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Adsense Idea!

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gkgk11

11:22 pm on Dec 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Well You see I bought a highly reputable e-book about adsense, adwords, affiliate, marketing.

The idea was to use PPC ads from less known companies with a lower CPP to drive traffic to my site..

I am going to still use SEO. However, lets say I'm buying traffic for .05 (just an example) from a lower priced PPC company, but I had a high profit niche with Adsense where a click would you pay $2.00 (on average).

In summary I'm buying traffic for 5 cents a click, but if the person click on an adsense ad on my site I would get $2.00

Seems like a good idea to me.... Any suggestions?

topr8

11:25 pm on Dec 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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yes of course that is a great idea, it is a total no brainer

why don't you try see if it works in practice

gkgk11

11:31 pm on Dec 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi and thanks for your opinion.. Ok I guess thats what I'm going to do.

jomaxx

12:27 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Possible to do in theory. Quite hard to accomplish in practice, with a long learning curve and a fair risk to your startup capital. The easy money using this technique was made long ago.

People around here tend to consider it a parasitic business model that discredits the whole program, so don't expect too much helpful advice.

chocorol

12:32 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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yes of course that is a great idea, it is a total no brainer

why don't you try see if it works in practice

gkgk11:

He was being sarcastic. As you will see, those $2 clicks are not very common. Don't believe what those ebooks say, they just want to sell.

trinorthlighting

12:42 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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How much did you pay for the book? Gosh, they actually write books on how to become a MFA?

Scurramunga

2:36 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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You have more chances of success if you publish an ebook on the topic.
Ah but yes, that has already been done too.

shogun_ro

5:39 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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In summary I'm buying traffic for 5 cents a click, but if the person click on an adsense ad on my site I would get $2.00

Yes,but it's possible that nobody click on your ads.
You need at 40 visitors one 2 $ click to not lose your money.
So it's a big "IF".

humblebeginnings

7:16 am on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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It's called (click) arbitrage and it has been around for a long time. Until a while ago there was easy money to be made with arbitrage by those who where a bit handy in gaming the system. However, the large players like Google, Yahoo and MSN have made it more and more difficult to do click arbitrage in order to protect their advertising systems. Today only the real pro's succeed in making a profit from arbitrage. Beginners might just as well make good websites with qualitiy content and do some traditional SEO on it. Might be easier to make money that way.

But here is my real advice:
It appears as if you thought you had some good idea to make easy cash. It turns out a million folks and their grandma have done it before you. Now your next idea could just be a really good idea, who knows. Whenever you think your idea is a true jackpot hitter, never share it with others. Because if you have discovered a real winner, you first want to make a profit out of it yourself before the rest will follow and destroy your business.

Lipik

3:01 pm on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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In theorie it is not possible. Why?
Lets say you have a 5% CTR (so on 100 pv's you have 5 clicks).
This mean you need to 'buy' 20 ads x 0.05$ = 1,00 $ for having one click. This click must be worth more than 1,00 $ to have a profit. I think it's almost impossible to find 0.05$ ads that make you more than 1$ clicks.
On the other hand, all the clicks you buy could be very good visitors as they already are 'selected' and your CTR could be 10%, 20% or more...in that case it could be someting.
Personally I think it could be a good combination of promoting your site and take the costs down by having a click from time to time.

jchampliaud

8:20 pm on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The problem with something like this is staying ahead of the game. The Interent is changing all the time that you'd almost need to come up with new keywords/pages daily.

martinibuster

8:31 pm on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

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A lot of people know where to get those five cent visitors, no secret there. They're not necessarily going to click your ads. In my experience, less than search related PPC or organic. I haven't tracked it because I'm in it for building awareness, not clicks.

If you want to do arbitrage you need to understand tracking, your demographic and whether dayparting is necessary, must be prepared to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars, and helps if you are already a PPC expert- not just proficient, but an expert. If you don't know it and intend to learn, you may end up losing money rather than earning.