Learning Spanish and Making Money Online

As an Internet Marketer, I now look for opportunities to make money from everything I do, and one of the things I'm doing is learning Spanish. It isn't an easy language to learn for an English speaker, so a schools that teach Spanish are very popular.

Because there are so many schools teaching Spanish, and so many students wanting to learn Spanish, advertisers are prepared to pay a higher cost per click (CPC) to get their ad to the top of the paid search results, or onto the best websites that talk about learning Spanish.

Check out my screenshot from Google's AdWords Keyword Tool;


I'm based in Europe so the CPC I see are in Euros or US dollars, and at todays exchange rates that means the top result in Google's Keyword Tool is the same as nearly US$6 per click. If advertisers are prepared to pay that, imagine how you could make money online from being an AdSense publisher.

Typically Google pays AdSense publishers between 10-30% of the CPC, most publishers get around 10% if they have a reasonable website but a lot get more than that. A reasonable website in this instance would be one with good content, perhaps a blog that has short dialogs, or Spanish verb conjugations.

Learning Spanish doesn't have a great number of monthly searches and competition is stiff, but a passionate webmaster who is determined to build a good Learn Spanish website could easily build traffic and make money online from other people wanting to learn Spanish.

How would you go about building a Learn Spanish website and making money from it? Well I don't believe you'd need to worry too much about writing great content, typically the person reading your site isn't going to be interested in your thoughts, they're only interested in lists of vocabulary, verb conjugations, pictures of Spain or other Spanish speaking nations, lists of resources where they can study Spanish.

A website like this could be created easily, then after a month of building content and getting some backlinks including submitting articles, put your AdSense on the site and start to watch your earnings get counted every day. Make sure you read my AdSense ebook comparison.

I know I talk about making money online being easy, and it is, and I know when I talk doing keyword research you probably think that's easy as well, after all it's only a matter of brainstorming ideas and seeing which ones advertisers are prepared to pay well for. The next step is more difficult though, finding out if you can compete for the keyword.

Knowing that advertisers will pay to have their ad displayed on your website, and then getting enough targeted traffic to make it worth your while are two different things. With a global monthly search of 3600 for "learn spanish spain" you could probably make a couple of hundred dollars a month from AdSense if you could get to the first page of the search results.

Of course I'm not going to tell you how to do that in this article, instead I'd recommend reading Nomad's Guide to Make Money Online, a great AdSense ebook