My Google Adsense earnings for Nov’09 posted $104.32 and while it’s not earth shaking news, it does give me some satisfaction and I probably should enjoy the moment a little. Although it is not my biggest earner for some months, it’s been my most consistent revenue generating advertising program.

Well after 6 long months, I finally made $100 in Adsense earnings in a single month, a first for me since I started using the ad network around end May 2009. I know for many marketers that’s nothing much to shout about and the real achievements are really from those people who have gone to make $100 per day in adsense. Yeah I see quite a number of such feats in many online forums. Well for what it’s worth I like to reflect upon this small milestone and share with you what I’ve learned:

1. Will having more websites help?

I started with one domain (1 homepage, 1 blog) and now I have 7 domains and 9 websites. I have seen many people succeed in Google Adsense with just one authority website and with tons of content pages. As I don’t have an authority website and since this blog has only a humble 190 posts, I decided Micro Adsense Mini Sites was my best option.

2. Does more traffic equal more adsense income?

I used to believe you need lots of traffic and perhaps that’s why I started my adsense journey so late. While there is some truth in it, I like to think it applies more to the conventional type of websites. The small niche sites received more targeted traffic and therefore more clicks given that a page is focused entirely on one keyword phrase. I’ve seen many of my niche sites getting few impressions but as much as 50% CTR.

3. Blending your ads

I have found blending the ads into my blog help to give better results. I did lots of testing but found the borderless ad block size 336×280, blue color links, grey-out text help increase Google AdSense click-through rate.

4. Follow a Proven Adsense Master Course

I have to say it not because this is an affiliate link but following XFactor’s Micro Niche Adsense Course was the turning point of my Adsense milestone. It has saved me loads of time testing and tweaking but most of all I didn’t know a thing about creating Micro Niche Adsense sites to begin with.

5. Choosing the right niche makes all the difference

To be honest before learning from Xfactor’s Adsense Course and before I came to know about what Micro Niche Finder can do, I thought I would have difficulty selecting the right niche to target. Well today I don’t have such fears and I much enjoy finding a new niche each time I’m ready to add on to my growing micro niche adsense sites.

6. Why do you need 100’s of Micro Niche Websites

Well even though I only have 9 earning websites I know it’s a lot more profitable than 2 when I just got started. You will also have to accept the fact that not all your websites are all going to do well and remain on Google’s page 1. So far I’ve had 1 niche site sandboxed and just returned back to normalcy.

Perhaps what I learned from someone who makes more than $100 a day tells a lot why the more sites the better. He says only about 10% of his sites make the real dough but he is still growing adsense empire every week. He is in a comfortable position to wait for many to come out of sandbox as that seems to be a temporary phase most new sites go through. It has got to be about using the right strategy, continue backlinking and having self-belief that it will work.

7. The good old ‘rinse and repeat’ the process

If you do find a winning formula or business strategy, you ought to duplicate your success over and over again. It is the same here too. If I didn’t think it worth adding on more adsense sites, I would have stopped wasting my time. Well I’m now on no. 6 and thinking of doing no. 7 soon so that says a lot.

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Did you miss any of these?:

• Blog Income & Stats - November 2009
• Blog Income-December 2009
• Blog Income and Stats - October 2009
• How To Start Making Money With Adsense
• John “Xfactor’s” Micro Niche Adsense-The Blog Tools I Used