2006 summary: from $10/week to $800/week
Summary:
This 21 year old young boy called Chris working from Australia, who joined DigitalPoint at Oct 2005 and started way to success around that same time with $10 Adsense earnings per week, was earning $120 daily at time of the posting on a site that’s 15 months old then, Dec 28th 2006.
Source: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=207259
You might find his post much too long to read on, so I read it for you and extract the barebone ideas from each of those paragraphs that had made him the fortune:
SEO&Optimization:
- Hit major website revenue forums frequently, like DP, to learn from and share with others.
- Get serious. Read everything you encounter about SEO. Learn and apply, experiment and try.
- Build your own CMS that’s specially tweaked for your content niche, if you can.
- Basic SEO techniques Chris employed include:- Giving each article an individual highly relevant page title.
- Using meta descriptions and keywords, but not abusing them.
- Using H1 and H2 tags.
- Using good keyword density and specific phrase targeting.
- Using good quality, unique, original and focused content.
- Building some well anchored backlinks.
- With a good navigational system between articles.
- Using an aged domain.Fairly basic and simple ones, aren’t they. But what really matter comes below.
Content building:
- Target a niche to build around, rather than a slackly organized pool of topics.
- Focus on what you are good at, your own industry. Or at least know more than enough before getting down to write your own stuff. Be knowledgeable about what you build.
- Write 100% original and completely unique articles that each is optimized for an individual search term or topic.
- Be detailed and lengthy.
- Take you time, slowly but surely develop your content.
Emphasis he made:
- SEO techniques applied to individual article and well tweaked Adsense-specific content template is the formula of success with Adsense.
- One quality site is more valuable than 100 hasty sites, both to visitors and to YOU. So think of your audience and provide as much value as you can. If you want to diversify, build one quality site in your industry first. This way your success rolls in like a snowball.
- Some books about online marketing and selling on Amazon really worth much more than just $20 dollars. Get one and you won’t regret it.
- Stop being afraid of losing. Use not only your time but also your money to generate more money. Be confident about your site. (See content building section)
His article template:Here’s a sketchy of Chris’s Adsense template, simple but to the point. Try to understand and digest. Click to enlarge. According to Chris,
It basically is a simple article page that was 780px wide, with an AdSense links unit at the top, then a 100px high header image, then a left hand navigation bar. Then a large rectangle unit above the article, then the article itself with a H1 title, with H2 sub titles, where required, followed by another large rectangle unit after the article which was along side a list of similar articles, then a footer.