Should you buy a “niche website” package, or just create your own?
Ever heard of Adsense Real Estate? Well Adsense Real Estate is one of those "programs" that promise potential money to be made with a ready made system. A system that Im pretty sure works. Ive run across similar websites on the web and Ive seen plenty of others come across these websites and click away, making someone some money.
So what is Adsense Real Estate?
Have you ever been searching for something in Google and click on a link to find a website with a lot of links to other websites. Most if not all of the links are from Google Adsense. Thats basically what Adsense Real Estate is. When you buy the package, you receive a download that includes about 80 ready made websites that you can use. There are plenty of niche topics, such as Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Tattoos, cars etc. All of those sites are ready made, so all you have to do is get a domain and host, upload the site, add your Google Adsense or Yahoo publisher code and you are on your way.
On the website, there are a few articles about the topic you chose that rotate on the main page, then some more along the left that you can click. Some of it is actually pretty good reading. Throughout the site are Google Adsense and Amazon products or ads. Once set up, you shouldn’t have to do anything more to the website. The main purpose of the site is for people to visit and click on ads, thus making you money. I found out about this particular package a few months ago and on an impulse I bought it. I set up one site (if you want to see what I’m talking about heres the site), submitted it to the search engines and completely forgot about it.
Today, I was thinking about those sites and was going to set up some more (I got a lot of domain names that I can use already) but thought about how I hadn’t made any money on the one site I already set up. It seem simple enough, but in all reality I can think of a lot of ways that it wouldn’t work and is a waste of my time.
You have to have visitors. Thats the obvious beginning to anything like this. You have to get people to come to your site. How do you do that? Well I submitted the site to a search engine about 2 months ago, and as of today. If I search http://we-all-blog.com/ in Google or Ask, it tells me they couldn’t find it. MSN and Yahoo does find it with Yahoo having more of the site indexed.
For this to work and actually make anyone money, you would have to do one or more of the following things
1. Have a domain that is very similar to an already existing domain, prey on people mistyping a site they are trying to visit. (which is annoying and I don’t really agree with doing)
2. Get an adwords campaign to promote the site. Here, you would be spending more money. Depending on the keywords you choose to advertise with, you may or may not make your money back.
3. Work hard to let the search engines work for you.
- This seems like the least expensive way to do it. But look at it this way. The websites already have content, its already SEO optimized with keywords and everything else. Just like you, there are going to be plenty of other people that bought the same package and are using the same websites. I’m guessing that would make it that much harder to get good search engine rankings with all the duplicate content trying to get those same positions, with the same keywords, and articles. The only way this would work is if you add your own content, pretty much maintain a blog of sorts. If you are going to go through the hassle to do that, you might as well just start a blog and not worry about buying a package to do it for you.
4. Go around to all the different blogs and leave comments with your website URL. Basically spam, which is another thing I don’t agree with. I think its ok to leave your URL if you are indeed genuinely commenting on a post, but I don’t believe in comment spamming.
I know people have and are making money on "Niche websites" but I just don’t know if buying one of those packages is worth it. It seems like there are better ways to do it, but those ways also include a little more work than uploading a site and forgetting it.
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February 21st, 2008 at 2:08 am
Good post, but I would say it’s better to build out one good site, then work on a whole bunch of smaller ones. With one site you can run a focused link building campaign and really build out some nice content.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
First of all, that picture is hilarious! This program looks to be sort of expense to start out. $297 a month? There’s no way 99% of the people that buy these website will make more from the site than it actually costs, especially in the first few months. I would suggest that someone should build their own site, or run a blog, as opposed to this. However I may be missing something, but this seems like a scam to me.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:54 pm
$297 a month? that is expensive. When I bought the program it was just $29 bucks for a 1 time download that included 80 sites.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:06 am
DEar, Are you talking about Made For Adsense(MFA) type of sites? well google hate them. And now a days people do recognise those type of sites.!
February 26th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I think what’s matter even more is what am I going to do with the site after I create or purchase it.
A content rich site, properly developed, can save a lot of time upfront. It’s nice for people with some budget to invest but little time to build from scratch.
I think focusing on one or two really good sites is the key to making it big with AdSense instead of spamming the search engines with a lot of sites that contribute no value at all to the listing.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
nice post. but lemme’ comment on the picture. HAHAHAHAH it really gave me fits of laughter!!!!
March 5th, 2008 at 2:18 am
I think the monthly charge is too high.Anyway thanks.