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I know that arbitrage does not always work out well, so I'm a little concerned. I do not have a lot of money to burn here, so I wanted to ask your opinions on:
I want to make sure I do not give my money away to some supposed traffic company to find out they send out fake hits to my site claiming it is real traffic. I want traffic that is interested in my niche and that will want to purchase something or be interested in clicking the ads if they do not find what they are looking for on my site.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
PS I do apologize if anyone thinks this question is not in the right forum, however, I want to make sure whatever traffic I choose to buy is well within AdSense guidelines and rules.
[edited by: WolfLover at 7:07 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2006]
It's a jungle out there. If you value your account I'd advise excercising a great deal of caution when it comes to buying traffic.
You might consider acquiring traffic that is highly targeted by purchasing links/ads on credible websites whose visitors might also have an interest in what your website has to offer. It might be a case of diminishing returns if both websites - yours and the link source - are running Adsense. Again, I'd suggest your focus be on the quality of the traffic and not the quantity, and your might exercise similar discretion in how you word your "ad".
OTOH, you also might build your traffic the old fashioned way, by creating a resource that people want to link to. You might also create some buzz and work on re-routing the "excited visit" traffic to other onsite sources.
This search turned up some WebmasterWorld posts that may be of interest to you:
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So you could probably safely hop over to Yahoo Search Marketing, or whatever it's called, and place a few ads.
You might also be safe buying ad space on other sites that complement yours and are likely to send real traffic to your site.
Of course you might also be able to get some traffic generating links on those sites for free, or in exchange for a link on your site.
What's probably NOT safe are those "1,000,000 visitors for $29.95" type deals.
How well does it work as far as does the traffic you buy, pay for itself and make a profit as well?
YMMV -- exponentially. The difference between successful AdWords arbitrage and failure can be the difference of one or two words in the ad copy. AdWords has evolved to nearly an artform, with a sometimes arcane set of rules you have to work within to maximize profits.
To me, the real problem of using AdWords arbitrage is knowing when to give up; it's hard to know when a given ROI is just impossible as opposed to the situation in which I just haven't been clever enough yet to lower the advertising costs enough.
Of course, sometimes you just get lucky and can plop down and ad and start making money. Such lucky times are fewer and further between than they used to be, IMO.
Other than domain navigation traffic I have yet to read about a significant traffic source - outside the major search engines - that is reputed to be anything other than junk traffic. This would include all manner or 2d or 3d tier "search engines", "traffic networks" (often entertainment type sites), redirected traffic (browser hijacking), banner ad networks, etc.
webwork, thanks for posting! ;-)
webwork, can you explain the meaning of "domain navigation traffic"?
I have been extremely busy building more sites so that hopefully maybe next year if one or two of my sites take a hit like this, then it will not be as devastating.
I thank all of you for your valuable information.
