I was thinking of advertising my website which has members and a small membership fee (a few dollars) for more features. After checking how much it would cost to advertise for my keywords, on average it is more than 50 cents. I would have to pay $500 just to bring 1,000 people to my site of which maybe 2% will sign up for the paid account. That means I would lose close to $400. I heard from others that cost per click was about 10 cents on average but even after I checked different niches, most of them have keywords being sold for more than 50 cents. It's funny to see how site owners get paid a couple of cents for clicks worth 50 or more cents. This is why Google makes so much profit.
I think you should try afilaite program, you can just pay maybe 10% of the sign up fee. You no need to pay single penny if no people sign up and in this case you will lose nothing
People get a couple of cents for clicks on their site because they have a blogger blog with 300 visitors a day and get smart-priced. Good popular sites get more. It also generally costs more to be on search pages rather than the content network. I'm not saying that Google doesn't take a huge slice of the click - but most blogs in the adsense program don't get more than a couple of cents because they don't earn more by making a good and popular site. If you pay for an ad and put it on the content network and then monitor what sites you're ad actually apeears on - believe me, you will end up resenting the fact that you're expected to pay a single penny to some of those sites.
try CPA networks. I just join up with pepperjam and so far so good. Some of their advertisers pay out $28 per lead.That's a lot more than ad sense.
Exactly! That's what I did. I run the campaign for 2 days.. and it just was not worth it. That was my mistake anyway...
Trust me, I did research. All of the keywords that are any good are also expensive. Maybe they're worth it to those who have 1,000s of dollars to spend on advertising and have online stores where they know they're going to make profit. Going after lower-valued keywords is like jogging instead of running in a 100-meter race.
You can also try other keywords that cost a lot less ($0.02 per click) etc. These keywords could be mis-spelt name/words etc. Adwords isn't the best for "driving traffic", but more for converting a sale as it is very targetted traffic.
Hey Lotos1 promote your web site in different ways. There are a lot of ways to promote a web site without spending too much money. Create a virus marketing campaign I mean record a funny video clip concerning your niche and your web site and upload it on popular tubes like YouTube and Metacafe. Create a blog and promote your web site by posting interesting things about your web site. As for Google Adwords you may try keywords with low-frequency search results.
Adwords traffic is of very high quality and converts really good. If you choose the right keywords and create a special landing page for those keywords you can actually get very good results.
I am constantly amazed to run up against this in G. I have tried hard to make Adwords work for my marketing but it always runs into a wall, either the Google slap, or some other issue in Google. I have optimized the crap out of my landing pages to improve scores to no avail.
What I despise about google is that, it does cost a lot to drive targeted traffic. I am not sure if it really converts, but I ran 5 campaigns for about a month and all i got was bills from them for the clicks.. Frustrating to say the least. Or maybe I haven't learned the real deal yet on this adword thing.. anyone would like to offer help.?
Honestly, this thread is just a bit silly - if you can't afford it then don't do it. What you're all saying is like: I want to try TV adverts but I think it's terrible that they cost so much. Just because you're marketing online doesn't mean everything is gonna be really really cheap - you pay for what you get and if you can do it and you do it well then you'll make a lot of money. If you can't afford it then don't do it and stop complaining!