I have read a lot recently about using Adwords to drive traffic to Adsense pages and actually EARN money from it. Here is how I understand how this is supposed to work: 1. Create a web page that has content on it with high-paying keywords. Examples of this would be "mortgage", "refinance", or "travel". Put Adsense on these pages. 2. Create an Adwords account and set up 100's of keywords for the account, all with the minimum 5 cents per click. Point that Adwords ad to your newly created page. 3. Once you turn it all on, you should be able to earn more money than your spending via click-throughs. So, if I paid $50 for Adwords traffic at 5 cents each, I'd get 1000 vistors. If I got just 5% CTR (meaning 50 click-throughs) and the Ads they clicked through were over $1 on the payout, I'd actually make money. My questions are: - Has anyone actually done this to the point of where it's working? - If I started a "home refinance" page right now, are the Ads going to actually bring me that much money from a brand new, non-indexed page? Or does it take Google a month or so to finally getting around to paying you what they're worth to prevent fraud. - Is this against TOS? I don't think it is, but just curious.
Against ToS? Well this can be thought of as against ToS. Basically what you are suggesting is to build a site, purely to earn revenue from Adsense, which is a violation of the above. Will they enforce it... who knows.
You should include some other sort of affiliate links or banners so that it is not a page built purely for Adsense ads, this should get around the TOS. Sara
If the page has relevent text content, how can Google say it's "built only for Adsense". I mean, 50% of the sites created out there are really to just make money off of Adsense. I'm not saying just create some page with random keywords... but with actual relevant content to your Adwords Ad.
It remains Google's prerocative to decide if the site is purely built just for Adsense. They might have a hard time enforcing it, and it might seem difficult to differentiate between a legitimate site and an "Adsense" site. The fact remains that it's part of their policies so going against it, makes the possibility of a banned account larger.
Well first i want to tell you that if you will set $0.05 for high paying keywords then Adword will bring you 10 visitors or even less to your website in 30 days. **Specifically if you are looking at High Paying Keywords.
You're essentially looking to arbitrage the system. To put it bluntly: you want to pay less for a visitor than what they're worth to you. Many companies are doing it and it is a legitimate strategy.
ethanwa WebbyMedia is right, it's an arbitrage system. James Jones is doing this. Better, he has a video showing his profits. Go here http://www.kickbuttideas.com/trafficarbitrage/ But I'm telling you: you will need software! Software to automatically build pages and scrape content. I'm not a fan of that. In one of his latest newsletter issues Phil Wiley talked about a guy exploiting over 800 sites like this. Completely automated. In my opinion that dilutes the value of great content. Besides that, how long do you think advertisers will pay lots of dollars for clicks generated with software? But... it's possible. Try the link above. Success to you, Case Stevens P.S. Crusader: guess who makes the most money with this arbitrage system.
I think a lot of us are using the same system but a little different, I got most of my high paying keyword content sites covered with low paying adwords ads as well, this is not my main traffic stream, but it helps the bottom line. DP
I've done this with a number of sites and keywords - many give a negative return on just adsense income. For the few sites that make a profit, I generally spend $9 to make $10. Sure, you can make money, but for me it was a lot of work with very little return. My advice is to build quality content and let the search engines send free traffic. V.
Your ROI % is less because you are not paying enough effort in keyword research, I'm only bid words for USD0.05 ONLY and targeting ads. with high pay! By Avatar21