Comments on: 7 Steps Of Mega Adsense Earners

By: Peter T Davis

Peter T Davis — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:36:18 +0000

“After all, who clicks links when they inadvertently land on a spam site?”

Well, if nobody clicked the ads then the SEO spammers would not make any revenues and they’d stop building sites like that. Thus, it’s reasonable to conclude that someone is clicking the ads. Whether it’s a click shop in India, or people not as savvy as the ones reading the Blog Herald, the end result is the nice checks in the mail from Google to the SEO spammers.

By: Hexxenn

Hexxenn — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:37:43 +0000

What a load of shit.

This is nothing but encouragement for sploggers. “Build” a website just to put adsense on it and make money? Stealing other people’s work? This shit might work for some assholes, but if all people with blogs were merely out to make a quick buck with adsense, I’d avoid blogs like the plague.

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:46:56 +0000

I’m not so sure that spam sites will actually kill AdSense — that is, unless they’re coupled with fraudulent clicks. After all, who clicks links when they inadvertently land on a spam site? I sure don’t. On the other hand, if someone happens to land on a spam site and ends up clicking an ad because it catches their eye and interests them, then that’s EXACTLY what the advertiser’s want — interested, motivated clickers. Now, when these sites are coupled with click fraud, it’s an entirely different story (and maybe they usually are, I don’t know). Don’t get me wrong, I’m just a guy with a totally unautomated, non-spammy site that would be VERY unhappy if AdSense went the way of the dodo. But I think all the doom and gloom predictions might be a bit overblown.

By: John Evans (SYNTAGMA)

John Evans (SYNTAGMA) — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:14:14 +0000

Here's a cautionary tale from Google's SEO man, Matt Cutts. Well worth the read.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:08:11 +0000

Look, couldn’t agree with more on the spam type sites, apologies as I skimmed through this before posting it, the fundamentals are there, but certanily you shoud never spam blog, although it doesn’t hurt to show a differnt point of view. To all the commenters, the door is always open for your own posts here at the Blog Herald.

By: Scott Yang

Scott Yang — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:03:52 +0000

I agree with Marco. We shouldn’t encourage usage of these “traffic building” programs. In fact, those MFA (Made For AdSense) sites will eventually kill the whole AdSense program, if Google has not taken any action to stop them.

At the end, what makes AdSense work is because there are advertisers who are willing to pay the publishers, hoping that the traffic they bring will become conversions, i.e. money to the advertisers.

However, those scrapper sites dramatically reduce the conversion rate of those ads, as people who clicked on those ads are probably not interested in making any purchase anyway. Advertisers see the reduced effectiveness of AdWords, and subsequently pull out from the program altogether. Less advertisers pouring money into AdWords leads to less money going to the publishers via AdSense.

At the same time, those hard working original content developers struggle to win the race against these scrappers. They finally figure out that it is just pointless to stay with AdSense, and venture into some other schemes. Less publishers leads to less exposure of the ads, which will probably result less advertisers.

And all that spells the downfall of AdSense/AdWords.

You bet Google will do something about it, and surely they have. Many scrapper sites no longer get good search positions (lots of them shown up with “Supplement result”). Some of them got banned from the program. Basically — if you are going to rely on someone else’s scrapping software, a good chance that Google has already known about it, and has worked out a strategy against it.

A lot of “experts” are no longer earning the money that they have claimed to make. Maybe that’s why they ended up trying to make money by selling those “secrets” :)

So. I do not think those dodgy “make money quick” schemes should be encouraged here. Actually, I found point 1, 3-7 are all valid, but just don’t try to make profit by scrapping other people’s content.

By: John Evans (SYNTAGMA)

John Evans (SYNTAGMA) — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:57:23 +0000

I agree partly with Marco that a site should not just be an automatic suction pump for money. The early Internet millionaires, people like Yanik Silva, built automated static websites based on affilate links. Then they moved on to e-products advising others on how to do the same. So there was not that much content scraping.

Blogs with Adsense are very different animals. They need to be constantly updated. If this isn’t done with some integrity, they won’t succeed for long.

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:17:14 +0000

All that ‘automation software’ is simply spam/splog/scrape ware. It’s the thing that will eventually kill adsense. With these tools you create the ‘websites’ that every surfer on the net hates to land on because their sole purpose is to get people to click on the damn ads. It probably even works because when ending up on a site where there’s absolutely NOTHING to do you might as well click an ad because anything is better than staying on a stupid scraper site.

I blatantly refuse to enter this ‘competition’ at all. It’s about running a good site with good original content, not scraped (stolen?) content from other sites aggregated in an ugly package designed to get people to click ads.

I really believe that principle will win in the long run even though these ‘experts’ are earning a lot more money at this point. Bleh…