 days and staying really focused on the site, you should be bringing in a small amount of people daily to the site… hopefully, if things have been done well, you will find a seat somewhere in Google’s SERP. When developing this blog(s) you have to pay close attention to the permalink development, meta tag development, content development and domain name selection.

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no imageK-IntheHouse (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-20-2007 10:27:08 Comment #3207

Thanks for the detailed comment, Garry!

I guess my options are limited as to making money with my tech blog but I love what I share with my readers. I guess I’ll have to look at my other interests for a second blog with a money-making point of view.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-20-2007 13:19:06 Comment #3226

Your options are not limited with technology as long as you target groups of people who love technology but don’t know about Google Adsense. Even it they do… it still works, but you simply lessen your chances for attaining a high CTR. Technology is awesome and fun, and many people like it. So in short… if you attract people like you and I, then your CTR might be lower than if you attract people who are interested in, say… video games.

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no imageconstructicle boy (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 08:23:27 Comment #3131

for me,i rather go for 1 blog.make it a huge one and gain friends and associate

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 11:20:29 Comment #3146

And there is nothing wrong with that at all. :)
and nice use of the Alexa redirect… I can see on your site a main focus for you is increasing your Alexa ranking and you are seeking out to do just that. Nice work.

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no imageHomemom3 (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 08:35:45 Comment #3135

Loved the article and I must say I’ve wondered about these sites myself. Many claim it but then when they show their monthly stats it doesn’t seem as high as I would’ve hoped to see. Course these “Money making sites” are like tossing in a penny into a wishing well, there are a TON of pennies in there. I agree, niche blogs would seem the angle to go. I’m slowly learning about niche blogs and trying a few myself.

I saw someone ask about affiliate programs instead of Adsense, my suggestion would be search out what you write and check to see if they have a program to offer. Course I could be wrong here and please correct me if I am.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 11:24:33 Comment #3147

Affiliate marketing is fine… it depends on what you personally feel you could do better with. I tend to go the Adsense route because pretty much everyone that visits my pages end up throwing pocket change at me… compared to affiliate marketing where I could only have one sale out of 1000 visits… the money is there, but the odds of bringing money daily are more risky. However, when you do lock in on sales, the money is excellent.
I too have been curious about this and wanted to test my knowledge and skills to see if I could successful produce another round of running an affiliate marketing site. But, right now… I finally figured out how to make money using Adsense and I would be stupid not to see this through. But, I got to tell ya, if you put your mind to either affiliate marketing or PPC either will work just fine… but both require a different development approach.

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no imageTravelwell (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 09:13:52 Comment #3137

Hello Garry,
Great post. You are spot on with your comments.
I want to thank you for your Adsense posts over the past few weeks. Your posts helped to motivate me to get off my big fat rear end and do something about my Adsense earnings.

Two years ago I was making $50 to $100 a day, sometimes more, with Adsense. However, much of it came from driving traffic with Adwords. In December of 2005 the “Florida” Google dance changed the way Google looked at landing pages. Suddenly the price I had to pay for Adwords keywords went out of sight. My Adsense ads suddently made no sense. I was spending more on driving traffic than I was making.

I let Adsense more or less die out as a decent source of income. Then recently, thanks to you, I started to add blogs to some of the more than 30 domains that I manage. Some of them are in high paying niche markets. While it is too early to claim a great success the early results are very encouraging. The blogs are being indexed right away by Google and are bringing old domains back to life. Yesterday was my best Adsense day in a very long time. The earnings are still small but are up about 400% in a very short time.
There is nothing wrong with Adsense. It was my approach to it that was flawed.

I have also followed your advice in setting up a video blog. I’m still working on this but will add you to the blog role for http://www.streaming-video-live.com/newsroom
in the next few minutes. I’ll let you know how this experiment turns out.
Again thank you for sharing good ideas and for giving sound advice.
Cheers,
David

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:23:26 Comment #3152

David, that is awesome to hear that you are giving it a “round two” and that it is starting to work for you again! Power really is in numbers and if you have multiple sites that you can run it helps with the balance. Meaning you may have one site do well for one month, but then next month it does poorly. And without other sites to pick up the slack, you will have a gap in a steady flow of cash… I guess the same goes with investing in stocks! :)

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no imageJason (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 10:31:06 Comment #3142

Actually Garry,
You are allowed to post information on adsense earnings, as long as you don’t go into specifics in certain areas such as CTR. Google specifically states that they allow users to post information on the sum of their earnings with Adsense. So now that you know this, please feel free to tell the readers of this article how much you do earn from your 60 blogs. I am also curious about how long it took you to get to this point?
If you doubt me about the Adsense TOS, please check it out - https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_US/Terms.html - Section 7 states that “You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to the Program.”
-Jason

