Here’s a picture of the debt that fueled my intense desire to make adsense work for me.

To give you a little bit of background about myself, my name is Bradley G. Smith. I am a professional web programmer. I manipulate text files for a living. I have been involved with internet marketing since Sept. 2005. That puts me at about two and a half years into this game. From the research and experience that I’ve developed, it seems that it takes hardcore internet marketers who start from scratch about two years to begin getting a grasp on wrangling the beast we call the internet and begin pulling in a decent amount of profits on their own. So you could say that I’m about six months overdue for some serious automated (or semi-automated) recurring income.

Just recently I got a piece of mail (the one you see in the picture above) from the great Sallie Mae. In short, the letter says that I owe $202 a month for 177 payments. That’s $202 a month for a little over 14 years. And that’s just one piece of student debt. In all, my student debt totals about $60,000.

Up to this point, I’ve been deferring and claiming forbearance (because, honestly I don’t have the money yet to pay it back). I talked to Sallie Mae on the phone and they said that I can claim forbearance for one last period of 7 months. So, what does that mean? That means I have seven months to make something happen with adsense. Over the last two and a half years I have been studying a ton of things. I went from having no coding/programming experience whatsoever to developing some pretty sweet scripts using php, xml, flash, javascript, ajax, css, html, and a couple other languages. I have also been studying the world of internet marketing and actually consider myself to be in internet marketing generation 2.0.

So, how does all this make me an expert on adsense? Well, it doesn’t. If I was the expert, I would have already had my student loans paid off. But, during this whole period of immersing myself into my online career, I have developed a boatload of knowledge on seo(search engine optimization), adwords, adsense, and internet marketing in general. And it’s like those who are already making money online say, it’s not the knowledge that makes you the money–it’s the applied knowledge that makes you the money. And besides gaining a ton of knowledge, I have also already spent literally thousands of dollars online to learn some of these industry “secrets”.

That brings me to the point of this blog. This blog is basically a journey that I want to share with you the reader of how I am going to take you by the hand and show you what I’m doing when I’m doing it to bring my adsense earnings up to $202 per month in the next seven months. Currently, I’m at about $15-$20 per month and I have 20 content sites. It’s actually kind of pathetic I know. I’ll show you a screenshot soon of what my current earnings are (within adsense’s current terms and conditions of course).

And now, I conclude this blog post. During this journey over the next seven months. I want you to be able to see the results that I’m getting. It’s going to be a lot of hard work and honestly, I may fall short. Making money with adsense now is a lot harder than it even was 6 months to a year ago. But, I’m going to make at least five posts a week and give you a ton of valuable information along the way. If you don’t learn something about adsense, I guarantee you will learn something about search engine optimization. Some may respectfully disagree with me, but there is only so much on-page optimization you can do. I’m fortunate enough to work with a web design company whose number one goal is to get natural search traffic for companies.

I’ll do my best to keep the valuable content coming and provide you with all the on-page optimization, off-page optimization, the blueprint and the software that I use to get my sites to performance par. So, without further ado, enjoy!

If you have any comments or would like me to cover something in particular over the next seven months, please leave your comments.