Top Five WordPress Themes For Adsense Blogs

When I first started to blog, I was a little intimidated by WordPress. It was my first time dealing with this software and I did not know a lot about HTML or CSS. I liked a lot of the themes available, but had no idea how to edit them to achieve the ideas in my head. Instead, i would spend hours going through themes on the official WordPress site. I looked through hundreds of them, downloaded dozens of them, and loaded them to my sites. Within a couple of days, I would become dissatisfied and eventually change to another  one that I found worked more to my liking. As time progresses, I became more familiar with WordPress, started reading the author and theme homepages trying to get a better understanding of what could be done within the WordPress design.

Now, it is a year later and I am still messing around with various WordPress themes and have narrowed down my list of my top five themes for use with Google Adsense blogs or any other blogsite.

Some key points first:

1. Try to stick with one theme – when choosing a WordPress theme, try to use one theme for all your sites, that way you can streamline the learning curve for each new theme and spend less time on design and more time blogging.

2. Choose a theme with a lot of customization – this goes along with the first rule. If you choose a theme with a lot of custom features, it is easy to change them to make ever site look unique while at the same time keeping your learning to just one theme.

3. Use only approved WordPress themes – I only get my themes from Wordpress.org because I know there is no hidden code that can mess with my Google Adsense or other things i am not familiar with.

4. Keep it simple stupid – until you understand how to change your WordPress theme around, stick to one simple theme that can get your blog up and running without to much hassle. There is always to change it later.

5. Don’t spend a lot of time on themes – look, I’ve spent way too much time messing with my themes. That is time I can use to work on making money with Adsense blogs. Choose a theme, leave it up for at least six months, and move on.

Number Five WordPress Theme for Adsense Blogs – SWIFT

Ease of customization is the key to any WordPress theme you plan on using over a long period of time. With a theme that has the ability to change the background, headers, columns, and layout goes a long way to maintaining original looking sites without having to keep learning the nuances of a new WordPress theme. Another important feature is the ability of a page to load fast.

SWIFT is just one of these themes. It comes right out the box as a SEO optimized, Adsense ready theme that features a magazine layout with a post slider and magazine layout. it is a great theme for those who like to have a powerful and easy to customize layout to maximize their CPC rate for Google Adsense. SWIFT also has a great community to help those who want to do more with this theme than just load and go.

Number Four WordPress Theme for Adsense Blogs- Arras Theme

Arras borrows its name from World of Warcraft and was originally designed to work as a blog for this market, but it has since evolved into a dynamic theme that works great with CPC campaigns and also affiliate marketing as you can have product showcases in the slideshow.

For those that are designing Adsense blogs designed to provide product reviews, the Arras Theme produces a very stylish design that rises high above the traditional blog and places it in the realm of a top-notch review site. It is a magazine style layout with various post layouts, a featured post slideshow, alternate styles and many other easy-to-use customizable features.

For those wanting a different look for their blog, Arras Theme is definitely the way to go. When I first used this theme, it was hard to change the header, but I believe this has changed. Check out the Arras themepage for more support.

Number Three WordPress Theme for Adsense Blogs- WP-Creatix

For those looking for a WordPress theme that is more business oriented, but still offering a stylish approach to Adsense blogs, then WP-Creatix might be theme to choose.

Maintaining the same level of customization as the other WordPress themes, Wp-Creatix has a Javascript drop-down menu and comes with pre-loaded with Lightbox portfolio plug-in and a customizable slideshow. The variations to this theme are almost limitless as it has a wide range of color options and looks really good right out the box.

I guess the biggest problem I have with WP-Creatix is the lack of support in English for this theme. It seems to be a German-language based design and I couldn’t find the proper help in changing the features I want. But for those that are familiar with CSS and HTML, especially as it relates to WordPress, then I would suggest using this theme.

