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$200 per day with Adsense and Viral Websites

2019 update: Check out the second part of this article on how I make $500 per day adding Propeller Ads. Also check out the third part of this strategy to learn how to optimize your mobile traffic for maximum revenue with Facebook Instant Articles.

OK, so this is one hell of an article I’ve been waiting to write for a long time. I didn’t, because when I was about to, Facebook decided to change a lot of things in their algorithm and the whole strategy changed.

This still works and it has changed a little, but you can still make a lot of money and bank hard if you have the budget. I was making from $100 to $350 PER DAY back in 2013 with this whole strategy, and even though it might take more budget now to start, you can still make more than $5-10k per month with this strategy.

In fact, I know some people earning more than $100,000 per month with this and the good things is you can have it as a side business, 100% automated and making money for you. I’ll keep this post updated in case this changes, but I’m sure it still works in july 2014. The faster you start, the better.

Things you need

  • A Website with a VPS or Dedicated server (I recommend Vultr. CLICK HERE TO GET A $50 BONUS CREDIT)
  • An Adsense account at the beginning, and later an account with a CPM/CPA advertising company. A great alternative in case you don’t have Adsense for this strategy is Media.net.
  • A Facebook Ads account with credit card or Paypal
  • A Facebook Fan Page and some budget to start. I’d recommend $1,000 at least. $1,000 – $1,500 per month would be perfect.

How does it work?

The concept is simple, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. Basically, what you’re going to do is to create a viral news website with a basic WordPress installation and send a ton of traffic to it.

How much traffic? Thousands of visitors per day. As much as your budget allows you. Some people send more than 1 million visitors to their website PER DAY. But you don’t need that much. Start with 1k per day and then aim for 5k, 20k and keep growing.

Lastly, the idea is that you generate great (but simple) articles with viral images, videos or stories, and make them go viral with Facebook. When the people visit your blog, they’ll find Google Adsense’s ads and you’ll earn money from the clicks you receive.

I recommend Adsense because the Ads will be totally irrelevant if you use almost any other CPC network, but if Adsense is out of your options for any reasons, try Adversal from this alternatives article.

Sooner or later, you’ll want to move to a CPM based network, but you’ll need at least half a million visits per month to move to the next level. So don’t worry just yet.

I recently explained the reason why Google Adsense beats almost any other alternative, especially if your traffic isn’t organic (i.e. not from search queries). Because we’re going to send a chunk of traffic directly from Facebook, we want somewhat relevant ads even if they’re not coming from search engines, and you know… Google controls a good part of your life, so they can serve decent ads to your audience even if they come from Social Media sites 🙂

Here’s a screenshot of one of my best days. Check where most of my traffic was coming from:

facebook viral traffic

Also, be sure to try this even if you’re on a tight budget because I’m going to show you how to earn money with CPA offers (no Adsense or CPC/CPM networks) and make a few extra thousands per month with paid traffic in my next’s week article 😉

Shall we start?

I’ll divide this in 3 steps. You need to rinse and repeat after analyzing your data. I’m glad most of it has been covered and you’ll see that it’s not as difficult as you think, but it takes some time and a good plan with a budget.

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Step 1. Create a WordPress Blog

This one is easy. If you’re struggling with this, leave a comment below so I can help you. You can find almost everything in my blog in the WordPress Category. I cover everything from setting a domain name, installing WordPress and even installing a theme. Again, just leave a comment below if you need help with any step. This shouldn’t take you more than 1-2 hours, if not less.

Don’t forget you need a fast VPS at least to make this work. Vultr has a $5 per month VPS which outperforms many managed VPSes priced at $30+.

Now the key with Adsense is having great traffic and having a good CTR (Click trough rate). Since Adsense works on a CPC basis, the higher your CTR, the higher your earnings. Trust me, with the quantity of traffic you’re going to send to your blog, increasing your CTR from 3% to 5% could be the difference between $100 and $180 a day. So you NEED a good CTR.

I’ve tested a lot of themes for this, and many of them don’t work. I’ve got my CTR above 10% some times when a story goes viral, but at least, I try to aim to anything above 5%.

Unluckily, I can’t show you my detailed Adsense earnings because it’s against their TOS, but I promise you’ll have have a great CTR with that theme and you can add your banners with the Quick Adsense plugin.

I recommend you to change your theme every 1-2 months to keep your CTR high. Some other great themes to start are the CTR Theme and the Divi theme from Elegant Themes.

Having a mobile responsive theme is KEY, since many people will visit your website from FB for Android or iOS, and you want your Ads and videos to look fine there.

Step 2. Create a Facebook Fan Page and grow it

I don’t need to write this whole process again because I wrote it a few months back and almost nothing has changed here. Basically, this is the same guide on steroids, so have a read on how to create a Facebook Fan Page and grow it super quick with Facebook Ads here: From 0 to 1,000 daily visitors in 10 days.

The process is basically the same, but this time you’ll create a Fan Page targeted to all people in a country who like viral stuff and cute/impressive stories. All of the Fan Pages I grew with Facebook Ads are quite active and have great reach.

There are a few changes happening on Facebook lately, so in case you want to take advantage from them:

  • Use Facebook Newsfeed and Mobile Newsfeed Ads! The volume there is super high compared to RHS (Right Hand Sided) Ads.
  • Facebook is rolling out new, bigger RHS ads. They’re bigger and probably a little bit more expensive than before, but the size difference between those and the newsfeed ads isn’t as big as before. You can drive a lot of new likes from RHS too, and the CTR will be high while the competition adapts (you might not even see those new ads yet). The only draw here is that RHS ads are displayed to desktop computers only, but hey, there’s volume on Facebook.
  • Facebook now distributes your ad budget during the day, no matter the time your upload it and get approved. This is super handy because if you start an Ad at 10pm with a budget of $10 per day, Facebook will only spend $1 between 10pm and midnight instead of eating $10 in 1-2 hours with shitty results.

There you have it. Just copy the same strategy from my guide on how to go from 0 to 1k daily visitors and apply these new advantages. Since we’re going big, I’d recommend a daily ad budget of $10 to start, and then move to $20-30 per day if you can keep your CTR high and new likes coming.

You’ll receive a lot of organic likes too, from people sharing, tagging and liking your posts on Facebook and other social networks. Those are free 🙂

Step 3. Write viral stories and publish them in your Fan Page

This step is easy but takes time. Basically, you’re going to look for viral stories, news and trends and publish them in your blog. What I’d do is spy other competitors and check the stories they publish. Try websites like upworthy and viralnova.

Also, have a close eye on Google trends, as you can get a lot of traffic by being the first to write viral news in your website too.

facebook viral traffic study

You’re going to post links AND images every few hours, every single day. I recommend you to post between 3-5 links to your website (that means you ned to write 3-5 viral news PER DAY) and also post 3-5 images in between. The images can be part of viral stories, cute animals or impressive facts. They key is to keep your audience active and your Facebook reach high.

Example: 8am image, 10pm link to article 1, noon image, 2pm link to article 2, 4pm image, 6pm link to article 3, 8pm image, 10pm link to article 4.

NEVER copy & paste their articles into your website unless you want to get banned from Adsense. Rewrite the stories from your own point of view, ad videos or whatever you need, and always link to the sources. Otherwise you’ll have problems in the long run. Trust me.

Also, have a look at the placement and distributions of Ads in those websites, as you want to try the same to get a good CTR. I used to have 1-2 Squared Ads in the content, and a big skyscraper Ad in the sidebar. This is a formula that works well.

Step 4. Rinse, repeat and automate.

You should be able to get everything started in 1-2 days if you focus and work fast. Again, let me know if you have any questions below. Depending on how good your stories are, and the budget you spend on Facebook Ads, you’ll start making some profit after a few days or weeks. The more budget, you spend the faster your Fan Page will grow and the more traffic you’ll send to your website. It’s pure mathematics.

If you grow it big enough to make it a side business or even a full time job for you, then you might want to step it to the next level and automate everything. After all, we want to increase our ROI and still have time to enjoy with family and friends, don’t we?

So here’s what you can do:

Automate your Fan Page posts

There are a lot of social media tools that allow you to schedule your posts on Twitter and Facebook (Buffer and Hootsuite, for example). Most of them actually hurt your reach, so don’t use those. Use FPTraffic.

FPTraffic is a great tool built by an Affiliate Manager from a CPA network and it works really well. You can schedule images (it has an integrated finder), posts, giveaways and more so you don’t need to be in front of your computer every 2 hours to post your article/image. In fact, you can schedule for many days in the future, so it’s perfect for this project.

FPTraffic is a great tool even if you’re not doing this but you have a FB Fan Page for your blog/website. Also, there are guides on how to make money with Facebook Fanpages inside FPTraffic which alone are worth the price you pay for it. Grab it while you can and get a 50% lifetime discount before the price goes up from $10 per month to $20 per month.

Outsource your article writing

This is something you might want to do after a few weeks or months. Make sure you understand the whole process and then you’ll be able to hire someone to do it for you.

You have already automated your Facebook Fan Page, so you now need to automate your articles and the business will be 100% hands free.

What I did: I hired a content writer and payed him $3 for every post (300-400 words). Since I needed 3-5 posts per day that’s a total of $10-15. Once you start making money and driving a lot of traffic, $10-15 will be less than 10% of your earnings and you’ll be hands free for another business.

Looking for viral stories and videos can be tricky at first, so I looked for the stories and copied the links into a google drive shared document. I’d upload 5 new links every day so the writer could prepare the articles for the next day and publish them. It wasn’t 100% automated, but let’s say I had to spend less than 30 minutes per day in this business to earn $100-300 per day. I was happy with that 🙂

There’s no magic formula

Most people try to look for a magic formula so they can earn money online on autopilot. They want to get free information and pay for a $19.99 Warrior Special Offer that shows them how to make $1,000 per day without doing anything.

Well, that magic formula doesn’t exist.

This is a business, and it requires work and focus, and you might fail a few times, but it will be worth it. Magic formula’s don’t exist, but systems do. And systems work if you’re good enough to analyze and improve your ROI.

But I know most of you won’t be able to achieve this because you won’t take action. Taking action is the most important thing in this life. So bookmark this page or print it or take notes and start your website and Fan Page ASAP! You can do it in 1-3 days maximum and if you start buying likes in 3 days, you could be earning your first bucks by the end of the next week. What are you waiting for?

Scaling and Optimizing

This is something I cover in my second part of the guide where I used Facebook ads and Propeller Ads.

  • How to scale your FB Ads to increase your traffic and earnings:
  • How to analyze your FB reports and focus on the audiences that give you more results (higher ROI)
  • Few tips and WP plugins to help your news and stories go viral
  • Moving to a CPM Ad network for higher ROI

Talk to you in the next one 🙂

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  1. Hi Servando,

    Hope you’re doing well! And also hope you’ll see this comment and be able to provide some feedback.

    I’m hoping to start up my own viral website using your post here as well as a few other resources as a guideline for the process. I’m making a couple variations to better align to my personal wants from this website, but overall this guide has been super helpful with the process of getting everything ready. Thank you for all of the great information!

    I’m currently a bit torn on one aspect of it and was hoping that your expertise could help me out.

    I’m currently in the process of getting all of my content ready for the website (roughly a month worth of site article posts available in advance for full automation at launch). Every post is custom content which I know isn’t time efficient versus copying other successful posts from other websites but it’s something I enjoy doing a lot so I took that route (plus I’ve had fair luck with viral content in the past, so I’m fairly confident in my ability to provide decent material for the content viewers). I am primarily looking at only sharing articles from the website on the Facebook page (similar to how other established viral sites do). I know that might lead to less engagement with the page but I’m hoping that volume > engagement over time (hopefully that’s not wrong, I’m basing a lot of that thought process on what I’ve noticed from bigger sites’ Facebook pages).

    That being said, I’m a bit torn on what is best to do with these posts. My current thought process was using half my budget to promote the business page for likes and half my budget on promoting each of the posts to a lookalike audience to comparable sites’ Facebook pages (since organic reach seems to be a struggle with Facebook’s new algorithm). However I’m not sure if that would be the best choice, or if I should spend the full budget on promoting the page and just let the Facebook posts generate organic reach, or possibly not promote the page itself and spend the full budget on post promotion for a better chance at getting page views/ad revenue (while hopefully getting them to like the Facebook page in the process through site interaction – and maybe increasing the chance of a post getting more shares and get a better chance at viral traffic due to how much reach each post would have).

    Realistically, I will probably only have 500$ to work with at launch. I know it probably won’t get the best results versus having more to spend but from my own personal financial stance I can’t really use more than that. I’m hoping to get at least a potential ROI from it and use that money to continue scaling the site. But for starting out, I don’t know what path to take that would be the best financially for me and provide the highest chance of aggressive scaling in the future. Ultimately I’d love to transition to doing this as my full time work after a couple months (which, to be frank, the site doesn’t need a huge ROI to achieve that because I don’t make much at my current job haha). Even hitting 100$ a day would be a huge increase from my current income, so that’s my short term goal and hopefully your advice can help me get there.

    I’m very new to this field. I work in retail and learning about everything related to this endeavor has been such a fun and refreshing experience so far. But right now I’m stumped on the best course of action for me. If you had any insight I would really love to hear it!

    Thanks again for the great guide and I hope to hear back from you soon!

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    • Hi John.
      I’m glad you found this article interesting. This has changed a lot in the last few years, so make sure you read all of the linked articles in this post to read the updates.

      Custom content is fine as long as you understand how things work in social media to go viral. You’ll learn this with every post you make. Don’t feel bad is most of the posts fail. That’s normal.
      Good to know you enjoying writing the content though. That will help a lot.

      More volume doesn’t mean more engagement on FB if the engagement per post is bad. If the engagement per post is bad and you keep posting your reach only goes down with time.

      I’d use your first budget to grow your page likes to a point of 10,000 or more, while posting organically to recover some of your costs.
      After that it’s all a game of creating ads for each post and see which one does better. A good test for each post before adding a budget to it is to see how it performs organically. Some will do much better than others.

      $500 I’d say is pretty limited unless you focus on a country where ads are not that expensive (USA for example is super expensive), so make sure you select something easier. O recommend at least $2,000 to start learning and testing the waters with this strategy and even focus on a niche that can go viral instead of generic viral stories nowadays.

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  3. Does it matter what countries to target in Facebook ad traffic campaigns? Any specific country or just leave it open to all?
    Also, where can I find best ad layout examples? Thanks

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    • Yes, it matters.
      Always select only 1 country per campaign and test several countries based on what you’re writing (culture, language, etc).

      As for layouts if you’re using Adsense we now use Ezoic (check our article here) to do the optimization via Artificial intelligence.

      Reply

  4. Hi
    What are the biggest niches to promote, I heard Pokemon sites are very popular. Is there a way to analyze high converting traffic arbitrage websites and basically copy and paste? Thanks.

    Reply

    • You’re going to need a social tool for that to give you ideas. Probably with a decent price to get started.
      There are many niches and many of them can be big.

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  5. 1. how can i get a theme, with user registration…….where viewers retain their post as a membership in my website and get points (or $0.15 or $0.20 dollars) for commenting and reading of my articles and sharing of post.
    2. will i earn when people click my website without clicking any google ad on it.
    3. if i monetize my fb page and i get thousands of viewers will i get paid for that.
    4. can i get a website builder from you sir (i think we can chat privately for that)

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    • Hi man.

      1. I don’t know. Google search more info about it and let me know if you find something that can pay per points to your readers.
      2. If nobody clicks on your ads your performance will be terrible. Google wants quality people that are interested in the ads and click through them and end up buying stuff or signing up for whatever service being promoted n the ads.
      3. Yes. Social traffic is not worth as much as organic traffic from search engines, bu it’s still worth and valid.
      4. I don’t have website builders, so no, you can’t get website builders from me. There are many website builders available if you do a quick google search though.

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  6. Hello, thanks for the guide to adsense arbitrage, i admit this is the best out of the articles i’ve been reading on his issue. However, i’ve come up with questions and i will be happy if you can answer me.
    1. is it possible to use blogger blog for adsense arbitrage?
    2. can a viral content base on a specific niche? e.g education niche
    3. can at least $200 do for low budget arbitrage?
    4. does it have any relation with chatbot?

    i’ll be very grateful if you can answer my questions accordingly..

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    • Hey. Sure, let’s see if i can answer everything for you.

      1. Yes, it’s possible but I wouldn’t recommend it. You have more control, plugins and all with a wordpress site. Trying to save $5 per month going with blogger is like not wanting to invest on something basic for your business.

      2. Yes, although it’s much more difficult. There are just some niches where it’s easier to go viral with a lot of articles.

      3. No. I’d recommend anything over $500 per month as minimum, but $1,000-$2,000 per month would be recommended.

      4. No.

      Hope this helps!

      Reply

  7. Where can I find the WordPress Category in your blog?
    I would like to know which theme is advised to start with and what would be the settings you recommend to start placing the adsense ads for good CTR base on your testings for us to start with?

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  8. Fantastic Article
    But I think Recently Facebook Start Their Own Monetization system
    So it will be more benefited if create Viral type of videos
    for Fanpage and boost it and Earn Money From Facebook
    after that also include Google Adsense with one website to earn double.
    Hope this work
    anyway you can Join My 24scan.com CPA network where i pay weekly to the affiliates who earn more than $100 per day
    checkout on Affpaying and other CPA network list

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  9. Hello admin,
    I need guide about Adsense and facebook traffic.

    I heard about Facebook traffic that it is not safe for Adsense. What if I make a viral content site and advertise on facebook and get traffic?

