1 Hour Of Work Made Me $628.94 So Far....

[moneymentor]

If duplicate content was all myth, then why not cut and past all half of all content?

[HeidiMarie]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but would this work with a regular blog with wordpress, or only a blog you are hosting? I know it's better to "own" your own blog site, but I haven't quite gotten to that point yet (i will soon, just not quite there yet). Right now I have a couple reqular blogs and a ton of squidoo pages.

[Megas]

I've always been more into the approach of re-purposing my content so as to not duplicate it.
I can sometimes build up to 10 articles off of 1.

[Anomaly1974]

Haha I wrote about this over a year ago but it is good that somebody else finally understands this myth. If Duplicate Content was the evil so many people make it out to be think about the penalties on your RSS Feeds posted out on so many sites, your Social Bookmarking with "Duplicate Content" on so many sites and article marketing. If the Duplicate Content myths were all true, Web2.0 would not work at all.

Thanks for pointing this out but it still amazes me that anyone would have to.

[Rod Cortez]

What are you up to now Jeremy? :P

[Jeremy Kelsall]

lol

Originally Posted by Rod Cortez

What are you up to now Jeremy? :P

I honestly don't know

We started doing the same thing on a ton of sites, don wrote a script to automate it and a plugin to "change" the PLR a bit and we have just continued hitting it hard since them.

Probably would have been cool to track all of the earnings though for a 6 month or a 1 year period just to see what it ran up to

[Wasabi Kurt]

Originally Posted by kislany

I'm a newbie at IM and I realised something, just now a I was reading this thread. It is great and I was about just to jump into this.
However I've realised that if I jump into every second great new thing that is on the WF, I'll never learn THE BASICS. Just yesterday I've decided to focus on Chris's conduit method combined with Allan Gardyne's 18 steps affiliate marketer manual for newbies like me. And then here I am today, getting excited at the next great quick making money scheme (don't get me wrong, I am NOT putting it down, that's not what I mean at all) that comes along on the WF.
Then I stopped, and I said no. I'll work through the basics first, to get a good IM foundation, and then and only then I will tackle these more advanced things. Because these are all aimed at the people who already know what they do.

Look at some of the posts here above in this thread - some people don't know what an RSS is, some others don't know how to set up a WP blog (I'm one of those, btw) but they all want to get $600 in the next hour. How, may I ask, will you do this???

IM newbies: learn first the basics and then jump in schemes and programs to get the quick cash, when you at least know the technicalities of what all is involved in it. Learn first something that you have at least a bit of success with, and then replicate, duplicate and go for new things to learn. Else I predict that 4 years down the road you're still going after the next quick money making thing and wondering why noone is visiting your site (note to self: learn from my own preaching!!!!!)

Um, did i just make an ass of my mouth? lol!

kislany

You're so right Kislany... FOCUS, or else you'll spend way too much time learning all about everything before you do anything!

No ass made...

[Sovereign]

Jeremy,

Is this approach still viable since the Panda update?

thanks

[SteveJohnson]

Another back-from-the-dead-thread

[Doug Wakefield]

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Another back-from-the-dead-thread

Zombie Apocalypse is eminent.

Might want to try a PM to Jeremy, but in my experience everything mentioned here is well worth doing.

Putting content on sites you control (I would argue you put it there first, but later is better than never.)

Setting up larger ping lists - easy to do. Find or get your own list and copy/paste it every time you make a new site.

Submitting RSS feeds - Buy RSSBot, well worth the money. Many places you put content has an RSS feed. Takes all of a couple minutes once things are set up.

Getting the lists and setting things up is the big time waster here (not really by much.) Once you get the lists and RSS bot set up, you can do both in a few minutes easily... and only need to do them once a site (or feed.)

[Skid_Roe]

Originally Posted by Jeremy Kelsall

Months ago, I was like many other people here - scared to death of Duplicate content and all the other "no nos" that everyone was talking about. So, I was publishing all of my content to EZA and was happy with the results, because I was getting paid

After reading some stuff here about the duplicate content issue, I set up 2 Wordpress blogs on 2 different niches that I had a ass ton of content published to EZA on.

I set the blogs up with a substantial ping list and started adding the content to the blogs at a clip of about 3 pages a day, which were automatically pinged, etc.

I set up my RSS feed and submitted it to feedagg and a couple others.

