PPC Traffic to Adsense Sites?

[Oscar D]

Good day,

First off all I have 2 questions:

1.) Is it legal in terms of the Adsense Terms and Conditions to send traffic from a paid source to a website with Google Adsense on?
2.) If it is legal, then does anyone do it? Has it worked for you?

Please share your experiences

[Daniel_Pereira]

It's called Adsense Arbitrage. I don't know if it goes against any terms of use, but Google doesn't necessarily condone it.

Hope that helps!

And to answer your other question, I know many used to do it in the past when they could get 1 and 2 cent clicks, but I don't think many people have found it profitable anymore.

[Oscar D]

Originally Posted by Daniel_Pereira

It's called Adsense Arbitrage. I don't know if it goes against any terms of use, but Google doesn't necessarily condone it.

Hope that helps!

And to answer your other question, I know many used to do it in the past when they could get 1 and 2 cent clicks, but I don't think many people have found it profitable anymore.

Good day,

Thanks for your input. I THINK I might have found a place where I can try it. I am aware that it is a risk as I might end up making a loss, but life is all about risk right?

So if it's legal then I might take a shot at it

[Oscar D]

Check out this article that I found online regarding my idea:

'Triple Adsense money Through Paid Traffic' - 'Keyword Country' Article

The problem is that this article was posted on May 29, 2007 and the terms and conditions could of changed?

Any ideas or input anyone?

[Gavan]

Don´t do it, Google will ban you. It is called Adsense Arbitrage and I got my account banned a few years ago for doing this. I was making lots of money with this strategy and probably would have been a millionaire by now if Google had allowed it....Oh well.

[Tony Dean]

You want to go broke?

[Oscar D]

Originally Posted by Tony Dean

You want to go broke?

No, I actually want to do the contrary and make money

[Paid Surveys]

It is not illegal, it's a free market and you can use a variety of means to drive traffic to your site.

[Oscar D]

Originally Posted by Paid Surveys

It is not illegal, it's a free market and you can use a variety of means to drive traffic to your site.

Cool, have you ever tried it?

[easyhomeprofits]

I have found that you never get enough clicked, to pay for the clicks. Does that make sense?!

[Oscar D]

Originally Posted by easyhomeprofits

I have found that you never get enough clicked, to pay for the clicks. Does that make sense?!

Really? So have you tried this and how did it go?

[projek001]

Try it and you will be baned. But I have a better option. Why don't u try to use RefererX software???

[G Singh]

projek001,

With referrerx the traffic is from the website owners you refer, is that correct? I take it you're using this, what results have you had?.....Read the sales page, it does seem interesting.

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by Paid Surveys

It is not illegal, it's a free market and you can use a variety of means to drive traffic to your site.

Not, it isn't "illegal". However Adsense is not a "free market" entitlement. You will lose your account.

Mark

[checkback]

Avoid the adsense arbitrage model. Very few people can make it pay.

There are thousands of great alternative business models that you could try.

Regards.
Jim

[raymagnetic]

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

Not, it isn't "illegal". However Adsense is not a "free market" entitlement. You will lose your account.

Mark

Can you explain how you would lose your account? Brad Callen has an ebook with a guy using the adsense arbitrage model and doing well, VERY well actually.

I don't see how driving traffic to a website will get you banned.

[VilPietersen@]

Does that mean that you can never send traffic to a site with adsense on it?

[Mr Money Maker]

Simple..if you get caught you may never be able to do it again....so don;t get ban , be legit

[Hyaku_Man]

People do send paid traffic to sites that have Adsense on them, but if Google decides that your website is designed just to get Adsense clicks and doesn't offer enough value, they will ban you. And Google decides what has value and what is made-for-adsense, nobody else. So Google does whatever it wants. And these days Google is out of its mind and out for blood. So don't do it. Big name gurus can get away with it, but little guys like us get smoked.

I remember the story around here of some priest being banned from Adsense and losing the income that was funding his charity.

[raymagnetic]

Originally Posted by Hyaku_Man

People do send paid traffic to sites that have Adsense on them, but if Google decides that your website is designed just to get Adsense clicks and doesn't offer enough value, they will ban you. And Google decides what has value and what is made-for-adsense, nobody else. So Google does whatever it wants. And these days Google is out of its mind and out for blood. So don't do it. Big name gurus can get away with it, but little guys like us get smoked.

