Sites with adsense and links

[Overallbeauty]

Am I the only one who is getting bothered with these sites that all they are
just links to sites,:mad: a couple of articles and then wonder why I won't link my site to them? They have adsense all over them.
Are these the type of sites that are
going up more and more for just adsense?:confused: I get these offers for linking to them and its bothering me that I work so hard
at what I have to have these sites being thrown up for
just making money with adsense.:mad:
I would love to be able to report it but who am I that makes
me right in doing that? But still :mad:

[Sbabb]

What do you mean by "being bothered" by sites?

Are the owners of the sites asking you to link to them and then getting upset if you refuse?

Or does it just bother you that they exist?

It sounds like you've run into what some people call "portal" sites or "scraper" sites. If you're seeing articles on the sites at all, then they're making more effort than most do. Many "scraper" tools simply grab (scrape) links and description text from search engine results to create their pages. They're actually fairly common and within the AdSense terms of service.

If it's any comfort to you, most scraper sites only last in the big three search engine listing for a month or two before they get delisted for having no valuable content. Google most likely would be happy if the sites were ranked highly in Yahoo and MSN (because it would get traffic to the sites and AdSense revenue for Google) but they don't want to dirty their search engine results with zero-content sites.

Looking at your site quickly I see several pages with articles and AdSense and a lot of pages with affiliate product sales. Nice site (though too wide for most web browsers) but there's not much more content there than a "portal" site that includes several articles.

You have a different aim than the portal site builders. They want to get a site up, get traffic to it quickly and have the traffic click on the AdSense immediately. They know that they'll get delisted soon, so they keep on building sites like mad to keep ahead of things. You appear to be concentrating on affiliate sales with AdSense as an "extra" if people decide to leave before getting to your product pages.

Your site looks complete and you're probably mainly concentrating on getting traffic to it now, rather than adding new pages or content. That's a pretty good place to be. I think it's much better than frantically building new sites day after day because you know that your shelf-life for a site is only a few weeks before the AdSense revenue dies off. That sounds like a stress recipe to me! But to each their own.


Scott

[AmyP]

Hi Kim - I looked at your site and it is way too wide for my browser. The right nav menu doesn't even appear. I have to scroll to see it. I use Firefox. Just wanted to let you know.
AmyP

[Overallbeauty]

Its portal sites that bugged me the most, and how they are sucking in alot of newbies.
I got a flaming email for a owner of one cause I said no. AFter about 4 websites in the same day I just said no cause it had no google ranking. The funny thing was it was the same person for each site!

At least I offer articles and beauty products! I got over 300 now..

[Overallbeauty]

What do you mean by "being bothered" by sites?

Are the owners of the sites asking you to link to them and then getting upset if you refuse?

Or does it just bother you that they exist?

It sounds like you've run into what some people call "portal" sites or "scraper" sites. If you're seeing articles on the sites at all, then they're making more effort than most do. Many "scraper" tools simply grab (scrape) links and description text from search engine results to create their pages. They're actually fairly common and within the AdSense terms of service.

If it's any comfort to you, most scraper sites only last in the big three search engine listing for a month or two before they get delisted for having no valuable content. Google most likely would be happy if the sites were ranked highly in Yahoo and MSN (because it would get traffic to the sites and AdSense revenue for Google) but they don't want to dirty their search engine results with zero-content sites.

Looking at your site quickly I see several pages with articles and AdSense and a lot of pages with affiliate product sales. Nice site (though too wide for most web browsers) but there's not much more content there than a "portal" site that includes several articles.

You have a different aim than the portal site builders. They want to get a site up, get traffic to it quickly and have the traffic click on the AdSense immediately. They know that they'll get delisted soon, so they keep on building sites like mad to keep ahead of things. You appear to be concentrating on affiliate sales with AdSense as an "extra" if people decide to leave before getting to your product pages.

Your site looks complete and you're probably mainly concentrating on getting traffic to it now, rather than adding new pages or content. That's a pretty good place to be. I think it's much better than frantically building new sites day after day because you know that your shelf-life for a site is only a few weeks before the AdSense revenue dies off. That sounds like a stress recipe to me! But to each their own.


Scott

I am with you, I don't think that kind of stress is what I want my life to be about. Its comes down to either working hard and building and keep building , with traffic, doing all the right things or doing that. I rather keep doing what I am doing, at least I know that my site isn't going to be banded by google cause I am not playing by the rules.
Oh and fyi I still haven't made my first $100.00 in adsense ...LOL
I read somewhere that no one looks at ads that go across they are only looking and clicking on vertial ads.

[allpedal]

Kim, it looks like you are using Oscommerce, I use that too. Your table settings aren't the same consistently across the cart. I think that would make it look a lot better.

Also, using that much pink, have you tried a darker background for outside the cart area?

[Overallbeauty]

Do you know how to do that? I think thats a good idea.
Its a template that I bought when I opened the site, and I not sure
how to change the color but if you know how, oh please tell me how.

[allpedal]

I can help, I'll pm you my email address.