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Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by mprev »

mrtksn wrote: post #27

It’s a dirty business, no cost is too great for eyeballs. In Turkish whatever, you search the first few pages of results is from the Turkish largest news outlets because the SEO’ed for everything and Google doesn’t care. Do you want to learn how to renew your driver license? Good luck with that because your search results will bring you a wall of text articles that are almost the same for every search term. “Lately p…

In the U.K. it’s supermarket opening times, especially near holidays.

Google for “Aldi opening times Easter Sunday” and you’ll get articles from the lower quality newspaper websites.

It’s pathetic.

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by mrtksn »

mprev wrote: post #31
mrtksn wrote: post #27

It’s a dirty business, no cost is too great for eyeballs. In Turkish whatever, you search the first few pages of results is from the Turkish largest news outlets because the SEO’ed for everything and Google doesn’t care. Do you want to learn how to renew your driver license? Good luck with that because your search results will bring you a wall of text articles that are almost the same for every search term. “Lately p…

In the U.K. it’s supermarket opening times, especially near holidays. Google for “Aldi opening times Easter Sunday” and you’ll get articles from the lower quality newspaper websites. It’s pathetic.

Oh, definitely. Especially in these pandemic days that was something that I tried and failed. On the Turkish web apparently the news outlets gave up any hope of respect and now every single one of them is doing it. The biggest ones, the leftie ones, the right-wing ones, the cushy with the government ones. All of them.

No way Google isn't aware of this, there's a local Google office in Turkey, they have a large presence and full Turkish language support on most of the products.

Maybe it's simply part of the business model now. If a supermarket wants people to find their opening times, maybe they should buy an ad placement. There's no money in the high-quality organic search results I guess.

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by amelius »

mgamache wrote: post #2

Don'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…

If the pirate bay can run on ad money, then so can plagiarized news sites, I suppose.

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by gokhan »

mrtksn wrote: post #32
mprev wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the U.K. it’s supermarket opening times, especially near holidays. Google for “Aldi opening times Easter Sunday” and you’ll get articles from the lower quality newspaper websites. It’s pathetic.

Oh, definitely. Especially in these pandemic days that was something that I tried and failed. On the Turkish web apparently the news outlets gave up any hope of respect and now every single one of them is doing it. The biggest ones, the leftie ones, the right-wing ones, the cushy with the government ones. All of them. No way Google isn't aware of this, there's a local Google office in Turkey, they have a large presen…

I'm watching this exact problem for SEO in Turkey and I can say that it was in full-force way before pandemic. Google doesn't care. Instead, they're busy flagging pages discussing "penisilin (penicillin in Turkish) application for kids" as AdSense Policy Violation since the page contains "penis".

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by kayoone »

i remember in 2004 or so when an agency i worked for had a wikipedia clone running with adsense and tons of SEO which made 20k per month and basically kept the company afloat. I was a young junior dev and while i was impressed by it, it never felt right to me (which it obviously wasn't in many ways). As far as i remember this only worked for about a year at best until Google penalised those sites more and more.

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by peter_d_sherman »

>"It all underscores the fact that the ad tech space is so convoluted, it’s easy to make money from legitimate advertisers just by setting up a web page.

That means there’s significant incentive to create sites with not just with low-quality clickbait or A.I.-generated nonsense, but sites filled with outright plagiarized content."

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by xwdv »

waheoo wrote: post #29
xwdv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you include the hit to your professional reputation from actually plagiarizing a news site for revenue and getting blacklisted from the industry, then what did it cost? Everything.

Or you get placed as a cto with a fat raise.

My dream job.

Re: To show how easy it is for plagiarized news sites to get ad revenue, I made one

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Post by NeutronStar »

Supermancho wrote: post #19
benburleson wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Including hosting? I'm sure it's actually in red.

I'm not. I knew a developer who, in his spare time, developed a clever scraper. He scraped the top stories and results from Google, then scraped similar content based on Google's own ranking, then submitted that content to his own aggregator sites (all resolving to the same server). He ran ads on it. He got plenty of traffic and was net It's not that expensive to run a site and the right advertising partners ( cough…

Yeah, getting ad revenue for this kind of websites in 2006 was possible, now good luck.
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