Comments on: Adsense Arbitrage – A Case Study

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:39:26 +0000

It still works BIG time, but advertising on MSN does not work. Also you are missing the key thing here (no offense)

My wife have doing this for 5 years now and Google has no problem with the practiice as long as there is some good content on your web site. Lots of good content.

So aritrage is dead IF you use a throw-away web site (or page) and you use MSN Adcenter.

In short – to succeed at this you need;

A good site with lots of content
Advertising with the right PPC company
Must be a high paying niche by Google
Patience

Google has no problem with this model. What do you think Yahoo!, Bing and Ask are doing when the advertise in Adwords! Paying for traffic just sees a bunch of links to sites they have set up for you to click! Get it? It’s the Same THING WE DO.

By: Roshan

Roshan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:59:49 +0000

I tried it few times with low value keywords but after few minutes, the ad stops running with poor quality score.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:17:22 +0000

Just currious, do you think arbitrage still works even after 2 years since this article was writen I am new to this.

By: Shane Board

Shane Board — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:23:12 +0000

These kind of sites drive me insane because to put it simple, I get a visitor which I lose to a 1 cent click and then the site they find through the ad has more ads on it which makes that site more, I work hard for traffic and it angers me knowing I lose visitors to these MFA sites which are basicaly making money from the work I put in getting the traffic.

By: sam sanders

sam sanders — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:09:44 +0000

I agree that you may have to make your webpage look more “traditional” and less like an MFA page, but then wouldn’t your CPM drop since you aren’t highlighting the Adsense ads as much? I guess the blackhat way to do this would be to just keep signing up for Adsense accounts, basically as throwaway accounts. If you get banned, so what.

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By: Tim Schroeder

Tim Schroeder — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:54:34 +0000

Hi SEO Reloaded. Thanks for visiting eMonetized.

I’d probably recommend against trying traditional Arbitrage to make money at this point unless you can manage to get a second Adsense account.

You could try and make the Arbitrage landing page look more like a traditional website with helpful content. Then just use one or two Adsense ads but in very prominent positions. In other words, don’t make it exactly “look” like an Arbitrage website and you might be ok.

By: SEO Reloaded

SEO Reloaded — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:23:33 +0000

I recently came across a few posts on several blogs and also discussions on forums that Google is banning Adsense Accounts for sites that use Adsense Arbitrage. (Actually not banning but closing). Do you still think it’s a good idea to do something like this?