how to make money with adsense

I haven’t bothered writing anything for this blog recently as I’ve been too busy trying to make money with adsense on my other sites which are showing signs of making progress. For May I made a record $170 in adsense earning which is well behind where I want to be but was an improvement. Things are definitely looking up this month though and I’m target to make well over $300, if things continue as well as they have so far then I should be looking at closer to $400. The rate at which my adsense money is increasing is definitely something I am quite happy with although we always want things to progress faster than they do.

I can say quite honestly that the vast majority of the reason for any advances I have made over the last 2 months in my quest to make money online have been from joining the Keyword Academy where I have learnt an incredible amount not just from Court and Mark but also from the many helpful members who make the forum a great place to increase your make money online knowledge.

I’ve quickly built my number of niche sites up to about 20 thanks to the keyword research techniques I’ve learnt and my sites are slowly working their way up the SERPs as I build quality backlinks from various sources.

As myself and many others have said a million times before, making money online isn’t rocket science but it does take a lot of hard work and perseverance. The how to make money online “experts” who promise to give you the secrets to online business success are selling a dream that doesn’t exist. Getting your head down and making the success for yourself by working without reward for a few months is the way to long term Internet riches.

I Made A Mistake And I’m Sorry

Back when I started this blog I made a mistake for some reason that I can’t quite comprehend but which I must none the less take responsibility for. Justin over at SEO Zombie designs wordpress themes which he happens to be damn good at and when I was looking for a theme for this site a few months ago I happened to stumble over his blog and picked up a theme.

As I was putting together this site I took out the link back to Justin’s site which is in the footer of the page, not only that but to make matters worse I put a link in my second post saying that I had used his theme and make the link nofollow. For those of you who don’t know what a nofollow link is its simply a way of tagging a link to tell google not to follow the link to the page it points to. I basically did it to conserve the Google link juice of my site without realizing what I was doing. Justin put time and effort into building the theme that I used and the least he deserved for his time and expertise was for me to give him a link back to his site as a thank you.

Anyway, a couple of hours after I put my post up I got an email from Justin telling me what me what we thought about my actions and he was quite rightly a little pissed. As soon as I received the email I realized my mistake and corrected things by reinstating the link in the footer and making the link in my post to a “dofollow” link. I also sent him an email saying sorry and telling him I had rectified my mistake.

So why in God’s name am I writing about this today, 3 months later?

I was reading a thread in the Keyword Academy forum where some people were talking about removing links to the builders of wordpress theme. Lissie of Passive Income Online fame left a link to a post that Justin had made in which he talked about the incident where I had removed the link from this site. He called me a cockhead with no morals who deserved to have nuts crushed in a vice. lol, OK, he didn’t say that but he certainly wasn’t happy and had a rant about me being a jerk.

Read his Value Of Free post here and see for yourself. I found it quite funny reading about something I had done on someone else’s blog, felt like I was having my five minutes of fame. I totally understood Justin being angry although it would have been nice if he told his readers that I had apologized and instantly corrected my mistake.

In the world I live in people make mistakes all the time and the only thing I expect from someone who makes a blunder is that they correct it and try their best not to make the same mistake again. If they say sorry for their actions, so much the better.

But at the end of the day Justin has a right to feel however he wants towards me, what bugged me was that everyone that reads his bog ends up getting tremendously angry about something that had been a newbie mistake which I had done everything in my power to sort out when it was pointed out to me. If they had known that I had reinstated the links the instant I received the email from Justin and sent an apology would they still have wanted to slap me across the face with a dirty sock? Probably not!

It seems unfortunate that people out there in Internet land are going to get angry about something I’ve mistakingly done without hearing both sides of the story which may cause them to be suspicious of everyone they come into contact with online. I mean if everyone in the SEO and MMO world gets angry about all the thieving gypsies who are only out to help themselves then the Online world is going to become a less pleasant place to be. After all the best thing about trying to make money online is the fact that so many of us help each other out to get to where we want to be together.

Anyways that’s me had my own rant on the episode so we’ll leave it at that. I just had to get it off my chest and it gave me some content to fill up this post.