Hello everyone,
So I sat here for about an hour and a half reading one of the Affiliate Marketing Threads. This might help those not wanting to read the whole thing. The following points stood out to me the most: (btw, the thread was the one that started with "Realistic...."). Anyways, I thought that perhaps this should be its own thread.
1. Getting AM knowledge before hand is important, but you'll never get anywhere unless you try. If you try and fail, take in as much as you can through the process and improve your methods. Try again.
2. Keyword Analysis was something I read a few times on this thread. The only thing I could not gather was what kind of analysis should be done but I'll explain what I'll do after the points are made on my first PPC campaign with an AM offer. One piece did stand out, come to think of it, using long tail keywords.
In my time as an SEO writer and Niche site builder, I've come to realize that the above stated is true. Getting targeted traffic using long tail keywords brings in less quantity in terms of traffic, but a lot of quality in the few numbers.
3. Direct Linking seems to be much more affective then sending click-through traffic to a site that then has to try and convert the traffic to the AM offer.
Taking these three things into consideration. I've managed to get a few AM offers that I think I would personally be interested in purchasing due to their low price and subject matter and so I would only assume some other joe would probably be interested as well.
In any case, I will soon start using about 200 dollars in Google adsense funds to promote two particular AM offers.
1. I've compiled a list of keywords that I would personally try and optimize on a niche site pertaining to this offer and the subject matter it's about.
2. A Second set of formulated keywords includes keywords that are closely related to these offers that have folks searching these particular keyword phrase (long tails). List one was purely made up of words that I would use to optimize a site and have very little traffic searches made to them. (This is interesting because I had never realized I could have been optimizing some of my niche sites with keywords that aren't searched at all!)
3. I plan to make two separate campaigns one for each of my offers. These ads will be done through Adwords.
All keywords without impressions after first two days will be canned. All others kept.
Finally, I'll keep everyone here posted and hope that my trial here works out. Wish me luck! I'm going to test for a week. I'm assuming things might slow down a bit because of holiday but I'm also confident that there are a lot of people looking into these types of deals right now to try and gain knowledge about what to do the coming year in terms of setting goals.
In any case,
I'll report back. Hope this helps someone! I love helping folks, even if i am a noob at AM.
UPDATE:
1. 12/29/09:banana_sml:
I've made my first ad through adwords. Have $105 dollar ad. Looking for a 50:1 click conversion rate. Only about 7-8 keywords added at the moment (can't remember off the back right now). If this works out, ill post results. I've set the ad to do all auto bidding. And am only showing the ad in the US. I'll keep you posted
So I sat here for about an hour and a half reading one of the Affiliate Marketing Threads. This might help those not wanting to read the whole thing. The following points stood out to me the most: (btw, the thread was the one that started with "Realistic...."). Anyways, I thought that perhaps this should be its own thread.
1. Getting AM knowledge before hand is important, but you'll never get anywhere unless you try. If you try and fail, take in as much as you can through the process and improve your methods. Try again.
2. Keyword Analysis was something I read a few times on this thread. The only thing I could not gather was what kind of analysis should be done but I'll explain what I'll do after the points are made on my first PPC campaign with an AM offer. One piece did stand out, come to think of it, using long tail keywords.
In my time as an SEO writer and Niche site builder, I've come to realize that the above stated is true. Getting targeted traffic using long tail keywords brings in less quantity in terms of traffic, but a lot of quality in the few numbers.
3. Direct Linking seems to be much more affective then sending click-through traffic to a site that then has to try and convert the traffic to the AM offer.
Taking these three things into consideration. I've managed to get a few AM offers that I think I would personally be interested in purchasing due to their low price and subject matter and so I would only assume some other joe would probably be interested as well.
In any case, I will soon start using about 200 dollars in Google adsense funds to promote two particular AM offers.
1. I've compiled a list of keywords that I would personally try and optimize on a niche site pertaining to this offer and the subject matter it's about.
2. A Second set of formulated keywords includes keywords that are closely related to these offers that have folks searching these particular keyword phrase (long tails). List one was purely made up of words that I would use to optimize a site and have very little traffic searches made to them. (This is interesting because I had never realized I could have been optimizing some of my niche sites with keywords that aren't searched at all!)
3. I plan to make two separate campaigns one for each of my offers. These ads will be done through Adwords.
All keywords without impressions after first two days will be canned. All others kept.
Finally, I'll keep everyone here posted and hope that my trial here works out. Wish me luck! I'm going to test for a week. I'm assuming things might slow down a bit because of holiday but I'm also confident that there are a lot of people looking into these types of deals right now to try and gain knowledge about what to do the coming year in terms of setting goals.
In any case,
I'll report back. Hope this helps someone! I love helping folks, even if i am a noob at AM.
UPDATE:
1. 12/29/09:banana_sml:
I've made my first ad through adwords. Have $105 dollar ad. Looking for a 50:1 click conversion rate. Only about 7-8 keywords added at the moment (can't remember off the back right now). If this works out, ill post results. I've set the ad to do all auto bidding. And am only showing the ad in the US. I'll keep you posted
I'd be more than happy to follow your advice and appreciate your effort and feedback.
