My First Google Adsense Check

I thought I’d do a Shoemoney picture since I received my first Google Adsense check the other day.

Like Shoemoney, I too didn’t do a whole lot to the site that generated this check. It was mostly organic SEO, which is providing content that makes sense to humans who are reading the content, and thus makes sense to search engines.

One pdf that points this out succinctly is the Keyword Research Guide from WordTracker. The example in the beginning of their ebook talks about using the keyword phrase “cheap filghts” instead of “low fares” and you’ll get more search engine traffic. You and I talk about “cheap flights”, CEO’s talk about “low fares”.

If you don’t know anything about search engine optimization, it doesn’t really matter (well, it depends on what you’re trying to accomplish online) because good content will ultimately start ranking in the search engines. With good content might come backlinks, which in turn helps you in the search engines. So write the best stuff you can and make it popular somehow. Keep an eye on how you write your content and how “normal” people would search for it.

Certain articles became more popular over time and did well in the search engines. It was a tech blog of sorts. I haven’t done an in depth analysis of what ads and why folks were clicking on, so I might need to do a bit of that. After an analyzing the clicks and the articles I can tweak adsense to hopefully work even better.

The great thing about letting a blog sit for a while is to watch what content receives more attention and rises to the top. You can then drive more traffic to the better performing articles, monetize them different ways and tweak the adsense for them.

I know, I know – I ain’t no Shoemoney. So it’s a few hundred thousand dollars off.