| By Casey Lim,
on 29-01-2008 03:18
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Published in : Internet |
Well, it has been sometime now since I wanted to write this article with regards to traffic arbitrage. Let me tell you this now…. This way of making money is no joke. It’s really time consuming. Well, time consuming for me and earnings is not as expected….
The idea about traffic arbitrage is to buy cheap pay per click (PPC) traffic and then channel these traffic through to your landing page which could either be content base or a search feed, and then hope to sell these traffic to either Adsense or other PPC search engines.
Sounds simple right?
Well, not exactly as simple as it is….
Now there are two ebooks out there which I have purchased and tried out… Google Payload and Adsense Voodoo. I also got the idea from a free report, Adsense Arbitrage – (Brad Callen’s free report of KeywordElite)
While the first two books talk about PPC traffic arbitrage in detail, adsense arbitrage is basically a report base on an extract from one of Brad’s forum member post his ways of arbitraging traffic.
Now coming back to main topic here….. One of the main skills that one should have or learn in order to profit from this system is you must know how to build a website.
If it was a content base, it would be very simple. You can either purchase an easy WYSIWYG sort of html editor like XSitePro or you can learn the basic of HTML and use Dreamweaver.
If you don’t know how to build a website, sorry… if you don’t know how to build a decent website, then it would be very difficult to convert your traffic.
Now if you were going to use a search feed sort of landing page, the one and only thing you really really need to learn is not only how to build the basic website, but you must know how to use php. Now that is a real stumbling block for an average joe.
While Google Payload does have videos to help guide you through the basic, you will still need to learn it the basic of HTML.
If you want to start and learn about traffic arbitrage, and you know just the basic of HTML then Adsense Voodoo is the right one for you. This is because the author talks more in detail about getting contents, searching for keywords, ppc advertising placing. Everything you need to get your content PPC campaign working.
Now so far these are the only two ebooks which I found about traffic arbitrage (apart from the free report). And I must say… both did not work for me. It’s either I gave up too soon, choose the wrong keywords or did my landing page wrongly.
It was too tedious for me to continue to tweak because I was earning cents on three campaigns. CENTS!!!
Now what these author does not really reveal is that, you need to spend and hope that the traffic converts. If the traffic does not CONVERT, you are actually spending your money upfront on PPC.
While it is cheap traffic and you don’t really pay loads, it does create some strain on your wallet.
Anyhow… I manage to breakeven. That was when I stop… The amount of time to tweak and monitor is just too tedious and time consuming. That is one of the reasons, why I was out of action from update my site for quite a while
These are the three campaign I manage to come up with in order.
1. Cheap Tickets
2. Green Card Lottery
3. Mortgage Refinancing
Mortgage Refinancing topic was the interesting one, because the I was getting like $1.00 per click but my conversation rate was very low (<5%). So I was like spending $50.00 per day and manage $50+ per day on adsense….
Something is wrong…. It’s either me or this system does not really work as stated…. Sigh….. back to square one in my money making plan….
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