Earning High Income From Adsense is Possible
I hope things are going well for you. As you may know I post updates on my Adsense earnings for some of my sites. And I was able to get to right at about $10,000 a month from Adsense alone in 14 months with a few new sites.
Here’s a screenshot since everyone seems to love them …
Anyway, as you can see, it was $9,580.39, so not quite a $10,000 month, but pretty close. I also put CPA ads on these sites and the grand total for Jan turned out to be over $15,000 total from this network alone.
I built these sites in November of 2009 which means it took me about 14 months to get here (and yes, the income has continued). So it’s not an ‘overnight success’, but does show what you can accomplish if you stick with something. These also weren’t the first sites I ever built, I already had a lot of success online so I was pretty confident this experiment would work out (so please don’t try to build this many sites all at once if you’re starting out).
If you’ll notice from the screenshot, most of these earnings came from 4 sites, mostly because I realized promoting all of them at once would be too much work. So I’m doing things differently than most everyone else. Instead of building small sites that target VERY narrow niches, I build bigger sites and focus on quality.
I feel kind of like I’m out there on this ‘build quality sites iceberg’ alone most of the time. It’s so popular right now for everyone else to build 500 of the 1 page sites and earn $1 – 2 from each one. Or spam for profile links, or throw-up 1000’s of ‘nice site’ type blog comments and other low quality methods for getting backlinks.
Anyway, I did happen to stumble upon something late last year that impressed me. I actually do buy pretty much every course on Adsense and a lot on affiliate marketing as well. If there’s any chance I’ll learn even a little something, I buy it.
So I’ve bought it all.
This is the ONLY one I feel good about promoting.
I think I’m pretty good at reading through the B.S. anymore since I’ve run an online business for about 10 years now and have been subscribed to *everyone’s* newsletter at one time or another.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff out there is garbage.
But this one course is in my opinion the real thing.
It’s called the ‘Adsense Guild’ by Cary Bergeron.
Cary seems like a great guy, who’s very successful at Adsense and willing to ‘tell it like it is’. He’s not hyping up his course, there’s no bonuses, it’s not flashy and as someone who’s doing pretty well with Adsense, I can say it’s the real deal.
He’s actually got a paid forum going on and he personally answers the questions. If you decide Adsense training is for you and you sign up for his online course, you’ll get access to his forum. Right now you get lifetime access for one price (lifetime meaning the life of his training product, not your lifetime or the poor guy’s lifetime 
And although the forum has started out slow (because he’s not hyping himself up like he could), he’s constantly growing it and adding to it. It’s very different from the hyped up launch where the guy in charge is raring to go for the first few weeks and then just disappears.
I’ve been a member for several months and he just keeps adding good stuff to the online training and still personally answers questions on the forum. So I’m confident he’s not going anywhere.
So who is this guy?
Here’s just a few successes Cary has to his name:
- He’s sold several Adsense sites on Flippa; one for $80,000, another for $30,000 (and I’m sure there’s more I don’t know about) …. So he’s not building small junk sites, but bigger, highly trafficked and highly monetized sites. This model is far superior to what most people are doing and teaching.
- He’s got proof of a $20,000 Adsense month and a $1,000 Adsense day. Pretty darn good and I don’t think he’s been doing this for much more than a few years.
- His traffic methods all rely on free traffic, most of it search engines, but some is from social media and list building, which is very smart because he’s diversifying. I’m excited to learn about this stuff as I focus more on SEO and could use some ‘educating in the rest’.
- He’s building quality sites with good content that actually helps people figure stuff out, solve problems, and give them the information they need. If you do this, you pretty much don’t have to worry about Google algorithm changes (like the last update so many people have still been freaking out about). You’ll get traffic and it’ll just keep growing.
Right now Cary’s offering access to his online Adsense training course + lifetime membership to the forums for one price. Although it’s more than a lot of courses, I really can’t compare the quality of it to anything else I’ve bought.
And you’re getting access to him.
Personally, I wouldn’t be OK giving people access to me through a forum for the one-time price he’s charging. And with the type of successes he has, Cary could probably easily charge $500 for an hour consult.
