The Adsense Experiment: The Experiment, Rules and Objectives
The Experiment:
The concept of the experiment is very simple and almost everyone out there is trying to do this:
Try and make as much money as possible online putting in as little work/time as possible
Sounds simple enough but goes with the old underpants gnomes model of making money:
1. Start a Blog.
2. ?????
3. Profit
Rules:
The rules are pretty simple.
- No porn
- No shady deals
- No questionable products like diet pills
- No sleazy SEO techniques like placing a keyword hundreds of times on a page in white font so spiders can see them but users can’t
- No breaking the rules that are set in adsense like getting a click farm hitting your site and using fraudulent clicks to pump up your numbers
The blog needs to have real content to drive good ROI to the advertisers on the site. It needs to have good keywords mapped in search engines to drive high organic traffic. I’m not going to put effort into SEM at first but I might consider it later on just to learn more about SEM and see how effective it is to drive higher revenue.
Objectives:
Short answer would be to create a blog that can generate the quite popular number of $10,000/month from adsense revenues.
Long answer is to use the years of knowledge from working on online applications, SEO, SEM and other projects to create a revenue generating site.
Worst case scenario is I fail to reach any significant revenue but I get to learn a lot about the latest blogging technologies out there, new SEO techniques (figure out what search engine spiders like and what they dispise) and finally how NOT to make a site which I will use in my future endeavors or apply to help my clients avoid the pitfalls I make.
I see this as a win-win experiment that shouldn’t take too much of my time. Maybe I can get a book deal out of it at the end! now I’m getting way ahead of myself. Time to start the experiment.
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