Adsense Revenue June Update And Google Deindexed My Site
July 22nd, 2009
Adsense Revenue – June
Having a load of things to do over the last 3 weeks including thinking about doing the 100 posts in 30 days challenge so I didn’t get round to posting an Adsense Revenue update for June. Although if I remember rightly I hinted that my Adsense earnings were on track for nearly $400 in a post towards the end of the month. As it turned out I actually broke through the $400 mark to get to a nice healthy income of $407 for the month which was a vast improvement on all previous months.
Google Deindexed My Site
A bit of a nightmare situation occurred for me at the beginning of this month when my best earning site was deindexed from Google. It was my oldest site that I originally build nearly a year ago, long before I had ever heard of the keyword academy or before it even existed for that matter. The site was in the loans niche starting to do really well thanks to all the keyword academy techniques I had learnt over the last few months but I has stupidly disregarded the need to modifying the site itself and concentrated on on getting it up the SERPs.
Well with good search engine results in such a competitive niche comes scrutiny from you competitors, one of whom obviously saw my site, decided it was a bit spammy and reported it to Google. The site was built in a manner that deserved to get it deindexed, a fact that is now clear to me. The keyword density was far too high on the home page and the navigation was crap. I had actually planned on changing it over from a static site to a wordpress blog but had become complacent because it was starting to make me some good money, around $150 in Adsense earnings last month.
Anyway that was a big hit to take and quite frankly I felt like I had just taken a huge step backwards in my quest to make money online. Losing your best earning site is no fun but it has taught me two things. Firstly, you have to stay on your toes and ensure that your sites can stand up to an inspection from a Google engineer and secondly, we have to diversify in this game and never put all your eggs in the one basket. Build a whole load of sites and monetize them in different ways. I’ll continue to build “Make Money With Adsense” sites but I’m also going to look into learning how extract the maximum from sites built for affiliate products.
As things have turned out it looks like I’m going make nearly the same this month as I did in June so feel like I’ve recovered a bit from the shock of the site deindexing. Other sites that I’ve built are starting to get traffic and therefore produce Adsense clicks and a little revenue. I’ve also put Amazon affiliate widgets on a few sites and one of them has had quite a few sales so things are looking up. Hopefully by next month I’ll see increased Adsense earnings again after this months small hiccup.
Well congrats on the earnings but sorry about the deindexing–that sucks! It makes me nervous that people can just report you like that.
M
Comment by M — July 22, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
Thanks M,
Yeah I was feeling pretty dejected for a couple of days with all my make money online efforts after that episode, but I kinda deserved it in a way. should really have been taking more care of my adsense sites to ensure that the were of a high enough quality to stand up to a visual inspection.
Does make me a bit paranoid now though that the adsense empire I’m now building could be toppled in one click of a mouse from someone at Google.
Anyway, lesson learned. I think all the new sites I’ve built since joining the keyword academy are good enough that they should cause any problems.
Comment by admin — July 22, 2009 @ 11:19 pm
I know the feeling and it’s a hard blow when Google decides to unindex you. Especially if you have no idea why they decided to do so.
Do you only work with Google AdSense or do you also spend time with affiliate marketing?
Comment by Stefan — August 2, 2009 @ 5:35 pm
I have to say that your adsence income is surprisingly good, giving me some inspiration for my own blog. I can’t believe that someone reported your website though, crazy!
Comment by Mark from order flavored coffee — August 3, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
Stefen, I started off putting Adsense on all my niche sites because that’s what they teach at the keyword academy but I been experimenting with affiliate marketing the last month with some pretty good results. Can see myself moving more towards affiliate stuff as time goes by.
Comment by admin — August 4, 2009 @ 9:11 am
My de-indexed websites are actually my biggest adsense earners, so don’t worry.
My sites that are indexed are my boggest affiliate earners, so a deindexed site still gets traffic from other search engines.
Comment by deindexed — August 21, 2009 @ 1:06 am
Glad that you took that de-indexing period in a positive way and improved your site, your competitor did more favor to you than any harm hehe
and taught you a lesson about how important it is to maintain your site layout and make sure never to exceed the keyword density.
And yeah one should keep exploring for other programs as well other than Adsense.
Comment by Audrey Ross from Coral Gables homes — September 30, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
I also had a site that got deindexed, it was always ranking 1-3 for a major buyer keyword, I did a bit of tweaking and it’s back to where it was. It ain’t your competition, it’s your content.
Comment by Internet Marketing Alchemy — January 6, 2010 @ 4:19 pm
It’s great that you managed your blog to old position. You will be happy to know that I got your blog in Google search. One good lesson for us – never put all your eggs in the one basket. I am agree with it.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Comment by Chandan from earn money online — February 2, 2010 @ 2:34 am