    Show me your result of 2019.

    Reply

    • Facebook traffic is safe for Adsense. It might not perform as well as search traffic, but it’s valid traffic 100%.
      As for the updated guide, if you read the article you’ll see there are a couple of updates linked there already 🙂

      Reply

        • There are white hat offers that can be promoted on FB. Not all of them are black or grey hat. It also depends a lot on how you promote it.

          As for digital products, I don’t see a problem there as long as they follow FB’s rules.

          Reply

  10. I have been blogging for over 2 years now but you won’t believe it when I tell you that I have just $32.32 currently in my Adsense account

    Reply

    • I actually believe you.
      A lot of bloggers tend to write about whatever they want without focusing on getting traffic or doing keyword research, so they end up with hundreds of articles and no readers and thus, no earnings.

      Reply

    • Check out the updated articles listed at the beginning of the post 🙂
      The strategy works but it has evolved during the past few years.

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    • Well, because without a Facebook page you can’t run ads in the newsfeed. Simply as that 🙂
      A Fan page is the first requirement of FB to run ads nowadays.

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        • That’s the first and most basic reason.
          There are many others as well. If you can’t find a reason to have a Facebook page then you probably don’t even want to tackle Facebook for driving traffic.

          It’s basically the core of the whole strategy.

          Reply

  14. Whats your opinion about automating facebook fan page commenting and refreshing website OG Tags with a bot on a VPS through facebook API ?

    Reply

    • While it works, we prefer doing everything manually as Facebook detects automation and usually lowers reach or blocks the bots if you overuse them.

      Changing the website OG tags sounds like a good strategy to keep your CTR highs on links. I’d definitely try that!

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  15. Nice article. If I allocate a portion of my facebook ad budget to boosting ads daily. Would that increase organic reach? Lets say I have $5 to spend daily. I use $3 to boost my best performing posts to only my fans, then use the rest to increase likes. Also I would be posting daily.

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    • Yeah, that works and eventually you get more reach. However you’ll find different posts perform differently and you’ll keep ones running longer while others might be paused after 24 hours.
      Don’t use the autoboost post feature though. Go and create the ads in the FB Ads manager.

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  16. Great article, Thank you.
    i understand all the tutorial but why do we need a VPS or RDP??. i’ve heard a lot guys talking about it in facebook. but i want to know what it’s used for??
    thanks

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    • Hi Yusuf.
      The reason is because the VPS will load faster and also supports a lot more traffic than a shared server, which is important because viral sites tend to receive bursts of traffic whenever an article goes viral.

      Reply

  17. I don’t usually read big articles but this article was very interesting and helpful!
    Thanks for taking your precious time to write this article!

    I am interested in starting a new blog but I don’t have a good content writer.
    Where can I find a content writer that charges only $3 for every post (300-400 words) ? Can you recommend any good content writer for me?

    BTW I am managing a free seo analysis tool at https://tools.seopengu.com which will help website owners analyse their site for on-site SEO issues, I hope it helps someone who is looking to find out seo errors and optimization tips.

    Thank you and have a wonderful day!

    Reply

    • Hi Danu.
      I not sure where you can find a good content writer for that price.
      You get what you pay, and for $3 the writing will be pretty mediocre I guess. I’d start by raising that to at least $15-20 per post and make those posts larger than 300 words as it will represent much better quality for both search engines and your visitors.

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    • Hi,
      I’m professional freelance b2b writer. Please contact me if you are looking for affordable flat rates articles/blog posts.
      simplyafiya89 at gmail dot com

      Reply

  18. Thank you Servando. Great content.
    Please what do you recommend here? Buying likes for my viral site Facebook fan page?
    Or just boosting each post and let it earn me likes.

    Again, if I buy Facebook likes, will my post get to the members who have liked my page?

    Reply

    • Initially I prefer buying likes and just posting organically until you reach 5k or 10k fans. After that we focus more on boosting posts but not using the boost post option as it narrows your targeting in a weird way that doesn’t really work. We create the campaigns in the facebook ads manager.

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      • Thanks for your helpful response. Please enlighten me in the kind of campaign you run. There’s is a plethora of campaigns to run on facebook as regards website promotion.

        Do you use conversion ads?

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  19. Hello, what is the best kind of facebook ads to run for this purpose?

    Ads for engagement? Ads for clicks? Ads for traffic? Or Ads for conversion?

    Secondly, how do I know the actual post to advertise of do I have to advertise all the post on the blog?

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    • You want traffic, so the best objective is traffic and especially focused on landing page views (not link clicks or clicks). You need to implement the FB pixel in your website to measure Landing page Views.

      You don’t know which post you need to advertise. That’s the beauty and difficult part of this strategy. Every day we tested 5 new posts and paused them if they were bad only keeping the best ones that could make a positive ROI to scale them. Keep in mind most of your articles will fail and won’t go viral. For us, maybe 1 every 10 was a good article and the rest were bad. 1-2 of those 10 were horrible LOL.

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  20. Hi, please I want to know. I have a blog where I write about bitcoin, investment and crypto currency.
    Can I add AdSense to this kind of blog, does Google accept this kind of site to contain AdSense codes?

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    • I’m not sure to be honest. Just check their guidelines.
      Earlier this year Google and Facebook blocked the ability to pay for ads (Google Ads) related to the crypto currencies niche. However one thing is that and another is Adsense which is monetization so better check it yourself.

      Reply

  22. Thanks for the great article, I have 2 questions:

    1. The traffic flow of this method is FB ads –> FB fanpage –> Adsense site, why not taking down the FB fanpage and have FB ads landed on Adsense site directly? Assuming I could arbitrage to spend $10 on FB and earn $11 on Adsense site, wouldn’t it be more effective without the FB fanpage?

    2. Or, is it because having a FB fanpage in the middle is more rewarding?

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    • Hi John.
      Both methods work, but building a fan page with many fans can also get you a ton of organic traffic which is free.

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  23. Few questions about this project:

    1. when should I invest in the Facebook AD? (how many articles on my website or how long the domain.)

    2. I can’t apply for the instant article right now but all my old fan pages can, I just need to wait few days or I need to something to make it happens?

    3. What is actually re-writing the story? can you give me an easy sample?

    4.Thx for this awesome article!!!

    Best.

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    • 1. Try having 10-20 articles before investing, especially if you’re not yet approved with an adsense account.
      2. Sometimes FB doesn’t allow more IA accounts as they’re very strict now.
      3. Just write it with your own words instead of copy pasting it.
      4. Glad you liked it 🙂

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  24. this article is titled $200 per day with adsense viral websites. Does this $200 mean actual net profit on top of daily expenses?

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    • Back when I wrote this article we were doing $150-250 profit per day.
      Things have changed a lot though. We’ve changed our strategies to adapt and survive while still profiting 🙂

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        • No, we’re actually doing more. But nowadays we have to spend much more as well.
          Before we could spend $20 and make $100 per day with a viral article, just to mention an example

          But nowadays we need to spend $1,000 per day and make back $1,300 ($300 profit) but we have changed our strategies a lot. You should check our other articles 🙂

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  25. Hi Servando, you mention in your article “always link to the sources:” What about potential copyright issues? Is this a concern? Many thanks.

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    • Yes, it can be a problem if you apss the news as yours. But by linking to the sources you’re giving credit and since the news are not copyrighted it’s all good.

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  27. hello Silva, my question is this : if i am creating campaigns on facebook do i go for engagement as my goal or getting more website visitors , which one do you suggest best. At the long run,all i want traffic to my blog post.

    Secondly, if i am creating campaigns on let’s say : cheapest laptops’ as the keyword in my article, do i have to pay attention to the audience reach or potential traffic

    Also, i wanted to know if you have an article on bing ads.. i have most of my links indexed on bing rather than google.

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    • What do you want and what makes you money? Likes/comments on Facebook? or traffic? 🙂
      We usually go by traffic and optimize for landing page views and other events.

      The keyword and SEO for this technique don’t really matter. I don’t use Bing Ads. Sorry.

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  28. When I click on the VULTR links, I see a wide range of options for servers but no $3/day option. Can you be a little more explicit about Memory, CPU, Bandwidth, etc required to support a site like this?

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  29. Hi I had an admob account which they terminated due to violation. Now, I can’t create new admob, as they will terminate that account too after they detect it. Are admob and adsense same and can I still get approval from adsense for my WordPress site? If yes can you check my site, do I need to change something?
    Blackandbeast.wordpress.com

    Secondly, if I get approval, can I use those ads for my different sites?

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  30. Does my adsense will get banned if I connect it with my viral website…. ?
    How to earn with a viral websites…..?

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  31. Thanks Servando,
    amazing post, i will implement all above things to make my campaign success. you have complete guide to learn the facebook paid advertising properly.

    Reply

  33. Hello Sir,
    I am quite new to blogging. Probably, a content writer you wants to be a blogger. In general, should i paste the link of my blog post on the facebook page? One more thing, do I need to activate adsense first before sending the traffic from facebook page?

    Reply

    • Yes, and yes. You need to have your Adsense account approved first, and for that you need a website which doesn’t seem to be new or without content or they might reject you.

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    • That requires a lot of testing and there are many strategies. I recommend you to take a course on ow to scale your ads because it’s something that can’t be explained in a comment or even 1 post.

      Reply

  37. yes this is work well with the “next and previous buttons” thnks man, i know someone he use this method, and he made 6 figures

    Reply

  39. Hola servando te quiero comentar algo, soy un novato en el cpa ya tuve mi primera campaña exitosa en trafico pop. Supongamos que tengo 1800 dolares para invertir, que seria mas sensato usar estar estrategia y despues monetizar con audience ,propellerads o mejor sigo aprendiendo sobre cpa?

    “He leido tus tres articulos sobre este tema estan geniales sigue haciendo contenido asi”

    Reply

    • I don’t recommend it unless you separate them like I mentioned in different pages or even better, different domains for this strategy.

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  41. Sir, thanks for the wonderful guide.

    Rewrite the stories from your own point of view, ad videos or whatever you need, and “always link to the sources”.

    By “always link to the sources” means reference to the original content?

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  42. SEO is one of the best tools for digital marketing. This post helps to get the new strategy for marketing.

    Reply

  45. hello
    i was have 0.21 cpc in adsence and ctr 2% and after 4 days my ctr became 5 and the cpc became so low 0.04
    note my target country south africa and 99% from mobile
    please help me what i must do to back to cpc 0.21or above 0.1
    thank you

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    • That’s normal as you only see the average of cost per click and you now have a lot more clicks.

      This would e a problem if your CTR was still 2% and your CPC went down.
      Also it can change from day to day so make sure you get a lot of traffic before assuming you will get an specific CTR and CPC.

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  47. Great Silva, I run a health niche website and have been promoting a link to the site via FB ads, I tried with $1 a day but I couldn’t manage to get more than $1 via google adsense in that day, mostly i could manage $0.8 with around 700 page views.I have developed fear to scale the budget to $10 per day as I might lose more money, what’s your advise on this particular scenario.

    Reply

    • $1 per day is nothing to test.
      You should at least start with $5.
      If you got 80% of that money back then start investing and optimizing your campaigns until they’re profitable.

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  48. Hello Servando,

    I have a health relates site which have articles about home remedies, yoga, health tips, medicinal plants and superfood. I have google adsense on my website but not earning anything.

    Do you thing your idea is going to work on my website. I have a FB fan page with 30000 followers.

    Thanks

    Reply

  49. Hi servando,
    thanks for sharing this tips.. questions though, adsense have an Auto Ads recommendation, should I just set the Auto Ads or set the ads just like you said, 2 square ads and 1 skyscrappers ad set?

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  51. Hi Servando. Very nice post! The last four years I have runned a viral page. On average I had 40-50.000 visitors each day and that without ever boosted a post.

    The last week I have had terrible reach on all my articles. Videos and images still have great reach. Articles is down to about 500-1000 persons reached on a facebook page with 80k followers. (I have several facebook pages)

    I have never changed my domain. Do you think that could be smart, and if yes, why is that smart?

    Reply

    • It could be smart, but who knows. It’s worth a test because Facebook has many ways to flag you, including your domain, your page, your API, your ad account and more.
      So testing with a different domain or simply picking on any other website and send traffic to it could let you know if the decrease in reach is due to your domain or your fan page overall.

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    • Your facebook page is where all the traffic is going to come from. Without it there’s no traffic and no earnings.

      Reply

  53. Great Article, I wonder if it still works in 2018, I am about to find out.
    Servando, you mentioned about the use of a VPS Server, but you dont explain why is this necessary and how to set it up. Do you have an information source you could recommend?

    Reply

    • Hi Carlos. Make sure you read the following articles in this series.
      As for the VPS, the one I recommend is self explanatory as you can deploy WordPress with 1 click, but if not there are a lot of guides around already.
      The reason you need a VPS is because you’re going to receive hundreds or thousands of visits per day once you start sending traffic, so the faster it loads the better for your visitors and your earnings.

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  56. I already have a budget for boosting FB posts but would like to create a separate budget for FB marketing. With Facebook further limiting reach with planned changes to their newsfeed, is it still viable to spend money getting people to like your page?

    If it is, assume I’d spend $20/day boosting image/video posts (since they get more interaction). With the goal of getting people to like my page, would that $20 be well spent or would it be better put towards somewhere else to promote my brand (i.e: Twitter, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Outbrain,…)?

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    • It will all depend on how viral is your post.
      If it’s a mediocre post with low CTR it won’t work. If it’s a good one then it will do wonders.

      It0s always been like that, however every day it becomes a bit more difficult.

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  57. Hi Servando,

    Thanks for all your information here. A few questions please:
    1. My idea is a premium URL, parenting 101 site. The URL with the best SEO metrics is imperfect English (i.e. HowToChangeTire.com rates better than HowToChangeAtire.com). Does this matter from an earning or advertising perspective? How best to handle this? I purchased both domains.

    2. How do you avoid the content you post on the Facebook fan page from canabalizing the website traffic? Is it only a teaser on Facebook?

    3. Do you recommend buying IStock photos or is it ok to copy from Google images?

    4. I am still a bit confused by AdSense and Facebook targeting. I think you’re saying don’t target too much at first, but we also need to keep the CTR high and cost per user low. What’s the balance for targeting?

    Thanks.

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    • Hello.
      1. No, it doesn’t matter from an advertising perspective most of the times.
      2. Canibalizing which traffic? I don’t understand. On fB you publish the link and maybe a line or two of text. After that if people want to read the article they need to go to your website.
      3. I’ve never done that so I’m not sure to be honest. We always source our photos from Google search and never had a problem in years.
      5. Initially you don’t target much, however after a while you build lookalike audiences from people who visit your page and you can start targeting those specific audiences.

      Hope this helps.

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  58. Hello Servando sir,
    I have been doing exactly the same for my Indian audience. Highest i’have made in a day is 450$ in last month.

    I made a few mistakes while learning this ie, I started using “Play Button” or “GIF button ” in my Ad image and as a result got my 4 advert accounts banned.

    I will not repeat this, though the results in starting were amusing 😃

    My issue: Its been 10 days and I have tried automatic bidding, manual bidding, changed the post, changed the URL, Change the website, changed Ad account, changed Facebook page.. But my ads aren’t getting enough reach (I mean forget about manual bidding, it isn”t even reaching at automatic bidding)

    What could be the issue sir?
    Plus, I had a page that is banned now, I do have other pages but they do not have more than 200 likes (My banned page had 3 M likes 😢)

    Does Facebook page likes affect your advert’s reach when you’re promoting links?

    Please help me sir, I will be very thankful.

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    • Your page could be flagged or if you ads are not running your account could be under review. This happens many times if they suspect you’re the same person they banned 4 times before.

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  62. Tell me.

    There is a problem buying advertising on mobile devices with FB ADS, when a visitor navigates, the FB opens the site in its mobile browser and cuts out all ad units of adsense.

    Is there a solution to this problem?

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      • Thank you.

        I tried, but the effect is very small for my audience.

        I have 5 pages ~ 1m subscribers.

        Can I get in touch with you and talk? Write me an email.

        thx

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        • If most of your audience comes from desktop devices then use Adsense+Native ads.
          I don’t do personal coaching, sorry.

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    • If this was easy everybody would do it and it wouldn’t work.
      Definitely requires a lot of work, patience and money to build a business.

      Reply

  65. Hi Servando, thanks for sharing your system.

    Can you please expand on:

    1) “always link to the sources” (any good sample page from the net to show?). Let’s say I find a viral news on CNN. I then write a unique article on the same news and include the actual link to the source. Do I include the URL Source: https://www.cnn… or just mention Source: CNN?

    2) Images: where do I get them?

    3) I also don’t understand this: “8am image, 10pm link to article 1, noon image …”

    Thanks

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    • Hi Brian.
      1. Yes, you include the link you in the first example you mentioned.
      2. Google is your friend 🙂
      3. In your fanpage, to keep engagement you can publish an image/video in the morning and every 3-4 hors, and between those posts, you post youtr links to your site to make money. If you only post links your reach dies because you have less engagement.

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  66. Hi Servando, I’m really impressed how good you are explaining steps and I’m happy that you always answer all the questions. That motivates me to learn all about this nice business.
    Look, I’m ready to start this strategy but I have a great doubt about copy write infringement. I know AdSense is very strict and a viral blog needs images and videos from other sources. My question is: is it enough to link the source to avoid AdSense ban?
    Of course, I will write the posts on my own point of view.
    P.D. Sorry for my basic English.

