Cloaking Arbitrage Content to Avoid Smartpricing?

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Was reading on shoe's blog and he suggested that Adsense arbitragers cloak their content to avoid the smart pricing. Anyone here doing that/have done it, and know if it is worth the extra effort?

If you have been able to beat the smartpricing, what has been your best tricks? Adding privacy policy and about us? What else?

I haven't had much trouble yet, but I go after some odd niches where I bet the advertisers haven't figured out how to bid separately for content... so smart pricing may very well still be in effect and I still make some $ :)
 


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what he means is deliver different content to the bots that come up with this smart price crap. ie: hide aff links from the bots, or show them some more crappy content etc.

Avalanche,
I havent done it yet, and i've got some crappy landing pages....havent yet been hit....i'm just redirecting links with .htaccess....but if i get hit, then I'll try the cloaking
 
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Was reading on shoe's blog and he suggested that Adsense arbitragers cloak their content to avoid the smart pricing. Anyone here doing that/have done it, and know if it is worth the extra effort?

If you have been able to beat the smartpricing, what has been your best tricks? Adding privacy policy and about us? What else?

I haven't had much trouble yet, but I go after some odd niches where I bet the advertisers haven't figured out how to bid separately for content... so smart pricing may very well still be in effect and I still make some $ :)
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You may get banned though from Adsense.
 
damn, i just reread the original post and see that you are referring to adsense arbitrage..

i was just referring to affiliate landing pages etc, so u can ignore what i wrote
 
Now you don't really understand what causes smartpricing, I'm not sure if I do really either, but here's how I see it.

You get smartpriced if you sent crappy visitors to advertiser’s page and they don't convert into sales.

It's that easy. And arbi most likely is just traffic brokering and visitors are usually searching for information, not buying. So it really doesn't matter if you cloak. You get smartpriced either way.

And also don't ever think Google is stupid. If you use Adwords, you'll get bot AND human reviewer in the worst scenario. I don't know this for sure, but I bet they have some kind of tool that checks if the bot got the same code than human reviewer. And if human got different code they will probably compare outputs to see whether it was something like news update or if it were something shady. You can do much more BH stuff when you use smaller PPCs like 7search where they don't give a fuck what you do.

If I have understood the concept of smartpricing correctly - the only way to escape it is to send quality traffic.
 
Clarification of Shoemoney's Arbitrage Cloaking

Sorry guys, I was a bit tired when I wrote this & went to bed early.

What I meant was that I read the following post on Shoemoney's site

New Adwords Quality Score Bot Aims To Nuke Arbitragers

especially the following quote

Ohh and for those of you doing contextual arbitrage…. unless your cloaking your content prepare for impact.
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and didn't understand what the heck he was talking about. I couldn't figure out why I would have to cloak articles. Is he talking about cloaking to make the adsense bot think I have this huge resource site with a bunch of interlinked pages?

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I think he was talking about people who do adwords -> adsense arbitrage, so you would need to cloak your content for the adwords quality bot so that it thinks you have a higher quality score, otherwise you'll have to pay too much for adwords.
 
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