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How To Make Money Online With Google Adsense Farms (Case Study Part 1)

Posted by admin | February 10, 2009 .

I’m going to show you exactly how easy it is to begin an adsense farm for making money online and making SERP increases easier later on. I’m not going to pull any punches and I’m going to show you step by step how I do it. The hard part isn’t understanding the process, it is sticking with it. Over, and over, and over again.

So without further ado, let’s get started.

Step 1.

Pull up google trends and look through it trend item by trend item until you find a product type or name. Alternatively, you could look at ebay hot sellers or Amazon hot sellers. In my case, I pulled up trends and found a product that starts with the letter ‘P’, and that is how I will refer to it. NOTE: I typically look through several possibilities before I select one, and in this case I have already done the following steps to ensure I have something worth pursuing.

Step 2.

Go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and do a search for your product/keyword. In this case I did a search for ‘P’. The next step is to go to the drop down in the upper right side and select to show the CPC and search trend. Look at this image to help:

Once you have all the columns, sort by average searches for the last month. Use the trend column to verify that the search is on the rise, or at least not in a major decline. The next think I look at is the CPC. Now, for building a farm it may not be all that necessary, but I find the higher the CPC the higher your net. So I always sift through the higher paying terms first. In this case, I chose the third term, ‘PC’, and number 24, ‘PG’.

PC got 5400 searches last month and has a CPC of 4.87
PG got 1300 and a CPC of 2.92

Getting #1 for these two terms would see 6700 searches and a CPC of ~4.00

Remember I have already gone through and done all the back checking so I know ahead of time these terms will work out, and how to make money online with them. However, once I have potential keywords I then move on to step 3.

Step 3.

Now we need to verify the competition is something we can beat. I do a search for each term in quotes. For PC I find that there are 4510 results. That is EXTREMELY low and very appealing. Typically you want less than 100k, but the closer to 0 the better.

For PG we have 64k results. It’s under 100k so we’ll take it.

Fortunately I can combine the two terms into PGC for a third term that got 720 searches and a CPC of 4.88!!! Let’s add that one in. I did a quick quote search and that phrase has 7670 results! This is looking good :)

The next thing we do, now that we know the exact competition is beatable, is to repeat all three searches without quotes. Ideally the top 5 or so results will be under PR3, not have the keyword/phrase in the title or meta description and not be seen as authoritative (have several sub links under the main results). In this case, all three searches turn up the same result. We have an authoritative site that is PR4 and has each of the phrases in the title AND metadescription.

Normally, that would be cause for pause, but considering two of the phrases are under 10k direct competitors, it should be a sinch to hit #2 or #3 for each of them.

For the #2 spot we should expect about 30-50% of the searches to click through (always estimate to the lower) to our farm site. For the #3 we should expect 0%-30%. With 8k searches, 30% comes to a little over 2500. If we get a 3% CTR and 50% of the CPC, we would earn 2500*.03*.5*4.4 = 165$/month. This is weighted based on past experience.

Don’t worry about the calculation for now, I will go into it in deeper detail at another time.

This looks like it would be fun to go for despite the top results having higher PR. Relevancy should hopefully be enough to push past them. And if it isn’t, at least you can follow along and see the method I used to rank a site and how to make make money online in the process.

Next stop, site creation.

Total time spent to this point: 60 minutes

Conclusion

The process is very easy. Just do what is above until you find a niche you feel you can comfortably conquer. Believe me, there are millions. You can pick specific products, services, questions, and on and on and on. Just have patience and after the 20th site this should be second nature!

–Korr

NOTE: A special thing to lookout for is other adsense or affiliate sites. It just so happens that the two easier phrases have a site at #3 that is a year old, is 8 pages, and 100% pure fluff with adsense all over it. This tells me that a nonsense fluff site (perfect for adsense) can rank well and easily.

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8 Comments so far
  1. Locke February 11, 2009

    This article is the truth… Man, i think you should probably be charging for this sort of information leaving money on the table… I’ll call this post “Korr’s Charity Fund for Broke Internet Marketers…” Seriously, if I knew what the heck PGC stood for, you would definitely have a competitor, but at least im not thick so I can follow your formula and find something similar… Thanks

  2. admin February 11, 2009

    lol thanks for the comment man. the theory is simple and a lot of people seem to have missed it. if you can get 10 people to a site per day, build 10 sites and you have a hundred visitors per day. rinse repeat. even if you earned pennies a day from each of them, they all add up over time and pretty soon you have a good farm and plenty of passive income.

    some will make pennies a day, others dollars, and some hundreds. just keep on building up your empire and eventually you have enough to live off. and then some.

  3. zalds February 13, 2009

    Thanks for the comment you left in my blog.

    This strategy will surely work.. you just need to be persistent.

    basically the ingredient to earn big in adsense is to play by number. the more site you have the more chance you will receive adsense clicks. Its either you build 10 sites of $10 a day to achieve $100/ day or build 1 site that aiming for a $100 a day.. :) and don’t forget to SEO it.

    I’ve shared it here My Google Adsense Story

  4. admin February 13, 2009

    exactly zalds. it is simply a numbers game, and failing fast here is definitely applicable. seeing what doesn’t work fast will allow you to move on to try something new. start throwing out dozens of niche sites until you find something that works then scale up in the niche

  5. dimtim February 21, 2009

    Korr this is great info thank you. One thing though that this noob does not understand though… if pc gets 5400 and pg gets 1300 you say that is a combined 6700 by ranking #1 for both. however in your next examples you say that ranking #2 will yield 30 to 50% and #3 will give 0 to 30%. If those last examples are true than ranking #1 cannot yield the entire 6700, not to mention the ones that click the paid ads. I am sure that I misinterpreted this but, like I said, I am a beginner at this. Again, thanks for the insight.

  6. admin February 22, 2009

    good catch. The reality is this, it is estimated (no one but G knows for sure) that only about 50% of the searches hit #1. So even though I showed the full searches in my calculations, it was brutishly optimistic. I have read studies and reports alike that show #1 getting anything from 40-60% of the overall searches, #1 10-30% (aka 25-50% of the 40-60%), and so on. The numbers i showed after #1 were percentages of the realistic amount for #1. I should have been a bit more specific and rushed through the real world numbers. Good Catch :)

  7. ian March 24, 2009

    Hi. Why it is called Adsense farm? And how will your promote hundreds of the created websites?

  8. admin March 25, 2009

    this is called a farm because it is the smallest component. a single blog. were you to do this on a much larger scale (number of sites depends on the niche), you would then have multiple properties and this would be a full farm. This being a single site, it is only representative.

    How would you do this on a larger scale, like with hundreds? Well, there are two methods. the black hat and the gray hat. the black hat method has multiple tools and apps that let you manage sites. however, those tools tend to dupe content and/or look unreadable on inspection. I find that populating farm sites with syndicated content (think AMA) is far easier to pass inspection with, even if it takes more time. This would be the gray hat.

    now, considering you only want authority from these sites, it becomes very easy to manage over time as once they have been crawled and aged (3-6 months) they house the authority for a niche without having to rank. so posting once a week or even once a month will be enough to maintain their authority. Now when you introduce a money site you have dozens of farm sites that are aged, and trust (to a degree) that can boost your SERPs with a few links.