I’m Down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm Web Sites

Filed under: Google Adsense, Internet Marketing, PLR Articles, Search Engines by mike |

I’m down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm web sites, but am I wrong about that? It’s just that it seems next to impossible for them to get any traffic…

With Article Underground I encourage members to make unique web sites that have their own creative touches and personal character sprinkled all over them. I show them many techniques to make sure their pages are not duplicates of others that are out there.

But an emerging trend seems to be people buying cookie cutter pre-made Adsense web sites that are completed and ready to publish as is.

Complete with articles and template and even links. Some even have the same ebook giveaways.

Did you know that Google and the other search engines originally developed DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTERS to filter out IDENTICAL and EXACT DUPLICATES???

They don’t care so much if many web sites are using the same articles, but they do care if MANY pages are clogging their indexes and the pages are IDENTICAL.

Why should they list more than 1 of an identical page??? It’s a waste of their resources.

Also, they wanted to prevent spammers from getting ONE page that had top rankings and duplicating that page to get TWO.

So, duplicate content is very misunderstood these days… BUT I believe that EXACT DUPLICATE CONTENT WEB PAGES has no room for misunderstanding.

The reason this came to mind was because on one of the Article announcements Blogs, News Events Media, I found that a member had posted an announcement for his cookie cutter web site on gardening.

I visited the site that he linked and it looked familiar.

So I did a search on Google for one of the sentences on the page.

“small lake or pond in your garden”

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22small+lake+or+pond+in+your+garden%22&btnG=Google+Search

It showed like 17 other sites that had that phrase - if you expanded the search… otherwise it only showed - goarticles.com

All the sites indexed except one (goarticles.com) looked exactly the same.

Same template, same words, same file names/URLs. Everything was the same.

I’m not talking about duplicate content, but rather exact duplicate content!

Look at a few of the sites and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

I’m just curious. Do people who build, rather, use these cookie cutter Adsense sites actually get any traffic from the search engines???

It would seem very hard to do if there are identical sites with the same exact pages, same template, same keywords, same links, same article file names… everything seems the same.

How can that get anyone any traffic? And the above is just one example. There are 1,000’s of these premade “Adsense optimized sites” floating around out there.

I realize a lot of people want a quick fix, but to me these sites are just 1 step whiter than say a Directory Generator scraped site.

I believe it’s one thing to use an article that somebody else may publish on a differently structured web site, but to use a complete cookie cutter web site with many pages already done, all exactly the same and guaranteed to be published by many others who will not spend 1 minute changing or customizing the sites… That doesn’t seem so smart…

Am I right? Am I wrong?

Or is there room for GRAY on this issue???

Let me know what you think!

3 Comments »

I think what’s even worse than that mike, is that people are actually quite willing to SELL that sort of product. Admittedly I have bought one Instant adsense template package. Joel Comm’s product. The upside with that product, and this is something all you out there who have bought these other types of products are going to have to do. Is that his product shows you how to go about editing the template, the css file and a bunch of other things so that these templates are at least a bit more white hat. I dont use the content provided by his product. Why?, because I did a search just you did and found the exact same or similar problem. Granted there are bunch more ways to drive traffic at them other than ranking organically, but the problem remains that they are or could be duplicate content and so set off the se filters, on google anyways.
Nice to see someelse pointing out the problem though mike
Cheers and beers from canada
Shane

Comment by shaners — December 31, 2006 @ 5:38 am
That’s why I never went the way of the cookie cutter adsense route. Why put up exact duplicate pages when you are just leaving one big footprint for Google to penalize you with.

I was building some arbi sites in the past, but these too have gone by the wayside so that is why I joined Article Underground. I think AU gives everyone the chance to build some decent websites with minimum time invested.

Ted

Comment by tjk1058 — October 24, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
I had a very large site that I places about 10,000 articles on. It had a PR of 5 but was immediately banned by Google for duplicate content. I spent ages on Google’s forums and the replies were always the same - articles available elsewhere.

I would strongly advise against cookie cutter sites. Furthermore I strongly suggest that PLR articles are used as templates for an article. I have done this on another site and mixed in a few raw PLR articles with great success. Even adding images to content works great.

If you are unable to use PLR content as a template it should really have a few changes made to it. The true potential of PLR articles from the likes of Article Underground is achieved when the article is used as a basis for an improved article or one which is 100% unique. Such articles save masses of time in writing as most of the content is there ready to be rewritten and added to.

PLR content is great, brilliant in fact, but only if you use it correctly. I got badly burnt with my first attempt but I have more than recovered my expense from the lesson learnt and I still subscribe to PLR producing sites

Comment by Scotland — February 13, 2008 @ 9:08 am