1. do all of this
2. realize that point 15. is by far the most difficult and time consuming of all steps
3. ...
4. no profit
It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
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#52On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.
I get about 1% CTR with $1.50 CPC. Not unreachable in the financial space, if you have a site with relevant information. I make about the same as you do, on many fewer pageviews a month.
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#53Hmm, I always assumed you could earn way more with spam.
If you aren't putting in the requisite time to make a quality content-based website, you can probably generate many more websites of lower quality. Perhaps the profits from having more websites (albeit of lower quality) exceed that of fewer (higher quality) websites.
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#54On 150,000 pageviews a month I make about $50.00 from adsense. "1.6% CTR with 0.85c CPC" seems pretty unrealistic to me.
I've seen 2-4% CTR across my sites. Positioning of your ads matters a LOT.
If you use Wordpress, consider using something like http://www.ctrtheme.com or ProSense.
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#55It is much more straightforward to take on a little side work. Set your rate to $100/hr and work an extra 20 hours a month. In today's market this isn't terribly difficult to do.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. A website like this won't just start getting a ton of search traffic overnight. It takes a lot of effort building links before the site will see any traffic. This is definitely not a part-time gig.
This is true. I run a community/blogging site for fun, not profit called yakkstr.com. There are about 50 regular users and it currently has around 5k posts. I mention it because it's a good counter example. I've done no link building, and I get very little search traffic. Maybe 50 visits per day. Occasionally someone will post about a product, instead of their relationship drama, and one girl posted about "mio liquid…
> I've done no link building
You have 1,211 backlinks.
You have no meta descriptions on any of your pages. The links to your content pages (e.g., http://yakkstr.com/posts/3635-Cute-Friday) aren't inside a H1/H2 tag on your index pages. You are letting Google crawl/index your tag pages (pointless/bad). Your robots.txt isn't pointing to a sitemap. Are you using Google webmaster tools?
Get rid of the /posts/N-title and just roll with /title, if possible.
Set up a RSS feed and add OpenSearch.
You have a lot of on-site SEO work to do. :)
Re: It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
#57It is much more straightforward to take on a little side work. Set your rate to $100/hr and work an extra 20 hours a month. In today's market this isn't terribly difficult to do.
Can be hard with the IP restrictions that go with most employers. The nice thing about something that's pure marketing & writing is that for software developers, it probably does not fall under your employer's umbrella.
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#58My back button doesn't work in FF4 on your site but does work in Chrome.
It must be your browser or some of the extensions. The WP theme works good in any browser since I'm the developer/designer that made it.
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#59Post a link to a site that you created following this that is making $2k a month.
No one will do this because their sites will be mirrored verbatim within 24 hours. It takes a couple minutes to write a scraper using Nokogiri. :P
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say you're doing exactly what Google wants and needs by putting the world's information online and making it indexable by them. It's a symbiotic relationship and searchers are grateful to both you and Google for helping them find what they need (that vet database you bought for example) online. Not only that but Google profits directly through ads that appear in search results showing your data. And indirectly ke…
As a searcher, no I am not grateful to content farms, "directories", and other pseudo-content. In fact I find it quite frustrating that searches for common maintenance problems, housekeeping, medical topics, etc., now turn up page after page of superficial, ad-ridden content. I have the sense that the actual act of finding information on the internet has become quite a bit harder since, say, 2004.
Here's the question... would you pay for better information? Perhaps one with an encyclopedic knowledge that was constantly expanding, say an eHow with depth.