Niche Marketing Blog

Why Choosing a High-Paying Keyword is “Still” Important for Adsense

As promised, I will share with you a case study which explains why choosing a high-paying keyword is still important when it comes to Adsense. In my last post, I explained how a 1 page website generated thousands of dollars for me with small traffic. Not only that, but it also generated one of the highest paying clicks I’ve ever seen in my entire IM career. As you can see on the bottom of my previous post, it also generated $20 clicks. That’s how it was able to produce so much money with little traffic.

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How a 54 Word, 1 Page Website Generated Over $2389.36 with Adsense

In this post, I want to prove my point that micro-niche sites still do work and it is still a great way to make money online. Since I started building micro-niche websites, I saw people arguing back and forth whether micro-niche sites are dead or not. I really didn’t care about what people think. I just kept on building my sites as I used to when I started.

To prove my point, I’d like to share a story. Back in December of 2008, I’ve created a single page, a 54 word post website. I can’t really reveal what I wrote there, but the post was about a health condition of morbidly obese people. It is a extremely saturated market with high PR websites dominating all related search terms. After reviewing keywords, I found a few keywords that had few hundred searches done each day with low competition.

After researching those two keywords, I dropped one that had almost no advertisers in Adsense. So I used the other keyword and came up with a simple, 54 word post about that health condition. Exactly a month later, I had a $84.47 Adsense day from this website. There was a big spike in traffic. Since then, it has generated $2389.36 in 2009. The funny thing is that that website has no back-link at all. It is not linked from any websites, even now.

You may think what’s the big deal about making $2389.36 with a website, and I understand where you are coming from. I’m just trying to tell you that a well-researched keyword combined with high paying ads can still make you money even in highly saturated markets. That’s the beauty of niche marketing, which I love.

Here is what I did to make this website.
1) Domain name is “keyword-keyword-keyword-tips.com” It is a three word keyword.
2) Registered the domain for 3 years.
3) I installed WordPress. I meant to post more on this website, but ended up doing only 1 post.
4) Since then, it has over 80 comments. I think the comments really helped boost search engine rankings. But I didn’t have any comments for many months.
5) It has 1 block of Adsense on the top. I will attach a screen shot.

That’s about it. If you are thinking about giving up with niche marketing, give it a second thought. Focus on keyword research and delivering the right content for that keyword. It has always worked and still working. In the future post, I will explain why choosing a high paying keyword is very important by showing you one of my sites that generates thousands visitors more per month then above site and making 1/10th of income from Adsense. Thanks for reading.

P.S. Here is a bonus screen shot. :)