Comments on: Day 34 – The Income Begins! http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins One Hundred Dollars A Day and Beyond! Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-104 admin Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:54:56 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-104 I wouldn't like to say how John managed to only spend $3000 for those results. It is feasable I suppose that his content was really good and his backlinking campaign was so good that he hit the top spots for all the most highly searched keywords. His CPC might also be a lot better because of hitting those top spots as well.. I think this is more a question for John himself though. I wouldn’t like to say how John managed to only spend $3000 for those results. It is feasable I suppose that his content was really good and his backlinking campaign was so good that he hit the top spots for all the most highly searched keywords. His CPC might also be a lot better because of hitting those top spots as well.. I think this is more a question for John himself though.

]]> By: Kaya http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-97 Kaya Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:08:51 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-97 Hi Steven, I'm sure you know of John "Mr. VRE" Reese's famous Adsense video right? This one: http://www.seoelite.com/Lessons/VRESitesBlueprint.htm In that video he talks about how he was able to generate roughly $526,000 from Adsense within just one year. So let's do some math..... $526,000 / 365 = roughly $1441/day According to your strategy, 400 articles would create $100 daily, which means the daily value of each article is $100/400 = $0.25. So to generate $1441/day, we would need $1441 / $0.25 = 5764 articles. If I'm being optimistic and pretend that each article costs $5 to outsource, in total we would need to spend $5 x 5764 = $28,820, and this kind of money is something that the average guys and gals can't really afford.... In addition to that, according to John himself here: http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=75941&whichpage=2 he spent less than $3000 (i.e: programming + ghostwriting) to generate that kind of monstrous income.....so it's considerably a lot less than the $28,820 that I came up with above.....so something doesn't add up here....how do you think he was able to do this feat?? He said he didn't do any black hat stuff either..... Hmmmmmmmm.....any thoughts?? Hi Steven,

I’m sure you know of John “Mr. VRE” Reese’s famous Adsense video right? This one: http://www.seoelite.com/Lessons/VRESitesBlueprint.htm

In that video he talks about how he was able to generate roughly $526,000 from Adsense within just one year.

So let’s do some math…..

$526,000 / 365 = roughly $1441/day

According to your strategy, 400 articles would create $100 daily, which means the daily value of each article is $100/400 = $0.25.

So to generate $1441/day, we would need $1441 / $0.25 = 5764 articles.

If I’m being optimistic and pretend that each article costs $5 to outsource, in total we would need to spend $5 x 5764 = $28,820, and this kind of money is something that the average guys and gals can’t really afford….

In addition to that, according to John himself here: http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=75941&whichpage=2

he spent less than $3000 (i.e: programming + ghostwriting) to generate that kind of monstrous income…..so it’s considerably a lot less than the $28,820 that I came up with above…..so something doesn’t add up here….how do you think he was able to do this feat?? He said he didn’t do any black hat stuff either…..
Hmmmmmmmm…..any thoughts??

]]> By: admin http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-63 admin Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:04:17 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-63 I will be looking at adding a forum and using other interactive techiques like picture galleries etc.. There is a lot of scope in this niche for creating stickiness. I will be looking at adding a forum and using other interactive techiques like picture galleries etc.. There is a lot of scope in this niche for creating stickiness.

]]> By: Tom's Orchid Flowers Help http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-56 Tom's Orchid Flowers Help Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:02:13 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-56 interesting project - found your thread on the WF and am now reading and reading (currently halfway through). besides adsense - do you plan additional income streams and maybe also a newsletter (sending out monthly news on discounts or general travel information) or even an ebook with travel tips etc? Looking forward to end of march for the final results. Good luck! interesting project – found your thread on the WF and am now reading and reading (currently halfway through).
besides adsense – do you plan additional income streams and maybe also a newsletter (sending out monthly news on discounts or general travel information) or even an ebook with travel tips etc?

Looking forward to end of march for the final results.
Good luck!

]]> By: Pearson Brown http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-54 Pearson Brown Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:35:53 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-54 Peter, That is the perennial problem for Adsense sites. On the one hand, you need good interesting content to get a lot of traffic to your site. On the other hand, you don't want your content to be so interesting that people don't click on your ads. I've gone down the 'good content' route, have thousands of visitors but a CPC of under 10 cents. This provides me with a comfortable living because my low CPC is matched by huge traffic. I'm very interested to see how Steve gets on taking a different strategy. Pearson Peter,

That is the perennial problem for Adsense sites.

