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The wonderful people at G already EFT the payments to me, so I don’t even need to bank the cheques. I just need good quality sites with long term stable income. I already have a couple of such sites which are popular, but they are living at the low end of the income market, as they are mostly hobby sites.
I was wondering what everyone’s advice would be? In particular for building sustainable adsense income. Also does anyone else have the same idea?
Some things I already think (please let me know if you disagree)
- Less ads on a page is better to make happy, returning visitors, who might even promote the site because they like it so much. (I hate over advertised sites).
- Quality, in depth, content is king.
- Stuffing my pages with keywords is useless if the visitors don’t like the writing style.
- Unique sites are king. Even if its only a lightly different angle on a common topic.
Any other idea, thoughts?
(Oh, and for 2 years time, “Bon Voyage!”).
1. As netchicken1 said, you will need to be "connected", not online, but reading, updated... it requires time. Feedback from the web and also tracking your competitors. This also means expending money just for reading.
2. Even if you travel cheap, prepare yourself to expend money on cell phones and services. You will find places where internet access just sucks. I've been there, so I always carry my toys with Wifi, Bluetooth, cell phone and so.
3. Is not paranoia but after one builds a source of income, you just realize you need another (as you cannot depend on only one source of money, no matter how stable you think it is)
4. AS for your content, not only you can feed several travel sites, but one in particular as "where is atreides9999 right now", with another name of course...
5. Keep record of your pictures to build a stock photo collection (is not a big source of money but it works)
6. Create stickers and put them on any place they let you (in exchange of some listing maybe).
Good for you if you already have a nice income from Adsense, you can do other thing with your time, but never feel so sure, never store or trust the eggs into one basket, you can loose everything trying to recover when things fail.
Good luck, hope we all can have a nice source of income, college for the kids or a nice retirement plan eh?
Beyond that, I'd say diversify across multiple sites as much as possible. That way if one tanks you'll still be ok. I've been trying to take part in a lot of revenue sharing sites to supplement my main AdSense revenue. Not only will it make the total get higher, it makes things a bit more safe in case the big site comes crashing down.
Once you start making good AdSense income (say over $2k/month), you can probably get Google to give you a personal account rep. Having one makes me feel much more secure about not getting kicked out.
Sorry mate google won't give personal account rep for just 2k a month not even for 20k.
As i walking between those 2 numbers and i know that because i asked :D
Too many people have this vision that if they build a successful site they will be able to leave it and watch the $ come in. From my experience, the most successful your site - the more work it is to keep it up and running (and growing).
In many cases it can be a 20-40 hour a week job just watching your sites
Many people here focus on one number and that is how much a site makes regardless of the hours of maintenance it requires.
But one of the really cool things about the Internet is the ability to have close to passive income by having sites that get natural links and stay high in the serps with very minimal upkeep. A site that makes 2k a month with very little upkeep is really worth a lot more than a site that makes 2k a month with 20-40 hours of work.
