How To Go From $10/Week to $800/Week

I just ran across an interesting thread on Digital Point forums that is essentially a nicely detailed description from a 21 year old university student describing how he built a website that currently is earning him about $800 a week.

Even though he is using AdSense to monetize the site, there are some good take-aways in his post.

Don’t get obsessed with SEO, but follow the basics:

• Giving each article an individual highly relevant page title.
• Using meta descriptions and keywords, but not abusing them.
• Using H1 and H2 tags.
• Using good keyword density and specific phrase targeting.
• Using good quality, unique, original and focused content.
• Building some well anchored backlinks.
• With a good navigational system between articles.
• Using an aged domain with good TrustRank.

From there he touches on a couple areas that are where I made my biggest mistakes when I first started trying to make money online:

Another issue that is often brought up is the issue of creating lots of sites for high paying niches. Personally I have never wasted my time with such things because I’m focused on providing good quality expert content and if I’m going to do this I need to make sure that I’m knowledgeable in the niche that I’m creating the site on, and unfortunately for me I’m just not that knowledgeable on mesothelioma, cancer, debt consolidation or lawyers, nor do I have any passion towards developing my knowledge on such niches
so creating a site for such things would just be a waste of my time and any visitor’s time that came by my site, because the information on it would be next to useless.

What is a much smarter idea, that I believe I got from one of Shoemoney’s posts was that you should establish a good quality site in an industry that you are familiar with and knowledgeable of then when you have built the site to close to its potential and you are looking to make a new site to diversify, you should look to make a site that is still in a similar industry but has only a degree or two of separation from your original site.

And another mistake that I made was being cheap and thinking that I could figure it all out on my own to save myself a bit of money. Chris, the post author says:

The reality is [forums] don’t have it all and a $20 book from Amazon on AdSense or SEO could make you thousands of dollars. Let’s face it, if you aren’t willing to part with $20 at bare minimum to extend your expertise, chances are you aren’t going to be the next person here making $XX,XXX/month from anything online. That said there are definitely exceptions to that but it’s extremely rare. Plus you can certainly fast track your development and earnings if you are willing to shell out a few dollars to increase
your knowledge, or get a good quality design made, or some special feature for your site. Plus if you have invested money into your projects chances are you will be a lot more committed to gaining a return from them which will only further contribute to your development.

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These are the basics of making money from a website presented clearly.

• Stick to a subject that you have expertise in
• Get good quality information from someone who has done what you are trying to accomplish
• Be persistent over a long period of time. It took Chris 64 weeks to get to $800 a week

Read Chris’ story on Digital Point forums and make sure you take a look at the sketch of his page template that he embedded into the post, it is a good example of a web page that is nicely optimized for advertising.

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