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Strange stats i've noticed recently. Visitors who happen to click on an Adsense ad when coming from the alternative advertisers normally pays 5x more than when from an adwords ad.
These are similar ads and the same keywords across all advertising methods.
Anyone else notice this phenonmenon?
It has been suggested in the past as a possible 1st-order anti-MFA tactic for G to try. Maybe they listened!
Rgds
Damon
The easiest would be to link adsense to adwords and any payed for ad would automatically cap the best paying click to that amount (or less, even better).
Bye-bye profit from MFA scams.
Personally, I strip all the referrer info and then send them to the ads.
I wouldn't do that. I think things like "100% no-referrer visitors" (i.e. anomalies in traffic structure) are one of the main factors in the banning algo. Google might ask "How is this guy getting all those clicks out of nowere?"
Plus, I can think of at least 3 more methods that Google can use to recognize arbitraged visitors.
And you know what?
All of them are purely Google-side, i.e. they bypass your site, i.e. you can't do anythng about it!
Arbitrage!= EVIL.
(Arbitrage is good when it eliminates market inefficiencies, for example, and makes your Internet access cheaper.)
What is EVIL is the useless and deceptive SPAM in the SERPs, sometimes known as MFAs.
G seems to have launched a multi-pronged attack, of which one prong would seem to be to make simple-minded AS/AW MFA arbitrage ineffective. Good.
Having looked at sailorjwd's sites I don't think that he is running a content-free/click-wasting/deceptive MFA. He may be accidentally giving G signals that he is. Weird/atypical referrer info might be such an accidental signal.
Rgds
Damon
There could well be an obvious, less sinister explanation.
There is a good chance that the visitor from Adwords has already seen some of the AdSense Ads on your page. Maybe they've already clicked on the ads, or rejected the ads before clicking on your own ad.
