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Spam for the Search Engines and a Smile for Matt Cutts
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Story Found By: aglobalwarming 1599 Days ago
Category: SEM
Carsten takes on the ethics of automated content creation with cloaking and its effects on search engines.
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from estesce 1599 Days ago #
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I can’t belive services like the one listed still exsist.  I didn’t think most of them made it past a month. Maybe even 2!

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1599 Days ago #
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@estesce: This service has been around for a bit. I’ve heard mixed reviews about it(heard they had trouble lately, but otherwise do quite well).The sites don’t have to last that long. A month or two is fine. You just make A LOT of them.Example: I pay $2-4 for a domain name, and $4.50 per month for hosting that can handle several dozen sites. So hosting cost is negligible.If I can make each domain make $1-2 a day(not hard; that’s only a few ad clicks on PPC pages BUILT to have a 15%+ CTR), it pays for itself in about 2 days, having 30-60 left to exist(IF it only lasts a month or two, and many last more). So if it lasts 30 days, I’m sitting on $60 or so, on a $2-4 investment. If it lasts 60, $120.Not a bad return on investment, considering it rarely takes more than 20 seconds to generate a domain, and maybe 5 hours to promote it(all automatic of course, press the button and forget it). So given 5 hours per domain to promote, that means it’s possible to make a little under 5 domains per day.Now let’s take that, and assume each site lasts for an average of 30 days. I’ll use a conservative $1.50/domain/day earnings for this math.30*$1.50 per day=$45/domain/month.$45*(4 domains per day * 30 days)=total income$45*120 domains=$5400/monthTotal PROFIT=$5400-($4 per domain*120 domains)$5400-$480=$4920/month$4920/month*12 months=$59,040/year profitNow say you have two servers doing link spam promoting it, and can do twice the domains...You get the pictureHope my math was right, it’s pretty late here and I’m tired...upon re-reading your comment, I REALLY hope you were referring to domains only lasting that long, and not the service itself..

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from IncrediBILL 1598 Days ago #
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OK, pay attention in class...If that crap was really that good they wouldn’t sell it, they’d keep the service and all the money all to themselves.’Nuff said.

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