PPC affiliate marketing, can a noob start in 2012 without going broke trying?

Seven3

Seven3

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Reaching out to all the successful PPC marketers, was hoping to do a quick Q&A to pick your brains. There's a lot of crap out there on the net so it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so here are a few questions that I hope some successful PPC guys can help me with.

Maybe if enough (qualified) guys take the time to answer it will be a kind of mini FAQ for anyone else thinking of jumping into this sort of thing.

No you don't have to give away your secrets.

1. What platform did you find your first success in? eg. Adwords, MSN, Yahoo or other? And was it the first platform you tried?

2. How long did it take you to find a profitable campaign?

3. How much (approx) money did you spend before you found your first profitable campaign.

4. Roughly how long after you started did you begin making at least enough money to pay the bills?

5. Knowing what you know now do you think it's still a worthwhile endeavor? (perhaps you made your money years ago and got out)

Optional question - Which niche did you first make a profit from?

Bonus question - Are there any essential free or paid training programs (affiliate links will be ignored, unless you give me a damn compelling reason to use it) that someone new should use?

I have already read NickyCakes guide

Thanks in advance to anyone that is able to help a newbie out, any constructive insights you can offer will be much appreciated.
 


I never made PPC work for me by using it to push particular affiliate offers. Had some modest success with FB about two years ago, but things have changed a lot since then. What you'll find if you really read through these forums is that AM is really fucking unstable. When you push traffic to offers, you have no idea what's happening on the backend. On low-end offers, you'll be scrubbed/shaved. Higher end offers can also be really unstable (look at what happened to berries, or the health niche in general, FTC crackdowns have fucked over a lot of people in the last few years, including some big networks that seemed really solid). If you want to push traffic using AdWords, you're going to have to build out an actual site, and that takes some effort. Why not use your time to build something that isn't totally dependent on the offer you're pushing?

If you're interested in long-term success, I suggest that you start drawing up a real business plan. You either want to control the product, or build a site with a real community to which you can continually market. If you can do both, then all the better. When I stopped pushing aff offers and built myself a real business, I was able to promote it successfully with a bunch of different traffic sources: AdWords, FB, and Display. And because it was a real business, my customers would refer me, too.

I guess I'm trying to disabuse you of the notions I started with. NickyCakes makes it sound really easy, but things are pretty saturated right now. You probably won't do well promoting shitty email submits and short forms with PPC directly. And if you have to go through the effort of building a site, why not build something real that will keep giving back to you. Just my 2 cents.
 
Minderwinter said:
I never made PPC work for me by using it to push particular affiliate offers. Had some modest success with FB about two years ago, but things have changed a lot since then. What you'll find if you really read through these forums is that AM is really fucking unstable. When you push traffic to offers, you have no idea what's happening on the backend. On low-end offers, you'll be scrubbed/shaved. Higher end offers can also be really unstable (look at what happened to berries, or the health niche in general, FTC crackdowns have fucked over a lot of people in the last few years, including some big networks that seemed really solid). If you want to push traffic using AdWords, you're going to have to build out an actual site, and that takes some effort. Why not use your time to build something that isn't totally dependent on the offer you're pushing?

If you're interested in long-term success, I suggest that you start drawing up a real business plan. You either want to control the product, or build a site with a real community to which you can continually market. If you can do both, then all the better. When I stopped pushing aff offers and built myself a real business, I was able to promote it successfully with a bunch of different traffic sources: AdWords, FB, and Display. And because it was a real business, my customers would refer me, too.
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^^ This times hundred.

If you are thinking of picking an affiliate offer and then send PPC traffic to it, then, 2012 is not the right year. You are like 5 years too late :)
True for all respectable PPC platforms..

But think about it this way, the same keywords still covert for the same kind of offers, and most of the affiliates who would be competing you are gone.. So build a solid site on Diet, Finance or relationship (The three evergreen Niche), and then learn to drive traffic to those. If the site is good enough, and if you are using all available channels to drive traffic, the Big G might even rank you...
 
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