If you’ve been following my blog you would remember that I decided to move ahead with Google Adsense as part of my strategy to make money online i.e, build up Niche adsense sites to make a passive income online. In this process I’ve learnt the importance of taking a decision and sticking to it.
Just to give you a background, I started blogging in 2009 with this blog and after that have had 4 domain names that did end up as a failure..i tried clickbank products, being a webhosting affiliate and a random site that had topics on health, entertainment etc etc. Very recently , I did decide to go ahead with one route to make money online. Based on my personal experience, I would like to say that if you’re a newbie just getting into the Internet Marketing world, don’t fall for the fake products and tall claims that you can make money online with no effort at all. Just like any business in the real world, it takes time, effort and the right kind of strategy to make money online. Also, stick to one way of making money from the Internet..just my 2 cents.
Coming back, As a part of my efforts to rank high in SERP’s for my targeted keyword for my niche site, I’ve been trying numerous ways to build backlinks to my site. I would like to write on what I did last month and what i think worked for my niche site.
So, Here’s what I currently have
I have around 15 articles on my niche site and as a learning I decided to focus on building backlinks to my domain and a single post that is targeted on a keyword that has 5900 searches in a month (as per google adwords) and a CPC of $9.
I would also like to show you a screenshot from traffic travis of what my competition looks like, so that you can get an idea of what I’ve got into.
My niche post is currently ranking on 15th position (marked in red) for the targeted keyword in Google SERP’s. Although it’s not too bad for a site I registered around September mid.
And here’s what I did
As part of my backlinking efforts, I signed up for services link Article Ranks and SpinDistribute and did dwelve into forums and blog comments and article marketing. The results are here:
1) Article Ranks is a service that is a fully automated article marketing & article distribution service. For a submission of 1 article, i got around 12 backlinks .. which is not bad. I took an article from ezine articles and spun the content to almost 200% unique with Spinner Chief – a free spinner.
2) Spin Distribute says that they’ve distributed my article to around 50% of the 800 sites. As per their analysis, I should get about 800 backlinks to my one article. As per my analysis, I don’t even see one backlink to my site until now that is.
3) Submitted a unique article to Ezine Articles directory. This has been indexed and shows up in yahoo site explorer
4) Submitted articles to squidoo, hubpages, scribd and created web 2.0 blogs at blogster, blogspot and blog.com with a post relating to my niche and linking back to my site.
5) Submitted my post to Social Monkee. Yes, the free backlinking solution that earns me 100 free social bookmarks from each submission (I am a premium member, because I’ve referred 12+ members). I saw quite a few bookmarks indexed in Google, so that is going well.
6) Created around 5 forum profiles, now this generally does not work because a profile page is generally deep into the domain and I doubt it’ll ever get recognized. But yes, i did create my signature and tried to to reply to a few topics. The moderator removed the post and banned me the very next moment. I also experienced forums where you can use you’re signature only after you’ve reached a certain no. of posts. I am really not aware of that number and do not have the time to work on building it. My take home from this, if you find a high PR page ranking for a forum, sign up and then leave your comment. After around 15 days, go back create your signature and you should see it in your post. This will help you stay away from the moderators scanner. Yes, involves a lot of follow up and hard work. But then, who said things were easy 
7) Now, comes the most interesting part.. i found a lot of blogs that had an extremely high PR (PR 7 in cases) to comment on. The interesting thing was that these PR blogs not only had high PR in their domain but also the same followed on their interior pages.. which was good news.
Now the trick here is to leave interesting comments which takes a lot of time as you have to read each and every post… but it’s worth the effort. I got around 90 backlinks indexed in yahoo site explorer right after commenting on these high PR blogs.. which is something im looking forward to. Now, I will have to follow up and see if these comments stick and I get the benefits.
It was interesting to read my earlier post on Is Blog Commenting a link Building Strategy. It only shows how experience changes views and opinions.
Suggested Read -> How to Build Backlinks To Your Site
So here’s what I’ve done over the last one month.. I’ve not made a cent yet from my niche blog and it gets around 6-7 visits a day.