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    • Yes, Adsense checks more about copied text than images. As long as you write your own articles and link to the source you won’t have problems.

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  67. I’ve noticed that the link to the Morning Theme doesn’t seem to lead to that specific theme, and I can’t find it on that website. Have they stopped offering it? If that’s the case, do you have other suggestions, besides the other mentionned in the post? I was looking forward to using it.

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    • Hi Gabrielle.
      Yes, it seems they stopped updating that theme and deprecated it.
      Elegant Themes has several ones that could work as well as WPZoom. I tend to change themes every couple months anyway to avoid banner blindness.

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    • Testing a ton of ad sizes, colors, positions, etc to improve your CTR.
      In out best times we reached 11-14% CTR (I haven’t seen those numbers in a while though), and it was just a matter of testing a lot and creating super viral articles.

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    • Yes, I did a couple times.
      We just deleted the reported content and problem solved. It was as easy as going to the wordpress dashboard and deleting the post.

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  70. I already have a page with 13k likes that were generated organically(without paying). Can I just use that page without spending anything on ads for now or will I still have to pay for ads, I know I’ll have to pay to get the website up and going but hopefully I can save a lot on not spending on ads until I get more capital.

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    • If the page has good engagement you can start making money from it, but 13 likes is just barely enough to start monetizing it, so eventually you’ll want to run ads to your best posts and keep growing it.

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  71. My question is how do you target people on facebook who are into viral news stuff? Is there a specific parameter on facebook ads which help you find people who are interested in viral news?

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    • Initially you need to either go broad (just target country and ages) or you can target other viral sites fans. After it you will build audiences with your pixel and create lookalikes from them to get better engagement and interaction.

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  73. Amazing! you have explained them pretty simple and crystal clear… I wonder if you could share us such a tips and trick to balance between traffic and revenue as I now start from non VPS Server. Thank you for the sharing…

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  75. Hi !!
    Thank you for such a helpful post.
    One friend of mine and I have recently started a facebook page and a youtube channel. its been 28 days and we have nearly reached 1500 likes on Facebook and almost 70 subscribers on youtube.
    https://www.facebook.com/abitemore/
    We are building our website content as well.
    Our website and page mainly revolve around food. We cook delicious quick bites and write their full description.

    Now, we both are from different background and have very less knowledge about monetizing this whole thing. If you could provide us with some guiding tips would be a great help.

    Thanks

    Reply

    • Hi there.
      If you have a small budget, even if it’s only $1-3 USD per day I’d create Facebook videos about your recipes and use video ads to promote your Youtube channel. it’s a great strategy and FB loves videos while you still send the people to the whole video on YT and the end up subscribing.

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  76. So what are we doing wrong at our website? Followed the whole procedure but currently at 9~10USD a day with Adsense. Better Templates? Better Business? Better content? Or did are the ads on the wrong location?

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    • There’s no “wrong” location.
      Are your posts going viral or not? that’s the key of success to this.

      Also, please make sure to read this guide as it is updated and works much better nowadays than Adsense.

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  77. Hola excellente artículo aunque veo que ahora recomiendas que monetizar con fbinstant articles. Mi pregunta es : quiero hacer lo mismo del artículo pero mi meta para comenzar sería ganar unos 5-a 10 dólares diarios , cuanto tendría que invertir o cuantos fans debe tener la fanpage para llegar a este meta? gracias

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    • Probablemente con unos 10,000 fans de Tier 1 tengas para iniciar.
      Si es de países tier 2 o tier 3 necesitarás unos 30-50k fans.

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      • Excelente amigo muchas gracias me gusta tu blog tus artículos son muy prácticos , siempre ando en búsqueda de casos de estudio así se aprende más. Si alguna vez vendes guías o cursos en español para monetización con AdSense , Facebook o Amazon estaría bastante interesado en comprarlos.

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  78. Hey, has anyone noticed a significant increase in cost per like? I have almost 7,000 likes, and it’s cost a pretty penny. Also, Facebook is killing reach these days. This method was probably awesome a few years ago, but now it takes a significant amount of capital to get rolling and a solid gameplan to get the engagement. $5k minimum I’d estimate. Also, I’m going after U.S. likes.

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    • Yeah, this method works now with pure ads mostly, and it’s better if you use instant articles instead of adsense to monetize.

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      • I can’t even imagine how awesome one-cent likes were, I’d probably be a millionaire if I was on that gold rush haha. This method does still work, but it’s not for someone with little Facebook experience, startup capital. I’m going to try the instant articles. A good idea is to reach out to similar pages to see if they are willing to create a network or let you join theirs.

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    • FPTraffic now decreases your reach a bit as well.

      Facebook likes people posting or scheduling content manually for maximum reach and engagement.

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  81. hai ..silva
    its a very useful and informative article for grow our blog, increase our absence earning…and also useful for make viral our website…
    thank you very much for this article

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  82. hi thanks for this article i don’t speak and write english well i want hire content writer could u please provide me someone

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  85. I want to follow your advice from start to finish.
    Am a newbie help me to make money online as I spend a lot of money without any income.
    Regards.

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  87. Hello,

    I have great CTR but my CPC from Canada traffic is 0.09€-0.18€ ,, whats cause of this?
    Is it because i use facebook ads to drive traffic to my website? Or is it because Articles are poorly optimized for keywords?

    Any ideas what would help? Thanks !

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  88. Could you tell me more about content curation strategy, as many viral websites go along with it? And also the tools needed to curate a piece of content that can re-shared on social media for the sake of social media marketing as a part of driving social traffic to a viral website.
    Thanks

    Reply

    • I never used tools for this, but doing searches on FB and keeping up a list of the best trending articles and viral page sin your bookmarks helped me a lot to get ideas to replicate.

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  89. Hello Servando Silva

    I have enjoyed your article and learning a lot, but want to ask how can I actual make money posting ads of my face book ad page. I have done it but found out who I was doing it for was a scam… I actually made them some money too, I pay to boost it and it worked. So tired of being scammed. Can you please help me by leading my the right way to actual make some money. I am currently using AdSense for someone else and getting paid little to nothing. Want to start on my own with AdSense but need to know what the steps are to put on my own to make money, instead of being the middle man..

    Reply

    • Adsense is not a scam and starting your “own” Adsense as a company would need a lot of work. why not use Adsense or FB instant articles?

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      • No I’m not say AdSense is a scam I’m getting paid little to nothing with them, I would was saying another company Jobzipo was. Ok will try to find out how to use FB Instant Articles. Thank you!!

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  90. Hi SERVANDO SILVA

    Good to hear your Articles. I am SEO started seo company too, little bit knowledge in PPC can we earn this ( 1,00000) amount in Ad sense? I ready to investment to put Ad in Facebook but content writing only struck for me. Could you help and guide me to start one website for complete Adsense to earn money. Here I drop my mail id and website kindly contact me.

    Reply

    • You’re asking if you can make 100,000? per month? per year?
      I don’t do private coaching or anything like that so don’t drop your email here. Sorry.

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  92. Hello!
    Thank you for that method it really changed my life.

    I am using facebook ads to promote my viral articles.. I test them with budget 3€ a day and when they are profitable, i keep them running. I use Adsense and have 3-6€ RPM.
    On facebook ads i use Traffic campaign and it varies but i can have 0,01€ to 0,003€.
    And I am making fine money however i dont invest into growing my facebook page / 15k likes..

    What would you recommend me to do to improve? Should i just test more articles and make more money with them, or grow my page to 100k likes or someting different?

    And optimisation for delivery, which is better, link clicks or impressions?
    And why i have on article#1 CTR 16% and CPM 0,50€ and on article#2 CTR 8% and cpm 0.25€// i mean on facebook ads, didnt better ctr means better cpm?

    I would love to see your response thank you very much!

    Reply

    • If you’re making money just keep doing what you’re doing and scale out. The initial 5-10k fans are good to get started at the beginning but since you’re already in another phase it’s fine.

      As for the optimization, for viral traffic we do link clicks or content views using the retargeting pixel.

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          • Last question please,, i saw when i increased budget to 100€ the cost per link click went rapidly up..

            Should i duplicate one adset 10 times and make 10€ budget on each? Would it be better?

            And what worked for you,, optimilisation for link click vs impression,,,, and pay for impressions vs link clicks

            Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us

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  93. Hi I created a food blog website and paid for 1 fb ad with a budget of $3 a days, I also have a fan page with non of my post or articles on it, just my page profile and cover pictures, I choose to drive traffic on my website directly , but I got just 2 clicks, 68 impression and 68 reach In 11 hours, CPC $0.81, why did I have just 2 clicks and that much reach? Please advise me on how to get more click to my website on Facebook ads

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    • One of the reasons could be you have a really bad targeting or expensive audience.
      It’s better to target a few people until you get at least 5,000 likes and then start driving traffic from there than just going for website traffic.

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      • thanks very much for the advise, my target is USA, very expensive as you said, will go for the likes as you have instructed, i appreciate your prompt reply.

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  94. Hello servando. I have read your articles a number of times and i am impressed. Please i would like to know if this still works in november 2017. I see that this post was written in 2014.
    There was a time in 2015 when facebook changed their alogrithm. This affected a lot of bloggers. So does thia still work?
    Thanks

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  95. Hello Servando, you always have nice articles and I appreciate your work. I have an educational blog and not a viral site and my target market is the US. I’m targeting earning $50 daily on the site and I just got approved by Google. Will I achieve my target if I build my Facebook page and use the strategy you talked about in this article? If not, what would you advise that I do? Again I’m starting with little or no budget. Thank you very much.

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    • Probably not. The idea of this strategy is to have real viral articles, and that’s probably difficult to achieve in your niche.
      If you’re starting with no budget I’d focus on SEO ranking low competition keywords.

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  96. hi
    i try your strategie but i have some question
    i have a newspaper theme 8 and CTR it’s just 0.50% and CPC 0.12 cent and i use hostgator
    do you think if i use a new theme and vps i will get more CTR and CPC?

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  97. I’ve been following this article for awhile and have put things into action. I have a question though. What about a website that is just with viral videos? Rewriting multiple stories is time consuming without outsourcing but posting viral videos and writing a brief summary of what it’s about with a little extra banter is way easier and I’ve come across some sites actually doing this. What’s your take on it?

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    • I’ve done it and it works. Just make sure you have at least a couple paragraphs explaining the video and not just the video embedded.
      150-300 words should be fine.

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      • I really appreciate this reply. I needed it to make sure that I wasn’t wasting my time and I was already writing articles with 150-300 words, sometimes 500 which was stretching it but now that I got your confirmation I feel like I’m on the right path. Thanks again!

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  98. Hi Sevando
    Great article! Respect
    I was thinking about the same.
    My question is that whats the RPM for this kind of traffic? Is it more than 1$ and is it safe to use Google adsense?

    Reply

    • No, we don’t do that for various reasons to avoid competition, people literally stealing and copying your niches, etc.

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  100. These are really useful . Most of the peoples copy the same content and post on their pages. And they do get likes and shares. Do you think its good or we should create our own content for social networks.
    Thanks

    Reply

  101. Hey, i would like to ask you that what are your views on using autopilot plugins and autospinner for viral content blog?

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    • I don’t like using them because copy is important to engage with readers along with the pictures/videos and headlines. I prefer taking 10 minutes per article myself than leaving a machine do it and have a very lousy article that doesn’t perform.

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  102. This all sounds good except the part about posting images. If you don’t own the images, how can you legally post them? It seems time-consuming to find who owns them, ask for permission to use, and wait for their reply (if they even give permission to you to use their images).

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    • You link to the source and problem solved. The same happens with videos.
      Everybody in the internet post images taken from google or other places and nothing happens unless it’s something trademarked or something very specific. When that happens, you just link to the source and make clear that you’re not the owner of the image.

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  104. do this still work in 2017 please . I mean if i make million fan base on facebook ,will this really boost my adsense income ..do adsense not recognize the traffic source

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  105. Hello,

    How can i contact you in private please ? I have more than 4million fans on facebook french, but i have a very low ctr in adsense, i have some questions for you.

    Thank you a lot !

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  107. Servando, I have a website called Jackfroot.com. Do you think it’s possible to make $10,000 a month from Adsense?

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  108. Hi, do you still doing this? using FB ads to drive traffic to website?
    What is you invalid traffic?
    I heard somewhere that using facebook ads to drive traffic to website and combine with adsense, will give invalid traffic and the CPC is low.
    Can you please share what you think about this?

    thanks.

    Reply

  109. This is one of 40 or 50 articles I have read lots of time over internet .
    I am bit confused to choose facebook ads as there are lots of ads type in facebook , like boost post, drive traffic to website and get more engagement as liks or comment .
    But I am confused to to choose better one and how to maintain my roi as atleast 100% .
    If you have already written an article regarding this , please help me to find this.

    Reply

    • Clicks to website is what you want at the beginning to send traffic.

      Keeping your ROI at least at 100%? you’re dreaming though…

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  110. Hi,

    Actually this is very interesting. how do i start this kind of project can you help me sir
    i have IT knowledge but my english is poor
    If you can help me it ‘s appreciated sir

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  111. Hello, I would like to know what theme do you recommend me that is mobile responsive and that loads faster for my new viral blog? I have it with WP.org I am just starting and I would like to improve it with a new and better theme.

    Thanks in advance!

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    • I like themes like the Genesis Framework or some that you can find at Themeforest but I don’t have any personal favorite.

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  113. Thank you so much for your awsome content and your big effort.
    I am looking for a free theme responsive to mobile devices ( my niche is mental health ).

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  114. Have Purchased domain for this project or using subdomain of WordPress , also please recommend the best domain hosting , although I can google it , I prefer experience over search result.

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  117. Hello, Couple questions.
    1. Do I have to purchase a wordpress AND Vultr account?
    2. Which wordpress plan should I use? Personal, Premium or business?

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    • Hello Austin.
      WordPress is free and there’s no purchase cost. You should look at WordPress.org

      If you look at WordPress.com you can’t monetize your site and there’s a cost as they host everything for you, but you never really own your website completely so I never recommend going for the .com route

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    • What are you doing to get people to your site? Having unique content is important but it doesn’t mean people are going to visit your site just because of it if they don’t even know it exists.

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  121. Did you use the free version of Word Press? If so what template are you using and how are you placing the ads within the actual posts without plugins? Thank you love your work.

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    • No. I would never use their free version.
      Also you can’t put ads in the free version of WordPress so this strategy only works for WordPress.org

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    • There’s o best placement. You need to test several placements and sizes until you find your sweet spot for your audience and website design.

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  126. Thanks for the share! How to get higher click rate from USA traffic? I am getting $8 from lump sum 100 ad clicks. On web I have read that disabling Dining & Nightlife, Home & Garden, Occasions & Gifts and Real Estate categories from adsense setting can make more bucks. Whats your opinion? Plz guide

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  128. Hi,

    I am about to start my own viral blog, after reading this i am feeling like really good.

    Thanks for the inspiration

    Regards,

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  129. Hi, please i need your help. Some of my facebook pages got unpublished. It has 250k likes and it is stil unbuplieshed. I couldn’t recover it. It got unpublished because i posted earning ads on it. And also i have another faceook page but im afraid to earn money from it because i think when we post earning ads on facebook they unpublish pages. So i need to know whether the adsense ads make pages unpublish? and does facebook alowe to post adsense ads on facebook fan pages? Please help me 🙂

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  130. Hi,

    It is good idea but I need to ask you something. Are you following same strategy of viral websites right now?
    I think that such tricks can earn you some money for short period of time but for longer run, you need original and quality content website like stream-seo. Am I right?
    And quality websites give you more income rather than such viral websites.

    Reply

  131. Hello Servando!

    Thank you for the great and inspiring post, I have three questions:

    1- Do you also promote the articles that you share? or just the page itself?
    2- When should I change my marketing plan? When should I pause and edit the FB marketing strategy? What I mean is, is it fine to spend 20$ per day and get 5$ from Adsense as a start? if yes when do you think I should earn as much as I pay?
    3- Do you think targeting one country in the Facebook ads is better than multiple countries? And any recommendations on which countries to start marketing to?

    Thank you so much,

    Reply

    • Hello.
      Let me help you with some answers:
      1. Sometimes we promote articles, when we find they’re really good organically. The organic test comes first, and then only the best ones get promoted with ads.
      2. I like to start with $5-10 per day with each article to test the waters. This is the second phase test because the organic reach is the first test. We let ads run 2-3 days minimum but if the ROI is below -50% we can pause them on day 1.
      3. You can target multiple countries but do it in different campaigns.Don’t use the same campaign or adset to target multiple countries. You’ll mostly receive traffic from the countries with the lower CPMs if you mix them all.

      Finally, I would recommend you to read this article. It works better than using Adsense nowadays.

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      • One thing I’ve never really been clear on is audience. My page is nearing 6 digit likes but I’ve never been able to scale an article to a million views (while other sites with nearly the same article do). My question is do you start testing with your audience and their friends and scale to the same audience if it does. Or, do you recommend going broad and target a country and not bother advertising to fans if the page is not over 100,000 likes?

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        • Is your audience super engaged organically?
          I normally start testing with my audience organically, and if the response is good then I have different campaigns targeting different audiences to test. Here are the main ones I test:

          1. Campaign targeting the people who have engaged with my page posts in the lasts 3-6 months
          2. Campaign targeting interests (depends on the niche I’m working)
          3. Campaign targeting people who visited website (using the fb pixel)
          4. Lookalikes of all of the above

          I don’t use campaigns targeting friends of fans unless I have no idea initially who to target (this is normal when doing generic viral articles although i recommend going into a niche now to get better reach). Even so, once you have people engaging and visiting your website I would just leave “friends of fans” out of the targeting and focus on engaged people, people who have visited and lookalikes.

