AWSEO - Article Written for Search Engine Optimization: A new acronym to describe a new form of useless content that is polluting sites all over the Web. I’m sure you’ve searched for quality info, and come across this empty, keyword repetitive trash quite often.
“Made for Adsense” has come to describe a Website that was built with the main intent of getting traffic, any way possible, and putting some Google Adsense Ads on the page hoping to get some click throughs. Unfortunately part of that strategy requires there to be enough junky information on the MFA site; by enough I mean as much of nothing as humanly possible. Ideally, you want the information to make the visitor read about two hundred words tops, before she says to herself “What a yawnfest.” At that point an Adsense ad promising the sought after information catches her eye, and in search of greener pastures…Click: The MFA site just made forty two cents.
Cue AWSEO -Articles written for SEO. These articles that are posted on some useless MFA site usually have about the same value; can you say “teats on a bull?” I thought cha could. Are these articles boring and uninformative? Yes. But they are also full of grammar and punctuation errors, unabashedly stuffed with keywords and keyword phrases and a waste of the searcher’s time. As the author of an AWSEO sits and smirks, thinking ” nah, nah, nah, nah, nah…nah; I just wasted two minutes of your time and made myself a few cents” I’m going to tell you, and them, the real cost to all of us.
Searchers suffer because it takes that much longer to find their needle of information in the haystack of cyber-pollution. The seemingly endless disappointment of finding nothing but spam click after click can send a potential customer of a legitimate Internet enterprise back to her TV. This causes legit online business people to loose out on a good sale -so the MFA can make a beggar’s dime. These same legit business people pay for Adwords that must compete with MFA sites that sometimes purchase Adwords to drive traffic to their heap of garbage. So the value of the Internet and its advertising decrease. The cost in time and money for a less than worth while Web experience increases. But how do these Internet panhandlers lose?
The bots will soon be able to recognize this litter and bag it up and dump it in the landfill of the back pages. Recently we have seen EzineArticles.com reject articles with 3% key word saturation for “excessive key word use” This should read like a Dead End sign to authors of AWSEO. EzineArticles.com spins this as a “quality standard” but as the epitome of an MFA site, they just know how to play the numbers game, with foresight. Quality content will yield the long dollar in the long run. Read a more thorough prediction:
http://factoidz.com/the-future-of-seo-and-how-it-will-affect-content-producers/
There is no crime in using SEO techniques to the best of your ability, or if you have no ability, outsourcing your SEO campaign. Just do your part by producing good, informative, well developed content that searchers come to by this SEO work of yours. If you act like a “hub” and redirect traffic to sites that have more complete info on a topic that you understand well -there is no sense in reinventing the wheel. You will be doing a good service if you review this info, sift out the best of it, give your opinion as to why you give it high marks, and then offer links to it. A few revenue generating ads on the side can bring you some money for the service that you are providing. Fair enough!
http://factoidz.com/the-best-approach-to-seo/
The link above will take you to an exaggerated but informative bit of advice that covers providing the Internet with your content. Focus on keyword placement and selection with the title and tags only; until the bots evolve a little further, this is necessary. For the rest of it, concentrate on the art and science of producing content. Include an interesting and eye catching photo like the kind Factoidz.com editors choose for us. Provide more information than the next guy, or, using good writing techniques, promote him instead. Sprinkle on some monetization sparingly, making it subtle and secondary to the content. You will still collect your ethically earned revenue, all the while: Making Cyber Space a better place!
