Different kind of arbitrage question...

[Diorex]

I really have no problems driving cheap targeted traffic to a niche site. That has never been my problem.

My issue with arbitrage is convincing Adsense what my page is about. I have created quite a few sites, but the ads that show are only tangentially relevant to what I am really talking about or trying to target on the page.

Here are some of the things I am doing, any pointers on where I might be going wrong would be much appreciated.

I have the exact keyword I would like to target in:
the metatags (only keyword in tag), the title of the page(usually in a phrase), the folder on the website (i.e. /keyword.html), in H1 tags, alt text for pictures, bolded, underlined and italicized in original content, various uses of the keyword in sentences, (plurals,tenses etc.), my keyword density is about 5-7%, if I have links to the page from elsewhere on the site, I use the keyword as the anchor text on that page. It is a fresh domain with not a single backlink in any engine, and has a very generic URL.

I am certainly not an SEO and am really not trying to drive natural traffic to these pages (nice bonus), I am just trying to laser target a specific high value keyword.

I am about as accurate as World War II bomber trying to hit a single cow on a foggy night. I hit everything but my target.

For Example: I had what I thought was a very well written page on a financial topic, and mentioned the word Chicago (as in one of the places where this product was traded, also mentioned New York and London in same sentence) once in the entire page. Every ad I have ever seen on that page over months was about Chicago. Somehow instead of talking about my highly competitive financial keyword, Adsense thinks I am talking about Chicago nightclubs, apartments, and a whole slew of totally unrelated items that are not mentioned a single time in the entire 300+ word content page. ARGH!!!!

This is extreme, but typical of my results. If I could figure out how to display the ads I want, my arbitrage campaigns could potentially soar.

Am I trying to hard? Overdoing it? Missing something very fundamental? (PS. I use the adsense tool, and it shows the ads I would like on my page, so that is not a huge help)

Any tips would be much appreciated.

 

[Jdog]

Try using a subdomain once and see if it helps. keword.arbirus.com

It might help you out, because everything else your doing sounds right. Do you have any outgoing links?

 

[Setec]

I'm using YPN, but I bet this would apply to AdSense too, because it has better targeting. I wrote my own auto-generator that basically plugs my keywords into a bunch of generic sentences in a random order, stuff like, "I like __keyword__. It is good to buy __keyword__." The result is that my pages contain no keywords anybody would bid on except for the ones I'm targeting.

I wrote my own simple generator instead of using RSSGM or YACG or something to address the exact problem you're facing. You could write something similar by hand easily enough. I stopped writing decent handwritten articles for arbitrage very, very early, because it's slow and mind-numbingly boring. I'm a big fan of good user interface design and well-written, useful content, which is why I spend most of my time on white hat projects, but for arbitrage you have to throw all of those tendencies out the window and concentrate on volume and targeting. The sooner you learn that the better you'll do.

It seems that they weigh the bid much higher than the relevance score or something, so they show high-bid irrelevant ads with just one or two keyword mentions instead of what they're supposed to show on your page.

 

[engaged]

you are scrping the wrong shit if you can't get relevant ads. <h1>keywords</h1> <p> or 4 or 5 with some <i> and <b> on some keywords, NO PROBLEMS EVER.

 

[ImagesAndWords]

I recommend you also try sectional targetting. It's one of the lesser known features of Adsense. Basically, it forces your ads to ignore or pay closer attention to the parts of the content you specify. Jensense talked about it in her blog.

 

[kr338r]

I recommend you also try sectional targetting. It's one of the lesser known features of Adsense. Basically, it forces your ads to ignore or pay closer attention to the parts of the content you specify. Jensense talked about it in her blog.

link here dude

 

[waz67]

And definitely make sure you have your targetted keyword in the URL of the page. That seems to be the key to getting the proper ads right at the start, rather than having to wait for the adsense bots to analyze your page.

 

[Albert]

I stopped writing decent handwritten articles for arbitrage very, very early, because it's slow and mind-numbingly boring. I'm a big fan of good user interface design and well-written, useful content, which is why I spend most of my time on white hat projects, but for arbitrage you have to throw all of those tendencies out the window and concentrate on volume and targeting. The sooner you learn that the better you'll do.

It seems that they weigh the bid much higher than the relevance score or something, so they show high-bid irrelevant ads with just one or two keyword mentions instead of what they're supposed to show on your page.

What other profound discoveries have you made, captain obvious?

 

[Setec]

What other profound discoveries have you made, captain obvious?

Yeah, forgive me for taking the time to explain something basic to a noob who asked about it. Somebody get Chrislingle in here to call him some names... I forgot all about proper WF initiation rites.