You don’t have to pay anywhere near that to get his Adsense Guild + lifetime access to the forum so if you’re interested in earning from Adsense I think this is a steal.
So go ahead and check it out here (just want to point out that yes, this is an affiliate link).
Also, I might be able to convince Cary to let me interview him sometime so if you’ve got questions on the course or what exactly Cary’s doing I *might* be able to get them answered for you. Just ask your question in the comment field below and if there’s enough interest, I’ll try to interview him.
Again, learn more about the Adsense Guild here (again, an affiliate link, I will be compensated if you buy).
Lisa,
Did you build these sites based on the material in your SEO training course?
Lisa, this is a true inspiration. Your blog is one of the very few that I actively follow in the world of internet marketing. Thanks you for keeping the quality at a high standard.
Will I ever see a screen like yours when I login to my account? I hope so, that’s why I am working hard on AdSense.
“Instead of building small sites that target VERY narrow niches, I build bigger sites and focus on quality.” This is also what I am focusing at the moment and suggest to all other marketers.
AdSense Guild sounds really nice, I will check it now.
John – I definitely built these sites based on what I cover in the SEO course. It’s 8 hours of exactly what I do as far as SEO — kind of a lot, but it works
. I also included action plans that really are step-by-step in it too and people are able to follow them and see success.
Nail – I sure hope so! I didn’t have too much success with Adsense at first at all. I joined when the program first opened and it took me years to get that first check. I didn’t take it serously and had no idea how to figure out what markets to get into.
Cary is definitely focused on building bigger sites just like I do so I’m happy he came out with a course. It really covers everything you need to know to succeed with Adsense. It’s pretty much what I do.
All the best …
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
I do build those smaller sites, and am achieving some measure of success, but I plan to–within 6 to 9 months–transition into more of the bigger, more authoritative sites.
I like what I hear about your Inline SEO System, and I think you have a WSO for $27. When the time’s right, I’ll get one of those.
Hi Lisa,
Great achievement! Congrats. When I do adsense, I usually see a consistent daily earnings. Why do yours suddenly have $2000 per day and then $90 per day earnings? Did you do anything special to get that high a spike in earnings?
Thanks!
Hi Lisa,
As an InlineSEOSystem customer, what additional techniques will I learn with Cary’s system? Is there going to be a lot of overlap, or will it augment your system?
I’m all for additional education but only if I’m going to learn something that’s entirely new and helpful to my business.
All in all this sounds very intriguing.
Thanks,
Ed
This is great Lisa. My question is about Profit. Money flow and profit are two different creatures!
What % of this money flow is profit? Or is this the profit from the sites?
Don’t take me the wrong way please, what you accomplished is great. I’m just curious.
I looked at almost all of his sites and Lisa like you he has a handful that actually produce those kind of results. Like 4 or 5 sites. Not sure about the $250 price tag. Really your sites look much more professional, I read all of your truth files and bought the content book. More site structure understanding if I am using wordpress which is what I want to build with. Anyway that is just my two cents. I for some reason can’t focus or don’t have the flow right for writing, you do that excellent and don’t just throw up garbage. That I believe is my main problem. And perfectionist when I do try to get it right. Sorry for the rambling.
Hi Lisa, how does this course compare to Xfactors new Authority Adsense guide (adsensemasterscourse.com)?
Lisa, how funny. I’ve just been looking at an Australian site – or “blog” – that a guy started couple of years ago and is now making $1000 a day – from Adsense alone – plus banners etc. A car review site. This one – http://www.caradvice.com.au
Yeah – there’s no money in Adsense.
cheers,
Mal
Hi Lisa,
I agree with Nail, your info is excellent.
Quick question… I know one of your core points is that there’s a lot of SEO mis-information and because of this I’d really like to get your “two cents” regarding the need to incorporate “social media” into your mix for SEO purposes.
I’m not a big fan of social media (just not a particularly social guy) but I’ve been hearing more and more that Google is looking to incorporate the social graph of a site into it’s ranking algo. What are your thoughts on this?
Lisa thanks for your great posts. There are so many adsense tips floating around I’m not sure which one to follow.
I have your video course and it seems to tie nicely to what is taught by John Xfactor’s adsense authority book.
