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Do you think wordpress is ruining the internet?

by Dave90210
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I noticed allot of people are creating these wordpress adsense sites about particular niches and throwing ads and adsense all over them. "Some" not all have poorly written content and the soul purpose of the site is to make money off of ads. Do you think these sites are flooding the internet?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Originally Posted by Dave90210 View Post

    I noticed allot of people are creating these wordpress adsense sites about particular niches and throwing ads and adsense all over them. "Some" not all have poorly written content and the soul purpose of the site is to make money off of ads. Do you think these sites are flooding the internet?

    Nope... WordPress is not ruining the Internet...

    People who do not care about their visitors, but only about their own profits to the exclusion of the wants, needs and desires of their customers, are ruining the Internet...
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Bill's right.

    WordPress is nothing more than a platform that a lot of people know how to use.

    Why not blame ICANN for releasing all of those domain names?

    Why not balme the hosting companies for "allowing" these sites to be hosted on their servers?

    Why not blame the ISPs for giving these people an internet connection in the first place?

    Why not blame their source of income which gives them money to be online?

    Okay, those are all way over the top examples, but the point is the same. WordPress doesn't control the content, so how can they be to blame?

    Before that it was Blogger and Squidoo, if WP goes away, something else will come along to take its place. Guaranteed.

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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Why not blame their mothers for birthing such crap children...

      Then find out where their mom's live... And slap her silly for having even lost her virginity...

      LOL Just Kidding Folks!!

      p.s. People hunt down my mom all the time for the exact same reasons... She calls me 3-4 times a day to tell me about it...
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      Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

      Bill's right.

      WordPress is nothing more than a platform that a lot of people know how to use.

      Why not blame ICANN for releasing all of those domain names?

      Why not balme the hosting companies for "allowing" these sites to be hosted on their servers?

      Why not blame the ISPs for giving these people an internet connection in the first place?

      Why not blame their source of income which gives them money to be online?

      Okay, those are all way over the top examples, but the point is the same. WordPress doesn't control the content, so how can they be to blame?

      Before that it was Blogger and Squidoo, if WP goes away, something else will come along to take its place. Guaranteed.

      All the best,
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      • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
        Doesn't matter, though, does it? Quality sites will thrive and go forward, earning their owners good incomes. The people who produce junk won't last, and then they'll spend the rest of their days whining about how you can't make a living on the internet.

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        • Profile picture of the author Dellco
          Dave90210, it should be:

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          As for these numerous low quality sites with Adsense on them, I agree they diminish the user experience as a whole.

          Money is not the root of all evil, it is greed that is the root of all evil.

          Blame the human nature for this.
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          • Profile picture of the author SeanIM
            "Made for Adsense" sites, while lucrative for some, are what I often refer to as 'Space Junk'


            I don't dig it but I don't blame Wordpress... bl4ck h4tt3rs have been doing this long before Wordpress hit Main Street...trust me on that. It doesn't matter what platform is out there, if it's exploitable for profit, someone will look at it and come down on it like a rain of locusts. Sadly that's just the nasty part of the interwebs. :/
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Morgan
    Originally Posted by Dave90210 View Post

    I noticed allot of people are creating these wordpress adsense sites about particular niches and throwing ads and adsense all over them. "Some" not all have poorly written content and the soul purpose of the site is to make money off of ads. Do you think these sites are flooding the internet?
    Ofcourse Not.

    but please define ruining the internet?....as one main thing that can ruin the internet is slow broadband speeds

    There are many other variables that can be blamed for this so called 'ruining of the internet'.

    Thats like saying is the many listed products on clickbank ruining the internet? because all them publishers want is to make money, off their ebooks! ?
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave90210
      As in people pumping out blogs with rewritten articles just so they can make $200 a month in click bank sales. I'm not saying all people are abusing the system I'm just saying there are people out there with 100's of these sites and making $20 a month of each.


