Arbitrage Question

[maverick]

Hi, I have been reading as much as I can but I have a couple more questions I hope someone can help with

1) I have seen it somewhere on the forum (lost the page) you should use the "noindex" tag so your site is not indexed for arbitrage pages, why is this?

2) Is the use of subdomains purley to make the site look more attractive for the visitor rather than

3) Should I use single pages with no links or be building mini sites with a few pages

Thanks in advance

 

[juniodude]

1) you use the noindex tag simply so google won't index you and your sites come up in google search engine. people do this because they don't use seo techniques and know that organic traffic should be little to zero for most arbitrage sites. now if it is indexed, and someone finds you arbitrage site, than they can easily find the rest of your sites with sites:blah.com ...at least that is why i noindex.

2) Yes, and no? Subdomains are great looking to your visitors, it makes them feel that the page is more dedicated to the specific subject, but also, some people believe that it might help in smart pricing issues and im pretty sure people put arbitrage sites on subdomains for other reasons..but i dont know why else

3) Test it out..generally the idea is "no leakage" so that the only links they can click are adsense links..but there is no strict rule in arbitrage that works for everyone. test things out. Linking pages together, adsense link ad units or not,..etc.

at least my take on things

 

[maverick]

I have built a few sites in the past for past projects ( http://www.adsence-websites.com/xbox/ ) , Do you think its better to make my new sites as graphic driven or should i tone my new ones down for my first project

 

[gdubs12345]

I need to set up a noindex on my site. Does anyone know how to do a noindex in robots.txt for addon domains?
the url is www.mainsite/addondomain.com/index.htm

would it be
Disallow: /addondomain.com

im not really sure