Blogs are a great way to build audiences for monetization purposes.

I created the blog you're reading, "Money With AdSense", on August 24, 2007, which is just 30 days ago from today. Already it's starting to pick up some steady traffic.

This steady traffic started occurring about one week after the launch, when Google added pages from this website into its search index. Albeit, the traffic was very small, only 1-2 visitors per day. As of today, Google is now referring about 2-3 visitors per day. Woo Hoo! Big difference!

But before you toss your hand at that, also consider that just three days ago, Yahoo began referring visitors as well. I'm now seeing about 2-3 visitors a day from Yahoo.

So overall, I'm getting about 4-6 visitors a day to this blog from Yahoo and Google combined.

That's pretty good if you consider the following...

• It's only been 30 days since the launch of this blog


• I spent zero on traffic building.


• I spent zero building the website


• I spent zero on content (it's all my content)


• I spent zero on hosting (it's running on my dedicated server)


• The only area I paid money was for domain name registration

Thus far, I've earned very minimal from AdSense, but I have gotten some clicks. Considering the traffic volume, it's easy to understand why. But that's ok, because traffic will grow as I continue to publish more articles.

Remember, the more articles I publish, the more pages I'll have in Google & Yahoo's search index. The more pages in their index, the more likely one of those pages will show up on someone's query.

You can build up a steady income stream with AdSense just by doing what I described above. All I did was launch a blog, pasted AdSense into it, and then just write new articles (in your words), regularly. Traffic will automatically starts coming within days or weeks, and it builds from there.

The key to all of this, is original content.

That is, you have to create the content. You can't republish someone else's article from an article archive site. Google seems to know when it finds an article that exists elsewhere.

In a year's time, you might have hundreds of visitors each day, or thousands, depending on your niche, your SEO efforts, your domain name, and if you can get other sites to link to you.

Blogs have an uncanny way of building up traffic quickly from search engines, as opposed to other types of websites.

Labels: Blogging