No.  Not by me.  But Chad at www.cdfnetworks.com is going to mentor one of his readers free for week. I have met Chad in person, and he has a wealth of information regarding PPC.  He really knows what he is talking about, and in my short conversation with him, I got enough knowledge to make things right with my campaigns.

Quit wasting your time reading this post and make use of this opportunity to learn from one of the best.  Here is the link

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Sometime last year, Shoemoney gave out a simple script using PHP, where it allows you to show both Google Adsense, and Yahoo Publishers ads on the same site.  I have used it in the past on few of my sites, and yesterday I just modded that, and am testing out multiple landing pages.  Here it is:

< ? php <– Remove the spaces
$number=mt_rand(1, 2);

if ($number==”1″) {

include “/root path/index1.php”; #your 1st landing page design
}
else

{
include “/root path/index2.php”; #your 2nd landing page design

}
?>

And name this file index.php and you are all set.  I am not a coder, so don’t flame me if this is not to your standards.  Contact Shoemoney.com for modding info.

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Most of you know about Craigslist, but few know about Kijiji. One is more popular in the States, while other is more popular outside of US. Anyways, I accidentally found a trick to work around both.

I found this offer on Azoogle, that allowed search, web and email promotions.  I was promoting it through Adwords, and not generating enough volume.  At first I place a small enticing ad on Craislist in 1 large city, and instead of linking it directly to the offer, I added one my junk email address, and setup to autorespond with a link to the offer.  This reduced the amount of time that I would be replying to each submitter, and to Craigslist editors, it looked like I was actually a seller.  All the autoresponder email said was click on this link to get your xxx or copy and paste the url that you see below in your browser.  That was my biggest day of profit.  That was free advertising, and the EPC with Craigslist was great.

I then wanted to try something else.  I wanted to see if I could just place the offer link on the page itself.  But I knew that it would eventually get caught when checked manually by editors.  So, not being too greedy, I set up an autoresponder again.  Waited for 1 day, and the great thing about Craigslist is that you can actually edit your ad.  So, next day, I edited the ad, hoping that the editors had already checked it.  And sure enough, the ad didn’t get declined.  Sure, after a couple of days the traffic dies out, but if you have the right offer, you can actually come out pretty good.

Use the same tactic with Kijiji and you will get results.  The great thing about each of the above ad avenues is that you have 100s of cities to target, and reach millions of users.

It is not a huge number, but in 3 days from Kijiji & Craigslist, I made over $675, which is not too shabby for anyone wanting wanting to dip their toes and try out an offer.  I just got too lazy to be adding the ads to each city.  But if you have the patience, go ahead, it’s easy (free) money.

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My other post pretty much summed up how I performed, but I really didn’t mention my mistakes, and how you can probably prevent them too. They seem so obvious, but we still tend to dis-regard most of the basic rules (Ok, I do) of affiliate marketing.

Mistake #1 – If you are going to promote something, and if you can “really” avoid it, try to promote intangible products. I was promoting the hell out of Bluetooths, and was getting amazing CTR, good Q/S, everything was just great! I was promoting bluetooths via Amazon, and you would think that hey, if it is Amazon, what could go wrong? Wrong!! The headset that I was hyping, was Motorola H12, and that was out of stock on most of the days that I was pushing it. Doh! Yeah, it sucks but I realized it soon enough.

Mistake #2 – As good a tool the adwords keyword tool is, If you are new to affiliate marketing, spend some extra money and get a decent keyword generator, like keyword elite. That saved me a lot of time, and money.

Mistake #3 – When direct linking to a merchant, and Just because the payout is high, does not mean that the landing page will convert. Obvious, yeah, but do you really follow that? Lost a ton on a Clickbank direct linking. The product and payout both were good, I just didn’t think that the landing page converted well. I will however go back and promote it, but with my own landing page.

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I have not made a post in a while, since I had been busy banking with aff marketing.  No just kidding.  I was busy with other stuff, but here is what I accomplished last month.

Not sure what the Super Affiliates, or Uberaffiliates would think of this progress. But here it is.

Overall I spent: $1438.43 on Google Adwords and Yahoo

I made $1436.60

I lost $1.83

Here is what happened and I got lucky that I didn’t lose much.  To begin with, I found a really cool offer with Azoogle, that was generating a good amount everyday…ok, not a large amount, but enough that I could offset the profits from it to try other programs out, and thereby not losing everything.  The only problem with the Azoogle offer was that the payout was really low, and therefore, I could not really scale it.  I had the daily budget set at $200, but I barely crossed $40 on most days.

Also, in the first couple of weeks, no matter what I did, no matter what campaign I ran, the damn keywords always showed up with a poor Quality Score.  I just could not get the hang of targetting the right keywords.  I then chatted with an Adwords specialist, and she recommended that I make more adgroups and target keywords according to the adgroup name (I already knew that, but was just being lazy).  The only problem now was, that the Google Keyword tool, not matter how good it is, always tempted me to use the “Add All XXX Keywords” and that threw the whole adgroup in a poor Q/S.  Now I am not making a paid review, but I got my hands on Keyword Elite.  Holy Shit!!!  This is a piece of software that really (yes, really) paid for itself in 2 days.  If you have not used it, just go watch the video on the site, and you will see how it lets you build keywords, pull related ads from Google, and uploads the entire new campaign to Adwords for you.

One other lesson I learnt.  Make your own landing page, try no to direct link.  Not because you can do a better job, but this is what I ran into.  Every time I had a campaign, and let’s say the bid was $1, my ads would not show for most of the keywords, even though the Q/S was Great.  The reason being, since you have to show your display url as your final url where the customer lands, I was competing with the same companies that I was promoting.  Most of the time I got this -

Which really sucked.  And I was at times bidding $3 and still not getting placed high enough.

One campaign I lost a ton of money was a direct linking one with Clickbank.  If it weren’t for that, I would have been in the positive.  I tried many campaigns, and paused or deleted them within a day or two if I was not satisfied.  Let’s see how this month goes, since I am a bit more polished.

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