Rick — I agree completely. Even better if these sites are on various class-C subnets.

Rick

Bottom line is that 5 pages is plenty to start, and once you get 30 or so pages on a site, you can probably leave it alone. Or, you can keep growing it and build an “authority site”.

Regarding style — be informative and helpful. Keep your articles on topic. Keep your paragraphs shorts. Put yourself in the shoes of the person that just clicked the link and write what you would want to read. Keep articles to 300-500 words. Those are some rules of thumb.

Regards,
Mark

The secret? Sites that he never works on continue to generate money. So, this is very much like investing. Start small and build your internet empire.

As an aside, did you give yourself a pat on the back after watching John Reese’s third video about creating traffic with digital products? If not, remove hands from keyboard and do so now. 🙂

Annie

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Regards,
Mark

Regards,
Mark

Seriously, I think of this in the following way — I have 5 page niche sites strictly for AdSense and full blown authority sites with multiple streams of revenue. In between, there are lots of little things that you can do to add revenue to a small AdSense sites — selling an eBook and collecting email addresses are two great examples that you mention. In fact, if you have popular AdSense sites you can grow them to authority sites and vice versa.

These themes have the express purpose of maximizing the AdSense CTR. One of the ideas central to that is limiting the “other stuff” that people can click on. If they want more information than is in the site, they get more info by clicking AdSense.

But, in the right circumstances, you can make even more money doing it your way. Let’s think about an eBook. Let’s say you had an AdSense site that was paying an average of $1/click at a 10% CTR. That means that every 1000 visitors would generate $100. Then, let’s say you added a banner for a $27 eBook with a sales page that converted at 3% and paid $15 for each sale. Say that 100 of your thousand visitors left the site through the eBook banner. That would cost you $10. But, 3 of those visitors would buy the eBook and you would get $45. So, in that case, it is a great deal.

But, if you are in a $2/click niche at a %15 CTR and selling a $7 eBook converting at 1% you get a different answer.

So, you need to know your numbers — but in general your point is exactly correct.

In any case, it is “pretty easy” to add banners and email opt-in forms to the themes, and I am happy to help people do that if they are interested.

Let’s say I’ve found a potential niche, which, for the sake of this discussion is…. Getting rid of Age Spots. I would use your medical template and good kw research to hopefully generate some adsense revenue. But, am I not leaving money on the table by not also offering a digital product of my own on this site, or, offering an affiliate product on Age Spots, or at least capturing an e-mail?

I think we would all agree that throwing up a site with one article on Age Spots won’t do much, if anything long term. So, how do you correlate sites/actions between a site you hope to generate a couple of bucks a day and developing a true, bona fide passive income stream based on the action of writing, in this case, several articles on Age Spots? Thanks Mark!