Number Two WordPress Theme for Adsense Blogs- Suffusion

If it wasn’t for my liking of Constructor, then Suffusion would be my favorite theme. For a WordPress theme, Suffusion has a great degree of customization that allows for each of your Adsense blogs to have an unique look without having to learn a new theme. It has a fixed-width design that can include one, two, or three columns. It comes with ten pre-defined templates with over 16 different color schemes. It is loaded with extras like a featured post section, magazine layout, multi-level drop-down menus and built-in widgets for social networks like Twitter and Google translation. It also has a great community of support for those needing help tweaking Suffusion.

I would highly recommend Suffusion for those who want a dependable WordPress theme to use with all your websites.

Number One WordPress Theme for Adsense Blogs- Constructor

My favorite theme used to be Mystique (In fact, Mystique is used in this site.) I felt it had great easy-to-use customization and worked well with my Google Adsense campaigns. But for some reason, other than on this site, it loads unbearably slow. This can be a overall bad feature for any theme.

So, I went looking for another theme that I could use in all my websites. A while back, I downloaded Constructor but had found it too hard to work with. I have since changed my mind. I don’t know if this is due to my growing experience with WordPress or that they have updated the theme to make it more user friendly. Whatever the case may be, I have found Constructor to be one of the best themes to use on my Adsense blog sites.

Two features i look for in a good WordPress theme is the ability to change the header and background image. A blog site can look exponentially original by just changing these two features. Constructor not only has the ability to change these but has a feature to layer images for all areas including the footer, sidebars and inside the posts. Constructor has tons of customizable features to make every blog unique and different without the user having to know a lot of HTMl or how to alter CSS. I would suggest Constructor for anyone who has some experience playing around with WordPress.

Google Adsense Is Not The Only Game In Town

Let’s face it, sometimes Google sucks. I know it is the premiere place to make money online through Google Adsense and through their search engine listings, but if Google gets a bug up it’s butt about your site, it is either sent to the sandbox or to the grave without you even getting a chance to defend your site. Once their bots have given your blog a negative pass, you are screwed.

It is definitely a hypocrisy as Google will take money for ads that they will not allow sites to post content for them like male enhancement or poker sites. Also, they take money for sites that promote make money through Google Adsense, but will not let you run ads for this same information. In the last year, I have had several sites that Google has either banned or just straight hit them with public service ads without allowing any response from my end.

So this led me in search of other CPC style campaigns that work similiar to Google Adsense by allowing me to make money online without having to wait for affiliate commissions.

Two that I have found to work quite well are InfoLinks and AdBrite.

Other Ways To Make Money Online: Infolinks Review

If you have several blogs dedicated to making money online through SEO and CPC marketing, then InfoLinks might be another way to monetize your blogs. While you will not make as nearly as much as a good Google Adsense keyword-driven blog, the steady nickels and dimes do add up. Currrently, I am averaging between a dollar or two a day with InfoLinks on top of other ads like Adsense or AdBrite.

if you are not familiar with InfoLinks, chances are you have already bumped into their underlined tags on sites you have visited. with InfoLinks, little sticky notes pop up when you hover over underlined words within your blogs. By clicking on these, you are then directed to the website listed in the pop-up and you get a some CPC change for the visit. Your blog can be covered with a dozen of these links per page or just a couple and you can customize where you want them to appear.

What is great about InfoLinks is that it can supplement whatever ad campaign you are running whether it is Google Adsense, AdBrite, or affiliate links because these little links run within your blog and do not take up valuable space used by banners or squares. Plus, if you link InfoLinks through PayPal or their pre-paid Mastercard, your payout threshold is fifty dollars instead of the industry standard of 100 bucks.

Other Ways To Make Money Online: AdBrite Review

Another source of monetization is AdBrite. AdBrite works in similar ways as Google Adsense and InfoLinks as it has banners, squares and in-text advertising, but also AdBrite offers those great annoying page fades that pop up occasionally when visiting a site. With Adbrite, you can choose to use all three or pick and choose which methods you want to use for each site.  So far, I have had no problem placing banners on sites that Google has disapproved of (i.e. poker sites, male enhancement, Adsense blogs) but I wouldn’t try to use AdBrite if you make porn sites.