      Originally Posted by Matt Morgan View Post

      Ofcourse Not.

      but please define ruining the internet?....as one main thing that can ruin the internet is slow broadband speeds

      There are many other variables that can be blamed for this so called 'ruining of the internet'.

      Thats like saying is the many listed products on clickbank ruining the internet? because all them publishers want is to make money, off their ebooks! ?
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      • Profile picture of the author FredJones
        Maybe not. I know what you mean - and I am not talking about Wordpress versus Blogger versus some other platform easy to use ruining the Internet versus the "greed of the human beings" ruining it.

        Have you seen mountains?

        Do you realize, every mountain is surrounded by smaller hills?

        Have you seen a society where people are "intellectuals" - say, writers, for example?

        Walk into the society - the town of writers - and you shall see that there are thousands of "small and medium" writers apart from the famous ones that you knew from outside.

        And there is no exception to this.

        In an exactly similar manner, the Internet has grown to be some great and informative sites coupled with many lesser sites - lesser by various degrees.

        This is the law of nature - the normal phenomenon that is seen both in natural structures and human societies.

        And the Internet is demonstrating the same statistical nature of framework.
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    no personally, because these people will fail to make any real money and then quit.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    Actually, it is Google ruining the Internet for encouraging and making possible such websites.
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    • Profile picture of the author waltermulder
      Originally Posted by kindsvater View Post

      Actually, it is Google ruining the Internet for encouraging and making possible such websites.
      I totaly agree with that. With their new search I even find more autoblog results in top of the search rankings than ever before.... But eventualy that is going to cost Google visitors as well
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by waltermulder View Post

        With their new search I even find more autoblog results in top of the search rankings than ever before....
        Is this when you go to Google as an internet user trying to find things you want on the internet?

        Or when you go to Google as a marketer checking out the competition for a specific long-tail buying keyword you just dug up in Market Samurai?

        Because when I do keyword research, I see a lot of autoblog and MFA crap. But when I want to find something specific that I'm actually, honestly interested in? I tend to find exactly what I want pretty quickly. Not a lot of autoblogs.

        Hey, have you ever considered that all your keyword research comes up as global monthly search results on Google?

        Just wondering. Because a lot of those autoblogs might be pulling their results from... well, you know.
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        • Profile picture of the author tpw
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          Hey, have you ever considered that all your keyword research comes up as global monthly search results on Google?

          Just wondering. Because a lot of those autoblogs might be pulling their results from... well, you know.

          Great point Caliban...

          I have always known that Marketers and Keyword Researchers tend to do all of their work in Google...

          And I have always wondered how much the Marketers and Keyword Researchers skew the search results, to provide other Marketers and Keyword Researchers inaccurate information, which a new website owner might consider the "egg from the Golden Goose"...



          In other words, make up a word, "trinkleting"...

          Then the 400+ people who have read this thread realize when someone comments that if you take the -ing off the word that the root word is actually in the Urban Dictionary...

          So people reading this thread race off to Google to search first for "trinklet" to see what it is, and then they test "trinkleting" to see if anyone accidentally put this word into their websites, and they find that they have...

          Suddenly, "trinklet" and "trinkleting" gain a surge in usage that will be identified in Google keyword tool, Wordtracker, Market Samurai, MicroNicheFinder, etc., and other such keyword research applications...

          Then marketers will be confused what that is and wonder if it is a niche they should be involved... So they will also run to Google to do research...

          Then other marketers will see thousands of people searching for "trinklet" and "trinkleting"...

          They will also see this thread of course, but only some will dig in to see the social experiment gone mad...

          Within just a couple months, we might see niche websites popping up on the fantastic new trend of "trinklet" and "trinkleting"...

          It will be awesome...

          Yet before today, only a few people ever looked at "trinklet", because they were curious what the word was... And only a few people from this thread would have looked up "trinkleting" because they wanted to see who misused it and why...

          The circle begins here...

