Rewriting Articles

While talking with my roommate about ways to rewrite articles, we came across an interesting idea: use one of the online translators to translate an article into another language, and then translate it back to english.

As a test I created a couple subsites on a new domain to see how they'd perform. As I made the sites about 2 weeks ago it's too early to tell however there are a couple things I'd like to discern.

1) I'm pretty sure they'll be no duplicate content penalty however since the resulting article is only marginally good (and sometimes outright unreadable) I want to get an idea of what the user will do when faced with this text: click or back?

2) While I made sure to keep the main keyword in the article I wonder if the translated article will on subject enough for the contextual aspect of the ad system to work effectively (i.e. will the clicks pay?).

I'll be keeping an eye on this one over the next 4-6 weeks to see how it works out while I look for other ways to rewrite articles. I think synonym replacement will be the next step.

Another Neat Tool for Mac

If you're like me and like to login and check your AdSense stats a couple times per day then you might want to add TigerWidget.co.uk's Stats Widget to your Dashboard. This neat tool automatcally logs in to your account and display the past week's stats including impressions, clicks, and CTR's as well as averages for the former.

While I've not been a big fan of Dashboard since it came out, this donationware download has gotten me used to using it for other things as well as checking my stats as there are actually some pretty cool Widgets available.

Anyways if you're running Tiger might as well give it a whirl!

May Roundup

Some of my newer sites started to kick-in in the latter half of May to push my earnings up to the $374 mark, which, as like last month, is about double the previous months earnings. I don't know if I can keep it doubling month-to-month but I've already "cracked-the-ton" this month so I guess it's not that out of the question.

This months goal is to create 5-10 new sites using my modified rssgm and also try to figure out the best use for all the plr articles I've been getting lately, with the first step being to find a quick way to rewrite them.

Return of Project X

This is a little off topic but it looks like Bobby (aka Chemo) has decided to resume development of his Project X shopping cart system. Hopefully within a couple months we will see a first release as I don't think I can stand to develop another OSC-based site.

Note to self

I had my first deslisted domain a couple days ago. It originally had a very low CTR (about 3-5%) but was indexed and ranking well in the major SE's. In an attempt to raise the CTR I changed the template to a more ad-focused one (read spammy). While the CTR did get up around 15% after the change, it got delisted about 2 weeks after the change. I'm convinced (although one can never be too sure) that since it was a techie site someone reported it to the SE's.

Moral of the story: When you create a scrapper site in a somewhat tech-savvy niche don't use a spammy template.

Lesson learned.