Has anyone done this: 1. Spend say $100 or $200 to create and put up a site and add Adsense. 2. Spend some effort to build some visitors. 3. Use the income from adsense to pay someone to build more visitors 4. goto step 3. Is this a prepetual motion machine or is this workable?
That would be against the AdSense TOS if you are implying that you are building the site only to place adsense code on it and not offering any real 'meat and potatoes' to the visitors. I believe it is a fine line...
The only people spending money making money with AdSense are those spending a lot of money. Certainly not $100 - $200. Just build a site with some content, put some AdSense Code on the site, building a following, ie., list your site with the SE's and let time do the rest. If'n you are thinking that this is an "Easy Money" scheme. That ain't happening. Spend some time building a site, promoting it, and slap some adverts on it. That's generally the way it is done. At the $100 $200 route, you would be better off going to the track and betting on the Super Trifecta..
There already exist many sites with "content" consisting of text taken from other sites but with words and elements randomly scrambled to avoid copyright issues. This "content" gets indexed by SE's and is coherent enough to attract a few visitors through SE results but not really very useful, so the visitor will then click adsense since it is the only thing on the site that is useful. It appears that such sites are very easy to generate, they use Blogger a lot. I consider these sites to be theft pure and simple and I imagine Google would at least consider them unTOSworthy. I hope they begin cracking down on these soon. If on the other hand such a site offered real content I would consider it bona fide and I think Google would agree. Andi
A little off topic...but not really. Use AdWords to promote your sites with AdSense banners being displayed...not for the purpose of getting AdSense clicks but for your site's primary purpose of being. If you get an AdSense click...bonus. (bid low)
My Info sites cost me 15$ for a domain and 50$ for articles. They can and do make money. You have a good plan, it will work IMO. Just do it professionally and not spammy. As pointed out, it will take time. Advetising is a must but there are free avenues for that too. For instance, join the Coop ad network and use established sites to promote new ones. Good luck.
OK, I wasn't suggesting a 'built for adsense' site or anything against the TOS. It would be a site with real content. E.g. "Things To Do In Paris". Something that is easy to expand with new content. Once a critical mass of users is reached, slap in Adsense and use the proceeeds to pay someone in Outer Mongolia (no offence to Mongolians) to work for $1 /hour promoting the site in forums, building links etc. Ie. generally building up the visitors...thus building up Adsense revenue...thus eventually hiring 2 Mongolians, then 3 then 4...
mmmm, Mongolian Grill Sounds like a plan, but the sweat shop mentality does not sit right. You get what you pay for...
Yes, it sounds like a good plan, but if your Mongolians (or whomever) are smart enough to do this for you what do they need you for? Once you have taken the time and expense to teach them how at $1/hour what is to stop them from "cutting out the middleman?" Presumably you don't maintain an office in Mongolia but you would still have to deal with all the international regulations. Being in Texas you may find Matamoros or Juarez more convenient than Mongolia. Andi