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Amazon Web Services . pros and cons?

thinking of using it to get loads of extra pages

         

londrum

8:49 pm on Dec 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

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i make my money from adsense mainly, but i want to increase the number of pages on my site massively - so i can get more pages listed.

i figure an easy way to do that is to use amazon web services. that way i can start up a shop that won't look like it's just a two-bit affiliate. i've had a look at the code, and i've whipped up a shop with it pretty easily.

i know all about the problems with duplicate content and low quality pages, so i've made sure they've all got their own unique title tags, meta tags, headings, images, text descriptions, reviews, links to related items... basically everything. every page has some decent and unique content on it.
and you can't tell from the URLs or the code that i'm an affiliate either (except when you check-out, of course.)
i also have lots of individual products appearing throughought my main site, on relevant pages, linking back.

but... here's my problem... it seems too easy.

i can't see any reason why google wouldn't spider the whole lot, given time -- giving me thousands of extra pages for next to no work.
i'm just wondering what other people's experiences are with amazon web services.

did you get a huge boost in the number of pages indexed on your site?

ember

5:58 pm on Dec 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I had the same thoughts last year, not about using Amazon, but about adding many more pages to boost AdSense income. Hired a writer and actually doubled the size of the site in about 3 months. Got all the new pages indexed, but income stayed the same because while pageviews increased, the CTR dropped. Sounds like you have a different kind of site, though, so it could work for you using Amazon. But keep in mind that more pages don't always equal more revenue from AdSense.