Do you weigh arbi competition in your niche selection?

[Setec]

I just put together keyword lists for about 35 more niches to build arbi pages on, and I'm looking around on 7Search for a few of them. In some I can't find any arbi pages in the results, and in others it's nothing but i-geek.info clones. Now I'm wondering if I should even mess with those, because it seems like somebody searching for them would be pretty uninterested in clicking after the 5th or 6th MFA.

Of course, the answer is, "try it, experiment, etc." And I'm going to go do that right now. But I thought it would make for interesting conversation -- do you try arbitrage in niches where it's already taking over? Do you do any good with it? Or do you try to find completely fresh stuff?

 

[arz]

Where have you been looking for the potential competition on 7Search? Don't they have several affiliates, meaning that you would have to check each of them individually?

 

[Setec]

I just use the search box on 7Search.com. Yes, they have lots of affiliates, but I don't try to get a complete detailed picture of the competition in the niche, just a ballpark of idea of whether lots of people are doing it or not.

 

[arz]

You're better off using this tool: http://conversion.7search.com/scripts/advertisertools/viewcpc.aspx

In addition to showing the search results, it'll also show you the CPC that they've bid. But remember that this is 7search bids only, and most of traffic through 7search is from their affiliates...so expect to pay a higher CPC than listed there, if you want decent results.

 

[Setec]

I wasn't thinking in terms of bidding competition, since I can figure that out from their keyword tool and it doesn't really matter if I'm bidding against arbi sites or not. My rationale for thinking maybe it's important is that people searching for terms swamped with arbi pages are likely to recognize one and go straight for the "back" button. Or so I would guess.

I'm working on an arbi layout that hopefully won't look at all like an arbi layout, but still won't have leaks. I'll experiment with it against some of those.

 

[fenryr]

Mh I don't give a shit about the arbi competition and it will be hard to analyse that aspect's influence on CTR..

 

[xboxundone]

Mh I don't give a shit about the arbi competition and it will be hard to analyse that aspect's influence on CTR..

Yea i wouldnt waste much time researchign the competition as it could be spent getting your pages going.