Is there anyone that has been banned for using pre written articles such as them found on www.sensesites.com for example ? Many people buy them without beeing interested in the topic at all, just want to insert the adsense code. And in adsense TOS it clearly says that no ads should be displayed on pages that are published specifically just to show ads. So therefore I am asking about this? Any experince on this?
There are legitimate reasons to use syndicated articles. People who do not have the time and/or resources to write enough material to keep their site fresh may turn to sources of free syndicated content. As long as the material fits into the theme of the site, there should not be a problem. But, picking articles just to build an AdSense page around it is a different matter. Here, the article probably has nothing to with the website, per se. In fact, such sites are probably little more than a collection of unrelated, keyword rich pages which target what are thought to be the most lucrative AdSense keywords. No effort is made to build a site around any other theme or concept. Having said that, if a site has been created to generate income for its owner and it does not sell a product; then all pages showing ads are created specifically to show ads. Advertising is Google's primary source of income, therefore it could be argued that nearly every page Google creates technically violates its own TOS. Clearly, these is a VERY grey area of the TOS. There are sites which are clearly designed for no other purpose than to serve AdSense ads. There are many more sites which try to inform and which use AdSense as their primary, if not only revenue source. There is a minority of sites which are clearly not designed to showcase AdSense ads, but which contain them. Those belong to sites where AdSense is a small income contributor, relative to all other sources of income. And there are those who would never implement AdSense.
...and for each of these sites the owner can come up with 99 reasons why it's NOT. as long as the site provides information or a service that is bneneficial to visitors, nothing wrong with adsense on them.
If your domain is say about credit counseling, and you load it up with a template that has nothing but credit counseling articles and optimized for adsense, there is nothing wrong with it. Where you do run into a minor problem is duplicate content, duplicate site. So if you buy an adsense optimized website (I sell them), it is in your best interests to customize it as much as possible. New logo matching the site, make sure the copyright is the current year, you make the title match the site url, the meta tags are unique to your site, keywords only for your site, etc. Such a site made unique is good to bring in some good adsense income. As I said, I am now starting to sell a service to upload such sites, and at considerably less than the site mentioned by OP. And you will not get banned (unless you put something to mislead your visitors into clicking the adsense ads).
AdSense rarely ban because of content. You can use free articles as much as you want. All the bans seems to come because of click fraud.
It makes no sense for people to write articles if nobody is going to take them and publish them intact on their own pages, be it for Adsense purposes or otherwise. It does bring some recognition to the article writer if the links are kept intact and would also benefit the writer's own site, since there will be one more incoming link.
Thank you my friends! This gives me some inspiration I have seen some article sites that are pre-written and have the same topic as I am in to (seo, domains etc) So I guess I can use them together with adsense without beeing worried.... The reason why I asked in the first place was that people seem to get banned for nothing so better safe than sorry.
well it's always better if you at least edit and paraphrase those articels. i'd rather edit an existing one than to start from scratch.
The problem with duplicate pages is that you are just not going to rank. If you don't bring in traffic there will be no one to click on the ads.
qwestcommunications - one way people get around the lack of "ranking" is to buy about 300 sites at a time from places like www.adsensepages.com . These can be purchased for just a few $$s and hosted for peanuts. They then add links and articles into forums and their other sites etc etc. If each site only gets 10 visitors a day that is 600 visitors. As the sites are crammed with adsense ads, and also use all the optimisation tricks often discussed here, there can be a CTR of around 10%. Thats 60 clicks a day, often on high paying terms, that soon adds up. Whilst I personally have less than positive personal views on "scraper" or duplicate sites they are quite legitimate as things stand. I do think they may well be looked at by Google in the long run though.
I have a few freebie articles on my website & they rank pretty well. I just Googled one of them & I'm second & third from the top. I don't know if this is because I am quite good with meta tags (I know there's sometimes controversy over the effectivness of tags, but they seem to help my site), if I have a fairly popular website or if I'm just lucky. My own personal belief is that a few freebies are good, but it's important to have unique content on your site. I'd say only around 5% of my content is from free articles, the rest is unique to my site. I was Googling info on Adsense recently & every single article that showed up was the same one, spread all over different sites. It really ticked me off. This is one reason I think unique content is king. I didn't visit any of those sites because they were all displaying the same article, had one other article have appeared in my search I'd have gone to that one. I haven't been particularly worried about what Adsense think about it as it's such a small part of my site. Just wanted to point out that freebies can rank well
If a site is providing good information, even if the publisher put it up just to make money, I don't see why Google would have a problem with it. I think the problem sites are those with garbage, obviously machine-generated articles, where a human only has to spend a minute to see that the site serves no other purpose than to earn money. I'm not talking about badly written articles either. There is software that can take an article and churn 100 articles out of it. You know the 100 articles created will be purely incomprehensible garbage. A human reviewer will catch it right away.
such websites actually get no traffic, but i dont think that there will be ban from adsense for using such content