My First Adventure With Niche Inspector – Part Two!
Ok, here’s part 2 of my first (and so far only) attempt to create a $10 a day from google adsense website.
Once I decided to create a website based around Business Intelligence Software, the next thing I needed was content. I decided I wanted to create close to 50 pages of original content, all of them optimized for the phrase “business intelligence software”. When I say that each page would be optimized for this phrase, I mean that this phrase would make up between 2-3% of the content of that particular page. This is apparently the optimum amount for any particular keyword phrase. Anymore is considered keyword stuffing. If you want to check out the keyword density for any web pages you’ve created, this is the best tool I’ve found so far:
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/
Anyway, creating all of this content was a bit of a pain. As a subject, Business Intelligence Software is about as dry as you can imagine, plus writing close to 50 pages of content about it was not an easy task. Nonetheless, I’d made the commitment, and after a month of steady work, I had my content ready to go and I put the website together. So, what were the results?
Well, not that great. This site has been up for 4 months now, and it has earned me a grand total of $35.59 in that time frame. Not quite what I was looking for, was it? Here’s what I’ve learned from the creation of this site, as well as some other points:
- When you see CPC rates higher between $15-$30, beware! Most likely, the people who pay these extremely high rates only run their ads for google search results, not the content network. I remember when I got the first adsense click for businessintelligencesoftware. You know how much I made? 17 cents! LOL, that’s a long way from $15, isn’t it? In her free report, Myleena even makes this point, although I apparently missed it.
- Despite this, there were a couple of days where this site did generate $10 in revenue. I’m not sure why this happened, but it did. However, the problem is that 99.99% of the time, this site generates nothing.
- When I first put up the site, I did get some positive feedback from users of Business Intelligence Software, saying that they did intend to write reviews, comments, etc. However, it never happened (well, it happened once) and after the first 2 days these comments dried up.
- Despite the fact that I optimized the site for the keyword phrase “business intelligence software”, I can’t find my site anywhere in google if I search for “businesss intelligence software”. The problem here is that the sites that come up for this search are real authority sites (like IBM, for example), and there’s a lot of them. Next time, I’m going to be much more aware of the competition for any phrase I focus on.
- Despite the fact that I’m next to nowheresville for “business intelligence software”, this site does get natural, organic search results from google. But like Myleena says, it’s for search phrases that I never considered. For example, “+birt + sas” and “in-memory associative technology”
So, all in all, I would chalk up my experience with my Business Intelligence Software site as a definite learning experience. Although painful, I did learn a lot by creating it. In my next post, I’m going to explain how I’m planning on using the lessons learned above to create a better battle plan for my next site.
To Our Success,
- Dave
