AdSense Blog Project – Part 1
This is the first post in what I hope to be a series of posts about a new way that I am attempting to make money online using Google AdSense. Over the past month one of my main sites has started to get a nice amount of traffic, and the AdSense ads I have on it are really paying off well. This got me motivated to make a site that was based around AdSense, and AdSense only.
My goal is to have a content rich site that provides basic information about a certain niche. Hopefully the site will be picked up by search engines, and people will browse to it and click on the ads.
Here’s the steps I’ve taken so far:
1. Find a Niche
I wanted to do something “holiday” related, so I decided to focus on turkey, deep fried turkey to be exact. Deep frying a turkey is a popular hobby among many people, and it has a decent amount of content associated to it that I could use for my site.
2. Research Niche
I used the Google Keyword Tool to dig into this niche idea and find a good website/keyword combination.
Based on the results I found, I chose to make a site focused on deep turkey fryers.
I surfed over to Go Daddy.com, and got lucky. The domain www.deepturkeyfryers.com was available.
3. Make a Niche Focused Blog
I created a blog about deep turkey fryers using Wordpress and a template I modified. For now, I’ve added a basic information post and 2 product review pages. All of these pages are outfitted with AdSense ads.
I placed the AdSense ads at the tops of all my posts because users have a higher likelihood of clicking on them when they are in this position.
My goal is to have around 10 pages of focused content, each with around 500-700 words.
Here is the site so far: www.deepturkeyfryers.com
4. Work on Backlinks
In order to get my blog some attention, I wrote an article about turkey fryers for EZine Articles which includes a link to my blog, and also placed comments on related blogs with a link back.
As of today, my blog just got indexed with Google, so now its time to write more content and get more backlinks. Check back next week, and I’ll give you an update on the site’s progress.
