How I made close to $800 during World Cup 2006

Posted by Yardie Luke on June 3, 2010 under Making Money | 4 Comments to Read

LEARN HOW YOU CAN PROFIT FROM THE 2010 WORLD CUP

World Cup 2010 begins on Friday June 11 and I can’t wait for the first game to begin. I am looking forward to seeing the best talents on display and the surprises that usually accompany the games.

I am also anxious to see how much money I can make during the 2010 World Cup tournament. During the 2006 World Cup games, 2 of my websites made close to $800 total.

First let me give you the simple explanation and then I will expand on it for my more technical readers.

Here are the 2 football websites that I used during WC2006:

David Beckham Watch and World Cup 2006 Facts

(I owned the domain name WorldCup2006Facts.com from 2005 to 2008. View the site here.)

On the Beckham site there are Google ads on the left column/sidebar. On the WorldCup2006 site there are Google ads on the bottom left corner or wherever you see “Ads by Google.”

Whenever a visitor to my sites click on a Google ad I make money. Each click puts about $0.15 in my bank account but due to the increased volume of traffic to my websites during the 2006 World Cup, those 15 cents add up very quickly.

Now for the detailed explanation.

Google has a money-making system called Google AdSense which basically is ads displayed on your website like the ones you see on the left at BeckhamWatch.com. If you own a website and Google approves that site to be part of its ad network, you will be allowed to place a small code in the html page(s). Visitors to your site see the Google ads and some will click on them. Each click is money in your account.

The amount of money each click is worth varies. Without going into too much detail, I can tell you that ads related to loans, refinancing, real estate, automobile purchase, buying stocks, personal injury, injury attorney, online stock investing and health pays more than most other subjects/fields. Basically if you have a website about real estate or loans, one click can put $1.00 or more in your account.

Back in 2006 David Beckham was the most popular footballer, NOT the most skilled. He was extremely marketable and had a certain sex appeal. My Beckham site received 2500-4000 visits per day. Traffic was especially high on the days that England played. About 2/3 of the money I made during the 2006 WC came from this site. The other site did not get as much traffic partially because it was fairly new and not as popular as my Beckham site.

For the 2010 World Cup I have WorldCup2010Teams.com and I am working on 3 other sites and blogs to be completed by next Tuesday.

THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE TO MAKING MONEY FROM YOUR WEBSITE IS GETTING HEAVY TRAFFIC. THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS TO GET VISITORS TO YOUR SITE INCLUDING THE USE OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITES LIKE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER.

I will leave the matter of getting traffic to your site for another discussion.

Let me know if this was of help to you and if you have questions drop me an email at yluke “at” yardieluke.com (I used “at” instead of the symbol @ to prevent spam harvesting software from capturing this email address.)

More information about making money online with Google AdSense can be found here.