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I just got this FREE report on CPA (cost per action) marketing this morning.  This is a must read for any affiliate marketer, no matter if you are a rookie or seasoned veteran. You need to download and read this FREE report asap.

Why? Well, this report is packed with the same info that people typically pay up to $1000 for. I’m not kidding, he’s really giving away most of the “best stuff” in this report from his ground-breaking Pay Per Click Formula 1.0 course.

This is like the “Cliff Notes” from his $1000 PPC-to-CPA course.

Skeptical that this is another guru who gives you “useful but incomplete” info to “tease” you??? If so, then get the report and go immediately to page 65-74 where Gauther gives the best secrets from his original course on how to get super-cheap targeted clicks.

One of the techniques is called the “Alexa Method”, where you go to Alexa.com, find the highest-traffic sites for your offer and then bid in AdWords on those domains as keywords. Sounds wacky, but you’d be amazed how many searchers type a domain into Google search and how much cheap, targeted traffic you can get from this one strategy.

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After failing on my first PPC ClickBank campaign, I thought hard and long about my next attempt, and set up some rules for myself to follow.The next area I really wanted to promote was loans.  Great idea, until I saw the price of keywords, OUT.

Next was a detox product.  Seemed solid, all was go forward.  I chose  a Natural Body Detox product.  Keywords I chose were not badly priced, So I let it fly for 2 days and $20.  I saw 50 hits at the landing page, but no sales.  I pulled the plug, dead.  I need profit, it was looking the same as the resume campaign.

2 down, what now?  I spent 2 days browsing ClickBank looking at products.  I decided upon  aen ebook for tips and help getting gold in World of Warcraft.  Now I have never played this game, but I know a few people that do, and they are crazy about it.  These guys spend real money to have more stuff in a video game.  My kind of client.  I chose a product; World Of Warcraft Opulence.

I created 2 ad groups, one directed to the authors landing page, and 1 to a pre-sale page I created.  Each had focused and cheap keywords.  After day one My click through was really bad.  So I turned on the content network.  Now this was the first time I had used content network, so I did nothing but turn it on.  I began seeing a lot more traffic, but was not converting anyone.  I ran this campaign for almost 4 days, 232 visits to the authors site, not even 1 sale.  Yanked the plug on this one too.

Not discouraged yet, I tried again.  A myspace info book on how to meet girls and get dates with them.  Seemed like a solid product, and we all know mySpace is huge these days.  The product was The Matchbook Method.  Well the word MySpace is copyrighted, so you can’t even use it in an ad, then after I worked around that minor issue, I found out someone else was advertising this link and out ranking me, so my ad was rarely showing.  1 day, 12 hits no sales.

Now I am discouraged! I may try again soon, but I have some other fish to fry first.

Well I broke my rule of spending no money until there is money coming in.  All these other affiliates seem to make it sound so easy.  So I decided to try my own Google AdWords campaign on a ClickBank item.

For starters I just brainstormed what should sell.  My conclusion was a resume product.  I figured with the un-employment rate as high as it is right now, a lot of people are looking for any advantage to get a job.  I settled on Amazing Resume.  This seemed like the best product at the time.    In my opinion it has a good landing page,and it appears to be a good product for a reasonable price.

I started my campaign with a single ad with heavy keyword focus to the landing page.  The easy keywords were expensive.  So I chose some less obvious keywords hoping for quality instead of quantity.   First day, traffic was high, no sales.

Day 2 I added a second revised ad, and weeded out some keywords with a poor quality score.  More traffic no sales.

Day 3 I woke up to a sale.  WooHoo!  Well not really.  When I started this campaign, I told my self no to spend more than the sale would be worth.  So at this point I had spent around $22 and the sale was worth $22 and change.  OK so I am even, if this is the rate this product is going to convert at why sell it.  I decided to give it another $20 just to see how it went.

Day 4 and 5.  My $20 is gone and no sales.  I paused the campaign to think about my options.  When I returned a few days later I found I didn’t really pause it.  But it continued to run.  In short I got 2 more sales, but spent almost double that on advertising.  The numbers:  274 visits for 3 sales.  Not so good in my opinion.  You might say; “that’s over 1% that isn’t bad”.  Well in this case that 1% was still a $$ losing deal, traffic cost too much for this highly sought after niche.  Even for the keywords I considered specialty, or crude weer still getting 0.30 per click.  Not what I am after.

I have created more PPC campaigns since, stay tuned I will post my results soon.

There are tons of free tools available for affiliate online research. There are a few I am currently using.  Below I will tell you what I am using and how I am using it. If you have more tools, and know better ways to use the tools I am using please post it up in a comment.

1. Google Analytics
   • This tracking service is very handy.  You place the code snippet in your site, and it will report back, traffic, what page visitors land on, what page visitors exit from, how much time they spend on your site, and where they navigate to within your site.   It will also show what geographic location visitors come from, how they found you, either which search engine, or where the direct link came from, and what browser they are using and a lot more.
2. Google AdSense
   • If you have made it this far you should already know what Google AdSense is.  This is a program to advertise on your website without hassle.  You just paste a few lines of code into your site and sit back and watch the money come in (well sort of).  Google uses a PPC program (Pay per click).  Every time someone clicks on one of the ads on your site you earn a commission, a few cents to maybe  50 cents.  The ads are automatically tailored around ketywords found on your site.  The impressions, clicks, CTR and eCPM are tracked for you, and you can setup custom channels so you can determine which ad placements, or ads from different sites are making money.
3. Google Adwords
   • I am new to Google Adwords.  And advertising costs money.  So what I want to stress here is the tools sections in adwords.  There are a few things I use.
   • The keyword tool.  This free tool can analyze your site and suggest keywords, or you can type in key words.  It will the display how much search traffic these keywords generate, and the competition for these keywords.  I use the competitive information to determine if I will be able to display a good assortment of high paying ads on my site (PPC ads from AdSense).
   • Insight or Search – This is another handy research tool.  You input keywords, and it shows you where the searches are coming from and the volume over time.
4. Google Webmaster
   • This is basically a portal for submitting your site for the Google bat to crawl.  Alot of people think this is an inefficient way to get ranked, but I still determine is necessary.  There are tools to help find bad internal and external links, and  any meta data issues.  This tool will also analyze or generate a robots.txt file.
5. XML-Sitemaps.com
   • This handy tool is great for creating an XML sitemap for you. It supports up to 500 pages, which is enough for most, (definitely enough for me), and offers outputs for download in XML, compressed or uncompressed, html, text, and more. Just run the script and then upload to google. Whammo, you have a sitemap for your site.

