My views on Adsense Arbitrage are a little unclear. I tried sending G a ticket with the question, about a week ago, but we all know that their personnel sit around, drink coffee, and eat donuts, instead of doing actual paid work. What exactly is it? If I direct target traffic to a proxy site, for example, and end up making more from my ads then I spent on the traffic, is that arbitrage? I'm just a little confused.
Arbitrage is basically like you said. You create websites put text at the bottom and load them with adsense on the top. Then, you use adwords to bid on your junk text. Some people say they make tons of money on this. I do not believe it.
Some people spend alot of money advertising and then have problem with google. You have to watch out i would not spend more than i could loose. If site gets banned for bad clicks or they say site is a made for adsense site that would ruin all your profits.
so it's mean arbitage is legal or illegal? I'm also wanna try doing this but afraid my account to be banned XD
A few weeks ago adsense said that arbitrage - buying cheap traffic from adwords in the hope of making more from adsense income - was not a 'suitable business model' and they closed quite a few adsense accounts where people were doing it. In principle this should reduce the number of MFA sites. I've no idea if it worked. I'm pretty sure they extended this rule to include any cheap traffic - not just adwords generated traffic. Apparently a lot of people were making a lot of money from this adsense arbitrage, but I wouldn't bother starting now...I think that if you get successful at it you'll probably get your account banned.
As I understand it the position of Google was the exact opposite of what you state - that Google has stated that Arbitrage is a legitimate business model. The accounts which were disabled as of 1st June 2007 were sites which were doing arbitrage, but were also purely junk MFA sites. They were disabled because of the quality content, not specifically because they were either purely MFA or arbitrage. Google will still allow both instances if the overall quality of the websites meets a 'required' standard. However only google knows what those 'required' standards are!
Bingo. You got it. There's a lot of confusion over Google's arbitrage policy. Some people who've never done arbi before are dead certain google has "banned" it but I can tell you lots of people are still laughing their way to the bank with their adsense accounts.
I was thinking of this article http://www.jensense.com/archives/2007/05/google_adsense_16.html specifically I think you're perhaps referring to So Jensense seems to be saying the problem is for MFA sites AND for those doing arbitrage. It can be read either way perhaps, but I wouldn't take it as an endorsement of the arbitrage model for non-MFA sites.