Before I knew it I started getting traffic to my blogs based on the same exact content that had been published at EZA for over 6 months. Currently, we are getting almost 100 visitors a day to each blog and in just over 6 weeks $628.94 was been made off of content that I thought was dead.

I want to make it clear, I did not spin/alter the content at all. Just posted it and then left it alone with the exception of the RSS feed. I'm now ranking fairly well for several keywords and I can't see the traffic or ranking really going anywhere as I have other old content to post as well

Did you leave the link that Ezine posts back to the article intact? Or did you delete that link from the posts?

[pompano]

So you just left the blog and it suddenly started getting traffic? I hope my blogs start doing that if my content is good enough lol.

[Black Hat Cat]

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Another back-from-the-dead-thread

Revived with a legitimate question.

[webinsiders]

Great thread discussion! Learned a lot and thanks for going out there and doing these experiments to get us some answers!

[dudeontheweb]

Originally Posted by Sovereign

Jeremy,

Is this approach still viable since the Panda update?

thanks

Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat

Revived with a legitimate question.

I think the easiest answer is to replicate what Jeremy did and see what happens.......

[magnates]

Congratulations !!!! I am very surprised though .i can't believe that google has not penalised your blog yet ... This throws the whole duplicate content idea out of the water

[dagaul101]

Nice stats, the duplicate content issue can be a little confusing, but there is a difference between syndicated content, and pasting the same content twice on the same site

[gskesavan]

Jeremy with his useful experiments again. Your 1st page Google rank WSO for 4 bucks was quite a charm by itself. LOL I enjoy reading your experiments on obnoxious things.

Well, I have been copying content from EZA lately to my sites and they definitely bring a lot of traffic. Duplicate content should be a myth. Even Andrew Hansen gets content from EZA to his blog. It's mentioned in one of this reports.

[rockone]

I am speechless after reading the thread and all the replies. I could never think that someone can make huge profit from duplicate content. Really hats off. I will also try the same. Wish I too make some money.

[Mary Wilhite]

its nice you didn´t have to do anything else then spending an hour on this..
earning a lot of money to

good learning

Mary

[celente]

why has this old post been dug up from 2008. lol.

hmmm, alarm bells ringing! lol.

[Steven Wagenheim]

Originally Posted by celente

why has this old post been dug up from 2008. lol.

hmmm, alarm bells ringing! lol.

Actually, the question asked is quite legit and one I've been thinking to myself
as well. So much from years ago is no longer effective since Panda, so the
question is valid.

[Jaymark]

Interesting information. Didn't know it could work that way. Thanks!

[SoEasyMoney]

So does this mean that I can snag 100s of articles from EZA (leaving the resource box intact, of course) and populate my blog and in Google's eyes its ok? Wow....and I've been spending 100s of dollars on fresh content?

I must be missing something here.

[saiyan11]

I have a Poker related blog that have not updated in more than a year because I have no time to write articles. I guess I could give a try and revive that old blog!!

Let´s se what happens

Saludos

Marcos

[Boricua]

Before I knew it I started getting traffic to my blogs based on the same exact content that had been published at EZA for over 6 months. Currently, we are getting almost 100 visitors a day to each blog and in just over 6 weeks $628.94 was been made off of content that I thought was dead.

I want to make it clear, I did not spin/alter the content at all. Just posted it and then left it alone with the exception of the RSS feed. I'm now ranking fairly well for several keywords and I can't see the traffic or ranking really going anywhere as I have other old content to post as well

The Panda update brought so much confusion that there were people here, actually believing, that article marketing was dead! The paranoia on Google's algo recent change will keep getting clearer on much more people. My quick logical believe is that are afraid the most with the Panda update are those who never test with the content they've on their site or never bothered to actually look at their sites changes in rankings.

A nice structured site you must have those results Jeremy, that's for sure. Won't surprise me if it's just a simple basic site that's nicely design for Google to crawl it, with simple contact us page and a few well structured content categories. Oh well@

[JamesGw]

I think it'd probably be less effective post-Panda, but I'd hesitate to say that the method is entirely dead. Run some experiments and see what happens!

[Adam Smith]

After reading this and finding it very interesting I have decided to preform the experement and track the results here. What I have done so far:

1. Registered a TLD exact match for a niche with 6,500 exact searches.
2. Set up Wordpress with the following Plugins:

All in One SEO Pack
Easy Google Analytics for Wordpress
nrelate Related Content
Simple Google Sitemap XML

Iv some PLR articles about this niche which I am using.

