Comments on: In hindsight, I was attempting to spend pennies to make millions http://www.roryhansen.ca/2008/10/21/in-hindsight-i-was-attempting-to-spend-pennies-to-make-millions/ Affiliate marketing, Internet marketing, web development, and small business ideas. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rory http://www.roryhansen.ca/2008/10/21/in-hindsight-i-was-attempting-to-spend-pennies-to-make-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-62036 Rory Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:27:34 +0000 http://www.roryhansen.ca/2008/10/21/in-hindsight-i-was-attempting-to-spend-pennies-to-make-millions/#comment-62036 Well, I don't think you need to spend time on only one quality site, but yes, quality works much better than litter. I wrote a few quick .exe's that would scrape from various content sites and paste the content into new blog posts. These exe's would run every day, doing the same thing over and over again, with the content varying only slightly. The result: Datasource schemas changed, the exe's eventually broke. And when I compared the two sites afterwards, not only had my AdSense earnings gone down, but so had my Page Rank. (Not delisted by Google, but obviously they sensed what I was doing.) Anyway, consistently good content is hard. What I think had greater bang for the buck (and what is going to be the main cause in my October earnings increase) is more effective and more aggressive focus on affiliate marketing. So: more PPC, more landing pages, more concentration on sales pitch, etc. Well, I don’t think you need to spend time on only one quality site, but yes, quality works much better than litter.

I wrote a few quick .exe’s that would scrape from various content sites and paste the content into new blog posts. These exe’s would run every day, doing the same thing over and over again, with the content varying only slightly. The result: Datasource schemas changed, the exe’s eventually broke. And when I compared the two sites afterwards, not only had my AdSense earnings gone down, but so had my Page Rank. (Not delisted by Google, but obviously they sensed what I was doing.)

Anyway, consistently good content is hard.
What I think had greater bang for the buck (and what is going to be the main cause in my October earnings increase) is more effective and more aggressive focus on affiliate marketing.

So: more PPC, more landing pages, more concentration on sales pitch, etc.

]]> By: chovy http://www.roryhansen.ca/2008/10/21/in-hindsight-i-was-attempting-to-spend-pennies-to-make-millions/comment-page-1/#comment-62023 chovy Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:49:26 +0000 http://www.roryhansen.ca/2008/10/21/in-hindsight-i-was-attempting-to-spend-pennies-to-make-millions/#comment-62023 so was that the difference, spending time on one quality site vs. littering the web with MFA? so was that the difference, spending time on one quality site vs. littering the web with MFA?

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