Comments on: Junky Sites Do Better With AdSense? http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/junky-sites-do-better-with-adsense/ Premier Professional Writing, Copy Editing, and Content Generation Provider Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:57:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian O'Neill http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/junky-sites-do-better-with-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Ian O'Neill Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:19:17 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/uncategorized/junky-sites-do-better-with-adsense#comment-1100 Actually, that kinda makes sense. On Astroengine.com, I'm striving to create unique and well written articles, in the aim of becoming a "world leader" (if there can be such a thing in space science news and opinion!). However, the most well thought out articles (that often take many hours to research and write) fail horribly. In which case ad revenue is down drastically. So, I started a category called "Snippets" so I could post short-fire news items that take 30 minutes to type (aiming for an article that would take 1-2 minutes to read). Often they are simple link posts or just a short commentary on an event or piece of research. Boom! I get flooded with traffic (mainly from social sites, but quite a few from Google) and often the ads are pretty high value. I still think it's important to generate unique, high quality content so people want to navigate around your site, but sometimes it's good to throw in some short, popular articles. They are still unique, just not particularly thorough. You get a lot more ad revenue for the time spent on writing that way. Anyhow, that's my 2c :-) Cheers, Ian Actually, that kinda makes sense. On Astroengine.com, I’m striving to create unique and well written articles, in the aim of becoming a “world leader” (if there can be such a thing in space science news and opinion!). However, the most well thought out articles (that often take many hours to research and write) fail horribly. In which case ad revenue is down drastically.

So, I started a category called “Snippets” so I could post short-fire news items that take 30 minutes to type (aiming for an article that would take 1-2 minutes to read). Often they are simple link posts or just a short commentary on an event or piece of research. Boom! I get flooded with traffic (mainly from social sites, but quite a few from Google) and often the ads are pretty high value.

I still think it’s important to generate unique, high quality content so people want to navigate around your site, but sometimes it’s good to throw in some short, popular articles. They are still unique, just not particularly thorough. You get a lot more ad revenue for the time spent on writing that way.

Anyhow, that’s my 2c :-)

Cheers, Ian

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