Yes you read it correctly, I bought a Cockatiel website, for £300, I must be nuts! Anthony Shapley sold me it, he’d been earning money on it for years, but I think he wanted the money to put into his new personal project on private number plates (good luck Ant – hope it works out for you).

So, why did I pay £300 for a site that seemed as though it was making £26 per month? Well if the site stays the same then I should make my money back in 12 months, after that I have a regular income without any more work! I didn’t intend to make any improvements, but as Anthony said, he really didn’t put any work into this site, so I noticed one or two things. So here is what I have done so far to try and squeeze the most out of the site.

First up, I noticed three pages where Anthony hadn’t put any AdSense blocks on – according to his Analytics these accounted for 37% of page views, so by adding them I should see a 58~59% increase in page views and hence earnings – one of these pages, the cockatiel cages page, is now my biggest earner of AdSense revenue.

Secondly I decided to tag the page with AdWords Remarketing – with the aim of hitting previous visitors with an affililiate link to cockatiel related products, I’ve got well over 2,000 tagged users now – but for some reason I am not getting any impressions – any ideas anyone?

That’s about it really, didn’t take much work. I’m intending to buy an AdSense site with any freelance income I get (which isn’t much *sniff*) – the aim is to buy a site that earns me £50 a month (roughly) everytime I have £600 (roughly) saved. But I’m open to offers, so if you have any AdSense websites (or websites) you wish to sell, contact me through my website.

Bought My First Website: Cockatiel Care!!! is a post from: David Whitehouse a digital marketing consultant from the UK, based in North Yorkshire.

I’ve created my first AdSense site (well second if you count that stupid venetian masks thing). The AdSense site is on CRM software systems and the earnings are hopefully going to be high, plus it ties in great with my digital marketing diploma, which goes on and on about CRM – so I’ve got plenty to write. I’m hoping to get it earning me at least the cost of the accounting package I’m using, so I don’t make a loss if I do no work!

Finally I’m hoping to buy cockatiel care of Anthony, which will hopefully be a good little site to start me off, and at least if the CRM site doesn’t work out, I will still have enough to pay for the accounting software.

Aswell as this I’ve got a deal with my brother in law, he’s running a Yorkshire based Jazz Band called Frankly Jazz. He’s going to pay me commission on any gigs I generate for him!

The New Plan: AdSense Empire is a post from: David Whitehouse a digital marketing consultant from the UK, based in North Yorkshire.

So I’ve been fiddling with my AdSense ads on my MW2 site – it’s getting quite a lot of page views, so I was interested to see why it was getting a low CTR, as I had placed some of my ads in highly visible areas… So I logged on to the site and checked the ads on the homepage – ok, then I clicked through to the first blog post I noticed and I saw this below (click to enlarge):

Now I don’t know about you guys, but I doubt the average Modern Warfare 2 player is going to have corporate team building on his mind right now, do you?  So I think this is my current problem, Google is serving unrelated ads…

Does anyone know how I can get AdSense to put some better ads on it?  I know you can target ads based on certain parts of text – is this is why I am being punished?!

Any suggestions welcome.

Shockingly Bad Ads from AdSense is a post from: David Whitehouse a digital marketing consultant from the UK, based in North Yorkshire.