europeforvisitors - 7:22 pm on Mar 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

principle holds though ..faster and way less effort to make "scrapers" that can be thrown away ..than spend ten years building content sites..I imagine more money can be made repeating the "scraper" business model in a ten year period than by making "straight" sites ...

Advantages of a content site:

1) If the content is "evergreen," the site and its revenues will grow steadily over time.

2) You can have multiple revenue streams: AdSense, affiliate sales, sponsorships, or whatever's right for your topic and audience. (Some of us earn more from other revenue streams than we do from AdSense, and we won't find ourselves left out in the cold if we lose our AdSense accounts or if the bottom falls out of the PPC ad market.)

Caveat: The skills required to build and maintain a successful content site are much different from those needed to build an SEO-driven scraper site, and vice versa. Most of us will gravitate toward what we're able to do best.