I don’t want to spend another $97 on Cary’s book unless you think I am missing something from my last two purchases.
One more question Lisa, do you have an amazon guide or suggestion for a course? I’d like to mix things up with non-adsense sites too.
Thanks!
Hi Lisa,
Congrats on your adsense success. Three questions.
1. I notice that your top sites are getting about 20k+ impressions/month. Would you mind sharing approximately how many visitors each site is getting to generate so many impressions? I have a site that gets 100-150 visitors per day with a CPC of $3, but I haven’t placed any ads on it yet, so I’m curious.
2. Adsense Guild – I’m a little low on funds at the moment, so I can’t part with the $250, but would you recommend his course over at: adsenserecipe.com? I’m not a newbie, so I’m still not sure how much of that might be useful for me.
3. Is your primary linking trio strategy(from inline SEO) still the same as shown in the course or has that evolved or changed somewhat?
Thanks,
Steve
Lisa,
Thanks for the info. I’ve studied your course religiously (and even refer to it during my marketing classes).
On a (somewhat) related topic, your backlinking approach utilizes RSS feeds, third party sites, press releases, article marketing, etc.
I was wondering, what’s your take on using SE Nuke X for your system?
The reason I ask is because it looks like a way to streamline most of your strategies.
Have you thought about using SE Nuke X? Or… if not… do you have any strategies for streamlining your backlinking efforts?
Cheers,
Adam
Hey Lisa,based on some of those numbers it looks like you are getting a high CTR and/or high EPC.
Do you use Wordpress or HTML to build your sites and do you use a particular theme/layout/colour scheme to get these high stats?
If you are not willing to share here, does either of your SEO or InlineSEOSystem go into details about these things? If so which course?
Thanks,
Dean
DK – You can definitely start out with smaller sites and then build them out to something much bigger later on. There’s no problem with that and in fact I recommend for people starting out to create just 10 pages sites and promote them. Then you can always build them out later.
Lisa
Jason,
I should have pointed it out, but the rows are the different sites from that network (started about a year and a half ago). So it’s not varying from day to day, but site to site over the whole month. As you can see some make hardly anything, but those are the one’s I stopped promoting early on. When I get to them, they should increase.
Lisa
Hi Ed,
All I cover is SEO, his course talks about Adsense. So you’ll learn market selection, a little SEO, monetizing with Adsense, and his take on all things dealing with Adsense. He’s also offering forum support for life, which is like having an Adsense coach … I don’t do anything like that.
Lisa
Charles,
My monthly spends are the cost of hosting (about $100) plus an aweber account ($20). If I’m working on growing my income during that month then of course there’s outsourcing to writers and backlinking, but if I stopped doing that my income would stay right about where it is. So this is 99% profit.
Luke – If it’s any indication, I’m not promoting that one, just Cary’s. Not really willing to get into it further than that
Hi Mal – I always like hearing stuff like that so thanks for sending it over. Will take a look. It’s crazy how many people email me telling me they don’t believe the screenshots. Not sure why they keep coming back!
Paul – I wouldn’t do social media marketing at this point for SEO, but just as a way to diversify some traffic. I believe in SEO as a long term, stable way to earn money and get visitors, but there’s no reason not to add to it, especially if it’s easy. I recommend to people to focus on one way of getting traffic at first, but when you start bringing in 10’s of thousands of $ a month, you’re crazy not to diversify a little. For some people, starting with social media might be the way to go at first, everyone’s different. It’s not my thing, I plan to outsource it when I finally get started.
Andy – I’d suggest just getting started right away. Cary’s course is actually more than $97, but he’s offering forum support. That’s one of the main reasons why I think it’s a good deal, but if you’re at the point where you’ve spent enough time and money learning, just get started.
Steve – 1. The impressions are only slightly higher than what my webalyzer stats say for unique visitors. So some are nearing 20,000 unique visitors a month. Place some ads on that site and see what happens, but don’t expect every click to bring in $3, that’s usually just the maximum, plus you only get about 60% of the $.
2. Just get started, you don’t have to buy anything, but for people in the position to do so, I highly recommend Cary’s course.
