My mentality is that if he can make a good living doing this, then so can I, and even better if I don't give up. Ok Here's the questions, and problems.
The First problem: This is a real world example that I started 1 week ago. I was going through clickbank, and seen an e-book about seducing women. It was in the top 20 rank so I thought I would give it a shot.
1. Tried to find as many keywords related to "seducing women" as possible, sounds good right? Well I am still very vauge about keywords, and realize it is the biggest part of what I am going to do. I use "Adwords Analyzer" which is perfect for what I am going to do. Anyways, I put in "seduce" for the keyword, and set the country to the Good Old U.S.A. The top words with the keyword "seduce" came up... Problem is the words had low last month searches, (under 10,000) and had like over 8 competitors, and I am trying hard to get .05 cent keywords. So I go a little more general and start bidding on words like women, woman, pretty woman, etc. They are more general, but have few competitors, and have a higher search rate.
2. Placed Adwords, made up some good, catch ads, and waited.
Now - A week later, I have made only 1 sale, commission is $30, (pretty good commission), but I know that If I handled this good, I could make at least a sale a day. I am having mixed feelings about this. I have a feeling that maybe the keywords I chose were way to general, (None of my keywords were anything about picking up, getting, or seducing women), they were all about women in general. Other feeling I have is that the Keywords I chose such as "women" and "pretty women" just attracted Tire biters that were curious when they seen my ad. This stuff is kinda confusing me. I need help!
Last One. Found a car auction program that costs $50 to get into, good looking site, found a single keyword that had awesome overture search amount, (over 600,000), and no competitors. Placed an ad, Have gotten no sales since I started, (Last Friday). Again I think the keyword was to general.
Last Thoughts:
I know for this type of thing I am doing, the keywords I choose are the most important aspect of my business. And for me, this is the hardest thing to do. I pick a topic, and find myself going to general keywords most of the time because they have high searches, and not many competitors most of the time. I don't mind starting out with maybe 20 good keywords, but can't seem to get them.
I use Overture suggestion tool, google suggestion, synonym, etc. Should I go for the lower searched, more competitors, more targeted keywords? If so, is there any strategy for this considering the competitors? I know I can do good with this type of business, I just need some help. Again finding good keywords, that are targeted, and have not many competitors, but are searched alot is very hard for me.
Thanks in advance, I am sure this can help alot of people out too.
Ya I know what you mean. At this point I don't even care about this campaign, I just care about the help I can get out of "laying it all out" so to speak.
Thanks,
Cody
As far as researching keywords, the overture keyword suggestion tool is good and so is wordtracker.
I would never pay to become an affiliate, unless you could guarantee that I would make that money back. I wonder how other people feel about this.
Thanks
They make their living like 95% of Internet e-book authors from re-packaging information, most if not all of which is available online for free already, and selling it to newbies as you identify yourself as.
It is common knowledge that you can send PPC traffic to your affiliate sites if you wish, this is basically what the book tells you. Equally it is common knowledge that you can use tools such as wordtracker and overture to find what people are searching on, again the book tells you this. That is what you have paid $50+ for in a nutshell.
People have been doing this since Adwords started, it is nothing new, so you will find it difficult to find areas where current professional Internet marketers are not already operating in and dominating. To find good areas and to be consistently profitable in this field you will need to work very very hard.
This will be the same for high performing affiliate programs as well. That is those that convert well, pay well and on time and oh yes do not charge you to join them either. The good obvious targeted traffic keywords will be ultra competitive and if you want to compete you simply need to get your head down, be creative and work very very hard.
There are no shortcuts to success despite what ebook authors like to sell you. You need to get in there and carry on doing what you are doing, and you will start to see what is working and what isn't. You need to work this out for yourself and make loads of mistakes. This will lead you, if you are good enough and determined enough, to the outcome you desire. Anyone promising anything else is selling you smoke and mirrors.
What does that mean? Well as opposed to one keyword that is broad, choose 20 that has that keyword or phrase in it and then qualifies it a little further, these words will be cheaper and have less traffic, but you make up for that by having more words. If you look in your web logs you should see the search terms that were actually entered, you may have "pretty woman" as a keyword but the search could have been for "pretty lonely women", you are grabbed for that search because you have 2 of the terms. If you check the logs you may find a whole new list of words to use.
Off the beaten track? Well here you should go away from the specific or even the related and find obscure areas that may have a lot of your potential clients.
Using your example of picking up women ebook. What type of guys would possibly want the book? Maybe not the guys playing sports and going to the gym. Your customers or more likely to be the insecure and shy types. So try looking it that area.
Using both methods maybe try listings that are specific and off the track... such as.... NYC personal ads, Chicago personal ads, Los Angeles personal ads... go for big cities where you have more possible searches.
Now just apply that to any of the products you are trying to sell. And good luck.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember (and this is from somone making money as an affiliate) is to JUDICIOUSLY CHECK YOUR CPC AS COMPARED TO RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
I made the big mistake of overpaying for my AdWords BIG TIME (about twice what they are now) and I ended up losing money. After lowering the CPC prices, I still have first-page AdWords (in the top 10) and I'm making a fairly hefty profit. A few cents can make a SIGNIFICANT difference in profit/loss for your venture. Just be sure you're not overpaying for your ads. :)
