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i read here about the various people that make hundreds per day, even $50 per day, but for years i just haven't figured out how it's done.
can someone redirect me in the right direction? what would be an example of an "affiliate marketing" site? are people making money more from bidding on adwords and putting in affiliate links? etc...
kind of lost, and this seems like the place to ask...
If I could give a $20 bill for every $10 bill you give me, you'd be giving a lot of $10 bills wouldn't you?
That's what ppc is all about.
Content sites are nice hobbies, but you will not make near as much $ doing them versus ppc.
What is the best way to learn about the right way to do PPC affiliate marketing?
If I could give a $20 bill for every $10 bill you give me, you'd be giving a lot of $10 bills wouldn't you?That's what ppc is all about.
That sums it up really well. Find offers where you can send $x.xx (say $100) in traffic and get back that initial investment of $100 plus $x from the affiliate commissions and you are well on your way.
The best way to do this is to find keyword terms relevant to your offer that you can still get high placement in the SEs for a low cost.
Basically you have to test various combinations of keywords, ad copy and offers until you find the right mix.
After you have read both forums completely, open up an account and experiment. Find a good product and try to sell it.
One word of advice, do not risk more then you are willing to lose at any given moment. Another word of advice, you HAVE to spend money to make money.
You earn money by designing websites with the sole intention of promoting a specific affiliate program.
For example, if you want to promote car loans, than you design a website for car loans. Someone looks up car loans or auto loans they find your website and click through to the merchant...
Hiccup is also right about the PPC campaigns. But they are a little bit harder and there's a chance you'll loose money.
By the way, do you always buy a domain name for each affiliate program/adword landing page? or do you use domain.com/landingpage.html? Does it make any difference?
What is the best way to learn about the right way to do PPC affiliate marketing?
Test, test and test and be prepared to lose money before you make it. Initially it is like playing the slots in Vegas or AC but if you stick with it you can crank out cash all day every day. It takes some outside of the box thinking to make it profitable. More and more people are trying it and competition from affiliates and merchant increases every day.
with so many thousands of products on CJ, for example, from electronics to dating services and everything in between, there has to be something slightly more sophisticated than trial and error to at least determine the general KIND of product that works best?
Everyone is different and has different fields of expertise.
I've always that marketing in itself is a peripheral skill when it comes to internet marketing. It's useful, well-written content that keeps people coming back and keeps the visitor numbers growing. After that the clicks and sales will rise slowly and steadily.
But then, I'm a journalist by trade and I see the web primarily as a written information medium not as a commercial sales channel, so I guess I would take that view.
Is that how it is? If you want to work on the individual product level, are there any schemes other than amazon's that allow you to do it? Or are these individual product schemes only available from those merchants, like Amazon, who have set them up for themselves. Sorry if this question sounds confusing.
Besides amazon, I'm in several much smaller independent affiliate programs, and they all provide direct product links.
with so many thousands of products on CJ, for example, from electronics to dating services and everything in between, there has to be something slightly more sophisticated than trial and error to at least determine the general KIND of product that works best?
That's how we (almost?) all started out and how most people start out today unless they can get someone to spill the beans. Conference presentations and more so the networking afterward can sometimes lead to some golden nuggets. Most anything from personals to shoes to electronics and anything else you can imagine can be profitable when promoted with the right keywords.
I am only now starting to build affiliates into my site, and it will certainly be trial and error. But this deep linking seemed intuitively to be better than a general link to a home page.
You earn money by designing websites with the sole intention of promoting a specific affiliate program.
Doesn't the google sandbox mean that a new product site won't produce SE visitor flow for 12 - 18 months. So do you rely totally on PPC traffic to get potential customers?
You don't need a ton of traffic, just traffic that is looking for exactly what you have.
yup. Don't build a site about widgets and put ads on it. Build a site about widgets, review every widget and in big fat letters everywhere around the review say: Click Here to Buy Widget xy32.
I have a site that averages one affiliate click per visitor.
