Make Cash Online

I guess this is going to be my post that will update you on my sniper sites. It’s odd for me to be writing this on a Friday morning, but I’m just not feeling that good. I’m sick, but sorta sick. I started feeling it yesterday, but I was still able to pump out 30 articles, but I digress. I thought I should write this post and get something done while I’m not feeling that great.

Things have changed a lot. I currently have moved most of the sites to an Amazon based monetization. Currently I have 6 Adsense sites, 1 Clickbank site and 34 Amazon sites for this project right now. The thing about Adsense is that there is this thing called smart pricing. And it usually happens when Google doesn’t view your traffic as very valuable and just gives you shit for clicks.

Adsense was great at the first because my sites got a lot more search traffic at the first. When you’re in these tiny niches the Google dance doesn’t occur right away. I had sites that were hanging on the front page for nearly two months and then I was getting the dance, which pushed me way off the front pages.

I started to get smart priced and that wasn’t helping the sites that were still on the front page providing valuable clicks. A few days after I did this, my cash per clicks improved greatly and I was able to make cash online in a little more efficient manner.

Will I Change Sites Back to Adsense

Honestly, I don’t know. I can always switch back to Adsense when I’m getting more search traffic to the sites, which Google will view as quality. But the big hurdle for me is that I really have issues with Adsense as a business model. And I just can’t seem to get past it.

My mentor (who is an adult webmaster and who I talk to from time to time) told me to avoid Adsense because it is a “ripoff” as he put it.

I was reading Griz’s blog and he made the comment that Adsense was the best because it had the most people using it. That really isn’t an argument. Islam is the biggest religion, so should I stop being an atheist and convert to Islam.

Adsense is great for a certain type of site. The site that has a lot of content being added to it that comes from very diverse categories. Of course a news site is going to use the program because they need something that will target the content. The same is true for article directories. This is really the main reason why Adsense is a big program, but it doesn’t mean it is the best way to make cash online for you.

With niche sites or sniper sites, you know exactly what the hell to advertise. If I have a site on hair styling products than I already know what I’m going to have to advertise. It’s not rocket science. I could put Adsense on the site and get 50 cents a click, but is that worth it? If you actually look at the ads which come up (don’t click, type in the url manually), you’ll see that a product is being sold and that you could quite easily sell it yourself.

Let’s get right down to the facts. If someone is paying Google to show up in the ads, they’re going to want to turn a profit. If the ads are going to last for the long term than the advertiser has to be turning a profit. Google turns a profit no matter what and you get the rest of the click value. In this scenario you’re getting the short end of the stick. You can easily cut out the middle man and sell it yourself.

The big issue with Adsense is that it isn’t a business model based on value for value. It’s more like potential value for cash. There is more risk in that and I think the business model is flawed. That’s not to say you can’t make cash with a flawed business model.

You get paid for something that might not bring value. If someone clicks the ad and doesn’t buy, well, no value has been created, but you got paid. Since this is such an easy to abuse system (click on an ad) Google has to spend a lot man power watching over it. The integrity of the system is something that can knock off good people because value has to be created on both ends.

With Amazon, for example, I don’t make a single penny until someone buys. I don’t receive value until value is created for Amazon and that is the big difference. Amazon isn’t a wrecking machine trying to ban members because it doesn’t matter. As long as you’re not doing anything illegal, it really doesn’t matter. Because you can’t defraud the system. Someone has to buy and if they don’t buy, you don’t get shit.

That was sort of an aside on Adsense. I’ve been thinking about it lately and I’m just not thrilled with it. I’ll still pursue it in a minor way since I want to be a little more diversified.

Making Cash Online With Niche Sites

Well, I guess I should get right down to the numbers on this. I actually haven’t even calculated it yet, with almost 900 words written in this post. I’m going calculate it now and write it below here.

Total Invested: $354.20 US
Total Return: $319.71 US

It’s fast approaching the break even mark. I know that I’m not making any huge strides or anything with them, but I haven’t really done much work on them lately. I just got them up, built a few links to them and mainly let them site for a while. I’m making more with Amazon this month than Adsense, which is nice.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been going into a more aggressive mode getting backlinks for these sites. And with 41 of them, it is really time consuming to get through them. I’ve been able to write 15 articles each for 17 of the sites (that’s 255 articles).

I’m basically in the crunch time right now where I want to get the sites up as high as I can for Christmas that is fast approaching. One of my sites is Thanksgiving related and it’s the first time that I built a site completely for one holiday. I wasn’t able to get the site anywhere near the front page for its main keyword by the time Thanksgiving in the United States rolled around (which was yesterday). But the interesting thing is the amount of long tail searches that I got during that time. That is all important search behavior that I can target more aggressively next year, so I will make cash online in much bigger numbers.

Site News Side Note: I thought I’d jam a little site news into the end of this post. If you actually read these posts you’ll probably see it… if not, I don’t care.

I try to write a post once a week for this site. I’ve been trying to see how valuable writing these monster posts on making cash would work out, but monster posts only go so far. I need to do a lot of link building. This site isn’t monetized, so it isn’t a priority to do work for. I have a ton of other sites that need work and they actually make me money.

I usually spend an hour or two writing these posts, so I thought instead of writing them I’ll just build backlinks. That means I’m not going to be updating the site with new posts every week. I’m probably going to stop for a month or two and get some backlink work done. We’ll be able to see the real value in all these long posts when I get it done.

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