Taking the Plunge?

[con771]

I'm just staring my 3rd site. My first two have only relied on SE traffic and link development for traffic and $.
I have finally decided to take the plunge with the 3rd into the world of Adwords.
My questions are:

What are you guys selling?
Are you mainly affiliates?
If so, do you setup your own product pages or just pre-sell?
Are you wholesalers or dropshippers?

I'm just trying to figure out an effective plan for converting traffic into sales.

[stargeek]

I've yet to find an affiliate program that converted well enough to be a worthy adsense candidate, I look around every once in a while tho.

[con771]

are you a dropshipper then? How do you ship/sell your products

[stargeek]

No I've never been able to use adwords for anything worthwhile is what i was saying.

[inbound]

Some people do well without having to get involved with products at all - Traffic arbitrage.

There are good and bad ways to do it (from an ethics point of view) but if you buy traffic at X cents and can make X+? cents from sending the average user on to their destination then you don't need to concern yourself with products.

However, it may be a little late to join that party (unless you can find a niche). If you can find that niche then you may find it difficult to make lots from it as there will not be tons of traffic to gain from, you may need a few such sites before you see it as a good (but highly unstable) income.

[JoeHouse]

If you are starting a new site. Then on google its probably the only way to go. There appears to be some kind of filter on new sites which as an end result does not allow new sites to rank well at all.

I have lived on adwords for about 5 months waiting for this filter to set my new site free. I am still waiting.

At this point I am going to probably pull my ads on adwords until google decides to allow me my proper organic rankings. It is so obvious that this filter exists for new sites that just trying to live on adwords only will not do it. So why throw my money away.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

The sandbox, I'm sure, is to stop people profitting on day 1 from throwing up 1,000 useless new made-for-AdSense disposable and information-free sites.

Most of those doing it don't have the patience to wait several months for emergence from the sandbox, whereas those doing a site for its own sake probably don't even notice! In any case, when I started doing sites it just did take several months for AltaVista, WebCrawler, etc, to notice that a site existed... Thus the sandbox is a good and simple deterent against bad behaviour that hurts searchers, in G's eyes. Inevitably there will be collateral damage since these "victimless" crimes (by the blackhats/scapers/scammers) always have some whatever they may think, just like insurance fraud and tax fraud and credit-card fraud (I just lost $20k of my own money that I don't have on the last one to scammers attacking my company).

FWIW, I don't think that my use of AW has made one whit of difference to my SERPs placement or traffic ever.

Rgds

Damon