Creating your own Article Directory for Adsense?

What do you mean exactly by creating and article directory for Adsense ?

I did this, wrote the app myself: FreeArticleHQ.com. I sold it for $500 about 18 months ago (PR 3 at the time). I ran it for almost 3 years, although the last year I'd pretty much given up on it and stopped reviewing articles.

I built it with 2 gates:

Email confirmation
Manual review

It was not a membership site. To sub an article, you did first name, last name, email, article, resource box. Once you subbed it, it sent an email to the email adress you entered. Click on the link in the email to confirm your submission and the article was flagged for me to review.

When I finally gave up on it, I was doing 30 - 40 articles a day, 90% of which were total crap.

Submitters paid absolutely no attention to the guidelines and continually submitted unreadable junk, spun stuff, keyword stuffing, too many links, non-english, you name it, they subbed it.

I had Adsense on it, but rarely saw any clicks. People showed up there for 1 reason - to submit an article. Once they'd done their business, they went on their way.

Think about it. How many articles in article directories do you actually see high ranking? EzeinArticles, HubPages, GoArticles, About.com - other than that, you're splitting up a small pie with thousands of other directories.

Despite my rant above, I honestly believe you could, with hard work and an unwavering focus on quality, build a good directory. But I dont think Adsense would be the route to go. If I had it to do over again, I'd go membership and figure out some sort of fee structure once I was able to get some PR and traffic.

As far as coding and running FreeArticleHQ - AMA

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I might be jaded, but based on my experience with FreeArticleHQ, I don't think it matters what niche you try to focus on. The vast majority of article will still be crap and probably unrelated crap.

Start an article directory for fishing and see how long it is before the travel, credit card, teeth whitener and viagra articles start to show up.....

True that.....

You might be able to go with some sort of captcha for subs though - that might filter all but the most hard core manual spammers.

If you could develop an algorithm like demand media has for ehow to suggest topics that have a high cpc, then I would say you are in the money

I don't really think that the people who would submit articles would click on the ads, and I think the only traffic will be from people who are submitting articles

Yep, I did this. No new content submissions, just content taken from other article directories. Basically it ran on autopilot.

Also, there's an article directory out there now that gives you (for free) a complete article directory package, including the software and article content, if you want.