One way to track current trends of online business is to be a regular visitor to popular website selling places. I remember a year or a bit more back that craziness about MySpace and the number of MySpace related resources on sale. I was not a part of the game, but people say that it was a really hot technique to make quick money online.

This year MySpace related resources are replaced with a wide variety of video websites. Just a few samples of the recently published video websites on sale:

Video Aggregator and Sharing Community Website

VideoSearchScript.com - $1000+ Per Month

iVideoBlast.com - Video aggregator site

Video Sharing Website like Youtube, for sale

$1250+/month Video Humor Site NO maintenance good SE Traffic

So, you should definitely learn how to add video to your website, what players are most widely used, etc – even if you do not intend to run a video website, it is not a bad idea to post videos on your current sites.

Is it time to buy or develop your own video website? Probably it is. A few questions that need to be answered first:

- a CONCEPT of your video website (how are you going to attract traffic to your website competing against youtube.com, revver.com and similar?)

- HOW TO MONETIZE your video website? There are some models in use, but you need a really popular website to apply any of this. And be prepared to incur considerable hosting expenses (I think you need a dedicated server to start with).

- CONTENT. I doubt you have any intention to make all videos for your website yourself.

Summary: When you see all this craziness about video nowadays your first impulse is start a video website too. But when you turn to developing a plan for your website you realize that it is not that easy.

I just keep an eye on what is going on in this sector and now and then brainstorm for the ideas for my video website. Once I get the idea I like I will start a video website, but I would not like to join the game when it is not too late (as it happened with my recent 7search PPC arbitrage tests).

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I have intended to properly test and probably make some money with PPC arbitrage with the help of second tier PPC engines (7search.com).

It looks like I should have started it long ago. 7search have modified its policy and put an end to being the most popular second tier PPC engine for arbitrage: one site per account, 1000 keyword limit…

It is difficult to say why they made this step, even Google ‘allows’ this technique, but wants a bigger share of PPC arbitrage market and introduced its ‘landing page quality score’.

The experience that I have got within these few last weeks with PPC arbitrage makes me search a 7search replacement. I will test MSN AdCenter and probably Google AdWords, but I think it is harder with these two.

PPC arbitrage is in fact a no-brainer:

- Select a niche – for this you need a list of categories to research (browse wikipedia.org contents, affiliate program directories or eBay categories to get some ideas).

- Check supply / demand. Do not be discouraged if the bids in one niche much lower than in another – be sure that the traffic for lower paid niches will be cheaper. It is better to focus on the demand volume.

- Develop a keyword list. Add synonyms and misspellings. If you want to do it right way – use wordtracker.

- Make an ad creative. Use AdWords recommendations or just check your competition.

- Design a landing page. Or a few. No need to invent a wheel – find a great selection of arbitrage landing pages here. You need content for your landing pages – use free to reprint article directories.

- Start a PPC campaign.

Summary: My first few days of PPC arbitrage were loss making, then some really good days with a profit. It comes in waves, but still it is profitable.

Two things I did not figured out about 7search PPC arbitrage so far – volume and tracking. I mean it is no problem to start a hundred of PPC arbitrage campaigns, but how to track what campaigns really make you money and what campaigns you should pause. I am sure there are techniques and ways, but I did not research this deep due to the mentioned 7search policy changes.

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You want to increase your traffic? I do not doubt that.

OK, as the title says get a cheap, I would say, the cheapest copywriter you can find. Not the best, not a good copywriter, but the cheapest one - a college student, an overseas freelancer, other kind of ideas go here.

I have got this idea about a year back. Recently I have read a story of a webmaster who has increased his AdSense earnings from $10.00 to $800.00 per week – and that reminded me of that idea. It is not new and to tell the truth a boring (but efficient) technique. I have practiced it for some time, but it was not much fun and I dropped it. Now I think that it is worth hiring someone to do this job as it does not attract me, but the technique works.

1. Conduct a proper keyword analysis – that is the core of the technique. You can certainly use this or this keyword research tools to start with. But we talk about a proper keyword research that will provide you with reliable information about number of searches and competitors (demand/ supply), will help you to make a list of misspellings, etc. WordTracker is a nice tool in this case.

2. Hire a local college student or an overseas freelancer. The price – all that matters. You need the cheapest human (not automatic) content generator.

3. Supply him with the list of keywords you have got as a result of your deep keyword research.

4. Instruct that person: you need to write articles focused around each of the keyword phrase. The articles should be 100% unique (copyscape tool will control you), 300-400 words. You should mention the article title in the text, use references to your other articles with proper anchor text, etc…

5. Design a landing page properly optimized (yes, it is a PPC term applicable for this organic optimization technique). The layout to the left is quite good:

6. Publish those articles after making the required changes (on-page optimization) and interlinking them into the website structure.

7. Wait for a few months for any effect (= traffic increase).

Summary: I should mention that this technique is not applicable to all websites (unfortunately). It works fine with good and established websites that are online for a couple of years.

Will it (’artificial content’) damage the image of your website? I do not think so. You can keep running the website the way you do it now adding valuable content, services and tools.

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