we are going to do a arbi test!

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Reefer, did you create a garbage site and just slapped the google search onto it?

I have it set up so it is the only thing on the page - like any old SE. its not part of the site - it is the site... I started using a full domain for my searches, but I bought a xxxsearch.com domain name, and will be making sub dirs for each nichce search.

prior to the holidays I was making about $10/day per seach page - but now if i make $1/day it is good. I make sure not to spend too much on ppc ads though- the CTR on these fluctuates, and though I think the avg. for mine is 30%+, some days it can be god awful, some days over 200%, etc.
 


Btw, I did a bit of digging and found 37 (!!!) copycats of Chris's original test page template on the big wide web.. I think Chris would make tons of money if he just made a few of them to sell! this half censored one XXXXXXters.info/ should check it as it is a mortgage page with playstation ads!! lol.

Lol, that's funny. Well no offense to Mr. Lingle and the copycats but I decided from the start my templates would look nothing like his example. My motto is always to try something myself from scratch and learn from my own mistakes. So my templates look totally different. I still get 50 - 300% CTR on them though, depending on niches. :)

halfPC; You also asked for niches that have bombed and aren't worth trying. I'll be the first one to go: I tried some arbi sites around "golf clubs". It looked promising in research - high CPC in Google and Overture and decently low ppc in 7search. Traffic wasn't too bad, but boy did the actual CPCs suck!! After over 50 Adsense clicks between $0.09 and $0.15 I gave up that one. :sleep:
 
well I guess you and they did not read all my posts, I started with that template in hopes of getting people to say why something works or not. I would not use that shit and have said so. sure I tested it and it might even still be up don't remember but the whole point was to teach people the process not show them how it is done! so there are 37 dog shit dumb fucktarded people out there!
 
just wondering how complex people are making their pages - mine are only a banner, med adsense block, text, large pic under adsense - white background.

CTR - 30% avg across the board (I do not turn off campaigns just b/c of low CTR if they are still making $$) - half my sites have CTR of 40 - 200+ %, but they are lower volume unforunately.

Since 7Search looks like they are banning sites even w/ original content if they look like they are for arb, tonight I will start the tedious process of entering in new PPC campaigns elsewhere. Stupid shits going to lose lots of business...

Well at least it got me off my ass to start the process of hiring a coder to make me a PPC auto submit program - if any of you guys have a custom built one for sale PM me, otherwise to rent-a-coder i go..

Instead of turning off poor performing sites I am starting to just delete all keywords in them except for 10 or so ultra targeted ones - and then slowly add more - so I am going to do the opposite of halfpc as I have had success w/ creating more sites w/ lots of kw's, but I like his idea as well.

So I will: Start w/ lots of keywords, find niches that work, the ones that don't work due to low CTR but have high earnings per click, cut kw's down, if they still don't perform cut the niche.

Niche that did not work but had an amazing CTR - Pokemon, I was annoyed at this niche since it had tons of clicks, over 75% CTR, but much lower EPC than I had thought (.01 -.03 cent usually)...
 
halfpc - just one last question :bowdown:

is your page that you link to from Y! answers supposed to have a lot of quality content, or just a small paragraph (like the example arb pages shown in this thread)
 
well I guess you and they did not read all my posts, I started with that template in hopes of getting people to say why something works or not. I would not use that shit and have said so. sure I tested it and it might even still be up don't remember but the whole point was to teach people the process not show them how it is done! so there are 37 dog shit dumb fucktarded people out there!

well I aint going to look for them posts but on two or three you did mention making what seemed like a fairly good profit so I am not surprised they are using it, regardless of you saying you weren't going to use it.... so there's now a theoretical $37.000 being made monthly by "37 dog shit dumb fucktarded people" out there. nah they are probably fighting for KW position at 7search!
 
halfpc - just one last question :bowdown:

is your page that you link to from Y! answers supposed to have a lot of quality content, or just a small paragraph (like the example arb pages shown in this thread)

my page has about three times the content and no pics. I gave it more content so as to be well within google's tos. I showed it to someone at google so as to be 100% sure it was ok.

As per "quality content"... imagine your niche is leather gloves. And you are trying to (matter-of-factly) convince someone who otherwise wouldn't give a shit about leather gloves to buy himself a pair of leather gloves.
That's the tone/mood you are in. The page will then result in something that prepares them to go the next step and click on the one damned ad once they read the thing. They already want to know about it all so the page WILL have the right tone.

