7search for arbi?

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I burned through $25 trying to do Arbi on 7search and in the end gave up with it due to a lack of people actually clicking on my ads or affiliate products. I wonder if all the 7search traffic is real people, robots, people in China or what? I couldn't find a way to filter the traffic for UK only (where I am based) which sucked too.

If you are only getting a couple of clicks, you have very little information in order to do testing of different layouts.

I switched to AdWords and have finally made a (tiny) profit there. The volume is greater, and the traffic is definitely real people, and I have only targeted the UK.

The one good thing about 7search is the tool that lets you check the search volume for keywords. I don't know how accurate it is, but I use it a lot to help with my Adwords campaigns, even though I only have $0.03 left in my 7search account!
 


What type of keywords are you using to push traffic? Think about where your ads will be running and what your visitors want to get out of your site. Hopefully, they want a brief introduction to forex and links to more resources. If I was browsing a site that was forex related and showed that ad, I'd probably expect to find something about EFFECTIVE forex trading. What I get is a page with obvious filler content that says basically nothing about forex, other than that it exists and is a keyword you want to use in web pages alot. You also get an ad for another arbitrage site (cut that out of there, pruning this crap can help your CTR alot) and forex.com, which offers trading, not advice on how it will make them money.

The ad placement is also probably in the last place you want it. What I would ideally do is have a very brief forex introduction, then a rectangular ad unit that when processed by the user after reading the copy registers more as resources and less as advertisement. I'd also probably add one of those bars with the different search topics, forget what they're called, but they're nice when they look like navigation. I'd probably also make pages on topics such as "forex trading systems" "making money trading forex", etc and add links so that the visitors who aren't interested in the introduction can find something that interests them, hopefully playing right into the idea that they should check out the resources offered by the ads.

These are all things I learned before being banned from AdSense for arbitrage. Think about it as marketing and not as a trick and you can do well, it's just a matter of making sure that after the numbers are crunched your equation is feasable. I was doing something very similar with "make money" or "build wealth" keywords "make money with penny stocks" ads pointing to pages about penny stock investing that seamlessly flowed into ads for penny stock newsletters and the like.

The penny stock pages used to turn $2.00 - $4.00 each day into about $40 - $60.
 
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Alright, so I just redid the website to a new test layout. The address is Forex Information and Resources - ForexWatch.org.

Yes, I did pretty much use the layout that Dekalog use. Yes, I asked him if that was okay. Over the next few days I'm going to tweak it, but for right now that's what it's going to be. Now it's an entire Forex mini site... with an emphasis on ads, obviously :)

PS - I'm still definately getting image ads. How gay :(
 
yoink*gasp* said:
Alright, so I just redid the website to a new test layout. The address is Forex Information and Resources - ForexWatch.org.
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Dude! Get some help on your copywriting!!! Is English your second language? Or, are you a college (high school?) student?

I'm not trying to be hard, but it's painfull to read your copy, and I just wanted to hit the "back" button, not the ads...and that's the whole point!
 
WebbLasVegas said:
Dude! Get some help on your copywriting!!! Is English your second language? Or, are you a college (high school?) student?

I'm not trying to be hard, but it's painfull to read your copy, and I just wanted to hit the "back" button, not the ads...and that's the whole point!
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What's wrong with it? I was told to keep my keyword density high so I tried to include it wherever I could.
 
I checked around at some other Forex sites and my copy seems to exceed theirs by leaps and bounds. I'm really confused here... what's wrong with it? How can I make it more effective? How do I make it not look MFA?
 
Honestly yoink the copy is better than 99% of arbi sites out there.

Not like anyone actually READS the stuff though.

If I were you I'd change the ads layout, I don't see them getting a high ctr at the moment. But maybe it does, I don't know. I'd test the squares inside the content too as opposed to on the left side verticals.
 
ConfusedSoul said:
Honestly yoink the copy is better than 99% of arbi sites out there.

Not like anyone actually READS the stuff though.

If I were you I'd change the ads layout, I don't see them getting a high ctr at the moment. But maybe it does, I don't know. I'd test the squares inside the content too as opposed to on the left side verticals.
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Thanks Confused :)

I'm going to split test that layout with another one that I'm working on right now (same design, just different text/ad position). I'm going to test 3 with identical ad copies, keywords, and bids and see which one has the better CTR.

This one has shown a 50% CTR for today though, but it was with very limited traffic (8 hits, 4 clicks).

My biggest problem seems to be finding cost effective traffic.
 
yoink*gasp* said:
What's wrong with it? I was told to keep my keyword density high so I tried to include it wherever I could.
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Just one of my many shortcommings, I guess, and I know that the copy doesn't really matter in arbi (or, so they say), but, if you're gunna write it, why not make it "flow" so those that do read it will gain something?

Just "old school", I guess...By all means, carry on....
 
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