My Plans for Adsense Blogging in 2010

Nothing gets your blood boiling and your fingers tapping away at the keys then when your websites come up for renewal. I may have been slow (almost turtle slow) from putting in the work on my blogs for the second half of 2009, but when I got a noticed that it was time to pay the piper to keep my blogsites I realized it was time to reevaluate my Adsense blogging.

I had to look at the disaster I created for myself and then decide what to do with all these sites I own.

You see, over the last year, I bought close to thirty domains, all with the intention of monetizing them to make money through Google Adsense and other sources of income. While my vision and plans were high, I didn’t consider two factors.

One, that life happens.

Two, that burn out happens.

Life Goes On While You Try to Make Money Blogging

Of anyone deciding to start blogging and blogging for the sake of making money online, then you must understand this saying. In fact, develop it as a mantra and mumble it day in and day out, especially when you decide it is time to research some new keywords and put more time into blogging.

No matter what your goal is or plans are for your websites, life just sometimes takes over. I have a newborn who is now one year old, I have gone back to college, so has my girlfriend, and our house that we live in had hung on the edge of foreclosure. These things have taking priority over putting in time to develop my Adsense blogsites. I have had very little time, or effort to put in the maintenance, the linkbuilding, and just the overall work to develop these sites into primo Googl;e Adsense real estate.

Over the last year, i have left a trail of destruction across the web of unfinished blogsites, quickly thrown up hack jobs, and URLs parked with nothing but Apache listings showing up when clicked on. Most of my main blogs have gone into the Internet Wastelnads, My HubPages have not reached my goal of 100, and my Squidoo lenses are cracked.

In general, I have created a mess of my plans to make money online and have just let my online real estate grow weeds.

Burned Out on Blogging

When I first started blogging to make money with Google Adsense, I was enthusiastic. It was a new, exciting frontier and I was putting in close to eighteen hours a day doing research on keywords, deciphering Wordpress themes, and just writing tons and tons of content for my blogs and link sites. I quickly saw the cents begin to trickle in on my Adsense ads and I felt I was going in the right direction. But soon, I became suffered from burn out because I now had more sites then I knew what to do with and could not afford to outsource my work.

So, I started avoiding my responsibilities to my blogs. Several, I just could not touch at all. Most have not received any new content in months and I have even bought more URls to compound the work I was already avoiding. Eventually, I decided that i was through with blogging for awhile and pulled out my subscriptions to several sites and pulled my Google Adsense from most of my sites because I was afraid Google might sandbox these sites.

Time went on, my sites began to earn very little money but i was still get a few dollars a month through monetized sites that still had Google Adsense, Adbrite, and Infolinks. I went about pursuing other interests and would occasionally look over my blogs to see if there was hope,

Then, a few weeks ago, i started receiving E-mails that my websites were coming up for renewal. I was like, “Wow, a year has gone by already?” and now I had to decide what to do with these sites.

Should I keep them?

Should I let them go?

Getting Back On Track Making Money Online

So I had to make a decision. I really thought about just quitting, but then I thought about all the work I have done so far on my sites. It would be a waste to let that all go. I just needed to my a plan this time and stick to it. I had learned a lot over the last year about making blogs, learning SEO, and just a lot about the world of monetization, Google Adsense, and the Internet in general. I was now a veteran blogger with hundreds of hours dedicated to putting my words on the World Wide Web. It was time to get back on the horse.

So, now it is 2010 and I am back in the game. I have decided to give all my websites a new look since I have learned a lot about customizing Wordpress, to add fresh new content and links, to get back into blogging on a regular basis and to see what 2010 holds for me in the world of blogging.

The Adsense Blogging World

So, I am now a two-month veteran of the I Survived Two Months In The Adsense Blogging World community. I say I am a veteran and no longer a newbie, because it has been a hard fought battle to get to this point. I have learned a lot, made several mistakes, some huge, mostly small, but most of all I had to switch my perspective as a writer.

I started this by writing what I knew and what I was comfortable with. I now find myself writing about things I have absolutely no interest in, nor any previous knowledge about just to try to make money with Google adsense. I am writing huge 1000 word plus epics on the most mundane and boring things in the world.

Why?

Because these things are popular and these things have high Cost Per Click rates.

Adsense Blogging and the CPC Killer

In the world of making money online and especially writing blogs for Adsense, you are going to find that you are eventually going to battle with who you are and what you think you know against who you need to be.

Who did I think I was?

An amateur writer who has a damn opinion about everything and anything. I would scan the Internet and write about the stuff that I thought mattered like Michael Jackson’s funeral and my opinion on stuff I knew about like dogs.

Was this going to make me any real money?

