- Make Extra Money Online with Google Adsense
Tell you a “secret”, I make extra money online with Google Adsense and Amazon Associates. I received my first Google Adsense paid check back to September 2011. It was a great feeling – to receive a pay check from Google although it was roughly about $100. Since then, I receive Google check every month.
Before knowing what Google Adsense is, I thought Google pays you by getting you to click their Ads. 
How? What did you do? This is not a make million quick scam as you may see those ads like Working for Google or Working from Home Business.
What is Google Adsense? How do I make extra income with it?
To keep it simple, it’s Google Advertising network that Advertisers pay them to put up Ads across Content Network. You could start a website or a blog and add some code given by Google Adsense.
Then the Google Ads will be displayed on your site. When your site visitors click those ads, Google will pay you via your Google Adsense Account.
My First Google Adsense Check
In Sept 2011, finally, I got my first paycheck from Google Adsense. It was very exciting and finally see all my penny clicks added up as a hundred which is the minimum amount to cut you a check.
- First Google Adsense Check
In Dec 2011, I had roughly $170 extra online income from Adsense. The daily income was like roller-coaster and some good days I had about $10 as in the below graph. $200 is not whole a lot comparing to other Adsense Guru.. well, at least finally I found the KEY and gonna duplicate it massively this year.
- Dec 2011 Adsense Income
Make Extra Money Online with Google Adsense Goal in 2012
One of my 2012 goals is to make $100 a day. Part of my strategy is to build Adsense Micro-niche sites following the blueprint from Trent from Niche Site Mastery. I plan to build out roughly ~30 Adsense sites this year and hope to get a set of 10 high traffic sites making $1000 a month in total. I could bundle up a few winners and sell as 20x monthly income on Flipper.
As my estimate and traffic goal for this year, if I could get roughly 30,000 total page reviews a month, with 3% CPC (which is what I normally get), and at least $1 per each Ads click, it would be around $900 Adsense income.
Meanwhile, I’m still designing how to build out my sites in a bunch and try out different content and backlinking strategy. To get the exclusive tips and blog update, kindly sign up my tips newsletter at the right sidebar —>
Writing content is not my strength and I do outsource. Each site would cost as low as $50 like:
1. $10 Domain Name from Namecheap
2. $20 – 4 piece of content from Fiverr
3. $20 – 4 orders of backlinking from Fiverr
$50 budget is very low (If you write content and do backlinking yourself, you could save up much more.) and it’s doable as I pick low competition keywords with Exact Domain Name Approach. For stronger competition, I will do more backlinking with a weekly schedule.
Google Adsense Niche Site Scale
I have learned that you could have various Adsense Niche Site Scale as:
1. 1-3 page mini-site
As always, I only target one keyword for the main domain, and add in 2 pages targeting Long Tail Keywords.
2. 5-10 Pages
This is normally how I build out an Adsense site. I would know if the new site is a winner or not in a month. I love to fail quick so I could move on and build other new niche sites.
3. Authority Site (At least 20 pages)
I plan to build out a few this year. It would be nice to build some as Authority Sites under Google radar. Every new search engine algorithm is targeted to bring up even better search result for end-users. I’m sure that Google would love to honor mine.
Some of my niche sites have PR 2 and 3 with only 10 or 15 pages to start with. I plan to grow them even further this year.
In summary, Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways to make extra money online. Google will do most of the work – get Advertisers, put the ads on your site for you, charge the advertiser client and cut you the check. I really like its payout cycle and have fast cash flow. You will get your paid-checks mailed to you or deposited in your bank account (income for the month) at the end of next month. Make Extra Money Online with Google Adsense is not that difficult as I originally started.
Side Note: I have been practicing On-page SEO if you know what it is. Do you know what I have done on optimizing this page regarding to SEO?
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Have you heard about Google Adsense if you are a newbie in Internet Marketing? Have you gotten your first Google Adsense Check yet? Would you tell how you started and any great tips to share here?
LOL Chow. That famous check there. There is always this strange feeling when you receive the check. I have several times but I can’t always keep the feeling down. It is even much better when the amount is quite higher. adsense is a great program and I hope we all get to benefit immensely from it.
Martin, for me, the first check is memorable as it proves it’s working. Since then, I just direct deposit in my checking account.
I plan to document all my tips and help this IMT community to grow the Google paycheck bigger and bigger too.
I still remember my first adsense check
took me about 4 months to get the $100 needed.
Have you built any one page sites and had success?
I have a 3 page-site that have made $20 in 3 months so far. I have added 2 more posts this month and plan to grow it as a decent size one. Can’t say it’s very successful yet, but there is potential.
$20 in three months of three pages is ok, if you can duplicate it.
Yes, I gonna create a bunch of those and have another $100 monthly income stream.
The ultimate goal is to scale up to $1000 monthly Adsense income.
I wish you luck I got up around the $900 range with little effort, then got panda slapped and lost 60% over night
I’m cool with it and expect to get back straight in 6 months, on a more solid footing.
Just found your site from Chris Guthrie’s blog. Glad you’re making good progress after taking Chris’s course.
I too just recently bought his course and Easy Azon plugin. I built 4 Amazon niche sites alone this month and currently driving traffic. No sales yet but I am optimistic for next month. I previously had a niche site that made me $200 this past December. This was the most money I ever made online in a month which is why I decided to build more sites.
Great content, keep it comin.
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JC, cool. I’m glad to see you taking actions with NPC. Go and hit your home-run soon!
My first Adsense check took me about 3 months
,your tips are really great
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Amit, thanks! The first Adsense check is always tough. Once you get your first $100, another $100 check will come earlier.
I’m having minor successes with Adsense so far, but since I only started in December really, I’ll take any victory I can get. In December I made about $2.50, and I got a message from Google the other day that I believe they will be paying that out because it came last year (lol).
For the month of January I’ve made almost $12, mainly from about 4-5 websites. These sites are ranking somewhat near the first page too. So I just need to push my portfolio over the hump and get them up to spots #1-3 and I should see more clicks coming in.
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Hey Andre, thanks for being honest and sharing your no here on IMT.
As I said, the first $100 check is the difficult part.. once you get it, you just need to expand and have it monthly.
Per Spencer and Trent, it’s just a number game.. once you have 10 or 20 sites, you should see a few winner making $30, 50, or even hundred a month.
I think I finally have a few of those KEY niche sites.. and I just need to duplicate them.
Hope this simple mindset idea helps you too!
Sounds good Andre, I would give as much focus to adding more sites, along with improving rankings. It is very much a numbers game, and time is a big factor you may find a couple of these 4-5 sites will not increase in rankings till they have some age around 1 year no matter what you do.
IMT Tips here.. For those wanna be successful in Adsense niche sites, just keep focusing ONE at a time.
Build and rank it, then MOVE on.
(Assuming you are doing things right) Once you have your first 5 or 10 site portfolio, you may see 1 or 2 winner making your $20, $60, or even hundred a month..
how much money do you make per month? You amazon story is amazing.
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I wish the amazon affiliate program hadn’t gotten killed in arkansas ugh!
Anyhow question, is doing micro-sites as sub-domains as effective?
I have nwapchelp.com
and say I want to focus on a keyword phrase “dim laptop screen repair”, would running that as a sub-domain be as effective as running a whole new domain?
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I would suggest you to write a post/page on your main domain or a new domain if you prefer. Rank it high. If you run it as a sub-domain, it’s brand new in Google eyes and would take longer to rank and get traffic in my opinion.
Congratulations! Your first check. Pretty good feeling, Ehh?
I will start to look`into this adsense thingy
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Samuel, it works! Thanks for checking it out.