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In any case, last July, when I typed 'site: mysite.com' into Google, it indicated that I had 78 pages indexed. I was getting an average of 300 visits a day and I was making $100+/day.
Today (a couple of months later), I type 'site: mysite.com' into Google and it indicates to me that I have 4,200 pages indexed! However, for the past week, I've been averaging only three (yes, THREE) visits a day and not making ANY money from mysite.com.
I'm posting here because I'd like some people's views on what it is that happened. Why is Google returning 4,200 indexed today and only 78 pages last July? Is it actually 4,200 pages that I have indexed? What's the likelihood that I'll get that site back to $100/day?
I checked with Google Adsense program and they tell me that my website complies with the TOS right now.
I posted in another forum and folks are telling me to just scrap the site and make more constantly on the chance that they'll get picked up (seems like they're advising me that if I have A LOT of sites with 4000+ pages indexed, odds are that the success I've had would be duplicated).
What are you guys' thoughts?
Your site got the new site boost, then fell off the earth like most of the others. If you want the Google visitors then you probably need to spend some quality time on the site, which would then make it something more than the aforementioned autogenerated canned spam. At least, that's the way it's supposed to work.
Could it have been PR dilution as they picked up the rest of your pages? Or a declining freshness bonus? Hard to say without all the specifics.
I have trouble finding things to write about for my focused sites.
Oh wait...auto generated...Okkkkk
Reading through your post history it seems, that you have a habbit of asking the same type of question over and over again, each time in a slightly different way, with other numbers of websites, pages, earnings etc. but with the same bottomline: "Why does my scraper site only work a few weeks and then stops working?"
What you describe in your posts are all features that Google built in to fight spam: filters to throw scraper sites to the bottom of the SERPs, the sandbox, smart pricing etc. Read WebmasterWorld about these terms and your eyes will be opened. Although the number of indexed pages for your site is increasing, it will probably have no positive effect on your earnings, chances are that the site is now burried in the sandbox.
You have chosen a business model some months ago to make quick money with just a little effort. The time has come for you to decide what to do: Go along that path and build more of that type of sites that will probably bring in money for a week of two and then fall of the cliff, or start building sites with a long term perspective and evergreen content. It's up to you. We can't help you in such a decision. The only thing we can do is confirm that all Google behaviour you have seen until now is normal, and caused by their continuous effort to keep the quality of their SERPs and AdSense program high.
Mitsu
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