Author: Syed Farhan Ahmad // Category:
Adsense
I have been extensively involved with eBay for about the last three years. So I've been online for a while now – just haven't done much other than eBay. I live in India, and I'm currently the highest rated "Powerseller" on eBay India. So I am very active on the Internet, but eBay is a different business than many other "internet marketing" endeavors. Selling on eBay had always been a very fulfilling experience for me. However, I had to be active every single day to earn my bread-nbutter from eBay.
I am inherently a lazy person, so I was looking for an option that could give me passive income with as little work as possible. So I started hunting for opportunities beyond eBay. Just like most newbies, I bought a lot of products/ebooks on how to make money. Most people burn a hole in the pockets doing this. I started a fire and burnt my entire pockets! I started losing money every month. VERY fast!
About that time I started to learn about AdSense, and it all sounded very lucrative. Reading ebooks and guides, I heard many marketers saying that you should build websites on niches that you are interested in. So I believed them. And that's what I did. I built a site on my interest area – "Paranormal and Hidden powers of the mind". I put AdSense codes on them, and eagerly waited for checks to roll in.
To my initial surprise… No checks came for several months! I later realized that building sites on your own areas of interest may not always be a very profitable idea! Still to this day, I'm not so sure why so many people were saying to build niche sites based on their own personal interests. Perhaps this could get me started with learning the basics of the internet… but it certainly wasn't going to build my cash flow.
I quickly found that it's more about finding the profitable markets and then building sites around those. From my single Paranormal site, I earned an average of around 50 cents per day from AdSense. Not too good – since I had that site up for quite a long time.
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