On the one hand, you need good interesting content to get a lot of traffic to your site.

On the other hand, you don’t want your content to be so interesting that people don’t click on your ads.

I’ve gone down the ‘good content’ route, have thousands of visitors but a CPC of under 10 cents. This provides me with a comfortable living because my low CPC is matched by huge traffic.

I’m very interested to see how Steve gets on taking a different strategy.

Pearson

]]> By: peter gibson http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-51 peter gibson Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:28:57 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-51 I see. That does make a whole lot of sense. Also I was wondering, at what point traffic wise would you think it wise to start adding the adsense blocks to your site? 50 uniques average per day? 100? I'm wondering because one of my micro niche blogs is starting to average between 60 and 70 uniques per day but I don't want to scare them away by throwin up ads too quick. I also have another strange dilemma to throw your way. I had a blog that was parked for over a year. Not one post in 13 months to be exact. I checked to find out that adsense was bringing in about 14.00 per month from the site. OK here's my dilemma. Since I saw this, I decided to slam content at the site again and do some more SEO to increase traffic and grab more clicks. Since I started that process I have the same traffic numbers but my CTR is way down. Is this because people are reading the content more and that content is distracting them away from the adsense? That is perplexing. Would love to know what you think. I see. That does make a whole lot of sense. Also I was wondering, at what point traffic wise would you think it wise to start adding the adsense blocks to your site? 50 uniques average per day? 100? I’m wondering because one of my micro niche blogs is starting to average between 60 and 70 uniques per day but I don’t want to scare them away by throwin up ads too quick.

I also have another strange dilemma to throw your way. I had a blog that was parked for over a year. Not one post in 13 months to be exact. I checked to find out that adsense was bringing in about 14.00 per month from the site. OK here’s my dilemma. Since I saw this, I decided to slam content at the site again and do some more SEO to increase traffic and grab more clicks. Since I started that process I have the same traffic numbers but my CTR is way down. Is this because people are reading the content more and that content is distracting them away from the adsense? That is perplexing. Would love to know what you think.

]]> By: admin http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-47 admin Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:18:02 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-47 Hi Peter, yes I do use a formula but it is far from scientific.. If I know the average CPC for the niche and if I aim for around 10% CTR and work on the assumption of an average of 5 visitors per post on average then I can figure it out. Some articles might not get any traffic and others might get 20 visitors a day or more so I just figure an average over the site. If my goal was $10 a day and the average CPC for the niche was 50 cents at 10% CTR: 10/0.5 = 20 clicks per day using 10% CTR 20 clicks = 0.10*(number of visitors) OR Number of Visitors = 20/0.10 = 200 using average of 5 visitors per article Number Of Articles = 200/5 = 40 So 40 articles should give me my income goal. However, as always the reality of CPC and CTR can vary and so you should use this as a rough guide and hone it down when you start getting some feedback from your stats. Hi Peter, yes I do use a formula but it is far from scientific.. If I know the average CPC for the niche and if I aim for around 10% CTR and work on the assumption of an average of 5 visitors per post on average then I can figure it out. Some articles might not get any traffic and others might get 20 visitors a day or more so I just figure an average over the site.

If my goal was $10 a day and the average CPC for the niche was 50 cents at 10% CTR:

10/0.5 = 20 clicks per day
using 10% CTR
20 clicks = 0.10*(number of visitors)
OR
Number of Visitors = 20/0.10 = 200
using average of 5 visitors per article
Number Of Articles = 200/5 = 40

So 40 articles should give me my income goal. However, as always the reality of CPC and CTR can vary and so you should use this as a rough guide and hone it down when you start getting some feedback from your stats.

]]> By: peter gibson http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins/comment-page-1#comment-45 peter gibson Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:40:12 +0000 http://100buckschallenge.com/day-34-the-income-begins#comment-45 Steve, do you have a loose formula that correlates the amount of articles you write to the amount of money made with adsense? As in, if I wrote 200 keyword rich articles I could expect 50.00 average? Just wondering if that has any play in the outcome. Cheers! Steve, do you have a loose formula that correlates the amount of articles you write to the amount of money made with adsense? As in, if I wrote 200 keyword rich articles I could expect 50.00 average? Just wondering if that has any play in the outcome. Cheers!

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