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I often get the question if this or that Google Adsense Get Rich system is trustworthy or not.

Most of the time, the answer this is no. There are several ways to increase your earnings via adsense, and in the long run even make a living from adsense, but there is not a single system that will have you earn 100$ a day with adsense, starting from scratch.

Google is one of the greatest brands of the internet, without any doubt. This means that alot of scams rise up using the Google brand to trick potential customers.

Google scams promising fast cash mostly consist of e-books one has to buy, which contain numerous promises of getting rich very fast, by simply following these few easy steps. Most often, these steps include creating 500 websites, putting adsense on them, get 2000 visitors a day per website, and use some adsense-tricks.

[ad]If you do the math, you can’t but believe in their system. If you do indeed have 500 websites, and each website has 2000 visitors, and an average CTR (Click Through Rate) of 2% (which is rather low), and a payment of 0.25$ per click, you will get 40 clicks a day per site, at 0.25$ per click, means 10$ per day per site. And you have 500 sites, so you make 5000$ a day using Adsense, that is 1825000$ a year!

So, you quit your day job. You borrow 10000$ from Mister Mobster, who never takes his sunglasses off, and drives a black, tinted-windows-Mercedes GL. Promising him to pay him back in 2 weeks (hey, you’re gonna earn 5000$ a day, remember, you can go and bring him his money with your Porsche Carrera GT!).

But then, you notice that creating 500 websites is not that easy… Not even using templates. But you manage, using templates, and articles from articledirectories that you can use freely.

And then, you see that nobody on the internet is waiting for 500 new websites with content that you can find on at least 10 other websites. So you post comments, work yourself through the full list of social networking websites, and place links all over the internet, driving traffic to your websites. And it works! you have some more visitors already! 100 a day even! Good, great work, now sit back and watch the traffic increase, and the money roll in.

And sit… and wait… and wait… and sit… and refresh those stats… and log in to your Google Adsense dashboard again… And sit… and wait… throw a rock at the F5 key, which, in the meantime is totally worn out from refreshing… and you wait and sit…

And the only change that you notice is that your traffic is dramatically decreasing, already after a few days. And the only visitors left are the ones that accidentally clicked a link they found somewhere on the net.

And another thing you notice, is that you never reached the 2% CTR, since traffic from social networking site typically is low CTR traffic… They just come in, and hop out again fairly fast.

And then comes the time that Mister Mobster drops by to get his payment. And he is accompanied by two 7 inch feet giants who have more musclemass than the average ox. And you realize, that you’d better start out with one blog, and write unique content for it, and use the legit way of earning via Adsense…

There is some truth in these systems though, but you need to be able to filter it out, and don’t expect to get rich overnight.

[ad]The ideal way of earning via Adsense? Gradually build up a Google Adsense Empire. Start out with a blog in a niche, about a topic that you are interested in, and get that blog running well. Attract lots of visitors and incoming links. The way to do that? Unique content, nothing else. If your blog starts running ok, focus on a second blog, and even a third, following the same principle. In the meantime, you can also start working on a full website. Again, make one in a niche, and work hard on it. Fill it with unique content, but also add a forum and such. Make it a site that can keep its visitors inside for at least 5 minutes, preferrably even much longer. Make it Web2.0 (hence, the forum). Inbetween, add more blogs, but gradually, don’t ever forget about your other websites and blogs. Google loves content, unique content, but also regularly updated content.

Et voila, that’s the way to start earning via Google’s Adsense. No need to buy a startpackage worth 4,995$ + 750$ free added value, now for only 49.95$, if you decide right now, which will earn you at least 5000$ a month! You just got all the info you need for free. Do you want to give it a try on Adsense? Then first check out the article “Getting Started With Adsense” which will guide you with your first steps in the wonderfull world of Adsense.

And if you still need more info? Just ask, you can get that for free too ;-)

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  1. steam711
    August 23, 2009 | 9:25 pm

    Could you plz give me a little advice? I just started a couple days ago with hubpages and also created a couple blogs with blogspot.com but have not generated any money from it yet. I guess I don’t know what to expect but I thought at least something would have reported by now. Thank you in advance.
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    • admin
      August 25, 2009 | 2:55 pm

      @Steam711: Do you have visitors on your sites? Do your adsense statistics show Page Impressions? And Clicks? If it shows clicks, but you haven’t earned anything yet, then Google is seeing these as invalid clicks.

  2. Puzzeling
    August 25, 2009 | 2:36 am

    ok, like most of you I stumbled onto this site while trying to verify if a “google money kit” was legit. I knew it wasn’t when I saw the small print at the bottom that said it had to be canceled w/in 7 days or my card would be charged $69.99 every month and an additional $29.99 for some other program.

    Anyway, my purpose is not to get rich, but just to work from home due to recent physical limitations. I don’t have enough to talk about to fill one website one time much less several on an ongoing basis so I don’t think going that route would make me much money. However I am good at clerical / typists duties but can’t find legitimate work at home opportunities.

    Can anyone help me out in that area?

    Thanks much :)

    • admin
      August 25, 2009 | 2:57 pm

      @Puzzeling: Can’t help you out on a real job, but why don’t you try something new, and write a blog about any subject that interests you? Doesn’t need to be something you already know alot about, you can use the opportunity to learn about it…

  3. steam711
    August 25, 2009 | 4:25 pm

    Admin.. thank you for your response. I have had about 50 visitors or 50 impressions but no earnings.

  4. steam711
    August 25, 2009 | 11:43 pm

    Thanks again. I appreciate all the feed back. Trying to work on posting links.

    http://hubpages.com/hub/Housing-mess

    • admin
      August 25, 2009 | 11:46 pm

      @steam711: You’re welcome!

