Is Arbitrage Dead?

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I keep hearing people say how Yahoo and Google are shutting down arbitragers, and how it's not worth it anymore.

Anyone know if this is true? Is it not a viable business model anymore?

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This is old news. You could have banked early this year, but not anymore. I don't know of any parking companies that will allow paid traffic.
 
I don't know if I completely agree with this statement.

I am a affiliate/web marketing NOOB (About 2 weeks into this thing so far).

I did a modified arbitage setup as suggested on one of the sticky threads.

I did a WP blog w/ short articles on affiliate marketing promotions and then post a good deal of ads on it. My return has been pretty decent overall. Maybe it's not considered true arbitage, but my return has been good on a bunch of 5 cent kewords.
 
bluebuddha said:
can it be done any way with parked Adsense (what they recently began allowing)?
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Nah, I wouldn't suggest risking your adsense account to try it. They're slowly rolling out the domain parking for US publishers but my guess is that they're gunna be monitoring it pretty closely.
 
If you followed the advice in the arbi thread, it would take you roughly 30 minutes to set up and test for yourself.
 
its very much alive

It amazes me how many people think arbitrage is a thing of the past. I still know people making 5 and 6 figures a month. I build a lot of tools for these guys. You just have to be a little smarter than throwing up a lame MFA site these days... but not really that much smarter. Bottom line is your traffic does have to be quality and work out for the advertisers if you want to survive. Anyone who is looking to get back into the game can PM me for help.
 
arbi isn't dead, although I did have the ads on one of my mfa sites shut down today. G told me that if it happens again, they might suspend my account. I'm going to redo the site and make it look less MFA.

Also, there is still money in arbitrage. But now that yahoo implemented their lame minimum bids, the profit margin isn't as high as it was for me in the first quarter of '08
 
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