The notion of building 50+ sites for Adsense is Easy - HOGWASH!

There's a lot of misinformation from this post.

-Duplicate content is not the same as syndicated content.
-It's 150% your fault for getting crap content you paid for. I pay $5 for 500 word articles from an American published author.
-Everyone familiar with adsense knows that no matter what you do, some simply won't work out.
-You do not have to frequently add new content to your site for the SEs.
-Google slap is in reference to Adwords.
-Pulling "exact content" from a site will not get your site banned. Again, welcome to the world of syndicated content.
-If 80% of your sites aren't winners, then the fault is on you for terrible keyword research.

I'm about to break $10k/mo from 15 Adsense sites. It's really, really not difficult.

Yep, it does take a little work, but thats the same with anything online.

However,

Liek mgtarheels says above, content does not have to be updated for good rankings. I have sites sat at number 1, and have been for over a year and I have not added content to them since I first built them.

I would put more effort on backlinks than updating content, but everyone is different. I do have sites that I update with new content regularly but that is to gain more SE positions, not for increasing my rank for keywords I already rank for.

Also, try some different monetisation options. Some sites could earn more through other ways other than adsense. Amazon? Clickbank? CJ?

GoGetta

I have to agree with GoGetta, spend more time on backlinking than updating. The way I work my sites is spend one who week working on content and set up before going live with them. Then I do social bookmarking and article writing for about a month. Then I outsource backlinking. And honestly I think if you go with the strategy of creating mass Adsense sites it is on to be the luck of the draw you will have winners and losers. If you do not outsource it all you just can not keep up with that many sites. I figure you are better off creating less sites of higher quality.

Free lunches are only available at the local soup kitchen.

But as an Internet Marketer, you must find a need and provide solutions to answer that need.

Most of the more successful people I know online got started offering services, and then they branched into other things like product creation, adsense sites, etc.

Whether it is easy or not is purely subjective.

For many in this forum it would not be at all difficult to knock up 50 ten page websites, hire a few backlinkers and get them all ranked but for others this would be extremely difficult.

I genuinely still can't understand why people have a problem with "difficult". I'm not having a dig at anyone in this thread because there has been some extremely valid points but look, 50 websites is going to cost you $500 in domain names and maybe $100 on top for hosting.

In my opinion there is nothing else out there that easier to do than this that can bring in a substantial income.

The guy who runs the chinese across the road has to pay delivery drivers, chefs, rent and god knows what else and he earns much less than $100 a day (I'm going on the $2 a day per site rule here). Not only that but he still has to work day in day out.

Sure it might take you 6 months to get your feet wet with multiple sites but after that you don't need to worry about it again.

Yes there is a learning curve involved and that can be difficult to overcome.

Internet Marketing is a hard way to make an easy living...

great input everyone. i'm not bashing adsense i just think there are far more posts that suggest it's simple. the concept sounds easy but the execution is a bit more complex; and i'm not talking about rocket science.

What about maintenance?

You cant have 50+ sites then leave them. The time of profitable autoblogs is over, as far as i know. I am constantly building links and do SEO on some existing sites. It can be a B*TCH already for one single site, eg. featuring different product/pages i want to rank.

Sometimes i WISH i had one single site, ONE keyword and that'll be it.

But how on earth would you do continuous maintenance, SEO etc. for 50, 100, 300+ sites? Then rather focus on one or two sites, and do a GOOD job with them and rank them to #1.

I couldn't agree more with mgtarheels; people say Adsense is easy because it has the potential to be easy, if that makes sense. For me personally, it is extremely easy. It's all about the systems you put in place in/for your business. I have refined my systems to where they are almost as streamlined as humanly possible - from keyword research to domains to site building to backlinks, etc.... Contrary to your belief, it really doesn't take much time at all to set up a site and put unique content on it, even if you write it yourself. Jason Fladlien has a product that teaches how to write articles extremely quickly, in 7 min. or so. If you pre-load your theme and plugins in your FTP then they're already there when you set up your site, and if you know what you're doing with the on-page SEO, you can completely set up the site in under 20 min. (10 or so for the site setup and 7 or so for the article) - this is 1 of the many examples of a specific system I use that is refined and implemented to expedite the entire process. Things like article writing (if you are 'paying a lot' for bad content, then you are using the wrong sources; I, like mgtarheels, get high-quality native English content for $1 per 100 words.), on page SEO, and backlinks would be subsystems of your entire system. I haven't even mentioned the fact that you can outsource any system, and if it's refined and streamlined enough, it'll be cheap - an example of this for me would be backlinks. I have the few, select, quality sources that I use for backlinks and I simply outsource it. Like mgtarheels said, your post is misinformative in many ways that he mentioned, but it's also somewhat misleading. Although I agree that most product sellers are trying to push the idea that the Adsense process is super easy just so you'll buy their product, it does have the potential to be easy, so you can't generalize and say that it's simply not true. As I said, it can be easy if you spend the time to make it easy. I'm almost at the point where my entire system, the complete process from A to Z, is completely hands-free. I literally don't have to do anything, but I choose to. I have a database full of thousands of profitable keywords, so I simply pick one and tell my project manager, and he starts the 'system,' and I just sit back and oversee things. If I wanted to, I could go on vacation and sit on the beach every day for an entire month without looking at a computer, and my business would still run itself. I say that not to brag but to show you that once you have the proper systems in place, it can be extremely easy. Granted, you'll probably want to develop and refine the system yourself first, which is what I did. And if I wanted to (which I do sometimes) I could still simply implement the whole system with my own 2 hands without outsourcing (which is what I did in the beginning), and it would still be 'easy' because I have taken the time to refine almost every microscopic aspect of the entire process. If you keep that mindset from the start, you'll have a great system in place in no time.

If a complete newbie reads your post, they might say "Ok so I'm definitely not doing Adsense because it's so difficult," which is utterly false. If it's too hard, you are making it too hard. If it's easy, as it is for some of us, we made it easy. Do not get discouraged. Just keep refining and simplifying things. And aside from everything, remember Pareto's Law - 80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.

Here is a plan for you:
Some of your points are right, but you need to change your way of viewing things.
20% of your work will generate 80% of your income
20% of your sites will be winners and 80% will be loosers
20% of the traffic will generate 80% of the clicks...
See, all you have to do is just accept it.
build 10 sites, find/keep the 2 winners and flip the rest.

You can easily sell all your 45 underperforming sites for a min of $50/ea. That will be over $2,250. build 10 quality sites each site with 20 quality articles ($10/article) Do the backlinking...2 of them will be winners. keep them and sell the other 8 (this time for at least $200/site).
Rinse and repeat.
You will be making good money in no time.