Comments on: Arbitrage: Made For Adsense (MFA) Web Pages and Poor Quality Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Traffic http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4877 Jill Olkoski Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:56:26 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-4877 Hi Stew, Well, it's got a ton of ads. The ones running across the top, the ones down the right, and the ones in the top center. I just counted 19 separate Google AdSense ads on the trucking company jobs page, as an example. Now, you've also got 13 links to actual trucking company websites where people can (I assume) apply for jobs, so that's useful. So I guess I've totally seen worse, where there is nothing but ads. But I'm thinking that when the ads outnumber the actual useful links, well, it looks quite ad-heavy. I also know that when you give people too many choices, they often don't choose, so maybe it would actually benefit you to lower the number of ads, but you'd have to test it. So boy, this is a tough question. It's not nearly as bad as some of the ones mentioned in the early part of this article - you have actual useful content, which is great. I guess I'd say, that perhaps if I were to get charged for a click to an ad I had run with Google, and the click came from your website, I would not be unhappy at all. This was certainly not the case with the websites that caused me to write the original article on MFA websites. If I were charged for a click that came from your website, I think I'd be totally fine with it. I would probably wish though, that it had more content and fewer ads, but I would be happy with paying for the click. Hi Stew,
Well, it’s got a ton of ads. The ones running across the top, the ones down the right, and the ones in the top center. I just counted 19 separate Google AdSense ads on the trucking company jobs page, as an example. Now, you’ve also got 13 links to actual trucking company websites where people can (I assume) apply for jobs, so that’s useful. So I guess I’ve totally seen worse, where there is nothing but ads. But I’m thinking that when the ads outnumber the actual useful links, well, it looks quite ad-heavy. I also know that when you give people too many choices, they often don’t choose, so maybe it would actually benefit you to lower the number of ads, but you’d have to test it. So boy, this is a tough question. It’s not nearly as bad as some of the ones mentioned in the early part of this article – you have actual useful content, which is great.

I guess I’d say, that perhaps if I were to get charged for a click to an ad I had run with Google, and the click came from your website, I would not be unhappy at all. This was certainly not the case with the websites that caused me to write the original article on MFA websites. If I were charged for a click that came from your website, I think I’d be totally fine with it. I would probably wish though, that it had more content and fewer ads, but I would be happy with paying for the click.

]]> By: Stew http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4876 Stew Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:42:27 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-4876 Hi Jill, I'm not trying to spam you with my url, but I'm really interested in your opinion about my site and if you think it is a MFA. I have many sites and although I admit I do build my sites around adsense ads I try to provide real content. Let me know your thoughts www.deliverydriversjobs.com stew Hi Jill, I’m not trying to spam you with my url, but I’m really interested in your opinion about my site and if you think it is a MFA. I have many sites and although I admit I do build my sites around adsense ads I try to provide real content. Let me know your thoughts
http://www.deliverydriversjobs.com
stew

]]> By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4622 Jill Olkoski Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:11:43 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-4622 I'm not at all familiar with MIVA, so thanks for the tip. Yes, the content network on Google is fraught with poor quality clicks, in general, I avoid them for my small business owners. But AdWords using the search network can have a good ROI, but this totally depends on your ad, your website, your business, your market conditions - it's very different for each client, and you need to do a bunch of experimentation to figure out if the ROI is actually good enough to continue. I’m not at all familiar with MIVA, so thanks for the tip. Yes, the content network on Google is fraught with poor quality clicks, in general, I avoid them for my small business owners. But AdWords using the search network can have a good ROI, but this totally depends on your ad, your website, your business, your market conditions – it’s very different for each client, and you need to do a bunch of experimentation to figure out if the ROI is actually good enough to continue.

]]> By: cbhost http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4621 cbhost Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:32:18 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-4621 I just tried MIVA because they had a free $50 credit and I added $25 of my own, and within the span of 4 hours, registered 100 clicks mostly from the site above. My landing page is a simple email submit form and after 100 clicks, not a single email lead. Total and complete scam..Cant say that ads on the Google content network are any better. Adwords is another scam, high prices low conversion rates which is why I believe others try these other networks...I can't believe so many people waste their time with PPC, I wonder how many actually have a positive ROI.. I just tried MIVA because they had a free $50 credit and I added $25 of my own, and within the span of 4 hours, registered 100 clicks mostly from the site above. My landing page is a simple email submit form and after 100 clicks, not a single email lead. Total and complete scam..Cant say that ads on the Google content network are any better. Adwords is another scam, high prices low conversion rates which is why I believe others try these other networks…I can’t believe so many people waste their time with PPC, I wonder how many actually have a positive ROI..

]]> By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-2135 Jill Olkoski Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:43:44 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-2135 Hi Mark, The screen shot of SmartBizSearch is NOT showing organic search results - it's showing paid ads - my client's ad was first on the list - so I'm afraid you are mistaken. Ads are easy to spot, they look the same on all the websites that run Google AdSense, a title, a brief description, a url. I suggest you gain a bit more experience understanding how AdSense works before leaving insulting comments on other's blogs. Hi Mark,
The screen shot of SmartBizSearch is NOT showing organic search results – it’s showing paid ads – my client’s ad was first on the list – so I’m afraid you are mistaken. Ads are easy to spot, they look the same on all the websites that run Google AdSense, a title, a brief description, a url. I suggest you gain a bit more experience understanding how AdSense works before leaving insulting comments on other’s blogs.

]]> By: mark cirrs http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-2134 mark cirrs Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:08:37 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/arbitrage-made-for-adsense-mfa-web-pages-and-poor-quality-pay-per-click-ppc-traffic/#comment-2134 MFA= Made for Adsense The site you are showing doesn't have any adsense on it, how can it be a MFA? That image is just a simple search engine, how do you know its quality of traffic if you don't know the sources of such traffic? He could be using that engine to sell long tail keywords coming to his website through Search Engines that are not useful or targeted to his offer. This way it allows other advertisers finding a lead it could get lost otherwise. You are teaching your users the wrong way showing a very poor knowledge of the PPC market. MFA= Made for Adsense
The site you are showing doesn’t have any adsense on it, how can it be a MFA?

That image is just a simple search engine, how do you know its quality of traffic if you don’t know the sources of such traffic? He could be using that engine to sell long tail keywords coming to his website through Search Engines that are not useful or targeted to his offer. This way it allows other advertisers finding a lead it could get lost otherwise.

You are teaching your users the wrong way showing a very poor knowledge of the PPC market.

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