Public Domain works for AdSense content

Are you an expert of some classic piece of literature? Do you think that you could produce an original AdSense webste from something old? If so, the material from public domain works could be for you.

 

What are public domain works?

Public domain works are articles, books, videos and pictures whose copyrights have expired. And because their copyrights have not been renewed, they enter the public domain.

What does this mean?

Well, for example every published works in the United States before 1923 are in the public domain. Also all non-renewed material from 1923-1963 falls into the category of public domain works. So classics from Shakespeare, Homer, the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and much much more are all public domain material.

Public domain works are free

What this means is that these works are free to be used by everyone and anyone. They can be used without worrying about paying commission or violating copyright laws. You can use the information contained within public domain works in anyway you choose. You could even, reinvent and repackage some of the material for your AdSense website.

Don't be put off because the material is free. The fact is that hundreds of thousands of people buy public domain works as books. As long as the material is relevant to someone it is potentially sellable.

Public Domain falls into four main categories:

• Generic information. These works contain information in the form of facts, numbers, titles, records, etc...
• Donated public works. Some copyright holders give away their works freely to the public to use as they wish.
• Works by the government or its agents.
• And works that have simply fallen into the public domain due to time: These are normally formerly copyrighted material that just expired and were not renewed.

Where you can get public domain material

Various organizations work towards compiling the material into a format that the public can use. One such organization is called Project Gutenberg, they have been responsible for putting a large number of public domain material together. 
Examples of the works they have put together include:

• Egyptian Ideas of Future Life: E A Wallis Budge
• Kama Sutra: Vatsyayana
• Manual of Surgery: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson

You can visit the site and see what the project has to offer at:http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

You could potentially create an AdSense website with hundreds of pages based on any one of these books. You could also use them as freebies or bonuses. With a little invention and creativity you could create enticing, unique AdSense content that can draw in decent levels of traffic.

Using articles for AdSense Content

Using syndicated articles

No matter what your topic is, there is someone out there writing about it. Syndicated articles are written by writers who want their material to be read. They want nothing more than to have their articles reach as large an audience as possible. And Webmasters are essential to the process of fulfilling their dreams.
There possibly hundreds of thousands of articles out there full of quality material available for Webmasters to use as AdSense content.

There are articles for all types of AdSense themes

Articles that can be used for AdSense content can be found everywhere on the net for free. From dedicated article sites like ezinearticles.com to simple websites that urge you to use their material as long as you leave their links attached. Here are a few more free articles sites:

http://www.buzzle.com/

http://www.isnare.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

For more article sites go to the AdSense resources section of the site.

However, all these sites have rules relating to how their syndicated articles can be used. In most, the author’s name and website link must be included in the published work. Some even demand that you provide a link back to where the material was obtained.

 

Buying articles for AdSense content

Due to increase in demand for quality articles a market has opened up for new content material for websites. There are a number of sites that have been set up to exploit this gap in the market by selling a number of articles for a fee.

It’s better to use material from these sites (if affordable) for AdSense content because their material are more exclusive. You are unlikely to see them posted on other sites and they don’t demand that the author name and website link be included in the published material. Examples of paid article sites are:

http://www.constant-content.com/

http://www.acquirecontent.com/

http://www.dailyarticle.com/

Alternatively you could build your own AdSense directory

Building your own directory can solve so many problems simultaneously. As well as been a potential source of free new content material, you can use it as a lead generation tool for your primary AdSense website. It can also become another AdSense site and a possible money earner if used wisely. The steps towards creating your own directory site is as follows:

• Set up with a webhost and buy a good well researched domain name.
• Then install a directory script you can use the free one at:http://www.esyndicat.com/
• Research keyword rich categories for your directory service.
• Upload your articles to your site and find other articles to populate your new directory.
• You can then add Google AdSense ads to your site and join a few affiliate programs if you want.
• Then you can start to build up the traffic levels to your directory.

Remember your directory should provide a service. Your visitors want solutions to problems and your site should provide a means for them to solve them. If they find what they want on your site you will have satisfied users, which in turn means:

• Possible returners
• Satisfied leads to your other AdSense sites
• More traffic
• And good CTR's in the directory itself resulting in good AdSense revenues

A word of caution

Remember to be wary of the free articles. If your AdSense website is nothing more than siphoned articles what’s to keep users on your site. You may lose a substantial portion of your visitors to the links present on the various articles that make up your AdSense content. They could just as easily find the articles more interesting than anything you have to offer on your site. Also work out your possible returns. These articles are not going to be keyword rich, or especially written for search engine optimization (SEO). So do some preliminary research on the topics and work out if any AdSense cash can be made from it. Take these alternative paths of acquiring AdSense content with caution. Be careful that you are not just generating revenue sites and are not inadvertently spamming the search engines with recycled junk.

