I started an email submission offer. It's on an iframe that leads to the affilates page from my masked link. The payout is 1.35 per email. I started to try adwords but it seems every keyword I try is .20 - .50. there's no way I can make any kind of profit on it. I guess I just need some pointers or suggestions. If I can get clicks down to .05-.10, that would help. Also I need volumes. How can I go about achieving volume and low cost per click?
Sounds like your quality score is low. Improve the quality of the landing page by adding relevent content in relation to the keywords you're advertising for. Just an iframed landing page probably won't cut it nowadays. The better your quality, the lower price you pay. I found adding contact and privacy pages help too, multiple pages in general. If we could see your landing page, we could offer more pointers.
Excatly everyone wants help for use to improve their landing page without seeing it is hard to do. There isn't as much margin with the lower paying offer but they can and do work.
I had this design commissioned - http://www.mypsx3.com/landing.htm However I moved to iframing. Just take off the landing.htm
Try testing by designing your own custom landing page dense with the keywords you're bidding on, like writing an article or inserting some RSS feeds. Make it look real professional and maybe some animated arrows pointing to your free offer. Keep masking your affiliate links like you did on your iframe page and try to add more than just 1 page. I got all these tips from Shoemoney and they haven proven very effective, lowering my bid prices 2/3 and more. This will add a step in the conversion process but should lower your bids prices from 0.30 to 0.10 and lower. Make sure to create a new 'ad group' in adwords for this new page. Test for a few days and pick the winner: a) simple iframe page or b) custom built landing page. Let us know how it works and search DP for improving 'quality score'. There's many more things you'll learn.
Thanks. Yea I have a custom landing page design. I'll try some things and see what happens. Today I spent $20 in overture, and made 5.60 for a loss of $15. Glad I had a $50 coupon.