Adsense Website Success + "Xfactor" Question

by Felipe
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Hi
First of all I'm not used to make money from adsenses websites. I built some websites like in October-November following the Xfactor style..but nothing happened...then I checked my worst website in the last month and it was making 1$-2$ daily...I built more pages,more LSI keywords and deeper backlinks and BAM!, turned into a 8$-10$ daily machine receiving 90% of the traffic from unique keywords. At the beginning of this week Google slapped my website...probably just Google dance...

Anyway, since I found good niche and good keywords I would like to build a bigger website just like mentioned on the new xfactor ebook. Do you think that is a big red flag having 95% of the pages containing amazon affiliate links and adsense? I think so... I was thinking about inserting a blog and to "sacrifice" some pages in order to look less "made for cash" website. The new website is already running containing 10 pages on it.

I was wondering if anyone can share personal experience about this...

Have a nice weekend!
#adsense #question #success #website #xfactor
  • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
    Google said it will delete MFA(made for adsense) websites on June 1st, because we don't know what its standard for MFA is, it's hard to say whether it's good or bad to start another micro-niche website now. Maybe you can begin with adding original contents, after June 1st then decide what to do next.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clyde
    I built 2.4k sites last few months, here's my advice:

    1) Don't use the same theme on all of them.
    2) No Google Webmaster Tools or Analytics.
    3) Focus on site that make $3+/day and build it up to real, legit pages to the quality of ehow.com
    4) Remove Ads from sites that make less than that, it's not worth it to risk your account because of the thin sites.
    5) Only build out sites after you know the KW will make money.
    6) Article Marketing (get submission service to top article directories), Blog Posting(buildmyrank.com), Profile Links(spam so use your own ethical judgment), Homepage Backlinks (terry kyle's original, and the other copycats all should work, read reviews first and only invest in these if you need to go from #3 to #1, i.e: after you've done everything else).

    That's it, no way you can't make money, also, always try to go for EMD in com/net/org and if they're not available add a letter at the end of them, i.e the plural version.

    p/s: The Warriors is a fricken good movie.
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    • Profile picture of the author Felipe
      Originally Posted by clyde View Post

      I built 2.4k sites last few months, here's my advice:

      1) Don't use the same theme on all of them.
      2) No Google Webmaster Tools or Analytics.
      3) Focus on site that make $3+/day and build it up to real, legit pages to the quality of ehow.com
      4) Remove Ads from sites that make less than that, it's not worth it to risk your account because of the thin sites.
      5) Only build out sites after you know the KW will make money.
      6) Article Marketing (get submission service to top article directories), Blog Posting(buildmyrank.com), Profile Links(spam so use your own ethical judgment), Homepage Backlinks (terry kyle's original, and the other copycats all should work, read reviews first and only invest in these if you need to go from #3 to #1, i.e: after you've done everything else).

      That's it, no way you can't make money, also, always try to go for EMD in com/net/org and if they're not available add a letter at the end of them, i.e the plural version.

      p/s: The Warriors is a fricken good movie.
      thanks for the reply. what about having affiliate links in every page?
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Sweeney
        Originally Posted by StoneWilson View Post

        Google said it will delete MFA(made for adsense) websites on June 1st, because we don't know what its standard for MFA is, it's hard to say whether it's good or bad to start another micro-niche website now. Maybe you can begin with adding original contents, after June 1st then decide what to do next.
        Yeah, where did you hear that?
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        • Profile picture of the author Felipe
          as far i know thats has never been told...anyway i totally agree taking down the ranking of any website that sucks

          Originally Posted by Chris Sweeney View Post

          Yeah, where did you hear that?
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    "Delete" MFA sites on June 1st?! Where on earth did you hear that? They couldn't delete any of my sites even if they decided to - they don't have access to my hosting account

    P.s. Oh wait, ho ho, you are talking about the June 1st MFA/arbitrage crackdown that happened in 2007!
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    • Profile picture of the author VasFom
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      "Delete" MFA sites on June 1st?! Where on earth did you hear that? They couldn't delete any of my sites even if they decided to - they don't have access to my hosting account

      P.s. Oh wait, ho ho, you are talking about the June 1st MFA/arbitrage crackdown that happened in 2007!
      I thinks that is was "Fools Day" Joke.
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    • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      "Delete" MFA sites on June 1st?! Where on earth did you hear that? They couldn't delete any of my sites even if they decided to - they don't have access to my hosting account

      P.s. Oh wait, ho ho, you are talking about the June 1st MFA/arbitrage crackdown that happened in 2007!
      Yes, definitely. Sorry to delievring this kind of unresponsible post, next time I will check it on some authority resources first.
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      • Profile picture of the author markowe
        Originally Posted by StoneWilson View Post

        Yes, definitely. Sorry to delievring this kind of unresponsible post, next time I will check it on some authority resources first.
        Wow, that was a delayed response

        Sorry for being facetious, I couldn't resist it.

