Earn Consistent Income Online
Written by Chewie on October 20, 2009 – 8:51 amI have received some emails from a few people having the same issues. One day you are getting traffic and earning money, and the following day literally nothing for you as far as income.
Why is it hard for you to bring in consistent income is the real question? I’m going to tell you so be ready. You either
A. Do not have the ability to get the type of links you need for the terms you are working to hold your rank.
B. Not properly doing keyword research.
C. Working too tight of a niche with little to no traffic.
A few of you are probably going to fall in almost all those categories. others just one. Is it wrong that you build these sites with inconsistent traffic? Not at all, as a matter of fact I have a few sites that are tightly focused which may earn me some big bucks off adsense when I get a click for them, but they are not my main source of income. I do not depend on them to bring in the same amount of money each day. One day they may make me $20 bucks and another day they may make $1 dollar but once again they are not my main sources for income.
With that being said, if your earners vary hugely day by day with adsense, then you are not targeting and nailing a good niche through and through. For most sites it is a numbers game and a combination of keywords which you have chosen. Pick the wrong ones and you have crappy CTR. Pick the right niche and sometimes you get clicks nonstop. This also has a lot to do with the age group you are targeting which I will get to in another article.
At this point then you should mainly focus on having a handful of consistent earners every day which can bring in $$30-$100 every day. Once you have that established then work the smaller stuff. But make sure you have consistent earners, or you will never have a gauge to what you will make each month. Personally for me, I like knowing what I can bring in each month as far as income from sites. Consistency is key.
So lets say you built a site around “Starwars Chewbacca Legos“. Once you have that main term nailed then what? If the search volume is low then you have a site that is going to be sporadic. Instead wouldn’t it make sense to build an entire site around Star wars legos and target a bunch of terms like “Han Solo Starwars figure“, “Jabba the Hut lego set” etc…? Then you will be bringing in traffic for many more terms than just one or 2 most likely making it more of a consistent earner each day.
This is not really rocket science folks, but there are so many people struggling and not earning money consistently. So if you don’t have a site that is nailing a bunch of keywords get on it. Don’t accumulate a bunch of sites that are all hit or miss. Don’t work niches you can’t get links to rank for properly. If you email me and tell me you are working credit cards, then I am going to tell you to work something easier.
Geez, I just gave you an idea for a niche with the legos, and I am willing to bet some people will start making lego sites based off this post. So why is it people can’t use their noggin a little more and think about things they had as a kid or buy for their kids, or a problem you a person needs medication for, or a household product millions of people use everyday, or places people like to travel.
There are millions possibilities. Find them and choose them wisely. If you think a term is easy to nail and you don’t want to buy a domain then start a blogger blog and test the waters.
OK, I’m off to nailing more keywords. 
Posted in make money online | 9 Comments »
October 20th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Damn Chewie I have a nice little site targeting Star wars legos with not much competition from those who know how to target keywords. Now I’ll have lots of competition! On the other hand, knowing how most people read but don’t actually do much maybe not.
Anyway good post and useful information. I’d like to add one thing – make LOTS of sites. I had 2 of my best performing sites sandboxed for the last month. They’ve come back in the last few days without me actually doing anything – just Google being its usual perverse self I guess. Because I have lots more sites earning a little bit here and a little bit there it didn’t make too much of a dent in my income.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Simple yet so true, very good example and reminder to stick to the basics of research and linkbuilding.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Thanks Chewie!
On your Lego example, would you monetize with Adsense? Or would you use something else? I thought you only used Adsense on service sites.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Since that was merely an example it is not going to be the best adsense niche, but of course if I had such a site I would go with something like eBay(before eBay started sucking) or Amazon.
October 24th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I have a site that targets “nak*d Princess Leaha lego figurines” and it gets loads of traffic, but they just want to see pictures, not buy anything.
Dunno if I even spelled her name correctly.
Anyway, as always Chew-man, you are concise and to the point. I love taking a micro niche site and expanding on it’s authority to target more keywords. I really think there is an art to it and that is the fun part.
Of course, I think the main reason people don’t do more of it is they quit before they even nail down the easy keywords. i also think people use the lack of time as an excuse in the make money online game in general.
AL
October 26th, 2009 at 1:45 am
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November 6th, 2009 at 2:07 am
I found you via Griz, so is full body fur required to make money online?
I have a request, could you do another installment for beginners? I’ve read over 120 pages of stuff at Griz’s and it great but now I’m confused. I realize G changes the rules about every 6 months and after reading all that stuff over 2.5 years I don’t know where to start. I currently write ten 500-1000 word post a day and want to channel this content properly. A game plan with daily/weekly targets would be great.
Great blog!
February 10th, 2010 at 2:19 am
OK Chewy, for starters nice info blog, thanks. I’m a newbie so here we go. I just realised that my first niche blog is way too niche! I shoudl have gone for something more broad and then added the niche-ier niches inside that blog as seperate posts. Now I’m wondering what to do. Should I just write this blog off? Should I finish it off and just let it be an odd days money maker? Should I convert it to something else? if so, what? I’d be glad of any ideas you can give me. CHeers buddy, and by the way, what’s with all the genuine MMO with the fur?? it’s like, you have to fly under the radar, otherwise you’d never get a job cos you’re all hairy? Maybe I need to grow some hair too and then I wilmake money, lol
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