For ideas for more sources look at:

Public Domain works for AdSense content

Sources for AdSense Content

AdSense Domain names

Your domain name is your brand

Your domain name is a specific descriptive name for your site. Your AdSense venture needs to be built around an identity so that your visitors can relate to the nature of your content. This is what your domain name represents. It not only functions as an address that enables people to locate your website, it is also a brand that can be used as a means of remembering your AdSense business.
Your domain name is the primary means of advertising your AdSense website. Therefore a domain name has to be:

• Memorable and appealing
• Descriptive and relevant to the content of your site.

There are various types of domain names

There are various types of domain names, all of which are determined by their endings. The oldest (established in 1985) and most common ending is the .com extension which most people are familiar with. But there are now different kinds of top-level domains (TDL) ranging from country specific TLD’s like .co.uk for UK based sites to regular extensions like .org and .net. The recent proliferation of extensions has opened up the domain name market a little in recent years. It has opened up once locked, unavailable names to the public. The newer TLD’s enables subtle variations of the same name to coexist on the Web.

 

Where to get your AdSense domain names

The best place to buy domain names is from a web-host. In most instances web-hosts can also act registrars. Most sell domains for around $17.00 (GBP 10.00) but prices can vary between web-hosts, so it’s best to shop around for the best deal. To avoid possible complications and to make life generally easier it is advisable to buy your domain name from your chosen web-host.

 

The various parts of a URL

Attaching your domain name to your site

You could potentially create the material for your website without a domain name. The pages that make up your site are distinct from the information that browsers use to locate them. Very much like how the contents of a letter is separate from the envelope containing the address describing its eventual destination.

Normally a web-hosting package includes a domain name. This domain name is usually automatically associated with the web space you bought.
So basically, just like when you put a letter into an envelope with an address already written on it, your website adopts the address of the web space it’s put into. The filename of each characteristic page is then added to the domain name to give it a specific URL which can then be located by a browser.

You can Check new Domain Names Now

If you have a great AdSense theme or a set of topics with keywords that you have researched you can check if they are availabe right now by using the 1 & 1 domain names checker below.

Check if your domain name is available: www.                    co.uk                  me.uk                  org.uk                  com                  net                  org                  info                  biz                  us                  name                  mobi

Standard Web-hosting for AdSense websites

If you want more freedom and are serious about developing and expanding your AdSense project you will probably have to go for one of the paid web-hosting services.

You need to invest in your AdSense business

In comparison to the free options, standard web-hosting packages offer reasonable amounts of web space good bandwidths and a generous number of email accounts.
With a standard paid package you have considerable room for expansion if you ever wish to do so. For example, it is unlikely that you are going to use up more than 1 GB of storage space in the first few years of setting up your site. That is phenomenal amount of web pages (in fact it is about 6000 average sized ‘150k’  web pages). And you are not going to need a bandwidth limit of more than 5GB, except of course, if your site turns out to be extremely successful very quickly.

The amount of data that people are going to be downloading from your AdSense website (if it’s just web pages) is going to be very small for the first year. Even generous traffic levels in the region of 100 visitors a day won’t dent a bandwidth limit of 5GB per month.
And to top it all off, it is very unlikely that you will be using all of the 100 email accounts provided by the average standard web-host package.

Be prepared when deciding on your AdSense webhost

To decide on the ideal package for your AdSense website, you need to have a good idea of what type of AdSense site you are putting together. You need to know the theme intimately and you need to have good idea of how you are going to deliver it to your audience.

Planning beforehand helps you choose the best package

Having a strong idea of how your site is going to look and behave enables you to choose a specific kind of web-hosting package.
For example if you want a dynamic AdSense website that creates pages on demand, you need a few advanced features like a MySQL database and a scripting language like PHP. Or if you sites contain a lot of music and video you might lean towards a web-hosting package that offers quite a large web space.

 

Look for good service and reliability

There are times when web-hosts need to do a little housekeeping. These are the times when your service provider shuts down temporarily, and your site disappears for a short duration from the World-Wide-Web. Somewhere, in most Web-hosts site literature there will be something about ‘guaranteed uptime’. This information tells you the percentage of time the web-hosts servers remains online. Remember that an uptime of 99.9 percent could still mean 40 minutes a month downtime. So keep vigilant and read everything a web-host has about the service you are going to pay for.