Also, some might take offense to the site fades, so it all depends on what type of audience you expect on your site. So far, I have not earned any real money with Adbrite, but is does have a nice feature that rates your traffic and I still don’t have it up on all my sites. On this site, Adsense Blog For Beginners, i use both InfoLinks and AdBrite since Google has slapped me on the wrist.

Since discovering these CPC sites, i have run across others and will be experimenting with them throughout 2010. If you have any experience with these or other monetizing options, please share your comments.

My First Year Trying to Make Money Blogging

It has been close to a year now that I started trying to make money online blogging. Since then, I have been a negligent father to all my websites and have left most in a state of disrepair. i now own over twenty-five domains and I can only say that there are only a couple that I am satisfied with right now. I have not made any serious money doing this, but I have to say the fault is my own and not in the methods that are taught by people like Griz or Court. Had I stuck with it all year, I am sure I would have had a decent head start in earning a living make money through blogging and Google Adsense.

So far, I have earned around 300 dollars through Google Adsense, affiliates, and other source of monetization like Adbrite and Infolinks. I will be writing a review on these two sites, so just follow this link to learn more.

Now, 300 bucks doesn’t seem like a lot, but that is all passive income; I mean really passive income because I have largely ignored my sites over the year. In fact, some of my sites have no Google Adsense on them at all because i chose to either remove the ads due to lack of quality in the site or that Google chose to ban the site from ads. (Like this site!!)

But overall, i feel that in 2010, I can take the valuable experiences from the last year and help make my sites grow bigger and more profitable.

Some Advice on Blogging and The Mistakes I Learned From

The first thing I got to say about trying to make money blogging is that you can’t be afraid to fail. You can’t spend all your time searching for answers to your questions and reading every blog possible before you try something. You just have to jump in and prepare to fall on your feet. Look, I have made dozens of mistakes over the last year from simple editing errors with WordPress to having subpoenas served on me for copyright infringement, so i can say I am an expert on errors. i have had sites that Google has removed their ads from and I have had some articles pulled off of sites because they violate rules of content. I have posted duplicate content, scraped websites for information and just plain put together crappy sites. But in all this, I learned to make nice sites that can make money while at the same time offering exclusive well-written and SEO styled writing.

Here is a couple of pointers about making money blogging:

1. Learn to maximize your time

Over the course of blogging, you are going to write and rewrite hundreds of articles unless you are lucky and have the money to outsource your work. I am one of those unlucky bastards who has to make all my own content for not only my Adsense blog sites but for my link sites and other places i have to submit content. I used to write all my blogs in Word and then transfer them into WordPress, but have since stopped this habit.

Mozilla Firefox has a built-in spellchecker which works perfectly well with the spellchecker that is built-in to WordPress. With these two features, there is no need to write your work in Word, then transfer to WordPress. In fact, almost all of your blogging can be done in the formats that most blog sites come with. Ezine, HubPages, and Squidoo allow you to just type way right into the editing tools to design your blogs.

You have to understand that you are a blogger now, not a writer. The difference is that you must learn to just push out the content with lightning fast speed and shave off time by constantly transferring and storing files in different areas. You should write your blog as a draft and go back later to edit it, but you should not be spending an extreme amount of time trying to get it perfect.

Also, you must limit the amount of time you spend reading blogs. yes, it is good to read some blogs to get information and tips on how to make money online through blogging, on the latest on Google Adsense, and tips on how to get the best SEO for your site. These things need to be done in moderation and should only take up about 5% of the time you use to develop your blogs.

2. Have a Game Plan

Before you decide to make money through blogging, make sure you have an idea of what your expectations are. You are not going to get rich overnight. You need to put in the legwork, lots of legwork if you plan on making a living through Google Adsense blogging or any other from of affiliate programs. You need to decide how much time each day you are going to assign to this project, how many sites are you going to start with, and what keywords do you feel are the right ones to build your blogs behind.

You got to make sure you do not get to far ahead of yourself and make sure your sites are supporting your costs.

This should be your first goal. All your sites should be making back the costs you spend on maintaining them. If you only spend ten dollars a year on the domain and ten dollars a month for hosting, then your Adsense blogs must recoup this cost or you need to rework them. if you are outsourcing your work, then this expense must also be added into the projections for your site. If your blog is not making money after a year, then you must either rework the site or move on.

