arbi question

[ohmichea]

Hi. I have a few questions, and if I sound stupid, oh well, you gotta start somewhere. I have a freebie website and I had it on adwords for a bit and got a good amount of my clicks from this site free-stuff-hq.com

So.......I have been reading about arbi....and this site doesn't even have any content. And when you go to it and "view source" .... what is that?

anyway, my main question is....if I decide to dabble in arbi, is it best to get a domain just for that? I notice people talking about bans and scary emails. If I follow the TOS I should be ok? Or no?

 

[projectv3]

that free-stuff-hq.com

is a parked domain, which is a common form of arbi. in shot what you do is setup your PPC campaign, buy a related domain, park it at places like sedu, parked, namedrive, etc. then you drive traffic to it.

in terms of bans and scary emails, its more common in adwords -> adsense arbi, where sites are usually created off a cheap template or scraped with low quality content and deemed made for adsense "MFA". read the other arbi thread in this section, it shoudl give you a better idea.

 

[Aveligand]

anyway, my main question is....if I decide to dabble in arbi, is it best to get a domain just for that? I notice people talking about bans and scary emails. If I follow the TOS I should be ok? Or no?

The people who are getting bans and scary emails are the ones doing what's sometimes dubbed "arbi 1.0", meaning a simple 1-page site with little to no content (and what's there is usually littered with bolded keywords to tune adsense to high paying keywords) pastered with tonnes of ads and provides absolutely no value to the end user.

People doing "arbi 2.0" are, generally speaking, safe from the wrath of the Google Gods. These sites do provide value by having solid content (though not too much as to prevent the user from clicking on the ads), have several pages including "about" "privacy" and other google TOS recommendations, and have 1 or 2 links to external authority sites.

Shoemoney did a nice video commentary on his blog a while back about the google supposedly banning arbi sites. You might want to check it out. He did mention that none of the guys he knew who were making big bucks off of arbi received warning letters. The bottom line is, if you do it intelligently and not too blatantly, you should be safe.

 

[ohmichea]

Yeah but my curiousity is that the free stuff hq website has NO content at all. Its all sponsered links and nothing else, do you know what I mean? The only words on the thing are links to other pages of ads. I have seen others like this one with nothing on them.

 

[ohmichea]

that free-stuff-hq.com

is a parked domain, which is a common form of arbi. in shot what you do is setup your PPC campaign, buy a related domain, park it at places like sedu, parked, namedrive, etc. then you drive traffic to it.

But it says at parked.com "All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted."

 

[cashflowrusty]

They are a premium publisher, meaning their traffic converts, so Google allows arbi from them.
Google doesn't have anything really against arbi, just badly-converting arbi. At least that is the way some folks have interpreted it.

 

[projectv3]

But it says at parked.com "All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted."

thats jsut there for officiality, believe me, ALOT of people do it...