Ranking Adsense Sites
By: John Elder posted in Adsense
Hello good people!
We’ve made it to the middle of the week, hope yours is going well. I had another pretty good earnings day yesterday, the holiday shopping madness seems to be continuing! The day ended with $92.96 in Adsense earnings and $15.36 in amazon earnings (off of 11 items purchased at $220) for a grand total of $108.32 for the day!
Before we get going today, I want to recommend a hilarious book that a good friend of mine wrote and recently published as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.com.
It’s called How To Trick Women On The Internet Into Sleeping With You. Before you get all huffy at the title, please realize that it’s a comedy that makes fun of the stupid things that guys do during online dating to try to get dates. It’s only about 30 pages long, and even has some really funny original cartoon pictures. I’ve read it several times and laughed so hard I cried every time.
If you’re looking for a quick and funny read and you’ve got a Kindle, I really highly recommend you order that book. It only costs $.99 cents and my friend would really appreciate if you posted a review on amazon after you read it, and I’d appreciate it too. Plus it’s just really really funny!
Today I want to talk about ranking adsense websites at the major search engines, specifically Google. Ranking is the act of getting your website ranked high in the search results, hopefully in the top 10 under any given keyword.
I’ve talked a little about my ranking methods in the past, but I get asked questions about it so often that I thought it might be a good idea to write a whole blog post on it. In fact someone asked me just today.
My Ranking Methods…
One of the reasons that I don’t talk about my ranking methods very often is because I don’t really HAVE any ranking methods. At least not in the traditional sense…
Most people obsess over keywords and rankings. They create a list of keywords that gets searched for a certain number of times per month. Then they figure if they can get their site ranked in the top 1-3 listings at Google under that keyword, then they’ll get most of those searchers to come to their site every month, click on adsense ads, and make money.
You might say it’s the cornerstone of most adsense methods….but I completely ignore it.
I hardly ever do keyword research and I never do off site SEO (search engine optimization) in order to rank my sites for certain keywords. Most people’s ranking methods involve a number of backlinking techniques where you post links to your website on various other websites, in directories, as blog comments, and on third party blog networks designed specifically to create artificial links to sites like yours and sell them to you.
All of these methods either take a lot of time, or cost a lot of money…sometimes both. In the end they really don’t work. Why? Because it’s all artificial! Google isn’t stupid, they figure it out eventually and either discount those backlinks or kick you out of their index altogether.
Believe me, I’ve tried ALL the methods. Even when it “works” it doesn’t really work that well. And someone always comes along and figures out how to game the system a little better than you, and all your effort becomes wasted.
So what do I do?
I simply focus on long tail keywords that are too small for anyone else to care about. Keywords that get searched for less than 500 times a month, and sometimes as little as 50 times a month or even less.
But I focus on millions of them, and I do it automatically by creating my websites in a way that target those long tail keywords automatically using a number of PHP methods that I’ll talk about in the future.
I also focus on “onpage” seo work. That means I optimize each page of my website to focus on one specific longtail keyword. Google see’s a page dedicated to one specific long tail keyword, and it ranks it highly almost automatically for that keyword. I don’t have to do any other ranking work.
Why is it so easy to rank long tails? Because no one else is focusing on them. How many pages do you think there are on the Internet dedicated to “John Deer 400 Horsepower Gas Lawn Mower With Bagging Attachment Model 38492s”?? (by the way, I made that up, I have no idea if such a thing exists).
But if I’ve got a web page named:
www.lawnmowersuperstore.info/John-Deer-400-Horsepower-Gas-Lawn-Mower-With-Bagging-Attachment-Model-38492s.html
…and that page is filled with information (automatically generated using my other methods) where a person can read about it, and maybe even buy it (if they sold them at amazon.com at least) and someone goes to Google and types in John Deer 400 Horesepower Gas Lawn Mower With Bagging Attachment Model 38492s…Google is very happy to rank my site at the top of the list and suggest it to the person looking for that item.
Sure, only 4 people a month might search for that weird term…but I’ve got literally hundreds of thousands of webpages targeting hundreds of thousands of longtail keywords…if a tenth of them get just 1 visitor per day…well you get the picture.
The Bottom Line
My adsense method is about speed and churning out as many sites as possible. You can’t create thousands of websites if you’re going to spend time and money working on ranking them. Instead focus on longtail keywords…throw up a bunch of stuff and just see what sticks!
Keep on Building!
-John
The Marketing Fool!
PS..don’t foget to buy my friends book on amazon for $.99 today. It’s really funny! How To Trick Women On The Internet Into Sleeping With You
Emanuel
07. Dec, 2011
Nice post John, But if we increase the numbers of long tails keywords, doesn’t it also increase the number of content we have to do for each keyword? Creating unique content for every long tail keyword is hard or expensive for people like me who have to outsource the writing.
I looked at your friend book but the price increased lol.
The Marketing Fool
07. Dec, 2011
Hi Emanuel, thanks for the comment!
I don’t create unique content for my websites. I use one article for all my sites/pages and it’s set to automatically spin that one article each time a page loads. You can read about it if you dig around on this site a bit.
I just checked my friends book and it’s still listed as $.99 cents. What does is list as when you look at it??