          Hope this helps.

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          • Thank you so much! This is going to be super helpful and can’t wait to try running campaigns you mentioned, especially #3. Never thought of trying FB pixel or lookalike audiences. My page does get good engagement organically but I think I focus too much on “friends of fans” thinking they’ll engage too so I’ll take your advice and leave them out of future campaigns. Cheers!

            Reply

            • The pixel nowadays is key for your campaigns.
              Using the pixel and lookalikes will help you a lot to bring prices down.

              Always glad to help.

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  132. Help Silva thanks for the information, I want to try by taking but my problem is as a newbie I need expert like you to help and assist me as I start.
    Esp on VPS installation, can you journey with me on starting?

    My second question is this, does this only work with WordPress, what about blogspot?

    Also can I use WordPress Wordads instead of AdSense?

    Reply

    • It works on blogspot but I never recommend people to start with a blogspot as Google can close your whole site whenever they want.

      As for the VPS, there are many guides out there to buy and setup a server. I don’t do private coaching about it. Sorry.

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  133. Thank you for the informative article. Could u plz sharing your experience of Facebook boosting? What about boosting web post links on website? Is it worthy?

    Reply

    • Hello.
      We have tried this in the last couple months with very mixed results.
      It seems like organic traffic has much better CPM rates than boosted traffic, so we’re focusing our ads on buying likes and getting new fans instead of boosting articles straight to the website.

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  134. Hi, Thanks for the great post. I will start immediately.

    One question I have is after you boost your story with fb ads w/ $10/day budget, how long do you usually keep it running? As long as its still profitable or you have a certain limit? Thanks!

    Reply

    • If it’s profitable I’ll run it for as long as it’s still profitable, but if it’s not, then I’ll give it 2-3 days maximum to be optimized and if it’s still not profitable I’ll pause it and move to the rest of the articles.

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  136. Servando, is it possible to contact you directly? I would like to discuss this with you further, I promise I will not take too much of your time.

    Reply

    • Hello Alex.
      If you’re in my email list you can reply any of my emails and it will be forwarded to me.

      I should mention I don’t give private coaching and i’m not looking for joint ventures at the moment, just in case. But if you have a question related to the article that you don’t want to ask publicly for valid reasons I’ll be happy to answer you via email.

      Best Regards!

      Reply

  137. I have set up my site with intotaiment articles and Virals inside but i have got about $500 to start my add campaign. Can it still go along way for me?

    Reply

    • Hi Melvin
      What is intotaiment articles?
      $500 is a tight budget to get started with this, do you have more for the future just in case?

      Reply

  138. If I understand how the law works correctly, it’s perfectly legal to embed a YouTube video in an article you’re publishing on a Blog site. That’s because you’re sending business that YouTuber’s way. It’s just like providing a link in your article on a Blog site to someone else’s article for reference purposes. You’re sending business their way. However, if someone downloads a copy of someone else’s YouTube video on a website for their own financial gain and take away business from that other YouTuber in the process, then it becomes a problem from a legal standpoint. Correct me if I’m wrong.

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    • You’re correct.
      The reason I mention linking to the source in many cases is because not all the time the articles need to be made around youtube Videos. It could be something else, like just pure funny images and stuff like that, in which case I’d link to the original post just in case.
      If all the content is included in the video then it’s probably fine.

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  143. Hi thanks fort the post
    I have question , im working on viral site , do you thing I need to activate SEO on WordPress or not ? Or it will make only problem with copyright ?

    Reply

    • You don’t need it, this is all viral traffic so it doesn’t come from google.
      And copyright is something independent from SEO.

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  144. Hi Servando,

    Thank you very much for your valuable information!
    I have a question regarding viability in overall of this approach.
    Another author on the page below is claiming that it is not worth “buying” likes on Facebook through advertising, because engagement of audience will be almost zero.
    http://nichehacks.com/lessons-learned-viral-news/
    ” After several Facebook ad campaigns (99) and spending almost € 800 (about $900 USD), I ended up with 110,000+ page followers.

    This turned out to be a HUGE mistake that almost destroyed my page:

    New followers didn’t know or care about my project (even in the viral news business you have to build a good connection with your audience) and their engagement was close to nothing.

    Together with Facebook changes (organic reach for pages with more than 100k fans dropped to 5%, according to Locowise), my page’s reach dropped to shameful levels.”

    Could you please bring your thoughts on this?
    Is this approach still viable – as you described on this page?

    Cheers,
    Alex.

    Reply

    • He doesn’t explain how his fans ruined it and also he doesn’t explain what kind of targeting or ads he used.
      But I’m sure he did things wrong. With 110,000 targeted followers you will have a thriving audience that gets a lot of traffic to your site, if you do the correct targeting on FB.

      Also, it’s important to note that ads nowadays aren’t only to get likes, but also to drive Facebook after you got those people to reach them (especially if your organic reach is low).
      Check out our latest article about this 🙂

      I’ve seen there’s a trend of people who focus on SEO and most of them are really bad at paid traffic. Not sure why. I love both.

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  145. pls I’m from Nigeria,I ve a group I formed from Facebook where I ve over 2k members and counting, I want to be màking money so I post interesting stories and I get likes/comments.I want you to help me cos I wanna get a website and link it to my Facebook straight to my googleAdSense.
    how do I achieve that?is group page fan page ?
    I’m interested to know from you an experts.

    pls simple English will help me understand. kindly break it down.

    yours.
    z.k

    Reply

    • I¡m not sure I understand your question.
      But a Facebook group is not a Fan Page. They’re different and you can’t do ads for groups.

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  146. i have got an adsense account and i don’t just know how to get traffic to the site all i earn since i was given the account is just $0.96, hoow can i benefit from this please help me out

    Reply

    • Well, if you read this article we focus on social traffic from facebook ads.
      There are many ways to get traffic though, and you need to learn one and dominate it.

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    • Yes. Sometimes they discount 5-10% of the clicks at the end of the month. I have learned to live with it.

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  148. Thank you for the information. I was banned from Google adsense but started using propeller ads. Can this work with propeller ads. And what is your advice for my blog. Thanks

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  150. Assalam o Alaikum…!
    Thanks for your great article, i send near 3k to 4k daily traffic using twitter, Facebook and other social media site. i have a problem, my this traffic showing in my site but adsense account is showing only 15 page views and 30-40 impressions.
    what is the problum i have? kindly Help me

    I need your help can connect with you?

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  151. Thank you very much for this Great article Sir.
    Please I have News site, Where some of my content( post and images) Can be seen in other sites.
    Can I get google Adsense approval.
    Please reply me Sir.

    Reply

    • I don’t know.
      That’s up to Adsense but usually they require it to be a few weeks old and with enough content not to look empty.

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  153. Thanks for the great article
    I have a problem. I brought visitors from the UK but the click price is very low “cpc = 0.06$ ” . Note that most of the Traffic phones are via Facebook Ads.

    Do you have a solution to the problem.
    Thanks

    Reply

    • It’s not a problem.
      The way you make more money with Adsense is by increasing your CTR mostly, not increasing your CPC.

      As for the mobile traffic from Facebook, you can control it when you setup your campaigns so it only shows for people browsing on desktop. But mobile traffic is good as well, so it’s more a problem of people not getting enough clicks (CTR) and testing a lot of layouts, ad sizes and combinations to increase your earnings per visitor (not earnings per click).

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  154. Hello Servando,

    Thanks for this article. I found it at the right time. However, I have a few quick questions.

    1) with a budget of 3k to be spent over three months with this technique, am I good?

    2) my Ads on facebook should be targeted at getting new page likes right?

    3) Is it a good idea targetting India and USA at the same time?

    Reply

    • Hi there.
      1. It’s a very decent budget. make sure you read the second part of the article and also the article we recently published about Facebook Audience Network and Instant Articles.

      2. At first, yes, but then you’ll need to target you ads to your fans to send them to your website.

      3. No, never mix 2 countries in the same campaign.

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  155. The image shows 2013, does this still work same to this day or cost of ad’s and competition too high!

    Reply

    • Competition is higher for sure. Nowadays you need an edge but still works if you read part 2 and some of our latest blog posts as well.

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  156. Hello Servando
    First of all I think you meant ” I’m sure it still works in july 2017.” not ” I’m sure it still works in july 2014.”

    Thank you for your post, it’s really interesting.
    I wanna ask you a question, my website http://www.litemovies.com is getting 60% of traffic from USA, UK and canada my CPC and RPM are very low, (CPC $0.08, RPM 0.5), So is there an tips to improve my stats and increase my earning via adsense.
    Thank you again.

    Reply

    • Oooops. Yeah, that’s what I meant.

      As for your earnings, I think the main reason is your banner locations and sizes.
      If you added a couple of big rectangle banners inside the content (1st paragraph and maybe one in the middle or the end) it would give you much more than using 2 small ads in the sidebar and 1 at the top.

      The key here is to split test as many locations and sizes/colors to fine the winning one for your site.

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      • Thank You Servando for your reply.
        I’m gonna follow your tips and change my ads’ locations and sizes.

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  157. Is it so competitive or I can start it?

    I live in a third world country and it will take me months just to spare 70$, do you suggest I start doing this?

    I tried many ways to earn money online but never found success even with freelancing, please advice me as you are more experienced

    Reply

    • Hello.
      Yes, it will be always be competitive, for sure.
      Where there’s a way to make money, people will pour in and be greedy about it. It’s just the nature of the system.

      If it takes you month to spare $70 I wouldn’t recommend it. You need at least a couple grand ($2,000) to learn and start testing things, which would take you years to get. If you’ve got a lower buget like that maybe start with something “easier” like blogging or SEO. They are competitive as well and they take time and efforts but you don’t a high budget to start a blog.

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  158. Hi Servando, nice to meet you. 🙂
    It is good to see your post, and i have learnt much from them. I have one question regarding to the using of the article pictures and videos in our own website.

    I saw you have suggest some recommendation on how to get the ideas of viral contents everyday. Like going to “Upworthy” and “Viralnova” to check out.

    But, if we copy those pictures/videos to our website article (of course i will rewrite the article contents again), is it citing the image contents source and put on DMCA notice at our website will be able to help us avoid the law cases and google adsense banned?

    I do understand we need to seek for approval from the website owner for using the picture/contents, but sometime those big sites wont even bother to reply our email request.. and consider we need to write 3-5 article everyday, it is really time consuming if want to use the picture in every article… And for the image get from shutterstock, they don’t allow their photo for commercial uses… meaning if the article has the picture get from the shutterstock inside, we cannot monetize the article with adsense ads…

    So, can i ask what is your advice on this part of issue? I am interested in the blogging field, but i am quite worry for this issue. Hope i can get some advice from you before i start my journey.

    Look forward for your reply.

    Thank you.
    Regards,
    Alan

    Reply

    • Hello Alan.
      Just make sure you link then at the bottom of the article as the source and there shouldn’t be no problems.
      Many of the videos those big pages use are just embedded videos from Youtube, so it’s not even their content.

      But don’t copy the text, write the article yourself to avoid penalties from Google/Google Adsense.

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      • You said “shouldn’t be no problems.” in your last message. Is it typo error?

        So what you means is if i copy those photos to the article in my website, i just need to cite like this: “Image Source: from Business Insider” under the photos. And then i have to attach the hyperlink URL of the original article webpage to the words “Business Insider”. Then, it should be all fine right?

        But, is there any cautions need to be take note when we take someone else photos? Like try not to takes those professional photographer photos? So sorry for having so many questions about the same topic, i just hope to get all things clear before start the blog, i am quite worry for this kind of legal case…

        Yes, i understand the article text need to be rewrite. Otherwise it will ban by google for duplicate contents.

        Thank you for your advice. 🙂

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        • Yes, that’s what I meant.
          I should have said “There shouldn’t be any problems”.

          For viral articles you’re not going to take professional photographers photos. Most of the times they are google images or even screenshoots from the viral videos edited with paint/photoshop.

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  159. let’s say i have 30k usd to invest, is there a different way for this kind of technique to scale up quickly as possible?

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  160. Hello,Thats a great article what i have a doubt i have just a shared hosting,Can i do it on shared hosting ?

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  161. Hey great article ,i was just wondering if you run facebook ads and have google adsense on your blog, wont google adsense ban you for paid traffic? They normally ban alot of people for paid traffic. Any help?

    Reply

    • They normally ban for people who do incentive traffic or fraud, but social media traffic is real and legal. Sometimes what they do is discount a portion of your income (e.g. 10% of your earnings) if they feel the traffic is low quality, and there’s always a risk of ban with them but most of the times it’s just fine.

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  162. Hi Servando,

    Great article. I do owned two news portal sites. One in Nepalese and other with English contents. I’ve above 50k unique visitors to my English sites and about 80k in Nepalese contents site daily. Most of my visitors are redirected from my FB page. I’ve 2.6 millions likes and follow for my FB page and very engaged and interactive. I’ve built a large community. However, I am not getting the revenue as I should have from AdSense. Most of my viewers are from Nepal and U.S.. I know you mentioned above that you don’t give private coaching or mentoring.
    Thanks

    Reply

    • Nepal has very low rates, I assume, but USA should have decent ones.
      You should also try some adsense alternatives since you have USA traffic.

      Reply

  163. I am reading this in 2017. Does this strategy still work? I am using a funny pictures website instead of viral news, I think it’s the same thing. I want to monetize my traffic with AdSense. The question is, I have 10k+ fans in my Facebook business page. And I don’t get a lot of traffic from them. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I post 1 to 2 links per day and my reach is 25 views per post. Sometimes I don’t get any visits. I don’t know whats wrong?!?

    Reply

    • Yes, it works if your audience is engaged.
      How did you build those 10k fans? From the numbers you tell me it sounds like it’s almost dead on engagement. What happens when you post images? How many likes/comments/shares do you get on average?

      Reply

  164. Thanks for this Super long and Informative Article.

    Is it necessary to make Facebook Page, can we do without it?

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  165. thank you, I work with your method it is good but CPC in AdSense is low about 0.12 although I target high country payment (USA, NZ, AU). please, any tips to can get high CPC.
    by the way, my niche is entertainment

    Reply

    • If it’s viral sites the CPC will always be a bit low, and you have to work and compensate with with lots of traffic AND having a decent CTR.
      If you choose a niche you can do some keyword research with the adwords tool and see which keywords you can use to get higher CPCs and include those keywords in the content as long as they make sense.

      Reply

  166. Hi. The thing that worries me is potential legal issues..like someone saying I used an image without permission. How worried should I really be?

    Reply

    • Most people don’t care and unless you’re using something like a famous person or brand nothing happens 99% of the times.
      For the other 1% usually it’s just a letter to take down the ad or website where you’re mentioning it, which is just a couple clicks in WordPress to delete the post and keep on with new posts.

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  167. Great Article. So at the start, we run a campaign for likes to our web page right? So once get a certain amount of likes, do we just start running ads at our current fan page followers, or is there a certain target audience you would recommend to target?

    Reply

    • Yes, you got it right.
      First build your fan page up to 5,000 or 10,000+ followers and then you run the website ads and target them.

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  168. hey thank you very much for the great article i am workin on a arabic website what do you think about UAE and saudi arabia cpc ?

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  169. Hello, what do you think about Greece? Is the CPC good?
    I would also want to know if Blogger is a good alternative option for WordPress
    Thanks in advance!

    Reply

  170. Hi Servando, you have said in your article “always link to the sources”, do you mean put the link of the source website into your website, could you please explain more ?
    Also for the videos, shall we put the video of “viralnova” into our website ? if not, from where can we get these video to put it as a viral information ?

    Thank you in advance for your reply

    Reply

    • Yes, it means putting a link somewhere to say the image or article was sourced from whatever page you took inspiration.
      I don’t think there’s a video of viralnova. Not sure what you’re trying to ask here.

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      • I mean, there are videos in viralnova website, as exemple (http://www.viralnova.com/deer-motorcycle/), so may I download the video or just put the link of the whole page as source ? how it shoud be done ?
        Another point I want to approach is FB ads, to get an audience from USA is very high cost, so it’s difficult to get huge traffic from an audience that give you high ROI, you should have a good budget to start, whereas others countries are cheaper to get traffic from, but also the revenue will be very low from their adsence clicks, that’s the big issue !

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  171. Thanks for your great post. So the viral site will be a news site right? Do you have any suggestions for the domain? Also I think the part 3 will be the most difficult part since it’s quite time consuming to choose viral topics and most pics we don’t have the copyright to post…

    Also, I have a CPC site of health tips related topics, I know it is a quite competitive niche and SEO will be very costly, I have created a Facebook page for this site, problem is that the topics may not be so viral… Do you think I can get a chance for getting traffic from FB ads?

    Reply

    • The domain is the less important of all. Don’t spend more than 5 minutes on it and get it.

      As for your niche, your articles won’t probably go viral but you can get a lot of good traffic out of it if you know how to monetize it.

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  172. thank you for this rich article.
    I make a Fb ads for my blog article I get this result:
    CTR: 19,745%
    CPC:0.06
    budget:5 EUR
    reach:500
    post engagement:83
    Click(ALL):104
    how can increase the volume of my reached audience? I see some marketer reach to 4000 just in 3 dollars.
    In Adsense how can increase CTR? please, I need your help can connect with you.

