I am answering a new question here which I got from one of my subscribers. This answer is with regards to a promotion which I sent out for my Niche Content Websites membership site:
Hi,
I’ve had VRE for awhile now and was getting ready to put some sites up when Google came around with their last slap with the Adwords arbritrage thing. Many folks lost their Adwords account and many of them were pointing to their VRE sites.
With Google penalizing Adsense sites, like VRE, where there are just a few articles posted and tons of Adsense ads, how can anyone really use vre anymore? I know that Google isn’t the only fish in the sea, but unless you use Adwords to get traffic, you are basically stuck with just writing articles, manual linking etc. Does not seem like a very good use of your time.
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Peter T.
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My answer:
Hi Peter,
The abbreviation VRE in itself does not imply that these sites will get punished. Google did not punish real content sites with genuine articles and enough other links or ads to click on. What they did punish were sites which had NOTHING ELSE there but a bunch of links and no content whatsoever and two Adsense blocks at the top so this was the only thing people could see when they arrived on such a site. Most of them were sites built with so called portal builder softwares. I have more than 60 of these real article VRE sites online and I still have an active Adsense account.
And I don’t agree that Adwords or Google Arbitrage is the only way of getting traffic. Things like Web 2.0 (Digg, Technorati, Squidoo, YouTube, Google Video, MySpace etc.) can have a HUGE impact on the number of visitors. Personally, I’m getting more visitors from using these techniques than from the search engines themselves. This is true especially for non-unique sites and content. The problem with it is that people are just too lazy to drive traffic to the sites.
They want to upload them as they are without changing anything and just put a link out there so the spiders come over and they can make money on autopilot. Sorry to be so blunt but it simply doesn’t work that way. There IS work involved in making money from these kind of websites or all members of so called VRE websites would be making enough money to quit their jobs. The ones who are getting active in driving traffic to their sites are really enjoying a healthy income.
So I’m sorry to destroy a dream bubble that you can have some kind of push-button solution. Yes, you still need to get links, you still need to submit articles, you still need to make posts on related forums etc. etc. or these sites are collecting “digital dust” and no one will visit them!
Best regards,
Detlev Reimer
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