SEO

There are many people who persue living off of Adsense.

Those who are cunning and fairly intelligent stand a fair chance of succeeding. Though, beyond that, it is more a game of patience. You need to wait for your site to grow, become rooted in Google, and gain weight. Adsense also needs time to accumulate and payments are not instant.

If I was to start a new fairly self-sufficient Adsense project, here’s the usual steps that run through my mind:

1. Get a keyworded domain
   Keyword domains add weight to your Search Engine listings. You’ll notice that Google highlights keywords in urls when you search. However, the main reason that domains are important is because domains are the brand name.

   How can Google distinguish between a keyworded domain and a company domain besides potential link weight?

   Also, links to your website using the keyword in your domain are more acceptable. If your website is called London Hotels, then links will generally use the name of your website. In SEO, that is better than a brandable name.

   If you search Fun Fact, you’ll notice that my funfactz.com website comes higher than when searching Fun Facts – simply because the domain is FunFactz.com (note, that is a Z not an S.)

2. Use Clean URLs
   It is common knowledge that clean structured urls are easier to read for search engines and add extra SEO-weight if keyworded.
3. Make Sure Pages Are SE-friendly
   Unique and non-duplicate page title’s and put on-page headers in <h1> tags. Bold keywords, etc.
4. Re-written Unique Content
   Google loves unique content. Make sure your website has unique content. Alot of cunning lazy people actually re-write from other sources.

   Personally, I make database driven websites such as Fun Facts which was created from a database that I had obtained in a package. This package seems to have been flung around a bit on the web, but surprisingly that website doesn’t suffer from duplications unlike the quotation website.

   The most common way is in blog format, usually using WordPress and using various mods for SEO.

5. Potentially Great un-SEO’d Content is Wasted Content
   Not that I’m encouraging it, but existing websites and content that aren’t well known and seo’d is a great opportunity for yourself to take it to the next level and make Adsense money off of it. Cha-ching.
6. Promote it with links
   My last step is to promote the website with links. There are various ways of getting links:
   1. Your existing websites footers and perhaps news and/or forum areas.
   2. Link directories
      • I personally use a semi-automated tool called digiXMAS Directory Submitter except for popular directories like DMOZ.
   3. Article directories
      • There’s also semi-automatic Article Submitter.
   4. Forum signatures
   5. Social platforms such as Digg, Facebook, and StumbleUpon

If you put together a website or blog that follows standard SEO guidelines and either stands out from the crowd or is unique then you can kick back and relax. Update every so often, but don’t make it a full time job.

Most Importantly!

The most important piece of advice is to ALWAYS use non-saturated keywords unless you are CONFIDENT, have nothing to lose, or don’t mind either way what happens.

Use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to check the traffic for your keyword and check the actual listings through Google Search to establish how competed your target search term is.

These final conditions can determine alot. If you buy a specific and keyworded domain, implement a seo’d website, then depending on how competitive your keyword is, you may well appear on the first page without requiring much effort.

You’ll notice alot of popular search terms have domains registered, but if you come across a gem that is available and are able to populate it with content, then by all means – go for it.