I’ve just closed my account as being a Publisher and I’m waiting on my last months check. We were doing around $10,000.00 a month with the AdSense type of sites and decided to get out because I felt the business model was really bad.
I was a publisher for a company that has a contract with Yahoo but in the end they are all the same.
To make a site work good with AdSense or Overture the first step is in building a site that is totally useless or close to it.
This is an important first step because you don’t want your visitor hanging around your site, you want them clicking an ad and finding another site. Otherwise you don’t make money.
The second thing to do, that is also important, is trying to blend your ads in the best you can. People don’t like ads and if they look like ads they want click on them. Blend them into the text at the top of the page just under the header as well as on the left hand side of the page just over the navigation.
Don’t make pretty sites, we want to run the people off, not keep them around.
Too really make the money you will need more then one of these sites, as a matter of fact 1,000 is a good number if you’re really trying to make money with them.
A good way to get traffic is to add enough text that the site picks up a good paying keyword, then go to Google and bid on around 10,000 low paying keywords.
You can submit the site to all the online directories, do a little blog spamming as well as forum spamming and get the sites to rank. There are even program’s to help you in doing this.
Now if Google thinks there is something wrong with your account, they will cancel it keep your last two months of money and will never let you use those sites again. You do not get a day in court. But if that happens, chunk those sites and just start over. It’s really no big deal.
So next time you’re looking for information online and all you get is a junk site full of ads and you click those ads and find another site full of ads. You can think companies like Yahoo and Google for creating such a wonderful way to make money.
Don’t forget about all the directories full of dead links for adding these sites that are no longer in business. Nor the webmaster that tried to make money this way and went out of business.
Most people only make 1 or 2 dollars a day with these types of programs, if that.
The people that are doing $10,000.00 a month are spending $6,000.00 a month to keep everything working. If you’re wondering how I know, it’s because I did this for the last year or so and I was making around $10,000.00 per month with these types of programs.
One of the topics I played around with was dating; we have around 5 dating sites all together they were making around $30.00 to $50.00 a day.
We decided to start our own site getting
Colombian girls to meet men from around the world; I’m thinking that with a lot less work we can do around $5,000.00 a month with this site.
I don’t have to worry about an account being closed or someone not paying me.
We had also put ads on the
GeeksOnSteroids site. We were making around $100.00 a day with the web design ads. I have now removed the ads and we are doing around $2,500.00 a week.
It seems to me there is more money to be made by coming up with a business idea and making a site for that idea.
Of the top of my head ten reason why being a publisher is a bad idea.
1. You have to build a lot of sites to really make it work.
2. You have to host those sites in different places, costing more money.
3. The sites have to be good for nothing.
4. They have to get a lot of traffic.
5. You account can be cancelled at any moment.
6. All your money is coming from one place.
7. You make .05 cents a click when you could make $1,500 a click.
8. Some of the companies you will become a publisher for will make corrections at the end of the month and never seem to pay on time.
9. When Google or any of the major search engines make a big change in the way they rank sites it could put you out of business.
10. You have to blend the ads into the site and try and trick the visitor into clicking those ads to make money.
And a bonus
Most of the people on the forums are not making money as a publisher. I would say I’ve seen over 5,000 people sat they were not making money while only around 10 people that are actually making money.