Made For Adsense Niches and TrustRank
April 5, 2006 · Print This Article
This is an interesting post, giving a couple of examples for a case study on how to choose a niche for your blog. I wonder if the reason the second blog mentioned is more successful is because it enjoys the benefit of TrustRank on the typepad.com (sub)domain. Another thought I had about this, which also probably never occurs to many bloggers who read Darren’s blog is that in a way it’s rather absurd to select the topic for your blog based upon what you think will be successful in Adsense. To me, that’s somewhat like putting the cart before the horse, or even trying to get your cart to go without the horse. Aren’t blogs supposed to be for people who have something to say? Well, maybe not, but at least I think it’s a bad trend to see bloggers choosing topics based on what’s going to make them more money. I do see this “Made for Adsense” trend leading us in the same direction as email. Are MFA sites the web equivilant to spam in our email?
Yeah, it is a worrying trend.
All these bloggers making crappy pages and collecting a few extra dollars a day.
Oh well…
Yeah, I don’t choose sites that I think will have a good AdSense CPC. I just have ideas. But, I wouldn’t mind if one of my ideas worked out like that. lol
Exactly, I just don’t think it makes for the best quality content when you’re choosing a subject in that fashion.
Not only are MFA blogs becoming more prevalent, but an entire industry’s been spawned to provide the tools for MFA bloggers to ‘write’ blogs without having to actually write a word of their own. Entire blogs consisting of nothing but syndicated content, or recycled PD books broken into blog-sized chunks cannot be good for the blog-world, can it ?
Exactly. Those sites are really only one step removed from your basic scraper site. But, in my opinion, more insidious.