Traffic Arbitrators have been making a lot of profit with advertisements on the Google Play Store and the AppStore for a really long time, redirecting traffic in all ways possible. Due to this, stores with stores selling ready-to-launch apps appeared, as well as developers ready to be hired just to build that specific software. Big Traffic Arbitrage teams have hired several programmers to build these apps and upload them. Along with that, Affiliate Networks keep posting promotions for that traffic, so the offer never dries.
You can pick an app, publish it, redirect traffic, or take an already-made one and make money! Nevertheless, although it sounds great, it’s not that simple.
What should you be careful of when doing Traffic Arbitrage on apps Let’s find out.
What is an Application
In the Traffic Arbitrage industry, an app is a mobile application that can be downloaded to smartphones from an App Store, whether is an iPhone App Store, or the Google Play Store. They’re usually free games, on which the user gets eventually redirected to an online casino, for example, where he plays for real money. The Traffic Arbitrator receives a percentage of the money the user spent, and they received from the gambling platform itself. The more downloads and deposits, the higher the traffic arbitrator‘s earnings are.
There are two types of applications:
- Web Apps: These are the most common. They’re a cross-platform browser that opens the offer link. The user opens the app, and instead of the game it was advertised he was going to get on the Google Plays Store, he gets redirected to a real casino website. On average, these kinds of applications only last 2 days as Google bans them almost immediately.
- Native: Native Apps are built for a specific operating system (whether is Android or iOS). Unlike the web apps, this one does not redirect the user to the offer, the offer is a product on the application.
A regular or native app will be on the Play Store longer than a web app, it can last up to an entire year.. This type of app gives the best profit as the user doesn’t need to register, they just starts to use the app as soon as they install it. An affiliate marketer needs to invest more money and put more time to develop an application, or buyting. That’s why natives applications are not that common as the web ones.
Options for working with adverts for affiliate marketers
If you want to use mobile applications for Traffic Arbitrage, you have a few options to work on it:
- Develop it from scratch: This is the most complex and difficult task for a Traffic Arbitrator with no experience on programming or coding. The Apps Stores has become more strict, but now you can risk writing the applicaiton yourself. Just make make sure it’s a lightweight, like 5MB max, build it using Unity or ReactJS. But bear in mind, not all apps brings profit.
- Affiliate Networks’ plugins: This is more simple to use for begginers, is a pluging coming fROM the affiliate network that can be just implemented on the app.
- Buying an app directly from a company or developer: Another good option is to buy an already-made app from a developer or a company, most of these are already approved and posted on the app store. The pricing for the apps goes from 200$ to 800$. Nevertheless, you can get scammed from the developers, like removing the app after the payment, or just not paying you.
Pros of buying an already-built application
- Save time unlike developing the app itselft, and in some cases, cheaper.
- Ready-to-used product that has been already been approved to be on the store.
- Access to the app’s source code, which allows you to modify it.
- Add several monetization channels like push notifications.
Along with all that, these kind of apps lives longer and stay on the Store for a lot of time. Developers are constantly optimizing and monitoring the apps state and stats.
Quick-app-builders available
Nowadays, you don’t need to be a programmer to create mobile apps. There are platforms that builds the app for you and they’re simple to use, along with being able to just include the offer.
- Verivo AppStudio: 30$ per month subscription with a 15-days trial period.
- Kalipso Studio: – 83$ monthly subscription and a 1993$ permament license.
- AppsBuilder: By suscription, starting on $15 per month.
These platform have 15-days trial periods. But you can’t compile tha apps as they’re not fool enough to let you do that for free.
How to pour traffic through apps
The most popular niches in the Traffic Arbitrage industry nowadays are gambling and dating. The sports and betting niche are second in populality, and finance, more particulary, microloans, are in third place. Crypto and cryptomining are in fourth place. Don’t be creative, use what’s already working.