Adsense, etc.

Sorry for the delay, I've been on a bit of a hiatus and not dedicating my time to my goal of making a living online. But I'm back and ready to update you, as well as talk a little but about adsense.

So since I've written last I haven't really touched my America's Next Top Model blog. I've been averaging around 70 unique visitors to my blog a day which really isn't very much, but isn't very little either. As far as my adsense earnings go I haven't made all too much. Generally I've been told to expect somewhere between 5 - 10% of uniques visitors to be clicking on adsense ads. I have about a click a week! That's nothing and at first it depressed me. I did everything right, I got traffic, I got backlinks, my page is optimized well but no one is clicking on any of google's adsense ads! Why not? Over half of the traffic I'm getting is organic (from search engines).

Well, the conclusion I've come to is that the adsense ads shown on the page all have to do with modeling. How to be a model, etc. The majority of the people visiting my page just want information about America's Next Top Model, which is why they aren't clicking on my ads even though ther are relevent! So what I've decided is that I'll keep adsense on my ANTM page until I have another page up with good organic traffic that I want to put adsense on. Then I'm going to take adsense down off of my ANTM page and I'll explain why in a few moments. But what I am going to do is start putting up some affiliate links and trying to sell a few things on the site. What kind of things you may ask.
Well the way I look at it is this : the people visiting the site are probably mostly young women, interested in things like beauty and fashion. So I'll sell things related to beauty and fashion.

In the meantime, I've started a new blog. I won't tell you my niche because I think it will potentially do really well in terms of utilizing adsense, but I put it up about a week ago and havent had much luck with it yet. It hasn't been indexed by google and I can't figure out why so it's driving me crazy! I have a few original articles on it, I've submitted original articles containing my link to article directories, and I've posted on yahoo answers a couple of times and still nothing. I guess I'm just going to have to work a little harder. It all happened so quickly with my ANTM blog so I guess I wasn't prepared for more of a fight. Over the next few weeks I want to get up at least 20 new blogs. Yes, 20. That might sound ambitious and it is, but I think that I need to commit to this if I'm going to start seeing some real results.

Back to my ANTM blog - good news is it's got a goole ranking. Sure it's a PR0, but at least it's ranked by google now. And it's useful to have blogs that are ranked even if they're not making a lot of money or getting a lot of traffic.
I'm building a farm - and what I mean by farm is that I will have blogs that make money and blogs that don't, and the blogs that don't are useful because I can use them to add backlinks to my other blogs to get them indexed and ranked faster.

Right now this blog that I'm writing on right now is indexed on google, and it's frustrating because I've done a lot more to get my new blog indexed with no success. I guess it hasn't even been a week so I have to be patient about getting my blog indexed by google. It doesn't happen overnight is the lesson I've learned, and when it does happen overnight you shouldn't start to expect it.

Well I thought I was going to be talking about google adsense, but instead I've just been updating you. I think I'll delve into google adsense tomorrow, or later on. For now I'm going to devote some time to getting that new blog indexed!

So adsense tomorrow - here at how to make money for beginners.