Thanks for taking the time to respond and pointing me in the direction of Dave Taylor. I really appreciate it.

Brent

The MFA model is usually based on some sort of “opportunistic” thinking – people are searching for this, I can make $x through advertising or affiliates, so I build a site to take advantage of those people.

An alternative is to think about an audience or “tribe” of people and develop content that they will value. This makes it easier to get links, and it’s relatively easy to monetize.

Take a look at AskDaveTaylor.com – the man makes a ludicrous income and probably spends a few days each month writing… but the content is extremely good, and he has built up an audience.

He also gets a ton of high quality, very responsive traffic from organic search. He’s not really targeting individual search terms, although I’m sure he’s aware of the traffic potential within many of the topics he covers.

I didn’t mean my comments as a “jab” against you in any way. Aaron Wall told me exactly the same thing.

In my short time, I’ve found SEO experts can be divided in two groups. There are the posers and the real experts. The posers have plenty of time to take on new projects. The real experts, like yourself, are short on time and have all the work they can handle.

From what I have seen so far, if you contact an SEO guy and he is available to start immediately, he probably isn’t the guy you want.

Rather than dividing my focus between 10 sites, I’ve limited my focus to just one. My goal is to provide a real resource for visitors searching for keywords related to my niche. Rather than building a bunch of MFA sites with crappy articles, I want to build a useful resource that utilizes Adsense as a means of monetization. That’s different than a MFA site, right?

What would you recommend to someone in my position? I want to learn SEO and don’t mind working my butt off or spending the money to do so. The problem is all of the best seo guys are so good they don’t need the work.

I’ve read lots of book including the SEO Fast Start Book. But for me, there just isn’t a better alternative than working with an actual person that can boot me in the rear and say, “Your building crappy sites. Scrap and start over.”

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Brent Crouch

It had nothing to do with you. I am not available to consult for anyone right now. I just can’t manufacture more time. A lot of people out there are looking for more work, I’m looking for more people.

Can your little network of MFA sites get search engine traffic? Sure – you could probably throw up 150 pages of utter gibberish and get some traffic. But it’s hard to get real traction with a site that’s 1/20 the size of the competition’s.

In the long run, I believe that the “made for Adsense” business model is going to become increasingly difficult. Search engines want to give searchers with commercial intent commercial content, and searchers who have informational intent information.

BTW, you might want to get some legal advice on the wisdom of using words like “guaranteed cure for (medical condition).”