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$200 per day with Adsense and viral websites

Updated on Oct 15, 2018 @ 2:21 pm by 1,451 Comments

$200 per day with Adsense and viral websites

Updated 2018: Check out the second part of this article on how I make $500 per day adding PropellerAds to my viral websites. Also check out the third part of this strategy to learn how to optimize your mobile traffic for maximum revenue.

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 IT FOR $5 PER MONTH)
  • An Adsense account at the beginning, and later an account with a CPM/CPA advertising company
  • A Facebook Ads account with credit card or Paypal
  • A Facebook Fan Page and some budget to start. I’d recommend $500 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. Get your FPTraffic discount here.

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 that I’ll cover in a future article. As promised, I’m writing at least 1 article per week, so you’ll hear back from me pretty soon.

But just so that you know what’s the next step: Article published HERE.

  • 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. 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.

      Reply

  2. 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?

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

  3. 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?

    Reply

    • 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

  5. 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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  6. 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.

    Reply

    • 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 🙂

      Reply

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

    Reply

    • 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 🙂

      Reply

        • 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 🙂

          Reply

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

    Reply

  11. 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.

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

  12. 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?

    Reply

  13. 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?

    Reply

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

    Reply

  15. 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

  17. 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.

      Reply

    • 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

  21. 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

  23. 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”

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  25. 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?

    Reply

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

    Reply

  30. BS from the start
    shoulda woulda coulda
    so you assume things in 2018 based on a few things that you did in 2013

    and you know people who make 100,000$ per month using this,
    but you don’t want the 100,000$/month so you don’t do it at all………Seriously WTF

    you need medical help

    Reply

    • Who said we don’t want it?
      We made several times over 6 figures per month last year with our online strategies. This year we’re doing a bit less but still good numbers.

      Things have changed a lot but we still love Facebook as a traffic source (although it’s a love/hate relationship sometimes) and we’ve been running through it for the last 5 years.
      I wrote this post years ago.

      Your comment is the BS in need of medical help…

      Reply

  31. 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

    Reply

    • 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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  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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?

    Reply

  38. 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.

      Reply

  40. 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.

      Reply

  43. 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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  44. 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.

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

  45. 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.

    Reply

    • 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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  49. 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?

    Reply

  53. 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

    Reply

    • 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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  54. 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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  55. 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.

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

    • 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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  58. 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.

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

  59. 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?

    Reply

    • 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.

      Reply

  61. 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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  63. 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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  64. 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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  67. 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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  69. 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.

    Reply

      • 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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  72. 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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  73. 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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  76. 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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  78. 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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  79. 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.

      Reply

  80. 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

      • 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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  81. 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.

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  82. Thanks for this post.
    Well explained one!
    As a newbie to blogging and AdSense, It helped me lot.
    Thanks again

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  84. 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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  85. 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

    Reply

    • 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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  86. 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

    Reply

  87. 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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  88. 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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  89. 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 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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  90. 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?

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  92. 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

  94. 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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  95. 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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  97. 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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  98. 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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  101. 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.

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  102. 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.

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  103. 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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  104. 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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  106. 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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  108. 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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  111. 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.

      Reply

  115. 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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  117. Hi Servando, how did you do it with vultr? is not to hard to setup wordpress there? how about email and security?
    regards!

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  120. 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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  122. Hi,

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

    Thanks for the inspiration

    Regards,

    Reply

  123. 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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  125. 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.

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  126. 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.

      Reply

      • 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!

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  127. 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?

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    • 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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  128. 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?

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    • 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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  129. 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!

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    • 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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  131. 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.

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    • 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!

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  132. 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?

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  138. 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 ?

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  139. 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.

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    • 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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  140. 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

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  141. 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

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

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  146. 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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  147. 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.

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    • 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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  150. 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?

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

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  152. 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.

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    • 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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  154. 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

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    • 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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  155. 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

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    • 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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  156. 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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  157. 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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  158. 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?

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    • 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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  159. 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

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  160. 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?!?

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    • 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?

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  161. Thanks for this Super long and Informative Article.

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

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  162. 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

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    • 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.

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  163. 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?

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    • 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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  164. 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?

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  166. 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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  167. 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!

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  168. 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

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    • 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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  169. 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?

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    • 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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  170. 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.

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    • 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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  171. 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.

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    • 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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