Even a well known and “respected” site like Ezinearticles got hammered and had to lay people off.

I think a niche site with great articles and monetizes with Adsense or affiliate offers will be a safer bet.

/Mikael
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However, I think this would work better as an add-on to an existing, well-established link directory. That way, you’d have an article directory section with PPC adverts in addition to the lame, boring resource link directory. As for solely building an article directory with a new domain in today’s highly competitive online world, uh, yeah, that would be fairly challenging, to say the least; thanks for sharing your view on this!
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Thanks for the link!

At any rate, that was quite some list; I only visited the first few links on that page, but I may go back later on just to checkout some more of these “work from home” / “write for us” options that you provided.

By the way, I have a question for anyone that knows for sure: I couldn’t help but notice 5 Google AdSense blocks of Adverts per page at HubPages. I thought that publishers were only allowed 3 blocks of Google Ads per post or page? Even Blogger.com only permits 3 blocks, but I could have sworn I have read about this before, with other websites and whatnot. Then again, I’ve noticed the same thing at other article-submit websites like “Ezine Articles,” for example, as they have long strips of Google Ad units all over the freakin’ place. Are the rules different for big websites like that or am I missing something obvious and need to go re-evaluate the AdSense TOS? I’m ~confused~ now…

Cheers!
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All of these bad practices with profit are typically short lived, and they either have to find new domains to spam out or eventually end up being the ones looking for PPC revenue from other sources outside of Google.
For example, if some of those spammy “publishers” (I hate to call those lazy, grammatically challenged retards “publishers,” but whatever) get shitcanned by Google AdSense, then there is a good chance they will have AdBrite adverts or another advertising service up and running in no time at all, that has a less strict TOS agreement.

Anyway, I’m like a lot of people and prefer Google AdSense over the others because it seems to be the best overall, but opinions do vary from person to person. Cheers!
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I agree with this article that it all comes down to the user experience. Content must be high quality and original. Google Adsense ads should not be dominating above the fold, because nobody visits any page to simply view ads. We all visit web pages to receive information about whatever we are searching for. Ads are a “possible” secondary option for us, once we’ve completed reading or scanning the page.

Ads are never a visitors focus, and they shouldn’t be from a design perspective.

Personally, I cannot stand those websites where I must shuffle through all those banners and ads while attempting to find the content. Sometimes, the webmaster tricks me into thinking that I’ve found a link to the content I am looking for, but then I realize I’ve just clicked on an ad. Whenever I experience this, I make sure I never visit that site again. No matter how great the “hard to find” content may be.

People don’t want to be straining their eyes or focusing all their attention just to find the content they’re looking for. They want it to be easily accessible.

These adsense bad practices are equivalent to being asked to pay up front prior to entering a store to browse around. It’s repulsive.
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Anyways, if it were more concrete and proven then I might try it, but until then, I’ll stick with other methods of building traffic…
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But seriously, even though it seems to work for some, guest blogging isn’t for me. I like to be in control of my content, articles, blog posts, whatever, no matter if they are informative articles, entertaining web pages, or some silly video post from a free blogspot blog. What if some of the website owners you guest blog for, just sort of up and change their mind about what they want their site to be and delete a lot of the guest posts later on down the road? Even worse, what if they let their domain go, sell the site, and so on…? You never really know for sure what the plans are, unless it is your own site that you manage yourself.

After thinking about it, I changed my mind. I guest post all the time, uh, in the comment fields. Ha-ha! But when commenting on random blogs, at least it is not content that I wrote for somebody else that I could have used on my own website, as it is just merely a response to what somebody else already wrote. You see were I’m going with this?

Anyway, best of luck to all of ya who are typing your fingers to the bone while trying to get ahead in this Cyber rat race full of freelancers, marketers, entrepreneurs, spammers, etc. Hey, the holidays are approaching, and people ARE more click-happy during this time of year, which could equal more affiliate sales, PPC profits and whatnot; cheers! :D
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A lot of people have gotten noticed because of an article or series of articles that they posted on EzineArticles.com. There are legitimate ways to use EzineArticles.com to drive traffic to your site. They might not be as desirable as they were before Panda, but they are slowly making a comeback.

In my personal opinion, the only thing really lacking at those sites is effective quality control. Both have been abused by people who are spamming and/or aren’t even capable of writing decent English. That is the core of their problems.

Both of those sites started out being a huge asset to writers. Any site that provides the kinds of free benefits for people like those two sites do will become a major target for abuse. The people who are abusing those sites are not like us. They don’t care if they destroy HP or EZA in the process of getting whatever benefit they can from them. They just don’t care.
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There really isn’t much of a sense of community, at least in my opinion. I also think that articles get “lost” in the abyss of similar articles. And, more importantly for anyone seeking to use Ezine to obtain articles for their site, many articles are poorly written.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Ezine is all bad. If you write well, it can be a good place to get your articles re-published on sites that seek good writers.

So yeah, in a way, building a larger site could have you ranking higher with less external links pointing back to your domain. It is also a great idea to attach a blog to your website, like you mentioned. However, it seems that more and more people’s websites are 100% blog nowadays, but it doesn’t hurt to have both formats going own within the same website, etc.

In contrast, if you do decide to build a smaller site instead of a larger one with lots of pages and internal linking, it seems that the small, on-topic, non-random niche sites do really good with a moderate amount of links pointing to it.
At any algorithmic rate, good luck with the search engine ranking and on-page optimization; cheers!
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Some folks get burned out or come down with what they call “writer’s block” and whatnot, while many successful website owners have a plan that works by way of organization, a steady schedule, and a goal to achieve a certain level of traffic and monetary rewards.

Personally, I like to build one website or blog at a time. I like using paid domains and free blogging platforms. The end result equals a conjunction of websites that act sort of like an SEO network that interlinks one blog to the next, and so on.
I like having niche blogs and random websites, as variety and diversity means a lot when trying to gain loads of traffic via multiple small-to-medium websites.

At any literary rate, no matter what your goal is, have fun blogging and remember how easy it is for bloggers to help out other bloggers. If you’re really into this type of stuff and would like to get known by more and more bloggers, guest posting would probably be a really good option for you. Cheers! ;)
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