My game plan this year is that each site must make double its cost in 2010. We will see how that goes.

3. Don’t Get Ahead of Yourself

This was my biggest mistake. Before I had successfully developed my first Adsense blog, I was already buying up other domains. Before I knew it, I had already own over twenty domains and did not have the time or energy to work on any of them. The good news is that these sites now have a little age on them and they shouldn’t be too hard to monetize. The bad news is it gave me an overwhelming feeling of burn out when it came to working on them.

When you first start, I would suggest that you do not buy more than five domains for Adsense blogging and wait and build these sites for six months before getting more. Just keep your research in keywords and use this knowledge to expand your base. If anything, write blogs on these keywords for sites like HubPages or Squidoo and use these links later to build your new sites.

4. Understand Your Limitations

i think most of all, you got to understand exactly what you are capable of doing. if you have very little experience writing or working with webpages, then you should start off small and simple. Find one nice keyword that you feel will make money with Google Adsense while at the same time not completely bore you to death and build a simple Wordpress around this keyword. Work with HubPages, play around with Squidoo, submit to Ezine, and just build your links while at the same time doing some reading of SEO tips and read up on the themepages for other WordPress themes to get an idea of what is capable.

Building blogs for making money with Google Adsense is not just about passive income but it is also passive education. The more you work with the blogs, the more you learn, the more you know, and pretty soon, you will find yourself giving advice in the same way you were seeking it in the beginning.

Adsense Blog Reviews

So, i don’t know if you are like me, but I got a bad habit. I got to be constantly checking things. I got to check my Google Adsense, my Analytics, my HubPages ranks, my Squidoo lenses and my Statcounter. I try to tell myself to stop, to leave these things alone, but I always have to know.

The same hold true for my Google ranking for my sites.

That’s where PageRanker for Firefox comes in handy. You can get the download at tools.seobooks.com.

If you don’t use Firefox for some of your Adsense blog work, then I suggest downloading the search engine. Besides having a built-in spell checker and other features, you can download two of the most useful SEO tools like Rank Checker and SEO for Firefox.

Before I started using Rank Checker, I used to manually go through Google and look for my Adsense blog sites. If you own multiple sites, this can be a tiring and exhaustive search. With Rank Checker, it solves this problem by searching for targeted keywords related to your websites.

All you have to do is put in your URL and list a bunch of keywords you are tracking. Rank Checker can not only check Google and their other sites like Google UK, but it also tracks Yahoo and whatever other search engine you put in the options.

What is great is you can then save your search and try it again at anytime without having to reenter any information. You can also constantly add to your lists and track multiple websites.

Rank Checker can also be used to check the competitiveness of keywords on sites like HubPages and Squidoo by just typing in the URL of the site and the keywords you are targeting. Rank Checker will then list the highest available site in ranking for that keyword if one is ranking. This is a great way to see if any new keyword that you are trying to make a hub or lens for has any competition and if you are able to beat its ranking.

So, if you are like me and waste a lot of time worrying about your numbers, Rank Checker helps eliminate some of that waste, but in the end, only you can stop checking your numbers on your Adsense blogs to see if you are truly making money online.

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.

Two months?

Three months?

Six months?

Depending on how much time you put in to your Adsense blogs, it could take up to a year before you see any significant income coming in from your websites. Also, if you think that you are going to make a million dollars from one website, then you’ve been buying into the wrong philosophies of making money online.

You can go and try those other methods, but I guarantee that you will quit trying long before you even make a buck.

Why?

Because most of those other methods involve having money to invest in advertising, viral marketing, and website promotion, and most people who are trying to make an income online don’t have too much extra money in the first place.

To most people who start out making a blog for Adsense, it is usually a hobby on the side while they maintain a real job and a real life. They only have a few hours a day, maybe a week to spend on this endeavor, maybe only a few dollars to invest.

