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How do you start search arbitrage?

The compliant route is: learn the unit economics, apply to a feed provider and be honest about your traffic plans, set up tracking, build pages with real content, launch small tests on one approved traffic source with accurate adverts, and judge results on finalised revenue. Keep budgets small until you have several weeks of paid, clawback-adjusted data.

Short answer · The Arbitrage Desk

In more detail. First, be able to calculate RPV, break-even point and ROI without help. Second, secure feed approval and read the provider's rules on sources, verticals and creatives. Third, connect a tracker and confirm that revenue flows back correctly. Fourth, choose a vertical you can write about truthfully and prepare a handful of creatives. Fifth, test with a fixed loss limit.

Expect most tests to lose. The aim of the first months is to learn where money leaks, not to earn. Set aside working capital for the payment delay, never spend money you cannot afford to lose, and do not scale on estimated revenue. There is no safe shortcut around approval or policy, and no guarantee of profit.

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