[CASE-STUDY] Blasting scraped-AI articles on an old domain

[SEOCodeLab]

Hi everyone,

I have been playing around with scrapy and AI articles a little bit and was able to find a blog post template that I can use from scrapped information and create a nice "readable" blog. It has my own twist and it is actually really readable (I was surprised I couldnt see more websites using this formula).

This is just a case study or me just playing around and see where I end up.

The steps I took:

1- Create python scrapy bot and scrape information into a mongoDB
2- Build 1 article for each item scraped
3- Blast these articles into a wordpress blog.
4- Wait and see results

Around 87k items were scraped and created the same number of articles.

Plugins in wordpress:
Rankmath pro (for instant indexing)
Clean theme
Litespeed cache
Site Kit

The domain I got has these stats:



I published the articles in wordpress using a clean theme and everything seems going smoothly. I published the articles some 3 weeks ago. These last two days have exploded (the traffic is mainly tier 2 country):





In terms of indexing and crawling:



Still google needs to crawl more than half of the actual links and index the rest.

Expenses:
namecheap domain: 10$
hosting: 20$

I am worried about two things mainly:

- How to monetize? It would mainly be adsense. Would Adsense accept me? Maaaybe I can find a CPA offer that aligns correctly with it. No clickbank product was aligning with this niche.
- Hosting. it is a baby hosting on namecheap. (if things keep improving I will jump to Google Cloud as it is the best hosting I have found)

 

[HustleTong]

Adsense won't be cool with scraped content in most cases
But traffic is the first step
Good luck

 

[zackh]

following, good luck

 

[TooCorny]

Following

 

[SEOCodeLab]

Adsense won't be cool with scraped content in most cases
But traffic is the first step
Good luck

Do you think using another network like Adsterra or alternative would be worth it?

 

[Alexion]

Do you think using another network like Adsterra or alternative would be worth it?

I use Adsterra very often.
For worldwide traffic, the most I go from them was $3 / CPM.
All things considered, not that bad.

Care to give more details regarding your scraping experiment?
What niche, was it pure data, did you scrap paragraphs or just numbers/lists/tables/etc?

Not asking you to give out gold details, just the main scope.

 

[SEOCodeLab]

I use Adsterra very often.
For worldwide traffic, the most I go from them was $3 / CPM.
All things considered, not that bad.

Care to give more details regarding your scraping experiment?
What niche, was it pure data, did you scrap paragraphs or just numbers/lists/tables/etc?

Not asking you to give out gold details, just the main scope.

Coolio, I will try adsterra if adsense is not approved.

Niche is downloads of a specific thing that has a lot of options (imagine it is like skins, so each article is about that item). I only scrape data (numbers, sizes, model...). And with that data I create an article. I actually got inspired from this:

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/a...2-post-rank-guide-50-off-review-copy.1425323/
Hope it makes sense, don't want to give up the main topic.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[jeronymo29]

Really amazing traffic
I wish you success in your future work.
Good luck

 

[crypto-trader]

Interesting. I will start looking into this AI generating.

I will jump to Google Cloud as it is the best hosting I have found

Why do you think it's good? Is it because of price or features? Is it user friendly to install wordpress there or you need to be technical person?

 

[SEOCodeLab]

Interesting. I will start looking into this AI generating.


Why do you think it's good? Is it because of price or features? Is it user friendly to install wordpress there or you need to be technical person?

It is not user friendly if you are not somewhat tech person. But if you know what you are doing, you have the overall control of your entire environment.

For me it is because I can easily upgrade, apply CDNs easily and their big data apps are great.

 

[nahid133]

Good luck with your journey
Which web hosting you using?
Do you re-write the scrape documents/answer? or just scrape & post on WP.

 

[blogmen]

Looks like a very promising programmatic-seo journey.

I only scrape data (numbers, sizes, model...). And with that data I create an article

This type of content is allowed by adsense. They are against fully scraped articles (as in copied) unlike yours.

Try to apply already. No need to wait.

You said you posted all 87k articles but indexing api allows only 200 per day. Or do you use multiple indexing accounts?

 

[Beklink]

Nice journey, good luck

 

[SEOCodeLab]

Looks like a very promising programmatic-seo journey.


This type of content is allowed by adsense. They are against fully scraped articles (as in copied) unlike yours.

Try to apply already. No need to wait.

You said you posted all 87k articles but indexing api allows only 200 per day. Or do you use multiple indexing accounts?

thanks! I have already applied, just waiting for approval, will let you know

About instant indexing: Even though I published all the articles, I only index 200 per day. I dont want to make google angry. I created a quick script that does this for me.

Nice journey, good luck

thanks

 

[SEOCodeLab]

No big changes since yesterday, still going up.



I have added some adsterra ads to the website:



That CPM is very low, isnt it (should i give more time for the ads to display the proper ads?) My geo traffic is mainly tier 2 countries (spain, france, germany...). I added 3 banners (top, sidebar and below content) Maybe I need to add more?

I am planning to start same niche website on another language (english) and see how it goes. I will create the website locally using WAMP and then transfer it to a live server. This way it is much more faster to deploy.

regards,

 

[sbyro]

You do something to index the articles?

 

[Alexion]

No big changes since yesterday, still going up.

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I have added some adsterra ads to the website:

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That CPM is very low, isnt it (should i give more time for the ads to display the proper ads?) My geo traffic is mainly tier 2 countries (spain, france, germany...). I added 3 banners (top, sidebar and below content) Maybe I need to add more?

I am planning to start same niche website on another language (english) and see how it goes. I will create the website locally using WAMP and then transfer it to a live server. This way it is much more faster to deploy.

regards,

You'll get a CPM correction on @AdsterraNetwork every 3-4 days or so to balance out the payments.

 

[SEOCodeLab]

You do something to index the articles?

Yes, 200 posts daily with Rankmath instant indexing

You'll get a CPM correction on @AdsterraNetwork every 3-4 days or so to balance out the payments.

Hope so!

 

[sihambodoh]

Do you rewrite the articles?

 

[doxul]

If you dont mind , can you tell how much you paid for the domain with those stats?