Update:  part 2 is here.

Last I posted I was driving traffic to my newly set up cooking games site.  That was almost a week ago, and a lot has happened since then.

I turned off my Google Adsense ad today after my budget ran out.  Below is the continuation of the results.

Day 4:  Adwords sent   71 clicks (still a $5.00 / day budget) to http://www.games.cheesymeat.com Of those page hits I got one (1) AdSense click for a daily total of $0.82.  I received 4 referrals to Big Fish Games, but no sales.  So another losing day.

Day 5:  I reduced my budget to $2.00 per day and lowered my bids on all of my keywords.  My budget went down by more than half, but I still got 40 clicks to my site with a better CTR.  My Adsense received 1 click for $0.20 (WOOHOO!!)  Big fish got 2 more referrals.

Day 6:  I added a second ad variant to see if I could improve the already good CTR.  I also bumped the budget back to $5.00 after tweaking my keywords a bit.  results?  A total of 80 clicks, split pretty evenly between the 2 ads.  From Adsense, 5 clicks, $1.33.  1 more big fish referral.

Day 7:  Same campaign as above, 2 ads got 42 clicks each, total of 82.  AdSense totaled up at 9 clicks and $3.97.  My best day yet, but still not enough to recuperate what I am paying for advertising.

Day 8:  I drastically altered my campaign, I hacked out any keywords that weren’t performing and once again adjusted my bids.  I lowered my budget back to $2.00.  only 18 clicks today but a very nice CTR (my best yet).  AdSense got 1 click $.24 (ouch!)

Day 9: Final day of experiment.  Budget back to $5.00 (although I only let it run up to about $4.00) 37 clicks, At Adsense, 3 clicks for $1.55.

Sum it up:  This has been an extremely educational experiment.  Definitely not immediately profitable for me, but has potential for paying customers later at Big Fish.  Total cost of AdWords campaign was $42.67.  Remember I was given this from Signing up with StartLogic.  So I really made $11.21 from AdSense, but if I had paid for the advertising I LOST. Not really what we are after here.  On a side note according to Google analytics, my site saw over 500 unique visitors in these 9 days, with a bounce rate of 39%.  I am pleased with these numbers if nothing else.

See you soon with my next experiment, which is already in the works………

Time for an update on http://www.games.cheesymeat.com.  When I last posted this was just started, it is still very young only being online for 4 days, but has grown up a bit already.  When I posted last on this I mentioned a form of Arbitrage.  Well it really isn’t arbitrage at all, lets just call it an  advertisement experiment.  I utilized my $50 Google AdWords credit I got from StartLogic to advertise for this site, so no money was spent out of pocket.  I started with a $6 a day budget and an 18 cent per click bid, placements on search only (no content page placements).  My ad was very simple, focusing on my keywords.    My landing page has keyword focused content from my affiliate network with Big Fish Games, and 2 ad placements from Google AdSense, a banner from Commission Junction, and I placed some text links to some Click Bank Products.  Some results are below, but due to Google TOS (terms of service) I will leave some specifics out.

Day 1:    I received 51 clicks on my AdWords ad for the $6.00 daily  max that I set.  My AdSense ads got 2 clicks, netting $0.83.  No action at Big Fish.  At this point I did not have commission junction or Click Bank ads active.

Day2:  I received 60 clicks from the AdWords ad.  My AdSense ads got 4 clicks at a total of $.047.  Still no action at Big Fish Games.  Morning of day 2 I moved the location of the Google AdSense ad, I moved it up to be above the fold.   I also added The Click Bank text link ads, and the Commission Junction banner.  Both still focused on the keywords.  At the end of the day no action on either.

Day 3:  Today is not over, but here are the results so far.  Adwords has sent 75 visitors, with Adsense paying $2.08 on 2 clicks.  No action on ClickBank, Commission Junction, or Big Fish.  This morning, I altered the ad layout a bit.  I basically just moved the navigation sidebar from the right side to the left side.  The left side is supposedly more of a hot zone for clicks?  I also changed my Adwords max bid.  My average bids were around .12 and I was still getting top results.  So I lowered my bid to .10 to see if I can get more traffic for the same amount of cash.

To sum it up, so far this hasn’t been a profitable venture for me. Luckily I am not using my money.   My CTR on Adwords has been what I consider good, my CTR  from Adsense is garbage.  I am going to let the Adwords campaign run for a couple more days without changing anything to see what happens.  The ad has driven a decent amount of traffic to my site, but I haven’t been able to convert.   Not 100% sure why,  any input?  Additionally, I was really hoping the Big Fish Network would pay off, so far it seems people don’t like to pay for games, or maybe this one takes a little time to set in.

Will update again in a few days.  Hopefully with some better results.

Link to Part 2 here