People use a variety of methods to generate income online and Google Adsense is one very popular method. Although I’ve been reading about how to do it over the last year I have never really bother to try to make much from it… until last week.
Previously I had already been making a little loose change from Google Adsense but I have never looked at it as a potential source of income as I thought that it would be too difficult to generate big enough checks to make it worth my while (time pursuing it).
As I am in the midst of a test and review, I decided to allow mypast customers the opportunity to view what I was doing. I always test all products that I intend to review before I actually write the review, this enables me to give my honest opinion about the product. I test each racing system out either by placing actual bets or just paper trading, sometimes even back testing. To do this, I use the product’s recommended selection method to identify the bets, then either place a small bet or just paper trade.
Since I had been doing this for a while already, I decided to invite all my past 500+ customers to join me in testing. I created a webpage to allow my customers to view the picks so that they could follow the betting if they liked. Since the service was free (for now) I thought of how I could make money from the influx of traffic to this webpage and decided that I could make money using a 2 pronged strategy.
First I would make some money from placing “discreet” google ads in strategic places and the other money making technique would be to promote other people’s products otherwise known as affiliate marketing (which is also relatively new to me).
As it turns out I have made quite a nice amount over the last 7 days. Since this post is about Google Adsense, so it shall not share the spotlight with my affiliate sales. Just Google Adsense alone has made me a grand $24.05, which is pretty good considering that it is sort of like free money or passive income. Since the information was going to be uploaded on this webpage anyway and just by adding a single adsense code I made myself $24.05 richer. On one of the 7 days I made $8, simply amazing. But let me warn you it is not as easy as I make it sound. Just by putting an adsense code isn’t going to make you any money, it is the whole “strategy” or plan that needs to be put in motion that will bring about a good amount of adsense income that can be worthwhile… ie enough to buy something with…not just a few cents..(many people manage to make a few cents..)
First the screenshot, then we’ll talk about the whole Grand Plan.
From this screenshot of my Google Adsense account you can see that I had XX (censored) clicks on my google ads at this website http://horseselections.systemsthatprofit.com/todayslays.html
The beauty about google ads is that they give you the ability to change the colours to match that of your website and this really make a lot of difference with click through rates. Getting XX clicks over a week is no easy feat I tell you.
Now see this screenshot of where the clicks came from and I’ll explain why I put the ads there in the first place.
You need to place your ads in strategic locations so as to help the click through rates. As you can see HLP Daily Lays has XX clicks. (more clicks compared to the rest) This is my main top banner ad for all the pages that are linked to this webpage. Here is a screenshot of the ad.
You can see that ad 1 is placed on top right below some of my own links, the best is to place them as close together as possible. Once people have read what they need to read on this webspage they are very likely to look for something else to proceed to.
Since Google has the technology to place ads that are relevant to your site’s content their is a high likelihood that they will find an ad that interests them. This is why google is the leading ad provider and why some people can make a fortune with Google adsense. All they do is keep churning out websites that provide people with good quality information and place google ads strategically.
My ad 2 is placed right next to the information that they are looking for, just incase they might have scrolled down and ad 1 is no longer in view. So this is why ad 2 has the second highest click through rate. You can see in the expanded google ads screenshot above, it is Daily Lays Box Ads with XX clicks. (less than for ad 1)
Now for the Grand Plan that would bring people to my website and inadvertently click on my ads…
You see I have a mailing list of over 500 people who are my past customers so I decided to email all of them to tell them about this new product that I would be testing and invited them to test it out alongside with me.
This resulted in 200+ people going to my website (the first day) to check it out and they did exactly as I expected and clicked on some ads. The traffic also resulted in one affiliate sale on the first day (more on affiliate sales in another post).
From this exercise I have added an additional income stream of $24 in 7 days, this is now worth my while… don’t you think?
Well, as the saying goes “free things are the best” and better still if you can monetize free stuff then you have potentially a money making formula that can last a pretty long time.
Wait till you hear about how this website made me $100 pounds from affiliate sales….in a later post!
Some people will ‘kill’ just to make an extra $100 a month and what I detail right here on this blog is exactly how to do that … and once you have done it and made $100 a month, just do it all over again so that you can make $200 a month. It really is that easy, just make sure that you are selling some really useful information for the $7.