If you are one of these types, then learning to make Adsense ready blogs is the way to start because a year down the road, you could have a regular source of income coming in that requires very little maintenance.

Adsense Blog Basics

You don’t need to know a lot of coding or have a real great grasp of what exactly Adsense blogs are to start getting our first blog up and running.

The key is in knowing where to go and look for advice and help. The Google Adsense blog community is a very supportive bunch of people and there are plenty of forums out there that have knowledgeable people to help you along.

As I have stated, and will always state, the best place to start is with Court’s Crash Course and the Keyword Academy.

This is a grass roots, basic style of learning that appeals to anyone who has no idea where to begin. There are several schools of learning out there for making money with an Adsense blog, and Court and Mark’s teaching are the best because there are no convoluted confusing marketing theories, just a no nonsense brass tacks style of teaching. Plus, they have a proven record of what they teach, have been through the ups and downs, have made mistakes, and bring all this experience to their students.

If you are serious about learning about Adsense blogs, I would start with their websites and spend a week getting familiar with all that is involved in this concept.

Making Money With Google Adsense Blogs

The truth is there is money out there to be made making Adsense blogs, but 90% of those who try don’t make any money.

Why?

Because they either don’t spend the right amount of time on their blogs, or they do the wrong things.

It is real easy to want to find shortcuts or skip steps, but all this will do is hurt your chances of making money, and money is the reason you are making blogs for Adsense.

There is no easy way around it. Getting your sites up and running takes some work, especially if you are building multiple sites.

Plus, Google is always changing their algorithms to help weed out the garbage sites, so now, your Adsense blogs need to look better than they had in the past.

So, plan on devoting a good amount of time getting your sites up, but the key is once your sites are producing they need very little maintenance to keep earning money.

Adsense Blog Beginnings

After you have a grasp of what is going on, then it is a good idea to build yourself a business plan for your Adsense blogs. Also, it is necessary to start a timeline on your websites, because you don’t want to do things too quickly. These sites need to mature at a natural level or else Google will recognize your sites as useless attempts at making money with Adsense blogs.

You need to make sure that your sites are informative and have sense of identity and longevity. This might cost you some money in your Cost Per Click rate, but in the long run, your sites will be stand up as real legitimate sources of information.

I would advise having at least five hundred dollars at first to invest in making Adsense ready blogs. The model for this article series involves having that amount. You can start off with less, but you will have a lot more work to do. I started out with less and wish I now had done it differently.

You want to start with ten domains for Adsense blogs. Having ten domains is a good round number, and later on you want to have twenty, fifty, maybe a hundred, but for now we will focus on ten.

Some people suggest you buy them for two years, other suggest that one is fine. In this model, we are going for the one year option as this is an experiment in money making and you don’t want to spend too much if it doesn’t work for you.

Now, you should already have a few good choices in keywords chosen for your Google Adsense blogs.  If you can find a few profitable ones that a closely related, that will help you build your sites faster, so try to find at least five that are on the same subject or are loosely related. The other five can be on anything, or another group of related keywords.

Ideally, you want two or three groups of related keywords for your Adsense blog sites. This will come in handy when you buy multiple host servers that way you can give each sites some valid link juice from your won sites.

So, at this point you should buy two or three host servers. Make sure they are not on the same network as your domains in case there is ever an issue with your sites and you have to move them. It is easier to move if they do not share this relationship.

So, at this point you should have ten domains, three host servers, and lot of work to do.

Adsense Blogs – The First Month

During this period, you should be focusing on content and some nice solid links slowly. Do not rush your link building at this point. You want your sites to look clean and informative without looking like spammy blogs that are targeting Google Adsense.

Your first month should be concentrated in putting some significant content on these sites. Also, you should have a Gmail account. This will help in getting Adsense up and running on your site down the line. Google loves its relationships with people and the longer your account has been with them, the quicker it seems they will approve your Adsense blog.

When you have chosen your keywords and have your domains, place related ones on separate host servers. Like, I said, this will help with link building in the future.