I Will appreciate your inputs and remember that conversation and debate is what triggers your mind to think out of the box. Do shout out and let me know what you think I can do better to make my niche blog a success
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Hi Sandeep, very nice article for newbies like me..I definitely will use social Monkee to promote my blog.
Hey Sandeep,
Since I don’t know what keyphrase or topic you targeted I can only speculate. It sounds like you are doing some of the necessary things to get links and visibility but what I would like to suggest is that instead of focusing on the keyphrase and the potential profit and building sites.. Focus first on finding a topic and content that is popular and actually stimulates interest, traffic and perhaps even comments.
Also, preview and contemplate the actual types of ads Google provides and do what you can to harmonize those with your targeted visitors. Match the ad or product to the type of people your content attracts.
For example, if you wrote content on aspestos and that content attracted the interest of lawyers and your ads were about lawyers, nobody would click your linkis.
It doesn’t matter if you have a $1000 keyphrase if nobody visits and it doesn’t matter if people visit if the ads aren’t targeted to their specific interest. If the article is interesting then ads that provide the practical solution outlined in your articles would get clicks.
I was in the neighborhood, read your article and thought I’d provide my opinion. Hope you get something out of it as do your readers.. don’t give up..
Mark
Hi Mark – Appreciate your thoughts and inputs. I have not looked at it in a way you have… your thought process is different and if what im thinking is right – then you’re asking me to get into popular topics and build authority sites.. it’s an interesting approach and i will definitely give it a thought
Oh and by the way. This is the second article of yours I’ve read. Well done, you seem very honest and sincere and I enjoy reading what you write.
To your online success!
Mark
Hey Sandy,
Everyone comes up with a slightly different idea when you say “authority site” so I will clarify my thoughts to you. We are really talking about human psychology when we talk about any type of marketing because when you attract someones attention in this way, you have an objective. You want them to do something for you. In the case of adsense you want them to click an ad so you can make some money. Nothing wrong with that.
The question is what is the best way to assure they will click your ad? The answer is fairly simple. They are motivated just like you and I. They want something as well. When they search the net and find your web site, hopefully your site has been built and refined to TARGET the type of people who will want or desire what your ads are. This is the key. At least is has been for me.
It’s difficult to force Google to put the types of ads your potential visitors will want to click on your site which is why we focus on content that TARGETS the ads we want.
So what I’m saying is instead of focusing on the statistics, focus on your targeted audience but not to the exclusion of the statistics.
The more accurately you:
a. Define a specific popular interest
b. Define the interests, desires and motivations of the type of people who are likely to respond to that interest and visit your site to read your material.
c. Target the Google ads on your site to fulfill that interest and make them want to click.
… The more clicks you will get.
It’s not hard but you said it yourself. It’s a matter of looking at things a little differently but remember, we are all of us motivated by similar things. So, find the need, fulfill the need via your sites, content and ads and people will come and click.
Some will tell you it’s just a numbers game but that is only part true. Ten targeted visitors who land on a page with content and ads targeted to their particular needs and desires are better than 100 visitors who land on a page they care little about.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t consider the value of the ads and the statistical factors. We should. But that should come secondary to the human psychology factor and our focus on creating quality content that fulfills a need or desire and produces practical solutions (your ads).
I’ve found this approach takes more time to setup but once it is set.. it is set.
This is my humble opinion.
I wish you online success,
Mark
Whether it’s for a small site or not, it helps your ranking greatly to have your site topic keyword in your domain name. It is especially important for a small site you’re trying to rank for it keyword quickly, to have your exact keyword in your domain name. So the first choice for me was copingwithdepression.com (exact keyword domain name) but unfortunately it is wasn’t available, so I settled for copingwithdepressioncenter.com .
Excelent post Sandeep
I can see taht you have lots of potential and I am sure yu will definitely succed in earning money online
All the Best Dear
ATUL
Also, aren’t u from india
after reading ur post, I tried to sign to SocialMonkee thru ur referral but unfortunately, the site is not allowing to register thru India country
Pls if u cud clear
ATUL
This seems to be a very recent development Atul, i can still access my account and its working fine…
you can try using a proxy to register..may be that will help
Oh and by the way. This is the second article of yours I’ve read. Well done, you seem very honest and sincere and I enjoy reading what you write.
To your online success!
Mark