          The circle will begin small, and as more Marketers and Keyword Researchers discover the trend started here, more will research it making the trend circle increase in size with each pass...

          And some people will inevitably misinterpret the keyword research information and build an entire website full of trinklets!!!

          Just wait and watch...

          Let's see if we can viralize this and let the keyword research alone inspire to build a website about trinklets...

          Fingers crossed and an evil grin on my face...
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich77sm
    every site and everyone wants to make money...
    remember the sites that use to pop up #1, #2, #3, etc...
    they use to be parked pages kw stuffed.
    at least most adsense sites provide usable content.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by Dave90210 View Post

    I noticed allot of people are creating these wordpress adsense sites about particular niches and throwing ads and adsense all over them. "Some" not all have poorly written content and the soul purpose of the site is to make money off of ads. Do you think these sites are flooding the internet?
    Is it really any different than people throwing up sites about seducing hot chicks? What makes your niche sacred? Isn't the sole purpose of your site to make money off some seduce hot chick product?
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  • Profile picture of the author woonkiat
    Hi,
    No, I do not think its ruining the internet but a useful tools to get something started and hopefully to bigger things as it progress.
    That's my 2 cent anyway!
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  • Profile picture of the author RioNomad
    Wordpress is making the internet 100x better IMO. Making it easier for people to create a website and share information. More people and more information is what makes the internet so great.
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  • Profile picture of the author snapcontent
    Originally Posted by Dave90210 View Post

    I noticed allot of people are creating these wordpress adsense sites about particular niches and throwing ads and adsense all over them. "Some" not all have poorly written content and the soul purpose of the site is to make money off of ads. Do you think these sites are flooding the internet?
    Wordpress blogs filled with nothing but scraped duplicate content are a waste of everyone's time (including the sucker paying for the hosting and domain). Fortunately, every day that passes, the search engines refine their algorithms to weed out this crap. Once upon a time, you could make a ton of money from a duplicate content 'niche' site. You can't nowadays. Once upon a time, changing a couple of words in an article would fool a search engine into thinking it was unique. Not anymore.
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    • Profile picture of the author SanJoseTruckRepair
      All this fluff gets lost on some server somewhere anyway. Most of the garbage site don't get any traffic. It is not like they are showing up on the first page of google or anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterseo
    Basically i don't have any knowledge about wordpress that runs internet but from the comment of members i gain a lot of knowledge about word press.
    Thank for sharing your comment, it will helps a lot to all the members who visited the web page.
    I will also visit the web pages in near future.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gordelo
    I completely disagree that wordpress is ruining the internet..

    It matter how you look things.
    wordpress gives an ability to users to cut there web cost. If you are not good in programming and you are paying $10 every time to your programmer then it's not good but with wordpress you can easily manage things yourself and people says that making automation of blog with some plugins works that is only a myth.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Uhmmm.....Ruining the Internet ?? By giving them options to click on ads and by doing this possibly letting them find a product or service that could be a solution to their problems and thats ruining the Internet ??

      Enlighten me, please
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      • Profile picture of the author Razer_William
        Yeah, it is really hard to find websites that actually have quality information.
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  • Profile picture of the author mstanley
    Wordpress helps make bad sites look good, and although most are used for advertising they still look better than the old Geocities style
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  • Profile picture of the author alunmax
    Yes, it's a bit rich blasting Wordpress when 7 out of 10 websites are porn-related! There will always be people 'gaming' the system by throwing up (intentional phrase) blogs with limp rehashed or poorly written content, and if you SEO that blog then it will end up as a depressing unfulfilling option on the 1st SERP.

    Deliver good content via Wordpress and let the scammers and spammers do their stuff. They's always be with us and they help good sites stand out.

    Wordpress is a fantastic platform - but anything basically good can and will be abused. Isn't 'Free Speech' another example? How about TV?!
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    • Profile picture of the author snapcontent
      Another point worth stating - if you run a collection of spammy 'MFA' sites, and you have slapped your adsense ID on them, boy, you really are a noob. Any complaints against ANY of your sites, or Google flags one up automatically, and they will use your adsense ID to identify and dump all your sites in about 0.5 seconds flat
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  • Profile picture of the author AlanCarr
    I blame domain providers more than WP.

