Found Some Weird Sites

I did a search on AltaVista for my name. I found a series of .info sites that have jumbled bits of my articles with bits of other content. These sites don't offer useful information, just plenty of Google Adsense links.

Adsense gurus, does this tactic really work?

 

I'm guessing it does because a lot of people do it.

 

I also think it works. Haven't personally tried it.

 

Really. Lol, this is a new one on me. I've seen sites that have two or three sentences and the rest is Adsense, but they at least made sense.

 

as long as they have visitors they earn money. And earning money (no matter how) is the only goal for many people

 

I think those sites worked especially if they:

1) Have good SERP.
2) Blend their ads to make it looks like part of the information

 

KC TAN, I was under the impression that blending Adsense ads in with the main content was against Google TOS. Very cool, if this is legal. I need to re-read the TOS; it's been a while.

Is SERP the same as pagerank? I looked up the definition on-line and it sounds like pagerank, but I would imagine there'd be some kind of difference between the two.

 

Absolutely no. Check google forums: there should be threads like "PR is useless.." PR is one part of the formula of Google but for SERP other criterias are used too..

 

Google is really stamping down on sites like these and MFA's.

 

They are, and it's a good thing. Because MFA sites lower the average level of the internet, and lower the visitor's incentive to click ads.

 

i've been reading also about google coming up with new algoriths to test a sites content for "being real" and dealing with duplicate content.

 

How do those sites attract traffic at first place (before they are well ranked in search engines)? They would not be ranked in the front page with zero incoming links, and no one would link to it naturally. So they must buy links to get started, right?

 

I think they are playing a %'ages game -- random text that gets indexed, will display somewhere in the search engine result especially on obscure search terms and therefore will attract some traffic. The content is crap so the ad's may get click....generate enough traffic, within niches of broad search terms and you may make some money.

Personally, I despise all such lazy, worthless attempts at making money.

 

here here, well said. I try to report as many of these bandwidth eaters as I can as they are really ruining the adsense system.

 

Me too - but as a question, has anyone seen if reporting them as any impact? I wonder if providing the Google account number of the offendres would help. I only ever get back an automated reply.