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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