I expect that like me, you have received several emails asking
you to buy a selection of Adsense ready templates. Each email
seems to offer more and more bonuses, and it is so easy to get
more caught up in getting the bonuses then it is focusing on the
product. Internet marketers know this, which is why each one ups
the bonus count so that the unfortunate subscriber automatically
goes to the one with the highest value(?) bonuses. They know
that if you see the template product offered with a ridiculous
bonus value of $5495, you will buy that template package rather
than one with only $3495 bonus value, and this will put up the
advertisers affiliate commission.

Of course they know that this is a good way to get rid of excess
ebooks that they probably got for free anyway.

Many newcomers to internet marketing fall for this marketing
ploy, while experienced marketers know that they need to
completely disregard the bonuses and look at the actual product
being sold as a stand alone purchase in its own right. You need
to do this too. Ask yourself “Is this product really worth the
price being asked, if you disregard the bonuses?” By the way,
most of those supposedly high value bonuses just end up
cluttering up your hard drive, gathering e-dust. You will have
so many of them that you will forget what you have downloaded.

All of this brings me to my point. I looked at the Adsense
templates, and thought “Are they worth the money being asked?”.
My answer to myself was a resounding “No”.

Why was that my answer? Because the number of websites I could
create were limited, and that any sites I did put up would be
very much the same as everyone else’s.

I had previously seen emails promoting Matt Callen’s site making
software, which he calls HyperVRE. I knew he was the brother of
Brad Callen’, and that Brad’s SEO Elite and Linkmetro software
products are highly respected on the internet. On that basis I
decided to take a look at HyperVRE, especially as it had an
attractive price of zero!

I must admit that my first instincts on reading the manual after
downloading the package were that it all seemed a little
daunting, until I realised that the perceived complexity of
having to enter variables in the templates was in fact an asset,
as this is what makes sites created with HyperVRE so
customiseable, sites can be created which will be completely
different from every other HyperVRE owner. This is so important,
as search engines are pretty hard on duplicate content.

So how does HyperVRE work?

Well, firstly you open up a new project, and name it; this name
will be the theme of the site you are going to create.

Then you are asked to put in a fairly generic keyword like
“golf“, or “dog training”. This will describe the generic theme
of your site. Immediately HyperVRE generates a list of suggested
keywords relating to your main keyword. You can use these in
total, or discard the ones you don’t want, you can also add your
own keywords, which you have got from a keyword research tool
such as SEO Elite.

Then you add your templates, which you have previously edited
with an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver to make them uniquely
yours. If you don’t have Dreamweaver, there are plenty of other
HTML editors to choose from. Just do a search in Google, or the
one I use; www.searchbigdaddy.com/peter_act. HyperVRE will then
search and add related articles and RSS feeds.

HyperVRE will also add any images you would like to use from
your own image folder to pretty up your site, plus three pay per
click links, which will be your own Adsense, Amazon and
PayDotCom codes. These would have been entered by you when you
ordered the product, and are hard coded for you.

Next step is to press the button marked “Save project and
generate Pages”, wait a few moments, and that’s it!

All you need to do now is upload your new sites by FTP up to
your server, and your presence is now established on the net.
You’re done!

How easy was that, even for a no-hoper like me? Once you have
edited the generic templates you got with HyperVRE with an HTML
editor, and saved them as your own specific templates, you are
only a few keystrokes away from creating your new site.

I will say that the member’s forum is a real bonus, as the
members were certainly a great help. One even went so far as to
publish his own help manual in the forum - thanks Mike!

This is a far better bonus than those over-rated ebooks you
would have got with the template offer, and the great thing is
you can use this software to create an unlimited number of
sites, not just how ever many you get with other offers.

And the icing on the cake is that all of this is free!

Of course there is an upgrade to Gold membership available,
which I got after about a week of playing with the software and
realizing its potential. What do you get with your HyperVRE Gold
membership?

Well you get very valuable extras, which is why I upgraded.

* You can manually add your own articles, rather than the ones
supplied by HyperVRE. This was very important to me, as it meant
I could add laser targeted articles, some with my embedded
affiliate links in them. * You can manually add RSS feeds which
you have chosen yourself as being of particular relevance to
your site. * You can manually add your own affiliate links for
whatever products you want to sell on your site. This could be a
real money spinner, and should pay for the price of the upgrade
in itself.

One tip if you do plan to upgrade to Gold membership to take
advantage of these valuable extras - order from the one time
offer page - if you go away to think about it, when you get back
you’ll find the price has gone up by $30 - it really was a one
time offer.

May I finally say that I am not connected with HyperVRE in any
way, apart from being an obviously very satisfied customer, and
that this review is completely unsolicited, I am just writing to
possibly help people in their choice of Adsense template
software.

Peter Phillips © 2006

About the author:
Peter Phillips is an accountant living in Canberra, Australia,
and has written many articles relating to internet marketing and
boating. www.money-makingopportunities.com

By now you may have come across references to ‘HyperVRE.com’, a
website offering a free piece of Windows software that generates
‘niche’ websites for you automatically. Being in the business,
and interested in ‘VRE’, or ‘Virtual Real Estate’, I have, of
course, signed up for this service and downloaded / tested the
free software. Here’s what I found.

The software is interesting, and some considerable work appears
to have gone into it. However, the complexity appears to be so
extreme that it continually falls over on my XP machine. In
order to get it to run to completion, I had to move it to my old
Windows 98 system, where it took a not too unreasonable 35
minutes to generate a 120 page niche website.

The website was composed of static HTML pages, with references
to my adsense code, and a number of RSS feeds relevant to the
topic I had chosen. The process of generating the site is fairly
simple, follow a dozen or so steps then you will be presented
with a batch of html files you can upload to your web server
with your FTP client.

There’s nothing particularly difficult about the steps, you just
enter a list of keywords (or select them from a file) and choose
various other things such as RSS feeds, font colors and so on,
then click the button to generate. After uploading to the web
server, I could see the pages pretty much as they had looked on
my windows machine, and the RSS feeds filled as expected.

So far so good. I then noticed something interesting - constant
references to a site I am familiar with, and completely
irrelevant to the topic of my niche. Upon further investigation,
I discovered that you can ‘brand’ your copy of HyperVRE and give
it to people. When they use it, the software ’secretly’ (as it
says on the HyperVRE website) inserts this affiliate’s link all
over every site you generate. Investigating further, I
discovered that this MLM idea seemed to be the reason the
software was free, as the owners of HyperVRE embed their
websites in the generated html code too, as a quick check at the
whois proved.

To make matters worse, my ‘packetsniffer’ alerted me almost
immediately that the HyperVRE software itself was sneakily
monitoring me - passing both my niche topic, keyword list, and
other information back to the HyperVRE server whenever an
internet connection was present - in other words, it was loaded
with spyware.

There may be a way to disable the spyware, there may not. Of
equal concern is the fact that the generated site had a HUGE
footprint, no matter which one of the free 27 templates I chose,
meaning that Google and other search engines would have no
problem at all tracking down these generated sites and
automatically banning them, together with my adsense account.
The RSS feeds would also be a problem, as would the random
definitions and articles - duplicate content on PR0 sites isn’t
good news, especially if the ‘viral’ idea embedded in it kicks
in and large numbers of people start using it - obviously the
owners have no control over who ends up with a copy and
generates millions of spam pages with it.

So - pros:- It’s free. Cons:- Pretty much everything else. Use
it at your own risk, is my own personal opinion, and I would
certainly not consider adding it to my arsenal. Oh, one final
point, use a disposable email address for the contact when you
sign up - the quantity of spam from HyperVRE is unbelievable, as
is the attempted upsell to the ’silver / gold’ edition.

About the author:
By J Reese