Now, when you choose your Wordpress themes, try to stay away from the truly plain styles. Some in the Adsense blog industry say that how your site looks doesn’t matter, but Google has recently changed the way they look at these sites. You want your site to have color and multimedia. This does hurt your CPC, but will not hurt your longevity as a legitimate site.

Also, stick to the themes on Wordpress.org. These themes have to be approved and I find the ones on other sites might look cool; they have a lot of errors that can hurt your website in the long run. Pick a theme that looks good and also has a author page with instructions and a forum for help. Later on, when you become more confident with HTML and web building, you are going to want to change your blog around and it helps if the Wordpress theme has a built in support page.

The rest of your fist month will be concentrating on content. Some Adsense blog gurus say just put up the minimum five pages, but like I said, Google has tightened up on those who want to make blogs for Adsense. Your websites should now have at least ten blogs with pictures, video, and any other content that attracts readers.

I know this seems like a lot of writing to do, but at this point you should be outsourcing your work. A good place to get cheap original articles is at textbroker.com. Articles around 400 words cost below 5 bucks.

You should make at least two rewrites of most of your articles for submitting to Ezinearticles.com and HubPages.com.

These should also be the only sites that you are submitting your articles for links in your first month of site design.

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.

I know now that there are not enough hours in the day to build all my Adsense blogs. I now own about fourteen domains and they are all over the place in levels of completion. Some of them still have that great “Hello World” sticking out at there for all to see. Not to mention that I have a hard time sleeping at night because of all the damn caffeine I drink all day and my family has demands, too. I really wish they would learn how to cook and that my son would change his own diapers.

It is real easy to get burned out doing this making money online thing especially if you have to write your own material. Someday, in the near future, I plan on outsourcing my Adsense blog articles, but right now I can’t afford it. I am trying to convince John (remember him as my great source of keywords) to invest so that I can buy thirty more websites and outsource the articles to undeveloped countries that speak broken English.

Oh, those great entrepreneur dreams.

So far, John is skeptical and wants to see me make more than five bucks a week. Yes, I have already made five dollars from Google Adsense, and I am trying to convince him that I have barely done five percent of the work necessary to building a steady income from my Adsense blog sites. He is not buying in to my money making system, yet, but I believe he will come around.

I have a mountain of work ahead of me, and I am glad that I have no life or I would have given up by now. Building blogs to target Google Adsense is an endurance test and I am glad it is because it helps eliminate the competition, and the bonus is when you do start to make money those already in the game make one of the friendliest communities to be involved in. Over at the Keyword Academy, there is a great community forum where even Court will add his opinion on a regular basis. They also have a cool ranking system that ranks those in the community by how much they make a month. These members must submit reports to be ranked, so that you know when you ask someone for advice they have actually made money and aren’t blowing smoke up your ass. If you are not part of the Keyword Academy, then you really don’t want to make money through Adsense blogging.

I’ve made mistakes and learned from them in the last two weeks. I really feel like I am in an elite group that gets the real deal of making money online.

Here are a few things I feel that are important to mention.

1.       Get Organized- Start making Excel sheets and keep track of your work

2.       Work on each website in rotation- Write a blog, then a Ezine, a HubPage, a Squidoo, etc. for a site, then move on to the next one.

3.       Read less, Work more- it is important to read blogs and find new info, but this should never take more than 10% of your time.

4.       Build them links- this can never be stressed enough

Remember, this an income that has low maintenance down the line, but for now, you got to put in the work.

So my first week went by quickly. I watched all the tutorials, bought several domains, and started posting content. So after spending some time with my girlfriend and my son, some time decompressing from spending sixteen hour days on the computer, it was time to get back into my Adsense blogs and to learn how to make money writing online.

Part of Court’s teachings is that you start to submit articles to Ezineartilces.com and eventually to HubPages.  Well, these two sites can be extremely helpful to building links, but each is completely different in the way they operate.

First, though, you want to make sure you are submitting original content to these sites.  I made a mistake of submitting duplicate content and it ended up costing me a big headache in the long run. For one, it affects your rating on HubPages and secondly, it slows down your articles from being posted at Ezine. Also, don’t use an article spinner. It is best to write new articles for these sites or you will just be wasting your time.

Now, with Ezine you will be getting some solid links with a decent amount of traffic to your Adsense blog. But if you want to post there and not buy premium membership and want to see your posts up by Friday, make sure you submit your articles earlier in the week. Ezine reviews every article before it is accepted, which can take a few days, not counting weekends. If you plan on using this website to help with your Adsense blogging, I would make sure you have the patience to deal with them

Now, over on HubPages, your articles go up immediately and you can earn money from their Google Adsense, but this site has a popularity style of posting and you have to keep your pages in the high ranks or they shut off your links. I have yet to earn a penny from them.

The other thing I am focusing on is exchanging links. This is a very important step in building up your Adsense blog sites. Now, most people seem to have trouble getting links, but I have had at least a 50% success rate in trying to get these contacts. Well, for one, I used Grizzly’s niche support and Keyword Academy instead of asking random people on the internet. I don’t see a point in sending out a bunch of emails to people that might not be in the same making money online business. Who knows if they are ever going to respond?

At least with niche support, even those that don’t want to help at least send me an email in acknowledgement. If you are trying to build links, then you should stick to your own kind.

So, I do a lot of surfing looking for more ways to make money online other than through Adsense blogs or I am looking for ways to piggy back what I have already learned.

When I do come across something that interests me, I have two philosophies. The first is I am not going to pay for information unless I can find it free somewhere else.  Second, I am just not going to pay for anything period.

Well, I will shell out a couple of dollars if I think it might have value. And I do mean only a couple of dollars.

I only paid one dollar to Court for his Keyword Academy program. I know that it will now cost me another 33 bucks a month to continue to receive Adsense blogging content, but I know the value of what I am paying for and it is well worth the expense.

I also only shelled out ten bucks to look into Project Payday and that was to buy a domain I was going to buy anyway.

The point is I am not going to fall for high end get rich schemes that want a big payoff no matter how many Google Adsense checks they show me.

The main reason for this is that no matter how successful they may have become, that does not translate into how successful I will become. I think this is an important fact that people should consider when trying to get into the business of making money online.

Sure, people make money. But are you? Is what they pitching going to work for you?

Just like screenplays sell for millions of dollars, and thousands of people write crappy screenplays that never sell, there are online systems o f making money that only work for certain people.

So, as I stated, I was online, looking for more good info on Adsense blogging and I came across The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript by Mike Filsaime.

I am sure you have seen this ad all over the place about how rich he got doing this and that and how he can teach it to you for big bucks. Well, I am always skeptical about someone who makes millions of dollars already trying to get my dollars.

But I was curious. I have the bug now. I want to know all the secrets from this end.

But I wasn’t going to shell out the big bucks.

As I stated in the past, I have been to the seediest darkest corners of the internet, back when there was a place called Lucifer’s Top Hundred that listed some of the worst sites on the web. Some of those dark corners are gone, but I still know how to traverse the muddy waters of the internet and get what I need.

So, I stumbled across a password protected copy of the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript. Then I tripped over the password and looked inside.

I got to tell you that reading Nietzsche is easier to follow then this piece of utter nonsense. This book is full of marketing theory but never does it give you practical hands-on material.

I am a meat and potatoes person.

I want it broken down in the simplest terms.

Not because I am an idiot, but because I don’t ever want to have to ask you a question about what it is you are trying to tell me.

I never have to call the shampoo company and ask them to explain lather, rinse, and repeat.

I don’t have to get customer service to understand how to cook a TV dinner.

So, I don’t expect to shell out several hundred dollars on a product that doesn’t show me step-by-step how to make a million dollars making money online.

That’s why I ended up going with Court’s plan. Everything is broken down into simple to follow instructions and he never promised me I would be rich.

He just told me I would not be sleeping for the next six months because I would be up all night typing mini blogs and learning just what it does take to make a living with Google Adsense.

So please stay away from the Butterfly Effect unless you have money to invest and understand jinky rip-off marketing plans.

And if you do happen to bump into that copy in a dark alley, tell him, “my manuscript” to get in.