Dear Lisa,

I am new here on babble. All I wanted to say is I read some of your blogs and you are a big inspiration. At this time in my life I have my own web site and it does have google adsense, but even after purchasing traffic I still do no get any clicks. My page views are good but that is only on the ads that are placed in the middle of the page that I am affiliated with.

Why? I mean should I focus on advertising one thing or numerous products when it comes to the content for google?

Also I, got so frustrated with my website I just do not do anything with it. The coaching that was supposed to help me make a money from it wanted over $3,000. So after that phone call I knew I would fail on the internet. But since I have a great belief in making money from home I do not and will not stop trying to become what you are today Lisa.

She is an inspiration to us all. With my first sites, I tried to promote everything under the sun. Then I realized what I was doing wrong and what many people do wrong. We build sites on what we think is interesting but disregard how people browse the web.

Think about it. If you want to by "red shoes" (for example) you either go to your favorite online retailer or you type in "red shoes" in a search engine. When you type in that phrase you are looking for a site related to what you have to offer and you are looking for a credible site that has what you just searched for.

So Google wants sites that are related to that specific phrase/topic. They don't like sites with multiple themes and topics because they have no direction and often lack useful information.

So now that I understand that, it helps me as I create my sites. You have to outline what keywords/people you want to target. Then you create your site around that theme keeping your audience and keywords in mind.

Thanks dltmz,

GreenThumb has great advice. You really should focus on one theme for your site when it comes to promoting AdSense. The more content you have surrounding that one theme, the better you will do.

I also re-read my first post to this thread and want to clarify something. I warned people to stay away from Internet marketing and entertainment sites and I should have put some caveats with those statements.

Internet marketing sites can do very well but if you are new to Net marketing I would not advise you choosing this theme because newbies don't have the income or credibility to prove they are making money so it's very difficult to tell someone else how to make money if you don't have proof you're doing that yourself. So that's what I meant by that.

I just wanted to add that because it sort of made it seem like I was saying no one can succeed with a Net marketing site. That's not true, it's just the cards are generally stacked against you due to competition and the reasons I mentioned initially.

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Lisa, Thanks for sharing your experience

I have 13 websies and I have 5 completed ones that generate income. I haven't had time to work on the others.

Lesson here:

Don't put too much on your plate.

I will close some of my sites and just focus on about 7.

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Hi Lisa,

I don't see any of my website ventures as failures. Just projects with unexpected results LOL. At the very least, though, they were learning experiences.

I guess that the site with the most unexpected results, though, (was also a business with unexpected results) was my 12dollars.net venture.

At the time, local dialup was being sold for $20 avg, and my reasoning was that if I could offer it for $12, and use the name of the company to promote the business by incorporating the price right into the domain name.

Great idea, except that Net Zero started a huge ad buy 3 months later, offering $9.95 dialup.

I couldn't compete on price, and the price was incorporated into the name, so we ended up putting our weakest attribute...price...right out in prospective customers faces before we could toot our horn about our strong points.

I even got so desperate as to dress up in a clown suit with a billboard and stand on the busiest intersection in town for several dozen mornings, but to no avail.

Unexpected results, yes. Failure, no. I learned a lot and had a blast as Popo The Clown.

Warm regards,

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Very good point and great way of looking at it, 123ecart. I am definitely grateful for every site whether it succeeded or failed 'cause I learned something in the process. I think the biggest thing is to not get discouraged and keep going.

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Hi Larry,

Good point, read the book 'blue ocean strategies' sometime back and that inspire me a lot, there is just not going to be any area that is without competition, if you can go head to head with the giants that is good, if you can't then it is definitely a need to swim out of the red ocean.

Success largely depends on how much you have learn a long the process.

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O.K. just last year I started a blog after reading Joel Comm's free E-book, Adsense and Blogging. I signed up for Blogger and started a health blog based on Keven Trudeau's books.

Lesson learned...Despite the well-documented evidence I couldn't(and still can't) afford what he recommends. Plus I have a medical condition myself. So who was I to give advice on good health! After several weeks I just thought "what on Earth am I thinking!" Silly me. But when I do get the money, this will certainly be one of my niches!

So I started a weather blog . I was just crusin' along until one day I realized I didn't have the proper tools. Thus, it became drudgery.

Lesson learned...I need to to walk not run.

Now I've shut down those blogs to focus on not only what I like but also be engaged in. Online Gaming and Michael Jackson.

By the way. I've also jumped on the Adsense bandwagon to fast(I don't even got 100 average uniques a day for either blog). Plus my bouncing rate is just over 75%(but slightly dropping).

Lesson learned... Don't even think about monetizing until you've got loyal targeted traffic.

One question should I close my Adsense account until I'm established or try to wade it out? I've only accumulated $30-$50 bucks thus far.

Now, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to succeed online! Despite being disabled.

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