Ranking on Page 1 of Google…Without Doing Anything
I realize the title of this post sounds like I’m about to try and sell you a product…the good news is, I’m not! I actually just wanted to share with you a quick story about how one of my niche sites landed on the first page of Google and received an ad click without me doing much of anything.
Although I uploaded a WordPress theme and added my usual plugins, this site was ranking on page 1 before I even added the content.
While you can’t plan for this in any way, I thought it might be interesting to take a deeper look at this site and the keyword that it targets to see if we can learn anything…


January 23, 2012 
Although this case study seems complete (the site is currently on page 2 for its targeted keyword, but on page 1 for secondary keywords), it’s actually just the beginning. The purpose of this case study was not just to create one stand alone project. After all, what good is one micro-niche AdSense site that will probably never earn more than $50 in a given month?
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I think this is the most important step of the process. Despite all other efforts, if people can’t find you on Google, your micro-niche site is destined to be a failure. Search engine optimization (SEO) is merely the process of tweaking a few things on and off your site so that Google views your site as more relevant for a particular keyword or keywords.
Now, we’re finally getting to the meat of the project! Aside from traffic (which we’ll get to in the next part of the case study), content and ads are going to be the key ingredients to making money with an AdSense micro-niche site.
Now that I’ve gone through
It’s time to actually get to work on this project! If you didn’t get a chance to read the introduction,
I’m going to start this case study by pointing out the obvious: Making money online with AdSense-focused niche sites is probably one of the oldest methods around. You can read about it in a million places – much of the information is free, but there are plenty of people looking to make money off teaching you how to create a profitable AdSense niche site.
It’s been a long time since I’ve done an official niche site duel update (although I track my progress monthly in my
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