3. I still do the same thing and follow my course really closely everytime I build a site.
Adam – I don’t use SE Nuke, so I can’t say. The reality is a lot of that type of software is hard to learn to use and automates things to the point of ‘push button’ so people end up with low quality links. I’m sure you could use it and do a good job and save some time, but I don’t have any experience with it.
Thanks everyone!
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
I currently work full-time but I want to start building sites that will bring in additional income. Realistically, how much time should I spend per day to focus on these sites? I have no problems outsourcing is it helps bring results quicker. Thanks!
Wow, that’s a lot of serious money you have there. I have been struggling to make even $10 a month. Although I just started, I will stick with it and see I can get on Cary’s programme.
Thanks for giving us a heads up on this new course, Lisa!
A forum where the owner who is very experienced answers your queries is very valuable indeed.
Thanks again, John
Hi Lisa,
Definitely you are not alone on the ‘build quality site iceberg’. Thanks to your WSO on content publishing, I am getting focused on building quality sites that will stand the test of Google algo changes. I am onto my third site now, and in the process of getting all of them ranked. Hopefully I will learn and earn along the way, and definitely will be sharing some of it (the learn part, not the earn part
) with you and your readers then.
My adsense question is this… What are some ways to optimize adsense for sites that are in niches with lower cost per click? How do I maximize the CPC that I am getting from a niche like this?
so when determining a niche we shouldn’t worry about the competition, as long as we don’t target the super competitive obvious keywords?
Lisa,
Question for your webinar:
Providing you do everything right according to the guidelines of Adsense Guild, is then the basic principle: build more sites/pages to earn more income, or is this system based on earning more adsense with less pages?
Assuming we’re on the up and up and trying to provide Google with quality unique content, how can we protect ourselves from Google closing our Adsense account?
I’ve heard we can only have 1 Adsense account ever. But I’ve also heard of people who have multiple Adsense accounts. How do they do it?
I’m a firm believer in not having all one’s eggs in one basket. And quite frankly, Google makes me EXTREMELY nervous!
Hi Lisa,
I would like to ask Cary if the Medium Rectangle at the beginning of an article is still the top producer of Adsense income.
And, if it’s true that you shouldn’t put too many large blocks of Adsense Ads on a site because if you have less ads, the highest paying ones will appear on your site, but with too many, you’re also attracting the lower bidders.
Hi Lisa-
Thanks for letting us know about Cary’s Adsense Course. Here are a few questions I would like you to ask Cary if possible in your upcoming webinar:
1) Does he cover techniques for finding high-profit niches for earning money with Adsense?
2) Does he cover how he researches and creates “unique content” for his websites and articles, especially in niches he knows nothing about?
3) Is there a drawback to using PLR for some of your Adsense site posts?
4) Can his training be used to create “hy-brid” sites that are monetized with Adsense and other monetization methods?
5) What else does he cover in his membership site and forum that we may not already be aware of?
6) Does he cover how he drives traffic to his Adsense Blogs, how he builds the sites, and what he does for On-page and Off-page SEO?
Thanks again, Lisa!
Mike
Hi Lisa
I am interested in picking up Cary’s product, your word is good enough for me. The question for me is are there any other payment options? As this product is through Clickbank, when I say I’m in the UK they automatically add on 20% for VAT (sales tax). So this product for me is $300 not $250. Hope this makes sense to you.
Simply if I pay with Paypal to Cary it’s $250 but with Clickbank it’s $300
Hi Lisa,
I have a question for Cary Bergeron
of the Adsense Guild (at your recommendation – If you have any questions you’d like me to ask him, just leave a comment on the blog here..)
But perhaps you can answer it…
Do you recommend becoming Google Adsense Certified? If yes, do you suggest in the beginning, in the middle or when you are experienced in adsense? I don’t know how difficult the certification exam is without practical, real-world experience of using adsense.
Thank you for any info.
Sharon
A question or two for Cary should you interview him:
1. Is his course more about building authority sites and, if so, how does it compare to what is taught in Xfactor’s newest course that focuses on building authority sites?
2. How much time does he devote to his sites on a daily basis?
3. How much of his work is oursourced, and does he recommend doing this from the start or learning the ropes first before turning it over to others?