    Reply

    • Hello. I don’t give private coaching or mentoring, but your CPC and CTR are already very good.
      Try mixing engagement ads with traffic ads so you get lower CPCs at the same time that you get more engagement.

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      • Thank you for your reply, please I can’t understand how mixing engagement ads with traffic ads, you mean choosing traffic objective and make image clickable. I am a beginner in this. thank you Servando

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        • That’s correct.
          You can publish a link which is a big image that drives traffic to a post and boost it for traffic or boost it for engagement, but if you do both at the same time it tends to have better results.

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  173. Hello!!!
    First of all, Thanks for the super article.
    I am going to start a new site with this strategy. My site language will be URDU and targeted country would be Pakistan.
    I wanna ask that how the site language will impact on CPC?
    What relationship can happen betweem Cost Per Result & CPC for Oakistani traffic?

    Looking for you reply…Thanks in advance.

    Reply

    • Hello Kamal.
      Pakistan has very low CPCs so your traffic will be super cheap but also your revenue will be low.
      It’s probably one of the worst countries to get started because the value of Pakistan traffic is very low and most advertisers don’t work there.

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  174. Does this method really works?? And is it an good idea to get traffic to blog from facebook, will it not create any problem in google rankings? And one more thinf to build great fans you will also need huge investment?

    Reply

    • Yes, it works.
      As for Google rankings, it doesn’t matter. Google actually loves when a website has a lot of traffic, but even if it didn’t, this article is not focused on SEO, so people don’t care about what google thinks with this strategy specifically.

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  175. Hello,

    I run a celebrity blog and I need audience from the United States and Europe mostly, Any idea or suggestion that what type of stories I should Publish or what type of audience should I target and test via facebook ads. My website is wcelebs(.)com. If you can look at my website, guide me personally for the articles and facebook targeting I can also pay you. You can also check my website’s facebook page I have recently posted videos there. But the main question is what I asked at the starting of this comment. What type of celebrity stories and what type of audience to target to get cheap traffic via Facebook from the USA and European countries. Thanks in advance.

    Reply

    • Hello.
      I really can’t know your audience as I don’t run celebrity blogs. That’s something you should test a lot until you find the best interests for your ads.

      Reply

      • Thanks for the reply. I think testing like that would require a lot of money. Any convenient way where I won’t have to spend much to find the correct audience on Facebook?

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  176. Hi servando

    Thanks for this great article

    1 – where i can hire a good writer with reasonable cost ..

    2 – are you boost all of your daily articles by FB ads , or what u exactly do

    thanks

    Reply

    • Hi
      1. You can find them in forums or freelance websites.
      2. I boost them based on how they do organically first. If they have a good organic reach then it’s time to test some paid traffic. if they do really bad organically it’s not worth doing the test to lose money. Move on to the next article.

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  177. Hi! I have been with Google Adsense for years already and for my case I guess I am not earning enough to sustain my hosting expenses from my Adsense earning.
    I’m getting around above 1k pageviews daily and an almost 3k followers on my page.
    My website specifically feature Horror Stories and I get to publish stories on my website, Twitter and Facebook at least once or twice daily.
    I’m still thinking why I’m not earning very well on my website. Please advise.

    Reply

    • Well, if you have really tested all the ad variations, sizes and position in your site then there’s not much you can do.
      If not, that’s what you should test first. Also, keep in mind the traffic prices change a lot from country to country.

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  179. what about Disclosure Policy page, Privacy Policy Page, About Page, Contact Page and a DMCA Policy Page , do i need all of them in my viral site ?
    thax in advance

    Reply

    • It makes the site looks better and avoids getting banned for simple reasons.
      While many sites operate without those, you should add them for long term.

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  180. thank you for this AMAZING post, I just want to know where I will come up with photos like those published by viralnova…etc and if i apply to adsense, should i choose at first articles full of text or starting with videos and photos, because adsense i think doesn’t allow us to use videos and photos without texts, please can you help me with that

    Reply

    • Your articles should have both text and images/videos.
      You can get most of them from Google image search.

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        • You don’t need a license for most of the pictures. And I don’t think Google is the one who would give you the license anyway.

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    • Kind of, yes. You can consider this arbitrage but from facebook to adsense instead of adwords to adsense.

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      • Thank you for your replay, in adsense arbitrage you can put “next buttom” in the advertisement to permit the reader to follow the information (6pages for exemple) and each time hir/her press the buttom next , it’s an revenue for you.
        my question is: this king of arbitrage or arbitrage in overall is it legal for google ?

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        • This is legal but you got it wrong.
          Not every time they press the next button and see a new page you’re going to get revenue.

          Adsense pays per clicks, so if the same user visits your site 10 times but only clicks in your ads once, you will receive the payment for 1 click and not per 10.
          What will change though is your CTR, because Google will see it much lower as every user is visiting several pages per session. This is a good thing.

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  183. Hi, Servando
    I have one niche Adsense website and 3 month average CPC/CPM are $0.1/$0.7 (Taiwan)
    According to these data, do you recommend I launch into viral website like your strategy in my country?
    Thanks for your reply.

    Reply

    • The CPM looks really bad to be honest. Taiwan probably has not many advertisers and that’s why the CPM is low. Also, the country is relatively small, which means you won’t be able to scale your campaigns much.
      Any other countries you could take on?

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      • Thanks for your advice. As far as I know, part of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore people are also use traditional chinese.
        If addition these country as my target audience, will the situation be better? or Asia area always not have high CPM?

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  184. Awesome article!

    What if I embed YouTube videos to my website & copy images and using them in my website.
    Will it be any problem if yes what is the solution?
    What if I photoshop these image and then to use?

    Thank you !

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    • Embedded videos are no problem and for images unless they have copyright it shouldn’t be a problem either.

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  185. Hello Sami.
    Blogger loads fast, but it’s not your blog and Google can always close it down.
    Any person who’s serious about having a website should have at least their own domain and host so they own all the property of their websites.

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  186. Thoughts on promoting blogs with AdWords as well as Facebook?

    With FB ads. Do you use:
    “Get More Website Visitors”
    “Promote your Page” or
    “Boost your Post” and boost the articles you share?

    I had a Pokemon GO site back in the day and only ever did the “Promote your Page” I got a good 20k FB likes – but not many went to my site.

    Right now I’m boosting every article I share from my blog to my FB page and it seems to work alright. Only doing $5/post though.

    Great articles,
    Cheers

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    • I don’t use Adwords for this strategy, sorry.
      As for FB Ads:
      You should test them all. Promote your page works usually to get fans which is part of the strategy but you still need to pay for traffic.
      Then use website visitors and boost posts to send traffic to your website and analyze the data and scale up.

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  187. Hi SIlva..
    Thank For your great article.. I just think about how to start optimizing my new website using fb ads to google ads.. before i read your this post.. i’m in confuse to determine the website niche..
    SO.I’m Thankful with Your idea about creating a viral news blog

    Sure.. i want implement one by one step as you mention in thus post

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  189. good stuff.
    Question, how do you optimize the facebook ads targeting. Is there are a way to create lookalike audiences based on people that clicked your ads? Is that possible? How do you use the facebook pixel at all? If so, how?

    thanks!

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    • Hey Chris.
      yes, there’s a way to retarget people and also create lookalike audiences. Check the Facebook article sin this blog. I have a lot of Facebook tutorials covering that.

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  190. What a terrific post and congratulations for your extraordinary success.can you advertise your website on facebook if your website has google adsense ads running or it violates google adsense tos..will running facebook ads will ban your website from google adsense.

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    • No, they don’t.
      Sometimes Adsense discounts some clicks they think are invalid (when they detect a lot of traffic comes from social media), but it shouldn’t be a big issue.

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      • There are a lot. it depends more on your strategy. It’s not like there is a list of the top 10 profitable niches that work every single time.

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  193. hello sir,
    great article i learned a lot from it . i recently started a new site but failed to get visitors to it can you help me ? i also have a tight budget to start with

    Reply

    • For this strategy I recommend at least a couple grand to learn and get started. If you don’t have budgets you won’t have visitors either, so that’s a bad idea.

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    • Any domain works. If it’s a .com it would be better to make it look professional but even .net works fine 🙂

      Reply

    • No. Vultr and other unmanaged services don’t come with cPanel. They work faster without it but if you want cPanel look for managed hosting instead.

      Reply

    • Looks like they recently deprecated it.
      However another one I used was Magazinum and that one is still available it seems.

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  197. You need to have content people like, if they don’t like or share only about 2-3 percent of the people on your fan page will ever see the content. While I never had the sucess of the blog Author I do make 40-60 dollars a day and only spend 5 dollars a day on Facebook ads, my biggest day was $120, my shitty days are $10-15 but usually get around $50.00 a day on average. it pays for my apartment, car and insurance and only spend 5 minutes online 3-4 times a day. I also use keywords to get those high ass paying ads, some of which get up to 4-5 dollars a click. (mesothelioma, attorney, real estage)) etc in my footer.

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  198. Hi again Servando, how can I contact you away from this post?

    I would like to run something past you. 🙂

    Ben

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    • Hi Ben.
      Are you subscribed to my list?
      If so, you can answer any of the emails I send every week and you’ll get direct access to me. 🙂

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  199. Thanks for sharing this.
    However. I already submit my viralnews website to adsense but after 10 days the status is still “we are reviewing your site” is that normal?

    Do you have any tips to get adsense account? My problem is only adsense account for now. Its hard to get in. Please help me. You are already my hero for posting this. Please be my hero again 😀

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  200. Does this still work in 2017? I see you listed it is still working in 2014 but no news on it working recently.

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  202. you told me “”It’s better to get your Adsense account approved with another website that has no viral news””
    if i do just viral website will i be accepted without doing another website who isn’t viral ?
    as i told u i will do 20 articles every mounth and bring trafic and after 3 months i will apply for google adsence ?

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    • It doesn’t matter how many articles you do, it’s still better do get approved with something else and not a viral news site.
      There’s just a better chance of getting approved with something else.

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  203. hey i want start a viral website
    first when i will create my viral website i’m gonna write like 20 articles every month and bring paid traffic from facebook for this articles and after 3 months i will apply for google adsence
    will they accept me or no ?

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  204. Great article Siva…even i get more traffic through my Facebook page, google plus communities and twitter account…really once you have more subscribers you can easily pull up your blog traffic…great post…thank you for sharing…!!!

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  205. I have around 70,000 followers in my Facebook page. Before, about a year ago I had around 40,000 fans. Before, even with that amount of fans, I have large amounts of traffic, earning around 20 to $100 a day. Regardless whether that happened because it was election time here in the Philippines.

    Now with around 70,000 fans with news updates from my blog, I can only get 2 to $5 a day. Even with so many engagements, I can only get 5 to 8,000 visitors a day via Google Analytics.

    In short, there has been very little conversion of traffic coming to my blog. My traffic was lost drastically even my page likes has gone up, both paid and organic.

    Note: I tried ‘boost post’ once or twice, but since I notice there was no good results, I stopped it and remained organic.

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    • What’s the monetization method you’re using?
      You need to boost posts a lot more than just once. Boost the ones that are really good so you can send tons of traffic to your site.

      Facebook is more about paying for traffic with link that go to website than it was 1-2 years ago. If you don’t use ads you’re pretty much out of the game now.

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      • Oh I didn’t know that. I’m using Google Adsense and Proppelerads. I’ve read before that Adsense don’t give earnings to you if you’re traffic were coming from Facebook ads. Is that true?

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        • I tried the boost post. It really pissed me off. Im spending money for my campaign, but it doesn’t give me anuything. Im paying them for nothing. I dont get the traffic that I deserve! What the fuck is going on? The world is getting stupider and stupider as time goes by! Fuck Facebook! Fuck everyone of you! Everything in this world is BULLSHIT!

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          • Chill down mate.
            You don’t DESERVE anything. This strategy is meant to work if you learn the ropes and test a lot. if you boost one post and it doesn’t work and you get mad, you already lost this game. If it was as easy as just boosting and receiving the traffic “you deserve” everybody would be rich without any efforts.

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          • Jheeez Nonoy, be patient, learn from your data, learn from your mistakes, keep working at it and when you find what works, rinse and repeat.

            You will get there eventually 🙂

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  206. can you tell me how to get the adsense approval because all thes are relevant for those with approved adsense. Please

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    • Has your site been rejected?
      Adsense wants sites that are not completely new and with relevant content that looks good. That’s all it takes. They’re slow but you can use any of the alternatives listed here (check number 2) to get started.

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  207. Thanks for your article. Very interesting!

    Do you care ot share some of your pages/sites to see how they look like and how your audience engages?

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    • Hello.
      I would do that if it wasn’t a terrible idea. Every time something like that gets shared publicly you get a lot of people who copy it, people attacking your sites and other things.

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  209. Hi Servando, I have got little money to invest and I am wondering if there is a minimum investment before it can be profitable ?

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    • I’d recommend having at least $2,000 for testing, but up to $5,000 for learning all and being profitable.

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  210. Hi, like your post very much,
    I have a question for you
    Is this strategy still works by now 2017?
    If I rewrite someone’s post do I still have to put the source of the article.?
    Did you face any legal issue by copying others articles into you blog, is it enough just to put a source to avoid any legal problems?

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    • It works but it’s more difficult now. Yes, try to show the source if you’re taking an article from them (even if you rewrite it).

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  211. I doubt anyone can make money from viral websites these days,
    it is no longer profitable and even big players such as viralnova,
    distractify and upworthy are losing traffic and revenue day in day
    out. So I would advise anyone who wants to copy this model to
    do proper investigation before investing their money and getting
    burned because I have observed that most tutorials on viral sites
    never tell a personal success story with examples.

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    • Those huge blogs were hit really bad. I know of people doing it well so far but they’re not as known as the examples you mentioned it. If you go through the comments you’ll find some success stories but it’s definitely more difficult than it used to be 3-4 years ago.

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  213. Hey Servando

    Thanks for the insightful post. I just want to ask if i build a viral site following this method, what are the chances of me being approved by adsense. Currently i do not have an adsensr account. Thanks

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    • The chances in that case are low.
      First build a simple website (not viral) to get your Adsense account approved, and then you can use it for any website in the future.

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  214. Hey Servando, great job on these articles. They were a real inspiration when I got going with viral content.

    I now have a website that is generating around 10,000 page views a day.

    However, I’m really struggling to get the earnings up on it. I saw your post above saying that one of your best days traffic wise was around 55,000 views. In my case, even if I hit 55,000 in a day, I would be nowhere near $200 for the day and that’s with AdSense and ContentAd set up.

    Any advice and help on this would be hugely appreciated 🙂

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  215. Unless I’m not trying hard enough, it seems as though Facebook’s prices have made this strategy more or less impossible in 2017.

    I used this technique in 2016 to some good effect with a soccer team fan site.

    I was targeting the UK market, paying £0.03 for every new like but now I have to pay £0.15 and upwards.

    I tried many things including, targeting different less affluent nations but this didn’t work as a) these people never clicked on article links and b) wouldn’t be engaged with the content anyway. I also varied the advert images as well as texts, tried launching ads on different days – basically every thing you can think of, I tried it :D.

    I have also tried the ‘boost post’ method but still made a loss when doing so.

    For example, I had an article that was converting REALLY well, a click through rate of 20% but after paying £3 for the boost, got about 1000 clicks. May CPMs are maxed out at £2 for every 1000 page views, so the maths didn’t work on this occasion either.

    It seems as though this technique could have made you a millionaire in 2013, but as Facebook’s reach has grown, it has now become too expensive to compete with the big boys. Maybe I got on the boat too late?

    Servando, I love your blog and have picked up many tips from this site down the years, but I’d love to know your input on this. Do you think this technique is now dead? Or am I being too pessimistic! 😀

    This is a disclaimer to say I’m not moaning about this at all. I managed to get some good traffic using this technique last year and still do even now. Just your input would if you have time would be amazing to me.

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    • Hi Andy.
      You have tried a lot. Kudos for that.

      The technique is not dead, but it needs a twist. Basically it needs to be a viral thing within a niche, and not just for everybody like it used to be before.
      Also, if we say the difficulty of this technique in 2012-2013 was like 20%, after 2014 it went up to 50% and now in 2017 it’s more like 80% difficulty. To keep up with all Facebook changes nowadays you need to use their features, boosted posts,, video ads, remarketing pixel, custom audiences, etc.

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  217. Hello Servando,

    Sam here. Following our discussion on March 14 above, here are some questions I trust you could answer for me….
    1. Could you describe in simple terms the major differences between a regular article and a viral or trending article or content
    2. Regarding particularly viral Adsense sites, how many viral articles do we need to start with, and how often is it advisable to add additional articles? On the other hand, can we start with certain number of articles and concentrate soley on promoting the site to different social media WITHOUT any additional articles or rarely adding new articles?
    3. Are Viral Themes also SEO optimized for organic traffic other than viral traffic?

    Thanks.

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    • Hi Sam.
      Sure. Let me try and answer you.
      1. Technically there’s no difference. An article is viral when a lot of people share it, like it and gets a lot of free traffic. That’s it.
      2. You’re not building an SEO blog, so it doesn’t matter much. You could start with 3, 5 or 10, but if a visitor goes to your website and they want to read more and you just have 1 article, it won’t make sense. Just try to have enough articles at least to have some related ones in the sidebar/after entry and in the homepage so the site doesn’t look brand new.
      As for how often you should add more, as often as you can because you will find your winners faster. if you add 5 articles per week your chances of having a viral one are very slim. If you add 5 per day you’ve got more chances, and if you add 50 per day you’ll find a winner almost every day. If one every 30 articles goes viral, what do you prefer? do you prefer to find that winner every day, or every 3 days, or every month? This is a numbers game.
      3. They can be, and you will receive some organic traffic but don’t expect much. People don’t search in Google viral headlines, and Google shouldn’t be your main focus in this strategy.

