After my post yesterday reviewing HyperVRE, longtime reader Ed pointed me to some site generation software he's been using called SEO smArticle Composer. Now, before we go any further with this, go to the sales page and watch Video #2. Does any part of it look familiar? See those red boxes he's using to highlight the ads? Looks like the creator of SEO smArticle Composer found a good use for my Highlight Google AdSense ads Greasemonkey script! Kinda funny to be indirectly promoting someone's product like that.
I must admit, the sites generated by this software have the cleverest placement of AdSense link and ad units that I've seen in a while. There are links to some sample sites on the page that demonstrate what the software generates from articles or text you provide it. Go take a look for yourself and see if you can figure out what it's doing. Hint: look at where the link units are and then look closely at the text ads — they're not all what they may seem to be.
The sales page claims that these sites have a high clickthrough rate (CTR), some of them getting up to 50% CTR. That's very high, but I can see how it might happen… get a few pages into the site and you'll soon discover that the only way to get out is to hit the back button several times…. or click an ad. Clever indeed. It's like taking the single-page AdSense site to the next extreme.
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Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. You can read this blog by mail if it's more convenient for you, just send a blank email to memwg-blog@aweber.com to subscribe.