Is every single .info site just MFA/scraped?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by CymaxStores, Jan 8, 2007.

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    I look over a lot of links while building up our various sites and one thing I've noticed is that every .info site is a waste of time, bandwidth, and drive space as far as I'm concerned.

    You can even try it yourself; try visiting <keyword>.info where keyword is one of the keywords you're competing for/describes your current market segment. I'll give good odds that an MFA site will spring up.

    Are there any good .info sites out there, or is the whole TLD just a giant bust?

    On the other side of the coin, do people actually make money off of these sites?
     
    CymaxStores, Jan 8, 2007 IP
  2. tgo

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    .info sites do work, as long as their is content

    broadbandrates.info made 2k last month
     
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  3. CymaxStores

    CymaxStores Guest

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    I've already gotten some reds for this so I might as well clarify that I wasn't going on a rant about info sites being useless. I was just wondering what other people's experience with them were, if there were other useful ones (like broadbandrates.info above, thank you), and what the economics of running them were. I'm trying to get an idea of the .info TLD and how useful it is, where I can tell my link builders to look/ignore, etc.
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    The -real- question is:

    why do sites like answers.com appear in SERPs when they are just scraped wikipedia content? :confused:
     
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  5. manageyourlinks

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    b/c of the current google algo. system which relies very heavily on Link popularity. which allows sites like that to rank for EVERYTHING
     
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  6. Jelf

    Jelf Banned

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    No, just 90 percent of them :)
     
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  7. Tim_Myth

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    scraper must make money, otherwise there wouldn't be scraper sites.

    They make use of the "long tail," coming up for terms that no one in their right mind would ever optimize for, but hey, if you have 1 bazillion pages indexed in google and each one gets 1 click every month, you're not doing too shabby.
     
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    A lot of the info domains don't get renewed because it goes from a few dollars initially to often 9.00 to renew them. For the mass builders they want to pay little for domain/hosting.

    Debbie
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    spain.info plus about a million others.
     
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  11. dtaylar

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    Yup, seems most of them are MFA sites probably because they are the cheapest domain to buy for the first year anyway.
     
    dtaylar, Jan 9, 2007 IP