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  218. Hello,

    Thank you for this amazing article. I’ve managed to grow a facebook fan page and it generates “decent” organic traffic.

    Still, everytime one of the links gets tons of organic clicks, I promote that post (targeting by interest, age, country, etc – and non page fans).

    On google analytics I see that traffic that the paid promotion is driving to the website (lets say 5000 visitors). But on the adsense page (adsense url channels) it only shows a small % of that number – say 200 pageviews and, of course, just the expect income from those 200.).

    After testing I realize that adsense is only “count” the traffic that is generated organically on facebook. Not the traffic that is coming from promoted posts.

    It seems really odd, I know.

    They ALL come from facebook. Why/how would adsense have different behavior with facebook paid traffic and facecook organic traffic. Right?

    But the numbers don’t lie.

    In the past I used to promote some posts on facebook and generate some adsense income that way.

    But now, this weird thing is happening.

    Some additional information:

    – The ad placements are 100% according to the adsense TOS.

    – All websites content is 100% original, and all articles have, at leats, 500 words.

    – The adsense account has 8 years.

    – I’ve tried to promote posts from other facebook pages and to differente sites. This isues keeps happening – adsense is not counting that traffic.

    Any idea about what is going on?

    Thank you

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    • Hello Pepe.
      That sounds quite interesting. I’ve seen some people get discounted a percentage of the clicks (not impressions) when they come from social ads, however, this percentage is usually very low unless they clicks are totally incentivized.

      You can do a very simple test to see what’s going on. Setup a new website with a new domain and send some traffic there. Make sure you track with new Adsense ads or placements not to mix it with your old site stats.
      If the impressions are not counted in the new domain either then your account might have a problem.

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  219. Hi servando
    Thanks for this great article
    I have a facebook page with 600.000 fans and a website
    I get 500-2200 visitors when I share a link on my page
    Which ads schould I do to make 200$ aday? And how much schould I pay daily?
    Thanks in advance

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        • Go to your business manager, create a Traffic campaign and select the link from your fan page you want to boost.

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            • With PPE Facebook optimizes the post to receive more engagement, like comments, shares, likes, etc.
              When you focus the ad on traffic Facebook optimizes it for website clicks to send traffic even if people don’t like or share.

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              • CTW is more expensive than PPE, what is your suggest to get thousands clicks with cheap PPE or CTW ?

              • It’s not necessarily more expensive. It all depends on what you want. Clicks and visits earn you money, likes don’t.
                I actually like to run both at the same time.

  220. Hi Servando,

    When you created the FB campaign, what were the cost for your likes and which country did you target? I,’ve always wanted to start this but FB has killed the reach a lot. Would be great if you can tell me how much traffic you get in a day and how many page likes you have. Just something for motivation 🙂 Thanks a lot

    Reply

    • I always aim to get likes for less than 2-3 cents if possible.
      At the beginning the cost is always higher, but then it goes down after Facebook optimizes it.
      As for the traffic it depends a lot on your niche and also the virality of your articles.

      A bad day could get 5,000 visits or 10,000 while a great day could get 100-200,000 visits.

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  221. Does Ad sense allow these type of viral type sites and be able to run on facebook ads? what one must do to get their site approved on a new website?

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  222. Hi mate, I just want to know, Can we really get good ROI using this strategy?
    Spending 100$ per day to Ads but not gaining more than 100$ per day through Adsense clicks means we will lose our money rather to earn?

    Reply

    • It depends on what you call “good ROI”. A decent ROI in this strategy is 30-50%.
      But sometimes I have seen 300-500% when articles go viral and even more.

      It all depends on your articles.

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  223. Is it still a good idea to start viral site in india in 2017 especially with low google adsense RPMs ($0.40), the amount that you end up spending is not what you receive in earnings through ads.

    Your comments. I was running a viral news site but didn’t work out because of this reason only.

    Reply

    • India is definitely not a good country for this strategy.
      Overall, the best countries are tier 1 and tier 2 countries.
      Tier 3 countries are difficult to monetize and the RPM/CPMs are very low in most of the networks, not only Adsense.

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  224. Hi Servando… I do have a lot of articles on the financial service industry, like loans, how to acquire funding, credit, using letters of credit to acquire loans, credit cards, etc. Do you think these articles would be a good fit for a viral wordpress adsense site? If so, which of the wp Themes would you recommend?

    The second half of my question is… for a viral adsense site, is it acceptable to use SPINNED trending content exclusively with no content written by me or outsourced? Your comments, please. Thanks.

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    • Hi Sam.
      I can’t think of an angle right now for a viral post in that niche, but maybe try something like: “how people in X country save tons and take advantage of credits/loans with these simple 10 tips” could go “viral in that specific niche.
      A theme that looks professional would fit. there are thousands to choose, so definitely up to you.
      I never used spun content because most people used it for search engines and backlinks, but this time you’re actually sending real social traffic to your page so they’ll quickly notice when something is spun.

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  225. Hi Servando,
    great post!

    I’m planning to start job portal website. I need some advice and tips from you,
    1. How can I promote my website?
    2. How to market job seekers and job providers?

    Thanks & Regards

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    • Hello.
      Try writing a list of all the biggest job lists and job market websites in the world and see if they have facebook pages you can target. That’s how I’d get started.

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      • 1.Some of my friends told me that with 1m likes on facebook you could make easily $100 from google adsense,is this true from your experience?

        2.i have a page with philipines (ph) mostly ph likes, can it still make money from google adsense? i know not alot like usa or other countries but it still can make $100 right?

        3. I have a page with 300k+ likes but only drive 100 traffic to it everyday and it makes me only 15 cents per day, so i dont know how can a 1m like can give me $100 a day lol…. please help

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  226. What should each article length be? I applied for Adsense but was rejected. They listed a couple of reasons why, and one of them is not enough words.

    Regards,
    Leonard

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    • For viral articles I still try to add at least 500 words plus pictures or videos.
      For other adsense sites (not viral stuff) i can easily go over 1,000-2,000 words.

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  227. Hi I want to know what the best marketing objective of facebook ads to get traffic to my blog,
    also I have a big question what the déférent if i use a lot of targeting to get the a lot of peaple or I have to be carful to use just targeting that have a relation with the article

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    • Clicks to website if you only care about traffic.
      You can target all you want, but if the audience is not related you will just pay for nothing as nobody will click through your ads.

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  228. hey,
    Thank u so much for this article it has one of the most pertinent infos iv readed so far, I just wanted to ask if this method can be done with a basic host, I mean I cant afford to pay 20 $ per month, I only got a bluehost basic plan so is it good or not ?

    Reply

    • You can get away with it the first days but keep in mind you’ll be losing money.
      You can also get a super fast VPS at Vultr or DigitalOcean for just $5, but it’s an unmanaged service so only works if you know how to do it.

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  229. Hey Silva
    i have a question, can Adsense Accept Paid Facebook Ads Traffic ?
    please reply

    with best regard
    sara williams

    Reply

    • Hi Sara.
      It’s a gray area because they don’t like any paiD traffic sources to their ads, but at the same time most big websites will have paid traffic campaigns going on and display adsense and other networks without problems.
      It’s very important not to incentivize the clicks, no matter if your traffic is organic or paid.

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  230. hi my name is hicham i have a question for you in step 4 You said if it was a big article can be divided into parts
    what is the tools for this in wordpress website ?
    thank you

    Reply

    • There are plugins to do this. Look for “WordPress pagination” in the WP repository or Google to find some of them.

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      • Thank you
        But I can not find anything positive ..
        I found some paid additions that do not hold to buy
        Can you direct me to someone from a site fiverr.com solve the problem Li for $ 5
        I have another question
        What is the difference between Adsense account, US and Arab?
          Knowing that my English website content BEST AVAILABLE
        If you created an ad in which targeted America
        And what will happen if you create announcement by US account
        And what will happen if you create announcement by Arabic Account
        Sorry for any inconvenience
        And be sure I am of you loyal Followers
        You will see me a lot

        Reply

        • No. I never recommend Fiverr for those kind of things. A quick search in the WordPress repository gave me a plugin for that.

          Also, i don’t think the account makes a difference. The traffic you receive is what defines your revenue. The country of the account defines payment methods.

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          • What are the different cases in which close my Facebook Profile?
            What payment card used by you on Facebook?
            how site should you have to edit a $ 200?
            How personal account permitted by Facebook from the same place?
            sorry sorry sorry

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  231. What If I Outsource contents for my website from professional firms?
    What if I use only CPM ad networks such as POPADS or proppeller ads?
    I think FB ads are still expensive for me, SO I think stumbleupon and reddit ads will be cheaper will you recommend it?
    Waiting for your valuable answer.

    Reply

    • I have tested Stumbleuppon and reddit and they’re not cheap, but you can try them and if it works for you, that’s great.

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    • Not good. One thing is to copy the whole articles, headline and images, and another thing is to get inspiration form a good article and write it on your own words.

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      • how is it fine for adsense account if i copy all the images , headlines and text as you said copy material is not good .

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        • I didn’t say copy.
          I say take it as an inspiration, and then write your own words, articles, headlines, etc.
          Using the same images as others is a common practice in any news paper, so that’s not really copying somebody else, but if you copy the headline and text, then you’re copying all and Google won’t be happy.

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  233. Hi Servando,

    What are your thoughts regarding strategies for increasing facebook page likes organically in 2017? Personally, I’d rather boost a post and get organic page likes than pay for FB likes and for this reason I was wondering if videos are the way to go.

    I ask this because Facebook videos seem to get more engagement nowadays and my personal newsfeed is full of them. Many pages are simply re-purposing videos from youtube but crediting the full video. other types of videos are simply slideshow videos of a popular viral post with text overlays telling a story and they also seem to get tons of views, likes, and shares. Even when that popular viral post is 3-4 years old.

    I’d love to do what these other pages are doing but wondering about copyright since these pages seem to post popular videos from social media with just a video credit.

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    • Growing pages organically is completely different. Boosting viral posts helps a lot, and also getting mentions from other big pages in your niche.
      If you have constant good content in your page it will keep growing slowly all the time, which after a few weeks or months makes a difference too.

      Videos are super engaging. In fact videos are the type of posts that has more interaction in Facebook vs. text, images, links, etc. If you want to do videos add your own stuff (maybe an intro or outro) and give credit were it’s needed to be safe.

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  234. Thank you for sharing this info! I’v been on the other side of the fence for quite some time and have made a decent income writing articles, but I want to get on the other side of the fence.

    I can write my own content to start. It usually only takes me about an hour to write 3-5 articles. I know several niches that always work and can design my own websites.

    My question, is this method still worth it compared to putting my time into building niche sites? I’d value your opinion on this matter.

    Also, you kind of lost me on the VPS part. Is it dedicated hosting that’s needed? You mentioned a link to CPa offers. Is this available now?

    Thank you!

    Reply

    • Both methods work (viral sites and building niche sites). One is more scalable but at the same time you know they’re both difficult and require time and patience.

      The VPS is not a dedicated host, it’s just a shared host with more resources and faster loading times vs. a regular shared service.

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  235. Thank you so much for the information! It’s very helpful 😀 😀 😀
    Now i will learn to build a news website, wish me luck 😀

    Reply

    • You’ll have to give it a twist.
      Keep in mind a viral article isn’t a fake article, which is what they’re going after too.

      They started tuning down clickbaits back in 2013 but a lot of websites still do it. If you pick a good niche you’ll be fine though.

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  237. Are we suppose to put the fan page ads we create on our website, or should we simply link to our website from the fan Page in order to push traffic to the website and generate CTRs for the google ads?

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  238. Wow, THIS ARTICLE IS AWESOME. i HAD THIS IDEA IN MY HEAT ABOUT THIS AWHILE BACK. COOL, SOUNDS LIKE REALLY SOLID ADVICE.

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  239. Hi

    im having issues with setting up the facebook ad, im doing it on page likes and optimized for impressions but i get charged $0.63 per likes and easily goes to $20 with with 30+ likes. i dont know how to reduce the price per like. i set it to automatic because manual doesnt work if i set it to 0.05 myself. not sure what to do, i need page likes and website visitors since i have PROPELLER ads set up on the site. if you can send me a private email i would APPRECIATE it.

    Reply

    • That means your ads and targeting are really bad.
      Facebook will automatically decrease the prices when you get good CTRs and engagement, which means you have to craft great ads and target the right niches for your posts.

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      • MY CTR was 20% 20 likes from 100 reach but i was getting charged too much per like. how can i reduce my cost? my add is very engaging and eye catching shall i change my AUDIENCE so its a small AUDIENCE or shall i go very broad? in this add set i had a very large AUDIENCE

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        • If your CTR was that good how much did you spend and for how many days? The results tend to get better after 2-3 days of running.

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            • It was too soon to kill it.
              As a rule, most people don’t kill any campaigns the first 2-3 days until the Facebook algorithm stabilizes and your costs go down.

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      • 1.Some of my friends told me that with 1m likes on facebook you could make easily $100 from google adsense,is this true from your experience?

        2.i have a page with philipines (ph) mostly ph likes, can it still make money from google adsense? i know not alot like usa or other countries but it still can make $100 right?

        3. I have a page with 300k+ likes but only drive 100 traffic to it everyday and it makes me only 15 cents per day, so i dont know how can a 1m like can give me $100 a day lol…. please help

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  240. Interesting… if is that easy to earn tons of money, why are you here, writing such “cheap” article and trying to earn with affiliate links? Doesn’t make sense.

    Reply

    • 1. This is not a “cheap” article. Also, $200 per day is not something I consider to be “tons of money”.

      2. It’s not super easy. I explain the system here, but as you can see in the comments and the people who are successful, it takes time and a learning curve that most people are not willing to take. It’s not a 3 button system. You have to spend money, split test a lot of articles, fail a lot of times and learn Facebook ads, which is another beast on its own.

      3. To give back to my readers. Hearing about someone who had success from 50 people trying it feels very nice and you could change their life. That’s worth more than anything but you can’t understand it until you live it.

      Reply

    • wHY SHOULDN’T THE AUTHOR HAVE HIS OWN WEBSITE/ARTICLE WITH AFFILIATE LINKS? ITS ANOTHER SOURCE OF INCOME ONLINE, WHICH COULD VERY WELL BE PASSIVE OVER TIME.

      YOU DIVERSIFY YOUR PORTFOLIO TO REACH YOUR DAILY OR MONTHLY INCOME GOAL AND TO STAY SAFE IF ONE WAS TO DISAPPEAR.

      IF I COULD GENERATE 3 INCOMES FROM 3 DIFFERENT SOURCES, WHY WOULDN’T i? ESPECIALLY IF IT MADE $50.00 FROM EACH. I WOULD BE CONTENT WITH $150 A DAY.

      Reply

      • Thanks Kim for the comment.
        Yeah, it helps building passive sources and helping people at the same time.

        Some people just hate everything but they’re free to do so as long as it doesn’t affect others.

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  241. Hey,
    Thank’s a lot for this amazing article… just I want to ask you and I hope that you can answer me
    how can I avoid invalid clicks on adsense ?

    Reply

    • If you mean clicks from bots or people double clicking your ads on purpose there are a few wordpress plugins that help you block them to keep your Adsense account safe.

      Reply

      • Please, can you suggest me a good one to use it on my website…

        and also I want to ask you about CTR.. how can I increase the CTR?

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  243. You’ve created advertising campaigns for $ 5 each campaign

    Did not achieve results in Google Adsense

    I want you to help me I am in dire need of money

    Reply

      • Can you please let me know how much do you suggest to make at least $50 a day? i have a fb page with 300k but only make 20 cent per day if i post links 🙁

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  244. nice article but now days am unable to focussing on my blogbecause i have alot topics to create blog currently i am working on two blogs but do much questions ni my mind that how to prepare a SCHEDULE to promote my site like you mention in your article and where i should focus to be a SUCCESSFUL a blogger can you please guide in your any article like you gave brief guide line in this article really appreciated.

    Reply

  246. I have seen bullet viral traffic wordpress plugin, though yet to use that. they are claiming you install the plugin in your viral wordpress admin and start fetching other site’s viral content, kind of autopilot. they are claiming adsense account will not be banned.

    what is your comment?

    Also if i use rss feed, will that ban my adsense account? how come digg doing so great with other’s content only?

    Reply

    • I haven’t tried that one but there are a lot of automation tools that do similar things. Yes, this could risk your adsense account but that risk always exists actually. I prefer writing my own articles though.

      Reply

  247. hi ,
    i have a big question.
    Is it really safe to buy facebook traffic to web page showing adsense .

    Reply

    • Nothing is completely safe in this online world, but what are you afraid about?
      The 2 problems are:
      1. you can get banned from FB
      2. You can get banned from Adsense

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  248. Hi, servando
    I started doing adsense since 2011, but still two digit earning in a month (never give up) & i have question, Make viral content in a web/blog. post it in fan page campaign with FB ads, it is still work out now?

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  249. Hi Servando,

    As i was looking for adsense education I discovered your blog just today and i am really impressed! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

    Just a short question. What happened to the morning theme? I saw they offer different magazine styles but which one do you recommend?

    Thank you!

