Comments on: An Example of Pay-Per-Click Arbitrage Trickery

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Update: Google Parking Changes and Arbitrage - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:42:36 +0000

[...] wrote about some of the “trickery” behind arbitrage last year. One form is making bogus claims in [...]

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Yahoo Kills Domain Arbitrage: Fallout for Google, Others - The Domain Industry's News Source

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:52:35 +0000

[...] Individuals did it through parking companies such as Parked.com and HitFarm (sometimes using sneaky tricks on the latter). (Other parking companies, such as Sedo, expressly forbade arbitrage.) I’ve [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:29:56 +0000

Hi Shelley,

I’ll admit.. most of the content network traffic isn’t that good.

That’s why its important to track which of these content network sites are bringing in the most sales.

My website has some pretty cool reporting features on which adsense sites generated you the most sales from your Google Content Network ad.

It tells you the exact keyword phrases resulted in a sale. Then you can make informed decisions about your PPC account.

If you are an affiliate marketer, it works great because Google Analytics can’t do this.

If interested, visit

http://www.keywordradar.com/product.html?src=blog

Best of luck

Brian

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:47:55 +0000

Shelley, you can use a program like xtreme conversions to find out exactly where your clicks and conversions are coming from:

http://tinyurl.com/26rn7h

(yes, that’s an affiliate link. you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to, but I use this program and definitely vouch for it)

By: Aaron Pang

Aaron Pang — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:38:09 +0000

I definitely agree with you there. It seems like the temporary antidote to get away with PPC advertising is to start writing some decent ads rather than fooling the whole world!! ~~

By: Shelley Ellis

Shelley Ellis — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:39:29 +0000

I just posted a message about this on WebMasterWorld.com and on my blog. As of today, my new AdWords placement reports have blocked me from seeing which domain parking pages are showing my ads therefore blocking me from excluding them from my content campaigns. All the PR and news releases about Google purging the MFA websites may have been great for their image (and yes, I’m VERY happy that Google is doing that for us!) but it doesn’t fool anyone who keeps a close eye on their content advertising with Google Adwords.

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:04:19 +0000

@Isabel, FYI, you can now block parked domains on Google AdWords. Also, Google distributes parked domain ads on both its search and content networks.

@Robert, I agree that generic keyword domains could be just as valuable as search keywords. Whether you type “personal loan” in a search box or navigate directly to personalloan.com (if that is a parked page), you’ll see the same PPC ads. Presumably, there’s the same intent. However, if you look at all of the examples from this post (great post, BTW) they are clearly not type-in domains. That’s a problem for legit domainers. PPC advertisers see garbage traffic from low quality parked domains and assume they’re all garbage. I know I used to.