First, I didn’t think about it but it is possible that Google ranks pages I suppose. Eric will know this. I have noticed that I can place a page about software problems on a genearl topic blog, quote the error from the software exactly, and get tons of people searching for the same error.

But in general I’d have to assume that this is an “all your eggs in one basket” problem. Sure you don’t have to update tons of niche sites, but if Google pulls your site because of any reason, you’d lose everything, all the mini-sites, niches or topical pages in your site.

Instead of having dozens (or even hundreds) of AdSense sites, why not just have a single site that acts like a hub. You know, something like HowStuffWorks.com.

It would be a lot easier to manage and you’d save a ton on domain names (and maybe even hosting). If Google ranks pages and not sites, as I’m told, it could be a good plan. I’m thinking about doing it — what do you think?

I put it up in 2004 and it took one year to earn $100 in Adsense. It took another year to earn the next $100. Was listed in AskJeeves and that disappeared. Was getting traffic from Yahoo for a while and that disappeared. All of a sudden Google decides I’m a trustworthy site and I’m getting traffic from them, it makes about $100 in 3 months now, and it gets about 30 visits a day I believe. It is also #1 in the niche with Google SERPs. I haven’t updated anything significant in the 3.5 years it has been up.

So I guess my lesson from this is that age of a site is just as important as backlinks, PR, etc. I know it’s only $2 a day, but picking stronger niches, doing better SEO and paying attention to conversion, a static site could be a good part of the “many sites” strategy.

I’m going to take that road for a while and see what it produces, because the “age” card has been playing well for me, and there’s nothing better than not having to update a site every day.

Thanks for posting this Eric, it reminds me to spread things out for long-term health.

Are squeeze pages effective?

If so, why? I personally find them distasteful and if I come across one I know immediately it is a marketer wanting my email and usually to further sell me something. Thank goodness for disposable emails.

So all the marketers who are using this method, is it the most effective method? The long copy is more than I want to read, particularly when I find it on site after site. Would love to hear some stats on the squeeze page and the long copy versus short copy method.

I wonder if the need for a high quality squeeze page is a place to consider hiring an experienced, expensive copywriter? It seems to me, you, I, and many of those introverts you mentioned a while back, will NEVER be able to write a good one ourselves.

Now if only I could create a module for PLRSiteBuilder that would auto-generate the perfect squeeze page for me

Eric

You’re right Eric, the niche makes the difference. I have one that pays me $1 per click and another that pays $0.04 per click on average and is seasonal in nature.

I’ll let you know when I get the first one up and see how it converts. Just for fun folks, I bought a copy of Eric’s software. I figured if I am doing research for one site I might as well write a set of documents for a second in the same genre and generate it very quickly with PLR builder.