    Reply

    • I’m not sure if they have deprecated it, but you can try different styles from other vendors and those will work too. The morning theme from WPZoom was just an option I tried that worked in the past.

      Reply

  250. hi servando WHERE can i buy the traffic, there are a lot of sellers but most of them are bot traffic im searching on fiverr and seoclercks?
    i have my first adsense account and site ,just bought yesterday and receive 235 clicks on url but the visit duration is only 1 second or 2 second i think its a bot, im really seareching evrywhere on forums , could you please help me, im so desperate that i have also found people that sell adsense clicks but i want to do the things like you. I have also found the adsense course you have on your site but its closed till the next juanary2117, i hope i can make some money to at least pay that course and also if i had the budget i would try your viral sites technique, but i dont have that budget, so could you please help me and tell me someone reliable to send that traffic to my site and make at least the money to pay the course, thank you i really expect your answer, have a great day

    Reply

    • Yes, most of those sellers will send you bot traffic. That’s why in this case study I was getting traffic form Facebook ads and not some reseller in a dark forum.
      I have no suggestions for another decent traffic source to monetize with adsense, unluckily. In fact even nowadays this method is more difficult and it’s only getting more and more now that Facebook and Google are banning fake news and things like that.

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      • and the adsense course that you anounce here on your site if i take it aND APPLY EVERYTHING RIGHT, WOULD I MAKE MONEY? THE ANSWER WOULD BE YES BUT TO APPLY WHAT THE ADSENSE COURSE TEACHES YOU HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED, THE MIMIMUM YOU NEED TO MAKE TEST AND SEE IF IT WORKS?

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  251. thanks for this great artcle
    I have one question
    Can i use squarespace for the website instead of wordpress
    thanks in advance

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      • Hello, amazing article.

        I have a question, wHEN I POST A LINK TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE, DO I POST THE LINK TO GET TRAFFIC?
        I DID THAT WITH $5 BUT I LOST ALL THE $5 AND I GOT 10 CENTS FROM ADSENSE. (usa TRAFFIC)
        CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD DO TO BRING TRAFFIC?

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  252. Hola servando, muchas felicidades por tu blog, la unica duda que me queda respecto es si el presupuesto que utiliZas en facebook ads es para generar fans a la pagina O lo utilizas para Los post que subes y haces que sean ads de interaccion con la publicacion ? Muchas gracias por compartir la informacion de tu pagina me parece exceLente. Te mando muchos saludos.

    P.d estoy escribiendo desde mi celular y al parecer todas las letras son mayusculas, espero no aparezca todo en mayusculas.

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    • Hola.
      El presupuesto se utiliza para ambas cosas al mismo tiempo. Los posts pueden ser de interacción o de clicks a sitio web. Siempre es bueno probar par aver cual te funciona mejor.

      No salió todo en mayúsculas en el dashboard, no te preocupes 🙂

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  253. Awesome article!

    Could you also shed some light on what software you use to curate viral content? e.g. feedly, crowdtangle, etc

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    • I did everything on my own manually, but there are a lot of softwares to look for viral or trending topics, etc.

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  254. Algo que olvidé preguntar es si tienes toda esta información que manejas en esta web, pero en español?

    Agradezco me informes.

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  255. Gracias por tu amable respuesta. Estoy tratando de aprender a generar tráfico y la información de tu sitio ha sido una ayuda excepcional. Te deseo la mejor de las suertes (ya la tienes) y espero uno de estos días llegar tan lejos en este mundo de Internet como lo has hecho tú.

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  256. Hola Servando.

    Excelente tu info y wow ni que decir de los ingresos que sacas cada dia con tus estrategias. te escribo para hacerte una pregunta que espero puedas responderme. tal vez sea una tontería pero quiero estar seguro.

    Supongamos que tengo una web a la que quiero rankear en google para la frase “caballos finos y de paso en suramerica”. Imagina que esa frase esta distribuida a lo largo y ancho del sitio por ejemplo más de 1000 veces. esta en los títulos de las entradas, en etiquetas, en todas partes. Pero ahora supongamos que la mayoría de búsquedas por internet relacionadas son para la frase “caballos de paso en suramerica”.

    si yo logro posicionar “CABALLOS FINOS Y DE PASO EN SURAMERICA” y alguien busca “CABALLOS DE PASO EN SURAMERICA”, encontrará mi sitio en los primeros lugares o eso solo sucederá cuando alguien haga la búsqueda exacta de “CABALLOS FINOS Y DE PASO EN SURAMERICA”?

    La verdad que esa tontería siempre me ha confundido y me suele pasar que luego de crear el sitio me doy cuenta de que por ejemplo la frase que las personas más buscan difiere un poco de aquello en lo que me he enfocado.

    Agradezco si me puedes orientar un poco.

    Buen día y buena suerte.

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    • Hola Marco.
      Esa semántica de palabras relacionadas o donde solo varían algunas palabras Google las entiende bien, y por ende muchas veces cuando estás rankeado de una manera estás recibiendo tráfico de variaciones de la misma frase o la frase más corta o larga según la búsqueda del usuario.
      Los rankings no serán iguales, y dependerá del volumen de búsquedas en cada frase, pero si es muy probable que si rankeas en una también estés en la otra.

      Te recomiendo aprender un poco más también de keyword research para que desde un principio tus proyectos estén enfocados en las palabras que quieras que tengan más tráfico y que sepas cuales son las palabras que usa la gente de manera exacta al hacer ciertas búsquedas.

      Buen día.

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  257. big question.
    Is it really really safe to buy facebook traffic to web page showing adsense ads. ?? are’nt not putting your adsense account on risk of getting it banned ??

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  258. Thank you for the awesome article. if i re-write a story from viralnova.com for example will i have to always state the source? naturally, if i’m re-writing every article every source will say viralnova.com or upworthy.com will that look like we’re a site just replicating content?

    what do you think?

    thank you again.

    Reply

    • Try setting up your own ideas too and be creative. If you’re going to rewrite a few, at least put something of your own and get different sources, not only one.

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  259. Excellent article, I have a question: I found in a mini-services sites such as fiver, some people offering “Rewrite articles Service” (1000 words just for $5) but they are rewrite articles Phrase by Phrase. does this put my Adsense account in risk if I used those kind of Articles?

    Thank you very much.

    Reply

    • I guess most of them actually just use a spinner and don’t do it manually.
      However, it’s easy; just make a test and see what kind of articles they send you and if they look good then OK. If they look like it was done by a robot and the text doesn’t even make sense then don’t.

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  260. Hey Servando, [I get capitals in the comment-form though I don’t have casplock on. I hope you won’t get this message in capslock]

    Thanks for your great article, I’m reading yoru articles about making money with Adsense and FB traffic for the past weeks and it interests me.

    I’m thinking of making a football news site. Do you thinkt it’s viral-like enough? Would you focus on one team or on football in general?

    Also, I can’t really read it in your articles but maybe I don’t read too secure, but would it be possible to focus on a news event and before that event make a sentimental post about that event and promote it for like or clicks to that post? or do you think it’d be a waste of money?

    Kind regards,
    Tijs

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    • Hello.

      The caps look ok for me. It’s just a theme thing.

      As for your questions, you’d actually have to try to see if going for an specific niche like a football player, or maybe football tricks or a team could work better than a generic fan page. My guess is that both could work but the niche one could be more appealing. Maybe try doing 2 at the same time and after a couple weeks ditch the one who’s not working as good as the other.

      As for the news and events, yes, a lot of people do that although the virality goes down after the event ends as you could expect.

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      • Hey,

        Thanks very much for your answer and great to see the caps aren’t there 😉

        Ah I get the point about the news event expiring. In sports things will always come back I think so it could be something that’s promoted every time around a certain event.

        Thanks very much, I will think further about this stuff and let you know about the results when applied 😉

        Cheers!
        Tijs

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  261. Hello seRVANDO,

    i have been working with adsense for 10 years. my earnings are cca 1000 per month (not much). your article describes things very well but there is one thing i don’t understand. i’ve been buying fb ads before but each click on ad fb charges me around 0.05-0.07. imagine i send 100 visitors to my website, that will cost me $5-$10 at facebook. we know that conversion rate is cca 2%. means only 2 people will probably click adsense ads on my site which will bring me 0.20-0.50 maybe, depending on niche of course. so how could someone make profit by spending $5.00 and getting 0.20 back? are you saying that people will share my pages so much later that this will result in income higher than what i spend on fb? this is really not clear to me and i would be glad if you can explain it. thank you very much!

    Reply

    • Hi Sandi.
      The trick is to create viral articles. Those articles can send clicks to your website at 0.01 or sometimes even 0.001 which is a lot cheaper than 0.05 as you described.
      I explain more about how to create viral articles in the second part of this post linked in the article.

      Reply

  263. so need to place ads on facebook then only we can increase our page likes and website hits? you have provided information in detail about placing the ads and increasing the visitors. I will wok on this and try. Thanks

    Reply

    • Facebook is a very hard game if you don’t use ads. Their algorithm has evolved a lot and what once used to be easy without paying now is super difficult to achieve.

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  264. Hi Servando,

    great post!

    Could you please tell me, is it better to make a niche viral site or general site? Which one will be more profitable? have you tried both?

    Thanks.

    Reply

  266. Hello Silver, My name is peter perez and i own the blog: ledivers.blogspot.com… this is a very nice tutorial you have here. please, i applied for google adsence since early september and since then i have not got a reply, please help me.

    Reply

    • I can’t help you with that. Google seems to be working very slow with the applications in the last 2 months but I don’t work for them.

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  267. Hello Silver, My name is peter perez and i own the blog: nairalimo.blogspot.com… this is a very nice tutorial you have here. please, i applied for google adsence since early september and since then i have not got a reply, please help me.

    Reply

  268. Am just planning to start a viral, following strictly your advice. please how long will it take to get an adsense account approved?

    Reply

    • It’s better to have an adsense account before starting with another site because getting it approved by submitting your viral site could be very difficult.
      It usually takes a few days to get approved and then a few weeks to receive your first payment check.

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  270. Great ARTICLE ! I want just to ask you about images, is there any risk to get banned, you know the images are exclusive and when you can at least rewrite the content as your way/style, but images you can’t change, those images are coyrighted, so what’s the solution?

    Reply

    • Banned from where?
      FB doesn’t care if you use the same images unless something is copyrighted like branded products or photography sites, etc.

      You’ll find the same images in many websites not only for viral pages but for pretty much every niche and they’re not getting banned.

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  271. Hey Servando,

    Question: why would i need a VPS ?

    Also i heard some people opening 50 Facebook Ad Account with only one VPS, how does that work?

    Thank you 🙂

    Reply

    • I explain in the article that you need a VPS because you’re going to send high amounts of traffic and a shared hosting account won’t do it.
      As for the accounts, I guess that’s in case they get banned.

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  272. hi servando,

    I have been reading this article for some time now and i’m about to start to implement your strategy to my website.

    I have recently signed up for facebook ads and i’m going to outsource the article writing and updating on facebook.

    Can you please take a look at my site and offer any more suggestions or things to keep in mind when i start your strategy.

    Also I’m only running adsense at this time. what other revenue making methods would you suggest for my site?

    thanks for all your help.

    Cheers!

    Reply

    • Hello Nicholas.
      I don’t give personal coaching or things like that, otherwise a lot of people would send me their websites for review for free and I just don’t have enough time for that.
      I decided to erase the URL because revealing your viral site in a blog like this is probably not the best idea if you want to avoid competition or people copying/stealing/attacking your blog.

      As for the revenue methods, I also use Propellerads as explained in the second part of this article, and another option are Native Ad contents like Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent, etc.
      Hope that helps.

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  273. Thanks I tried It on my Website ( AIOU ) . And Now i am getting 100_ traffic on my pages thanks to share you article. I relly like the way that are you going. according to my point Sharing is carrying.

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  274. WordPress is the best for seo because of there a free plugin and easy to install user friendly but base in my expirences in wordpress if you have tons of traffic can be down your site even you are using vps or any cloud server. Before you send traffic to wordpress cms you must check first your database and codes because that the cause of down website, thats why i stop using wordpress. Sorry my english

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    • If you’re sending enough traffic to take down your VPS it’s time to move to a dedicated server.
      But you’re right, WordPress is a standard albeit very heavy on servers and can go down. I used to use pure html simple sites for viral websites back in the day with some of my own scripts.

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  275. Hi Servando! Many thanks for the awesome useful post. Actually I have previous experience with adsense but i earned only $200 and now I want to make a bigger business model like yours.

    may i know please how to link to the original images/videos? like to write below the video that it’s taken from abc.com website? it’s hard to have your own exclusive content, i will grab content from different website and cook it then publish it on my blog.

    Thank you!

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  276. thank you so much silva i m a beginner , can this methode still work
    – i hear some people the fb bann their fb account ad ! why and how to still work good and don’t get bann
    -what is the best plan to start ! shared housting or vps
    -what you think about buy adsense account approuved

    Reply

    • Hello. This method still works but every day it gets more difficult.

      1. Yes, you can get your account banned, although this can happen for a lot of reasons so it’s very difficult to know if FB will ban you.

      2. A VPS because shared hosting is very slow.

      3. Most of them are scams, but if you trust your seller then test it and ask what kind of warranty they provide.

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  277. Hi Servando,
    – How to configure the VPS? Can you indicate a guide?
    – Can you recommend 2 or 3 wordpress current themes ?
    thanks

    Reply

    • I recommended one WordPress theme but basically any magazine style theme could work.

      As for the VPS, if it’s in a managed hosting package it takes the same process as any other shared hosting. Try looking for guides because that’s not something I’d cover in this blog (there are many guides available for free on the net already).

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    • Hi i can guide you complete to setup Vps even i can do that for you i am a full time wordpress and server admin also i can choose theme for you and customize as per your need

      Thanks

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  279. I just want to know how you manage to duplicate the content from BHW and still rank on top on the original post for a good number of keywords, like for example the title it self.

    Reply

    • Like I’ve mentioned a lot before, I don’t care about the rankings for this strategy. I never said I was ranking articles here.

      It’s just viral traffic from Facebook and I don’t duplicate the content. I write it on my own words.

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  280. Thanks for the really insightful article. Just some questions.

    1) On an average, how many FB likes on page has the potential to bring 10k traffic/day to website. just a rough figure with the experience you have.

    2) I have just launched a news site on tech. for fb likes, should i go for location-based like us, uk or random? any other suggestions to target tech readers.

    3) when users from fb pages click on adsense on website, will it be counted in revenue? Or adsense will not count those clicks from fb pages? Especially if same user clicks twice or thrice in a month?

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    • Hello.
      1. This changed a lot from fan page to fan page and the vertical, however just for the sake of an example I had around 70k fans in one page to get 10k visits per day and for other niche i had 500k fans just to reach that figure.
      Overall it can change a lot depending on your activity, niche, countries, etc.

      2. Tech readers are the worse. They block ads, they don’t like click baits, never click ads and overall it’s one of the worse audiences I’ve seen in my life. Even the biggest blogs have very poor social media pages and all of their traffic is organic and based on authority, so it’s a niche I would never chose for this strategy. As for the country, it really depends on what you’re targeting. If your site is for British people, then target UK. I can’t possibly say what country is best for you because no country is best for anybody unless you’re focusing the content to a language or country style.

      3. Yes, each click is counted. If the same user clicks several times per day they could discard it, but otherwise most clicks are counted and generate a few cents.

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      • Thanks for the response. Appreciate you taking your time out. Quick question. i see many websites these days have the pop up for newsletter subscription. before i used to see facebook like popup. i cant have two popups 🙂 Confused which I should choose. In the longer run, what is more effective. Having More likes or newsletter subscription. or in plain terms, which will provide better results.

        Reply

        • Split test and see which one works better.
          If you’re 100% focused on social viral traffic then getting likes is probably your priority.
          But newsletter subscribers have always better ROI at the end. That depends on how you monetize your email list and if you’re good enough to contact them constantly with awesome content.

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      • Could the same be said about gaming sites? I started a pokemon niche blog last month and traffic has actually been pretty good but ad clicks are not. I’m using the same theme and ad position as my other blogs but getting about 3 or 4 ad clicks per 10,000 pageviews! Also my cpm is super low and averages only about .50 cents.

        Am I just doing something wrong or are tech and gaming sites similar in terms of audience?

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        • Tech sites always have lower CTRs. much lower than the rest of the niches.

          However, in the case of Pokemon go I think you’d be better monetizing it with CPA offers around Pokemon coins and that kind of stuff instead of just testing some Adsense banners.

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    • I have a website that has the keyword viralposts in it. It’s a .com domain. Omg (viralposts.com) Do you suppose that site would be a success if I followed the above steps? I’m a novice at this but I’m looking to start something new and this kind of work is interesting to me. Thank you for your time

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  281. HELLO SERVANDO,
    thanks for taking your time to read this

    wE HAVE A FULLY ORGANIC FAN PAGE WITH 200K FANS, AFTER A WHILE WE LAUNCHED A NICHE WEBSITE (COMBINING SOME VIRAL STORIES), 3 ARTICLES PER DAY.
    FULLY ORGANIC AS WELL AND WE GOT 20K VISITORS PER MONTH; ADSENSE EARNINGS WERE AS LOW AS $30 USD =( ….

