Avoiding Google Slap

26 Jul 10 4:22 pm

Article directory content is worthless for building your own sites with. besides duplicate content, you are building someone elses business and authority, not your own.

IF you are relying only on cpa offers with short life spans, perhaps your business model is the problem, not the methods we teach. CPA is ok, but you should 1 look for longer lifespan offfers, and 2, use it to suplement a site, not be the only target for it. Also, your article sites should not be targeted to a specific offer or product anyway. instead, it should focus on a problem that people need help fixing, and find an offer or product related to that problem. then, if the offer expires, you simply find a new one and replace that.

it takes more work initially, and if you are looking for a quick fix get rich quick solution, you are in the wrong place. but if you want a real business tht will be here in 6 months, 2 years, and even 10 years, then you need a long term plan. it will take longer for initial success, although with ppc I have seen people making a full time income in less than 3 months, but it will last longer than quick fix sites that require constant change. personally i would rather build up the site, focus on getting their email adress on a list, and then you can market different cpa offers over time.
Now, all this said , I have to say, I have not done any cpa marketing, although i have studied it some< but I do know several other people running successful cpa businesses doing the plan stated above.

27 Jul 10 7:28 am

Thank you for your answers. I actually do have authority websites and i am promoting offers that are very unlikely to stop working in the near future. But sometimes i find some offers that can make some money for a couple of weeks then the profit slowly decreases. That's why i don't want to spend some much money and time on them.

@jmpruitt
You are right, maybe i can target a bit broad topic, i mean a website for iPhone 3G is a bit useless now since iPhone 4G is here. But if i make a website about cellphones i can promote any phone offer i like and the content will still be relevant.

@AndyBlack
Wow 6000 QS10 that's nice :) ... Actually i will have only 1 landing page not many, but it will change based on the keyword / Ad user clicked.
e.g: If the user searched for "Pay Per Click Guide" and clicked my ad, the title of my webpage will automatically change to "Best Pay Per Click Guide" so it will be relevant to the keyword, i hope that will help me increase my QS.
Yes SpeedPPC is very good, i may consider buying it when i start doing larger volumes.

I've even lifted the content from these websites and made pretty much identical websites and they run fine too.

How long have they been running? Because i had some websites with little content like : http://www.music-beat-maker.com i was promoting it with adwords my QS were between 7 and 10, it was doing good my ROI was over %250 but after a review all the QS dropped to 1. (Not a bot, but actually a human google staff reviewed the site...)

17 Sep 10 11:22 am

If you don't want google slap than don't use black hat seo techniques.