A while back I had a client ask what I thought about a company he found in his city who was selling ready-made AdSense sites for $250. They guaranteed that the sites would earn $100 to $150 a month.

Giant red flags waved before my eyes.

Why would anyone sell a website which would earn $100 a month for just $250? This company was either run by scammers or people with no business savvy.
The sites would make at least $1200 over the next year. Yet, the company would sell them for $250. Something was very wrong.
I asked the customer if he could send me some samples of sites they had made.

He did and here was my response to them:
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Hello,

Ok, here’s the deal. Those guys have ripped off article content for all the blog posts that I checked. You can simply input one of those domains into copyscape and see for yourself.
I say “ripped off” because they did not even follow the guidelines of the article directories by listing the authors’ names.

By rights, those article directories and authors can demand that be done or the content removed.
I found several articles from ezine articles which were copied word for word. I know ezine articles very well. They will not publish an article unless it is original.

Therefore, I am positive all the article were copied from the directories.
However, even forgetting all the above, no matter where they got the content, it is all duplicate content! Those would never be ranked well.
And further….the SEO for those articles is all but non-existent.

Do they promise you original content for yours? And optimized well?
And by the way, those are just WordPress templates. It is just copy and paste; $250 each is way too high.
Heck, I’ll have those made for you all day long for under $100 and even host them for you for free with my reseller account.

Of course I won’t guarantee you $100 a month because doing it like that won’t make $100 a month…not with the duplicate content because they will never rank well.
I am glad I could give you a heads up on this.

Steve

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