    OF COURSE WE WERE DISSAPOINTED, “READY TO CHASE THE NEXT SHINY THING”,
    AND THEN WE FOUND YOUR ARTICLE, AND WE ARE READY TO TRY WITH FACEBOOK ADS

    SUMMARIZING, AND PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG:

    – WE NEED TO DO A CAMPAIGN FOR EVERY ARTICLE (WE’LL INCREASE IT TO 4 ARTICLES PER DAY, 2 ON WEEKENDS) = $600/MONTH in fb ads (during the first months)

    – we’ll outsource the articles and video content = $250/month

    – i know theres no magical formula, but how can we at least ensure our roi in 6 months? with the first try out we did, we are afraid of investing with no tangible method no retrieve the investment

    your kind thoughts are well appreciated

    regards
    alejandro

    Reply

    • 20,000 visitors and just $30 USD is quite low. I guess you’re having a low CTR in your ads or a low CPC due to your audience.
      As for your steps, yes, that’s pretty much. When you bump your campaign with paid ads make sure to just add a few USD on each and just increase and scale the best ones that actually make money.

      There’s no way to be sure if you’re going to get your ROI in 6 months. If you hit a viral story, you could do it in 2 weeks, or you could take 12 months. That’s up to you and how many tests you do to increase the probabilities of getting viral stories and repeat them again and again.

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  282. Hi Servanto, Thanks for the wonderful information. I am try to build my website for earning my living. My website is peppersmile.com. I hope your inputs will help me in making some money.

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  283. Hello Silva
    i don’t know why i didn’t know your amazing blog before :O but today i’ve subscribed to your newsletter ^^.
    thanks for that great informative post! & i have some questions :
    1- what is the best tip to get succeed with viral websites; copy paste the content and link the sources, or re-write the posts and publish them ?

    2- what is the best country to target with my content ? (is low cpc countries a good idea) ?

    3- what if i bought an old domain name with high PR/DA ? (& and any domain name suggestion to get ideas) ?

    sorry about that all question but im newbie here!
    Thanks Again.

    Reply

    • Hello!
      1. I prefer rewriting them.
      2. I don’t know where do you live but there’s no best country to target. Low CPC countries also have lower CPMs and ad revenue, so everything is balanced. USA is quite saturated though.
      3. Doesn’t matter. This strategy is not related to SEO so nobody cares if your domain is ranked or has high quality backlinks or Domain authority. It’s all about viral traffic from Facebook and Facebook doesn’t care about those metrics.

      No problem, keep asking 🙂

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      • thanks for your help, i live in algeria and google adsense doesn’t pay good for arabic content.
        i will choose a country that speak english, but i think it’s not usa because i don’t have the appropriate budget.

        thanks again 😀

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  284. thank u , so the idea is that : have more than 10 000 likes in a facebook page related with our niche, write 2 to 4 articles per day , and publish them on the facebook pages is that?

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      • Thank u, and how much can I earn with 10 000visitors daily, and can I earn from the same visitors daily? Of course I will try to grow the fan page on Facebook

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    • i JUST went from 1-2 dollar to 400 dollars the past 7 days. one of my articles got viral 6 days after i posted it. 4.1k shares 0 dollar spen on ads.

      WHAT I LEARNED:
      1 IF IT DOESNT PROVOKE SOME EMOTIONS IN YOU IT PROBABLY WONT GET TRACTION.
      2. POST SOMETHING THAT 24-60+ YEARS OLD WILL REACT TO.
      HOPE IT HELPS.

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  285. Hi Servando Silva,

    I am very late to see this post. However, what I understand from this post is:

    Creating a fan page and sharing our niche sites articles on it.

    Then, create advert to bring likes for the fan page (i.e. followers for the page). After 10k or more likes we can actively publish our niche site link there.

    Now, I already have a fb page and no likes though I am actively sharing my site content to it.

    So, I from fb ads, I created an ad and selected the option to bring likes for the page.

    with a daily budget around Rs. 500 (~5$). I selected the manual bidding option and it suggest bid of Rs. 267 per like which goes around $3.99. I had tried selecting Australia and New Zealand both shows same bidding.

    How should I proceed? Should I set auto bidding? I am afraid as it shows $3.99 suggested bid they may charge same in auto mode.

    I am sure if I set if I set low manual bidding around for 10 cents I am not going to have any impressions.

    Please advise.

    Thanks.

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  286. Hello Servando.
    I didn’t know what I was searching for on the net, but I found myself here. I have followed everything you’ve been teaching and things are looking up. My site is just less than four months old and I had my first tranche of payment from Google (more than 1k).
    Thanks for the things you teach.

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  287. Hi, I want to sell my Spanish language Facebook Page (with almost 13k likes). Do you know where can I sell it? Or if in this page, there are interested readers, please contact me!

    Which is the correct price for a page with 13k likes?

    Thanks,
    Masmo.

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  288. Mr. Servando How will I know if the content that have been written by my content writer has been copied from another source…. Thus, it is not a fresh one?

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  291. Hello.

    1. Yes, you can use your Adsense code in any website you own after it’s been approved the first time.
    2. Read 1
    3. Read 1

    🙂

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  292. Hi, I’m Michael by name.
    The only problem I’m have with my website is traffic source. Please help with places or site that I can get real traffic for my blog bidolove.com

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  293. Great article. I wish I’d found your valuable articles BEFORE I started my viral news site. It sure would have saved me a lot of time of figuring all of this out on my own through trial and error!

    I have a question. Do you know if it’s safe to run facebook ads for a url to a page that has a small video ad or 2 on it? I’ve been unable to confirm if this will get a facebook ads account shut down or if it’s allowed.

    Also, for the commentor who asked about the curation software. I’ve tried it (using mycurator), and it works quite well. I use it to pull content into my wordpress dashboard, and I rewrite it from there. It’s safe as long as you don’t repost the same exact article. Rewrite it, and you should be fine.

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    • Well, learning the ropes by yourself is still a great method to know what works 🙂 Kudos for that.
      As for your question, is it some kind of interstitial video or something like that? i haven’t tested using a bridge page or a small video ad before going to the actual page but Facebook might have troubles with it.

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      • Very true. Learning anything by yourself can certainly be a valuable way to learn.

        Actually, I’ve just learned today that what I was referring to is called an “in-banner video” ad. I know Facebook doesn’t allow any sort of bridge page. I was just wondering if you can promote a URL on facebook that leads to a landing page with an in-banner video ad on it. I’ve checked Facebook’s landing page guidelines and didn’t see any specific mention of this, so it seems it is safe. However, as we know, they occasionally penalize advertisers for things that aren’t specifically listed in their guidelines. I have not yet found a definitive answer on this or any confirmation from someone who has done it.

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  294. Hi Ali.
    I never used a curation tool. Everything was redacted by me and my writers so I’m not sure how it will work.
    I don’t have an step by step by guide, but if you just go and copy other viral sites (they are all similar) there’s nothing much else you need to know.

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    • hi, servando thanks for the reply, what i really me by the content curation tools, is to pull in some viral contents from site like, viralnova, upworthy, buzzfeed etc. is that a bad idea?

      thanks.

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      • I’d rather write them by myself or hire a writer, but up to you. Not sure if it’s going to be a bad idea or not.

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  295. Hi,

    Great article. The best thing is how you have resolved readers query. Really impressive. Congrats.

    Reply

  296. That’s a great article.
    I am trying for a same website from India. Please suggest me what do you think will be the best country to target: India or US?

    Reply

    • There is no such thing as a “best country” to target. If you know what your audience wants, it could be anywhere.

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    • Yes, There have been several changes like this before. Every time it makes it a bit more difficult and also swipes a lot of newbies in the area so it compensates everything.

      Facebook does this kind of changes every 6-12 months so I’m not surprised anymore.

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  298. Hey man,

    Great to see that you’re still responding to people on this post! I’ve been familiar with your site for a good 2-3 years now but this is my first comment lol. I kinda was wondering if this post is still 100% relevant today. I used to thrive on adsense back in the day, making 6-figures.. it was great.. till I got banned almost exactly a year ago. I gave it another try, signed up again with (literally ALL) different information(IP,Info,..etc), invested a good 1.2k, then got banned again. -__-

    I have the knowledge and skills, just kinda afraid (but not unable) to invest into an online business model again. I was wondering if you have any advice, considering you’ve been able to keep your websites thriving. Do you think this method (with an “adsense alternative”, of course) could be extremely effective these days? Obviously I’m willing to put in the hard work and investment, just want to hear from you before I dive in again!

    Really hope you get to see this.

    Thanks!
    Matt

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    • Hi Matt.
      Glad to know you’re an old reader.

      You might want to give an eye to the latest post about it (linked at the beginning) so you see what kind of alternatives are available and how it works for me in 2016.

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  299. Hey Servando, just looking for your personal and experienced opinion on using sourced images on posts and complying with generic usage rights. Always a good idea to reference the source of the image of course, but my question is this:

    If you’re sourcing all the posts images from Pinterest, is it ok to reference all the images as being sourced from Pinterest? e.g. you have 15 images in a post, each sourced from Pinterest and each image stating ‘Source: Pinterest’

    Hope that makes sense.

    Thanks!

    Reply

    • Well, I never tried taking the images from pinterest but we used to grab a lot of images from other Facebook fan pages and at the same time they took them from others and nobody linked the source. I don’t think that you’ll have a problem with pinterest, honestly, but maybe you could try just linking to the pinterest profile at the end instead of linking to each one of the images.

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  300. Hello,

    I am always being banned from facebook with the message “Your account was disabled for running ads that do not deliver a consistent and expected experience for viewers. It’s not an acceptable practice to monetize Facebook ad views using unoriginal or extremely minimal content on the destination page for an ad.”
    My website have four writers and we only do original content. We have 3 adsense blocks and outbrain (network like taboola). We spent more then $300 dollars in facebook ads before being banned. But now every-time i open an account and do a promoted post to my site the advertise account ends banned from facebook. Do i have to change the domain name of my site? And why facebook is always banned me? I do not do blackhat ads… Could you help me?

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    • Once you are banned you need to change everything or they will keep banning you all the time.
      You need a new: email (of course), payment method, IP, browser and website for destination.

      Otherwise they know you are just opening new accounts after being banned and that’s why they ban you easily again.

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  301. Hi Servando Silva,
    I earned 107$ with adsense, But yesterday I got only 13.61$ in ,y current balance and 93$ is debited because of invalid traffic. all my traffic are come from my Facebook page, Whey they are in valid traffic?
    Can you tell me how to get away from invalid traffic?
    Thank you.

    Reply

    • If somebody clicked a lot of your ads on purpose OR if they have a very high bounce rate sometimes they discount a percentage, although not as big as it happened to you.
      +There’s no way around this since this is a new Adsense policy that started at the end of 2015.

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  303. Hi Silva,
    I just stumbled on your article while on a research on how I can rank my new blog. Am sure glad I did I am honestly impressed how you have managed to keep up replying to comments such a long time you wrote this article.
    I do have a question for someone who is starting out on a low budget to run facebook ads would be nest to impossible can you kindly advice an alternative route to take in growing traffic to his/her website.
    Honesty like you earlier mentioned $1,200 – $2,000 for a facebook advert is on the high side.

    Reply

    • Hello Victor.
      Thanks for your feedback. I like answering back to my readers no matter how old the article is

      Yes, it’s possible to start with a lower budget for a client’s website in an specific niche. This case study is totally different but this might be what you’re looking for.
      That case study spent like $110 so it’s definitely on a low budget approach.

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  304. Hi Servando, a great source of information you have here, thanks.

    I have a few questions on legal matters if you could help?

    1. I notice that established viral content sites have a link to legal terms, DMCA etc – is there a template somewhere that one could use on a newly established site in the UK? Is it good to at least have something basic linking to legal terms on the site?

    2. Other than creating original content [even if they are ‘inspired’ by existing high performers] and linking to sources of photos and/or video, is there anything else one should be aware of to avoid DMCA matters, Adsense account suspension etc?

    3. On the subject of crediting and using pictures and video, is there any particular service you would recommend that is typically ok with the use of the content for viral sites e.g. YouTube, Pinterest etc?

    Thanks,
    Roberto

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    • Hi Roberto.

      1. Yes, there are free templates available you can copy for legal terms, cookies, etc.

      2. Adsense is very picky and they can ban you even if you don’t do anything wrong. Just keep in mind that there’s always that risk. As for DMCA, etc. if you link to the source the worst thing that normally happens is that they require you to take down the post, which takes you a few seconds to unpublish and you move on.

      3. Nope, but if you embedd youtube videos you’re not doing anything wrong. If you took images from another viral site (they probably won’t care as they do the same business) you should link to their article at the end of your article.

      Regards.

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      • Thanks Servando for the super-fast response! Can you point to any template sites for legal terms, the UK? If not US?

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  305. Hi,
    So just to see if I understood, you recommend driving traffic to your FB Fan page and not booting posts or sending ads to the website itself?

    And do you have any recommendations on where to find writers that work in that short time period?

    Thanks!

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  306. I really like this concept and would love to try it but I have a few questions:

    1. Does this model still work in 2016? Is it better to “niche down”? Too much competition?

    2. Can you give us an example of one of your blogs?

    3. In step 3, you say to post links AND images every few hours…what kind of images? Why not all links?

    4. How many posts should I have on the blog before I start building a FB fan page?

    Reply

    • Hello.

      1. You’ll find the answer to this question and a few others here.
      2. No. For obvious reasons it wouldn’t be intelligent to share on of my blogs the same way it’s not intelligent to reveal any niche sites that are being ranked, etc. You have a lot of super big viral sites out there (to big to be hidden) that you can check though.
      3. Viral images. Because Facebook will decrease the reach of your page if you only post links as it’s like spamming your audience without providing actual engagement inside Facebook. Vy posting images, videos, texts, etc and keeping your audience engaged on Facebook you are able to maintain your reach.
      4. I’d start with 5-10 to get started. Shouldn’t take you more than a couple hours to add that quantity and get started. But you can also start you Facebook page and start posting images without links to start growing it even if you still don’t have a blog to monetize.

      Best regards.

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  307. hi there, need some advice for my viral website. I managed to bring down the cost per click on fb. To like maybe 5cent or 8cents.

    My Adsense CTR about 1.5%. About 20cents per click.

    How would u consider that an article goes viral? Like maybe 5-10% of the readers share most of my articles. Is that considered viral? Maybe the best article gets 25% share rate.

    Do u continue to drive traffic to articles as long as the fb cpc is cheap? Or you also look at the share rate. If no good, then you don’t drive traffic?

    Another question. If I drive low traffic from Facebook to the article. Maybe 500 clicks each day and after a few days it doesn’t break even. Is it fair to move on and this article has failed? Or I should drive much more traffic before it can properly “seed” and go viral?

    For example do I need to drive like 5000 clicks each day and see if the shares accumulate exponentially? If like driving 100 clicks is sufficient to test.

    Sorry last question. Just by Adsense alone, a successful viral website should be able to earn money? Or Adsense alone still can’t break even? Thanksb

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  309. What about the legalities of using someone else’s images? If you are running a viral blog, then where are you getting your images? Simply crediting the source is not good enough…how do you handle that?

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    • Linking to the source is normally more than enough.
      But if somebody actually takes action and files a DMCA you just have to delete or take down the page from your site and you’re good to go.

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  310. Great article there. I wish I had the facebook ads account enabled. For some strange reason facebook disabled my account. So I am trying to get this.

    I will try to get my accout working. Thanks for the wonderful article.

    Reply

    • Did they mention why they blocked your account? There cloud be many reasons. Try using the FB Business Manager.

      Reply

  311. About Youtube subtitles or CC or Transcript .Shall i write these youtube subtitles on my site? if am write these any traffic problem?

    Reply

    • Probably Google Adwords and Social networks. Adsense is very picky but also content discovery networks like Taboola, Revcontent, etc. can work.

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  313. Do you prefer to work with no specific category like ViralNova, Littlethings etc
    or to work in a special category like DIY, Animals etc ..
    General or specific category ?
    Thanks in advance!

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    • For viral websites i like to go as broad as posible, however, normally I prefer going for an specific niche.

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      • mmmm well .. I’ve been in general viral websites for more than 7 months
        then i decided to go more specific niche and to focus on it.
        One-man team can’t make a new ViralNova or Littlethings!
        this is what i finally understood.
        Thanks Servando!

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        • Hmmm

          You are right, but you know how the viralnova can bring new articles?

          They have an “submit content” where anyone can submit the content to publish on viralnova and to get exposure.

          In simple words “they use the guest posting technique for getting more content published on the site”

          So! if you start with a basic nice website, you can do wonders by being on point and one topic with accepting others content.

          hope you’ll get my point 🙂

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          • Yeah. They didn’t do that before in 2012-2013, but it’s a natural way to keep growing at that stage.

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            • I do understand you. In my opinion after months of experience the probability of ” Going Viral ” in niches are so higher than general viral websites. The game changed a LOT from 2012 to 2016 .. but it’s still alive 😉

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  314. Hello,

    how will you get fans of your FB-page to go to your website? Will you post links on FB to your site or will you post the content within your FB-page directly? Then nobody will visit your page if they see the content in FB already.

    How about AdSense, I heard people opening a link from FB will be considered “invalid traffic” when AdSense sees they came from FB. How to solve that issue? Would a redirect do it?

    Best regards,

    Andrew

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  315. Last month Adsense shows invalif traffic worth $400. Is this because of my Facebook traffic? 90% of my traffic are from Facebook.

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    • Not necesarily, but it could happen if they detect many people from social networks are clicking your ads and not really doing something after that.

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      • I see. Thanks a lot Servando! TO be honest I have already read this article some moths ago and you have actually inspired me to earn through adsense and facebook fan page. I want to thank you!

        Kudos!

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