Now while there isn’t an official definition of ‘content farms’ anywhere online, the general consensus is that it basically means sites that produce thousands of pages of low quality information. That’s why Demand Media was mentioned, because they typically add hundreds of thousands of pages to their site per month from different writers all producing crappy 300 or so word articles of dubious quality.

Autoblogs and scrapers especially are considered ‘content farms’ and it’s likely also true for anyone that produces sites based soley on PLR, republished EZA or spun articles.

So if that’s the case then, are big sites like EZA and eHow considered content farms? You bet! But I still think EZA and the better article directories will be given a bit of a free pass anyway. But if you own a site and get your articles from here, then it’s likely you might be affected. I wouldn’t be taking half the garbage off there anyway just to send my traffic to someone else’s crappy MFA site.

Now before all the article marketers reading this start whining that their 350 word article is genuine quality then I’ll have to say that’s bullsh*t. Look I know – I’ve got hundreds of 300 worders on places like EZA as well – all with the keyword mentioned three or four times, bolded where necessary, and a strong call of action at the end.

But it ain’t gonna work the same in the future.

You need to be looking at good quality 800+ articles on your own sites that ARE actually quality – in that they provide value to the reader, are original, offer a unique perspective or something else compelling. You know when your stuff is good. So does your reader. And now, so it seems, does Google.

I still plan on using EZA (and writing LONG quality articles), but I want to start using it for what it was originally intended for – for ezine publishers to find good information to include on their sites and in their newsletters. And once they publish one of my articles then it’s likely that they’ll take more too. (You can easily find out who publishes your articles by setting up a Google Alert on a phrase in the article). So then you can contact the sites directly and hopefully build up a good network of sites that will publish your articles and more importantly already have targeted traffic frequenting their sites.

99% of articles on article directories are what splork calls web sewer sludge. So if a publisher with a good PR site comes and finds one of my articles that’s decently written and doesn’t offer a free report on eliminating yeast infections in the resource box (yeah like anyone is going to publish that) and fills a good amount of space on their site then they’ll be publishing it all over the place. It will take time to build up a network of sites like that though. But you are in this for the long haul aren’t’ you?

You can also seek out sites that accept guest posts too. I’ve been looking closely at sites like MyBlogGuest.com as well as doing searches like “keyword” + “guest post” OR “write for us” OR “guest author” to find related blogs to write for.

The times they are a changin’ my friend and we need to adapt.

So what should you do? You should do what everyone has been harping on about for the past few months. Build up some good quality ‘authority sites’. Start writing some really good content for it. If you write a long post then it’s highly likely that you’ll naturally include lots of juicy longtails in it for Google to masturbate over.

LSI or ‘theme words’ as Xfactor calls them are becoming more important too. I wouldn’t bother with the software that he mentions in his latest $97 ripoff (the book is good, the price tag is NOT). If you want to find the top LSI keywords from the top 10 ranking sites just use these free sites: LSI Keywords, Keyword Finder. Just make it look natural and don’t stuff, yeah?

Now I’ve got to go. Got a million things to write – catch you soon. T xx

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This post will show you how to add Adsense into your Blogger Post so you can perhaps get more clicks and earn more money.

Firstly you’ll need to log into your adsense account and grab the code, size and color that you want. I’ve chosen a small square for this blog because the posts are quite narrow.

Once you have your code paste it into notepad or other text editor because you’ll need to change a few bits of code.

Change:

Your code will then look something like this:

(It’s much easier if you just paste your Google code into this parser here and then grab it back to put into your Blogger template).

Now it’s time to put it into your blog post.

Go to Layout, Edit HTML.

Save your template first by clicking on Download Full Template.

Then do a search in the html for <data:post.body/>
and paste your adsense code immediately above this (if you can’t see it, make sure the box ‘expand widgets’ is checked to see all the code).

If you want your code to float to the left or right of your text then you need to wrap your adsense code in the following div tag
<div style='float: right;margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;'>
or float left if you want it the other side. Don’t forget to close the
</div>
after your Adsense ad.

That’s it.  Save your template and now your Adsense code should be inside your Blogger posts.

If you would like to check out my guide on making money with Blogger, then visit Blog Cash.

Thanks for reading Getting Adsense into your Blogger Blog Post. If you liked it, consider leaving a comment. Tracey :)

I’m sure blogger wasn’t as easy as this?  I can’t really remember – although to be fair, I did play around with my blogger templates to make them 3 column so maybe just adding a simple blogger template is easy.

But just uploading a WordPress theme to your themes folder and changing it with ONE CLICK via Presentation is so easy.  Yes I’m definately impressed.

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 In particular one of my blogs Tracey’s Ebooks Blog deals with tips and advice on my ebook business on eBay.  So how are these two blogs going to be different since essentially this will also focus on similar subject matter?

 Aha! I have decided to keep Tracey’s Ebooks specifically for people wanting info on how to get started selling ebooks on eBay – it will be a ‘how-to-ebay’ blog.

Therefore this blog will be dedicated to writing about my products and what I am up to.  This will be a ‘me’ blog so will not be offering advice to others.  However you can still keep watch on the progress of any products that I’m about to release and see how they are progressing. 

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And I don’t really know what I was so worried about, this is far easier than I thought it would be.  I was reluctant to start a WordPress blog because I wasn’t sure how to install in on my server or upload it. 

But the instructions on the WordPress site were very easy to follow and I was up and running in around five minutes.  Well maybe ten – my internet connection seemed very slow today.

But don’t get me to choose a favourite yet, I’m still to new to WordPress.  I was getting quite proficient at Blogger even managing to change the tempates into three column’s, and I’m still a beginner here, but I can’t wait to learn more and change this boring starter template – it sucks!

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