The Adsense Project

I was interviewed by an Australian entrepreneur yesterday.

I have to say that it was one of the best interviews I’ve given. Once he has the interview posted on his blog, I will post a link so you can listen to it too.

In today’s post, I’m going to reveal a new test I’m working on.

I’ve dubbed this The Adsense Project.

I know what you are thinking, ‘Keith, dude, Adsense is dead. Why are you bothering with this?’

Good question.

Here’s why…

In the past week, no less than 3 people I know have switched their business models from CPA back to Adsense.

When grilling them on specifics, the common theme is that they are focusing on low monthly search volume keywords (1000-3000 searches per month) with a low number of competing pages (under 10,000 phrase match).

When asked about linking, they said ‘Web 2′ spamming.

While this goes against my better judgment, I’ve decided to conduct a test to see if Adsense is alive again (not that it was ever ‘dead’, just the game had changed to the point where it wasn’t as profitable as it once had been given the same effort involved).

So here’s what I’ve done so far (and this is largely based on the input from guys moving to this business model).

1. I used Peter Drew’s Brute Force Keyword Generator to find 1/2 of my target terms. In this program, he has an ‘Adsense’ keyword finder. While the filters are set much higher than the criteria specified by my friends, I thought it was an easier route to take. I registered 12 domains based on keywords identified.

I also used Jonathan Leger’s new beta service called Niche Horde to find 12 more keywords (and registered domains based on those keywords. This service allows me to find keywords based on the criteria mentioned previously).

Since you can’t get Leger’s system yet, I decided that I wanted to use a system that you can use right now if you so wanted to, thus the reason for BFKG.

2. I mentioned that I registered 24 domains. I set the nameservers on these 24 domains, added them to my hosting account, and then had Wordpress blogs installed (and configured) on all 24 domains.

3. 8 of the domains will have content added to them from Caffeinated Content (a content aggregation plugin for Wordpress). 8 will have content added by my own in-house content aggregation system and the remaining 8 will have content written by my writing staff.

The Caffeinated Content sites will have content generated from Youtube, Yahoo Answers, and Ezine Articles with no spinning. This is duplicate content plain and simple. Content will begin dripping tomorrow and will continue at a rate of 1-5 posts per day for 30 days.

My in-house tool synonymizes scraped articles and will post to the categories that I specify. The articles all pass copyscape in terms of uniqueness and are very readable. I will post 1 article per blog per day for a period of 30 days.

The remaining 8 blogs will have 10 articles written by my staff and posted at a rate of 1 article per day for 10 days.

4. While the linking system I specify in the Stealth Traffic Secret video is VERY effective, I wanted to do what my friends were doing and that’s just spamming (oops, I mean posting) to Web 2.0 sites.

I will be using SEO Brute Force for this because it also has built in article, video, and rss submissions (I just couldn’t resist).

I will initiate one ’submission’ per site beginning 1 week after the sites content begins.

From this point forward, I will give periodic updates as to the progress of this test.

I have to be candid with you here.

I’m not overly optimistic about this test. At one time, I made a lot of money with Adsense only to have that house of cards crumble overnight.

When I asked my friends why this aggressive move back to Adsense, I was told that the recent changes in Adwords had all but destroyed their affiliate marketing business.

Ok, I get that. Any of us doing well with Adwords and affiliate marketing have certainly taken a hit as of late.

Let’s see where this test takes us…

Keith

Data is your most valuable asset

Tagged as: adsense, adwords, affiliate marketing, caffeinated content, Jonathan Leger, Niche Horde, Peter Drew, search volume, seo brute force