Author: Nomar

Google Algorithm update confirmed

Google Algorithm Update confirmed – March 2019

It looks like Google rolled out a new algorithm update last week. It has been confirmed by Danny Sullivan at the Twitter handle @searchliaison;

I did see some changes last week, starting on last Sunday March 10, 2019. But I am not sure if its because of this, I started a new link building campaign on my main site a few weeks ago which might be kicking in as well. I even got a very valuable link from a big news site.

Did you see any changes in Google rankings? Or anything else at all? On one of the bigger webmaster forums (webmasterworld) I saw some topics about it people mentioning this was a huge update…

Valuable backlink by just asking

As I said; I got a very valuable backlink by just asking for a link. The site has a domain authority of 61 with a page authority of 71. Good link if you ask me. This is what I did; I searched google for my website and saw a couple of sites talking about my website without any link. So I mailed three of these sites and one of them responded and quickly added my link.

I just asked friendly and they wrote a friendly mail back and added the link. The other two sites didn’t bother to answer and didn’t add any link, but that doesn’t matter. At least I got 1 valuable link which normally would cost quite some money. Might be a good idea for you to do the same. Who knows where your website is mentioned 🙂

Google Adsense Income Report February 2019

February is over and the month flew by. Just 28 days of collecting revenue but revenue was up slightly compared with last month.

Google Adsense income for February 2019:

€1601,33

A bit up compared with last month but still not where I want it to be. At the moment I am working on new sites and bought some small ones again mainly for link building.

The travel affiliate site I started last month is coming along quite nice. The traffic is still very very low but the site is starting to look good. I will share the site later as it is focussed on affiliate income and not Adsense.

Modula WordPress Gallery

On the new travel site I was looking to get a good gallery plugin. After testing different gallery plugins I ended up with the Modula WordPress Gallery. It really works like a charm and just looks very smooth! They also run a free version without much limitations, which is great. If you are looking for a good gallery plugin, Modula might be the one for you 🙂

Buying websites – Update

In earlier posts I mentioned I was looking to buy adsense generating websites and I managed to buy 4 of these websites. In this post I will discuss them and see if it was a good investment so far or not.

I searched to buy Adsense websites and bought 4 so far. It is not easy to find these sites. Adsense generating websites are not often for sale. It seems everyone is keeping their Adsense generating websites and not putting them up for sale. Who would sell their websites bringing in passive income, right? I did manage to buy 4 sites in 3 transactions.

I think I overpaid

The sites I bought are running for a couple of months now and I think I might have overpaid. First I will share some statistics of the sites:

Website 1: TR

I bought TR for €2800,-. I think this is the most I ever paid for a website. In the past I bought a xbox forum for €2100 and I just checked, it is a blog now. Weird… I sold this site for €3500 so made a nice profit in a short period of time (I think I had it for 3-4 months). Anyway; TR. TR is a recipe website. I am not into cooking or recipes and I am not sure I am still happy with the buy. I also got caught up with the bidding war that was going on and think I overpaid for the site.

I am running the site since October ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €2800,-
Adsense revenue: €687,84
Monthly average: €137,57

This might look good for 5 months, but December is the top month for this site bringing in €400,- in that month alone. On average it should bring in €1200,- a year, that would take me well over 2 years to get my investment back.

Website 2: VV

Bought this website for €400,-. The domain is good as well. It is an EMD (exact match domain) and a .com domain. I would pay this alone for the domain if I really wanted it. It is good it has a site and generating a bit of income. The plan is to work on this website and let it generate more Adsense revenue.

The site is running since September ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €400,-
Adsense: €63,94
Monthly average: €10,66

When calculating the monthly average this site is not really a good investment. But considering the domain is good, this investment is not that bad. I don’t regret buying it.

Website 3 & 4: B-E

These 2 websites was a package deal. The 2 sites are connected to each other and are in the same small niche. The sites need work and SEO. I see potential in these two. The total amount I paid for it was €950.

These sites are running from October ’18 and so far the statistics are:

Costs: €950,-
Adsense: €175,76 (€164,77 & €10,99)
Monthly average: €35,15

Paid almost 30 times the monthly revenue for this. That is a bit too much for these sites. Sites got potential but need work. Not sure if I can give it to them at the moment.

