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Auto-content websites! Do they earn?

// April 11th, 2008 // Internet Marketing, Sites, Software, Uncategorized

If you browse the internet it is very likely you will find some websites that have many pages on a specific topic, have some ads but all the articles are from other websites. The content is free to use so they are not stealing anything. Also most of the content is good, but the site is not very well made. These websites are auto-content websites. In this article I will explain what auto-content websites are and I will also make a litle experiment.

Auto-content websites are actually simple websites that have content crawled from free content directories, posted in the pages of the website with some ads and also includes a RSS feed from other websites. The content is crawled with a simple software that you can find on the net. The owner runs the software, introduces some keywords, places the ads and thats all. Once the files are uploaded he doesn’t have to do almost anything. At least not write fresh content daily.

I also downloaded a software like this. It is called HyperVRE and it is available for free on the internet. With a simple Google search you will find many links from where to download this software. Once you have it installed all you have to do enter some keywords, let it search for articles, paste your Adsense code (or any other PTC) and upload the files. You don’t have to write not even one article.

This software looks really cool, but is it really earning money or it is better to write your own content. In the next month I will make a little experiment. Using HyperVRE I made a car insurance website. I placed my Adsense ads with a custom channel and in the next month I will monitor to see how much this website will earn. I must mention that I used high-paying keywords (car insurance). You may say that you can’t earn money if you don’t have visitors. That is right. I will also make a small campaign to spread the word about this website. Even this article that has a link to the website will help the website get indexed by google and other search engines. I will also post the link on some forums and also digg this website.

I did not put any Analytics or tracking code because I am not interested on the number of visitors or the quality of visitors. I am only interested in the money it is making. So, if you want to know if auto-content websites earn money, than come back to my blog to find out. I will also post some details about it every time something exciting happens (for example I got a 10$ click)