Passive Income

The buzz around X-Factor’s adsense course is quite simply astonishing. It seems like everyone and their mother has jumped in head first, pumping out as many of these little micro niche sites as they can. I can see the appeal. Create a quick 5 page website, get a few links to your main domain name and a couple to your inner pages, and viola…pure passive income from then on.

Normally, I would encourage people to give this method a try. After all, what could you possibly lose besides a few dollars for a domain name and a couple hours of your time?

What people are failing to understand is that in order for this system to work it is crucial that you create quality content. Since you are only posting 5 pages at most, each one should provide some value to the reader. If not, you are simply spamming the world.

Need proof? Take at look at this site – http://carlsonfishoil.net (I am not going to link to this since I do not want to negatively impact this dude’s site), so open a new browser and check it out..I will wait …) What is the first thing you notice? Yep. That is the exact SAME template that hundreds, if not thousands, of X-Factor’s students are using. Using the same template as others is not that big a deal. Using the same template while providing the same crappy content is a big deal. Pretty soon the engineers at Google will put a stop to this. Just ask those people who bought NicheDevil.

What else do you notice about that site?

The home page has the following wording: “Here you will be able to find suppliers of all types of Carlson Fish Oil“. Really? I do not see links to any suppliers. What I see is Google ads….so is this writer implying that I should click on the ads listed? I think so, and that is a direct violation of Google’s TOS.

Please understand that I am not against people trying to make money online. If you have been a reader here for any length of time you will know that I think the internet is the best place to develop a nice stream of passive income without having to leave your own home. What I have a problem with is that people take a solid, well-developed plan and then shortcut it so much that it really looks like spam. I am sure John (X-Factor) never intended people to create such crap. Since I have not read the ebook, I cannot be sure, but if he is making the kind of money I think he is, you can be sure his sites are top shelf.

If I were going to test this method out I would do things a bit differently. I would take the information I learned and work it into what I already know. I would definitely NOT use the same template as everyone else, but the ad placement is perfect.  I would create at least 5 pages of quality content that would stand up to a Google exam and I would not begin creating ANY links for at least a month. Furthermore, until my site was indexed I probably would not add any Adsense to it. I am seeing more and more and more sites that look like this that have public service ads on them since Google simply cannot figure out what the site is about.

This is just my 2 cents. I personally know a few people who are absolutely killing it with this technique. Personally, I am using a combination of Google Sniper and One Week Marketing. I also tend to be too much of a perfectionist so I am always adding content to my niche sites when in reality they probably should be left alone so that I can move on to another site.

If you are using X-Factor’s methods please do yourself and everyone else a favor, create readable content that provides at least an ounce of value. Otherwise you are simply spamming up the internet.

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