Summary

Costs: €4150,-
Adsense: €927,54

I paid €4150 for 4 websites bringing in €927,54 so far. These buys are not great deals. I think I even overpaid a bit. The plan is to work on the sites and get them up in rankings in the next 3-6 months. I hope the Adsense revenue will go up and my return on investment will be here quicker.

I am still looking to buy more websites to build my passive income. For the last 6 months I am looking for good Adsense websites to buy but there are barely good listings. The good listings seem to go for really high prices, I am talking about 40x monthly revenue. When I get my hands on a new site I will share it here with you. There is 1 website that I am looking at this moment but the auction will run for another 14 days. If it doesn’t get too high I will join bidding in the last day.

I am interested in your thoughts about these buys. Let me know in the comments.

Google Adsense Income Report January 2019

Like I mentioned in a previous post; January is a slow month unfortunately. Traffic is down, clicks are down, CPC (cost per click) is down.

Google Adsense income for January 2019;

€1566,95

New affiliate travel site is live

Finally, another site is live. It is an affiliate travel site I started with a good friend of mine. I know him for over 10 years now and we did other projects together before. The site is listing good travel deals to Spain. We will earn between 2% – 8% on a sale. We got the site up and running on January 21. Had a few clicks on links, but no sale yet. Hopefully we get our first sale in February. Would be awesome!

Plans

I hold a file with ideas and plans what to execute. The list is really growing to big. I also eliminated a lot of domains that are just collecting dust. I want to create a few new sites in the travel niche, but also out of the travel niche. Not sure what to start with yet.

I hired a translator to translate text into Italian and Spanish. I want to set up a niche travel site in both languages, just to try some things out. Will keep you updated as I hope to get them live in February

Bought sites

I did buy a couple of sites in the end of 2018. I didn’t inform you guys yet how they are performing. In an upcoming post this month I will talk about it. I did pay a bit too much for the sites, but I will show everything in an upcoming post.

I am still looking to buy more quality sites that are bringing in revenue on Adsense or through affiliates. But it is hard to find them.

€5000,- a month

Last year my goal was to make at least €1000,- a month. For this year my goal will be to reach €5000,- a month and stay above it. I know this is an ambitious goal but online; everything is possible.

January is performing slow

January performance so far is not good. If it continues like this I will make around €1000,- this month. Compared with last year January it is still way up, but compared with the average of the last 6 months it is bad… very bad.

January ad revenue

I am not too concerned though. January is normally a slow month. Advertisers are pushing it in December, with January being slow as the follow up month. CPC is really down compared with last month and it started right on the first of January. At the moment I am getting €0,06 – €0,08 on average per click. In good months I am around €0,10 – €0,12. That is a big difference.

Travel niche

Being in the travel niche I know my most busy months are from May till September with my Adsense sites. People don’t book flights or holidays at my site. Well, maybe they do, but not directly through my affiliate offers, they click on Adsense ads. At the moment I am building an affiliate site for the travel niche with a friend of mine. I will do the marketing & SEO, he will do the backend coding. We use a .nl domain for it that I bought for €500,- earlier in 2018. A perfect brandable name that you can easily pronounce.

I talked about starting a site like this before, and I wanted to start it by myself but it just didn’t happen. A few years ago we did another project together and ended up selling it on Flippa for a nice sum, so that was a success. I have confident we can pull this one off as well and our plan is not to sell it, but really build it into a company. I will keep you updated about it once we go live (we plan to go live end of January)

Free AI translation tool

Having one site in French, I hired a translator to translate dutch content into French. Damn, that is expensive for a site that is not really bringing in any revenue (yet). While searching for good translation tools I stumbled upon Deepl.com. This tool is performing really good and uses AI for its translations which means it is constantly improving.

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all applying the lessons of machine learning to translation, but a small company called DeepL has outdone them all and raised the bar for the field.
Its translation tool is just as quick as the outsized competition, but more accurate and nuanced than any we’ve tried.

TechCrunch

Google Adsense Income Report December 2018

Happy new year! This post will be short. One of my goals for 2019 is to blog more and make this blog a real resource for people that want to make money online.

For now;

Google Adsense income December 2018;

€2.134,14

Good month compared with last month. The affiliate site I was talking about earlier is going to be different. I am teaming up with an old friend for it. We are just setting it up and planning everything. More about that later.

