Arbitration of traffic is one of the ways to make money on the Internet, not every beginner can understand the essence of it. The process, in general, is simple, but very painstaking, involves a lot of monotony and routine. But with the right approach, traffic arbitration can bring quite good earnings. 
What kind of earnings?
Arbitration of traffic is a profit from reselling (redirecting) traffic. In other words, it requires the purchase of traffic (visitors to the resource) in one place, where it is cheaper, and sale in another place - where it is more expensive. The profit from arbitrage traffic can be considered the difference between buying and selling it.
By its purchase is meant the placement of advertisements at various sites. The most popular form of advertising for arbitration is teaser advertising (an enticing mystery that shows only part of the product information, not showing it in full). Also, contextual, banner advertising and other types take place. Even ads on mailing lists can be attributed to generating revenue through traffic arbitration.
Earnings on affiliate programs using your own site does not apply to arbitration (in the event that visitors get to the site upon requests from search engines). If potential customers are brought to the web resource by paid advertising (teaser, banner, contextual and any other), then this is again an arbitration of traffic. Where to begin? More on this later.
Where to start to make money on traffic arbitrage?
At the initial stage of work, it is important to choose the right affiliate program. You should not register on many resources that provide the opportunity to become a partner - two or three programs will be enough for a start.
Next, you should look at all the available promotional materials and carefully study the terms of cooperation. It is important to determine the target audience and only then select the places for advertising - traffic arbitration does not endure in a hurry. A beginner should start with a study of the practical experience of professionals. 
It’s almost impossible to launch a successful advertising campaign the first time. Often in the process you have to adjust the parameters, change the headings, banners, links, etc., and then observe the results, view and analyze statistics.
There are such types of traffic arbitration:
- direct (purchased traffic goes directly to affiliate programs);
- using the lining - the Landing page (in this case, traffic is purchased on the Landing page (landing page), which is specially created for a specific product, from which the visitor goes to the affiliate program page using the referral link);
- using the Landing page and Email-registration (when switching to the Landing page, the visitor has to register on the site, a significant plus of the method is the gradual compilation of the base of Email addresses, which can later be used to send promotional materials).
Beginners in the field of arbitrage traffic have many different kinds of questions, ignorance of the correct answer to which and a lack of experience lead to a loss of investment and, as a rule, complete disappointment in such earnings.
Traffic Arbitration: Training
Various courses and trainings on such earnings come to the aid in solving problems with a lack of knowledge. In the course program “Earnings on traffic arbitration”, the following topics are usually studied:
- Arbitration Dictionary
- types of offers;
- offer selection rules;
- traffic sources and offers for them;
- offer testing plan;
- teaser advertising, its disadvantages and advantages;
- free parsers;
- list of macros for teaser networks;
- advertising and promotion on social networks;
- targeted advertising;
- contextual advertising.
True, not all professionals consider such courses necessary, since traffic arbitration is constantly undergoing various changes. Learning is most effective on its own independent, in the process of work, because what was profitable another year, month or week ago, today may not work at all. Almost any information can be found in specialized groups on social networks, blogs or on the forums of arbitrageurs.
Partnership programs
Begin seriously involved in traffic arbitrage should be the search for suitable affiliate programs. Most often, these intermediaries are used to earn money on traffic arbitration:
- CPA affiliate programs pay for each attracted visitor who has committed the target action. Usually in such affiliate programs you need to register, fill out a subscription form, make an order or phone call. For example, a potential client sees an advertisement for an online game, clicks on an ad, and lands on a site offering registration. If a person decides to become a player and registers, the arbitrator will receive a deduction (fee for action).
- Affiliate programs for making a purchase by an attracted user. If the sale is completed, then part of the earnings from the product is transferred to the arbitrator.
- "SMS" affiliate programs. Such affiliate programs usually ask visitors to send a message or enter a phone number and a numeric code that will arrive at the indicated number in a few minutes to (supposedly) confirm that the site is dealing with a real person. The visitor, completely unaware that he signs up for a newsletter for a fee, performs the action. After a short period of time, they begin to withdraw money from the user's balance. Earnings on such programs are among the "dark" methods.