I wasn’t sure. I was writing to appease a social audience and it my first two months I has over 20,000 page views, but they only translated into less than sixty dollars in money.

I also started writing for other people which made me around a hundred dollars in that same time period. The crap I wrote for other people ranged from how to get rid of ingrown toenails to how to choose the best wine refrigerator.

During this time of writing other people’s articles, i had an epiphany.

I am writing the wrong types of Adsense blogs. I needed to stop writing about what people are searching for because they might buy it, but what people are trying to find information about before they spend money.

I had finally understood the difference.

Hubpages and Adsense Blogs

So, over the last several months, I had written about 44 useless HubPage Adsense blogs that got very little traffic and made almost no money.

I was about to give up on HubPages completely when I noticed Court having a webinar that broke down exactly what he did.

So, with bated breath and a new outlook on what I was doing, I watched his webinar and decided to do it exactly as he suggested.

That is usually how I screw up. I see how people want me to do it and I kind of go off in my own direction.

And over the last two months, I have gone off in so many directions. I’ve spent time on hubs, bought close to twenty domains, fooled around with Squidoo and basically left a long trail of half-used toys dangling all over the Internet.

My Third Month in the Adsense Blog World

What’s going to happen in my third month?

It is time to tidy up all my little messes. It’s time to go back over my Adsense blogging websites and clean up all the crappy blogs. It’s time to polish up those lenses and to actually put some work on websites that are sitting there looking empty.

You see, I have finally developed a pattern to creating my Adsense blogs and I am going to use it for all my pages.

My goal is to finally make a hundred dollars in one month.

Wish me luck.

And I am now happy to be one of the soldiers on the front line, toiling day and day, night after night, caffeine surging through my body, a draw full of empty candy wrappers, and a half empty jar of pickles standing on my tower.

What am I talking about, gang?

I’ve decide to join the Hub Challenge. That’s right, if it is bad enough that I am designing eight sites at once, that I just recently had a baby (well, not me, my girl did), and that my bladder seems to want to empty every twenty minutes, so now I have to go and post 100 hubs in thirty days.

I am wondering if I can get an IV of coffee going and a catheter shoved in my . . .

Well, enough of my wishes. If any of you are a members of the Keyword Academy, then you received an article by Mark and Court about their crazy idea to write a whole bunch of articles to see their rankings go up on HubPages and see what kind of income can come in for their Adsense Blogs.

Well, this idea has blossomed into an all out challenge to bloggers everywhere to create content to add to Hub Pages and see who generates the most revenue for their blogs.

It is a crazy hare-brained idea that has its own group of nutcases, and I am one of them.

So, there are some rules here. You don’t want to submit a bunch of articles you have everywhere else. I started too, and I think it is the only place I don’t agree with Court, or misunderstood his teachings, when it comes to duplicate submissions. I have also run into some snags at Exinearticles.com. You see, I am a prolific writer, but I hate rewriting an article, especially to submit to another website. So, my dumb butt goes ahead and submits duplicates to HubPages to jump start my one hundred and then I find out this is the wrong approach to using HubPages.

So that means, as an Adsense blogger, I either need to rework my pieces or make sure from the beginning to use new material.

Well, I’m gonna write about 100 Dogs. That’ll show ‘em.

So, Now, I am a little behind in the race due to these damn duplicates, but I still have 28 days left and I can do this.

To infinity and beyond.

So I get this really great idea for a website based on some jinky things I know about a former employer. I go snooping into using his name as a keyword search and I come back with internet gold as the keyword is worth over ten bucks a click. So, I go and get in my Adsense blog mode, ready to rip and run while listening to Eminem’s new album. I start searching for domain names, get my site hosted, run my super dopalicious Fantastico Deluxe and then get through my configurations. Within an hour, I got a new site and ready for some content.

Well, I got the front end of this making money with Adsense business down. I can get a new website up in a day with basic content, ready to hit the road running on all cylinders. So, this new Adsense blog now becomes my main focus since I have some deep arcane knowledge about this subject. So, I’m slinging content like Mc Donald’s slings Mc Nuggets, blasting my site with some nice stuff. Then, I start throwing some articles to Ezine, start jumping on some trade secrets over at KWA, and start getting some decent links going. Within a couple of days, my site has quickly jumped into the top ten on Google and I started pouring more time into the website.

Now, I’m not using any jinky methods of link building but putting in some serious hours at building some of my sites. Well, I guess Google doesn’t quite understand the difference between my hard work and others who buy links.

I wake up today and my new blog site has disappeared from the top ten. It’s not even in the top hundred. It has completely disappeared from that keyword listing. I thought it was a mistake. I kept checking back, but it is not there. So, I heard all this talk about getting sandboxed and looked into it.

