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The gentleman emailed me and said he has well over 100,000 pages of content albeit duplicate, yet is still recieving massive traffic. He clains Google Search Engine is not all but Google Adsense is.... and MSN and Yahoo dont care much for duplicate content just how manh In bound links you have.
People is this the real holygrail of adsense...
PS: Going to test the theory myself.
If it is not compliant with all applicable TOS, then it could be a very bad strategy to follow in the short term.
Sometimes when I read threads about "my AdSense earnings dropped by 50%" I wonder if it's sites like that.
Yes, and the same people think it's soooo terribly unfair of Google to cancel their accounts and keep their unpaid earnings.
Yes, and the same people think it's soooo terribly unfair of Google to cancel their accounts and keep their unpaid earnings.
Not to mention the same angst when their sites are dropped from the Serps.
Don't try it unless you use a throwaway domain and you don't use your same name in the domain WHOIS. It's a long road back once they catch on.
I know for a fact that the major search engines are delisting pages that have content that has duplicate paragraphs/sentences that can be found on other sites.
I'm sure they do in some cases, but in many cases they do not.
I see a network of "directory" sites that copy listings word for word from DMOZ, Yahoo, and other directories, then they mix it all together and rearrange it to create hundreds, maybe thousands of "directories" with adsense.
They are showing up in Google, I come across them from time to time, and usually when I do, I see 2 or 3 of their sites at a time because they not only duplicate from other sites but within their own network.
One of their sites is a pr 6 and has been online for at least a year but I think it's more like several years.
So for some sites this is allowed right now.
And if you have a thousands of sites and each one makes one dollar a day...
will not, IMHO, be a good strategy to follow in the long term.
I agree because it's sleazy. But this type of webmaster probably don't care about the long haul because at thousands of dollars a day you could make it to a million in just a few years.
watch out for getting dinged on an account-wide basis.
Sites like this are being reported and are not being banned. I don't know why some are banned and some aren't.
Click fraud seems to get people banned but copying/duplicate content doesn't seem to matter so much.
Also if a person would do something like this, and they get banned, what would stop them from opening another account in their wife's name, then their brother, mother, aunt, grandma, etc.?
Going to test the theory myself.
Well now is the time because this might not be tolerated so much in the future.
The way around this is to track those pages that get the most traffic, rewrite them and leave the remainder to long tails, luck and genuine love for your site. For instance, out of 10,000 pages you might rewrite 500. Of course, those 500 should be original, Pulitzer Prize quality works.:)
>> leave the remainder to long tails, luck and genuine love for your site
nice
A site solely based on existing content is not smart, but using it when it fits is not something to be afraid of.
For instance, out of 10,000 pages you might rewrite 500.
Doesn't the value of those 500 pages diminish over time as other people "borrow" your content?
FarmBoy
