there are some nice programs shown here in the forum, so i cloned a few sites and made PPC ads....but no matter what i promote, be it gov auctions or weight loss or spam filters... bids on Adwords are INSANE for US. Wtf people....there are people bidding $7-$10 for most of those terms... The only winner here is Google - noone in his right mind bids $7 for a clickbank product giving $20 or so commision ONCE it may convert... RANT OFF.... (Yeah, yeah..i can see people replying now: "Well it's a game...blah blah"...right. Still doesn't change the fact that i think bids are insane for some interesting looking products.....PPC and Clickbank is really a biatch....)
I don't think the bids are that high. I was promoting a lot of products from Fat Loss Idiots to Truth About Abs and 12 month internet millionaire. If you have a high CTR and your ad is relevant to the keywords, Google rewards you by allowing you to have lower bids and higher ranking. In most my campaign ads, I was always ranked between 1-6 and in some cases I was the number 1 ad and I never paid over 90 cents for a bid. Most my bids were between 30-60 cents.
my import car site only costs 10c a click.. But you need to make a landing site.. not straight to the sales page. Have you been going straight to vendors page or to your own site first?
ok...the ones for a certain niche went down...but try "spam filter" much luck with that one ps. i always make landing pages now using covertlinks, awesome tool.
prices are based on quality score of your landing page. If direct linking is too expensive make a good quality landing page, it will lower your bids.
Have you tried CPM impressions with google? Which means google will display your Ads in content results/sites only, and you'll be charge per each 1k impression. Let's say you bid for $.25 per 1k of impressions (max), No matter how many clicks you get, you'll still be charged only $.25 for each 1k impressions. You still have to pick your keywords, etc. Just be careful as it does not work for any product. But I'm promoting a clickbank ebook that I own and sometimes I'll get 100k impressions totalling $25.00, and I'll have 50-90 clicks. My conversion is also definitely worth it. What do you think about that?
CPM/Content network doesnt really work for me....i mean..depending on what you offer...maybe. But there is just too much click-fraud on my opinion. I have it off in all my campaigns.
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