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A simple way to make money online, one that many would have you believe can make you rich, is publishing Google Adsense ads on blogs you manage using the open source Wordpress blog manager.  I love Wordpress, because a total neophyte to web design and blogging can be writing and publishing blog posts within minutes of installing Wordpress on their website.

There are many great plugin’s for Wordpress that make the process of adding Google Adsense ads to y our blog a simple and easy routine.   One such plugin is called Adsense Manager, which supports a number of different affliate programs in addition to Adsense.  For example it also supports Adbrite, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Commission Junction, CrispAds, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN and WidgetBucks. 

I write a number of different blogs and enjoy financial success on each of them.  I’m not getting rich on the earnings because I don’t create enough content and its hard for me to keep focused on one subject every day.  But if you’re the type of person that can find a niche you’re crazy about and can dedicate 2 or 3 hours a day to every day, I can see from my own success that one could easily make a few thousand dollars per month just off the clickthrough ads on one highly popular blog. 

I often tell people that the more interesting your articles are, the lower the clickthrough rate.  When I first started creating content sites on a mass scale my content was quite boring and my clickthrough rates ran in the high teens to lower 20%.   People often don’t believe this, but there were many factors that contributed to this, including ad placement.  However, with traditional blogs like Esalesman.com that focus on real quality content, clickthrough rates hover between 1.75% and 2.0% each month. 

Do the math, with clickthrough rates running this low on quality content, one would need to write several articles a day of regular content to make several hundred to low 4-figure income monthly.  But it takes patience because it takes a while to build up enough content to get the traffic you need to push your income level into this range.  Nonetheless, which you compare blogging as a means of making money versus physical labor, its not a bad way to turn spare time into residual cash. 

I have one blog that i only write 2 or 3 articles  per month to that pays $24 to $30 per month in Adsense income along.   I ask myself all the time why I simply don’t publish to this blog  more often.   The answer is simply a lack of time and lack of focus and dedication to one common subject and niche.  But if you’re the type of person that can remain dedicated to one single cause year after year, you should have no problem turning your blog into clickthrough cash.

I don’t want to leave the impression that I lack focus on all blogs I manage.  For, I do have blogs I write to weekly covering subjects I have more time to manage without having to spend much time on research.   I know from the traffic I get from these blogs that each blog would translate to about $50 per month in Adsense income if I were to run Adsense ads on them and continue publishing about 2 articles per week to each of them. 

I earn more using these blogs to attract leads to my network marketing business, thus it doesn’t make sense to make such a switch.  But for the person that simply wants to earn Adsense income from blogging only, my recommendation is to pick a subject you can safely write 2 or more articles per day about, every day, and you should be able to turn your blog into a cash machine that brings in $5,000 to $25,000 per year. 

Although this may sound simple, the truth is there are very few people in the world that can remain this dedicated to a given financial cause.   If you can remain self-motivated, patient and persistent, it’s possible to turn your love writing into a six-figure income through blogging.  But to achieve this you have to not only write for volume, but write about very popular subjects that have high ad revenue payouts. 

There’s lots of competition in the more lucrative blogging markets, thus to rise above the competition you have to write more content, better content and have good ad placement.  It takes a lot of trail and error to achieve the business savvy and writing acumen to achieve six-figure results, however.

Much of my work online fall under the category of “research projects,” for I am constantly testing new ways and means to make money online, or to prove or disprove what others write about and proclaim as the latest and greatest way of making money online.  Over time, I’ve found that 99% of what you read about regarding Internet marketing and striking it rich online is total BS. 

I hate to use the term “BS” but it’s the sad truth.  There are scores of amateur Internet millionaire wannabe’s that feel the need to lie and claim they’ve made fortunes online and are willing to teach you their same blueprint that it’s not funny. 

Don’t misread this statement as “woe is me” rhetoric from someone who’s been stung on an Internet scam, because that’s not where I’m going with this article.  It’s just a simple fact.  99.999% of the time if it sounds too good to be truth, then it generally is — just like your Mama and Daddy told you so. 

I’ve been down the successful road of Internet marketing and I’ve experienced my share of heartache and pain.  But one thing I can say, I’ve never been surprised to date.  Not everyone can say that.  What I mean is that the things I’ve tried that I thought would work did work, and the things I tried that I was skeptical about and felt wouldn’t work, didn’t work.

Several things still ring true today the same way they did 2, 3 or 4 years ago.  That’s a long time in Internet years, which move at light speed.  SEO-conscious word crafting that use keyword search phrases in titles, headlines, file names and text anchors will still get you ranked high on Google.  Not that alone, but crafting your webpages with those basic rules in mind and using a domain name with your main theme or subject in the domain name will carry you up the Google SERP’s quite nicely.  In other words, you’re start getting some nice traffic.

Building your website using good blogging software like Wordpress will also give your site a nice lift because all the major search engines love blogs and the regular pinging of major blog directories (by your blog software) each time you post an article will soon having the search engines coming to your door.

From that point on, its simply a matter of writing content regularly.  Granted, that’s not something I’ve been able to do much of lately at this site, but I run many sites and am writing for one or another every day of the week most of the time.  In doing so, I’ve come to appreciate the success that blogs have played in my overall “blogging for riches” business model.  For, through blogging I’ve been very successful at gaining new leads and prospects for other Internet-related enterprises I own, sell products and services and develop a large and growing customer base, not to mention a large mailing list.

Those last 2 words (i.e., mailing list) are the two most important words in this article.  For the gold is in the mailing list.  Build a list, and market to the list.  That’s as true today as it was when Internet marketing first became reality around 1994. 

If you learn one thing from this article, learn that blogging about your favorite market niche on a regular basis will not only win you traffic, but will win you a multitude of leads, many of which will eventually buy your products or services.