I was reading an article over at InternetMarketingSucks.com, and it was a pretty decent article about the problems of Adsense Arbitrage, but I thought I’d write a response. Obviously, I disagree with a lot of what was said, so I’ll take it point by point.
| But let’s say you get super lucky and do days of niche research and find a keyword that will pay you $5 per click on the content network. |
It’s not a question of luck. Some niches are expansive, and well known, and any blackhat worth his shit has niche detection software that can scan a keyword.
| Well, as soon as you send some non-converting clicks to that advertiser, they’ll notice the problem, and immediately decrease their content network bids. Then you’re done. Chances are your net loss is pretty bad, because you would have spent some money on all the testing. |
Just because you’re buying up longtail doesn’t mean it won’t convert. Example from one of my niches: “legal status of XXXXXXX in washington state” would convert just as well as “legal status of XXXXXXX”, and only slightly worse than the product name itself, since they were obviously interested in that for whatever reason. If a place decreases their bids, whatever. There’s 20 to replace them. Also, YOU don’t have a net loss, because 95% of the time, Google pays out, even in obvious cases of Adsense Arbitrage.
| And that is the outcome when you found your own niche. If you’re buying lists of hot niches, by the time you see the list, the niches are no longer profitable. |
Who the hell buys niche lists? Ugh.
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Posted on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 10:57 am in the category:Grow Some Balls, adsense, google.
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