Hi everybody! I'm new here, and just getting started with affiliate marketing--looking for some pointers. I've started a site and am developing it, but meanwhile I'd like to bring in some income driving traffic to some affiliate offers. What is generally more cost-effective for a newbie: PPC with AdWords, or targeted CPM traffic through companies like betterwebsitetraffic, jadadvertising, and w3hits? Also, with CPM traffic what seems to work better: pops, contextual, expired site redirect? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this!
With affiliate marketing, PPC tends to be more effective than CPM because you typically want targeted traffic, not just any traffic...but when it all comes down to it, it really depends on what you're promoting and what your site looks like. There are thousands of affiliate products to promote. Some of them might work with CPM traffic, but most will work better with PPC.
If you have money to spend PPC would be good but you need to carefully research for the right keywords. don't go for higher bids at first. long tail keyword would be better for beginners.
You should strike the three letters CPM from your vocabulary! From my experience anything bought on CPM is a big loser. In my opinion, the best play is to go for organic rankings and then when you have made some headway with rankings to add some PPC traffic to increase traffic and therefore sales.
Thanks for the advice--I guess I'll keep studying up on PPC. I just wondered if some of the category-targeted CPM sellers (like the ones listed above) had done any good for some of you more experienced affiliate marketers.
Forget CPM... You should definitely go with PPC... Have you considered article marketing? It is most cost effective traffic option outthere and the quality of the traffic can be even better then ppc...
PPC is the best to get traffic now but it can start to be expensive. If you really want to get the best ROI do some SEO and get some organic traffic