Hi all, I've had my AdSense account for little over 4 months now. In the beginning I had them on my blog (dropshipping / online selling related). Legit original content, but I update very rarely, once every 10 days or so. It's hard to keep up with posting when you are 100% whitehat and make original posts. I suck at backlinking (or just call me lazy), do close to zero forum posting. Obviously, my lack of dedication to my blog makes for little traffic. I submitted a new articles to EZineArticles though. Collectively, these miserly efforts at posting and SEO of course results in a low-traffic blog. On a good day I might be able to get 15 unique visitors. After I month I made a grand total of $2.99. Haha! *bitter laugh* Fast forward to 3 weeks ago. After a lot of forum reading and research, I decided to setup an 'autoblog'. Basically it gets content from feeds obviously. Is this considered 'blackhat'? I have very clearly visible links back to the source article at the top of each post. Also I have an about page that states that content isn't mine, and that any surfer may, at any time click on the obvious link at the top of each article to go to the original page. I also have a generic privacy policy. I get about 300 impressions a day with CTR of about 1%. On a good day, I make $2. Bad days $0.01 to $0.02. Averaging out the past 20 days, about $1/day. Am I off to a good start? And regarding the longevity of doing so, is it against Google's TOS? I am thinking of scaling it up with more autoblogs, but don't wanna end up making 50, and then WHAM Google deactivates my account. That will be a waste of time. I know I'm not making $100/day like a lot of people are here. Perhaps many of you are scoffing 'Pfft it's just $1 a day n00b', and yes I do agree I'm a newbie, that is why I'm making such a small amount. However, I am satisified on a personal level with the pretty consistent $1/day I'm getting at the moment. The main concern I have is about Google TOS about autoblogs, even though I give clear credit and links to original posts. Thanks for any insight guys. Cheers
IMO, it seems like you are looking for an easy way out. You are not going to earn a decent amount of income from Adsense using autoblogs, and not creating links to your domain. I would think eventually they will be de-indexed from google since you are not really offering anything of value to the net -- read here someone who has had their site de-indexed, and it seems to be a regular thing with autoblogs - http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/103834-my-autoblog-got-de-indexed-google.html You can't just build a website, and think someday people are going to be able to find it -- it doesn't work like that. Marketing is more than half the battle IMO. You do not even have to continually update the sites, I have plenty of sites that have been static for years, but every day they continue to earn me $X - $XX per day. Design your business with the long term in mind, you and will be on your way to building a steady income through adsense. But marketing is very important, I have some very small terms that earn me over $5 per day simply because I am in the top 3 of google for my main keyword.
Continue with what you are doing, but now scale it up to more domains. 100 domains making $1.00 each is still $100 per day and more than covers yearly costs and hosting.
Thanks for your words of wisdom dude. Ideally, I want to make a site that I can be proud of, that provides reliable income too.. My autoblog doesn't rely on Google traffic so de-indexing is not a problem.
@nathantai. Thank you for sharing your personal experaince, there are many including me here who are working hard to earn more and more $$
Thanks, you da man, I will email AdSense support with a dummy email regarding their policies regarding autoblogs.
I like this sentence of Marketing is more than half the battle IMO. To some extent, marketing is much more important to the site itself.
I think autoblogging leads to de indexing of your URLs and might lead you to problem one day. However $1 per day is decent amount. I was also earning about 10$ per month in first 3 to 4 months but now I am earning about 4 to 5 per day. So do not loose heart try off your every bit.
If you want to make $1 a day. Start from scratch with a legit website around HIGH PAYING KEYWORDS. You will make much more than random little sites.
Hey guys, just wanna update anyone interested on what I'm doing now. I'm currently at 9 blogs making about $7 - $10 a day now. I find this more consistent than micro niche sites and I'm now churning autoblogs and dumping micro niche sites. I've been trying out the XFactor micro niche method and built 6 sites, but they aren't doing too well. With micro niche sites, I have no idea why but they all seem to start out fine with $0.20 - $1 per day per site, and then the CPC goes down drastically even though I chose high paying niches. With my autoblogs I've found a way to get lots of traffic consistently. The CTR is much lower than with micro niche sites, but with 500 impressions a day per site, I can get close to 5 clicks a day earning about $0.20/click (for entertainment news/gossip/tech niches) Hope this helps anyone trying to decide to start autoblogs.
I think this wont continue for long..! You may get banned once when the googlers review your account autoblogging is like damn to Adsense.. They never tolerate
As long as you get feeds from the right places and link back to the sources, autoblogging can work. I think when you have 100 autoblogs, your adsense income is quite substantial.
I do have very obvious and visible links back to the sources. I understand giving credit isn't going to ensure that the original publishers aren't going to pounce on me and report me for syndicating their content though. So I make it a point and have a disclaimer that if any webmaster isn't happy with me syndicating their content, just drop me an email and I will remove the feed in the shortest time. Of course, I know AdSense may or may not be happy with syndicated content and may/may not disable accounts. I've even sent AdSense an email asking their views on syndicated content and they replied with an ambiguous link to their TOS page. My account isn't banned for now though. Will report back in maybe 2 mths and see how it goes.