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12 years ago

You can start with fixing spacing - paragraphs, etc.

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JohnMcCabe

12 years ago

A LITTLE polishing?

It's gibberish. No editing, no formatting, but I bet the keyword density for 'study guitar' is right up there...

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Auggie Tsai

12 years ago

Gotta tell you that I was a former news editor and just looking at the layout of the article, I think it's a piece of crap. Where are the paragraphs that separate one idea from the next? Does the author really expect people to read that?

As I read the article it screams at me that the person who wrote it isn't a native English speaker. The article should have been outsourced to someone who has a command of the English language.

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jideofor

12 years ago

I'm on mobile, not PC.

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MissTerraK 12 years ago

Quality? No.

Semi-quality after a little polishing? No.

Even a little snippet of quality? No.

I'd be disappointed even with only paying 5 bucks for that thing, sadly.

Too much wrong to even list it all over beyond what the others have already pointed out.

That isn't even worth a re-write, it is only good for one thing...the trash.

I don't know who the author is and I certainly don't mean to be rude or anything, but was just trying to be honest and truthful. Hopefully, it will help someone to improve or find a different venue for a business and become one step closer to success.

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cbader 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

I'm on mobile, not PC.

There's your problem.
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jideofor

12 years ago

That's a website sold on flippa. I really don't know what made me visit the link, but I felt we could learn a thing or two here, including myself.

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Gail_Curran 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

That's a website sold on flippa. I really don't know what made me visit the link, but I felt we could learn a thing or two here, including myself.

Learn what? That the Internet is full of garbage, produced by scammers who can't even write one sentence in English? We already know that.
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- jideofor 12 years ago
  
  Man, take it easy on me. I couldn't help laughing. Btw, I am learning. The sales page is different either. I thought I wasn't good enough to write( I'm not a native english speaker), but after reading that article and the comments here, my morale has been boosted.
  
  Originally Posted by Gail_Curran
  
  Learn what? That the Internet is full of garbage, produced by scammers who can't even write one sentence in English? We already know that.
  
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Auggie Tsai 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

That's a website sold on flippa. I really don't know what made me visit the link, but I felt we could learn a thing or two here, including myself.

I always believe that I can learn from a bad example as much as I can from a good example. So, that being said, what have you learned from the site and the comments on this thread?
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contentwriting360

Banned 12 years ago

Seriously, that article needs editing. It's full of fluff. There are no paragraphs that separate one idea from the other. It appears to me that the writer was trying to meet a word count requirement.

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BizManRobert 12 years ago

Want an honest answer in a word...CR*P!
It is that bad I couldn't bring myself to finish it!

At first I thought maybe it was written by a non English native...
But then the spelling is correct..Emm maybe they spun it...?
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Billie Joyner

12 years ago

I think you can tell from a mile away the quality of that article...
That article and the site itself would need not a little polishing, but a complete rewrite and redesign, because in its current form it would scare away anyone who would ever land on it.

The core of good web content is scanability, which this website definitely lacks.

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travlinguy

12 years ago

Looks like it's about 10th generation spin job.

Shoulda used Spin Doggy Daddy...

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andybeveridge

12 years ago

My eyes now hurt! You will be hearing from my lawyer.

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jideofor 12 years ago

Originally Posted by andybeveridge

My eyes now hurt! You will be hearing from my lawyer.

I'm sorry. It won't happen again. Lol!
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Tim3

12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

I found this website and I believe the article needs a little polishing.

What do you think? Virtually all the articles has the same tone.

I made the mistake of reading two articles and now I want to slash my wrists. This is PLR keyword-infested garbage at it's worst.

The content certainly needs polishing... polishing off with an angle grinder

Not a bad design though, put some decent content on it (about guitars) remove anything related to ghastly keyboards and anything else that cannot play shred. Use plenty of images of cool guitars, lots of sound files, add some videos from YT of Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmstein, SRV, find some good accurate tab, especially Metallica stuff. and then promote it where guitarist's hang out.
Don't forget a product page and review or two.

