Some concrete arbi numbers on 7Search vs Searchfeed

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Setec

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The bottom line: Searchfeed sucks. I know this isn't news to most people here, but I thought I'd share the numbers.

Since I started doing arbitrage with simultaneous campaigns on 7Search and Searchfeed, I noticed that days with really high Searchfeed traffic didn't seem to have higher earnings at all. A couple days ago I started sending my 7Search and Searchfeed traffic to pages with different YPN tracking URLs so I could see exactly which clicks came from which source.

The results: Searchfeed is even worse than I thought -- a Searchfeed click on average was worth less than one cent per click in my test ($0.008 to be exact). After the test I set all my bids down to $0.01, and I'm still likely to lose money as I dribble away the rest of my account balance.

Here are the numbers across all my current arbi sites. My average Searchfeed bid was $0.04 and my average 7Search bid was around $0.10. These are from two days, November 10th-11th.

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I know it's not the greatest sample size in the world, and I was planning to run the test for much longer, but it became so obvious after two days that Searchfeed sucks that I decided to cut it short. If anybody would like to give me a bunch of their money to toss into the Searchfeed dumpster I'll be happy to run a longer test.
 


Did you find that the source of the traffic from either Searchfeed or 7search varied depending on the niche? Or was it the same regardless of the niche?
 
Hmm...
You are loosing money on both accounts though
(last third of the table)

::emp::
 
emp said:
Hmm...
You are loosing money on both accounts though
(last third of the table)
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No, he's losing money in some niches on 7Search but making a lot more in other niches. So that's why there's a $39 profit on the bottom line.
 
Yeah emp, those are some newer niches for the most part. I've tried some that are profitable and some that aren't. And some of the ones that are in the red for the two days of this test are fairly positive overall.

I use a similar spreadsheet to keep track of all my niches and update it every few days with my stats. I would highly recommend that. I'm pretty good with numbers but I picked up a LOT more useful info writing out the spreadsheet than I did just eyeballing my plain stats. It helped me see to drop a few niches I thought were doing alright, and raise my bids on some that were very profitable but weren't getting much traffic.

I didn't set up a way to track the direct source of the 7Search/Searchfeed traffic. I guess I could do it using Google Analytics but it would be a pain and I don't see any point. I just tracked which of those two it came from, not which of their affiliates actually sent the click.
 
So the best traffic sources for arbi?

7search
YPN
MSN
Adwords

Any other reliably profitable traffic sources?
 
Does anyone know who the 7search affiliates are? Do any of them have ppc programs? Has anyone tried any of them if they do?
 
If you search for your arbi domain in google, you might see some of the affiliates. I found some that my sites were on.
 
Setec said:
Yeah emp, those are some newer niches for the most part. I've tried some that are profitable and some that aren't. And some of the ones that are in the red for the two days of this test are fairly positive overall.

I use a similar spreadsheet to keep track of all my niches and update it every few days with my stats. I would highly recommend that. I'm pretty good with numbers but I picked up a LOT more useful info writing out the spreadsheet than I did just eyeballing my plain stats. It helped me see to drop a few niches I thought were doing alright, and raise my bids on some that were very profitable but weren't getting much traffic.
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Good Idea, that. always look at your data.

In God we trust, everyone else needs to provide data.

::emp:: <-- actually an atheist
 
I was getting good results with them a few months ago. Just recently the quality of the traffic has gone down hill significantly.
 
Setec, what do you use to track which ads were clicked and how much they were worth?

I would like to try do and Excel report like yours, but I'm pretty RETARDED with using trackers and Excel...
 
I didn't track which ads were clicked and how much they were worth.

I sent traffic from Searchfeed and 7Search to different URLs for the same page (using a query string -- I added ?source=7S to the end of my URLs on 7Search) and put tracking URLs in YPN (you could do it in AdSense with URL channels) for each address.

So I didn't use any tracking program at all for this.
 
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