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Why can't This work?

by packerfan
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Since all I do now is think about internet marketing (don't worry I'm actually taking action too, sucking, but taking action) I have a question.

What's wrong with finding really good content from article directories, you tube, etc., and building large authority sites, and simply monetizing with adsense?

Seems like I can do this for no cost, probably less than 3 hours/week, and I would think that over time it's going to be effective.

I have a domain I'm going to try this with tonight and see how it goes. It's a .info, but I don't care. Gonna try it out.

What do ya'll think? Why wouldn't this work? I know it works for article directories, etc. But it can it work for my little site?

I know putting articles on the site leading people to the author's page will cause a lot of people to leave my site. But I don't care. If I provide good content, they'll be back right?
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  • Profile picture of the author aaron_nimocks
    There's nothing wrong with it.

    But I would create new content based off of really good content. That's the majority to what I do now and it works great for me.
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      I simply don't have time to re-write good content. I work full time, small child, etc. I outsourced some article writing with okay results, but I don't have the budget for that for a big site.

      There's nothing wrong with copy/paste approach is there? As long as I leave the links, right.
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  • Profile picture of the author sitefurnace
    Just set up an autoblog. Same thing but totally automatic. All autoblogs do is syndicate content from article directories.

    This is the easy part though, you will have to back link the hell out of it to rank duplicate content.

    If I were you i would at least rewrite it to make it unique. You can use Something like 'the best spinner'
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by packerfan View Post

    What's wrong with finding really good content from article directories, you tube, etc., and building large authority sites, and simply monetizing with adsense?
    Nothing. But it will take a long time before it makes any real money, and most people don't want to do the "slow build" thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author wfhblueprints
    Problem with this model is that it can be extremely time consuming to set up manually and it is a very slow process to see any positive financial rewards, unless you focus on a very focused niche with little competition.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      There is nothing wrong with it at all. Sometimes embedding YT videos runs up your bandwidth and people spen d time on your site but they are watching videos. I know there is a way to avoid this from happening, but I don't know exactly what it is.

      As far as the articles go, that is why they are ther in the article directories, for you to use. Someteims, people add add a an introduction before the article and then an additional paragraph after the article to get more unique content on the page.
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Originally Posted by wfhblueprints View Post

      Problem with this model is that it can be extremely time consuming to set up manually and it is a very slow process to see any positive financial rewards, unless you focus on a very focused niche with little competition.
      I don't know, I just set up the site with 6 articles (very high quality stuff), in about an hour or so. Most of that time was just messing around and stuff. I could probably do it in 15 minutes if I was in a hurry.

      Seems pretty quick. I'll see how it goes. Seems like it may be at least something I dabble in though.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetWriter
    Like said above, autoblog with thebestspinner will save your life. Not the magic bullet but with work you can make stable income.
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  • Profile picture of the author centarec
    As long as you have the traffic you will have no problems, the content here is not the problem it is the visitors count. You cannot simply compare your site to articles site since those articles sites have high PR and their results are shown top in google. Where are the articles from your site shown in google?
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  • Profile picture of the author wildturkey
    Google WP-Robot and WP-Unique. Your idea is fairly easy to implement with both of these plugins and a simple WordPress blog. You could be moderately successful, but don't delude yourself into thinking you're providing value to your reader by aggregating content. File this one under "get rich quick schemes." It's easy to build a pile of crap and jam it with automated backlinks, but know that you've done nothing in the process.

    I would advise against it, in short.
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    • Profile picture of the author packerfan
      Originally Posted by wildturkey View Post

      Google WP-Robot and WP-Unique. Your idea is fairly easy to implement with both of these plugins and a simple WordPress blog. You could be moderately successful, but don't delude yourself into thinking you're providing value to your reader by aggregating content. File this one under "get rich quick schemes." It's easy to build a pile of crap and jam it with automated backlinks, but know that you've done nothing in the process.

      I would advise against it, in short.
      You realize the entire world is nothing but syndicated information, right? Do you know that the majority of newspapers rewrite or syndicate stories from the AP? 95% of what's on TV is syndicated. I could go on. Don't kid yourself thinking the world is full of people creating actual original content.

      Just because you rewrite it doesn't make it more valuable. You just get to call it your own. Plain and simple.
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      • Profile picture of the author wildturkey
        Originally Posted by packerfan View Post

        You realize the entire world is nothing but syndicated information, right? Do you know that the majority of newspapers rewrite or syndicate stories from the AP? 95% of what's on TV is syndicated. I could go on. Don't kid yourself thinking the world is full of people creating actual original content.

        Just because you rewrite it doesn't make it more valuable. You just get to call it your own. Plain and simple.
        It's fair to say that most news is syndicated in some form by the time it reaches you, but you can justify using a piece of software to aggregate what other people took hours to write in .001 seconds and slap ads on it? My point wasn't that everyone has to be a unique little snowflake, it was that what you're doing is a simple cash grab that you'll probably repeat over and over again in hopes of making some kind of significant income.

        Nothing wrong with taking the easy money though, something to be said for that I guess. Plenty of people do very well by doing just that.
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        • Profile picture of the author packerfan
          Originally Posted by wildturkey View Post

          It's fair to say that most news is syndicated in some form by the time it reaches you, but you can justify using a piece of software to aggregate what other people took hours to write in .001 seconds and slap ads on it? My point wasn't that everyone has to be a unique little snowflake, it was that what you're doing is a simple cash grab that you'll probably repeat over and over again in hopes of making some kind of significant income.

          Nothing wrong with taking the easy money though, something to be said for that I guess. Plenty of people do very well by doing just that.
          A big reason these folks write articles is to have them syndicated. FWIW I'm not using any software, I'm actually reading the articles and picking the ones I want to use. But either way, the same things gets accomplished. Visitors to my site find relevant content. If they like the author, they have the links to his place, and if they like the ads, they can visit the sponsors.

          We all win. Well, I haven't won anything yet. But we'll see after a month or so how it's going.
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  • Profile picture of the author JonWebContent
    There's nothing wrong with copy/paste approach is there?

    Yes there is if you copy/paste copyrighted material.
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    Oh, and it can't work for you because you are a Packer fan!

    Just kidding!
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    I do a lot of this myself. The autoblog is the way to go, but if you want some money to come in right away you can also outsource some article writing and submit those articles to EZA and other directories and link back to your auto blogs. This is a great way to get some traffic now and build backlinks for later.

    Also, if you are going to go the auto blog route be prepared to spend about $70 on some good auto software and make sure you get the right plug ins for your blogs as well.

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    • Profile picture of the author Havenhood
      I simply don't have time to re-write good content. I work full time, small child, etc. I outsourced some article writing with okay results, but I don't have the budget for that for a big site.

      There's nothing wrong with copy/paste approach is there? As long as I leave the links, right.
      What's wrong with that? Nothing! There's tons on duplicate content on the web. Why would your new site be any different? Add the content slowly. A few articles a day. After a while start increasing the amount of articles you add. This will give the impression (to SEs) that your working your site more as time goes on. Important! Add some original content... Add an original article a week or something. Highlight these articles on a side menu or something and place some money links in the content (logically). This will take some time. Promote, promote and then promote some more.
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