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:36:57 Comment #3156

How long did it take me to get to this point? Good question… I have been banging my head against the wall for many years up until within the last, say, three months, when I took my head out of my butt and saw that there was light! :)
I was doing what everyone else was doing… blogging about making money online and not making a dime. The obvious mistake was drawing in traffic who were people identical to me and my interests. As far as the 60 dot Coms go, you don’t have to do that… all I am saying is that if someone who runs a “make money online” blog who captures the attention of other bloggers who do the same thing… if this person commits as much energy and attention to another blog that is geared specifically for targeting an audience outside of the geeky, tech savvy, money hungry bloggers niche… they will almost instanly start to see better results. Now, if you have time to run multiple blogs… go for it! My goal is to run 100 blogs each that make a minimum of $1.00 per day via the Google Adsense program.
At this stage in my project… I am very inconsistent with my results. I have a few sites that make quite a bit of money per day and others that only make a few pennies. It is so early in the scheme of things that I am by far stable in this long term project. However, when I have all my ducks in a row, I will have no problem hitting the $1.00 per day mark… in fact I expect it to climb from there.
Thanks for stopping by and also thanks for informing me of the TOS policy. I am not going to let the cat out of the bag with specifics. Although, I have done so here and there in some of my previous posts. :)

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no imageDavid Cooley (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:00:52 Comment #3150

Spot On, Garry !!

I learned the same lessons last year and it sounds like we are running parallel. I have 45+ domains. 10 or so make the money. Tech blogs are not the money makers. I made the most with a Music blog and then sold it for a very nice profit. I am now using family and friends as writers, splitting the income and having a lot of fun playing “Lou Grant”.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:26:55 Comment #3153

Man that is great to hear. I love success stories and you, without a doubt, have one to share. Great work man… also you mentioned me in your post titled, “Make Money Online and I accidentally deleted your trackback… I think if you go back in to your post editor and click publish again, it should ping me back again… if not, that is why I provided the link here in my comment. Thanks for mentioning me in the post and thanks for sharing your encouraging words! People need to hear it! Because making money online with Google Adsense is very possible and not that hard to do, if done correctly. :)

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no imageDavid Cooley (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:33:44 Comment #3154

No problem, but, you have an error in the link. The closing quote is included in the URL and giving a 404.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:38:17 Comment #3157

:) why is code and computers so unforgiving?

LOL… all fixed and thanks again for the encouraging words to the readers who want to succeed.

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no imageJohn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 12:53:10 Comment #3158

Great post Garry and very true.

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 16:27:17 Comment #3161

Thank for the compliment John. You have quite a few very excellent articles found on your site too! Glad to see new faces here and I am sure that readers here will find many of the things you write about to be very useful.
Nice to meet you and don’t be a stranger! :)

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no imageTom LeDree (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 14:37:20 Comment #3159

You have inspired me to set up multiple niche blogs but before I do I have a quick question. Is it important to register a dot com url for them or would a blogspot blog be ok? I see you have gone with the dot com approach and wondered your reasons. Also how do you go about hosting all your blogs? Is it one server with wordpress uploaded in lots of different directories?

Hope you can help :-)
Loved the post by the way!

Tom LeDree

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no imageGarry Conn (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 16:33:17 Comment #3162

I rent hosting from PowerVPS and I am able to host a ton of sites without even putting a dent in my bandwidth allowances. I have a program called Web Host Manager (WHM) which allows me to create and set up new dot Com sites. From there I upload the most current version of Wordpress, install and configure it. I do register dot Coms instead of use blogspot dot com because I feel it adds to the level of professionalism and there really isn’t too much cost or overhead. Domain names are cheap and if the you know what ever hits the fan, I can turn right around and just sell the domain name as an established domain name with traffic coming in from Google.

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no imagegoldcoaster (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 18:39:51 Comment #3163

this is interesting,
Garry, looking at BlueHost.com (found it via wordpress.com recommended)
does this mean that once you pay them the $7 per month I can, when I want, add another domain name and blog. They say “Host UNLIMITED Domains!!!”, so that is what I think it means.
I think I need help understanding this as I am sure if I sign up for something I will find that…”oh you want that, thats an extra $50 per month” and I don’t want to pay anything like that, yet.

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no imagegoldcoaster (Who am I?) Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-18-2007 18:53:36 Comment #3164

Continuing from you comment about PowerVPS.
I think I have answered my own questions. I asked via bluehosts livechat.

Question: Hi I am new to hosting and have a quick question. Your site says - Host UNLIMITED Domains!!! Does that mean I could have for eg. abc.com hosted then a week later also have xyxblog.com and 123blog.com, all hosted for the one price (6.95) and then when I add a new domain name I just pay you for that? Does this make sense?

jtrent 8:38:17 PM: Yes, that is exactly correct.
8:38:29 PM: The registration fee for additional domains are $10.00 per domain per year.
Paul 8:40:29 PM: Thanks jtrent. Any other info I should be aware of?
All I want to do is have my blog and later add more blogs if I want.
jtrent 8:41:47 PM: No, thats it. :) You have that total freedom.
Paul 8:42:24 PM: excellent. I am from Australia, I guess you will take Mastercard OK.
jtrent 8:42:37 PM: Yes, that will be perfect.
Paul 8:42:55 PM: thanks, bye.

I hope you don’t mind me posting this, delete it if you want, Garry. Have I missed something?

- Go