Just thought I'd share this. I launched a new blog (with mostly pictures) a week ago and saw my first Adsense earnings from it.
And guess what? It only cost me $8.
Here is what i did:
1. I bought a .com domain name for $3 a couple of months ago during a promotion.
2. I installed a wordpress blog on the free cloud hosting of Hostzilla. They seem to filter out a few dozens of countries, but if you get through you wont regret it. I hosted another site there (i only place ads from a few local companies i have contracts with on it), and it 2 months it was only down for around 4 hours. Its also really fast. The only downside to this is the 100MB diskspace limit, but this has a few workarounds, like hosting your files elsewhere.
3. I ordered this gig on fiverr
http://fiverr.com/freelancer89/give...t-answers-with-a-link-to-your-website-website. After a bit of sugarcoating (i used his service before) he proposed to give me the extra for free as well as tweeting my blog to 4k of real users.
4. I did some promotion on my own, via a few forums like gamingforce and debatechampion.
I only have 19 subscribers so far but i think thats a pretty good start for my very first Adsense project
