Newbie Journey to first Adsense payout

Sick for the last few days but slowly chipping away at some stuff. Signed up for a bunch of affiliate programs. Working on growing my fb page with cheap $0.01 likes from 3rd world English speaking countries. Got 150 ~ 200 page like so far for around $2. I guess just bootstrap it to 1,000 page likes so it has some social proof and then setup some facebook accounts in affluent English speaking countries and try get them to 5k friends and start growing the page in those demographics.

Made a list of all those countries to target for those interested:
Country, Population, Main Language Eng, GDP per capita.
Malawi[8] 16,407,000 No 255.0
Liberia[1] 3,750,000 No 457.9
Gambia[1] 1,709,000 No 484.1
Rwanda[1] 11,262,564 No 695.7
Uganda[1] 37,873,253 Yes 714.6
Sierra Leone[1] 6,190,280 No 766.0
Zimbabwe[1] 13,061,239 Yes 931.2
Tanzania[1] 51,820,000 No 955.1
Lesotho[1] 2,008,000 Yes 1,034.2
South Sudan[20] 12,340,000 No 1,115.1
Kenya[1] 45,010,056 Yes 1,358.3
Cameroon[1] 22,534,532 No 1,407.4
Ghana[1] 27,000,000 Yes 1,441.6
Zambia[1] 16,212,000 No 1,721.6
Sudan[1] 40,235,000 No 1,875.8
Nigeria[1][10] 182,202,000 Yes 3,203.3
Swaziland[1] 1,141,000 No 3,477.1
Namibia[1] 2,074,000 Yes 5,408.2
South Africa[19] 54,956,900 No 6,482.8
Botswana [3] 1,882,000 No 7,123.3

Fb page is at 300+ likes, so far so good.

I started using hitleap to drive some traffic to one of my sites but then I realized it's really not meanin full traffic in any way so what's the point.

Did a bit of study in the last few days about meathead's method and listened to some talks by him. I didn't know about searching google for all things in past 24 hours sorted by date, so that was a very very good thing to learn.

Have a couple of dev projects on the go at the moment. One is market research which hasn't progressed much in the last few days but come easter weekend I think I'll start on phase 2 of It. The other is an rss/atom feed mass aggregator. Started working on that tonight and it's going well so far. Actually should be a pretty powerful tool once it's built.

I think once I get those things out the way I gotta focus seriously on a niche and try promote some offers, but the picture on HOW to do that is becoming clearer by the day.

I found out about a really cool tool called Buzz Bundle while researching meathead's stuff. I never like the pricetag on those things, so I prefer to spend a bit of time building my own. Lots of cool tools/platforms out there but when they all cost $10 a month and there is 10 of them, it kinda makes that initial barrier to entry costly, especially for the inexperienced. If ur making serious bank I guess it's chump change.

Keep it going mate....Best f Luck...!!!!!

Its nice to follow and wondering to share my knowledge also here. Keep updating.

best of luck with your journey. adsense always priority for first journey, I even started with adsense first time.

Good luck, I still get a check from them from time to time

RSS/Atom feed aggregator project going strong. I can now register a feed and automatically poll it periodically, extract the links to the new posts and append them to a text file. In theory I could do anything with them (tweet them, post to fb, whatever) but the current requirements are just to save to a text file so that's all I'm doing at the moment. It's pretty awesome though.

Once it's done I'm gonna take a leaf out of my friends book and scrapebox a tonne of wordpress sites RSS/Atom feed urls and feed them all into the mass aggregator and have a live super feed of my niche. Can't wait to see what I can do with that.

I'm almost finished building my mass RSS/Atom feed aggregator. I have a basic version working now and just a few kinks need to be ironed out and then add some polish to it. After that will scrapebox tonnes of feeds in my niche and watch them all with my tool so I can use it to hopefully begin driving some traffic.

Got my mass RSS/Atom feed aggregator 95% finished. Just need to add some finishing touches now. Going to start performance testing it tomorrow, so I will scrapebox as many (at least 1000 but ideally more) feeds of blogs/sites related to my niche and put them in my aggregator and watch as the links to all the latest blog posts stream in.

Really hoping the performance testing goes well... it's kind of uncharted terrority for me. Very cool stuff though.

Performance tested my RSS/Atom feed aggregator. Fed it 1500 feeds from wordpress blogs and on my good hardware (4gb ram quad-core @ 3.2Ghz) it ran like a boss, scraping thousands of niche related blog post urls in 3 minutes flat. On shitty 1gb dual core netbook it maxxed out at 400 feeds and couldn't get any more than before it choked.

So, I'm considering a partial redesign to improve performance on lower spec hardware (as Ideally i'd like to be able to deploy it a cheap cloud-based node). I've already got in mind how to modify it to squeeze more performance out. Either way, I can start using it as is.

Finished the redesign and performance tested on my low spec hardware (1gb 2 Core @ 1.2Ghz netbook) and it scraped all 1500 feeds in 10 mins. Can't wait to performance test on my high spec hardware. I think over the course of 24 hours I could scale it to scrape maybe 1 million feeds. Either way, super happy with the performance after the redesign. Now just working on the finishing touches and package it up with Docker so I can deploy to the cloud. I think this project will continue for about another week while I put the finishing touches on.

After that, I'm gonna focus on writing some original articles for my niche site and manually spinning a bunch of really good ones. I think I can build up some good quality content fast if I split it 30% original and 70% hand-spun.

Then I will use my feed aggregator to watch thousands of RSS feeds of niche related blogs for new blog posts and comment to start driving some traffic and building some relationships within the community.