Making money from adsense is quite a controversial since many has experienced being banned or de-indexed by Google. However there are still infopreneurs who are making thousands of dollars (US$) a month from adsense. Here is my story.
I just came back from attending a short workshop on profitable blogging which was held at Federal Holtel, KL. The workshop was conducted by Steven Wong and Melvin Ng. If you have been online for quite sometime and involved in internet marketing most probably you knew these two gentlemen. Both of them has been seriously invloved in online business for more than three years and they are very successful internet marketers.
Steven introduced himself and Melvin Ng to the audience and told how they got involved in internet marketing and he also shared some of their area of expertise.
I was totally surprised to know that both of them does not have any technical background. Steven was a Sales Manager while Melvin was an Accountant by profession before they jumped into internet marketing.
Surprisingly they managed to do something ‘out-of-the-box’, quit their 9-to-5 jobs and did full time working online.
To me this is really breaking all the norms. Normally people who are involved with building websites and blogs are people from technical background with IT and web knowledge. However the decision and effort taken by Steven and Melvin is very motivating. Their success has proven that making money online (make a living online) is really possible and can be done.
During the presentation Steven showed three months income which was earned by Melvin in 2007, the first month was $31k, the second month $22k and the third month around $21k - all just from blogging sites. They confessed that those incomes were from Adsense. Yes, from Adsense via Wordpress blogs only! That income does not include earnings from affiliate sales, ebook sales and and other advertisings.
Wow! I thought generating income from Adsense was difficult and you could only get around less than $100 per month. I’ve tried a few adsense sites but not through blogging… and it only generated less than $20.00 per month so far and sometimes merely $5.00 per month… sigh.
They explained on how they used Wordpress blogs (not Blogger) and how to monitize them. I could not remember all the gists explained but here are some points that I can recall on how to monitize your blogs with Wordpress,
- Find niches which are profitable
- Find the right keywords
- Buy domain name and web hosting
- Install the blog with selected plugins and good themes (mostly free)
- Post your researched articles regularly
- Generate traffic via web 2.0 and article submission to directories
- Maintain article postings
At the end of the workshop they offered their Profitable Blogging Boot Camp for 2 days with full hands-on. Plus a lot of bonuses which all valued at RM11k. They said in this 2 days bootcamp they will guide the participants on how to get the followings,
- Install wordpress blog
- Choose the best free themes and plugins
- How to find profitable niches
- How and where to find profitable keywords
- What to do and what to avoid
- How to generate traffic to your blogs
- How to monetize with various income and select the best option
.. plus lots of other bonuses… I just could not recall all those bonuses, but the best thing is 2 months later they will conduct 3 brainstroming and coaching sessions to access how the participants are doing. This means that they will make a followup for six months with the participants. This is really mind blowing support from the Team!
They offered the blogging bootcamp for RM2,997.00 with RM500 discout for fast action takers. Wah… I just couldn’t afford the price. I had just used up most of my saving for my two sons University tuition fees for next month (June 08) intake.
Anyway maybe another time I’ll get the chance to attend such bootcamp, and in the meantime I’ll create a few niche blogs using all the infomation and tools available on my hardisk.
with a lot of marketing stuffs that will show and guide you how to build your list and make money on the net.