For whatever reasons, my troubles with Technorati seem to be over, which is great. I must admit I will surf through the postings that are tagged AdSense looking for interesting posts from the blogs that I don't normally read and that I do discover things that way, though lately there's been a lot of not-really-AdSense-related postings that I wish I could filter out. But anyhow, still a good resource.
Yesterday, though, what caught my eye was an ad on Technorati:
If I was still showing AdSense ads on MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com then I would have probably noticed this one earlier. If you're been reading this blog regularly, you know that I like to investigate systems like Traffic Equalizer and AdSense Empire to figure out what they're about. So here's another candidate.
The sales copy page for AdSenseReady is surprisingly short. It starts with a list of the various topics that are covered and how many pages each niche site has. It then presents a couple of pages from one of the sample sites, followed by a list of the “money-making features” of the sites.
Although there's not a lot of information shown here about how the system works, there are a few clues. For one thing, it talks about using “static file names such as 1234.php”. So this content is obviously delivered as a set of PHP files, not as plain HTML files. Which makes sense because the pages include RSS feeds for “fresh, unique content daily, with a script that doesn't let the search engines know you are linking to an external site”. The RSS feeds are there to “defeat duplicate content filters”.
Obviously, someone's gone to some effort here. The effort being the work to write a script that fetched articles out of free article repositories and generated sites around those articles. I find the site layout interesting and is something you might want to study — the ads are well-blended with the content. (Go take a look, you can't miss the layout examples.)
Will this system work? Probably for some people, yes, though if they start selling too many of these packages then things will start to break down as more and more duplicate sites find their way onto the Internet. After all, if everyone is scraping content from the same RSS feeds, I'm not sure how that defeats duplicate content filters — the pages will still be the same! The sales text implies that there's some customizability, but I wonder how much… maybe they randomize some of the content generation.
It's funny, but in some ways I'm doing the same kind of thing with my new CluelessAbout site. I'm trying to build a site of heavily-interlinked pages. I'm using the FMPP text file processor to create the pages semi-automatically and link them all together. In the end, I'll probably end up with a site that is similar in many ways to what AdSenseReady generates, but with one important difference: I'm writing the content. And that, my friends, is why it will literally take me months to get a site with hundreds of pages on it, just like Ask Dave Taylor. But I bet that site will stick around long after these sites get booted out of the search engines, especially once Google adds the concept of “trust” to its ranking algorithms.
Anyhow, interesting stuff! And that reminds me: send in your questions (about anything, really) and I'll try to answer them on CluelessAbout.
Eric Giguere is the AdSense expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and the new e-book Uncommon AdSense.