Adsense, Adsense, Adsense

Well I've taken a mighty long break from posting at all about my progress.

Let's start with March 2009 and I'll give a quick recap on all that's been going on in my quest to make a living off adsense.
March 2009 - my hard drive crashed. This was terrible for a number of reasons - I don't back up (well, now I do) and because I didn't have any cash to buy a new one. It also put a huge stumbling block in my path to internet marketing.

Mid April 2009 - I got a new hard drive and was back on my way. I though seriously about adsense, blogging, what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. I decided to get serious. Yes, it's possible to get your blog to the top of the SERPs using solely free methods, but I'm an instant gratification kind of guy and I wanted results. So I did some research and noticed that backlink solutions was offering an associates account for $27. I decided to try it out. I believe you get your money back after a month if you're not satisfied. But I WAS satisfied. I noticed results almost immediately and in a later post I'll review backlink solutions associate account and full account, which I now have.
I decided to concentrate on one site and follow it closely and see what worked and what didn't, instead of trying the same thing on all of my sites and having them all fail. I chose a site in a fairly competitive niche, but nothing too bad, that was getting at peak around 30 unique hits a day, with an average of probably 15 or so. I started writing articles, using hubpages, using my backlink solutions associate account and so on. I started writing posts about once a week to make it seem more organic to goole. Slowly but surely the traffic began to trickle in. I didn't want to dominate for just one keyword, I wanted the whole niche.

May 2009 - Things were going good. I was climbing up the SERPs for some of my less competitive keywords. I was ranking on page 1 of google for some of them even! And I was ranking on pages 3, 4 and 5 for some of my competitive keywords that I wasn't even targeting.
By the end of May I was getting on average about 100 unique hits a day. I was satisfied with this and decided that my goal from now on would be "doubling".

What is "doubling"? I decided that I'm starting off small and therefore my expectations should be small. I shouldn't be expecting to make thousands off of google adsense within my first month. That's just unreasonable. So I made a rule of doubling, which basically meant that my goal each month would be to double my results from the previous month. At first I expect this will be easy and become harder as the numbers get bigger.

So for May 2009 I made about $5 off of Adsense and I had on average 100 unique visitors. Goal for June - to make $10 off of Adsense and have at least 200 unique visitors per day.

June 2009 - I joined the keyword academy which is only $1 for the first month. I learned a lot. I learned a better way to search for niches and that was really the gold in the keyword academy. (I'll review keyword academy in a later post). I started writing more articles and making more hubpages. I was on a roll. I continue the methods I've been using. I get sort of lazy towards the middle of the month, probably because I've already reached my goal and am afraid of going way over and having a much higher goal for July. But as it stands, I've made $15 off of google adsense this month and have been averaging about 250 unique visitors a day, with my peak at 365.

So not it's June 29th, 2009. I'm happy with my progress. I've started one new blog this month and have done research and have a niche or two that I'm going to stab into in the coming month. I've learned a lot and my goal for July 2009 will be:

-to average 500 unique visitors a day (yikes!)
-to earn somewhere between $25 and $30 using google adsense.
-to start 2 new sites that I have done a lot of keyword research on
-to not get lazy!!!!
-to do some research and start using affiliate marketing tools - slow at first

I think I have my work cut out for me. At the rate I'm going I should be able to make $1600 a month by February 2010. That's in half of a year. That's a huge goal to reach, but I think I can do it.

Good luck to everyone and come back soon fto join me on my journey to make money online.

Signing off,

Kay