Comments on: Back Door Arbitrage at Google?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:50:08 +0000

Hello,

What do you know of this new thing call the arbitrageconspiracy which is about to be launched soon? Apparently this guy is doing quite well. My question is if this guy is making so much money why the hell would he want to flood the market or saturate it with new people which would provide more competition to him?

By: Google Throws Away The Rules, Again | Merjis Internet Marketing Blog

Google Throws Away The Rules, Again | Merjis Internet Marketing Blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:26:14 +0000

[...] not going to get started on the arbitrage – see that Ask advert? Ask resells Google Keyword Search adverts. So the low cost Content Match advert brings people to Ask for Keyword Search, amplifying Ask [...]

By: David V.

David V. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:16:29 +0000

Using Ask.com’s contextual ad program, you could run ads on your site from Google advertisers who had ads running on Google’s “search network”, even if your site did not belong to that network.

Many advertisers opt-in to the search network yet opt-out of Google’s content network.

Google’s search network description made no mention of contextual non-search placements. For the sites I manage this issue has been resolved.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:41:51 +0000

David, let me see if I under your back door theory correctly. The bar to google arbitragers is that google looks for them in their adwords program–i.e., landing pages covered with nothing but ads. So you are saying go through Ask.com (avoiding the prying eyes of google) to generate traffic to pages littered with google adsense ads?

By: pharmacie

pharmacie — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:51:42 +0000

You’ve put a great deal of thought into this - out of curiosity what triggered your thoughts on this subject? I personally have never thought about it but I don’t use AdWords very much. pharmacie's last blog post..Acheter Pravachol en ligne

By: Hair Loss Info

Hair Loss Info — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:10:58 +0000

At the end of the day, the advertisers will/should always check conversion rates for a particular referer. If I was spending my money (and sometimes I do) then I definitely would stop ads showing on non-converting sites.

By: David V.

David V. — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:14:31 +0000

Jeffrey,

I do think adwords quality is fairly high, but my concern is over the quality of their search network. When an ad network is saying it works one way and I discover it works another it is misleading. I’m also concerned about how difficult it can be through adwords to differentiate search network traffic.

As for the benefit of SEO, that just depends on your target phrases and how good you are at getting organic rankings. I always prefer “free” over paid, but I’ll take a good converting paid link any day.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:39:58 +0000

David, do you think adwords quality is what it used to be? If so, do you think
all the SEO stuff is worth the cost? I mean, if I can get a front page listing
via adwords, why go through all the trouble and expense of SEO? Or do you think
a highly placed organic link would convert as well or better than a highly placed
adwords link? Have you ever seen any articles or data on this?

By: Owen Cutajar

Owen Cutajar — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:18:13 +0000

The main question though is whether this drives visitors to your site or not. If the net result is still positive, then it may be acceptable.

By: Michael Denney

Michael Denney — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:05:43 +0000

You’ve put a great deal of thought into this – out of curiosity what triggered your thoughts on this subject? I personally have never thought about it but I don’t use AdWords very much.

By: Zen

Zen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:55:00 +0000

imho
“back door” is not a good access in any case, with Google and Yahoo too.

By: הורדת טרוטונים

הורדת טרוטונים — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:32:06 +0000

Interesting…