Avoid
the “AdSense Ready Website” scam.
There are
a lot of AdSense Ready Websites for sale on the
internet these days. You have probably seen the ads or emails promoting “plug
and play websites” or “ready made websites” that
have all the content written with AdSense ads placed on the pages
and all you have to do is set them up and watch the cash roll in.
The
problem is this most likely is someone selling copies of a website
that is probably poor quality to begin with, and the fact
that the
site is probably one of hundreds of identical copies makes it absolutely
worthless.
It
will almost certainly never get any free visitors from the search engines
and will never make any money. The search engines know
the date that content was published. When they encounter duplicate
content
they give the value to the earliest version and just ignore all
the rest.
The
most important thing is to have a website that has original content
- the concepts and information on the website can be
similar to other
sites -- it is the wording that must be unique. You can use
a web design that is not original, but you absolutely must
have unique
information on all pages of your website.
A common
time saver is to buy private label rights articles, which are pre-written
articles that come with republishing rights, and just rewrite them
in your own
words.
Websites generally require hundreds of visitors per day to make even
a few dollars from AdSense, but a website containing only duplicate
content will probably never get even a trickle of traffic at all.
If someone asked
me for an “AdSense ready website” I would
suggest something totally different. I would recommend a website framework
that was already designed & built with AdSense ads already built
into it, but no content.
The site
would have everything pre-made except the content, which could be
created by the site owner, or
sub-contracted
out if needed. After the content is written it would not have to
be coded with HTML to go into the site, but simply pasted into
the pages
where it would then be automatically formatted.
There are many
different ways to produce website content. If you don’t
want to write the content from scratch yourself there are other options.
You can
hire a writer online to create content very inexpensively, usually
for around 10-15 dollars per page using a talent broker site
like elance.com.
This could be done very easily and inexpensively using the Wordpress
publishing system. Wordpress is mostly known as a weblog or blog
publishing system, but it has evolved into a very powerful, flexible,
and easy
to use system for business websites as well.
Best of
all Wordpress is free including many free templates and plugins that
extend
the functionality of Wordpress.
You can
get free templates, which are ready made designs that control the
look and feel of the Wordpress site. Many of these
templates
have AdSense ads already built in, or have places holders for
AdSense code. Also there is a Wordpress
plugin called Advertising
Manager that can easily add AdSense,
as well as many other ad networks, to almost any of the free Wordpress
templates.
Summary
There
just is no such thing as an "instant money making website".
You have to make the investment of time or money to create website
of useful
information
or else it will just not give you any return for your efforts.
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