$130,073 in 1 Week with RSOC Search Arbitrage

[asharjamil]

Happy New Year everyone! I’m excited about where search arbitrage is heading in 2026.

Over the past few months, search arbitrage has been challenging, especially after the AFD transition to RSOC and Google’s rollout of RAFs.
Volatile RPCs, clawbacks, compliance Issues. Feed providers pulling domains due to shared domain violations caused by other players.
But towards December, I started seeing signs of a pickup.

In the last week of 2025, running RSOC search arbitrage, here’s what the data looked like:

• $113,333 ad spend
• $130,073 revenue
• $16,740 net profit
• 15% ROI

These numbers are decent compared to last month. They’re showing good recovery signs.
By the way, I’m always trying to achieve a 20% ROI which I believe is achievable with this much ad spend.

What I’ve learned over the past few months is that the players who stayed in the game learned how to stay patient and keep testing instead of quitting, scale down and test on lower budgets, take advantage of AI and automation, and most importantly treat search arbitrage like a real business.

also thanks to new platforms which have changed the game by offering faster approvals, easier setup, quicker campaign launches, the ability to rotate multiple feeds in the background, and automated keyword optimization.

I’m happy to share the strategy I’m using to find and scale campaigns so here it is.

How I Find Winning Verticals

• Look at what’s already working.
  Spy competitors. Use spy tools. Watch top performing Facebook pages.
  If those pages are launching new ads every day then it must be working.
• Recreate it but don’t copy blindly.
  Use the same angles and structure, then test your own creatives.
  Small changes make a big difference.
• Test everything.
• Scale what works. Turn off what doesn’t. Winners get more budget. Losers get cut.

How I Test Campaigns

• Initial test budgets:
  Usually $10-$20/day for up to 3 days
  
  
• Early warning signs:
  If I see ‑100% ROI within $5-$10 spend, I kill those campaigns.
  Often this means:
  • The ad isn’t appearing properly on the landing page
  • The creative isn’t good enough
  • Or big mismatch between creative and landing page
• Acceptable initial test performance:
  • ‑50% ROI at $10 spend
  • -30% ROI at $20 spend
  • ‑20% ROI at $30 spend
  • Break‑even or better at $50
  • >5% ROI at $100

I strictly follow these rules above. If the results don’t improve, I kill the campaign.

My Exact Scaling Rules

• Scaling rules:
  • 20-30% budget increases only
  • Every 2-3 days
  • Only if the campaign is holding 30%+ ROI
  • Duplicate campaign and test different creatives (video/static images)

My FB Campaign Setup​

I keep structure simple to avoid fragmenting data:

• Creatives:
  • 3-5 creatives mix of both video and static images
  • 4-5 body copy
  • 1 headline
• Bidding strategy:
  • Default: highest volume
  • Cost caps only when burst spend or instability appears
• Budgets:
  • $5-$10/day
  • I don’t launch/test any campaign with large budgets unless I am duplicating a winner.

Although in some cases, larger budgets are actually an advantage:

• Faster data
• Faster decisions to cut or scale

Final Thoughts

Search arbitrage isn’t the same as it used to. But it is still working for those who are patient and keep testing.
Google cracking down on shady players, only clean, patient, and compliant players will thrive.

 

[Samoz]

You've posted this before.

 

[awesomewebsites]

Hope you achieve the 20% ROI soon as well.

 

[asharjamil]

Hope you achieve the 20% ROI soon as well.

That's the goal for January 2026. Thank you.

 

[Binary addict]

Which platforms do you use for ads sir?

 

[nirvanaayyoub]

i see now that this is basically what you do
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/can-someone-explain-to-me-what-this-person-is-doing.1777447/

 

[asharjamil]

i see now that this is basically what you do
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/can-someone-explain-to-me-what-this-person-is-doing.1777447/

Yes, that’s correct. The examples in the thread are from RSOC search arbitrage, although that advertiser is running non compliant video creatives.

 

[rezagray]

RSOC? Related search on content? Isn't dead since august?. Only heard accounts who have cse/afs enable can access it.
Last time i play search arbitrage august.
Now new adsense account cannot display RSOC

 

[csarb]

My company runs all of our traffic on Meta, but in the last few months we've been experiencing some serious overspend issues, and Meta does not seem like they are close to a solution. Have you experienced the same issues on Meta, and if so do you have any solutions?

 

[asharjamil]

RSOC? Related search on content? Isn't dead since august?. Only heard accounts who have cse/afs enable can access it.
Last time i play search arbitrage august.
Now new adsense account cannot display RSOC

We are running traffic through feed providers and RSOC is far from dead, though ROI is lower than it was in earlier days.

My company runs all of our traffic on Meta, but in the last few months we've been experiencing some serious overspend issues, and Meta does not seem like they are close to a solution. Have you experienced the same issues on Meta, and if so do you have any solutions?

Yes we do see this sometimes when the campaign budget is spent enitrely within the first 10 minutes of the day. To fix this, we add a bid cap or set a cost per result.

 

[asharjamil]

You truly are an expert at making money online. I really admire you.

Thank you.

 

[Media Sign Digital]

Initial test budgets:
Usually $10-$20/day for up to 3 days

Is it the same for ads in all niches, are you using only Tier 1 traffic or Tier 2-3 also

 

[asharjamil]

Is it the same for ads in all niches, are you using only Tier 1 traffic or Tier 2-3 also

Yes, it is same for all geos.

 

[asharjamil]

What product are you advertising that has such a high ROI?

ROI is pretty low. What I’m doing here is RSOC search arbitrage, running Meta ads to RSOC feeds.

 

[asharjamil]

Can you guide me?

Google “search arbitrage,” learn from there and you can also watch my videos on YouTube. Check out the links in my signature.

 

[makinsys]

Hi, very interesting and thank you for sharing.

I see that you are setting up the campaign bidding strategy highest volume. Do you mean highest volume of conversions or highest volume of clicks?

What is the typical CPC and CTR for a winner or for a loser?

 

[asharjamil]

Hi, very interesting and thank you for sharing.

I see that you are setting up the campaign bidding strategy highest volume. Do you mean highest volume of conversions or highest volume of clicks?

What is the typical CPC and CTR for a winner or for a loser?

I’m using these settings. I also use bid caps sometimes. CPC and CTR are different for each vertical and geo, so there’s no fixed checklist for that. Usually, my CTR is above 10%.

 

[fbformoney]

I’m using these settings. I also use bid caps sometimes. CPC and CTR are different for each vertical and geo, so there’s no fixed checklist for that. Usually, my CTR is above 10%.

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@asharjamil ! First of all thanks alot for the post and congratz on your achievement. I have few Doubts here

Do people really scale from 10$ to 100$ the next day using bid cap or cost cap ? What is the purchase event you suggest for running arbitrage. ! I am running yahoo feed.


Let me put the scaling question even a bit more clear.

1. I have a winning profitable campaing with an ROI of 30% and its consitent with 5$ budget daily ? if i know the CPR can i launch a 100$ campaing the 4th day targeting the CPR as Costcap or Bidcap ?

 

[adwaitk007]

I feel, for these kind of results, you must have decent budget to test. With limited budget of couple of thousands, these ROAS are just dream!

 

[cptbartowski]

What is rsoc?