New Web Sites

After reading Lisa’s website about making money with adsense, some things that I hadn’t considered before stood out to me. I know that one of my websites (tylercorlen.com) has a lot of competition and my golf website (http://www.marylandgolf.info/) has a somewhat limited audience (mostly Maryland residents or maybe at most, Mid-Atlantic residents). So, I thought about a new idea that could have potentially a global audience. As I thought about things that I find interesting, I came up with the idea to write about golf club repair. I have always done all of my grip replacements myself and when I did a google search for “golf grip replacement”, there were only about 84,100 results. That’s way better when compared to 853,000 for “funny pics” or 270,000 for “Maryland golf courses”.

Over the weekend, I worked on a website and a blog about golf club repair. I am happy to say that they are complete enough to publish. For the website, I just created a sub-directory off of the marylandgolf.info site. The address is www.marylandgolf.info/ezclubrepair. I also created a blog called golfclubrepair.blogspot.com. My plan is to keep an eye on traffic statistics for the blog and if it does well, I’ll buy a domain and push the website to the new domain.

Having said all this, the keys as I see them are:

• I’ve picked a topic that I like
• I’ve picked a topic that I know a little bit about
• I’ve picked a topic that doesn’t have a huge amount of competition (from a search perspective)
• I have a plan for a standalone domain (if the blog is successful)
  

By the way, in case you are wondering, I’m using Google Analytics to track web site traffic. I’ll discuss that in a different post in the future.

Making Money With Adsense

Recently, I stumbled upon a website about making money with adsense. What was so nice about this site is the writer actually went through in detail the successes (and failures) she’s had using Google Adsense. I think there are too many sites out there on the Internet that say “Get Rich Quick with Adsense.” In reality, there really are no get rich quick schemes. As I have found out and as the author (Lisa) mentions on her site, the key to making some money with website creation is to get users to your site. The more users that you can drive to your site, the better your chances that you’ll have people interested in your ads.

Although there are great free services like blogger.com for creating blogs and integrating Adsense, users are not going to flock to your site just because you have a site. I have found over my few months of blogging that one of the primary keys to getting users to your site is to have good, original content.

In the near future, I will post a section about some additional do’s and don’t’s of blogging. Thanks for reading and happy clicking.