Is this legal to send traffic from AdWords to AdSense to make money?

Guys

In another thread it is confusion that sending traffic from AdWords to AdSense to make money is against Adsense TOS. That thread is here

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=11433995&postcount=33

As this is very important issue and I want to know more from experts that's why I started this new thread so we may discuss this point only instead of mixing up this issue with other things in that thread.

Personally according to my knowledge this is allowed to send traffic from AdWords to AdSense to make money at AdSense.

What is opinion of experts, please share here. This confusion will solve problem of many newbies like me.

GCS

 

It is not specifically against the ToS of either adsense or adwords to use adwords to send traffic to a site with adsense on it.
But - google does not approve arbitrage. If they form the opinion that your site is a MfA site, and that the only reason you are using adwords is in the expectation of getting adsense clicks, they will penalise you - the most usual way that they do this initially is simply by making adwords too costly to be profitable.
But there's no hard and fast rule - if your site has another use and function other than the adsense ads, they may not consider it a MfA site.

 

please explain to me how that would benefit anyone in the 1st place?
I cant seem to figure out under any circumstance how that would be beneficial.

I pay a lot more for adwords clicks then adsense pays me.

Now, in old days when you could get clicks for a penny or two maybe but even then the payout will reflect what they make per click.

enlighten me please

 

Google will just increase the Adwords price if they notice AdSense ads on the landing page. They make money from you no matter what you do.

 

I suggest that you should contact Adsense Support. This is little risky thing to do and it is always best to be safe. Hopefully Adsense Support will clear things up.

I personally have been some sites displaying Adsense and also using Adwords. On the otherhand, I have seen so many people saying that, one should not do this.

 

This is something I have noticed for few sites Ads on my site which upon visit I found to be mere MFA so I blocked them using competitive Ads filter as they aren't a good user experience and also they don't pay much. It is logical right? They would try to earn more from Adsense on their site than they are spending in Adwords to bring traffic to their site..Isn't it

 

its ok but make sure you did it right and will not look like an MFA website. since adwords team will review your ads in adwords before they will approve it..

 

This is no problem. Adsense allow traffic from adwords, i use it for a year

 

There is absolutely no problem from Google if you're driving traffic to your site using AdWords. It does not matter if your site is moentized using adsesne or not. But you cannot make money by just sending visitors to your site using AdWords and expecting them to click on the adsense ads. Your site must be sticky. Once users go to your site, you should be able to make them come back to your site again and again from their bookmarks. Take for example, plentyoffish.com. Visitors from adwords ads go the site and become members and than they visit the site again and again. You'r site should be sticky enough for doing this. If you are making money from acceidental visitors, AdWord/AdSense model will not work

 

I doubt profit can be made doing it anyway.

 

I reconfirmed from my friend who was victim of AdSense. He confirmed again that AdSense staff told him that his AdSense account was disabled due to non-useful content on website. It means AdSense staff know that he was driving traffic from AdWord but they ignored it.

I am sure it is 100% legal to drive traffic from AdWord to AdSense enabled site until you have valuable and useful contents on your site not a big AdSense ad banner on it.

GCS

 

The way the arbitrage system used to work was by sending a low cost click from Adwords to a typical MFA page with a large banner across the top and little content below. The intention here is that a web user would get some bitesize info and then move on by clicking on a higher priced advertisement.

If the content was too thorough then the web user would concentrate on the text and probably end up not clicking through. Google have tidied this up by shutting down these MFA sites with little content. As well as this, click rates have gone down these days and so I guess there is less game for the arbritage guy to gain significant profit.

These days people do a similar thing by pushing affiliate products at the end, CPA leads would also be popular. Of course, many affiliate merchants are strict about this kinda activity and I know it is fine with Clickbank products, but here in the UK anyway, not many people are interested in these junky sales pages. Would have thought marketers have moved on to other systems these days.

 

I don't think this is a good idea and that you can make good money from this.

 

you can make money, but google is spying on all arbitrage system so you have to create useful landing page if visitors coming from adwords.

if "funny video" adwords click price is $0.10 but "comedy video" is $2 so you can drive traffic from funny video to click on comedy video ads. its relevant cause funny or comedy is same category.

don't use adsense on landing page we need some our own service or sell products instead of MFA page.

before i got banned from adsense because of "MFA arbitrage", main reason was i didn't give any valuable service to my visitors.

 

Yes,that is right,there is no easy way to get rich with adsense.You need to provide actual service or products to your visitors.