        Still, MFA is something you have to be careful with - if you are creating a site purely in order to earn from Adsense then you run the risk of trouble with the Google TOS. I truly do not believe Google disapprove of this business model, otherwise they would have axed thousands of publishers by now, including most of us. What they are obviously concerned about is people creating zero-value sites PURELY aimed at getting Adsense clicks while providing zero user experience.

        It's really not hard to make a site that people will actually find useful, and still get the Adsense clicks (even if the CTR is a little lower sometimes), but many people still want the shortcut to Adsense riches, and THAT's MFA, and those sites can get axed anytime, irrespective of any date in the calendar!
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  • Profile picture of the author Natlex
    You pretty much have all the work figured out if you can already make a $10/day website, you can have adsense one very page I'm sure... All my sites do, they just have good content and the ads are not forced on the viewers (like the old xfactor template did). Theirs also good navigation on my site to go to related posts/categories/pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author Felipe
      Originally Posted by Natlex View Post

      You pretty much have all the work figured out if you can already make a $10/day website, you can have adsense one very page I'm sure... All my sites do, they just have good content and the ads are not forced on the viewers (like the old xfactor template did). Theirs also good navigation on my site to go to related posts/categories/pages.
      yeah, as far i remember he doesnt focus telling about creating good navigation, which is something its highly important along with internal links. Not just about SEO but the more pageviews, more clicks.
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      • Profile picture of the author ausmarketer
        I've built my fair share of product sites for Adsense over the years and these days I'm all about the authority site model as opposed to building heaps of small sites.

        At one point I had 80 odd 5-10 page product sites but I really struggled to manage them all (i.e. add new content and build backlinks) and I was totally paranoid that Google would shut me down even though the content was decent.

        Anyways, I ended up selling off the bulk of them and then started an authority site in a niche that I'm really interested in. 18 months later I've got an authority site that makes more than my previous 80 combined and I'm totally proud of it and would have no problem if it were manually reviewed by Google. Plus it's so much easier to manage.

        Not sure if this info helps but just wanted to share that with you being someone who's taken both approaches - micro and authority.
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        • Profile picture of the author Felipe
          thats absolutely what I have been thinking

          as i mentioned i have working website just like "thick yoga mats", i could take all the same keywords and stuff and create a lot of websites such "tiny yoga mats","blue yoga mats"...but I would end up being easy targeted as spammer by google...i just created a website "yoga mats" including great silo structure. much more easier to administrate and build backlinks.

          By now I ll not add adsense and amazon os some webpages until google show me some love.

          thanks for the reply

          Originally Posted by ausmarketer View Post

          I've built my fair share of product sites for Adsense over the years and these days I'm all about the authority site model as opposed to building heaps of small sites.

          At one point I had 80 odd 5-10 page product sites but I really struggled to manage them all (i.e. add new content and build backlinks) and I was totally paranoid that Google would shut me down even though the content was decent.

          Anyways, I ended up selling off the bulk of them and then started an authority site in a niche that I'm really interested in. 18 months later I've got an authority site that makes more than my previous 80 combined and I'm totally proud of it and would have no problem if it were manually reviewed by Google. Plus it's so much easier to manage.

          Not sure if this info helps but just wanted to share that with you being someone who's taken both approaches - micro and authority.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Biggest thing is build out with unique content and make sure to do the KW research first. And most importantly ask yourself, can I rank for this keyword?
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    • Profile picture of the author Felipe
      Originally Posted by InitialEffort View Post

      Biggest thing is build out with unique content and make sure to do the KW research first. And most importantly ask yourself, can I rank for this keyword?
      not just unique, but awesome content. building something that is worth to be in the 1st place for what people has in mind when typing the keyword. then as you said, keyword research too. I must say that everytime I write a new page and check the analytics i'm always learning new things such positioning keywords etc...
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  • Profile picture of the author GoGetta
    It does in general make things miles easier focusing on one or two bigger sites rather than lots of smaller ones.

    Find a niche, hustle hard, and when you see it performing, ramp it up!

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