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Banned 12 years ago

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jideofor

12 years ago

You can't blame anyone for his or her choice, you know. I remember I wanted to sell a site on Reverse Phone Look up in 2009. I made only two sales from that website and I was honest to let them know why I had just two sales. As at that time, I was working and had no time to really promote the site. Did anyone buy? HELL NO!

Originally Posted by MikeWike

Ouch, this is even more cr*p: Guitar Win - Free Guitar Video Lessons

But as you can see, this webpage was sold on flippa by $3650 https://flippa.com/2804777-video-gui...tors-per-month... I never understand people who buy that kind of sites.. I know it brings you cash, but seriously.. The earnings were: 150-300 for the last couple of months, but still..

I guess people just don't want to read that crap and they will rather click on the ads, lol..

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I wrote that article, and got a cool $.50 for it

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JohnMcCabe 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joseph Robinson

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I wrote that article, and got a cool $.50 for it .

You were overpaid by at least $.50...
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- Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe
  
  You were overpaid by at least $.50...
  
  I'm going to interpret that as you complimenting me on being able to market myself .
  
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BizManRobert 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joseph Robinson

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I wrote that article, and got a cool $.50 for it .

Hey Joseph...Ah that made me laugh my socks OFF:p
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- Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by BizManRobert
  
  Hey Joseph...Ah that made me laugh my socks OFF:p
  
  I live for the laughs .
  
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handymoney2

12 years ago

Needs a lot of editing

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SOCAL777

12 years ago

The quality is poor. My 15-year-old's writing is much better.

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Jian Lin

12 years ago

I am not going to talk about the layout of the site because I am a visual person. It's too much for a picky person like me to talk about its look.

Secondly, English is not my first language, I often hope my visitors can take it easy on me when it comes to grammer or spelling, so I am not going to talk about the writing either.

I check the site out because I just brought my daughter a guitar. She wants to learn it herself, since she have ready learned piano for 5 years. My question is where are the 10000 free guitar lessons? I couldn't find it!

A little thought. Why didn't I have someone talk about my blog even it's something ugly...to bring traffic to my site... Wait a minute, I am not sure if I can handle all the criticize.

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jideofor

12 years ago

^^^ Are you the author of that article?

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Jian Lin 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

^^^ Are you the author of that article?

I assume the question is to me since you post right after my post.

No, jideofor, I am not the author of that article. I am a designer also a visual person. My blog looks a LOT prettier than that guitar site :-)

I won't judge the spelling only because English is my second language. I have a LOT more confidence with my niche content and the looks of my blog than grammar.
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TheWrightWords

12 years ago

Looks like it got spit out of a spinner and posted -- or maybe it is a product of Google translator?

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Troy_Phillips

12 years ago

You can polish a ruby in a goat's ass until it shines like the sun but .. it is still in a goat's ass

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icoachu

12 years ago

Man, that's some LOW QUALITY CONTENT. I pay .003 USD per word and it's WAY BETTER than that content. I hope you got it for free, bro. Plus, I ran the text through copyscape and your content has duplicate text

If you are getting pounded by Panda or low rankings, it's because your content is duped. Not good.

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jideofor

12 years ago

I did not write the article, please. Though I am not a native english speaker, but my parents didn't send to school for nothing.

Originally Posted by icoachu

Man, that's some LOW QUALITY CONTENT. I pay .003 USD per word and it's WAY BETTER than that content. I hope you got it for free, bro. Plus, I ran the text through copyscape and your content has duplicate text

If you are getting pounded by Panda or low rankings, it's because your content is duped. Not good.

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Gail_Curran 12 years ago

Originally Posted by jideofor

I did not write the article, please. Though I am not a native english speaker, but my parents didn't send to school for nothing.

It's ok, we know that you're a better writer than that, just from your posts.
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easternodyssey

12 years ago

Well personally the site is a load of crap. For starters the person has no idea how to write and needs to improve their grammer etc. But, also i am a little bit puzzled at what they are trying to sell. Clearly its more about loans and insurance than learning to play the guitar, crafty little marketing trick for advertising and money making but like normal just a completly stupid concept for a site. However, can not complain if they are making money from the add revenue.

