Is AdSense useless?

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I wanted to try AdSense. It is one of the areas of internet marketing that I don't know anything about.

So I bought a course and tried it. I created an MFA site, in the way the course suggested, and then back linked it to a few sites of 3 or better page rank. I even did a couple of anchored back links using my site's main keyword.

The site has not been found after three plus weeks and I went on to Google's webmaster forum and a few of their "Top Contributors" said that creating sites strictly for AdSense was useless. Does anybody concur?

(I am not sure if I am allowed to show the site here, but the course had me word the copy so that I reaffirmed the keyword a lot. It also has a .me extension because I chose a domain name based on a keyword that had significant monthly searches so it could be part of the url.)
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  • The question in your title is different to the one in your post.

    To answer your two questions:

    Is AdSense Useless? NO

    Are MFAs useless? Google AdSense don't really want you making websites specifically for AdSense (I guess since this can lead to people making loads of thin sites with poor content etc). So if you just made a small build-and-forget MFA, chances are it's not what AdSense (or Google) will be looking for.

    But AdSense isn't useless, no.

    Out of interest, what course did you buy?
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  • You have just answered your own question as soon as you mentioned that you took a course on building MFA sites.. The question should be "Are made for Adsense (MFA) sites useless?" The answer is YES they are!

    Adsense is great, it is the most liberating monetization model of the past 20 years in my opinion. It has allowed ordinary people like myself to build an online publishing business and get paid for not directly having to sell something. Learn how to create great sites that last and how to drive traffic to them and you will realise how great Adsense can be.


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  • It was really two courses, serpmasterplan dot com

    ...and the other was part of a lot of courses; a week long trial of IM Advantage which included a bunch of courses. The template I used was html from them and they really seemed to know what they were talking about. They had spreadsheets of competitive keywords that you could create a domain from etc.
  • I haven't tried AdWords yet, but sounds like a good concept. I see it is spread throughout your website.
  • Your site, not being found, has nothing to do with Adsense.

    Are you getting and spiders crawling your site from Google?

    Have you submitted your site to Google Webmaster Tools? What does it say about your site?

    Did you buy a dropped domain? Do you know its history? It is possible you have a domain that has previously been removed from the index. If that's the case you will need to submit a reconsideration request..
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    • Yukon, are you for hire? I'm glad I started this post. The wide range of ideas is awesome, but I also loved when you replied to my post "A person just needs to know how to make it happen."
    • Absolutely.. You make some great points! Articles certainly have their place on a site and probably 90% of the content on my sites are articles. The other 10% is made up of videos, images, diagrams, forums, downloads, flowcharts, scripts, games etc.. In my experience not only is that 10% of the content the best linkbait which is great for off page SEO but it also attracts the most referral traffic compared to articles.

      Even though the "best" content tends not to be article based, I still believe that articles are essential. The secret is to mix it all up with other forms of content as well.

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  • Use content targeting for your content so that the better paying ads will show instead of the lame ones. There's a special code that tells the google bot which part of the content is the "main content" for the article. It has been a log time since I worked with adsense so I can recalled the code, but I am sure you can google it.

    If you are seriously considering making money with adsense, I would recommend investing in an adsense course. Only years after I started with adsense did I watch some adsense videos that came as an bonus course. I learn more in 1hr than I learn during the year that I play around with adsense. And if I had to do it all over again I would fork out the money to buy it.
  • Adsense is not useless. Adsense is very important and helpful i do that.
  • There are some great ideas here. However, I could not get adsense work for me. I even bought ppc traffic and did not pay at all. If you do not get it right. You will be wasting your time and money.

    I am doing well with a new site with original content. But it takes ages to create the content, get indexed and show in searches. At least I don't worry about being black listed by google or anyone.

    There are some niches that are cheap to buy PPC. If you could find a monatization for your site, it could pay to buy PPC trafic. Some people put only an e-book download on their site and make decent money.

    I guess you need to try and see what works. There is no one method that works for everyone
  • One other things is that it is not difficult to find content for any site. There are 1000 of articles for free. If you optimize your site well, you benefit from the articles more than the people who wrote it.
  • I think the point bgmacaw is trying to get at is:

    If myself or any other small business on this forum were to take some sort of automated script to scrape content, product reviews, comparisons, etc and put it on our nobody site that doesn't have contacts with Google, that'd we'd be de-indexed in short order.

    I'm not familiar with BANS Wp-mage and the like, but from what I understand they do a very similar process to what's described above and yet most BANS sites get de-indexed very quickly because Google has outlawed their footprint.

    Like I said, not an expert on these things, but I have read about scrips like that getting the de-index buttons pushed just because they are associated with many people using them. Switch it up and program you're own custom script and get some investments from a Google exec and you'll be fine.

    That's the gist of what I've read from Bgmacaw and in my opinion I agree completely with his feeling of that being hypocrisy.

    If I'm off base on that, let me know Bg, but I remember reading something similar several times here.
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    • Hi Jacob, nice to hear from you again.. I get the point that bgmacaw was making but I don't agree that any site trying to do something similar will get deindexed. In fact I even have some sites that are still indexed in Google and earning me a small income that uses the PHPBayPro script and basically scrapes ebay 's listings for relevant products.

      The difference is I didn't just chuck this script onto some rough template and let it run, I actually mixed up these listings with some actual content about the various product categories. I tried to add some extra value like reviews, tutorials etc and that sat alongside the results that PHPBay pulled in.

      Now I haven't touched these sites for a year or so, they just tick over earning me about $100 a month on average and a lot of the traffic still comes from Google. Like I said, I have no problem using automated solutions when quality control and added value is used along with it. I think bizrate actually add some value like I said before and of course they have established their presence over a number of years and become an authority at what they do. There is no conspiracy against new sites trying to use automated solutions, it is just that they follow some flawed strategies. I have seen the type of sites that people using wpmage spit out and they are garbage. I am not saying that WPMage is garbage, it is just a tool at the end of the day. The results are only as crap as the user want them to be.

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  • adsense still works google wants you to make something informative / useful for the visitor. not only a money making site for you
  • Adsense definitely still works
  • AdSense is not useless but as others have pointed out MFA sites very well could be ;-)
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    • I`m currently making about $175 a day from Adsense so it isn`t useless. You could say my sites are MFA because I make them to make money, but when people say MFA they`re usually talking about sites that have no value to the visitor and exist ONLY to make money.

      My best site makes about $50 a day from 200 pages. I have others that have only 2-5 pages and they make some money, but only like $0.50 to $1 a day even after building backlinks. Why not just make a few big sites rather than a zillion small ones. 90% of my money comes from 4 sites.
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    Is AdSense useless?

    I wanted to try AdSense. It is one of the areas of internet marketing that I don't know anything about. So I bought a course and tried it. I created an MFA site, in the way the course suggested, and then back linked it to a few sites of 3 or better page rank. I even did a couple of anchored back links using my site's main keyword.