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Is it all self written or (and this my guess) part self written and other content cherry picked from article directories / other resources?
I do my site in my spare time and after coming up with the idea the research, draft writing, checking etc. takes around 1 - 2 weeks for one article / page.
I'd be interested if you good folk could let me know approximately your ratio of original to externally created content is.
Thanks in advance.
It seems as though the discussions on this board break down into two general camps. Those that prefer the "classic" approach of writing content and creating long-term projects. And those that seem to constantly push the envelope to make websites as fast as possible.
I do have a "day job" so that may relieve some of the pressure to make my websites produce a great deal of profit immediately.
I have enjoyed the process of the last two years of first learning about affiliate marketing and learning to combine content with the marketing of products. Then to learn about adsense and everything that requires.
While I have not made a fortune, I have paid off credit cards, bought a car, and taken a vacation from affiliate marketing revenues. Slowly but surely I am now learning how to weave adsense into the revenue stream.
Hopefully within the next year or two, I'll have 2 or 3 substantial websites that will weather most google updsates or other unexpected changes.
My thanks to the many of you (especially europeforvisitors) for the insight you always provide.
I think it's often worth speculating, if you can - pay a student to write re-write news articles...
So you basically pay someone to take copyrighted material and change the words around?
Some of the people in this thread have indicated they write their own original content based on knowledge and/or experience. If you knew how to find that content, would you hesitate to take it, re-write it and post it on your site?
FarmBoy
A webmaster who was producing a lot of content had an attorney write some terms & conditions for his site that somehow established a monetary value for each page of this site - $5,000 or whatever. When he found that someone had stolen his content, he was sometimes able to sue for damages using the $5K per page as a basis for determining the amount of damages.
I can't fill in the details but it's something to consider. If you do a search for your original content, it's amazing sometimes how many other places it shows up.
FarmBoy
So you basically pay someone to take copyrighted material and change the words around?
It's called research. That's how students get their degrees. You research a project and write a report about it. Obviously no one is condoning copy and pasting.
There's more than one way to create content. I personally think it's limiting to write only about what you know, and only have yourself writing it. But we all have to realize that OUR way is not the ONLY way. There are other ways. ;)
As usual you two guys hit the nail right on the head with the best posts of this thread. It's all about leveraging your own skills, and knowing yourself. There is no right answer. Well said.
Also have a writer - but need to translate it into reasonable english.
Also tried another way - news RSS syndicated site.
Some of RSS channels allows you to rebublish their
feeds. This one is really nice because 100 pages per day with almost no cost to you. But again you need to give some value over. Like search, archives, categories.
Also have couple painters.
Not bad photographer myself.
EFV is right - spread your knowledge over several ways - write, control, manage, edit, program, promote and (forget the word) make your site making money.
you will not be dirty rich, but i hope to be supported from my online business for long time.
But just so everyone's clear, I'll ask you the same question I asked the other poster. If you found some of the original content produced by people in this thread who are writing from their own knowledge and experience, would you hesitate to "re-write" their content and put it on your site?
And what, pray tell, would that accomplish? Rewriting someone else's material can be as time-consuming as writing your own, and if you aren't a good enough writer to write your own material in the first place, you aren't a good enough writer to rewrite someone else's. (Of course, you can just steal without rewriting, as some AnSense publishers do, but that's a risky tactic that could lead to search-engine penalties and cancellation of your AdSense account in response to a DMCA complaint.)
Side note: A lot of people have the mistaken idea that "content" is nothing more than information. In reality, it's information plus packaging. To use an analogy, it isn't just the facts, it's how the story is told. Example: Any Paris guidebook will tell you what to see, how to get into town from the airport, how to visit the Eiffel Tower, etc., but that doesn't mean all Paris guidebooks are interchangeable or that someone who buys the Everyman or DK Eyewitness guide to Paris will be equally willing to spend his money on Rick Steves or Frommer or Lonely Planet (or vice versa). Facts and ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution is what separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.
A AdSense leader board above, with absolut untargeted ads. I would even say anti targeted ads.
A copy and paste nearly the original article from a newspaper creating possible copyright troubles.
Everybody can post there articles.
I would quess, the bad targeting will have maybe 10% from my eCPM. According to the Alexa rank, the site could have maybe 5 times more visitors than my, but 5 times more vistors time 10% of my eCPM is still only half the money.
Half the money and all the risk with copyright and TOS violations from users writing the content.
