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You may have seen article spinners and content generators that take existing web content and twist the words around to create “new” content. Often these autoblogging products (which you may have paid quite a penny for) simply run your text through a series of foreign language translators and then back into English where it looks like a bizarrely written article with all sorts of weird phrases. It’s not meant for people to read but for the search engines. Typically I would advocate that you write strictly for humans and not use article spinners for search engine targeted content BUT I know a lot people do use these and here’s a free alternative.

A new Google Labs product called Google Scribe let’s you effectively do the same thing but totally free. What Scribe does is suggest the next word of your sentence as you type. You can see the results of my experiment below, I created two sentences using Google Scribe; the only words I type were the first two phrases “search engine optimization” and “google results” to steer the content slightly. I picked the first word it offered in my cases.

Search engine optimization is an important part of the products named in this section are primarily provided directly by the companies appearing or PR agencies which are solely responsible for the content of their press releases once per week for their annual meeting in San Francisco and then to their children and grandchildren of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted.

Google results for these two groups of subjects were studied in these experiments was to determine the effectiveness of their advertisements and determine which ads are effective and safe in their homes and their lives.

I’d say it worked ok. Scribe sort of took me on a rollercoaster of content, away from the subject I was originally writing about. I think that if I actually typed a few keywords as I go along, it would work better. Let me try that out right now:

Affiliate marketing is the most important thing in the world of making money online without spending anything on the internet. Effective ranking in search engines is the key to successfully implementing a website that makes you money. Earning commissions for every sale made through your affiliate link will be added to the amount of money that you can earn online with affiliate programs.

That worked slightly better. I typed the occasional keyword and selected more appropriate choices from the list. Obviously none of these auto-generated content sentences read like true human generated content but it is a quick easy, free way to generate unique keyword related content that can help you with SEO. That last paragraph took me about 2 minutes to create. It’s not truly automated, it’s almost like a hybrid, but it’s definitely unique content.

I’ve been using Kontera for the last few years as an additional revenue source on some of my sites. What Kontera provides is in-content links. I’m sure you’ve seen sites that use them or a similar service- generic words within your content will have a double underlined link. When you hover over those links a small javascript pop-up shows up in the same window with an ad, often a video ad. But after considering it for about a month, I’m dropping them from my site. Here’s why. continue reading…


You can make money online with Google Adsense by writing less content. The key is having the right amount of content. Content is still king but sometimes it’s better to be the queen. Here’s a case study in which I am making money off a site with minimal content.

I came across a coupon for $1 .com’s at Godaddy (limit one). These coupons turn up once in a while and I never hesitate to buy a site because it’s almost impossible to not make your $1 back even with minimal content. At the very least I could sell the site for 20 times that based on a solid domain name alone. I quickly created the site in WordPress and set up the theme and the 15 pages I wanted for the site. I knew based on the subject of the site that 15 would cover all possible topics and I would go into detail on subtopics on each page.

I set up each page with the headings and page title so I had a basic framework for what I would be doing with the site. I threw some general keywords around in the sidebar and footer (things like “review”, “buy”, “where to buy”, etc). Then I wrote the content for the first page. I linked to it from some of my other sites and did a few directory and search engine submissions- very minimal link building. Then a few things came up with some of my other sites and I had no time/interest to complete the site. But something interestingly unexpected started to happen.
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Most of the SEO gurus and guides out there tell you to focus on getting your site to the top spot in Google for your keywords. It’s an admirable goal and it’s certainly something to strive for but being on top of the SERPs isn’t everything. There’s more to getting clicks to your site than just being ranked highly in Google. Take a look at this chart I swiped from one my sites using Google Webmaster Tools:

I cut out the search terms on left but this is for a varied bunch of terms that all rank number one in Google. You’ll notice that despite all the terms being ranked first, the click through ratio varies greatly from 100% down to 33%. That is because of other factors in the SERPs beyond just being the first result.

Some of these things you can change. Your onsite SEO is very important, like the meta info and page titles that appear in the results (if you’re using WordPress there are good plugins like All in One SEO that will do this for you automatically). Your site name is a factor- site names relevant to the keywords will be more likely to get clicks. The number and type of ads appearing above the results is a HUGE factor that unfortunately you can’t control without buying ads yourself. Relevancy of the other results is also a big factor; if your site looks like it matches what the searcher is looking for better than the rest of the results on the page (or with a more intriguing page title), you’re going to get the click whether you’re number one or number nine.

Here’s another chart I pulled sorted by clickthrough percentage; I chose a middle of the road percentile for demonstration purposes: continue reading…