Soooo.. have a page that clinically and sterily goes onto what the various types/uses for leather gloves can be, a few words on what to look for when choosing leather gloves, what the best way to clean leather gloves is and how much their life will improve when they'll get themselves a nice pair of confortable leather gloves, then stick your code in and off you go to yahoo.

Search for "leather gloves" in the box (tick to select the "open questions" only, so you can answer) then just blurb something politely cheerful about your own leather gloves and how it pays to read up a little before buying them and post the link to your page.

I used yahoo to find my niche. I made sure there was a topic that brought back many questions and relatively few answers. My niche brings back some 100 open questions most days and these average about 4/5 replies each. My niche is not about leather gloves as the keyword costs only $4 at Google.
Btw, this guy WANTS to buy some kind of gloves now so forget all I said, go and get an affiliate link to some glove vendor and post it to him, quick! that's your start, lol.
Yahoo! Answers - What are the best gloves for a OL/DL?
 
Since 7Search looks like they are banning sites even w/ original content if they look like they are for arb, tonight I will start the tedious process of entering in new PPC campaigns elsewhere. Stupid shits going to lose lots of business...

Once you have a campaign approved you can change the page to whatever you want.. so just make a page that has a million links out and no ads. Borrow any couple of pages from the net even, don't let the bastards win:)
 
halfpc,

Do you reply to most of the question on your topic and include your link or only do it with a few. I'm thinking you'd get banned if you kept posting your arb url even if it was relevant.

Do you post to most of the 100 questions and include your arb url everyday?

As others have said, great idea. Gave you a + rep.
 
halfpc,

Do you reply to most of the question on your topic and include your link or only do it with a few. I'm thinking you'd get banned if you kept posting your arb url even if it was relevant.

Do you post to most of the 100 questions and include your arb url everyday?

As others have said, great idea. Gave you a + rep.

Thanks for the rep, whatever that is! I don't post anymore because in the end making money this way is a silly way to make money and doesn't even pay that much considering the monkey work you do.

If you are going to spend your day typing, why not write half decent articles and post them to article forums with a link back to your site.

You can write just one article per day then use article submitter to post it everywhere. Or post it by hand.

Then it stays there forever and soon your site will start gaining solid traffic and PR.

However while it's all new and exciting, yeah you can reply to all questions and even similar ones via different accounts or even the same account, depending on how much you respect those mushrooms that moderate the place.
They sure don't respect you, however sweet you try to be.. I`d include my link in ALL my replies, and also other links to different looking pages of mine on the same topic (different domain) so you see which template performs best.

Use answers just to test your niche and page but don't allow yourself to get bogged down by it or you'll never progress, the net is too marvelous and vast to stay in one place too long.

as for bad niches/affiliates... did I say I failed miserably on acne & sweepstakes..
 
as for bad niches/affiliates... did I say I failed miserably on acne & sweepstakes..

Acne was a little rough for me too, but there are some subniches in there that are profitable.
 
wondering what article submitting program you use - or if you use a custom built one? pretty cool idea - can't get much better than a 0 ppc.
 
Guys, I wrote a tool to monitor what search queries lead visitors to my arbi/aff sites, what keyword work best, what rankings my organic hits have and so on. It has become pretty popular now as some a-list bloggers picked it up (see signature).

I use it to monitor all my arbi sites (that's why I wrote it in the first place) and to deliver aggregated stats. It might be useful for you too; lemme know if you need additional features!
 
fitzdog...
You stole one of my avatars. :)
j/k. Well the thing is I made an "arbi" logo JUST like that back in december in Photoshop but haven't used it yet.

Someone cracked a joke about getting hungry reading all this arbi stuff in an early post - that was my inspiration...
 
AdSense Link Unit

Just taking a guess here, but I'd imagine that everyone's CTR would increase by having a horizontal navigation bar with four or five "link unit" ads (vs. "ad unit"). Set a background image for the ad space that makes the links appear as tabs - users think its navigation for the site and would be more likely to click(?). The first tab would still be the "Ads by Google" tab though.

Has anyone tested this? Care to share the results?

I'd imagine that this doesn't comply with Google's TOS - so it may not be worth the risk...
Ad and image placement: a policy clarification
 
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