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i'm still new to adwords and figuring it out as i go along (the really hard way). i've been getting lots of clicks but not 1 sale. i've tried different techniques and used different companies with different landing pages whether it's mine or the advertisers. 400 clicks and not 1 sale. i know the clickbank account is working right because i bought something myself to make sure. it's the cj account that's not showing anything. i even did a lead (worth a buck) on there because the other 48 clicks didn't produce one single free sign-up lead. mine didn't show up either. i've contacted them and 2 days later i've still not heard a reply. is there something special i need to add when directing clickers straight to the site? i'm not sure if i need to add the?=pid and then stick each individual search query in with it. i haven't been doing this but could that be the problem? i've also used the advertisers url without including the 1x1 pixel they use for tracking if it were directly on my own site. could that be it? i want to figure out what's wrong before i waste any more money on the wrong things, but since i haven't gotten one to work yet, i don't know if it's even working? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.
pino
Zero-pixel tracking images can be a problem with Adwords. You need to get specific instructions for the affiliate program you are working with. For example, for Amazon, there is an entirely different form of link that works with Adwords and isn't well-documented in any Amazon documentation. Fortunately, the folks on the Amazon support forums are well aware of this, and the question comes up every few days and is answered.
Which is why I suggest you find a CJ support forum and ask the question there.
I think that if you want to do affiliate arbitrage, you are best off advertising individual products from merchants that have thousands of products, landing directly on the product page. I wouldn't waste my time with the stuff that affiliate clearinghouses spoon-feed eager marketers who then all jump on the same thing.
"you are best off advertising individual products from merchants that have thousands of products, landing directly on the product page"
Could you give one or 2 examples of that kind of merchant? The merchants I sell products for all have 1 product or just a few products.
<a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-PID#-AID#" target="_top" > Buy Widgets At Widgets.com
</a><img src="http://www.tqlkg.com/image-PID#-AID#" width="1" height="1" border="0">
Everything else is just needed to display images and track impressions. Neither is needed as you can host the image on your own server and who cares about the impressions anyway?
"you are best off advertising individual products from merchants that have thousands of products, landing directly on the product page"Could you give one or 2 examples of that kind of merchant?
Amazon would be the most well-known example.
There have to be dozens or hundreds of other choices, though, specializing in: computers, computer parts and accessories, home electronics, pet supplies, gardening supplies, tools, laboratory equipment, office supplies... you name it, anything with a deep inventory.
I would even go further to encrypt it just to make sure that the pid is not easily replaceable.
