I was wondering if anyone has experience buying unique articles from other people to post on your site in order to get hits and make money through Adsence etc. If so, what how do you know when your site is profitable enough that you can make money from the ads you buy? And how do you go about finding contributors?
I think it is better to write articles and distribute them yourself! More traffic, better search engine placement= more adsense profit.
Buying articles? Well I suppose you can hire a ghostwriter to write them, if you want unique content for your site.
You first research the keywords that are profitable in terms of high cpc and low competition. You then get a writer to produce unique content for them. Copying articles from directories or through rss feeds can result in dup content.
Yes, go to Gaf, elance or similar and post a project. Remember you get what you pay for - don't be too tempted by the lowest bids and check any samples thoroughly.
i say do your own as content needs to be unique to get high rankings on the search engines, or get PLR articles and adjust its order or cut and paste from different sources to make it unique
I used to do this a couple years ago full time... I started with content and as I made money I invested more money in content. If a site made $50 a day I would invest $25 a day back into it with content. The problem is starting... You either need to invest a big chunk ahead of time or write stuff yourself. I sucked at writing so I invested a huge chunk ahead of time.... it will take a good 1-2 years before you are making good money. I purchased so much content at one point I had a hard time finding good writers.... That when the idea of Constant Content came to me (see sig). I still have my large money making content sites, but I stopped creating them because of time. The key is to find a niche that is not to competitive.
Like ConstantContent said about making $50 and spending $25.00. I recommend doing something like that, but invest more. I would invest $40.00 and only keep $10.00. People disagree with me often, but my mentality is this: You won't make AS much money at the start, but with all those extra articles you are adding to your site, you are bound to get more money in the future. The more articles indexed, the better.
Mafia Master I agree with you. If you can survive without nothing from that project, then I would suggest that go ahead and put in all the cash you got on more new content. It'll turn into a goldmine in the long run, which is not really that long . ~G
II would recommend byuying articles that would give you sole rights. I guess in this sense it no diffeent to having articles written except these are already written and you have less editorial control over.
Why buy them? You have to dig through a lot of junk, but sites like GoArticles.com do have many quality articles you can use for free (in exchange for keeping the author bio intact).
My suggestion is to pay a reasonable fee to get a reputable ghost writer to write unique articles for your site, and at the same time submit the articles to article directories like ezinearticles.com , goarticles.com , searchwarp.com , articlecity.com and etc... Be sure to include a resource box pointing back to your site. If you would like to get unique and good quality of article written on any subject you want, you can try visit this site: http://www.need-an-article.com They offer good quality and unique articles that you can use for your site to get more exposure and traffics. If you consider buying private label articles from someone, just be sure to change the contents substantially, otherwise you will make not difference like others.
Serious?? That looks like a MLM page... I would never buy anything from a site that looks like that. Looks like one of those Ebay secrets websites... or buy our ezine websites.
An engineering firm/client of ours on numerous occasions has purchased rights to highly technical and very lengthy documentation that they then get converted to html pages from print documents. This amounts to 10's of thousands of pages all linked together around the index of the printed version of these books. This tactic has worked very well in having other sites build back links as well as highly targeted pages with very granular keywords for bots to index.
Those particular pages may not rank well, but it doesn't kill the entire site. Btw, you have a nice site, I've ordered from you.