Joel Comm Adsense Templates

[Mac]

Apart from the issues raised in the recent controversial "Adsense is Dead" promotion, I have been under the impression bulk Adsense template packages were sailing pretty close to the wind so far as Google was concerned. Yet I see our own respected M. is giving a testimonial to the imminent release from Joel Comm on the sales page.
Do these schemes really make any serious money from Adsense? Surely you would need to do something about original content and backlinks for each of the mega umpteen web pages (900MB of data I think I read on Joel's blog) to get them earning a reasonable organic search position?
Or is it a case of buy it cheap and play the numbers game? - lots of pages earning not much, but at least you double your investment?
And if you have to buy lots of domains and hosting that might be a lot bigger initial investment than just buying the templates.
Is Joel offering a goose that lays golden eggs, or are we being "goosed"?
What color is Joel's hat?
Can anyone enlighten those of us who are innocent in the ways of earning giant Google checks from Adsense?

[Biff_Tiberius_Farnsworth]

Nope it doesn't work. I have many friends who do it and slave at it expecting it to pop and make them rich any day now. They completely give up on their REAL websites and do this. Then when they finally do realize the folly of MFA's (abbreviation for Made For Adsense web pages), the last stop is usually at eBay to sell the sites for chump change and hassles with the noobie buyer.

Poor JC, the timing of the 'Death of Adsense' craze couldn't have been worse for his planned MFA release under the guise of white hat legitimacy and ignorance of Adsense's 'smart pricing' algorithms.

~B

[Mac]

Thanks Biff
Not sure I am as worried about "poor JC" as I am for his many followers. This is the guy who I believe was selling word cloud "software" for some $800 or so a few months ago. For the life of me, I couldn't see what was better about his solution than a page that would take me maybe an hour or so to put together! I thought there had to be some subtle features I was missing. Maybe not.
You have to hand it to him: he is undoubtedly a supreme opportunist and master salesman!
So the old saying seems to apply then: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

[cjshu]

I didn't know Miles was that big into adsense.

Joel Comm has become quite the adsense marketing guru.

CJ

[TrustNo1]

As a rule don't take any testimonial too seriously. If you actually check out the sites, you see it's just buddy testimonials, most have never used what they're saying great things about. Along the lines of "Hey, if you say something good about my site, I'll say something good about your site" There might be a few genuine testimonials but the majority aren't.

[TrustNo1]

As a rule don't take any testimonial too seriously. If you actually check out the sites, you see it's just buddy testimonials, most have never used what they're saying great things about. Along the lines of "Hey, if you say something good about my site, I'll say something good about your site" There might be a few genuine testimonials but the majority aren't. And I agree with what Biff said in post 2. Never quite understood that. It all comes off as late night infomercial stuff optimized for the web :)

[Mac]

Anybody who bought suitably impressed?
Once you get down to the usable money earning core of the offer, that is?