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Okay a little background, I have been doing web development and the like for about a year now, but haven't really gotten into the affiliate marketing side of things

Right now I am working on promoting onlinevideogamerental.info. I started it a few months back, made a few sales, but never really did much in the way of marketing.


Day 1:
Wrote a Halo Quiz and spent $20 promoting it on StumbleUpon. Turns out the traffic is pretty shitty. 1/3 of the 400 visitors reached the GameFly and of that I only had like 4 clicks and no leads.

At this point I think I'm done with StumbleUpon, the traffic is terrible and converting people who have no existing interest in the service is difficult.

At this point I am doing some normal SEO. I can't do much in PPC because of GameFly's trademark rules. I suppose I could buy some clicks on related search terms that don't contain GameFly. I only have a Yahoo PPC account though (Paypal's the only way I have of sending money) so I doubt I would be able to get much volume.

Also working on writing new articles and refining some of the crap I had written earlier.


Would love to hear your guys thoughts.
 


I use a PayPal debit card for all of my business transactions. Just apply for one, and it makes everything easier.
 
I will look into getting a credit/debt card. Do I need a bank account etc to get one? Is PPC even worth doing for a product with strict TM rules?
 
You don't need to bid on trademarks in order to use PPC...
For example:
Rent Video Games Today
Rent the hottest video games around!
Free trial available!
yoursite.com

Pretty simple.

And you don't have a bank account...? Are you 12 or something?
 
Day 1 Part 2:
Widened the design of the site, which in turned cause the sidebar to be retarded, took awhile to resolve that.

Made a new landing page for PPC traffic, onlinevideogamerental.info/2009/05/31/video-gamers-guide-to-saving-money/

Started a small Yahoo campaign, 50ish keywords, 7 ad copies and $15/day.

Let me know what you think of the landing page etc. We'll see how it converts.
 
Day 2:

Yahoo campaign isn't doing shit, 500ish impressions and zero clicks. My ad positions are terrible, so I raised my bids to help alleviate that. Going to write a few more ads and see if they fair better. Is there a good tutorial out there for ad writing by any chance?

I'm considering trying out some more keywords, but I still want to keep things relevant to my ad copies.

My Halo Quiz is actually getting a decent amount of unpaid traffic from social bookmarking sites, only one click through though.
 
Day 2 Part 2:
Wrote a bunch of ads as promised earlier, they are currently pending. Yahoo has sent me 3 visitors from crap sites that happen to use Yahoo Search, all of which spend less than 5 seconds on the site. Is there something I can do besides blocking them on a site by site basis? For example my ads are appearing for the term "happy meal" on some crappy ISP's portal page. WTF.

Also spent some time refining the site design, hopefully it's a tad more appealing now.

Also did some twitter/yahoo answers work.
 
BradleyT2p2 said:
I dunno man GameFly might be a hard sell.

My buddy has this video with 1.4M views YouTube - The Death of My Xbox 360 where he tried promoting Gamefly and it didn't work. Thousands of clicks and no conversions. And the people watching the vid are console gamers...
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Perhaps, I have had a few conversions but that's over the course of months. GameFly/CJ might be scrubbing leads, or it might legitimately be a hard product to promote. I'm gonna keep trying and see if I can get it going though.

On a semi related note is there any way to speed up redirects to my affiliate links? Right now I am doing a header redirect to hide the affiliate link, but the page load time is pretty terrible.
 
Netphase said:
Nope to what? Did you read the quote before replying?
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Yes I did. Let me try this again for you a bit slower.

You asked (and I quoted in my response, implying the exact question I was responding to)...

"GameFly does not video games for the PC?" - I assumed you forgot to include the word "offer" as no other word makes sense.

I responded "nope" (nope being a common substitute for no, no being the opposite of yes). I then elaborated that it was due primarily to DRM, DRM being an acronym for Digital Rights Managment. If you don't know what DRM is google it. Still confused?
 
justo_tx said:
Yes I did. Let me try this again for you a bit slower.

You asked (and I quoted in my response, implying the exact question I was responding to)...

"GameFly does not video games for the PC?" - I assumed you forgot to include the word "offer" as no other word makes sense.

I responded "nope" (nope being a common substitute for no, no being the opposite of yes). I then elaborated that it was due primarily to DRM, DRM being an acronym for Digital Rights Managment. If you don't know what DRM is google it. Still confused?
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lmao I think netphase was correcting a mistake on the website...
 
split test it with Gamevance or maybe throw up a zip submit for a gaming system or a big screen tv or a gaming computer or something related to gaming.....

have you tried anything like that?
 
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