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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 by mattm »

3pt14159 wrote: post #46
imp wrote: post #37

Just guessing, but this might be his Acai Berry website: http://www.acaiberryproducts.org/ #4 result for "acai berry", lots of small articles, and tons of AdSense.

If that is his site, then I don't really have a big problem with it. The information was semi-alright and it looked legit enough (although there were a-LOT of google ads).

Google only allows 3 ad's per page and that is what is used. The page length is very short so it could be that a higher percentage of the screen is ads than other sites. Still, it comes nowhere close to magazines which are probably more than 50% ads.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by Ardit20 »

tptacek wrote: post #3

This sounds suspiciously like A Real Job.

Yeah, doing what he says might sound like a real job, but doing what he does is probably fun. Why would anyone who is making 15k a month tell others how to make 15k a month for free! I don't see business people going around telling others how do to business for free. I mean literally he is giving away "trade secrets".

Well, that is the illusion of course as most probably he does none of that but sit in his chair and think up ways of how making money through adsense may be done and turn it into awesome sounding language with plenty of cliche and then get plenty of posters saying ohh thank you you are my god I love you so much and most probably hardly any of them will implement what he said and if they do they will prob not make as much as he says cus the work sounds very time intensive.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by pixcavator »

cedsav wrote: post #43
run4yourlives wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's the kicker - he's providing a real service! People are looking for this information. He's providing it for them. The fact that he's choosing both what topics to provide and is not personally an expect and outsources is really more a product of an intelligent business operation that it is a nefarious idea. This actually sounds like something that could revolutionize modern media really.

He's not providing any useful service. He's taking traffic and ad revenues away from legitimate sites while providing low quality content, which wastes people's time (hence they navigate away clicking the only links available: ads).

Google's fault.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by minsight »

cedsav wrote: post #43
run4yourlives wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's the kicker - he's providing a real service! People are looking for this information. He's providing it for them. The fact that he's choosing both what topics to provide and is not personally an expect and outsources is really more a product of an intelligent business operation that it is a nefarious idea. This actually sounds like something that could revolutionize modern media really.

He's not providing any useful service. He's taking traffic and ad revenues away from legitimate sites while providing low quality content, which wastes people's time (hence they navigate away clicking the only links available: ads).

There's an assumption that the articles that he's having written are of low quality. It's possible that they might not be, and might be informative enough for users to find out what they might be looking for.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by emilis_info »

3pt14159 wrote: post #46
imp wrote: post #37

Just guessing, but this might be his Acai Berry website: http://www.acaiberryproducts.org/ #4 result for "acai berry", lots of small articles, and tons of AdSense.

If that is his site, then I don't really have a big problem with it. The information was semi-alright and it looked legit enough (although there were a-LOT of google ads).

You know what's funny? I don't see a single Google ad on this site.

NoScript extension for FireFox is wonderful. I got so used to it, I forget how many ads I used to see on websites.

Sorry for offtopic :-)

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by wmeredith »

Ardit20 wrote: post #52
tptacek wrote: post #3

This sounds suspiciously like A Real Job.

Yeah, doing what he says might sound like a real job, but doing what he does is probably fun. Why would anyone who is making 15k a month tell others how to make 15k a month for free! I don't see business people going around telling others how do to business for free. I mean literally he is giving away "trade secrets". Well, that is the illusion of course as most probably he does none of that but sit in his chair and…

"I don't see business people going around telling others how do to business for free."

Sure you do. Just look at this website. Or Signal vs. Noise or your local SMBA or Chamber of Commerce...

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by wmeredith »

modoc wrote: post #18

The key "trick" that he's using is to have unique, relevant, helpful content. That's the whole secret, imho, to good SEO ranking (obviously using the right tags, keywords, etc... helps). He's just doing it backwards from what you and I would do, i.e. he's finding ad money, and building a site based on that, versus building a site, and then working on building traffic (ad based or not, you want traffic).

He's working smarter not harder. Finding a market and then delivering what they want, which is old news in business. He's just being tech savvy about doing it online. Most entrepreneurs build something they want. He's building a products that he has empirical proof someone else wants.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by wmeredith »

coglethorpe wrote: post #33
russell wrote: post #14

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 s…

Yeah, but that crap gets penalized by Google and it's no good at generating links organically because it is, in fact, crap. Laying down good money for quality content that will naturally attract long-tail links and traffic over time will pay off in the long run.

Re: How I make 15K a month at AdSense

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Post by wmeredith »

imp wrote: post #40

Is this a veiled advertisement for adsenseheaven.com? His whole strategy is based off of that data and you have to pay at least $10 for the list of keywords.

He's probably an affiliate, but he's not blowing smoke. This method works. I suspect he's not afraid to tell people about it, because it's a lot of work.
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