So new to online advertising.

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What is that 'Trackback' thingee at the bottom of the post form?
How do I use it?
I see these Trackback icons, or links at the bottom of posts on blogsites and have wondered what they do and how they work.
Any links to info on how to use them and what benefit they are?

And what is Arbitrage?

I'll just go :rasta: while I wait for any answers.

Thanks, everyone.
This forum is way cool!
Gonna blog about it.

René
 


Hello fellow nooblet. This is arbitrage, in the context of what you'll see talked about here:

Online advertising arbitrage

Online ad services like Yahoo! Search Marketing and Google Adwords allow you to purchase online advertisements which cost you an agreed upon cost per click. These are known as PPC (Pay Per Click) ads. Some ad clicks will cost advertisers $0.01 while some can cost well over $10 depending on the keywords that were associated with the ad. Yahoo and Google both have programs which allow web publishers (aka owners of websites) to place ads on their own websites to make money. Some webmasters will make a website associated with a high paying keyword(s) and place PPC ads on it. Then, they will purchase low cost ads on Yahoo and Google for their websites. The end effect is traffic arbitrage. Low cost traffic is redirected towards pages which contain high paying links. Enough money is made from clicks to cover the traffic cost and turn a profit.

This is not arbitrage as defined above. The owner of the website is simply betting that the income from the affiliate marketing organisation is more than the cost of bringing visitors to the site. The website owner must pay the search engine for each visitor to the website but payment from the affliliate only occurs if the visitor actually clicks onto one of the affiliate advertisements. A classic example might be where each visitor to the site costs the site owner 10 cents but an affiliate marketer will pay the website owner 10 dollars if that visitor clicks through to the target website. In this case if more than 1 in 100 visitors click through then the site makes a profit; and conversely if less than 1 in 100 click through then the site makes a loss. The same theory holds true if the affiliate is the same (or another) search engine.
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From Arbitrage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Brandon,
if you only knew how tired I am of doing fruitless searches.
So I did as you suggested, searched for arbi.
Guess what? Two of the top 10 responses included two of my just posted posts. This thread was second.
None tell me What Arbitrage is, just that they use it, costs money(?) one mentioned $300!
Just point me at a definition and how to use it. Please.
I have searched a thousand forums for answers for different web problems, 20/7, sometimes falling asleep at the wheel, so to speak.
I am not 20, way not...
So please spare me. Don't patronize. Otherwise why should I bother? Asking that is?
At least Guy Kawasaki has the courtesy to provide info on feeds and how to use them for those who wish to get his feed.
And the FAQ did not answer those questions I asked.
nor the Help. Or I wouldn't have asked.

Oh, sorry about one point. I didn't notice that that first line, the long link, was actually an answer to my main question, trackbacks. (Why didn't I notice? because so many of the posts here have so many links on them for their sites I thought that might be another.)

maybe I didn't do enuff :rasta:

Thanks for that link, maybe I'll just look up arbi on his site.
 
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Theres more than enough info on this info to get you started. I wish you good luck. And dont buy any ebooks! Except mine. Make 50,000 a week. Only 49.99 :)
 
Rene said:
What is that 'Trackback' thingee at the bottom of the post form?
How do I use it?
I see these Trackback icons, or links at the bottom of posts on blogsites and have wondered what they do and how they work.
Any links to info on how to use them and what benefit they are?

And what is Arbitrage?

I'll just go :rasta: while I wait for any answers.

Thanks, everyone.
This forum is way cool!
Gonna blog about it.

René
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Rene holoscan is a piece of software that can help you for trackbacks. I hope that helps you
 
Arbitrage doesn't just apply to online marketing. Simply put it's about buying low and selling high. They do it in stock market trading all the time. In online marketing it's about buying advertising space to send people to your website and getting them to buy (or click) at a price that makes you a profit.

You can even do it in gambling. Pick a sport with only two possible outcomes (a tennis match for example), then go out and check the odds for each player to win. Sometimes it is possible to find odds that are so wildly different that when you back both players to win, you make a profit.
 
Thanks, All,
for your great definitions.
I'd already decided that arbitrage, whatever it was, was not in my budget.

Totally guerilla marketing, free or very low cost, using the tools you already have. I've seen those "Big Dog" secrets books, ebooks, since 2001 and those click-thru scams.

Holoscan is a program? for trackbacks.

So what exactly are you supposed to put in those trackback fields at the bottom of posts on this site? Your blog addresses, or...?

René
 
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