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Archive: Can't Break Through in Affiliate / Adwords Game!

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    • CommentAuthormicah
    • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2006
     
    Hi there guys,
    Could You please advise me something here...
    I'm feeling desperate...
    I've wasted nearly $1000 in Adwords and didn't make a sale in almost any niche I've tried.
    I've joined Share sale some time ago and tried promoting various products, like Ipod cases, leather jackets etc.. I've tried over a dozen affiliate programs, but nothing worked. Even Clickbank merchants didn't work for me. I've tried pretty much the same amount of those too.
    And my PPC campaigns were targeted if you're thinking that I was driving non-targeted traffic.
    I've targeted 3 or 4 keyword phrases (very specific) to landing pages that were selling exactly what the keyword promised... After 150 clicks for each Ad group for all the products, I haven't made any money yet...
    Now I wonder how can that be?
    Did the best I could. My CTR was from 4% to 10% or so after 100 clicks for some campaigns...
    So can I blame only landing pages here?
    I mean, I did the best I could and got pretty good in making targeted campaigns and writing effective ads. Is thing normal that after more than 100 clicks to very specific landing pages, I didn't make a sale? Could the merchants be stealing money from me? Gees, I don't know what else to think...
    I'm testing some products and services and see how those are doing in PPC. IF it's all fine, then I'm thinking about putting all the efforts into making better SEO, banner, link promotion...
    I think I've reached the situation when I really need some advice from real people about how to make it finally with Adwords and affiliate marketing...
    I'm not asking for specific niches or something, but more I'd like to know how much conversions do you get for merchants (being an affiliate) out of 100 clicks for specific 3 or 4 word terms to specific landing pages? I mean, I can't think of anything more targeted and specific than that...
    • CommentAuthoredgar
    • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2006
     
    I don't make my living from affiliates, nor do I spend much on adwords.
    I tend to get leads rather than instant sales when I do use it, which suits me.
    There isn't much information to go on but I am guessing that you are using one or two keywords, rather than three or four so you are getting browsers rather than buyers
    You have catch the buyer at the end of the buying process, otherwise they are going to delete the cookies, or click somewhere else
    • CommentAuthorbraden
    • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2006
     
    I decided a long time ago that the only way to make money off of affiliate marketing is either (a) free SEO traffic, or (/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> to monetize existing traffic. If you are going to pay for PPC traffic, you're going to spend every nickle you make on PPCmarketing.
    I use to do quite a bit of affiliate marketing via PPC and made some good side money off of it. Now SEO has become so difficult and G so difficult to figure out that its just not worth the effort anymore. The name of the game is building a real business with real profit margins now. Otherwise, your profit margins from aff marketing will never allow you to compete!

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