AdSense Arbitrage With Keyword Elite

Yesterday, Brad Callen released a free e-book to promote his Keyword Elite tool, one of the better keyword tools out there (several readers have told me they own it, too). The report, AdSense Arbitrage — Still Alive and Well (PDF, 672K), is an interesting read for two reasons:

1. It shows that AdSense arbitrage — buying traffic via AdWords and directing it to a site in the hope of earning more from AdSense than you spend on AdWords — is still a viable option, despite the effect of landing page quality on AdWords ad prices.
2. You can whip together an e-book pretty quickly by grabbing postings from one of your forums (make sure you get permission from the posters, of course), making each posting a chapter, and adding chapter summaries that mostly repeat what's in the postings. (Not to be cynical or anything!)

The second point aside, it's true that the market for wholesale AdSense arbitrage has changed — or is changing. AdSense arbitrage was primarily the domain of made-for-AdSense (MFA) sites that would scrape or auto-create keyword-rich content and then drive traffic to them via cheap AdWords ads. The quality score factor makes it harder to arbitrage that traffic.

Now, it should be noted that the Keyword Elite case study (which has the exciting subtitle Learn How Michael Plante Made $4,515 In AdSense Commissions In Just Over
1 Month – With Absolutely No Success In The Past!) actually started before the last major AdWords quality score update, ending just after Google implemented their changes at the beginning of November. But, the points about writing simple pages with good, high-quality, relevant, original content and a couple of well-blended and well-placed AdSense ads is the key to the whole process. (Yes, there's no doubt that Keyword Elite makes it easier to find inexpensive AdWords keywords, but you can do so by hand if you want to spend the time.)

And in case it's not clear from reading the document, notice how the case study refers specifically to getting AdWords clicks from the content network, not the search network. In other words, the case study focuses on the much cheaper traffic you get from other AdSense sites, not the more expensive traffic from the Google search result pages.

If you've been thinking about using AdWords to drive traffic to your site, for AdSense arbitrage or for affiliate marketing, it's definitely worth a read.

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Eric Giguere wrote Make Easy Money with Google, which is not the spammy get-rich book you might think it is, and is about to release (finally) Uncommon AdSense, a book aimed at more experienced AdSense publishers. And no, it won't be overpriced.

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