The Market for Selling Made For Adsense Sites (MFA)

Can One Expect to Profit from Puchasing these MFA Sites?

[farmboy]

I guess the forum rules prevent me from posting links, but I just saw a site (it has "adsense" as part of the domain name by they way) that is selling a package of 150 MFA sites. You just purchase the package and presto you have 150 MFA sites ready to go, each on a different topic.

Many of these sites have hundreds of pages of content and of course lots of AdSense ads. And the package includes features that supposedly will create frequent search engine spider visits.

One thing that comes to mind is why the creator of this package can't make more money off AdSense himself instead of selling the packages?

Oh well, I guess there's no harm done as long as there is an infinite inventory of ads and advertisers and as long as searchers find this type of content useful?

FarmBoy

[emodo]

One thing that comes to mind is why the creator of this package can't make more money off AdSense himself instead of selling the packages?

Because he can't.

During a gold rush if you want to be rich, don't dig for gold, sell shovels.

[Leosghost]

or jeans ( adsense advice blogs , fora etc )..( this fora I don't include in that simili ..it doesnt have adsense on it ) ..advice blogs do ..

[martinibuster]

There are many threads discussing MFA sites for sale. They're sold on eBay and even advertised on AdWords. There are "get rich quick" type ebooks that purport to tell you how to make thousands of dollars a month, too.

This phenomenom isn't new, and is discussed several times a week. Here are two from the past five days

AutoGen MFA Website Software for Sale through AdWords
a new low perhaps?
[webmasterworld.com...]

Sites 4 sale on Ebay
They'll try anything!
[webmasterworld.com...]

In light of the history of internet monetization schemes, where one can choose from purchasing everything from fully functioning ecommerce sites to adult websites, as well as ebooks instructing how to monetize said kinds of sites, it would greatly surprise me if no one applied this get rich quick template to adsense. I mean, come on, should we really be surprised? What surprises me is that this still surprises anyone.

Just the other month someone approached me to build them an AdSense-Ready template that can scale from 60 pages to several thousand pages. The guy had a passion for a subject, but no means for creating a site around that. Does that make me a bad person because I helped them monetize AdSense by selling them a custom made AdSense-ready website template (just add content)?

So what difference is there between me selling a custom designed template complete with graphics to someone, and someone who is selling the same package (with or without content) over and over?

The MFA Site Seller is likely making more money at it. Maybe the MFA Site Seller has a hint of Barnum in them by raising expectations through their marketing materials. But that's the nature of commerce, isn't it? In a world where hair products purport to bring new life to your hair, is the development of niche markets and the marketing that goes with that surprising?

There are fish that live their lives attached to the bottom of sharks, feeding off the scraps. This kind of eco-system is to be expected.

Can someone actually make a living from buying all 150 sites with content on them, probably not, as dupe content filters will put an end to that party. However, if they put their own original content into all 150 sites, then the party is just getting started.

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:14 pm (utc) on Jan. 21, 2006]

[ken_b]

There are many threads discussing MFA sites for sale.

Maybe we need an MFA forum? :)

[incrediBILL]

Consider that if these MFA sites really worked why in the hell would someone sell them as they would make more money putting them on the web themselves and not want to share.

Nobody in their right minds creates competition for themselves or gives away anything profitable so consider it bait for the rubes and noobs.

[ogletree]

If you look on the auction sites that are selling these you will notice none of them have very high feedback. Once an auction is finished the auction is made private so you can tell that the person has sold one of these before. Also any time somebody tries to tell you that they can make you money and they want to charge you to tell you this it is a scam. These things are selling for around $30 to $60 and saying they will make you $1K to $2K a month. These people are selling shovels.

[david_uk]

I personally think they make more out of selling the constructed sites as a package than they would by running adsense on them. The market they are aimed at is adsense newbies.

I chanced buying one from Ebay a few weeks back. The guy was selling a package of websites, and the asking price was cheap enough to make it worth having a go to see what happened. I do really well from my site. I'm looking to diversify but am stumped for a topic.

There were about 35 sites in the package, mostly of articles available FOC. Not bad sites, apart from the template is not what I would choose.

The guy was asking £35, and I put in a best offer of £20 and was accepted. Does this mean that he doesn't normally do that well out of it, and he's one of the regular sellers?

I spent some time on one of the topics I liked and whipped the site into a better shape. Got it hosted, and am using adwords to get traffic.

Complete disaster - not one click as yet!

I'm going back to my plan of trying to find something I'm interested enough in to have the commitment to repeat the success of my main site.

[emodo]

The problem with the sites is two fold:

1. There is no original content on the sites. Therefore every article you own is also published by HUNDREDS of other sites.

No original content = no links = no visitors = no money.

2. I would NEVER risk my adsense account by putting it on such low brow MFA sites.

[hal12b]

In addition, you see the MFA web sites sold repetitively. These sellers on Ebay are making $150 continually with each sale.

Like all things in life, nothing comes easy. If you fall into the "get rich quick scheme", you're on a sure path to disappointment, loss of time, and loss of money.

I have continued to look the other way and stick to my master plan. To date, each month I see a 20%-30% increase in revenue.

[farmboy]

I don't think it's against the forum rules for me to say the site that caused me to start this thread is being sold on Clickbank, not ebay.

FarmBoy