Thanks, Lisa.
Cary – I have a highly trafficked info site but make very little Adsense revenue compared to several months ago. What can I do to increast the payout per click – especially if the number of clicks remains relatively stable (but the rev per click falls)?
I would like to know how one can protect themselves from Google closing down your adsense account – there seem to lots of stories online where folks have lost their adsense earnings ( which they claim is in error as they follow all of Google’s policies ) WITHOUT RECOURSE ?
Hi Lisa,
Just a question or two for Cary during the interview.
How many pages (on average) does he suggest for his Adsense sites?
What’s his favourite traffic generation technique (without giving away the game on himself)
Thanks
Niall
Hi Lisa,
Can you suggest me some other tools for niche/keyword research (instead of WordTracker which is kinda steep for $69 per month) ? Have you tried KeywordCountry, Wordze or WordStream as well ? Thanks for your input
Hi Lisa,
I’d like to ask Cary(and maybe yourself too) that why I built so many backlinks and only very few are indexed by Yahoo site explorer? There’re even “good” links like Ezinearticles that are not always index by Yahoo site explorer for my sites.
Thanks!
Whats the easiest way you would go from a newbie making $0.00 to $20,000/month?
I have a question about Adsense. I have some sites and they get a fair amount of volume and I am using your Content Publishing Blackbook to set up my sites. Everything seems to be working fine but my CTR seems very low.
When you interview Cary would you ask him about methods to give my CTR a boost.
Thanks,
Scott
I am sure this wont get asked but it is a very truthful question as I have plenty of experience and have not see what has been promised for a little site and using Articles, RSS directories, etc. Where does all the SEO traffic really come from? We have tried PPC, but all Ad revenues are lowered to, say, about $0.05 per click since it came from PPC. I have never seen the growth that you talk about before and it’s been years of working with clients like this. Lisa, you once said you worked in construction years ago, correct? How did you end up in chemistry? I really appreciate all you are doing but we only want the facts. It seems to be working for you and making quite a bit of money at that (if its not just from ’select’ old pages that happen to be doing well. To get this kind of traffic so quickly is insane to mention. I hope this comment becomes a great selling point rebuttal because we REALLY want to hear it. Please don’t delete this. We get tired of having to keep posting the same thing over and over. We only want to know HOW in the heck you are doing this. All we see is blurred images. It is truly amazing and brilliant. And if this is all for real we think you are a true whiz who would deserve much more recognition than you get now. Thank you for everything. Your concepts ARE tried and true, but not to the extent at which all the claims have been made. It will take at least a year to get those types of pages up high enough in the SERPs to actually make a monetary difference. Looking forward to all of your emails.
GT
Thanks Lisa.
I was just curious because I just finished implementing your strategy on my new site. Its only 6 weeks old and has moved into 1st and 2nd position for my desired keyword. So Im certain that your system works!
You can see my site if you go to http://www.google.com and type in website purchase agreement.
For anyone that is thinking of buying this course, DO IT!
Hi !
This is quite an earning from Adsense only…
I am far away from results like this and still doing some researches on this article… THis post is definitely going to my bookmarks and im gonna come back to it sever times this couple weeks!
thanks alot!
You inspire me so much,more than a year,I been working as SEO and I’m gaining 40 thousand Philippine money.It is good enough to make it permanent.
Hi Lisa,
I wanted to say “thank you” for your inlineseo and content publishing blackbook. I finally ‘get it’ and see all my mistakes over the last 18 months. Together they have opened my eyes, and I can’t tell you how thankful I am that I found you!
Q Regarding Adsense:
Since I have never really worked with Adsense before, I am wondering how to handle all the keywords that don’t pay well. When I optimize my site, it is impossible not to include those phrases. So for content do they pay based on the search term entered?
Second, I have found some niches that look good, but I don’t see many ads. In the case of the cystic acne niche Lisa showed, there were only a few ads served in google results, but content ads showed general acne ads on the sites. If we see that happen in niches, is it a good way to break into a competitive niche?
Hello Lisa!