Well, I think my site is now sitting in some kitty litter waiting for a nice friendly pooper scooper to put it back in Google. I should have stuck with the teachings of Court and let the site marinate for a minute. But I got too excited for my new Adsense Blog site and wanted it to prosper quickly. Now, its flat lining and I hope someday to resuscitate before I have to pull life support.

But it taught me a valuable lesson. I need to slow down on my link building and let my site get some age and wisdom.

I sure know I need some.

I can’t sleep at night.

My girlfriend keeps getting mad at me for getting up at 6 A.M. and sneaking off to the back house for hours.

But I can’t help it.

I’m hooked.

It’s now my fourth day and I own three domains relating to dogs. According to the Court’s Potential Formula, they should all net me around a hundred bucks a month when I get them ranked. Now, I just got to get them hosted.

Look, I’ve been using the internet for over ten years and I am sad to say that I have never owned a domain nor had a website hosted. I never knew the proper way to go about it and was a little lazy to learn. When HTML was in its early days, I did okay, but then those damn Cascading Style Sheets went over my head and I left websites to the rest of the world. So, when I ran into Court’s course I was a little hesitant about starting a website.

But, that is why I advise watching all the videos first and make sure you understand everything that you are going to have to do. I’m lucky right now. I don’t have a life and the state is taking care of my needs. I got all day to do this since I quit wasting my time playing World Of Warcraft. Now, besides designing website for making money with Google Adsense, I need to figure out how to sell my WOW account E-Bay. Anyone looking for a level 80 Death Knight with some epic gear?

The point I’m trying to make is that while I am very internet savvy, I have also been internet asleep, wasting my time, sometimes days, on the internet doing things that didn’t make me a lick of money.

I’ve done the gambling, the late night backdoor adult pass hacks, the massively multiplayer life sucking games, and now I’ve moved on to trying to make a buck online.

So, I went to HostGator, and spent the money to buy one of those unlimited packs for like eight bucks a month. Figure in the price of the three domains for two years each and I have already invested about seventy dollars into my plans to become a millionaire with Google Adsense blogging.

Well, you can’t make money unless you spend money.

At this point, gang, Hostgator is going to send you an email with your new host server numbers. When you get this email, you need to go back to the website where you bought your domains and change the name servers. All this is in Court’s tutorials.

The only thing I got to add is that when you buy another domain, and you will, make sure you go to your Cpanel page and add the subdomain before you change the name servers or you will end up like me.

I spent an hour talking to someone in India about how I can’t access my site because someone else is sitting there already.

My girlfriend started complaining about wanting some quality time together, wanting to eat, wanting to shower, and something about a baby that I don’t talk to anymore.

Doesn’t he understand? I’m trying to build his future.

I woke up this morning and turned my computer on, went and took care of the essentials like putting the kids in the pool, and came back to find that I was ranked fourth for a keyword search on Google for Adsense Blog for Beginners.

I couldn’t believe it.

It was an amazing feeling, I’ll tell ya. It made me feel like this stuff I am doing might actually work, that my hard work is paying off, and that I might soon become a millionaire.

Okay, I got a little carried away there.

First, the keyword that I searched for is not the main one I am aiming for.

Second, the keyword that I ranked in isn’t making any money right now.

So, you’re saying, Crowbar, why are you so happy that you ranked in a keyword that doesn’t make any money?

Because, I’m happy to see results.

Sometimes, it just feels good to see that what you are working on has the potential to do what you are trying for.

Did ya get that?

It can be frustrating starting something new, and not knowing if it is ever going to pay off. You can go weeks, months, dreaded years and never know if you are headed in the right direction.

When I started working on an Adsense blog a week ago, I had no idea if any of this works. Hell, I still don’t. But by seeing my page listed in Google, I know I am on the right track.

And that is important.

This site is hardly up and running (barely two days old), I’ve developed no solid backlinks, haven’t put in barely five percent of the work necessary to accomplish the goal set out by Court’s teachings, and I am seeing that it is possible to rank in Google if you put in the work.

So, I kissed my girlfriend, kissed the baby, kissed the dogs, kissed the grandma, and tried kissing my girlfriend’s sister’s boyfriend but he put up his fists. He doesn’t believe in bromance before his morning Cocoa Krispies. I did this because I feel that I am heading in the right direction trying to make money with Google Adsense. I feel my life has purpose. I feel like King Kong ain’t got nothing on me.

Okay, I went too far again.

Look, I don’t know if this will ever work, I don’t know if I’m excited for nothing, but it just feels good to have a little victory.

Now, it’s time to go have a victory breakfast.