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How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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post #27

yes goglebots can read keywords with OCR in your site logo images Can somebody confirm that? I have never heard about this before, seems cool.

I was surprised too. I don't see why Google would spent cpu time on this, and I can't think of a way one would be able to validate that claim.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Sometimes I do a search on google, and roughly half the results are meaningless gobbledegook. Clearly these results are this kind of project. It makes me wonder what percentage of websites are just revenue-earning sites with absolutely no useful real-world content. Like a newspaper or magazine with 50% of its pages taken up by advertising.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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I was intrigued by the $8 for a 500 word article. Some commenters were complaining that it was too expensive, but when I compare that with my consulting rate for my writing, it's a real bargain. I wouldn't farm out a technical article, but it makes sense for consumer oriented ones. I would spend more than that on coffee while I wrote. EDIT: does anyone know what the going rate for a well written 500 word consumer art…

Oh, they go lower than that, but you're not getting the kind of "quality" you might normally think of. It is more geared toward SEO and often in broken English. Using the acai berry theme, here's what you might get:

Acai Berry Supplement

When looking for an acai berry supplement for weight loss it is very important that you choose a good acai berry supplement. Acai berry supplements vary in quality so one might not supplement your diet with acai berry the way you expect. Look for a top-quality acai berry supplement that has acai berry taken from the Brazil acai berry trees fresh.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The free blog one sounds like a good idea. Would that get you google-banned?

Does it matter? If it wouldn't today, it might tomorrow. If you care about one site, you can't take that risk. He can because he has hundreds of sites to risk.

He's just speeding up the ranking process with the free blogs though. His sites would get the traffic eventually because they are so tailored to the topics at hand.

If I were to do this I'd measure the risk/reward of trying to speed up the growth rates, but everything he did previously is probably good enough.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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post #10

Something I wondered... where do these adsense keyword lists actually get their data? Surely it's something google keep pretty close to their chests?

Google provides a lot of this data to advertisers -- so they bid for more word combinations.

Even though Made-For-AdSense microsites are polluting the infosphere, in the short term they probably even make Google money. Overstuffing natural results with repetitive, poorly-written information? Great, you're more likely to click a paid ad instead! Making it so all the top 10 natural results are AdSense-holding pages? Great, no matter where you go, you might click a Google ad!

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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I can't really blame anyone for making money on what is essentially arbitrage, but the bottom line is that they add no value to the system and they make it harder for legitimate sites to get advertising revenues (by preempting traffic and ad $$).

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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post #31
post #27

yes goglebots can read keywords with OCR in your site logo images Can somebody confirm that? I have never heard about this before, seems cool.

I was surprised too. I don't see why Google would spent cpu time on this, and I can't think of a way one would be able to validate that claim.

why Google would spent cpu time on this

CPU time is cheap, and it could be useful ranking information. Compared to an H1 tag, a graphical header is harder to create, so it shows a certain level of investment.

If the words in the graphic aren't repeated elsewhere in the page, then the page author may be naive in the ways of SEO. But that could be good, because the savvy SEO people are all trying to pull one over on the GoogleBot.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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post #10

Something I wondered... where do these adsense keyword lists actually get their data? Surely it's something google keep pretty close to their chests?

Actually, Google has an Adwords tools which allow you to estimate what it would cost you to run an ad.

IIRC, that has estimated Cost Per Click (CPC) and Cost Per Thousand (CPM) columnns, along with estimated impressions and a sweet API to pull it all together.

Many people estimate Google takes a 20-40% rip from the advertiser, and gives the adsense guy the rest of the payout. So from that you can estimate what the adsense ads pay.

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