Planting a Squidoo Bomb

I know that traffic arbitrage is more about buying traffic for one price and selling it for another. That business model is almost dead with the changes in PPC.  I also know that most affiliate marketers do not talk much about the niches they are in.  I am going to break that cycle now.

I work full time as an automotive marketing consultant and have a few clients.  New client acquisition is slow right now because the industry is in a tail spin.  Since I do not have full time to devote to affiliate marketing I am slowly working with someone to build an automotive squidoo empire.

This will do a few things when the automotive market starts to recover.  It will allow me to have established properties that can easily be transferred to or used to market future clients.  Second it will allow us to earn some income from squidoo and affiliate offers in the meantime.

I was turned onto using squidoo for this when I showed someone how easy it is to rank for non competitive keywords like "Special Financing Tulsa".  Now as stated in a previous post we are going after Tulsa Chevrolet terms with squidoo.  Right now we have one lens ranking low and are adding a dozen over the next week.

We are also going after some other terms and will post about them as well.  I have a domain I was saving for a squidoo car marketing squeeze page but now will turn it into a blog.  So keep an eye out for it.

Some people people in the industry will not like what I am doing and will probably try to cause trouble over it, but hey I am a big boy and can stand the heat!!!

tulsa chevrolet, tulsa special finance, squidoo.com, affilaite marketing, maximizing downturn in the car business

Keeping it up

Apparently I am doing something right here. In just four days I have generated a little over $400 in affiliate income from my arbitrage experience.

I am adding three more campaigns today. I am sure that they all will not be as responsive as the one I am currently running. The good thing is I am over $400 in profit so I have some flexibility to experiment.

My ultimate goal is to have 15 campaigns going at one time and continually researching others. I have done this with basically no out of pocket money. If you remember I got $20 in free advertising from the Bidvertiser. (see button on left) I have now over spent the $20 but it is because I am in profit.

For my next three campaigns I will be dedicating $300 in advertising total. $100 for each campaign. I will post the details of each one in a later post.

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My first experiement with traffic arbitrage

Well I have finally taken to plunge into trying my hand at traffic arbitrage. Chances are if you have found this page you already know what traffic arbitrage is.


If not here is the .02 definition:

It is buying traffic for one price and selling it for another. I am using contextual advertising on other sites to drive traffic to an affiliate program.

From dictionary.com

ar·bi·trage /ˈɑrbɪˌtrɑʒ for 1, 3; ˈɑrbɪtrɪdʒ for 2/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ahr-bi-trahzh for 1, 3; ahr-bi-trij for 2] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -traged, -trag·ing. –noun

1.	Finance. the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities, commodities, or foreign exchange in different markets to profit from unequal prices.

Here is exactly what I did:

I purchased $90 dollars in advertising to drive traffic to an affiliate program that pays $28 per sign up for a $1.87 product sale.

I will have to generate 4 sales to be in profit on this gambit.

I should generate 250 clicks and with only a 2% conversion I will be in profit.

My ad should be approved in two days. I will post a follow up after the first 24 hours it is live.