I just got a $309.82 check today from Google, Inc.
(you can view it at the bottom of this post)

To see the how I was able to do it, click here

This was my first check ever from Google, despite having a blog with Adsense ads (not this one actually) in which I posted nearly every day and drew a respectable amount of traffic.

So what was it that it that finally broke my two year drought and got me my first Adsense check? In a word, a guy named John. John goes by username Xfactor on the forum where I first discovered him when he wrote a post that chronicled how he made $300 a day from Adsense alone.

That got my attention.

Especially since I’d been going at it pretty steady for two years and had only managed to accumulate a grand total of $20.32 in all that time from the Adsense ads I had peppered around my daily blog posts.

In his post, John laid out his basic outline of how he had managed to triple his Adsense income in six months. He went on further to list, point by point, his lessons learned along the way. This became the basis of the ebook he would later write (and I would later purchase).

And here is the golden nuggets of that post that started this whole crazy Xfactor thing…

1. From One Big Site to Many Many Small Sites- John originally had one big honking site that took quite a lot of his time and he began to completely reverse that strategy and started building a lot of tightly focused single-page micro sites.
2. Product Niches – He began to focus on product niches. Reasoning that people searching for products were likely ready to buy, thus ready to click
3. Low Competition, Moderate Traffic Keywords – He began to hone in on product keywords where there was a decent amount of traffic to make money, but not so much that getting a first page ranking in Google would be unattainable
4. Volume – John embraced the volume concept and forced himself to research and launch 4-5 sites a week. With this volume of sites, he could settle for a 20-25% success rate and still launch 1 money making site a week. A perpetual source of passive income with compounding dividends
5. Use Article Marketing Exlusively for SEO – This is perhaps where I disagree a bit with John’s approach, but its hard to argue with his success. John advocates using article marketing exclusively for site rankings with backlinks. I tend to favor depending on my niche research to birth a site that does not require backlinking to stay on top of the search engines. My main strategy for this is site optimization and domain name selection. To be fair, John advocates for some of this as well.
6. A Curiously Clickable Template – This is the single biggest draw that got me to pull the trigger on John’s course. After reading about the incredible performance of John’s template layout, I had to see it with my own eyes. I can honestly say, I was completely surprised when I saw it, but over the past two months, my bank account is testament to the fact that the layout, colors and subtle simplicity of the “Xfactor look” is incredibly effective at drawing clicks on product ads.

So after reading this post and becoming quite intrigued at how he was able to triple his income in such a short time and how everything seemed to revolve around launching many little tightly focused niche sites all wrapped in this mysteriously elusive template, I could not resist any longer and decided to purchase his course.

I’m sitting here a little over two months since that day I found out about John and his ebook and course and as I said in the opening, I just got my very first check ever today from Google in the amount of $309.62 ($20.32 of that was for revenue accrued from March 2007 until Sept 2009 with my alternative energy site, the rest was as a result of the following John’s e-book from September 9, 2009 through today)

As I sit today, I’ve already doubled my first month’s income and accrued $749.91 following John’s methods.

This has all been made by following John’s Adsense Master Course E-book and a few twists of my own in terms of tweaking the program for SEO (I really dislike article marketing so I’ve turbo charged John’s template layout and created a WordPress version that basically builds the site with a few clicks). My version has been pretty effective thus far with several sites hitting page one with virtually no backlinking done on my part.

If you are skeptical or have been burned by ebook offers in the past, all I can say is that this is a completely different animal altogether. This system works, almost too well. Its dang near addicting! The proof is in the check I just received and I’m on track to double my income each month following this formula.