Emanuel
07. Dec, 2011
Oh yes right I remember read it recently, you use some kind of PHP script that spin the content every time the page is loaded. Thats magic lol. I just use wordpress for my site so there is no magic there.
It makes me wonder why I am wasting so much money on hiring someone to write quality articles for my webpage and I am getting nothing in return. Maybe because I’m afraid of duplicate content or broking adsense TOS and getting my account banned or my webpage de-indexed, because of google and their rules of user experience. I don’t know lol.
It list me the book called “How to Trick Women on the Internet Into Sleeping with You” but I think because I’m Colombian they include some kind of fee it says “$3.99 includes free international wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet”
I dont know what that means.
The Marketing Fool
09. Dec, 2011
I don’t really know why you’re spending so much money hiring content writers either ;-p
Getting over the duplicate content myth is really hard for almost everyone. But it really IS a myth. Plus I spin my article so it’s not exactly duplicate at all.
And to my knowledge there’s nothing in the Adsense TOS against duplicate content, even remotely.
Hm, guess the book is just more expensive if you buy it internationally. Sorry!
Hendry
08. Dec, 2011
Hi,John
How do you find so many long tail keywords?For products long tail keywords, Google always likes Amazon,Target,Walmart,Ebay and other authority sites.How can we beat them?
Thanks for your answer.
The Marketing Fool
09. Dec, 2011
Hi Hendry.
First of all I use the free google keyword tool. If you log in using a Google account (which are free) the keyword tool will give you up to 800 keyword results for any keyword you feed into it. I simply use each keyword it returns and make a single page out of each one.
I also have a bit of code that I wrote that will scrape amazon keywords and ebay keywords.
But that’s only part of it…the more important method is much more tricky and clever 😉 I should probably just write a whole post about it…keep an eye out!
Beating those big sites is surprisingly easier than you’d think!
Emie
12. Jan, 2012
U said that its surprisingly easy to beat sites like amazon, ebay for long tail product Keywords. How could that be? It would be great if you can share this single thing since this MMO model entirely relies on outranking ecommerce sites…
Thanks…
The Marketing Fool
12. Jan, 2012
Hi Emie,
I’m not sure how I can prove it, but it’s true. But don’t trust me, prove it to yourself! Spend $.67 cents on an .info domain and follow my methods and see for yourself 😉
Think of it this way…amazon has literally millions of pages selling millions of items. They can’t manually seo all those pages. The MAIN amazon site might have a high PageRank, but the various millions of product pages have little or no PageRank, so it can be very easy to outrank them.
This model doesn’t necessarily rely on outranking eccomerce sites or any sites…it’s about long tail keywords that no one is ranking for…so you aren’t competing, they are there for the taking.
Emie
13. Jan, 2012
Thank you very much for the reply… Basically, in my research what I have found is that best seller product pages of amazon (with high reviews and ratings) obviously contain good PR and ranks on top of all pages and hence pretty difficult to beat even if its a long tail KW. But the usual pages are not that difficult to outrank with .info sites.
So I would like to know if u go after such product KWs which has almost 0 reviews and ratings in amazon… Recently, I collected a few of such keywords and am not sure to whether or not to proceed.
Thanks again
The Marketing Fool
14. Jan, 2012
Yeah I go after everything. I don’t care. I mean, why not? An .info domain costs $.67 cents to register and I can create the site automatically using my bot. There’s no risk in my opinion because even if you don’t outrank that site, you’re still going to earn back your .67 cents over the course of a year.
I think you might be thinking about keywords too much. I don’t do keyword research, I don’t do ranking research. I just don’t care about that stuff. It’s not worth my time to worry about it.
My process might be something like this…I’ll walk through a store and see lawn mowers (for instance), so I’ll go home and order a .info domain name with the word “lawn mowers” in it, then tell my bot to build the site, which will automatically creates a page with every known lawn mower company, model, attachment, etc. There might be 20,000 pages on that site. I’m going to outrank people for SOME of those pages no matter what. I don’t care which pages outrank which sites, I don’t have time to track it all down; and who cares anyway.
So don’t worry about it, just keep on building sites. Some will work, some won’t – it’s a numbers game and you can only lose by not playing 🙂
Emie
14. Jan, 2012
Thank you very much, John. In the next comment, I was about to ask things like how u build sites and how many pages you build per site. I thought you use to build one .info site for 1 particular model of “lawn mowers”. Now its clear that you try your luck by publishing pages which targets almost all the lawn mowers and that too using your PHP trick and spun content. Right?
I think that clears my doubts for now…
Thanks again
Rahul
08. Dec, 2011
One of my info is now 7 from 12 position in last one month. Little competitive but this is 10 month old and i did good amount of links. In last one year many of top 5 is same. I used Article marketing robot. Yes article marketing works.
Well i am learning many methods..
1) Authority site to make $1k per month easily.
2) few dozens on niche sites
3) Moderate sites with 100 pages of content.
4) Your method it also makes money.
What if we will make huge network on sites. There are huge advertisers like ebay, amazon and private networks. We can be able to decent yearly income. It is not just making 100k from our sites.
I mean some thing really big as BMR network but our own profits.