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  1. Setec

    Funniest sincerely stupid thing I've seen in a while

    I was combing through the referrers on My Stupid eBook and found this hilarious psychic/healing crystal bullshit products forum... it's like a weird love child of the Warrior Forum and Star Wars: http://www.xtrememind.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=2 I think that's the dumbest thing I've seen on...
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    Some concrete arbi numbers on 7Search vs Searchfeed

    The bottom line: Searchfeed sucks. I know this isn't news to most people here, but I thought I'd share the numbers. Since I started doing arbitrage with simultaneous campaigns on 7Search and Searchfeed, I noticed that days with really high Searchfeed traffic didn't seem to have higher...
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    YPN and USA traffic

    So I've heard YPN bans people for having non-US traffic. However, one of my sites has a really annoying numbers of ads like this: "Sewer rats to China - all cities" "Sewer rats delivered throughout England" "Sewer rats in Canada" They serve us non-US ads but we can't send non-US traffic? Whaaaa?
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    WordTracker is pissing me off

    This is really annoying. WordTracker is the only service that can put together keyword data in the format I'm looking for, but I'm getting tired of their malfunctions. Last time I signed up for WordTracker, they had a bug in the exporter. Every time I tried to export my evaluator results, the...
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    Arbitrage CTR: Other factors besides layout

    So far I've tried 4 layouts, ranging from ultra-simple to fancy fake-authority sites, and my CTR is still down between 10% and 25%. (That's my calculated CTR, clicks I get on Yahoo / clicks I buy... Yahoo over-reports my impressions and gives an even lower number.) I picked my niches well so...
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    Do you weigh arbi competition in your niche selection?

    I just put together keyword lists for about 35 more niches to build arbi pages on, and I'm looking around on 7Search for a few of them. In some I can't find any arbi pages in the results, and in others it's nothing but i-geek.info clones. Now I'm wondering if I should even mess with those...
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    Different forums for arbi and affiliate marketing

    Since arbitrage and affiliate marketing are two completely different things, and arbitrage threads are taking up more space on the affiliate marketing section than affiliate marketing threads, why not make it its own section?
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    Mistakes to learn from: Two arbitrage layouts with crappy CTRs

    I've gained a lot of insight into arbitrage on this forum, so I want to give back the one thing I currently have to offer: a couple examples of what not to do. I actually turned a really nice profit yesterday, but it was in spite of my templates, not because of them. My page CTR ranges from...
  9. Setec

    Happy birthday to me

    Thanks WF for the happy birthday email. You're the most thoughtful PHP script I know! I've been having a really good day with arbitrage (7Search/Searchfeed -> YPN). I just decided to get into it a week ago, and I really dinked around along the way reading a lot and learning keyword research...
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    PPC tip for newbies and the typo-prone

    If you've been modifying a lot of your bids in 7Search, after you're done, do a search of your keywords filtered by bids, for any bids from your maximum real bid up to $100.00. That'll show you anything you've overbid on with a typo. I just noticed I was spending much more per click than I...