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Search arbitrage
In plain English
What does Search arbitrage mean?
Buying cheap traffic (native, social, push) and sending it to pages of paid search results that earn per click, pocketing the difference.
Search-feed arbitrage monetises traffic through partner search feeds from Google, Bing or Yahoo. It scales enormously but lives on platform policy: feed providers tighten quality rules regularly, and a policy change can end a business overnight.