Making money by placing ads

[remember]

I am an eBay affiliate marketer and recently received a newsletter from eBay which suggested buying Google adwords to drive more traffic to my website. Fair enough but of course you have to somehow make more money from each referred visitor than you paid to get them there in the first place.

So how do you do that then? Somehow it just doesn't sound possible.

eBay actually suggest that you don't even need a website to make money from adwords since you could just point your ad to eBay using your affiliate ID code in the URL.

Is it really possible to make money like this?

[PRBot.Com]

I am spending about $10 per day on Google ads for my Penny Stocks Picks (http://www.pennystocksmaster.com/)
wensite.

I charge $49 per year membership. I am getting between 1 and 3 new signups a day.

I don't have to do anything. People see my ad, they come to my site and they know what to expect before they even click on the ad.

if they see my track record and like my sales pitch they join. It is that simple.

BUT, I am a professiona penny stock expert so I don't give my members junk stocks to invest in. For their $49 a year they make $1000s of dollars.

[dejaone]

there're lot of affiliate marketers do that. They spend thousands of dollars on PPC monthly and make thousands of dollars and more.

[Will.Spencer]

And many of them lose money and stop doing it...

[dejaone]

And many of them lose money and stop doing it...

of course :)

[remember]

Seems incredibly risky to me. I can see the benefit in the case of the penny stock site because the return is so much higher than the investment but for something like eBay affiliate schemes where you will probably only make $0.05 for a successful conversion I just don't see how it can work. And of course having a google ad doesn't guarantee a conversion so by my maths it doesn't add up. I just can't see why eBay would try to promote this idea to its affiliate partners.

[nadlay]

I just can't see why eBay would try to promote this idea to its affiliate partners.

Because it makes money for eBay, regardless of whether or not the affiliates make money?

Sorry, feeling a bit cynical today.

[Infiniterb]

I'm making an attempt at doing what you've mentioned remember. I think at its inception, Google Cash was a brilliant idea. Now that many people are aware of what can be done, it's becoming more saturated with people attempting to do the same thing. It's at the point now that you must have a ton of money set aside to get into the top 8 of search engines on the more popular terms.

The only other way I can see this becoming a great ROI venture is based on regional ads. For instance, do some keyword research on cities close to your area and see how often search terms are searched for. Ad Word Analyzer is a good utility to do this. It runs about $67 or so, but it takes a lot of the leg work out of doing keyword research. You'll still want to use overture to get ball park figures of bid rates.

[disgust]

Seems incredibly risky to me. I can see the benefit in the case of the penny stock site because the return is so much higher than the investment but for something like eBay affiliate schemes where you will probably only make $0.05 for a successful conversion I just don't see how it can work. And of course having a google ad doesn't guarantee a conversion so by my maths it doesn't add up. I just can't see why eBay would try to promote this idea to its affiliate partners.


your "goal" isn't the .05 bid/bin, your goal is a new user signup... (10$)

[Infiniterb]

You'd actually be very surprised at how many get to ebay via that ref link and make bids on items.

[remember]

your "goal" isn't the .05 bid/bin, your goal is a new user signup... (10$)

I guess that means you have to word your Google ad to say something like "Buy widgets on eBay... sign up for an account now" right? Can't think how else to make any real money from it...

[kentagain]

It is interesting to see that some affiliates make agreat amount of money from Ebay. However, most of it is from natural means....but even so Ebay does mention at least one affiliate that was successful using thousands of keyword ads.

[nevetS]

I am spending about $10 per day on Google ads for my
wensite.

I charge $49 per year membership. I am getting between 1 and 3 new signups a day.

I don't have to do anything. People see my ad, they come to my site and they know what to expect before they even click on the ad.

if they see my track record and like my sales pitch they join. It is that simple.

BUT, I am a professiona penny stock expert so I don't give my members junk stocks to invest in. For their $49 a year they make $1000s of dollars.

Just an FYI, your site does not render well in Mozilla (table or div containing text is too wide). Also, the rushtrade.com site that is mentioned on your site is down.

[canadaone]

We have used paid adword and it does not work - all we have recieves and large number of visitors that was driven to our site throug ppc networkls, but no clients. Adworks is a meaningless traffic no quality visitor will come to you because you have paid for ad placement. It is a tested fact. So we back to old school of doing business promoting ourselves through the search quiries of the established search engines like Google and Yahoo. So if you do know how to manage this daunting task better and more efficiently we would appriciate your comment and suggestions
Tanks

[mudnik]

canadaone,
how do you go about selecting the adwords to advertise for?

[fg20878]

Ebay must send the same email to a lot of people. Why not Ebay do it and save themself some money?