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Where I do think it would be excellent is for parked domains. I have hundreds of domains parked. I could put these "instant websites" up, provide content that the type in traffic might find useful and run my adsense on it. Even with a miniscule CTR, It would beat what I get for parking them, and IMHO give the surfer something better than a parking page to land on.
According to a post in the Supporters Forum, cranked-out "content sites" on parked domains are about to become the next big thing (but with SEO to draw more than type-in traffic).
Getting back to the question of whether cheap "article pack"-based sites are worth the money, I guess that depends on whether Google reaches the point where the cost of fighting search spam becomes greater than the revenues from junk sites. IMHO, it's important to remember that, if a site incurs the wrath of the AdSense team, the publisher's [i]account[/] (not just the offending site) is banned. So, unless you're hoping to sneak back into AdSense somehow--or unless you think YPN or another network will be there to save your income if you're banned from AdSense--it may be wise to approach the question of "Should I build or buy obvious made-for-AdSense sites?" from a conservative, long-term perspective.
if a site incurs the wrath of the AdSense team, the publisher's [i]account[/] (not just the offending site) is banned.
Any site made with this canned stuff should be getting zero SE traffic, but should it be a TOS violation? From the POV of a type in, it would be better than a landing page because there is actually some content there.
Life is short, I don't think I'd waste the time required to put up a lot of these, when I could be working on a "real" site, but I might put "instant sites" up on my 10 best type-ins.
As far as the ads, you could show something other than adsense, but guess what is showing on most of these parked domains right now? (hint: it starts with an 'A')
Very curious about ASAs take on this (or for that matter everyone else's.. comments?)
One of the biggest reasons people get "bored" of webmastering is because they dont like what they do..... after all, if all you're going to do with your website is put up thousands of pages of low quality content, where you have no idea of the topic yourself, who wouldnt get bored.....
So, more than a TOS issue, it's an issue of planning for the long term... having a vision for your site and taking it there .... that's enjoyable as well as profitable.
That's probably one of the reasons why Google invented smartpricing and why it is here to stay.
One of the biggest reasons people get "bored" of webmastering is because they dont like what they do..... after all, if all you're going to do with your website is put up thousands of pages of low quality content, where you have no idea of the topic yourself, who wouldnt get bored.....
The parked domains all run adverts and IMHO provide zero value for the surfer and very little income for me. When was the last time you hit a parking page and went "great, just what I was looking for!"? Never, I would wager. On topic content would _have_ to be better for everyone involved, even if it was duplicated elsewhere, IMHO.
As far as broader usage of this duplicate content goes, I think the folks considering using canned content for _anything_ other than a type-in domain should expect to be sorely disappointed. regardless of whether it's within the TOS or not, I doubt they'll see enough SE referrals to earn their hosting fees, barring any blackhat SEO. It's just not gonna work as "a website" when there are 200 copies of it.
I'm being a bit of the devil's advocate here, I suppose. The more I think about it, and think about what other people have posted here, the less sure I am I'd actually use any canned content. TOS or not. That's more from a pride in workmanship point of view than thinking it's morally wrong, though. I just don't want to waste my time on something that is second rate.
Tell me, guys, what do yo think about people translating content and publishing in their own sites? I've seen many of these sites but don't know if I should tell google about it. Does google really care about translated content?
Depends if the content was translated legally. If it violates the owner's copyright and a DMCA complaint is filed, it could be good-bye, AdSense account. (Not to mention good-bye, search listings.)
Is anyone who has bought these 9.99 stuff, and started making money without doing anything else?
Raise hands those who have bought a $9.99 goldmine, and made money by just implementing it ..
anyone? ( can anyone say - I have , and I love these sites verymuch and they are an important part of my strategy )
Guess, if there is no one here, chances of these quick rich sites succeeding is too low. almost zero..
anyone?
I just saw a sight this morning while looking up a MS Office error that was not MS showing a "Microsoft Knowledge Base Article". They gave credit to MS ie "This article contents is Microsoft Copyrighted material." Stil it was the exact same thing you will find on MS's sight and they had ads all over the place. I'll pretty sure MS didn't give them permission. Do a google search for "office assistant error" and its like the 5th one down. Is that acceptable?
Someone said "duplicate content is against Adsense TOS"
The dup content we're discussing is (at least ostensibly) in the public domain, or licensed to many users.
What you're talking about would seem to be taking copyrighted material and reposting it without permission. It will likely get you DMCA'd even if you give a link back or credit the source and could certainly get your adsense account burned.
The exception to this is where the content is specifically released under a free license, which is why you see a lot of sites that are basically just adsense-covered mirrors of Wikipedia. I'm not a huge fan of this, since you get out of date content, and it's worse with something like the PHP documentation where an ad-covered out of date mirror is missing important information about changes made in newer versions.
If you ask my opinion, I wouldn't buy an AdSense Ready site. For all you know you're paying a lot of money for someone's out-of-date Wikipedia mirror. I'm also suspicious of sites that claim they're making $50 a day, but will sell the entire site to you for $500.
So if you bought one of these get rich quick made for Adsense sites you'd probably have to spend a fair amount of time altering it to get it to rank well enough to make any money at all, let alone a lot of money.