Google AdSense income report November 2018

The month is over. Not much happened really. I started an affiliate site which is not finished yet. I hope to finish it next week so I can start marketing for it.

Google AdSense income report November 2018;

€1.752,71

Breakdown of my top 5 earners;

Site 1: €1.038,08
Site 2: €314,72
Site 3: €173,29
Site 4: €108,14
Site 5: €43,97

I hoped to reach at least €2.000,- but I didn’t make it. Traffic on my travel sites are down. Its off season. Understandable.
Good thing is my other smaller sites are getting more revenue. I also created a site more than 1 year ago which is picking up traffic lately. It is not yet in my top 5 earners, but will I am planning to work on that site. Could become a stable €100,- + earner I think.

Google AdSense income report October 2018

October flew by. I wanted to post about other things as well, but… ah well, maybe later. For now its time for another Google AdSense income report. Last month was good with €2.309,22 and I hoped to get at least €2.000,- this month. I am not disappointed with the income from last month.

Google AdSense income report October 2018;

€2.286,14

Lowest day; €55,97
Highest day; €102,01

Site 1: €1.597,68
Site 2: €324,76
Site 3: €264,30
Site 4: €55,11
Site 5: €26,31

Buying websites

I talked about a website that made €1.200,- a year on AdSense. I bought it for €2.800. That might be a bit more than I wanted to pay for it, but the site looks good and I hope to get it higher in Google to get more traffic. I also bought two other sites that bring in around €600 a year together on AdSense. They cost me €1.000 together and seems like a good deal.

Starting new websites

This month I will also start a couple of new websites based on affiliate marketing. The travel niche is full of good affiliate offers for flights, hotels, total packages, renting cars etc. I was thinking about trying affiliate offers for a long time now and it is time to start it.

Google AdSense income report September 2018

August was the best month ever for me with €3.550 for the month. For september I knew I was not going to break this record. I am in the travel niche and July and August are the top months for that. September didn’t go bad though.

Google AdSense income report July 2018;

€2.309,22

That is an average of €76 a day which I am still very happy with. €2.300 is serious money to make and the plan is to invest it all back into my online ventures. A breakdown of my 5 best performing websites in revenue (all with Google AdSense);

Site 1: €1.640,89
Site 2: €381,87
Site 3: €234,30
Site 4: €32,61
Site 5: €12,60

Buying websites

As of typing this I am the high bidder of a website generating €1.200 euro a year on AdSense which has a lot of upside potential. The linkprofile looks good with some strong links from some big news sites. If I win this auction I will work on it and hope to bring it to €2.000 a year. If I win the auction I will tell you more about it and about the plans I have with it.

I also bought a website earlier in September for €400. The site is not impressive and it is not earning any money at all. I bought it because it is an exact match domain and ranks on page 2 for its term. I believe I can bring it to page 1 and monetize it. Will keep you updated on how that goes and if its a good investment.

Traffic and subscribers

The traffic on this blog is not impressive, but on the other hand, I am not promoting it. TheNomar.com had 133 visitors in September and the subscribers grew with 1 to a total of 4! Hi there 😀 and thanks for subscribing.

I promised to do more posts besides the income reports. I will promise you I will start with that this month!

Google AdSense income report August 2018

Last month I broke my record for highest earning Google AdSense month. Well, this month was even greater! Another month, another record!

Google AdSense income report July 2018;

€3.557,98

This is really beyond my expectations. An average of €114,70 a day! The thing is; the sites are in the travel nice and this is travel season. August is the last real month of summer here so I expect the record breaking to be over. My goal for next month is to make at least €2.000,-. That would be awesome already since my initial goal was €1.000 a month. The €1.000 a month goal was only met 3 months ago.

Making money online can go fast. I had the idea I was stuck at €500,- a month but this summer was really good. Last month I started to break down revenue from my best 5 sites. I will continue doing this so here we go:

  • Site 1: €2.889,76
  • Site 2: €389,74
  • Site 3: €218,63
  • Site 4: €44,73
  • Site 5: €17,73

As you can see my other sites are starting to pick up revenue as well, which is good. I also have other plans for new sites which I will execute very soon. I promised to post more about other things I do online and what I use for instance on my websites. I will do that starting from this month.

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