Comment by sbierwagen
10 years ago
Automated site creation... what, you're taking some public domain content, loading it up with ads, then hoping it ends up higher in the SERP than the original source?
How is this different than filling amazon with autogenerated kindle "books" made from Wikipedia articles?
Not exactly, I think it was a poor choice of words as I was referring to my build/deployment tooling.
If I have an idea (e.g. a "ES2015 to ECMA6" converter), I'd look for a library to do this (if there isn't an open source one, I'd consider building my own as a learning experience).
Setting up the webpage up (converter/form) is trivial since it's really just one page and a few settings.
The really cool part is I've built laravel commands to do the hard work for me. They can:
- buy domains based on a keyword search with some common regex-like patterns
- set up a git hook to continuously deploy to an AWS micro instance via codedeploy/CircleCI
- manage different adsense codes across properties
So, if you're wondering these are things that have utility. I'm optimizing the pains of setting up each site, though.
I do build adservers for a living, but never once have I created a crappy content-farm click-baiting blog -- they are the scourge of the internet >:{
[edit] lastly, I'm not sure if you have a problem with google ads (doubleclick/google publisher network) but I think they're pretty sensible in what they allow... no reasonable person would take issue with that.