I wanted to open up a little bit today and share with all of you some of my background as well as my plans to make quitting my day job a reality in the next couple of months. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you probably know a little bit about me, but not very much.  I’ve been hesitant to share a lot of personal information up to this point, but I expect that to be changing in the near future as I transition from my day...

If you have been following my Niche Site Challenge, you know that I went through quite the planning stage before I chose a niche or built my site.  I now have some evidence to prove that those plans are paying off. If you need to remind yourself of some of the planning and methods I used to select my keywords, perhaps you should visit the Niche Site Challenge Overview page for a list of all the posts. My Niche As I have revealed...

Part I – Keyword Research I have been working on creating my new how to guide for those interested in building niche adsense websites.   In doing so, I was writing about the importance of choosing keywords that meet the fine balance between being profitable AND also are not too competitive. This is a difficult balance to keep many times because of the draw to go after keywords that receives TONS of searches each month that also pay...

Okay, so it has been a couple of weeks since I finished my challenge to build 100 sites in 30 days, and I wanted to give everyone a quick update. First of all, I have not seen any additional sites de-indexed, but I have also not had any of the sites that were de-indexed come back yet.  Overall, I think I have around 30 out of the 100 sites de-indexed; I’m not 100% sure on this number though. My earnings for the month of May was:...

Wow, its been 29 days and what a ride it has been!  I started this blog simply hoping to help others out on how to do keyword research and learning the power of targeting long-tail keywords; I ended up with a bunch of sites being de-listed from Google! The more I look at it, the more I think that this blog DID indeed contribute to my sites disappearing.  From what I can see, most of my sites were de-indexed right around May 1st (half-way...

The big day has arrived for another earnings update! It has now been three weeks into my challenge, and things are starting to pick up! I now officially have 88 sites built. Although about 20 of those were just completed in the past 2 days, so none of those would have been indexed yet or have contributed to these earnings. So, without further adieu, here is my earnings for the past 21 days: $58.50 I am VERY happy about my earnings! If you...