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Making money online with Google Adsense.. results after one month

November 10th, 2006 by Kenric

On October 9th, I decided to sign up for an Amazon affiliate program and Google adsense.  I also purchased two domain names in anticipation of the new Kiyosaki and Trump book release.

I wrote about it here and updated it here.

I know that is my second post I said I would shut down my Google Adwords advertising.  However, I decided to add Google adsense to my two sites shortly after that post.

• www.whywewantyoutoberich.net
• www.wewantyoutoberich.com

What I found was that more people came to my site and decided to click on the Google ads rather than going to Amazon to buy the book.  In the beginning, I thought I wanted book buyers, but I quickly realized that ad clickers were far more profiable.  With an ad clicker, I get paid as soon as they click on the ad.  If a person went to Amazon, they’d have to actually buying something before I got paid.  I think only 10% of the people going through to Amazon actually bought something.  So I got paid 10% of the time.  With an ad clicker, I got paid 100% of the time.

In fact, I was getting such a decent return on my clicks that I started my Google Adwords campaign again.  I’ve been consistently spending less on Adwords than what I’ve made in clicks so I’m just leaving it as is.  My sites are also slowly creeping up the search engine ranks as they’ve been around a month now so I get some traffic from organic searches.

Keep in mind, we’re not talking about lots of dollars here, but it have been a consistent few dollars a day.   My two one page sites with Google adsense and Amazon and Barnes & Noble sales have netted about $90 in one month.  I know that that is not alot of money…. but when you compare that to the amount of work and capital required to get $200/mo cashflow from a rental property it really makes you think.

Now I’m trying to figure out how to increase the cashflow of these sites.  Should I add more pages? More ads?  I don’t know.  That’s the fun of learning and trial and error.

The buzz of the book has gone way down.  The number of searches has dropped significantly.  I think these sites will slowly die as time goes by.  That’s what happens with such a focused product site.  I’m not going to shut them down, I don’t have to do anything to the webpages now.  They are running on autopilot bringing in a few bucks a day.

I started this as an experiment, but it may become a longer term project.  I’ve been reading all sorts of books and sites on SEO and driving traffic.  It’s all new to me.  I’ve purchased about 10 more domains since then and am experimenting with what works and what doesn’t.  The fun thing about this is that start up costs are very minimal.

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