Affiliate Marketing

I am thinking of using ppc to advertise some affiliate links. Has anyone been successful with this? Like i mean is this actually a decent thing to try?
I was going to pick one product from never blue ads and buy some ad spots on facebook and using adwords.

 

Yes it's a very lucrative thing to try. In fact people do it for a living...

 

Would starting off with something like $5 a day be a good place to start? and would it be profitable? and can places like facebook be a good place to buy an ad or is just using Adwords the best?

 

VERY profitable if done correctly. $5 daily budget is insufficient. I would say at least $25 a day if you want to make some decent money. It also depends on how much you'll be paying per click.

 

some people have a 2-3k daily budget.

 

You can't learn anything or make profit with $5 a day

$50-100 is a good way to try for a few days (at least)

Concerning facebook - I tried - No result

 

I agree, you will not see much action or results with $5 a day budget. $25 min would be best but $100 a day would be optimal.

For affiliate marketing and using content, I would not go straight to placement targeting such as myspace or facebook.

Use the content network to learn the best marketing locations and then go from there

 

It depend's on what niche your in I have one campaign I have been putting $175.00 dollars into every day on a consistent bases and it still not profiting yet, but yet my CTR is reading GREAT, but the good thing is the CPC cost is dropping down after time I should say weeks, but it sure is going down.

here's the main factor's you need to focus on.

1. A / B test ads and always create enticing ads (draw people's attention).
2. Spending is another big factor you have to build your historical data up with Adwords, but after time your click swill dramatically decrease. For example you could have a campaign out performing any of your competitors such as higher CTR and etc, but does that mean your going to get cheap clicks right off the bat?

Probably not unless you've had a campaign that has GREAT history with Google. It will take some time if not months to get it going that's what sucks! A lot of people think they will jump right into it and start profiting which granted it does happen, but it only happens on markets that have not been exploited yet, but there again your CPC cost will drop for them certain keywords after time. The idea is to spend, spend, track, and test.

 

So in the beginning i will be losing money or will i be barely breaking even and not profiting much?

 

I'm afraid we all started losing money

 

Adwords is all about experimenting. It's a trial and error thing. But, if you have more experience, you'll eliminate typical errors, and succeed quicker in that specific campaign.

 

As a newbie to affiliate marketing and adwords in general you will probably lose money. Lots of it really...

I see many newbies lose several thousands before getting the hang of things and unfortunately as RichUser said, most of the first time loses are common and typical due to inexperience.

Once you get very familiar with adwords and affiliate marketing you can usually get a campaign to profit or break even off the start, but most of that is pre-selection of the affiliate offers and knowing what a good market is.

 

It's all about the return on investment

You will have to find out how much each click is worth for you, what you can afford to spend to make a sale

Then you will be able to generate profit nights and days

 

Yea, but he won't start profiting right off the bat. Which granted the foundation for a PPC campaign is the keyword list and match types, but it could take 3-6 months of letting his campaign run solid before CPC cost drop dramatically. For example over a 6 month period he could go down from 2 dollars a click to 15 cents a click.

I know one guy that puts around 6k a day into a campaign he started out paying around ~1.50 a click and he is now paying 0.15 cents a click, but guess what he never ever even changed his ads. Which granted CTR dramatically decreases your CPC, but he did it for testing purposes to see if that one ad that already had a GREAT quality score would just keep getting better by spending more or building more history up by collecting more clicks.

 

I mean the end of the learning process will be the ROI

 

If your budget is $5 per day and you can generate 100% roi, then you're making $10 per day gross, paying $5 in expenses and pocketing $5. These are very small numbers, but you have to start somewhere...

$5 profit per day is $150 per month which is small too, but if you keep putting money back into your campaigns, you'll grow that number after a couple months.

 

Always start low and go higher as you know better. adwords is a good thing to get quality customers in less time.
also read digital point cj,clickback,azool.. sections, so you will get better idea about affiliate marketing with less problems.

 

$5 perday! it is very low. I listed more heigh about....

 

I'm very new to adwords and affiliate marketing. I would have been asking the same question last week. I tried it with a $5 day budget and it looked promising but I needed to test more so i've increased my budget to $25 a day and things really picked up. I would suggest you deposit $200 into adwords and play with it for a week.

 

Well, i know $5 is low but i don't want to lose a whole ton of money and i will put all the money i make back into it...so my budget will increase over time.