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I can't find anything in Google's policies about this but I keep finding conflicting posts about it all over the internet. Does anyone know what Google's policies are in regards to arbitrage? I mean arbitrage of all sorts. Using adwords to advertise a webpage with adsense (and a little content too), using adwords to advertise a webpage with an affiliate link (and a little content too), and most importantly, using adwords to advertise a link (with affiliate link) which redirects to a 3rd party website.
 
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cjbay would like to know as well since some people are saying "Yes you can" others saying "They will ban you"
 
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Yea and by doing this you can face penalties by Google..
 
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Google has cracked down on arbitrage - sending traffic to adsense pages. Sending traffic to pages to sell something with affiliate links is affiliate marketing. This is ok so long as you follow their rules. Your display url and destination url must go to the same root domain or they will penalize you.
 
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I think it is legal.
 
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It really depends on your site. Google policy is officially against "thin" adsense and affiliate sites. Most likely they use some percentage of original content to determine "thin". Minimum bids for "thin" affiliate marketers will lift to the sky. You should have at least a couple of real content pages to build "fat enough" site and avoid problems.

Google says:


"We differentiate between affiliates that produce
extra service, value, or content, and those that
simply are duplicates of other sites, set up to
boost traffic to other sites and earn a commission
for it. The former ones are not Offensive and
should be rated on the merits to the query. The
latter ones are Offensive..."

"Thin affiliate doorways are sites that usher
people to a number of Affiliate programs, earning
a commission for doing so, while providing little
or no value-added content or service to the user.
A site certainly has the right to try to earn income;
we're attempting to identify sites that do nothing
but act as a commission-earning middleman."

"Do not call a page affiliate spam when an
affiliation is only incidental to the message
and purpose of a website. To determine whether
participation in affiliate programs is central
or incidental to the site's existence, ask
yourself this question: Would this site remain
a coherent whole if the pages leading to the
affiliate (merchant) were taken away?"

The same approach applies to Adsense and arbitrage of all sorts.
 
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A lot of people built sites specifically for adsense arbitrage just to have them banned. If you are going to do arbitrage you will have better luck using a second tier feed like Miva, parked domains or Yahoo powered contextual product. There are several companies that offer the same service as adsense but allow arbitrage. If you want to discuss it in more detail PM me and I'll chat with you about some options you might want to explore.
 
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Sending adwords to your AdSense site will get you banned. However there are many other company's out there that allow adword arbitrage to targeted ads.

That's the main reason i switched from AdSense, now i am making anywhere from 500 to 1000 a day. Its all about choosing the right niches and sending the right type of traffic :)
 
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