Switching Gears

December 6, 2006

Alright, so it’s time to regroup, devise a strategy and attack this from a different angle. Obviously, pure arbitrage has gone down the tubes for me. My arbitrage sites weren’t THAT great to begin with. Below, see an example of one of my pitiful arbitrage sites. It took me less than 5 minutes to make and made me 5 dollars a day:

Arbitrage Style

All that’s there? Title on the top, adsense skyscraper in the black area, a stupid narration about the site and a huge picture. Wow - no wonder google pimp slapped me so hard! The site has absolutely NO redeeming features. Now, I can’t get traffic to the site and when I do, my earnings per click has plummeted.

Out with the old, in with the new!

New Mini-site Version

This is the SAME domain, but I have spiced up the design completely. It has taken me longer to build, but, this site should stand on it’s own when done and actually be of use to visitors. Obviously, it has the header at the top. Then, in the upper left is a listing of “Most Popular Articles” - which I will write myself. The upper right hand portion is an ‘introduction’ to the page with a single adsense ad next to a picture. The bottom left is “sponsored links” - or adsense ads next to pictures. Finally, in the lower right, you have a “directory” - each it’s own separate page focusing on a sub-niche within the overall niche.

I think this approach will fare much better for me and I’m eager to complete the site. Right now it is just a shell template and I’ve still got to fill in all the information and write the articles. But, it gives you the look and feel of a real, official site with the ads nicely blended in. At the same time, I wouldn’t mind getting the site some backlinks and repeat visitors. That being said, I guess I want to move away from arbitrage and more towards creating mini-sites. I think it’s best for my long term interest.

While the pure arbitragers are making a total killing, they have a lot of their setup automated and I’m not able to do that. Instead, I’m going to apply this new template to some of my old arbitrage sites and, hopefully, this will work.

I’ll let you know… here goes nothing!

Comments

One Response to “Switching Gears”

  1. boena on December 7th, 2006 6:55 pm

    Yeah man i’m about to do the same.
    I think this is the way to go if you wanna survive.

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