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Bad Uses Of Pay Per Click Traffic

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:36:14 +0000

The worst thing you can do with Pay Per Click traffic is use it for useless reasons. I was looking at some forums where they were giving out Free $250 Facebook traffic. I would post the coupons but it is now expired and you can not use it. The forum that I was looking through is where people post deals. The people here are people looking for deals and sales. Well I saw there was a post for Free Facebook Traffic.

There are plenty of ways where new affiliates use the pay per click traffic for anything other than affiliate marketing.

Do Not Use Pay Per Click Traffic for the Following:

3) Marketing your Blog. If you just made a wordpress blog and you want to people to give you comments and get traffic this will be so useless. So what if 100people click your campaign that has a title of “earn money” or “(insert name of blog) – my blog click here”. You will get traffic but you will not make anything out of it. If you have an affiliate link chances are no one will join under you.

2) Your Personal Myspace/Facebook/Friendster. etc Account Profile. I don’t know if you would even get approved for this but someone out there probably wants to get friend requests so they will put up the ad. This will only make you lose money and I don’t see what you will gain out of it.

1) Selling Physical Items. Unless you are a distributor or have your own production plant do not sell it. I’m talking about putting your car for sale. Or putting your rare baseball card. No ONE will buy it. You can drive $1,000 worth of traffic and I gurantee that no one will even inquire. Do yourself a favor and go on craigslist.org and post your damn car. In 5 mins someone will be all over it.

The reason why I am posting this is because someone on that forum posted they will use $250 worth of facebook traffic to advertise the car they are selling.So please.. use PPC just for the sake of commissioned revenue.

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Yahoo Search Marketing No Impressions

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:20:19 +0000

I can’t believe I missed this huge problem that affiliates make. Its not really a mistake its just being ignorant. This always used to happen to me all the time while I was running my ringtones campaign. The ringtones campaign was high maintenance so I was always checking my keywords religiously. What happens is when you try to check your stats and you see that you did not spend money and you have no impressions.

TroubleShooting :

1) First of all check if your campaign is not on “pause”. If you pause a campaign it will not run. The pause feature is great when you want to modify your keywords and update your ad copy.

2) Keywords. Your Campaign can be up and running but your keywords and be all paused. Maybe you were up last night and paused every keyword in your ad group. Or worst yet, you paused your whole ad group Yes Laugh at yourself.

3) Editorial Status. After you complete the ad copy, yahoo will have to approve your ad. This takes about to 10mins and even days. If it takes 2 days go email them or resubmit it.

4) Keyword Relevance. Not all keywords will be searched. Lets take for example 2 keywords. Keyword #1 is “macbook”. and Keyword #2 is “platypus”. Macbook will give you thousands if not millions more of searches instead of a low traffic keyword like platypus.

5) Biggest Trouble. Check the DATE of report!!!!!! countless times i spent half an hour trying to figure out why my campaign is not getting hits when I have 5,000+ keywords and #1-4 is accurate. Then I figured I’m looking at a date when I was born or when your grandparents were born. So yeah make sure if you want todays impressions/ctr CHECK THE CALENDAR!!!

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Common Affiliate Mistakes

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:51:02 +0000

Just like everything in life, we make bad choices while we think it is better. Earlier today I had a collection of about 2,000+ keywords that I have been waiting to test out. So I was being aggressive because if I wanted to meet my goal this week I have no choice to to let it go. New landing page, new links, new beginnings was what I was thinking. As the day goes by I’m like getting confused. I set out 2,000+ keywords and I was actually thinking, “well if i let about 2,000 keywords go I should have a minimum of 3-5 leads today. My bids were just average and I was going to bid higher tomorrow when QUALITY SCORE kicks in. Remember that if I’m bidding at .50 and I have a higher quality score then you, I’m paying for clicks CHEAPER. So it was average because I’m on a budget. Just about 12 hours pass and I spent a lot of money on clicks already and I was thinking..what!? No leads. I was aware of the # of impressions and which keywords were being clicked. Hmm.. still no leads. Now I see it!! Quickly! Pause all campaigns! . I repeat Pause all campaigns!!

It seems that my new landing page was working properly. But 2/3 of the campaign was through a directory link so I can test out a new landing page. So I have tested 2 landing pages at once. 1/3 was on my main site which proved that it was able to convert and the other was through a directory www.uselessaffiliate.com/(landingpage here.html). So 2/3 of the clicks was going to the directory and it was going to a 404 page!! Affiliate Marketers worst nightmare!. So the 1/3 was getting traffic but the majority was in my new landing page in the directory. As of right now I’m trying to fix all my links and make sure they work properly. I also found out that in that move, I also messed up my tracking. I made a new campaign and multiple ad groups so all the links are all the same and that was the cause.

I hope that made sense to everyone. I’m like half asleep right now and in a state of panic.

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