I remember the story around here of some priest being banned from Adsense and losing the income that was funding his charity.

I still don't get how you can be banned for sending paid traffic to a page with adsense ads if you have quality content and follow google's other rules.

Maybe I'm naive or something.

[beachrat]

Provide relevant and informative content related to your PPC traffic and you'll be ok.

[Sancho Sanches]

Google hate that and will likely ban your butt for good.

If you're going to do arbitrage in that way then don't do it in Google.

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[SummitBloggers]

We ran some tests on AdSense Arbitrage several years ago. Did not use AdWords - purchased traffic from other sources. While we were able to make a very small profit, it was not worth the effort.

You will have to track every penny you spend and compare that to the average return on AdSense. The problem is the click rate. Our sites averaged 8% - 15% ad clicks. So for every 100 visitors that were paid for, 8 - 15 would click an ad. The traffic has to be dirt cheap and AdSense revenue pretty high to overcome the spread due to click rate.

Another problem is the so-called "smart pricing" model at Google. As traffic increases on a page without a corresponding increase in ROI for the advertiser, Google will lower the per-click payout for your entire site.

Not sure about getting banned. We only ran the tests for a few months to see if there was any realistic long term profit potential. I do know (from reading reports and talking to others) that Google does not like the practice.

[Joshua.E1]

I think this is a very stupid idea in making money. This model will only make you lose money.

In the first place, Adsense is good if you have a huge list, or you get free traffic daily like more than 500 visitors. Then this is a good money making model.

Adwords PPC is basically higher price than you getting paid via Adsense.

[Hyaku_Man]

Originally Posted by SummitBloggers

We ran some tests on AdSense Arbitrage several years ago. Did not use AdWords - purchased traffic from other sources. While we were able to make a very small profit, it was not worth the effort.

You will have to track every penny you spend and compare that to the average return on AdSense. The problem is the click rate. Our sites averaged 8% - 15% ad clicks. So for every 100 visitors that were paid for, 8 - 15 would click an ad. The traffic has to be dirt cheap and AdSense revenue pretty high to overcome the spread due to click rate.

Another problem is the so-called "smart pricing" model at Google. As traffic increases on a page without a corresponding increase in ROI for the advertiser, Google will lower the per-click payout for your entire site.

Not sure about getting banned. We only ran the tests for a few months to see if there was any realistic long term profit potential. I do know (from reading reports and talking to others) that Google does not like the practice.

You were doing it somewhat legitimitely, but the reason Google originally got so pissed off with Arbitrage is that people were bidding on the cheapest keywords they could find, and sending the traffic to pages full of highpaying ads on an unrelated topic, like medical/legal/financial stuff. And people would just click those ads without reading them, thinking they were content because there was nothing else above the fold. So people were clicking on search ads for socks and then ending up on some mesothelioma site and being confused.

Originally Posted by raymagnetic

I still don't get how you can be banned for sending paid traffic to a page with adsense ads if you have quality content and follow google's other rules.

Maybe I'm naive or something.

Technically you're correct, but Google does whatever the hell it wants and it has a lot of rules that it usually doesn't make public, but they'll ban you for them anyway. Somebody on another forum got info that Google has very exact rules about how much of the screen above the fold can be filled by ads before it's considered arbitrge, but Google never makes that public. They let you unknowingly screw up and then they ban you with no recourse. Google is not a company you can phone up and be reasonable with. They do not care.

[l23bc]

stick to the basics like backlinking to your site forget the paid traffic adsense abridige i just had my hubpage which was on page one put in the sandbox because i purchased traffic hits (10,000 to be exact for 9 dollars) however since i got into backlinking my new site has beaten 44 million over sites and the adsense has taken off, i clicked in today and made 0.98 cents and a good crm also just for 35 clicks a day.

[james21v]

ya it is legal and it works.. and there is no problem.. you can carry on with it... take care

[anhbloginc]

I don't know what other PPC program. But using Adwords for Adsense account is legal and Google accept it.

[akuchey]

I think there is no problem with ppc as long we comply to good landing page guide.I use it long time ago and never get banned or maybe not yet.
p/s Use YSM for low cost ppc.Now they still give free credit for us.