I have Katrina Darrell Pictures. Click here! Actually if you guys are wondering who this girl is. She appeared on American idol wearing only a bikini. What does that have to do with affiliate marketing? First of all this is a quick money maker. It probably won’t last long but for sure you will at least make a few bucks. Well this will not work on PPC. I’m nobody to say that but usually if you are going to PPC using her keyword it would involve some blackhat seo which I will not be sharing. Maybe you can find a good way to black hat and not get caught. Well how do we and what do we promote using this girl?
I hate to talk about affiliate campaign failures but we have to go over this since it happens to everyone. I’m not just talking about when traffic doesn’t give you leads I’m talking about problems on your side too.
#1 ) 404 pages aka paid search donations!
Hiding affiliate links is a great tool to use in most situations where affiliate links can be shown to the public. The point of hiding the affiliate links is for the user to go through your landing page without knowing they made you money. You want to prevent this because somebody can use their own affiliate link instead of yours and they get the sale and lead instead of the person that should get it. It is like hijacking your sale.
This method is pretty easy and used mostly if you want to promote an offer such as ringtones or car warranties. This is best for offers where a “fake search” would increase CTR (click through rate). For ringtones it would work well because you could say on that page that you are “searching for artist.. 5 seconds remaining” then they get redirected to the officially offer page. The good thing about using the redirect method is when you are using tracking, some of the tracking software needs a redirect page. In other words you will need a redirect page either way and you can just add the code for tracking and offer page in the same web page.
We as affiliate marketers love to use image buttons because it looks user-friendly and us humans by nature will click an image. In contrast if there was a “push button” ignition in a car and there was a normal turn the key ignition which would you pick? I’m sure more than half if not all would prefer the push button because it takes less work.
I wish I could go. The reason being is I’m not making enough money to even put myself out there. I believe that once I’m making an average of about $200+ a day, it would be easier for me to go. I also read around about showing credentials through you own online blog. This is another reason why you should create a blog. There are people out there who do not like to write blogs and there are people out there who love writing it. I love writing blogs. I would love to network with the other affiliates who are way up there and spending all their money on completely useless things. There is an upcoming affiliate summit again in the East on August. I would love to be making the amount I said earlier by that time and be able to get some nice social connections. There is always hope that it can happen and there is always failure. In the end I wish to be able to go and party with the riches! Since I just turned 21 recently, I would be able to attend. But I’m sure someone under 21 with a huge sum amount of money would have no problem coming in. Well there is always the next summit. Too bad I can’t go this time because it would be nice to be rich in the Las Vegas area right after the conference. Whoever is going have fun!!!
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I love article marketing because the only thing you waste is your own time IF you fail. Unlike PPC marketing, article marketing is doing everything the “old fashioned” way. S.E.O…. Pay Per Click is guaranteed traffic depending on the keywords you might get no traffic or high volume traffic. Usually high volume traffic gets you so much hits but you pay for it. The higher you pay the more traffic gets driven to your web site and/or landing page. For article marketing only one thing counts. “Organic Traffic”. hmm..remind me to add this to the affiliate dictionary. Organic Traffic is traffic is known as “unpaid listings” in a search engine or in a directory of some sort. The difference between organic traffic and paid traffic is the amount of money you spend. Simply, organic traffic is FREE but takes days to weeks and months! to rank #1. Pay Per Click Traffic gets you #1 spot but you pay for it. Some keywords can go up to $5-$10 with a low quality score.
As an affiliate marketer you need to learn this skill. There is no way you can go far without learning how to make a landing page. Sure people can buy landing pages and premade web sites. A nice way to cheat your way up to professional web design but after a while you start to get problems along the way. Maybe something happened and an image won’t load. Maybe the whole .index won’t load at all. Or maybe you want a new color or theme. You can either buy a landing page for another $20-$100. (jeez..) Seriously people do pay that much for a landing page and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid for $150+ for one. Show me the page you want and I can make it without breaking a sweat. I’m still noob at web design but I can probably get the same conversion rate with a $50+ landing page
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!!
In the past month I have made a few hundred USD. I tell people everyone who I talk to, if they are interested. I filter out people who wants to do it and who doesn’t. Believe me , I can tell who wants to start and who just wants to do it. There are two different types of people. One person jumps on it and read everything I posted and wants to get started. I will be impressed if someone IMs asking me “how do I start PPC?”. If I have to push someone then its a burden on them to get started. Basically its two groups of people. One is someone who wants to start and another who wants to earn a few bucks and handle it like a job. Here we go again with Employer vs. Employee. I am an Employer while someone who isn’t as motivated is an employee waiting for me to give them a job. When my business flys (yes it will i believe in me) then I can give you a job to do while I spend my vacation in cancun. I just don’t want to waste my time on someone who is interested and who just wants to jump with me and other affiliates in deep cold water not knowning what happens when you surface.
I know this is really late but I have been working on this blog for the last few days straight and I have not touched any of my goals yet. For each time I promote the blog I am always one step towards my goal. Well everybody has their own new years res. and I have mine straight up. I have no choice so I am so motivated to do it. Everyone always wants to lose weight. Last year, sadly, i didn’t succeed at all but in the last 6 months of 2008 I was able to start it. I have been hitting the gym constantly and now I have a goal of 3 months to lose it. My next resolution is make affiliate marketing a full time job. I have worked a retail job for almost 2.5years. The only people I see succeed are the ones who are on top. I want to be on top and this is why I want to be called Useless. The people on top doesn’t know what it feels like to be a student and go to work and do retail job duties. I am on the bottom of the food chain and I have to make it higher