SEO and Marketing

The other day I was doing a bit of arbitrage which involved driving traffic I bought with Adwords onto a landing page selling a particular product. This can be quite tricky but if you get your maths + niche right, you can make some nice cash. So I targeted a bunch of related sites running Adsense. Paid for a bunch of clicks and sold a few products. I have made a little profit so I was happy. Now why would not the websites I advertised on cut out the middle man (Google) and sell the products themselves, directly?

Have you ever thought about this? Why do people advertise with Adwords? Why do they pay you 50c for every click? Or even $5/click! (Considering that Google also keep certain % of the money) How can they afford to do this? Its quite simple really. They are able to generate more money from that visitor than 50c. These companies either sell their own service/product or simply do what I do and redirect people to their affiliates page. So why would you want to your incredibly profitable visitor to go somewhere else for a few cents even though you could have converted them yourself?

Have a look at your Adsense ads. (Don’t click on them. Manually enter the urls) What are these companies selling? Try and see if you can sell their product/service directly to your visitors via an affiliate program. I myself need to sit down and come up with something for this blog when I get a bit of time off from my main projects.

Have a look what Shoemoney has to say about Adsense on blogs:

Clicksor considered by some to be the next best Adsense alternative. You can display as many ad blocks as you like. You can even run your ads on adult websites. The only downside i have managed to find were the slowdowns. Every now and then the ads would slow down and take sometimes minutes to appear. This seems to be fixed now.

So i have been with Clicksor for a number of years now. The other night i noticed my number of clicks flying through the roof. Could this be a result of clickbombing? It turns out the clicks were legit. Clicksor has a nice little Inline text link feature. Basically when you paste a bit of code into your page their script will then scan for various keywords and turn them into ads. Have a look at the image bellow.

Can you see the underlined keywords “register” and “free”? These are not links to registration page. These are ads and whenever someone clicks on them i get a few cents. Do you see where im going now?

I have been using this technique for quite some time now. For example i would provide my users with some file they really want to download. Right bellow the file thumbnail i would write something along the lines of: “Download now”. The actual download link would appear 200 or so pixels bellow. I then add contextual inline ads code provided by Clicksor. What would happen in most cases is that eventually “Download now” will get underlined and turned into the link. As a result almost every user will click on the ad thinking it is a download link. Have a look at the screenshot bellow.