The truth about ready-made AdSense sites.
I get a lot of emails from my readers about packages of sites that have been pre-built and are ready to load with your AdSense code. They are often in niche categories and contain dozens or hundreds of articles, and the are usually pretty cheap (under $100).
On the surface, these packages sound like a great deal: they save time because you don't have to build them yourself and you can focus on promoting and ranking the sites. But the truth is that most of these packages are not worth a dime. Let me tell you why.
Duplicate Content Galore
The primary reason why you should not purchase packages of ready-made AdSense sites is that they are selling that same package to hundreds or thousands of other people. Every one of those customers is buying the same package containing the same sites.
The search engines are smart, and they will filter out duplicate copies of the same articles and sites. Chances are that by the time you purchase and upload one of these ready-made sites, dozens of others have already done so, and your site will get filtered.
If you're going to purchase a ready-made AdSense site, make sure that you are guaranteed to be the only one purchasing that site. This means that you will be paying a lot more money for the package, since you'll be the only customer.
If the site owner claims to be selling unique packages for $97 a piece, be very, very wary. Usually a quality ready-made site will cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars, so anyone offering them that cheap is probably reselling the same package over and over again.
Web Site Optimization
The ready-made AdSense sites I've seen have almost never been very well designed for the search engines, and almost never have the AdSense laid out in the most effective manner.
That means that even if you are the only owner of the package, that it will be difficult to rank well in the search engines, and that you won't make as much money from the sites as you could have if you had laid out the AdSense code in the proper places.
So if you're going to purchase a ready-made site, make sure that it is already optimized for the search engines and uses the proper ad placement.
Lack of Content Control
A third thing I don't like about ready-made AdSense sites is that you don't have much control over the content of the sites. The articles selected were selected by somebody else, and if that person isn't knowledgeable about the subject (and they usually aren't), their content choices may not be good ones.
Summing It All Up
The bottom line is that I've yet to see any ready-made AdSense sites that were worth purchasing. They're littered with duplicate content, aren't optimized for the search engines or proper ad placement, and you have little control over the content of the sites. So I don't recommend them.
P.S. If you're really interested in saving time, creating unique-content quality sites fast while maintaining full control over the content, check out ArticleBuilder.net which officially launches September 26th.
