Or I live in Eastern Europe and you can find very educated responsible students for a fraction of the price in the UK to moderated it, for like one or two hours a day. A real fraction. If the cost (time) exceeds the benefit. I can show you how (for free of course).

I think you have momentum and not let the expiring niche aspect hold you back.

One idea Template creator is – when the election is over, maybe take your 2010 election site and turn it into a general UK politics sites. Wordpress 3.0 with an SU install (I am testing the beta now) will allow your users to have their own blogs.

Load it with comment filter plug-ins and maybe you will have something for the long-run.

You get a good general domain and redirect your current domain, so go from niche to general UK or world politics and your save some of that juice and PR you have built up.

The redirection is important.

Just an idea.

I’ve mentioned my politics site http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ a few times on my sites in a negative light regarding AdSense income.

AdSense is down for maintenance right now, so can’t give exact numbers, but the first 6 months I think the site made about £100 in total (it was really bad).

Yesterday it made over £100 (just one day from around 15K** impressions), day before 7p short of £100!

** I’ve got literature sites with 5K impressions that some days don’t break £5 a day! Bloody awful niche for AdSense.

Since the general election was called on the 6th April traffic has over doubled and because the political parties are scrambling for Internet advertising the AdSense incomes gone from negligible, to that’s not bad (up to £20 a day) to WOW breaking £100 in one day (first domain of mine that’s made £100 in a day, that’s over $150 a day).

I had my server die on the 7th for about 14 hours. My server was hacked on the 1st April (hacker got the root password, so really bad news, someone changed AdSense ids on my Classic Literature site, stole 30,000 ad impressions!!!!) and I think I didn’t get the problem sorted fast enough (I’m not a dedicated server expert, far from it) and the server crashed as I think more stuff was messed with. Got another dedicated server and despite my sites been down about 14 hours, the election site still made about £150 over the 2 problem days! If everything stays as is that site will make about £3,000 this month.

I started the site June last year and haven’t added that many backlinks (PR4 home page). The rankings are mostly a good domain name (small part of the equation), awesome SEO (using the Talian theme) and a moderate number of aged links: added enough links within 6 weeks of going live to hit PR4, so 10 months on the domains got enough aged links (links that have been live for over 9 months) to rank well (which is enough links to hit PR4).

This is not a site that from an SEO perspective was hard work. You’ve used the Talian theme so you’ll know as long as you use your keywords as the title of the posts the theme does the majority of the on page SEO work for you.

The hard part was managing the comments, though I could have been really hard on the moderation and still kept the same traffic, so this was a case of enjoying managing the site (got a tad obsessed with politics ).

I’ve never built a site to make money from AdSense per se in the sense of “that niche will make money from AdSense, so I’ll create a site”.

I create sites because they seem a good idea at the time and if they make money, great, if not, oh well at least I have another great site. The general election site was like that, didn’t see it as a site that would make money, but it is now.

I’m concerned traffic will die after the election on May 6th. If it does I’ll probably target the site at other elections like the US one (or which ever comes next: I only really know about UK politics ).

Point is one site can make a lot of money.

David

If the email (from @google-adsense-templates.co.uk) hasn’t arrived drop me an email with an alternative email address and I’ll resend. Had three customers last two days have problems!

Let me know if you have any problems.

David

I am getting about 10 000 visits per month on my site now and my adsense is nearing the $100 per month rate. This has taken a long time though. I think David uses numerous of sites to create his substantial adsense income.

Is having numerous websites (unless your site is in the top 100 000 on Alexa) the only way to make over $1000 a month in adsense?

Thanks

Might just be a particular card you are using they don’t like. I’ve had this issue myself, (not with PayPal though). I have a debit card that I’ve had with a HSBC current account since University (had the account over 15 years), the account is always in credit, always has thousands of pounds in it, £2,000 overdraft facility, the associated HSBC MasterCard has a £9,000 limit, but many online shops (has to be at least 10%) refuse (for no obvious reason) to take a payment from that one debit card! Just that one debit card, all my other cards associated with other accounts are fine.

I’m assuming here you are trying to pay directly with a credit card, (so not paying via a PayPal account) selecting your country as United States or Canada and selecting MasterCard. Entering all your card details and it’s saying you can’t pay with that card or something?

When it happens I use another card.

Anyone know why this happens?

David

Thank you,
Rob