Thanks for this feedback! Yes, lots of poor arbitrage sites out there.

If you don’t have BIG companies advertise in your niche, then you can have lots of these .info sites on your ads.

For me right now it works quite ok since the big companies (Dyson, Oreck, …) out-bid these poor sites…

P.S. I need to add, that right now Chitika (with their new business model) performs very poor for me. The average pay per click is now around .12 which is even less than Adsense. Test Chitika in your own niche, some publishers report good earnings with the Premium ads…

The only thing is that the Adsense filter only allows you to block 100 sites. I’ve found five times this many arbitrage sites buying cheap keywords for my niche.

It really bites that we are not able to block them all, or even block all sites with the .info domain.

I do understand that not every .info site is trash, but I’d be willing to miss out on a few Adsense paying sites, if I could block whole domains in one sweep.

I use Google Adsense Preview tool to see what ads typically appear on my site. Then I check the website and see what their business model is like. If they really sell vacuums, then I assume they can bid a good price.

If their site is about arbitrage – getting another Adsense or Overture click, then they HAVE to bid very low in order to earn more than they spend.

So I dump them. (In a Competitive Ad filter in Adsense settings.)

Can you describe the process you use to discover these arbitrage sites ? For example, in the case of vacuum-ratings.com, one of those listed above, how do you know they are coming from Adwords, and how do you know their cost is pennied ? Their adsense link goes to a typical affilate landing page – nothing wrong with that.

Thanks !