Related to this is a suggestion, everybody here knows to vary their link text and re-word content. I recommend you also vary your site authoring tools and CMS solutions. I’ll create almost duplicate sites, one using WordPress the other XSitePro. One of them will always get more traffic and it hasn’t yet skewed heavily to either WP or XSP.

I am learning a lot by just reading posts by people in the know. Thanks so much for AU and the info you provide.

Always enjoy your comments. I rather foolishly bought one of those “cookie cutter” website creation tools and quickly learned that it was a waste of time and money. While very easy and quick to create, the websites looked terrible and I had very little control over the content that was “automatically” being generated to appear on the site. Thankfully I got my money back! Lesson learned here. If you want something done “right” you have to put the necessary time and effort forward to do the job properly. I do sincerely hope that Google does crack down on the “cookie cutter” sites and rewards (with lots of free traffic) those of us who are willing to spend the time pounding the keyboard into the early hours of the morning to create websites that we can be proud of.

Thanks,
V. MichaelSantoro

I think the problem is that some people make a lot of money doing tricks like this to fool the engines. Maybe it works long enough for them to get their “proof” together so they can slp it into a killer sales letter.

Maybe it keeps working for some, I don’t know. It seems like there are a lot of very powerful “gray” site promotion techniques out there. It would be nice if Google found a way to reward the whitest hat sites instead…

I am totally agreeable with this and some of these so called Marketing Gurus… Should be drawn and quartered.

As for the people using these sites they really don’t know any better and think they are on a money maker.

As you have probably done as I know I definitely did was waste a heap of money on absolute rubbish products or services before I got my head around duplicate content and having a unique site.

I would really like to tell a story about a very well known Marketing Guru who tried this about 12 months back but due to netiquette I will leave it alone.

All I will say is that within days many sites were appearing online all looking exactly the same even to the extent of the same meta tags (keywords and Descriptions)and the program cost over $600 USD and I never received a refund even though I had asked and was assured the money would return…

I flip and build blogsites for clients and majority of content is plr. I change up the titles and a few paragraphs, sprinkle some affiliate links throughout and I’m done. I load up the site with about 20-30 articles and train new owners to add more articles and find traffic from other sources like social networking sites.

And guess what, it works. Visitors come, click on adsense and buy clickbank products.
I could build 10 ‘cookie cutter’ blogs all with the same content, which I don’t, and sell them but it all depends on the buyer who raises the most backlinks to their pages to get a good ranking on google. 10 quality backlinks against 2 backlinks, who do you think will get the higher ranking? (unless those 2 are authoritive sites)

Yes, you probably can’t do this with an adsense site that only updates it’s content from google. Those ones are ugly

Thanks Mike, great content as usual!

Al

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

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