And so the series continues. Be sure to check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first. As always, thanks for reading these irregular postings.
DoublePak1: More PLR AdSense Sites
In previous postings I mentioned the Exclusive PLR Websites (EPW) membership site, which offers easily customized but bare bones PLR AdSense mini-sites. I deployed an AdSense information site as an example of what you get from EPW, which is a simple set of website templates with a few pages of PLR content. An easy way to get started.
I went looking for something on the other end of the spectrum so we could do some comparisons. I wanted to demo a complete PLR site that really wasn't so much about the templates as it was about the content. Luckily (?) all I have to do is turn to my inbox. I spent a few bucks and bought George Pluss' DoublePak1 system.
Oh my, what a sales page for that system. You get the “Exact BLACKHAT Tools To Cheat Search Engines For Cash and Traffic!” and you can “ GRAB Traffic/Money Generating Systems That Never Failed Since The Beginning of The Internet!“. Yeesh.
But there's a point to this. Though it's not obvious until you join his mailing list to “lock in” your price (it's one of those dime sales, where the listed price goes up everytime someone buys one), what you get is a set of fully-populated AdSense mini-sites with PLR content as well as three PLR ebooks.
Again, I've deployed one of the sites for you to examine, the pet health insurance information site. This is a fully-activated site, all I did was take the original site that came with my purchase, changed some configuration settings (instructions are given — it's pretty easy), and uploaded it to a subdomain I created specifically for the purpose. This particular site is one of George's “power” sites. The top part of the page is pretty conventional: an article (with embedded AdSense ad) on the left and links to other articles on the right, with a good-looking header image at the top. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, though, and you'll see that there's a way for visitors to leave comments (in a blog-like fashion), related books from Amazon (to which you can add your Amazon Associates ID), related videos, and related news items. (You need a Linux web server that runs PHP to run these sites, BTW.)
From an AdSense viewpoint, the pages are “loaded” to the max: there are 3 ad units, 1 link unit, an AdSense for search block, and a couple of referral buttons. I did notice one problem, though: the AdSense publisher ID used in the ad units is also used in the search box and in the referral buttons. But if you go to your AdSense account you'll see that the IDs for those are slightly different than the ID for your ad units. So you'll need to fix that if you deploy any of these sites.
One other feature that these sites offer is automatic translation of content into 7 other languages. The translation is done via an encrypted PHP file, but I decrypted it pretty easily (using this online base 64 decoder) and discovered that they're using Google to do the translation. Pages are translated as needed and held in a cache for 60 seconds, which is good, but I would set the timeout higher. Too many translation requests and Google will probably ban your site from accessing the translation system. As a native French speaker, I can tell you that the translated articles are very obviously translated by machine. Their purpose is mostly to provide more content for the search engines to spider, they're certainly not anything to be proud of as a site owner.
In theory, you could buy the DoublePak1 system, change the configuration files appropriately, and deploy the sites as-is to start making money. At least, that's what the sales page tells you. The reality is that you're going to need to drive traffic to those sites somehow, and if you're not careful you'll find that your sites will get dropped from the big search engines quite quickly unless you change the sites substantially and use a gradual submission strategy. (This is where a feeder blog and careful manipulation of the robots.txt file is necessary.) They might be usable as-is for arbitrage purposes, I'd need to run some tests first to be sure. I'm pretty sure George makes money from these sites, but it may be from selling them, not deploying them!
Anyhow, it's more grist for the mill and some of you might find it better to start with these kinds of fleshed-out sites rather than template sites. Either way, though, you have to do some rewriting, so in the next installment we'll look at something called latent semantic indexing that's all the rage these days when it comes to rewriting content.
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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.