    A simple check in say 6 months time to see if the domain is being used appropriately could easily weed out 90% of the pants on the net.

    Spammy WP sites I don't mind half as much as perfectly good domains being wasted with "placeholder" pages pretending to be info portals and splattered with ads as "results"

    I'm all for freedom and the last person you'll hear saying "there oughta be a law!" but one law I would welcome is one saying that if you're not using the domain, bugger off and let someone else use it.



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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by AlanCarr View Post

      A simple check in say 6 months time to see if the domain is being used appropriately
      That's a great idea. Tell you what, PM me all your domains and I'll check them for you. Whatever you're not using appropriately, you can just transfer to me.

      I mean, surely there's nothing wrong with applying my arbitrary standards to your property, right? You were certainly ready to do that with mine.
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    • Profile picture of the author jamawebinc
      Wordpress is just a platform to create a website.

      However, you mention websites that are for certain niches and then have adsense ads all over them. These websites are not ruining the internet.

      If they are poorly written, and contain useless information, nobody is going to find the websites because they will not be highly ranked in the search engines. Nobody will click on the ads and the creator of the website will not be making any profit so a website like that will eventually disappear.

      But, a business website has the #1 goal of making money. If it does not focus on making money it is a hobby, not a business.

      There are very useful and profitable websites that provide good information and have contextual advertising all over the page. Left hand columns, the main column, the headers, footers...all over.

      Of course, what one person thinks is useful content, someone else will think is junk content.

      Other visitors of websites or blogs react like you committed a crime if you post any advertising up on your blog at all. This is just the nature of people and their differing opinions.

      Wordpress is the way of the future...a more interactive web making it easier for people to communicate and get involved in conversations rather than just staring at pages like billboards on the side of the road.

      Wordpress, and actually all blogging in software in general, has introduced some awesome technology.

      Wordpress has made it easy for websites to grow very large with lots and lots of content where multiple authors can contribute their own thoughts on the same topic.

      Wordpress has made managing a large website easy and it has allowed other people to make wordpress itself become even better because it is open source and allowing for plugins to be created by anyone who is capable to do so.

      The internet is hardly ruined, it is only growing and changing.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohnsmith
    I do not think so .. that true I have not seen CMS that gives that much facilities like word press and all other supporting addons and tools. so there is considerable increase in amount old sites which are using or we can say using wordpress as a platform,m...
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    • Profile picture of the author Dellco
      Ughh, just now was just searching for solid information on something, and so many of the sites were just junk MFAs...it's insane!

      All poorly written with substandard grammar; most likely outsourced from some 3rd world country; all fluff, no substance; and purposely created to be crappy to induce a higher CTR....:rolleyes:

      And I assume many of these MFA owners are members here on this forum, and happily contributing to the degradation of the internet....geez
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        As far as I can tell, about the only thing Wordpress has ruined is the market for crappy scripts for making crappy, scraped, MFA sites.

        It's just a tool, like a carving knife. You can use the knife to create art or a pile of shavings. Your choice.

        Caliban, you make a disturbing point when you talk about the keyword researchers influencing the results seen in the research. It might explain why we get so many threads that say they found a great keyword with X searches, but they only get X/100 visitors.

        How many of those global searches originated with the Google keyword tool, Wordtracker, Market Samurai, MicroNicheFinder, etc., etc., ad nauseum, ad infinitum...
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        • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
          Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

          It's just a tool, like a carving knife. You can use the knife to create art or a pile of shavings. Your choice.
          Seems that the coffee is kicking in. My very first thought when I read this?

          I would market the pile of shavings AS art! Am I the only one that saw the money-making opportunity here?



          Yep, the old gears are turning again.

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