Is PPC Arbitrage Dead?

I’m expecting a report out any day now that arbitrage is dead!

What with the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) all tripping over themselves to try and beat out the practice it seems like it won’t last much longer.

Personally I disagree with the practice of actively trying to get rid of arbitrage.  I believe in a much different approach…

As many of you know, I started doing normal SEO on white hat sites.  At the time I was having a very difficult time of getting anything ranked.  Now, part of that problem was that I was reading the forums.  Forums are, for the most part, evil and full of disinformation.

I digress…

Since I couldn’t get those sites to rank I moved over into the quantity over quality approach and cranked out over 50,000 websites and entered the realm of MFA (Made For Adsense) sites…

Raked in lots of cash and what not.  And, of course, I’ve been playing with affiliate marketing as well as PPC arbitrage.

But as some of those 50,000 sites have started to expire, I’ve looked at the SEO realm once again and have realized that there are some very cool tools out there to help you.

Not only that but I’ve noticed that Google and the other search engines have put into place some pretty nice features into their system for webmasters to help them find problems and they’re making it worthwhile to do things along with their TOS.

And that leads me to my point…

Rather than penalizing the webmaster for doing arbitrage as pepperjam talks about, make it more profitable for them to do something else and they’ll flock to what you would rather have them do.  Right now, it’s a very profitable model and I don’t see it becoming unprofitable any time soon.

Lead with a carrot rather than a stick.

G-Man