I have ran across this sales site and need some input on what all of you folks think of this particular site, and this TYPE of site. Is this a viable way of getting started with adsense for people who have No Idea of how to put up (no clue about HTML etc.) a Correct Adsense site? landrew
I haven't actually used it myself, so I can't comment on a specific sitebuilder. But in my opinion if you are using those types of tools it means you are following in the footsteps of a lot of other people. Can you do ok that way? Sure thing! But will you get amazing results? Probably not! Not that my own web skills are much to write home about, but in building my own sites I feel like I've learned a bit more and put myself in a better position to execute any bright ideas that I come up with.
first of all, bear in mind that with 'adsense' in teh domain name you cannot put adsense ads on it. the rest is what JL_99 said. L
Thank you for your reply JL_99. I was thinking of using these "Web Sites" from the aforementioned company,adbuilders.com, ( I put web sites in quotes because I have no idea if after spending the money I'll receive actual working web sites OR even be Able to do anything with what I've purchased if they do work.) as a starting point and Then put in the required Work to get them producing. Producing what? Only an income that I can Replace my current income with.... that being, 3500 to 4000.00 a month. You see I am coming to a point where I will not be able to physically do the job I currently do. Thus I am looking to replace this income. Learning to "tweak" some HTML is within my capability however learning full blown HTML programming, I don't think so. So.....I am in search of "ready made" web sites that are put together CORRECTLY for Adsense. I am NOT looking for an "easy buck". I am not afraid of the work needed I'm just looking for a way around putting together web sites from scratch while not being ripped off by idiots without consciences. Any ideas, comments, direction, etc from yourself OR anyone else would be appreciated! landrew
First find out how many site packages the owner and whether the same are being offered on ebay. Google has a strong dup content filter so make sure you do your best to make the sites unique. Just buying and uploading the sites won't do you much good. Then there is the little matter of promoting your sites that you have to work on.
Netwise, Understood. Thank you for your reply. Yes the duplication is a concern, Really all I need ( I think ) is some templates. I don't believe I'll have any problems with content, or promoting the sites (spending money for the Correct tools is not a problem) I can't put together the Adsense optimized format (templates). Seems as though this could be an opportunity for someone....maybe I'm on the wrong forum landrew
landrew, A good option for you might be to start out with a fairly simple blog format, something along the lines of wordpress or blogspot. They are free (although I would recommend spending the little bit of extra money to have your own domain name), and you can choose from a wide variety of templates that are already set up. Then, as you become a little more comfortable with HTML and style sheets you can tweak things here and there to personalize the appearance and maximize your ad revenue. During this process you'll also slowly figure out how to drive some traffic to your site (reading forums like this is a good start). A couple of the sites in my signature file (below) have done just that, as like you I am limited in my coding skills. Whatever method you choose for your site, I would definitely recommend frequenting this forum to learn about using Adsense...I've learned a TON from reading all the good stuff here. EDIT: One more thing...when a site advertises that its templates are "optimized for Adsense", that can be a little misleading. The optimal layout will depend greatly on what type of content you have, what your target audience is, and what the current trends out there are. If your site looks just like every other site out there its very possible that your viewers will have developed "banner blindness" to your template and not click on many ads. That said, using a template isn't a bad way to ease your way into things and learn a little bit by tweaking the existing format to fit it to your needs. I would highly recommend that you do some research into HTML, CSS, and PHP as you can very easily do a wide range of things by combining those languages.
Yeah, the main page of the blog is not really a money-maker, that's more about the content for my loyal readers The parts of my blog style sites that make money seem to be the category pages where people come in via a search engine, read a couple paragraphs about whatever they were looking for, then click a relevant ad at the top of the page. I almost never get hits on the bottom ads because not many people go all the way down there...they are there until I stop being lazy and code my template so that I can insert one ad within the content somewhere on each page.
"bear in mind that with 'adsense' in the domain name you cannot put adsense ads on it." Huh? Would someone please show me in which Google document this is stated? I've never heard this before. I went back and searched everywhere at Google. Why would this be? The word "google" in is thousands of URLs that run AdSense ads. What's so different about the word "adsense"?
Look in the AdSense Terms and Conditions, there's a section in there about not using Google "brand features", which includes trademarked terms like "Google" and "AdSense". It may take them a while, but eventually they'll come along and disable the display of AdSense ads on any of your domains containing those trademarked terms. This is why I now use the domain memwg.com instead of MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com to promote my book. It seemed silly not to have AdSense ads on a book about AdSense. Mind you, I won't ever be showing AdSense ads on http://www.uncommonadsense.com, but that's fine by me in that case.
There's no doubt that the people who build these "instant AdSense sites" go to some trouble to collect articles and to create website layouts that work well. But their business model is to sell hundreds, hopefully thousands, of these packages. Eventually there will be a critical mass of people using the same sites on different domains vying for the same keywords. Then it becomes an SEO fight more than anything else, because most of them depend on type-in traffic to make money. Only one site can be #1 for each keyword combo. And this ignores the fact that the search engines will be pruning their lists via duplicate content filters. Really, if you get one of these packages then you'd be silly to just deploy the sites unmodified. You need to go and tweak the pages and the content to some degree. In other words, there's work required! If all you're looking for are HTML templates (which is reasonable enough -- not everyone is a web design expert or willing to put in the time to tweak things so they look good in twenty different browsers) then there are plenty of sites that sell you templates. It's the templates + content mix that is worrisome. In my opinion, of course.
mine too. it's plain silly to buy these MFA templates and put them up just like that. the very least you could do is to modify a little of the content, design, etc.
Mr Giguere, May I ask, if it is not too much trouble, would you Please go to the Top of this thread and read MY posts (as it is I who started it). And give me Your insights to My questions, I would respect your thoughts and information. You seem to know Where it is that these templates (that are Correctly formatted for Adsense) can be found. Respectfully, landrew
landrew, if you're looking for MFA sites, you can find some over at the Buy, Sell and Trade forum. There're people selling templates like that here, DP members. but the very least i suggest you do is to learn HTML and CSS. alot of these templates even uses PHP. so if you ever hope of editing those templates, you NEED to know HTML and CSS.
Eric- I see. Many thanks for your fine reply. <edit> I went back and looked at https://www.google.com/adsense/terms section 12, "You may do so, so long as such use is in compliance with this Agreement" which refers one to http://www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html and I am NOT seeing the interpretation that you suggest. I am awaiting a reply from AdSense support. Sorry, didn't mean to sidetrack the discussion. But I must question what I don't understand. Next time I'll start a new thread.