One of the core principles of the successful site is categorizing the content, like http://www.allwidgets.com/blue/blue-article1.html etc…
However, if we create a site on a wordpress, usually we can file each post under category.
However, the URLs will not look like in html sites. Say, I can add text to the category page and then file all articles related to this category, as a list of links. the URL will look like http://www.allwidgets.com/blue/
In standard wordpress, the category page will look like: http://www.allwidgets.com/category/blue
The post (article) page may not contain /category/ in the URL, however may show in the category page if assigned to some category.
More, we cannot add custom text to the category page, since it’s automatically generated and just lists posts or post teasers.
Could you please explain which settings to set in permalinks in order to make wordpress site as clean as html. I mean how to make wordpress-based site mimic the exaclty the same structure (in URLs) as html sites that you show in the course and also use on your sites?
Sharon – I think you’re getting Google Adwords certified mixed up with the Adsense program (there’s no certification for this). You may want to read more about Adwords, that’s the PPC program right from Google and I think things will start making more sense.
Jackie – The search engines don’t show all your links + some are not yet indexed. Don’t worry about what Google or Yahoo are showing, keep building quality links and you’ll get there (do try to diversify outside of ezinearticles.com).
Greg – Your comment shows you are very skeptical and it’s not my goal to change your mind. Maybe this isn’t for you? Either way, here’s a quick sum-up. First, I’ve never been in construction and have no idea where you got that from or why you’d even bring it up really. Second, it took me 14 months to get this income. Have you ever really stuck with anything for 14 months?? That’s a seriously long amount of time. If you’re really doing SEO (I don’t do PPC so I’m not sure why you even mention that), and you stick with it for 14 months and are still not seeing any traffic, you’ve got a REAL problem. Something’s wrong there. As for myself (I can’t speak for Cary), I do all the things I’ve said I do in my posts, but I do A LOT of them. I don’t just submit 2 articles to a few directories and then sit back and whine about how my sites aren’t getting traffic. If you’re really trying, then volume is probably the difference, me and the people who are getting rankings are doing a lot more than you are.
- Lisa
Jennifer – You can’t worry about only having high paying keywords on your site. You want traffic from the keywords and you want Adsense to trigger the right type of ads, that’s the best you can do.
I wrote about the cystic acne niche in the content publishing book and that doesn’t only cover Adsense. There are a ton of affiliate products you could promote in that market if you don’t think it would do well as an Adsense site (although I’m guessing it would be OK since it will trigger lots of ‘acne’ related ads from Adsense, not just ‘cystic acne’).
Anton – You’re really worrying about this too much. The url doesn’t have to look just like that. I’m not a wordpress expert, but if you really want your URL’s like that I know you can add .html to the end of your permalinks. Just have it go postname.html or if you need the category in there, add that to the permalink and get a plugin that will accomplish this.
The default wordpress is in my opinion a very poor sitebuilder. It creates a nice blog. If you want to create a good static site out of wordpress you’re going to need to roll up your sleeves and find plugins that will do what you want, probably buy a premium theme like thesis (that will allow you to add content to the category pages), and there’s still more you have to do whereas an HTML builder gives you full control. You can do it all with wordpress, but you’re going to need to visit the wordpress forums and get some tech support to make it look exactly like most any static HTML site. But again, you don’t HAVE to do that.
I do like having the /category/page.html because it gives the URL a nice hierarchy and I wish wordpress did this out of the box, but it doesn’t. You really have to mess with it and I cannot do wordpress tech support. So I’d say if wordpress is your only option, then just make it easy on yourself and don’t go through the trouble to make the URL’s perfect (there’s a lot more important things you can spend your energy on) or use an HTML builder (dreamweaver, xsitepro, or a free one). Don’t let that one part slow you down, just get started.
All the best…
Lisa
Lisa,
Thanks for creating this great post and getting a discussion going.
Success does not come overnight that is for sure. There are no “get rich quick” systems that actually works.
For those who are skeptical I can tell you this. It is far better to take quality advice from people like Lisa and myself then it is to buy a program that does everything for you. I only wish I had resources like this when I was first starting out. It would have saved me thousands of dollars and many headaches.
Looking forward to our interview next week. Keep up the good work Lisa!