AdSense for 2011 and Beyond Review – Save Your Money

There is a video series titled “AdSense for 2011 & Beyond” that is selling at Amazon (CD format) for $12.95. We purchased it as a discounted referred promotion for $7.00. Our advice – save your money.

The “new method” of site building is not new; this product promotes building what are called mini-sites, “Xfactor” sites or “Google Sniper” sites. These sites have been, or soon will be, de-listed from Google since the Panda and subsequent algorithm updates. A better strategy is to build larger sites, expand your current sites or consolidate your smaller ones.

Some other “beefs” with this product:

• Hyphenated .info domains are recommended. These are exactly the type of domains you do NOT want. Stick to .com, .net or .org.
• Keyword analysis is done checking the box “Only show ideas closely related” in the Google Keyword Tool. In reality, sites should be built around a wider range of keywords to get more traffic. You won’t get totally unrelated keywords if you don’t check this option.
• Free hosting services are recommended. Please do NOT use any free hosting services if you want your site to be up and running without any problems. The video demos bombed as a result of the site being hosted on a “free hosting service”; error messages kept appearing. While comical, we wondered about the competence of the presenter at the same time.
• The site used as the example in the videos, summer-houses.info, has never loaded in spite of multiple attempts to access it (“The connection has timed out”). Obviously this was not a successful site.
• The author is anonymous, hardly inspiring confidence in this product (which we don’t have anyway).

In summary: DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT.