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Three years ago I launched a site, added content daily, SEO'd the heck out of it. Because the site is subscriber-based, it generates a bit of money for me.

It also now generates a very good amount of traffic. But I can't put Adsense ads on the site, because the site is related to guns, a prohibited topic for Google.

It wasn't my intent at the outset to use AdSense, but I still kick myself for not selecting a niche that would allow it. I'm missing out on extra money. On top of that, the niche my site is in is a poor-paying one for advertising. Banner advertisers will go up to maybe ten cents a click, but that's it.

A new site I launched is financial related. One click on one AdSense ad earned me $1.81.

Big difference.

As to your content, don't copy it. Write your own. For my new site, I read several authoritative pages from various websites to understand the topic, then write an article in my own words. No duplicate content, and also some content that wasn't in one or more of the articles on the sites I used as research. And I can write an article in less than an hour.