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Building AdSense & Amazon Website Experiment

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This model seems pretty common for content/Adsense-based websites. I've always been somewhat skeptical of the actual ability to produce profit in the long run - how much value are you actually adding to the Internet?

I'm definitely interested to see where it goes and how long it takes to generate reasonable Adsense revenues (e.g. $1+ a day).

My only concern is that this isn't really a true experiment if you post it on HN and market it on your blog. Don't you think these websites (e.g. reddit, HN) could cross-contaminate what you're trying to determine?

Did you just admit to paying for backlinks? Isn't that a good way to get penalized in search rankings by Google?

OK, maybe you should Google "farmer update" and read a bit about that. Then check your backlinks. I could not find those 500 backlinks you bought. All I can see are 59 external links from 3 unique domains. So what have you done with them them when you got them?

Yes this is exactly what the world needs. More websites with garbage content. You can build something small and useful, you know.

In my -very limited- experience, the best way to make money with AdSense and/or Amazon is by actually making garbage websites. Nothing better to make a visitor click on an ad than a fugly website.

Hi kreci, so as I understand it, you are basically build a niche content farm? You would buy rewritten articles for $1.75 and then try to push them to Google using seo techniques so Adsense and Amazon aff links will earn more than the expenses are.

I'd like to ask what are the criteria to find out "a niche that has enough search traffic and earning potential." You just compare the numbers with other websites you own?

Hmm. What's nice about this; there are thousands of these kinds of posts online and many without affiliate links hooked up :)

awesome idea, nice execution so far - keep us updated on your progress!

Thanks. I will post updates once per few weeks.

Why does this belong on HN again?

Comments are welcome... =)

Have you ever considered using ScrapeBox or Xrumer for consistently building backlinks over a period of time? A short burst of backlinks and then nada allegedly looks suspicious to Google.

So, comment spam tools? That's deep into the realm of "black-hat SEO".

That it is. BH SEO is (unfortunately) extremely effective.

If you're content farming by rewriting other people's content, you're not providing much additional value to the Internet at large and you're, at most, a few steps away from being a black hat as it is.

Very clean, attractive design.

This might almost be worth an "Ask HN" but where does a guy starting a lean blog presence find useful attractive (free? cheap?) images that are topical? You seem to have done really well on that: are they from the manufacturer?

In either case: how do you determine (without long legal chase for just one image-use) willingness of original owner to have their product images used?

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