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Jimmy Crabb

Posts: 200
Member since: 10/15/2002
From: South Africa

A Quickie

I set up a quick site last weekend - nothing fancy - the content is all pulled from an e-book that I have resale rights to.

It's primarily an Adsens type site, but I'll probably add some affiliate links and banner ads later once I build a bit of traffic.

It's a Quit Smoking site at http://www.jimmycrabb.info - whataya think? I only took a few hours and didn't pay a lot of attention to detail.

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/4/2008 6:42:06 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

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Member since: 9/24/2002
From: USA

RE: A Quickie (in reply to Jimmy Crabb)

nice for mfa (made for adsense) site.
Here's a brief discussion on sites like this:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3688703.htm

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/6/2008 9:02:03 PM

Jimmy Crabb

Posts: 200
Member since: 10/15/2002
From: South Africa

RE: A Quickie (in reply to Jimmy Crabb)

Thanks Tex :-)

I often add Adsense to my sites after the fact. The reasoning is that I that know everybody who visits my site is going to leave and if they are not going to leave via my thank you page (ie after a sale) they might as well leave via an Adsense ad and make me 10 cents.

I don't make a tonne of money with Adsense (about a dollar a day per site), but it covers my hosting fees, domain registration etc.

This is my first real MFA site (it's made me a whopping 54 cents so far

, but since it is on a spare domain it isn't costing me anything apart from the couple of hours it took me to create, so I'm going to fiddle and experiment to see how much I can make from Adsense alone.

There are a lot of people who say Adsense is dead, but that certainly isn't true (just look at the Google stock price!) however the vast ammounts of free traffic to sub-standard computer generated MFA sites is, so you gotta include as much real solid content as possible as well as using sensible white hat SEO techniques.

I'm also going to experiment with some arbitrage tactics once I have the click through ratio high enough (buy clicks on other PPC search engines for a couple of pennies per click to drive traffic and then make 20 - 50 cents per click when they leave the site via Adsense)

I'll keep you posted on how it's going in case anybody else wants to play a similair game.

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/7/2008 12:27:35 AM

TexasWebDevelopers

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Member since: 9/24/2002
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RE: A Quickie (in reply to Jimmy Crabb)

Thanks,
I'd appreciate any update and insights.
I have a few clients who play this game and they have seen revenues drop in the last few months due to some Google algo change. It's like they want you to advertise but when you try to set up a site to maximize revenue it conflicts with the general requirement for "relevant content"--whatever that means nowadays.

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Report Abuse | Date: 7/7/2008 9:26:39 AM