Adsense and regurgitated content.

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I’m a regular user of Technorati. It gives me the chance to keep up with what’s being written in the blogosphere (hate that word!)

One thing I’m finding really interesting at the moment is the number of people who are blogging with anything but their own creations. Do a teachnorati tag search on “Adsense”, and have a look at the first page of results. Generally, you will find sites chock full of adsense ads, quoting the first paragraph of someone else’s blog post, with a link to the rest of the article.

There’s one certain “blogger” (and I use the term loosely) who’s posts have just hit the “automatic skip” filter in my brain, as his/her posts are so full of other people’s content with their own affiliate links and adsense ads, there’s actually nothing of value there.

I’m not sure I see the point of this. Have you nothing interesting or original to say? Do you think that you should be rewarded with adsense clicks and affiliate sales because you managed to squeeze an RSS feed into your page, or provide a link to someone else’s work?

Have a look at all the adsense forums, the people who are making money are the ones who came up with original ideas, or who are producing original, quality content.

If you can’t come up with quality content, maybe you need to look for another idea to make money.