To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
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Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#2Don't mean to be snarky, but this is not how easy it is to get ad revenue. It's how easy it is to get approved for ad networks. She didn't even get adsense. I find it completely unremarkable that anyone could set up a non-adult site that has human generated content and get ads placed. The traffic needed for real ad revenue is a different story. I bet that site gets close to zero traffic (not even enough to cover hosting). SEO (black-hat or whatever) is the trick IMO not getting ad revenue. Plagiarized new domains get no weight in the Google engine.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#3Don't mean to be snarky, but this is not how easy it is to get ad revenue. It's how easy it is to get approved for ad networks. She didn't even get adsense. I find it completely unremarkable that anyone could set up a non-adult site that has human generated content and get ads placed. The traffic needed for real ad revenue is a different story. I bet that site gets close to zero traffic (not even enough to cover host…
Honestly, it'd be pretty interesting to see an article like this which continues after the 'approved for ad networks' part and shows how such a site could rank in Google, do well on social media sites, etc.
Could be interesting to see how scammers are doing that, and lead to some potentially interesting insights about black hat SEO, social media marketing, targeted ads, etc.
Because yeah, as you said, getting approved by an ad network is only part of the story, and not very much of it at that.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#4Don't mean to be snarky, but this is not how easy it is to get ad revenue. It's how easy it is to get approved for ad networks. She didn't even get adsense. I find it completely unremarkable that anyone could set up a non-adult site that has human generated content and get ads placed. The traffic needed for real ad revenue is a different story. I bet that site gets close to zero traffic (not even enough to cover host…
Honestly, it'd be pretty interesting to see an article like this which continues after the 'approved for ad networks' part and shows how such a site could rank in Google, do well on social media sites, etc. Could be interesting to see how scammers are doing that, and lead to some potentially interesting insights about black hat SEO, social media marketing, targeted ads, etc. Because yeah, as you said, getting approve…
It may be a low bar, but being able to automate this (scraping website ansible playbook?), makes the effort required as near-nil. They only have to clear $50 to pay for ALOT of domains and hosting.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#5We're working on another way for disseminating news. It might make plagiarism a little more difficult, while also working a little better for our audience: https://blog.nillium.com/what-can-napster-teach-local-news/
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#6I suspect one of the hard parts of this for Google is that many news sites legitimately publish the same articles because of wire services and correspondence arrangements, like AP and Reuters. Hard to tell whether the new site is plagiarizing or syndicating.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#7Doesn't say how much she made from it. Guess: very close to zero, if not zero.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#8Doesn't say how much she made from it. Guess: very close to zero, if not zero.
Including hosting? I'm sure it's actually in red.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, it'd be pretty interesting to see an article like this which continues after the 'approved for ad networks' part and shows how such a site could rank in Google, do well on social media sites, etc. Could be interesting to see how scammers are doing that, and lead to some potentially interesting insights about black hat SEO, social media marketing, targeted ads, etc. Because yeah, as you said, getting approve…
It may be a low bar, but being able to automate this (scraping website ansible playbook?), makes the effort required as near-nil. They only have to clear $50 to pay for ALOT of domains and hosting.
Sure but you need thousands of legitimate-seeming pageviews to get that $50 back, and the networks - even or especially the bottom tier ones - are likely to be hotter on click fraud than scraped content.
Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one
#10We're working on another way for disseminating news. It might make plagiarism a little more difficult, while also working a little better for our audience: https://blog.nillium.com/what-can-napster-teach-local-news/
How does that help prevent plagiarism?