$45,000 per month would not put him near the top 10 for dating in ppc, maybe top 100. Yes it's hard to comprehend if you've never done it. Once you do it, a $30,000 month doesn't even make you blink and if you have a $20,000 month, you start to worry that you're failing at ppc. (It sounds funny to think that, but you do...) It's all about the perspective you're looking at things from. Huge numbers are done daily, numbers you could not even fathom. Just because you doubt you could ever do that, doen't mean others aren't. I know guys doing $10,000 PER DAY using PPC. The only limit is you and your own personal barriers. You are your own worst enemy when it comes to "how high can you go..." I believe he's doing these numbers because he's clearly put in the work and I've seen numbers like these myself. They happen whether you believe it or not. Keep up the good work Trypp...
Thanks for the kind words. I agree about the $20,000 and failing at ppc. Some days I get depressed at making $800.00 profit. When I get to days I'm at $300-500 profit, I feel sick to my stomache. There should be an AA for PPC. Let's call it PPC Anonymous. My name is Trypp and I am a PPCahaulic. On a side note, Starbucks hasn't been doing the trick lately, so I have Rockstar Energy drinks stacked by the case near my desk lol. PPC can be seriously addictive. Well... back to the YSM Slot Machine...
My name is speed100 and I'm addicted to PPC I had my highest day last week($6xx),after that i was averaging $400+/day,but today i finish the day with $280 and i think that something is wrong.I had to drink some margaritas
Thats awesome! It is great motivation for all of us affiliate marketers out there. Good Luck and keep on going. It is a great tread of for a while no social life for solid foundation for income.
Just to clarify a bit, if my lowest possible bidding for a keyword is say...$0.50 (which apparently a lot of them are since my QS sucks to high hell..) and the CPA's network eCPC is like $0.15, then I shouldn't try to run it due to stiff competition? For example there's a particular offer on Neverblueads that pays like $8.60 a lead, has a "network rating" of 4/5, but its eCPC is only $0.07. Is that a sign it's a bad campaign to test - especially for brain dead people like me ?
Congrats... Very nice inspirational thread specially for us newbies... I'm a newbie and I read the whole thread... That makes me a hardworking guy, right? lol .
Not necessarily. Those numbers can get skewed if somebody starts sending a crap load of junk traffic at the offer. Your best bet is testing. Set up a landing page, come up with a good base of keywords, and set your daily budget at $5 or $10, and see if it converts, then slowly bring it up. Tweak and tweak and tweak until your profit margin is good. Also, If your QS is such that you can't bid under 50 cents, then there's something wrong with your landing page. Hope this helps.
Thanks for clarifying. I agree some ecpc can be misleading. For beginners in ppc, I suggest keeping a close eye on ecpc though. I am talking mostly about ecpc of offers that have been running on the network for a long time. Those are somewhat accurate. You can also call your affiiliate managers and ask about good offers to test. That is the best way to choose for someone new to ppc.
Definitely. The best thing anybody can do is to develop a good relationship with their AM. IM him/her weekly and tell them what offers you're testing. See what they think will perform well, ask about other offers in that niche, etc.
Will do guys. Thanks for the tip. My personal goal now is to earn $1.00 a day in the traffic brokering game...then work my way up from there. Damm...did I just say $1.00...? One more question, for landing pages I've been told two different things. Some say that I should make it similar to the actual offer so the user doesn't think they left the site, thus they're more likely to complete the offer. Another feller states that I should NOT make it similar to the offer because Google doesn't like it and will more than likely put a big old slap on me. Which one is accurate or is there really no right answer for this?
The first one is your better choice.About google slapping you,it all depend on your landing page and not the landing page your links are going to.Make sure to put some content on your landing page,like short article,privacy policy,contact us, TOS or similar and you are ready to go.For better quality score,include the keywords that you are bidding on in your article,meta tags,H1-H2.
I dont like ppc dont believe in paying for clicks, organic is the way to go, its harder to build up but theres no outlays
You don't know what your talking about. This is instant traffic.You don't have to wait months to get listed on the search engines.
.....So what? *EDIT* There's always a little 'war' between PPC guys and SEO guys. I look at it like this....Lamborghini(SEO technique) as a company makes better cars as far as driving experience, exclusivity, power(Hp and Tq), looks etc. compared to lest say GM[PPC technique(Chevy, GMC, Hummer, Jeep etc.)] BUT which company makes more money.....GM. So as SEO is the 'natural', 'regular' way to generate traffic, it takes far too long(years almost) and doesn't prove to be an effective way of MAKING MONEY NOW.
I agree SEO has a lot of very good points. I am actually starting to learn a lot about it since it is long term. Imagine the income to be made combining SEO and PPC. My first step to learning SEO was to buy the ebook from seobook.com. I printed it out and put it in a binder. The book is amazing.