I started this last night and posted 3 of the articles. I have just finished posting another 3.

The site is not indexed by Google, so I have ordered the following from Fiverr to get the ball rolling and also it saves me time submitting the feed to RSS aggregators and ping lists.

multimastery: I will submit your rss feed to 100 RSS directories for $5 on fiverr.com
danzig: I will ping your site to around 1500 PR 2 to 7 statistics websites to gain high Pr backlinks for $5 on fiverr.com
karolina: I will ping your website or blog to over 70 services for $5 on fiverr.com
joepark: I will create 70 High PR Authority Backlinks To Your Site for $5 on fiverr.com
wiseman: I will create 10 Edu backlinks for your site Explanation and PROOF 1st Page of Google Inside for $5 on fiverr.com
krh83: I will submit your website to at least 50 social bookmarking site for $5 on fiverr.com
sterlingmy: I will build 60High PR 6 to 8 Backlinks to your site 100 percent money back guarentee for $5 on fiverr.com

I have added Google adsense on each post and have set up analytics to monitor where the traffic is coming from.

I will be posting 3 articles a day, and when I run out of PLR content I intend on getting the content from Article Directories.

Ill keep you informed of how its going in the next few weeks

[NickTaylor]

That's good for you man

[Adam Smith]

Update.

Day 3.

I have now posted 6 articles all together, none of which have been original. Im getting a little confused in regards to what has been indexed and what hasn't as all the articles show up on google when i type the "www.domainname.com" yet in webmaster tools it shows the sitemap has been submitted but it says there are 0 URLs indexed - strange!

Anyways, here are the fiverr gigs which have been completed:

1. build 60High PR 6 to 8 Backlinks to your site 100 percent money back guarentee for $5
2. create 10 Edu backlinks for your site Explanation and PROOF 1st Page of Google Inside for $5
3. create 70 High PR Authority Backlinks To Your Site for $5
4. ping your website or blog to over 70 services for $5

The site is already ranking for 3 long tail keywords...

1. Best xxxxxx - 59th
2. Best xxxxxx remedies - 37th
3. Best xxxxxx treatments - 64th

The keywords im actually targeting are:

1. XXXXXX
2. XXXXXX Remedies
3. xxxxxxx Treatments

I will update again in a few days if there is any movement.

[Nick Lotter]

Looking forward to seeing your results. I am conducting a similar test myself on an old site of mine using PLR articles.

[JV Warrior]

Duplicate content is definately myth.

I have a site that is in a niche specific market. It is actually just 20 or so articles and was sold as a major pack about 4 years ago. I put it up on one of my aged sites, but before doing so, I searched for the names of the articles in some search engines to see what would show.

To my initial horror, the first few pages had my very articles on them verbatim.
Others had published the content as is on their own sites. But I thought, what the heck, lets give it a try.

Within a couple of weeks I had some income from the site. Now it makes an average of $100 per month from ads on the site. At this point, I do not know if its because the domain its on is aged, or because I have other content on the same site that is unique, so its not just a blatant ripp off of another site, but it shows as others have said... Test for yourself

[grandstar]

Great post!

[fdemming]

That's pretty awesome...

That goes to show you what taking action can do for you. Others should follow your lead.

[idk007]

I've done the same thing for a very competative insurance kw. I rank 5th next to the company's keyword.

[Nick Lawless]

So this was originally posted back in 2008. Does anyone know if this still works now??

[bcagle]

Hey, that is a great share! I also have content rich sites that I update regularly. I have just begun to monetize them. Am already averaging a couple of hundred hits a day from the ping list. I am using MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer - If you haven't heard of it, I recommend it. Increased my hits expodentially. (0 to 500 in a week). No, hopefully the monetizing will bring in some funds.
Thanks for the encouraging words.

[bcagle]

Hey, that is a great share! I also have content rich sites that I update regularly. I have just begun to monetize them. Am already averaging a couple of hundred hits a day from the ping list. I am using MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer - If you haven't heard of it, I recommend it. Increased my hits exponentially. (0 to 500 in a week). No, hopefully the monetizing will bring in some funds.
Thanks for the encouraging words.

[kstark]

When you made the blogs, how quickly did you add the EZA content? Did you populate the blog with a set number to start, or...?

Congrats!

[KeepFaith]

I truly LOVE the information you are providing in the forum... Your "DJ Keyword" course really clarified my way of analyzing keyword competition!