Out Ranking Tim Carter At AskTheBuilder.com

I like to run many SEO tests, some of those test are not just for me but for my friends to show them what is possible.

I was curious if I could out rank Tim Carter over at AskTheBuilder.com and then show my friends that it is really not that hard to make money online similar to how Tim monetizes his site with AdSense.

The reason I am “picking” on Tim Carter here is that he is an AdSense case study over at Google. In the case study Tim told everyone how much he was making when he started with AdSense, so I guess Tim has a target on his back with people trying to imitate his success.

I have emailed with Tim a little bit over the years and he seems like a great guy and has offered a lot of great ideas and info to the online community. Tim has some inside connections with Google, so I like to follow what changes Tim makes to his site because I am sure he runs many test to find out what converts best.

I had a tree die in my backyard so I cut it down and hauled it away. But the tree stump was too much for me to dig out so I hired someone to grind the stump out for me. I noticed that Tim had done a video on tree stump removal 6 months ago and ranked really well for it within 24 hours of posting it. So the idea came to me to test if I could out rank him with a similar tree stump removal video.

After about two weeks of posting my video, I now out rank him:

I will note that Tim totally kills me in both the quality of video as well as the number of video views (16,000 vs. 250) because he has such an great following.

I have nothing but great things to say about his site and the way he does his videos. I was just curious if I could out rank the AdSense Man.