Is somebody holding out on me? Am I the only dufus that quit building keyword generated sites when the guberus said we had to write original content? Did the guberus dupe us into thinking KGS were crap only to continue making them? I ask this because the keyword sites I made in 2005 are happily generating Adsense. Yesterday, one that is very seasonal in nature, cracked $10. Two others have been cranking out $2-3 days for months. Years even. This sucks. Not the money of course. The fact that I stopped building them and only have a handful left.
Think on this: What if instead of writing shitty content on an obscure keyword phrase in the long tail, I simply generate a page from Niche Portal Builder? What’s the difference in an article or a keyword page? Competition shows that there are four other websites that appear for that keyword. Why can’t I be number five with a generated page? Am I risking my Adsense account? Everybody says so yet I’ve never had mine pulled for using NPB to build a site.
I wonder if I can do a mashup of StoreStacker and NPB? Put the store on the domain and create NPB pages for the LTKs on the folders. I have one NPB site that I yanked the frontpage down and installed a blog. But I left the NPB folders for all the keywords I targeted. So it looked like:
onebadasssiteonarmrests.com <–blog
onebadasssiteonarmrests.com/armrestpadding <–NPB page
onebadasssiteonarmrests.com/armrestpolish <–NPB page
onebadasssiteonarmrests.com/armrestscrews <–NPB page
The blog makes n.o.t.h.i.n.g. No amount of tag and ping, blog and ping and social furlspurl simpymarking makes a difference. But those shitty little keyword pages keep getting found and they offer nothing but a mess of Adsense links to get the hell out. I have heard for a couple of years now that these sites were dead. That Adsense would penalize me for them. Now they have pagerank. They have age. I heard that I should make them into real sites. “Authority” sites. Yea I tried that. People still clicked on the NPB pages and I made the requisite $1/day for 30 minutes of work back in 2005. Eff changing that. I keep circling back to this. Threatening to build more NPB pages. I’m pissed that I didn’t build a mess of them and listened to those shithead guberus with agendas for new product.
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Dorian // Apr 7, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I have some Traffic Equalizer sites that got banned/removed in 2005 come back into the google index and are doing ok now $1-5 a day.
I do think there is a risk in getting your adsense account shutdown. They are getting strict now.
Grizzly // Apr 8, 2008 at 4:36 am
Splork,
It’s not that they don’t work - it’s that if you do get caught one day you can lose your adsense. Will they catch you? Maybe never but is it worth the chance? People still do this but they make the posts a little less spammy…
Btw - if there is little competition you are less likely to get reported by competitors. The more competition the more likely someone will nail you. That’s the risk.
Remove Virus Malware Spyware // Apr 8, 2008 at 6:21 am
I feel for you dude. Now the old saying - “A penny a day.” doesn’t sound so shitty after all.
Build a site with affiliate products with a dash of pay-per-click sprinkled between them. Who cares if they don’t buy your affiliate product.
Design the page that make them click on the ads just to get the hell out. Build tons of those sites and you have a winner there.
Cheerio,
Mohd Nizam
“Do or do not. There is no try.” -yoda
http://www.affiliatefeedgenerator.net
Splork // Apr 8, 2008 at 6:28 am
Hmmm. Thanks for the reality check. Granted I only have a handful, so the risk is much less than if I had 100’s. It just kills me to see CTR double or triple what I make on my blogs or other sites. I think there is a lesson here, much like Mohd is saying. The uglier they are the more Adsense clicks you get. I’ve been so worried over the last year or so about creating great sites with great content. They are sure pretty sites but they make me no money. I’ve been building minimalist Blogger blog niche sites with no Adsense on them lately. No point, they’ve all gone to the box. I’m not going to pretty them up a bit when they come out and will just slap Adsense right up front and center, just like my keyword sites.
Grizzly // Apr 8, 2008 at 9:30 am
Splork,
I don’t have ugly blogs because I’m too lazy to make nice looking ones. They kill when it comes to adsense. Bring in the traffic and send them clicking out as fast as you can. Works for me. Just be sure to have real content on them (that no one will read because you have an ugly site) in case G comes looking. Always expect to have your competition slit your throat if you spam so don’t.
Ok enough unsolicited advice - I’ll piss off now.
Splork // Apr 8, 2008 at 9:49 am
Unsolicit away man. I’m grateful for it and I’m sure it helps most readers even though many don’t speak up.
BTW- did you get my email with the snippets?
Chris Bradberry // Apr 8, 2008 at 10:59 am
I had a couple of these sites as well, and I decided to sell them back when I read Google was closing AdSense accounts because of them.
I hate being at Google’s mercy as much as anyone, but I still wouldn’t want to risk it.
Do you read Rucks blog? (http://cashtactics.net/)
You may have been the one to point it out to me, I can’t remember, but he has a great free report on Affiliate “Mashup” sites, which I think is pretty timely with your recent purchase of SS.
Regards,
Chris
Splork // Apr 8, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Thanks for mentioning that Chris. I like Ruck’s site. He’s pretty smart about this stuff. I’ll have to read it when I get a chance.
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