Foreign/International Arbitrage

[CLKeenan]

Is there a reason why this wouldnt work? Creating sites with content for a popular foreign language (spanish, chinese, japanese, french, etc)? I would think it wouldnt be as hard of a market to get into.

You would of course have to outsource the translation unless you are fluent in that language.

Just a random idea I had.

 

[meln]

No need for real translation, just use AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation

you'll probably run into problems figuring out what keywords to bid on though.

 

[cyberworkspace]

Is there a reason why this wouldnt work? Creating sites with content for a popular foreign language (spanish, chinese, japanese, french, etc)? I would think it wouldnt be as hard of a market to get into.

You would of course have to outsource the translation unless you are fluent in that language.

Just a random idea I had.

i like the idea as i had the same some time ago. did some research on it and found the asian (chinese) market to be promising. what i had not found so far were stats on the average adsense payout per country/language.

that payout must be for sure linked to a purchasing power index per region (depending on the income google achieves in a region), but i have not put much energy into it yet as i am busy mastering the "normal" arbitrage-idea.

well, my friend has a company in singapore. i could ask him to get some pages translated and all it would then need would be a chinese domain jeez, that would be fun for sure

 

[CLKeenan]

I have friends that speak french, spanish, and chinese fluently, I can just hire them. This could be a fun project

 

[joefriday]

You guys should try out Genbucks they have full site templates that are downloadable in a number of differant langauges.

 

[cyberworkspace]

I have friends that speak french, spanish, and chinese fluently, I can just hire them. This could be a fun project

the spanish speaking people are underrepresented in the net, the french are not too much of a challenge. so, why not lets go for the big buck and tap the asian market

as far as i can see, the first thing we would have to know, are the top running keywords so that we know what popular topics they got over there. and then some infrastructural problems need to be solved, like how to manage chinese keywords in adwords:eek7:

 

[CLKeenan]

Penis enlargement might be a good one for the asian market because they apparently were the ones who got the shaft in that department haha

 

[cyberworkspace]

Penis enlargement might be a good one for the asian market because they apparently were the ones who got the shaft in that department haha

good one, haha

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that is the starting point. and those were th top search terms 2006:

1. MP3
2. Crazy Racing
3. QQ instant messenger
4. Thunder
5. Dance Dance
6. Li Yuchun
7. Wilin Waizhuan
8. online TV
9. World Cup
10. Eight glorious merits against eigh shameful behaviors

#4 is some sort of p2p client, #5 is a game, #6 and #7 are pop- or tv-stars. #10 is just strange but thats what you get when you got to deal with china

so, i guess we need to look for something like "how to awake the lousy trouser worm and turn it into a dragon" chinese-symbol

 

[CLKeenan]

hahah- we'd also need to find some foreign CPA programs to get accepted into otherwise we'd be limited to strictly CPC

 

[geekcognito]

I've also been pondering this for a while. I'll bet if we put our minds to it, we can virtually overrule this market. WF members can take the Asian CPA and PPC markets by storm!

 

[Pleb]

Apologies for reviving an old thread. I am making some tentative steps into ARB. Yesterday trawling a 2nd tier traffic vendors' site directory I came across what appears to be a disgustingly large, disgustingly cheap supply of Chinese traffic (less than 1 cent / click). Scratched me head as to what to pitch to this kind of traffic.

Thought about Ebays' recent efforts to crack the chinese market. They do have a Chinese affiliate program.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.ebay.com.cn%2Faffiliate%2Findex.html&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Spoiler: They're paying about $2 USD for new users according to current exchange rates.

I'm signed up w/ EBay through CJ. Wonder if that account would give credit for new (chinese) users as well?? Seems to be a pretty simple idea to purchase some "Find the perfect acne cream at Ebay" or whatever-style links suitably translated of course & drive the traffic to my craptastic Chinese arbi site & onto EBay from there. Maybe even a direct link.

Any thoughts / comments ??