How to earn?
Significant earnings from traffic arbitration can be obtained if you have patience, develop certain skills, accumulate a certain budget for investments and fully understand the essence of the process.
The first thing you need to get acquainted with the principles of contextual advertising. One of the priority areas of training is the proper launch and organization of an advertising campaign, the competent writing of advertisements with the obligatory consideration of the advertising mechanism, which allows you to select only the target from the entire available audience and show advertising to potential customers. Basic knowledge of marketing and copywriting will not interfere in this difficult task for a beginner.
So this is not such a simple matter - traffic arbitration. Instructions for earning money, even the most detailed and developed by a professional, are unlikely to help if a novice arbitrator does not make his own efforts to master the Internet profession. 
In general terms, earnings on arbitration involves the following actions:
- You must select an affiliate program and go through the registration process.
- Next, create teasers for the affiliate program and come up with “catchy” (eye-catching) headlines.
- After that you need to register on the teaser network and replenish your personal account (traffic arbitrage without investments is far from the best idea, in which case a fast and high income is hardly to be expected).
- It is necessary to create an advertising campaign in the selected teaser network using already prepared teasers and headlines.
- Having set up a network, you can launch a new advertising campaign.
Then you just have to wait for the teasers to appear on the webmaster’s sites, and visitors to these resources will click on advertisements and perform targeted actions.
Where to buy traffic?
Arbitrage traffic can be obtained both for free and for a fee. Free traffic sources include forums, sites, and blogs. True, the arbitration of traffic without investing money requires time and labor. Only after the promotion of the web resource and attracting visitors can you proceed to arbitrage traffic, that is, redirect potential customers to the sites of partner programs and make a profit.
Paid traffic for arbitration will require at least the availability of seed capital. It will take from 5 thousand to 10 thousand rubles. But you will have to buy traffic on a daily basis, so you will also need reserve capital, which will help to avoid disruptions and interruptions in work. With a good combination of circumstances, the opportunity to withdraw profit will appear no earlier than three to four weeks after the launch of the first advertising campaign.
Buying traffic on traffic exchanges is extremely simple - the whole process takes about ten minutes. The procedure is fully automated. 
The risk of earning on traffic arbitration is an ignoble business. Before profit begins to flow, it will take a lot of money to gain experience. Such expenses should be foreseen in advance.
The quality of arbitration traffic is directly dependent on the cost. You can buy the cheapest visitors on the exchanges, expensive are purchased through popular search engines using contextual advertising. Visitors from social networks are expensive.
A traffic source is any link to a site that can be located on any resource.
Arbitration of traffic from scratch
You can get free traffic for arbitration by posting links that will redirect a potential buyer to the affiliate programs website. A method that can provide arbitration of traffic from scratch is very good at the initial stage. Link placement gives good results, preserves the nervous system and finances of a novice arbitrageur until there are no financial resources for quick and effective promotion. 
How to control the quality of traffic?
Many teaser networks allow you to filter out inefficient sites. You can also find out the effectiveness of a particular site by installing Google Analytics or Yandex Metric. The statistics services automatically analyze the attracted arbitration traffic, and the webmaster, having read the results of the verification, can refuse sources that do not bring profit. 
Who should sell arbitrage traffic?
Many affiliate programs operate on the principle of CPA (pay per action). Working with such programs is the most popular way to sell arbitrage traffic. The product topics are very diverse - these are online games, and offers of large banks (obtaining a loan, deposit, issuing a credit card), and information products (someone’s practical experience that is presented in a certain form, for example, in an e-book), and coaching ( training and consulting).
How much can you earn?
How much can you earn on traffic arbitrage? The described process is not considered an easy way to earn money, as both beginners and experienced market players face a huge variety of pitfalls. In arbitration, there is a risk of spending money on advertising and not earning anything at all. Although experienced people with a good budget can receive tens and hundreds of thousands of rubles daily. The average income of the arbitrator is from one hundred to five hundred thousand rubles per month.