Two things are conspiring against me getting anything done over the last week. Vacation, if you can call it that, to the in-laws and the Tour de France.

One thing that I am attempting is to re-invent myself from a search engine spammer to a builder of quality sites that someone may actually read and find useful. I have spent alot of time building sites with quickie builders and have been fighting to find my way into the SE’s, with limited sucess.

I started a cycling blog at TourSquad to coincide with the Tour de France and offer commentary to my favorite event and sport. I have managed to get more readers to that blog than any handful of keyword spam sites in just a couple of short weeks.

I have been amazed at how fast Google indexed this site. I am ranked very high for a variety of Tour de France keywords and phrases. And the best part of it all is that I was able to stir up enough controvery and write decent enough articles that my site was mentioned on other more well-known cycling sites.

That indicates to me the importance of writing your own content. When I build garbage sites it is a constant struggle to even get a SE spider to visit without employing all manners of voodoo, and that’s even using blogs. With Tour Squad every single page is not only spidered but indexed as well.

I now intend on using the same techniques on some regular sites. I have been given some good suggestions for building quality affiliate sites. This will require writing some quality articles and making squeeze and review pages. Activities that will require a bit of re-tooling.

There are alot of people that have been able to make spamming the web very profitable. The drums pound to the beat of build, build, build, and build they do. My feet does not move to that rythym. It’s time to try something a little different. [tags]SEO, affiliate, article sites[/tags]