Arbitrage rant

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I was doing well on my arbitrage sites using 7search then all of sudden the traffic stopped clicking yesterday. So I'm looking at my reports in 7search and screwing around with my ads when I realize they don't fucking show the number of impressions so I have no idea if my ad is being seen and my ad sucks or not. Is that fucking stupid or is it just me?

Does anyone else see their arbitrage sites taking big daily swings?

On the plus side I just realized I broke 200 posts. That's a first for me on any forum.
 


Some issues you may want to address with 7search is that they don't geoip for US traffic, they just kinda send you what they have available. The good news is that Google does geoip instantly on adsense, but I would NOT recommend using 7search with arbi sites that have YPN on there, as YPN does not auto geoip, in fact, they assume you already do it on your own, which almost no one does. Just a heads up!
 
this is my 300th post and Jon I learned that lesson the hard way with yahoo. I ran a aff offer and got hammered with crap traffic from asia, so anyway I to keep from getting band I shoot an email to yahoo saying I fucked up and take the click throughs from the following ip's off, they did and said no problem but...
 
Jon said:
Some issues you may want to address with 7search is that they don't geoip for US traffic, they just kinda send you what they have available. The good news is that Google does geoip instantly on adsense, but I would NOT recommend using 7search with arbi sites that have YPN on there, as YPN does not auto geoip, in fact, they assume you already do it on your own, which almost no one does. Just a heads up!
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thanks for letting us know. I was about to make a ypn arbi site
also, does that mean none of your arbi sites have ypn?
 
stanley said:
thanks for letting us know. I was about to make a ypn arbi site
also, does that mean none of your arbi sites have ypn?
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I really would think twice about it if I were you. Looking through my traffic logs I see a shitload of non-U.S. traffic which is no bueno for YPN. Clicksor seems to be pretty targeted with their geoipwhatever option, but they don't click shit for me.
 
jdog, with clicksor what are you targeting? any specific niche? maybe try another niche with them that gets some traffic.
 
I was thinking about setting up a site with YPN, and either geo-targeting the ads, or the whole site and just feeding us traffic to the ypn site and doing something else with the rest of the traffic. Basically just to see how well it might pay out.
 
chrislingle said:
jdog, with clicksor what are you targeting? any specific niche? maybe try another niche with them that gets some traffic.
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I got a couple different niches and they send me a decent amount of traffic (like 10 times more than 7 search for the same damn keywords), but I just can't get them to click my ads. When I am just running 7search I get 20-50% CTR, but with just clicksor it is in the single digits.

I tried running an affiliate page and got some clicks but no conversions, but I think their landing page sucks. Looks like a clickbank page. I'm gonna try another one and see what happens.
 
Jdog said:
I got a couple different niches and they send me a decent amount of traffic (like 10 times more than 7 search for the same damn keywords), but I just can't get them to click my ads. When I am just running 7search I get 20-50% CTR, but with just clicksor it is in the single digits.

I tried running an affiliate page and got some clicks but no conversions, but I think their landing page sucks. Looks like a clickbank page. I'm gonna try another one and see what happens.
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maybe their own page is an arbitrage page? if their own traffic comes from an arbitrage site then by the time the visitor finally gets to your page, they're too pissed off to click your ads ;) just an idea lol
 
stanley said:
maybe their own page is an arbitrage page? if their own traffic comes from an arbitrage site then by the time the visitor finally gets to your page, they're too pissed off to click your ads ;) just an idea lol
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There is probably a lot of truth in that statement.
 
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