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Maybe it's just me but I'm calling a major BS on the $155k/m profit claim. 1) Assuming he got 100k visitors per month 2) Assuming each arb gets him $0.10 per
by furiouslol 18y ago
Maybe it's just me but I'm calling a major BS on the $155k/m profit claim.
1) Assuming he got 100k visitors per month
2) Assuming each arb gets him $0.10 per click.
3) Assmuning 50% of the visitors click 1 ad (and that's wildly optimistic)
His profit would be 50k x $0.10 = $5k/mth
If he were to get $155k in profit per month. he needs to get about 3 million visitors per month. I checked Alexa, Compete and his site is nowhere that figure.
Not sure what's his motive in inflating the profit figure though. He's only going to attract more competition to his field and kill his business in the process.
Maybe he's planning to write an ebook to convince people into believing that it is easy to earn that much with search arb and hence, he'll use the NYtimes article as evidence.
With each ebook selling for $99.99 and 100% profit margin, it'll take him only 1550 sales/month to meet his imaginary $155k profit claim. Now, that's a business plan!
- furiouslol 18y agoOk. I'm going to eat my words now. He did get 3million visits per month. http://www.quantcast.com/sourcetool.com/traffic http://www.quantcast.com/sourcetool.com/traffic (Change the period to All-Time) Massive drop from 3million visits in April 06 to 100k in April 08 and now 10k in Aug 08. Amazing if he attracted the 3 million people to his site purely with Adwords alone. I wonder how many terms he has to bid for (> 100k?)