  5. monfis@marketingblog
    September 15, 2009 | 12:14 pm

    Absolutely right, nice article. Yes you can make money with Adsense, but it needs a lot of hard work and some time.

    Those e-books offered as the “magic bullets”, I won’t call them scams, but mainly useless as the recollect most of the time free available information, like given here.
    monfis@marketingblog´s last blog ..Can Any One Explain Me How Can I Promote My Web Site & Get New Traffic To My Web Site Pls? My ComLuv Profile

  6. Goa
    September 27, 2009 | 5:40 am

    This was an extremely useful article. Helps to dissect the various scams regarding making money with adsense on the net.

    Like you said, only good content is the key to making money through this wonderful system of adsense.
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  7. UKr
    October 4, 2009 | 8:51 pm

    A nice article with some handy information which actually stopped me here on your site for atleast 5 minutes. You achieved your target from this article!!! :)

  8. Henry F R
    November 22, 2009 | 9:56 pm

    Is it difficult to cancel on scams even if you cancel with in the given time allowed?

    • admin
      November 22, 2009 | 11:16 pm

      @Henry F R: I’m afraid it is. I don’t have any personal experience with it, but I’ve heard that it can be a real pain to get it cancelled. My advice is to contact your creditcard provider, and explain the situation to them, and ask them to block the payment.
      Good luck!

  9. Fizzle
    December 2, 2009 | 7:37 pm

    @Henry F R
    Hey I just cancelled my accound with “myinternettreasurechest.com” Which charged me $29.98 to sign up and then $7.50 a month recurring fee. The hardest part of the ordeal was finding the number to call. But after I did, the whole thing took about 5 min. and me telling them that I definately don’t want to keep the account and bam! I’m off the hook now. So I am pleased to tell you that my experience was fairly painless. I was however expecting to have to fight with tooth and nail with this company but they were quick and civil about that whole thing. Just my experience though. It might not be the same for other companys.

  10. Fizzle
    December 2, 2009 | 7:39 pm

    @Fizzle
    Oh forgot to mention. I was told I would receive a full refund of both the $29.98 and the $7.50. We will see if they are telling the truth.

  11. TraCY
    December 6, 2009 | 6:33 pm

    @Fizzle
    I made same mistake. Can you please email me the phone number you called to cancel? Much appreciated. Thanks so much,

    Tracy

  12. Amy
    December 7, 2009 | 3:43 pm

    @Fizzle
    Can you please send me the phone number to cancel as well. I just signed up and had an awful feeling after I did. Thanks, Amy

  13. Janell
    December 8, 2009 | 5:24 pm

    @Fizzle

    Please post number, I am in the same boat. UGHHHH!!!!!

  14. deedub
    December 10, 2009 | 11:20 pm

    I cancelled the myinternettreasurechest.com account with phone # 1-877-361-8622. Good luck

    • admin
      December 11, 2009 | 7:53 am

      @deedub: Thanks for sharing!

  15. concerned
    December 28, 2009 | 10:54 pm

    I know for a fact that you can make money with websites, however, this myinternettreasurechest.com is a TOTAL and complete scam. They have different terms and conditions after you sign up than before. Also, they tell you $1.97 is for shipping your welcome packet, but you never get it. Then all these other charges start appearing. The person I know that tried this has been trying to cancel for 2 weeks, well before the free 7 day trial. Now they say she can’t have her money back even though she has been calling since 3 days after she signed up, to cancel. She has talked to several people giving different names each time and it is the same voice and person. They also have several different site names from the same terms and conditions. The bank is filing fraud charges and we are calling our Attorney General!

  16. Latief@AnotherBlogger
    January 17, 2010 | 5:07 pm

    Nice Story bro! Love about the body guard with the muscles, lol!
    I agree with you, I never care about people said about fast and easy money from Adsense. Google is always smart and about 500 website? No one can handle all the 500 website at the same time, with promotions, up dating, etc.
    And welcome to MMO Social Network, I just add you as a friend :)
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    • Bjorn
      January 21, 2010 | 8:06 am

      Thank you Latief! Too bad alot of people are still falling for these scams…

  17. Jeremy S
    May 29, 2010 | 6:29 pm

    Thanks for the interesting post. As the practice shows there are many ways of earnng money with adsense and there are many bloggers who are making some serious money using adsense on a monthly basis. So basically we are all down to how dedicated we are in what we are doing… :) Good luck to all!
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    • Bjorn
      May 29, 2010 | 7:06 pm

      @Jeremy S: Very true, dedication and perseverance are key!

  18. pam
    June 8, 2010 | 4:00 am

    I was thinking about joining this myinternettreasurechest. I need some really feedback of whether this is a scam or not. please help.

    • Bjorn
      June 8, 2010 | 8:11 am

      It is indeed a scam…

  19. trangman
    June 9, 2010 | 2:23 pm

    Hi Bjorn,
    Just started to read through your blog and it’s very interesting so far and you seem to have quite a following which in itself proves you doing it right.

    I am still quite surprised that there are so many Internet Marketing scams out there, I not criticising people who buy into them because they can be very convincing.

    Anyway keep up the great work and I will be back.

    Mike (Trangman)

    Sorry just one very small thing when quoting money in dollars, the $ symbol should be on the left, not the right like the Euro. It’s not really important it’s just to people like me it looks odd on the right.

    • Bjorn
      June 9, 2010 | 8:20 pm

      Thanks for the tip about the dollarsign Mike!
      Yes indeed, although there’s been quite some talking and news about these Google Scams, people are still falling for them. And, scammers are still trying to find new variations of the same type of scam.

  20. pr
    June 11, 2010 | 7:57 am

    I am so glad I read this …just ordered my internet tresure chest today and after reading this canceled my card and wil be calling them tomorrow

    • Bjorn
      June 11, 2010 | 7:59 am

      Glad I could help!

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