Google Adsense - Causing the devaluation of quality content?

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Content, content, content!

“Gotta get more content for my site, that’ll bring in the Adsense clicks!”, I hear you say.

Every man and his dog tells you that the more pages you have on your site, the more your adsense revenues will be. This raises an interesting quandary:

If good quality content on a quality adsense site brings in good revenue, why can I buy articles for my site for $5 a piece?

You can’t possibly tell me that someone can write a quality, original, keyword researched article for $5, hand it over to me, and kiss it goodbye?

Which brings us to the issue of the quality of the article. In my article titled Google, responsible for all the crap on the web, I discuss this issue in more depth.

Put simply, good quality content takes time to produce, even at the very low rate of $20/hour, you just can’t produce four original, good quality, keyword researched articles in an hour.

So if somebody offers to sell you an original article fro $5, the chances are that it’s a quick re-hash of another article, a plagiarized work, or something that they’ve knocked out in five minutes. By placing it on your site, you won’t be giving your visitors anything that they won’t be able to get at a hundred other sites.