Two posts ago I was talking about the disapproval letter I received from Google for Adsense. I spent the last “A Journey” post explaining why I cloaked my affiliate links. Now back to the second reason for my Adsense disapproval, "No original content". Well I wanted to laugh, but Google is driving the ship. You have to wonder, how much original material can it be considering there are over 188 million search results for "Make Money Online".
You have to wonder as I did, why did I choose “Make Money Online”. When I started it sounded like a winner. How can you go wrong teaching others how to make money online? As I journeyed, I found that there were an enormous number of players in this arena. So it stands to reason why it’s difficult to generate original material in this area. Well apparently the big boys are generating this so-called original material, but again what material is original?
Well you know me; I started a Google search for make money online to see what original material was out there and as I suspected, the topics between websites were somewhat the same. Obviously the main topic was how to make money online, followed by the mistakes most make when attempting to make money online, to why their system is the be-all to making money online. Now there are numerous subtopics like affiliate marketing, article writing, ebay, search engine optimization (SEO), Google Adwords, pay per click advertising (PPC) and so on.
So all that being said, let’s define “Original Content”. My definition is simply “Something created that never existed before”. Webster says “relating to, or constituting an origin or beginning – not secondary. So does 188 million search results for make money online constitute 188 million forms of new original content. Well the answer as you guessed is no.
As I discovered, to generate original content is to take someone else’s written material and reword it so that it’s not considered plagiarism. Now how’s that for original content. So that’s the game played to get this so-called original content. You can’t blame Google, because who wants to search for information and visit ten websites with the exact same content.
Well the only ways around this is to do just what I stated above, find a niche that you can write about from your personal experiences or become an innovator who finds original ways of making money online. If you are not a writer as most of us aren’t, then use the websites that give access to free articles that can be rewritten for original content. Make sure at least 50% of the original article is reworded to constitute original content.
Well until next time, have a Prosperous Day!
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