About 6 months ago conducted an experiment with one of my websites. I put the site on ebay with a 'Buy It Now' price of $10'000. After 10 days the auction ended and my average PR2 site did not sell. No suprise as $10'000 was far to much for this site. After day five the traffic to this site more than doubled and this coninued for a few months after the auction ended as the it kept popping up on Google. My adsense earning also saw an increase, in fact my revenue trippled. Dose anyone have a similar experience that increased traffic to their site? Please share your views.
Wait a minute...something is starting to makes sense here. Hhmn...I wonder. Is anyone thinking what I am thinking?
Having adsense on your site while linking to eBay is against the rules.. be happy you didnt get banned.
The website was my very first attempt at building a site about 3 years ago. All traffic came from ebay. After the auction finished ebay holds the listing URL for about 30 days. This URL keeps popping up on Google results.
Do you have a reference to support your claim here? Perhaps a quote from the TOS or an email from AdSense team? I would like to learn more about it.
Yes, I'm thinking what you're thinking. But, hold on, if you think that, it can be harmful. Don't think about that too much. Beside, I think that what you think may be against the rules. Think about it...
I think gahoo is correct - maybe I was lucky. But if you checkout ebay now you will see there are lots of websites for sale and most have adsense. Some of these sellers are power sellers and have been selling thewse sites for some time. If this is breaking ebays rules they don't seem to enforce them
I think eBay just says your ads can't be live so if you took adsense off for the term of the auction this might ok...no? Chris01273 actually said traffic didn't increase until day 5 which would probably be when it was picked up by Google. Chris01273 have you tried this since and if so did it still work?
That's rather a sneaky way of advertising a site is to pretend to sell it, but ask well over the odds so that people will never buy it, but you have actually got what you wanted which is the traffic. Something I wouldn't do really.
I agree it is short term but only cost a few $ . This was only an experiment and it would only be worth the hassle if you can get a good return on your money. The website I used is a finanial site using the keywords LOANS and BAD CREDIT. These keywords are high revenue keywords with some adword sponsors bidding upto $10 a click. This gets you $1 a click on your Adsense revenue and I was getting on average 20 - 25 clicks a day for a 40 day period. So yes it is a short term thing. And its not worth the hussle unless your keywords can produce good revenue.
I agree. Google pays much more than 10%. Also how did you know that the advertisers were bidding $10. Just because your page is based on loans doesn't really mean you will get the keyword loans type ads showing on your site. You could have got keywords shown on your site for cheap loans, get loans, loan applications, student loans, etc.