People do earn from a few hundred dollars to many thousand dollars per month from a website with advertisements, links and adsense. According to a recent survey 63% web owners earn $100 or more than $100 per month from Adsense. If you pay $4 a month to run a site and earn $140 from it every month, then you can expect what 10 or a 100 such sites do for you, just read through and you will find how it works.

Adsense Account:

First you need to get approved in adsense, for this I suggest you to make a blogger blog, and submit it to adsense for getting approval. Blogger blogs gets approved in adsense quickly. 5 to 10 articles in a blog will be good enough to get you approved. Once you get approved, just forget that blog and move to developing your website.

Choosing a Niche:

The most important part of adsense is to choose a profitable niche. A good niche is one that has less competition and more searches. So, that means more people are searching about that particular topic and there are few websites competing on the term. So, you can rank highly on such a term and start getting a lot of visitors without working that hard. Also, you will have to check that there is enough advertiser competition for that niche or not.

Here is a quick tip to find a good niche. ‘Cars’ could be a good niche; ‘Mercedes car’ could be a more targeted niche. Here just ask yourself, can you come on top of the searches for this keyword, like “Mercedes car” In honest opinion, chasing such competitive terms is just a waste of time. Rather try to rank good for some less competitive words like, “car breakdown service” or “heavy duty truck breakdown services” which will be a lot easier. [Note: the above keywords are just examples, they are not highly searched.]

When you choose your domain, the niche is very important. Forget about brand able domain; rather choose something that has all the keywords in it. If “African white elephant” is a keyword then you should try to get a domain like, Africanwhiteelephant.com or African-white-elephant.com, rather than a domain which does not have these keywords in it.

For checking advertisement competition you can try this tool, you can also use this to do keyword research. The more the advertisement competition, the better it is, as more ads and less websites means more money per click.

adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Make sure that the niche you are selecting has some traffic, and then go to google.com and make a search on that keyword on which you are setting up your website. If the niche has too much of competition, then leave it. Remember every niche will have some competition, so try to have a niche that has just enough competition that you can compete on. Also, try to find at least 50+ keywords on your niche. A keyword is something like, “heavy duty truck breakdown services” but remembers, if the keyword is, “breakdown services duty truck heavy” then just forgets that keyword, if you re-arrange that keyword it won’t bring you any traffic. And if you use such a jumble keyword in your article title or content, then search engines can simply ban your site or penalize you, or ban you from adsense. So, if you find keywords like those just ignore them. Try to find 4 to 5 words long keywords that make sense. This is called long-tail keywords, and it does work.

Choosing Hosting:

There are many domain registration and web hosting companies sin Pakistan. You can choose any of these:

Script and Making Your Website:

This is the most important part of this article. A good script can help you a lot, and a regular free script won’t take you any further.

Take the example of a local retailer. Say he has a commodity, which costs $4. When he sells that, he earns 10 to 50 cents on it. Take any example of an off line business, at max you can earn 40% to 50% on it. If he sells his product for $8 then he can make a profit of 100%, but there is always a MRP that says you can’t sell for a price so high, and thus you have a limitation of profits.

Now let’s take one of my sites as an example, say I have a site that costs me $4 a month to run. And it has about 20 to 50 visitors a month. All my sites till now generated at least that much visitors from the first month, and it just keep increasing. So from 20-50 visitors I make $2 to $5 a day. So, I roughly make $120 a month from a site that costs $4 a month to run. That’s about 30 times profit, in other words 3000% profits.

Getting Content for Your Website:

In the niche section, part 1 of this ebook, I have talked about keywords. If you have those 50+ keywords on your niche, your work will be lot easier. Those keywords must be related to your website/niche directly. Those keywords are the titles of your articles. Use that exact keyword as your article title, and write an article on it, then use that keyword once, in your article body and article description, just once. If you have like 50+ keyword rich articles, you can expect a lot of traffic coming from the search engines. Not just Google, my niche sites gets traffic coming from, Google.com, MSN, AOL, Yahoo etc. and search engine visitors are the best kind of visitors.

Traffic, Serps, SEO:

Before coming to this part, let’s see what we have completed till now,

So we have a website, along with the hosting space.

We do have a script, hopefully open article submission, adsense optimized script. The website has all the articles on it, so practically the website is already running and live. Now the SEO: You don’t require to do huge SEO for this, do exactly as I say.

1) Social bookmarking: This will get your site indexed in the search engines too with this method. Since these social bookmarking sites have good authority in search engines, so the backlinks will be useful too. If you have the time and can take the effort, then go to Google and search for “list of social bookmarking sites” or, “social bookmarks” etc. and you will get a hell lot of social websites. Now take a week off and register in each of those and submit your website, along with descriptions and keywords etc. It will save you lot of money, otherwise you have to hire someone or have to contact a professional company.

2) Article Marketing: here you sign up on articles directories, and submit an article related to your website, and in the footer, “author resource box” put your website’s link. This is also a good way to increase link popularity.

3) Free Directory Submission: Purchase featured links in free directories, that’s the fastest way to get into a free directory. You can also submit to new free directories as they accept websites quickly.

If you really want to do further SEO then simply find blogs in your website’s nice and then contact the blogger. Then give the blogger an article, must be unique and good quality. Make sure the article is on your niche, and not on your website, just add one link in the article, that’s it.

Now is the time to use adsense codes. Just copy your adsense codes in your website and that’s it. Here is a small little guide to optimize your adsense ads, and you can read this article for a

1) Always use the bigger rectangles or the square ads, they are the best performing ads units.

2) The ads text and background color should be the same as your website’s text and background color.

For further details and links on traffic, article marketing, free directory submission and social bookmarking you have to read Affiliate Marketing Guide.

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