How fast can you make money with adwords?

[rfung]

I live in the affiliate forum, but I'm considering doing adwords more. My previous experience with it was a mildly succesful - I made returns of 10% by sending traffic to Amazon (digital cameras).

Well, I'm gonna start on PPC again. I'd like to have an idea of how you jumped in on PPC and how long it took you to find a succesful formula to set up profitable campaigns.

[SeanW]

CJ gives you the sid parameter to the URL for user-level tracking... I suspect you could use the keyword for that.

ie [example.com...]

Sean

[edited by: eWhisper at 3:12 am (utc) on Dec. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] Please use example.com for sample links. [/edit]

[gdrumm]

Three words: Conversion, Conversion, Conversion!

If you don't pay attention to your conversion rate, you'll NEVER make money.

When I started out, I wasn't paying that close of attention to how many people were buying, I was just exctied to get clicks. But then came search relevance and conversions.

So, I trimmed the fat down, found the highest converting keywords, expounded on those words (finding similar words and phrases), and changed up ad copy to reflect relevant keywords.

What I end up with is keywords which get about a 5-6% CTR and an 8-12% average conversion.

So I know if I want to make $5000 a month, I simply need to spend about $4000 to $5000 a month on advertising, and I do some of this on Amazon.

[Zygoot]

Interesting topic.

For the moment I'm making some good cash with one big content site and one smaller one through Adsense. But I plan to reinvest my money to earn even more.