Read reviews about a web-hosts service

Check magazines, websites, blogs and forums to see how a particular web-host rates among its users. Always balance out a review from a particular source with other reviews (particular reviewers might be affiliates, so they will have a slight bias towards certain web-hosts).
Browse through a prospective web-hosts site a few times to see if you like the look and feel of their website.
Remember, that you need to be very comfortable with the WHOLE package (not just the price). You are going to be in and out of their website quite regularly after you’ve signed up with them, so take your time and choose wisely.

Here's a list of some of the best paid web-hosting packages on the market:

Package & URL	Space	Bandwidth	Domain Included?	Monthly fee	Comments
Justhost http://www.justhost.com/	Unlimited	Unlimited	Yes	$4.95 £3.95	Good service and a very good package.*
1and1Home http://1and1.com	120GB**	1,200GB**	Yes	$4.99 £4.99	Good service & a decent package.*
Hostgator http://www.hostgator.com	Unlimited	Unlimited	Yes	$4.95	Basic looking site. Pricing variable.
Fasthosts http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/	2GB	Unlimited	Yes	£3.99	Reputable company, nice package.
Eukhost Gold http://www.eukhost.com/	5GB	50GB	Yes	£4.60	Weakest package of the lot.
FatCow http://www.fatcow.com/	Unlimited	Unlimited	Yes	$4.83	Simple website. But good offers.

*Recomended       **U.S package     

AdSense and Free Web-hosting

First... Google AdSense rules

For sometime Google didn’t want their ads competing with any other types. It also didn’t want their ads been unduly ‘influenced’ by other ads. So any free web-hosting service that required that you displayed their ads on your site was a no-no. Google however, has recently relaxed its policy on competing ads sites so there is a small possibility that you might get away with using free web-hosting services that includes ads to host AdSense content... but it could be risky.

But not all free web-hosting services demand that you display their ads on your website, anyway. Therefore there is a possibility that you could actually use a free webhost service to host your AdSense site without risking rejection by Google.

About free web-hosting

Web-hosting has become a very competitive market in recent years. In an attempt to attract more customers, some have decided to offer free web-hosting services.
But these companies still have to make money and so many of them have had no option but to offer the most basic web-hosting service available.

 

Every free service has restrictions

No matter how attractive a free web-hosting service may seem there’s always going to be some kind of restriction on the quality and level of service they provide. For example free web-hosting services usually don’t provide you with own domain name.
Meaning that even though you might be seeking your own specific URL, you might be lumbered with one also containing your web-hosts name.
The presence of you web-hosts name in your URL does not give a good first impression to the people that visit your site. How can you expect people to take your AdSense business seriously if it looks like you’ve been cheap? Nothing gives away a websites background more that an attached web-hosts name to its URL.

 

Limits your capacity to expand

Free web-hosting providers also tend to have very tight bandwidth restrictions. They allow only a certain number of people to visit your site. Another major restriction is that they often restrict the amount of web space available to you.
You may be able to tolerate and overcome these restrictions but they ultimately affect your capacity to expand. What about if your site was successful and you wanted more people to visit your site? What about if you wanted to add more pages to your ever growing AdSense website?

Most free webhosts services lack advanced features

While it is possible to find the odd service that provides reasonable web space and offer generous bandwidths it is unlikely to have enough advanced features. Often necessary features like MySQL databases will probably be missing as well as any support for scripting languages such as PHP and Perl.
First it may not matter much, but if you’re thinking of ever expanding (and all successful business have to expand sometime), then the lack of features of free web-host providers is going to hurt you. But if you are willing to compromise you may just find a good deal.

Here's a table showing some of the best free web-hosting services around:

Package & URL	Space	Bandwidth	Adverts?	Own Domain name?	Comments
X10Hosting http://www.x10hosting.com/	500MB	1GB	No	No	Small company, risky if chosen.
Bravenet.com http://www.bravenet.com/	50MB	1.5GB	Yes	Yes	There are ads on free sites
Mysite.com http://www.mysite.com/	50MB	1GB	Yes	Yes	Another with ads on site
One.com http://www.one.com/	3GB	Unlimited	No	Yes	Site looks poor. Have to pay setup fee.
NX Serve http://www.nxserve.net/	1GB	10GB	No	Yes?	Free .co.cc domain? Small company, risky.
Freespace http://www.free-space.net/	200MB	2GB	No	Yes	Need to buy own domain name
Google sites http://sites.google.com/	10GB	N/A	Yes	No	Can’t get to the code. Don't own domain name.