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Fredbou

12 years ago

Originally Posted by easternodyssey

Well personally the site is a load of crap. For starters the person has no idea how to write and needs to improve their grammer etc. But, also i am a little bit puzzled at what they are trying to sell. Clearly its more about loans and insurance than learning to play the guitar, crafty little marketing trick for advertising and money making but like normal just a completly stupid concept for a site. However, can not complain if they are making money from the add revenue.

I see how so much revenue was generated from Adsense. I spent almost an hour clicking ever link on the site trying to find the free video lessons and the songs, etc.

Dismal and to think it sold on Flippa for $3650 !

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Cali16

12 years ago

Sadly, I've seen some forum posts written at about that level of quality (or maybe slightly above), by people asking how to make money, and a bunch of Warriors come along and tell them to "write articles". Go figure... :rolleyes:

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Cali16

Sadly, I've seen some forum posts written at about that level of quality (or maybe slightly above), by people asking how to make money, and a bunch of Warriors come along and tell them to "write articles". Go figure... :rolleyes:

Exactly. People are taking that whole "all you need is a computer with an internet connection" adage too far in too many fields. It's getting pretty embarrassing to be honest (although these people do make us real writers look even better

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MissTerraK

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Cali16

Sadly, I've seen some forum posts written at about that level of quality (or maybe slightly above), by people asking how to make money, and a bunch of Warriors come along and tell them to "write articles". Go figure... :rolleyes:

That's an excellent point Cali!

You've just brought that piece masquerading as an article some real value!

It's the perfect example of what happens when you take blind advice from the popcorn gallery regarding what you should do to make money online rather than doing your own due diligence as well as being in IM for the money rather than actually trying to give value to your potential clientele.

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TheContentAuthority

12 years ago

Best lines of this article:

"we can find that the loan term is referred to the thing that is owed." Really?!? a loan is a debt, which is owed?

"This reason in behind is to be sure that you can pay on time free on any financial issues. Right?" uh, huh... ok... yeah

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Sue Nelson

Banned 12 years ago

I think people will never read something that is not let's say..."breathable"!
Would you read it? It is getting tiring just to follow the word which are so crowded in there, that you risk forgetting the main idea.
I suppose it needs quite a lot of editing, actually.

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Adie

12 years ago

It hurts my eye looking at this non-formatted article..

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denysapu 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Adie

It hurts my eye looking at this non-formatted article..

Aha, I see it and agree
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- BackLinkiT 12 years ago
  
  Next time someone asks if spun content is worthwhile I'll just refer them to this thread
  
  It makes you realise what a difficult job google has. After all, I wouldn't want this garbage in my index and finding a way to penalise it automatically must be a devil of a job!
  
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Socialbakers

12 years ago

How is it possible that you even published a non-formatted article, not edited and the SEO keyword so awkwardly and ineptly integrated...? (*facepalm*)

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JohnMcCabe

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Joseph Robinson

Exactly. People are taking that whole "all you need is a computer with an internet connection" adage too far in too many fields. It's getting pretty embarrassing to be honest (although these people do make us real writers look even better

).

I know. I got the computer. I got the Internet connection. Nothing!

Then I connected the computer to the modem (dating myself here). Still nothing!

True story...

My first engineering job was with a small manufacturing company. They had one dedicated drafting computer, and one drafter who actually knew how to run it.

When they acquired one of their competitors, there was an AT&T PC tagged for the engineering department. When I was hired, that computer was sitting in a corner under a dust cover.

When I asked about it, I was told there was something wrong with it. Actually, one of the other engineers told me it was stupid. I asked him to show me what he meant. He booted the machine up, and at the DOS prompt typed in "Can I use part ABC123 for ABC124?" and hit enter. Got the 'huh?' error message (I don't remember the wording - it was over 20 years ago).

"See? It's stupid. Ask it anything and that's what you get."

I typed in 'dir' at the prompt, and got a directory listing. That alone was enough to make me the office 'computer guy'. We ended up using that thing for everything from database work to finite element analysis (a very math-heavy modelling technique).

The moral of the story is that the computer was useless if you didn't know how to use it to accomplish what you wanted to accomplish.

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chungacreative

12 years ago

That article is just a bunch of random words on a page.

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footballbob06

12 years ago

Wow that was extremely hard to read. I can't believe someone bought the site on flippa for over $3500(wonder if it actually makes $300 per month on adsense like it says on the ad). The article needed to be rewritten and needed some formatting.

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Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by footballbob06

(wonder if it actually makes $300 per month on adsense like it says on the ad).

I wouldn't be surprised if it was bringing in that number actually. I found myself trying to find any way off of the page possible. You know, maybe that was the site owner's strategy the whole time...
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jideofor

12 years ago

Seriously, I didn't know that this topic would go this far because I expected it to have been swept under the carpet by now.

No wonder content is KING and should always be discussed extensively. I have really learnt alot here.

But who on earth bought that site? I suspect that the seller may have used some sort of false bid to hype his sales.

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cjreynolds

12 years ago

It looks like to me that someone who knows nothing about the guitar (and possibly nothing about music) wrote this and ran it through a crappy spinner. As bad as that reads, he might also not know english to begin with!

No expertise in the niche
+ No command of English
+ Article spinner
= Unreadable, useless crap w/no value.

I think Joe nailed it - they're trying to run people away from the site hoping they'll click on an ad just to leave! :p

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footballbob06

12 years ago

Originally Posted by cjreynolds

It looks like to me that someone who knows nothing about the guitar (and possibly nothing about music) wrote this and ran it through a crappy spinner. As bad as that reads, he might also not know english to begin with!

No expertise in the niche
+ No command of English
+ Article spinner
= Unreadable, useless crap w/no value.

I think Joe nailed it - they're trying to run people away from the site hoping they'll click on an ad just to leave! :p

LOL this is an interesting technique. Do you think this could actually work to make a crappy site like this and use adsense with it? So do you think people would be trying so hard to leave that they would click an adsense ad? Someone make a WSO quick! In all reality this is an honest question. Would you get your adsense suspended for terrible content? I am also not saying I want to do this as there is enough trash on the internet just wondering if it is a viable technique?

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by footballbob06

LOL this is an interesting technique. Do you think this could actually work to make a crappy site like this and use adsense with it? So do you think people would be trying so hard to leave that they would click an adsense ad? Someone make a WSO quick! In all reality this is an honest question. Would you get your adsense suspended for terrible content? I am also not saying I want to do this as there is enough trash on the internet just wondering if it is a viable technique?

It was more of a joke than anything else. I would wager that a user would be much more likely to hit the back button on their browser before they notice an ad worth clicking. Of course, you are more than welcome to be the one to test the theory

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BackLinkiT

12 years ago

Originally Posted by footballbob06

LOL this is an interesting technique. Do you think this could actually work to make a crappy site like this and use adsense with it? So do you think people would be trying so hard to leave that they would click an adsense ad? Someone make a WSO quick! In all reality this is an honest question. Would you get your adsense suspended for terrible content? I am also not saying I want to do this as there is enough trash on the internet just wondering if it is a viable technique?

There is some truth in this theory, which explains why ugly sites are said to have a higher CTR. You only have to look at the xfactor adsense theme or the ctr theme...

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DubDubDubDot

12 years ago

Originally Posted by footballbob06

Do you think this could actually work to make a crappy site like this and use adsense with it? So do you think people would be trying so hard to leave that they would click an adsense ad?

Those would probably be low quality clicks and you'd run the risk of being banned from AdSense.

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footballbob06

12 years ago

I figured it was more of a joke and thought most people would just use the back button, but I thought it was kind of intriguing. It would be interesting to do some sort of a split test and see what happens with same theme, one with content that is spun and of terrible quality and one with decent quality(same articles but one blog only has spun stuff from your other blog) and see what the ctr of adsense ads is. Too bad i'm busy with other stuff and really don't feel like spending money and time to see. lol

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danr62

12 years ago

Joe, (or is it Joseph now?) stop trying to take credit. You know full well that you didn't write that. I'll have you know I was paid about $0.37 for that piece of work.

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Joseph Robinson

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by danr62

Joe, (or is it Joseph now?) stop trying to take credit. You know full well that you didn't write that. I'll have you know I was paid about $0.37 for that piece of work.

Only because I outsourced it to you. Funny how you leave that bit out :p.

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