I have roughly 16 blogs up at this moment but I only have Adsense on 5 of them. Now between the 5 of them they only earn on average a combined total of $1.50 a day. Yikes, I know! I just read an interesting post on The Keyword Factory that has made me rethink  earning with adsense.

When I started niche blogging back in Novemeber 2008, I pretty much blew off the idea that I would earn big money with adsense, so my main focus was going to be to earn with affiliate products. After reading that post I now have reconsidered earning with Adsense.

One of my main failures for earning with adsense was the fact that I had not been targeting keyword phrases that have a high CPC. I have been too focused on only writing posts that had a at least a minimum of 1,000 searches a month that I wasn’t paying attention to making a post with a keyword phrase that had a high CPC. I can’t believe what a rookie mistake that has been. It’s pretty much a no brainer. Would you rather earn $0.03 a click or would you rather earn $1.50+ per click?

Another mistake was I had not been working at targeting my keywords too well. Sure, I used it in the title and maybe 1-2 times in my posts. According to The Keyword Academy you should only use it 2 times in a 300 word post and if your word count is 1,000+ use it 10 times.

Today’s goal

1.) Go back to some of my older blogs and insert 300×250 square ads into my posts.

2.) Write 2-3 new posts on some new blogs with keywords that have a high CPC

3.) Finish Paul’s April back links for one of my sniper sites (which has come out of the sandbox by the way)

Bonus if I can write an article for Ezine for that sniper site too!