How should I do it. The site has no monetization at the moment, but does get traffic, all from the search engines. Pages are made exclusively with RSS feeds, no handwritten content. Site has been indexed over the past year. Can I put adsense on the pages or will I lose the account?
im not sure its a good idea to use your adsense on them..you might want to concentrate on just taking all that link weight and funnelling it into your better sites
adsense frowns on sites where content is generated, if you wanna keep your account i'd avoid doing this...
It sounds to me like if you decided to encrypt some adsense into this, it would involve a lot of hand codeing each page, since the pages are already built. Good luck. And as far as I know, content is what fuels adsense... you could always email them first and ask. Cheers.
I've thought about that....although the site gets traffic, pr is low so I don't think it would carry as much weight as it possibly could. What are some of the adsense alternatives that aren't such as picky for MFA.
I don't necessarily think YPN (Yahoo!) is all it appears. A couple of years ago, this would have been the best choice. But, nowadays, it may just mean a quick exit out of the program. Unlike Adsense, with its smartpricing, YPN just removes you. Can you redirect the traffic from the auto-generated pages, to unique content pages? If so, Adsense and YPN work just fine on the unique content pages.
He said it's auto-generated.....I'm sure it's based around template/skin files, he would just have to add the code to one file and it updated all 250,000 pages.
You will expose your AdSense account on risk if you do that. Try to monetize with affiliate sales or something like this.
you could turn all the pages into sqeeze pages, collect a whole load of email addresses, then start sending out emails recommending affiliate products possibly, and directing them to another page you may already have monetised
Has Google ever come out and officially said that you can put adsense on sites that are made exclusively with rss feeds. I went through their TOS and although it's not spelt out, there are hints that they would ban based on "Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content" I wonder though how much they follow through and ban MFA sites as I see so many on the net...you just have to go to weblogs.com and almost every page listed is spam.
I think you'd probably be ok putting adsense on them. If google did decide at one point that the site violated TOS, and you were clean otherwise - they'd probably just warn you and/or stop displaying ads at that site. I guess there's a slight chance of a ban; but many of us live with that hehe...