Nothings changed. Same bid amount. Same number of clicks. Same website. Same traffic. Same bounce rate. Pisses me off how I can go from that many sales to nothing the next day. I could see maybe going down to half that amount (e.g. around 10) but 1 friggin sale? Just when you get your hopes up and think "yes I'll soon be able to do this for a living if I can setup a bunch of campaigns like this" and then all the sudden boom, those thoughts become shit. So bloody frustrating...
Thats just the way it is. Don't go day by day with your stats. You said same traffic hence I take it they are coming in on the same search engines and keyphrases?
what technique are you using, that may be the problem, Im using myspace and just started article marketing. I make sales everyday in myspace then now for 4 days notta thing. strange how it works out sometimes.
True, I know it's very volatile. But it seems like I have to baby my campaigns in order to get results. What I mean by that is, I seem to have the best days (sales wise) when my bids are high, and then if I am right there to monitor it I can slowly lower it throughout the day to maintain the momentum of clicks/impressions to a reasonable bid amount. If I just leave it for the next day (where it left off the previous day), my sales are 9 times out of 10 shit. I've been doing this for 3 months now (I'm not taking one day as an average) and this seems to be the way it is. The more I "play" with my campaigns, the better results I get. I can't seem to leave these stupid campaigns on auto pilot or else I'll end up owing Big G thousands of dollars without sales. I just don't get it. Yesterday I made $200, today I will lose $100. And just watch, if I leave things, the next day I will lose another $100 and so on and so forth. I honestly feel like I'm at the casino, where I may win one day, but in the long run I'm putting it all back in and then some. Sorry to vent, but this is frustrating as hell.
Content network PPC. I have targeted my ads though by excluding non-performing sites. So therefore I (think) am getting a better placement instead of wasting clicks on "bad traffic". I've done this long enough where I can view the history over 2 months and figure out where the sales are coming from. I guess that tactic isn't good enough.
I agree with anarmyofme. Fridays are the worst. Don't go by daily stats. I recently had a $920 day. Just a couple of days later I made only $9.
In general, my experience has been that it fluxuates all the time. {If you are a Publisher...You have to also take into account that you don't know what your affiliates are doing. Maybe you lost a few good sellers?}
yes at least average it out over a week of sales ... then you can go back over, trim some keywords adjust bids, add keywords etc... and hopefully get it more stable
Guys, the clarify I have been doing this campaign for 3 months now. I averaged from $20-$80 per day in sales, however ROI is about 50%. I am not taking an average of one day I just find it funny to go from that many sales in one day, and then close to nothing the next, with the same amount of clicks. I do agree with the two posters up there that said Friday's SUCK. I always have had shitty days Friday, so hopefully tomorrow will pick up.