Hy all! I am new here, so i would like to apologise if i make some mistakes. I am not a native speaker =) So, i have tried to promote CB product using Adwords. First product i've promoted was Jamorama guitar course. I've found over 1000 keywords, and selected USA, Canada and UK targeted traffic. I was very surprised, when i saw first sale next morning. Only 26 clicks and one sale. Then i started a new company, promoting Police auctions site. That was a huge mistake. I have spent over 10$ on Adwords and no sales =( So i decided to promote Kissing Guide, i have selected only one keyword, which had no competition (how to kiss) so i had over 250 clicks and only one sale and i decided to stop this campaign. I have also tried to promote WOW Guides and Fat Loss books, but it was a mistake, the competition was to high, so i had no sales. Now my CB balance is only 40.05$(2 sales) I ve spent over 50$ on Adwords, but i am satisfied whith result because it gave me a huge experience and in the future i can avoid similar mistakes =) Now i am going to try landing pages with products reviews and article marketing, i might have no sucess with articles because my english level is not good, but i think it worth to give it a try =)
Just learn from each one. You will find some products sell better and make you more money. Nice to have first sale makes you feel good.
The more you read and write in English, the better your skills will become. Congrats on getting some CB sales, they can be hard at first. I think you've learned that it's all about finding the right niche.
One week ago i posted my first article on Ezine, 30 minutes ago it was finally checked and added =) Now i have 12 views and 4 clicks already. I think i will continue article marketing. 4 clicks in 15 minutes is a good result, i hope i will have sales this week.
Hi Devour, I am encouraged by your positive attitude. When I first started, I had to go through days of zero sales, but I hung on and finally developed a system to build a growing income. By any standards, you are doing fine. Initally, you may make some mistakes here and there but as you learn more, and apply more like what you are doing, you will be able to carve out a niche of your own. The strategy is simple, learn, refine, master, duplicate and multiply and you have the principles in place for success. Do not go for landing pages as Adwords now accord low Quality Score for them. Work on building proper websites, can be full-fledged or mini-sites and combine it with Adwords. That will work for you. For other website promotion strategies including article marketing, you can find them in my free report in my sig.
Hi homebizbuilder. I have already read your report. Thank u for it. Yesturday i ve earned 60$ in CB with 2 sales. One sale was from my article in ezine(50views/17 clicks) and the second was from my landing page, promoted with adwords. (15clicks). I ve realised that landing pages INCREASE conversion. Without landing pages my conversion was 1:200, now it is 1:20. But i have one big question. I have not written my own landing page, i ve just copied my competitors page and replaced his affiliate links=) So is this normal? Can i continue using it? And can i use blogs as landing pages?
Hi, that was sneaky of you to copy your competitors' page and replacing the links. I am glad you have read my report. If you read it thoroughly, you will know that it is effective to use blogs as "landing pages" because of the content it has. Are you just using a one-page landing page you copied from your competitor? I am saying this because if it is a single page, there is a possibility of getting the Google Slap after the campaign runs for a while as they find your quality score low. Traffic will be steady for a while and then stop working. This Means You just got Slap! This scenario may happen. I suggest you observe for a while. But if you are using a proper website, either minisite or full-fledged and using one of the webpages as landing page, you are safe. Quality score takes that into account.
You have done well just to break even when starting out with PPC. Thanks for sharing your experience.
thanks for sharing! It always good to see how people start out. I am just about to start so its good to hear others findings.
My article now has 70 views and 20 clicks, traffic was good only first 2 days. So i decided to write 1 article per day. I will also try to make articles better for search engines and chose keywords which have less than 5k competition in google. Homebizbuilder was right about my copied landing page =) I have got Slap =)
Wow, bum marketing really works. Now i have 86 views and 31 clicks from 1 live article, 4 articles are pending. I have already 3 sales in CB from this article. I have not optimized this article for search engines, but it is in Top 5 for a search string in google. I hope my 3 new articles will be reviewed in a couple of days. This articles are well optimized for search engines and i have made a good langing pages for each, i really want to see the result.
No more views, no more clicks, no more sales =( 3 articles are live, but the most succesfull was the first article (36%CTR). By the way, it was about car auctions, at the end of the articles i sad that i use XXXXX car auction and if you are interested you can visit a link at the end of the article. This really worked. The second article was about piano lessons, and the third article was about guitar lessons. I think the majority of viewers from Ezine were not interested in such thing as piano or guitars, but if this article ranked well in Google i would have more targeted traffic and more sales. So i wrote new article about car auctions and linked it with the first one. I earned about 45$ per day, but now 0$. How can i stay on 45$ level? More articles? Better optimization and keyword research? Should i submit my article in hundreds article dirrectories or just one? Thank u
nah, i have just read a few threads over there.. seems everybody is on their rags... pretty funny sometimes tho.