Do Some AS Publishers Not Care About Quality Anymore?

[carlb007]

Ive been quite active around here in last few days and am shocked by how many queries revolve around ‘writing articles for more income’. It seems like every man and his dog are trying to simply dump articles about anything and everything in the hope of earning a few bucks on the internert. Is it just me that’s driven by a sense of achievement when creating a great site that’s loved by thousands of members daily? Where is the self satisfaction in creating a bland, boring website with semi plagerised documents tapped onto it in the hope of some poor fool stumbling across it, realising your site is utter rubbish, and then moving on to one of the google adsense links.
Sure this may make you a small amount of money, but it seems most people on this forum are so concerned about making money that they forget about the real purpose of the internet and websites.
I don’t like doing things by halves. I built my own forum trying to expand on what others have done before – Draw your own emoticons to embed in it on the fly, insert youtube videos, uploadable topic images….things that you don’t see (or I haven’t seen) very often – and u know what happens? People like it and I make money! Not much yet but with 15k members in the bag its growing daily. Everything I build I try do from a different angle with some kind of unique edge - yet 99% of people put 1% of the effort in that I do, then cry about not making money. It never seems to enter their heads that perhaps they’re not good enough!

Basicly I think a lot of the users on here are looking at this whole adsense scheme the wrong way, and that their greed, lack of imagination, and haste simply halves their chances of success, and adds yet more trash to an already saturated internet. Less greed = more success imo. Does anyone else agree with my little rant or am I all alone with these thoughts heh?

Carl.

[Harry]

>> Might I ask how you manage to associate "merit" & "quality" with lack of direct monetary income.

Let me rephrase. Webmasters who would continue to publish their sites, were they no Amazon affiliates and Google Adsense generally tend to make better sites than those who would fold the moment no money benefits are involved.

[vite_rts]

Until the internet unleashed the "unpublished", the class of "writer" you refer to was generally derided in publishing circles as

"vanity publisher" customers

In fact, I believe the terminology is still used.

Please note that its not a term I would apply myself, but I understand why established businesses in the publishing arena would have such a view.

Google adsense, affiliate networks change things don't they :-) now anyone can "publish" what they want,,,

[Car_Guy]

"I'm excited about the launch of this Internet medium. And again, freedom of the press belongs to anyone who owns one."

- Matt Drudge, speaking at the National Press Club