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A lesson to be learnt
Well I have recently started to make some respectable earnings from advertising. It is however from an unlikely source. My recent website devoted to promoting proxy sites has started to make about $8 a day through adsense. (adsense is a whole other story for later). At first I thought great I am making some reasonable money for some pretty low traffic. I then began to think about it more. Free CSS makes about a dollar a day on advertising yet I put a lot more time and effort into writing new content and free templates or the website.
Free CSS has also been marketed a lot more and has been online for a lot longer. Desipite all that its making less money than a week old website in a saturated market (atleast thats what I thought). The reasons I can think of for this are actually quite important to consider when launching any other website:
- Proxy-sites is straight to the point. It has one purpose - to show new proxy sites. It has been targeted to a specific keyword - “proxy sites”.
- Keyword concentration on site content and anchor text for inbound links are targeted for the specific keyword.
- Keyword within the domain name itself.
- In a market with a lot of interest and searches.
- Ad placement - Ads are well blended and placed high on page
- Adlink units instead of content ads. Seem to get higher CTR.
- Ads pay more than those of free css which generally contain the word “free”
The morale of the story? Search engines are by no way redundant in the days of viral and buzz marketing. Targeting a specific niche and a keyword with simple content is better than general content aimed at a broad field.
Another good thing to come out of the traffic on proxy sites should come in the near future. As I gather traffic stats for the website I should be able to sell advertising spots on the website and earn money through the way it was originally aimed for. The potential is also great because the traffic I am currently receiving is from the second page on google for proxy websites (a less popular keyword than proxy sites).
On a side note - I have learned another lesson recently. I often attempt to kick ceilings as a challenge when I go places (generally under the influence of alcohol). If you do manage to reach, believe me, they aren’t very strong. 
4 Responses
Never tried kicking a ceiling. Maybe you’re slightly taller than me or something? Or else you visit extremely small buildings?
- Michael- October 5th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Yeah im pretty tall. 6ft 4 i think. Like a flying back flip with a kick is needed to reach a ceiling.
i think we always need to re-adapt when we’re making money online. what is ‘hot’ now will phase out in next few months. IT, its always evolving. its great you’re making good with adsense, hope you’re making more.
looking forward to more of your personal experience in such entrepreneurship. i luv such posts
thats really great and u earn alot of money… can i add my proxy site to yours?
i want my proxy site earn like you did…