I've been doing Adwords advertising now w/ Clickbank affiliates(I guess some people call this the GoogleCash) for a couple of weeks now. I know the money's not supposed to be just rolling in but I haven't made one sale even though my clickthrough rates are decent. I have a feeling the markets I've chosen are just too saturated. Any hints for a Adwords newbie? Especially hints about affiliate programs that would be good to start out with.
There is no secret of success . You need to burn some money until find the right affiliate and also you need to put in your mind that take months not weeks to be a AdWords master.
i understand that...and by no means am i thinking about giving up. i just thought i might have seen A sale by now. oh well... im learning new techniques everyday and slowly getting the hang of things. i am by no means in this to "get rich quick" I was just looking for some startup advice on which affiliates to try
Have you read Perry MArshals 5 day free course? This is great free info on maximizing your ctr in adwords! Good luck!
Work with affiliates that you trust. Always work with product that you like and you know very well what you are working with. Prefer to work with affiliates that has best EPC ( I don't know Clickbank - but probably it provides EPC stats of each affiliates?)
In addition to the other comments you have received I would also suggest trying to promote products that have a price point that's somewhat close to the "impulse" range. For example I've found it's easier (and more profitable) to sell ten $100 products than it is to sell one $1000 product.
Clickbank has 100,000 other advertisers all hocking the same products you are. While this works out great for product vendors since they get free advertising from these affiliates my experiences were not great after 6 months of working at it. My advice is to figure out a business (preferably membership based for recurring income) and put all of your efforts into developing that instead of flushing your money away on PPC'ing somebody else's product.
Hey Bullhorn, People here in advertising world and in Google go after CTR madly. Because it that what matters to them I have read many Books on the Google Adwords and each have told me hundred of way to increse the CTR. Can you tell me how I am going to get benefit if people just keep visiting. I would get my money on sales made not on CTR. Yes CTR is a important point in the advertising in Adwords. But try to focus more on the ROI than the CTR as has been suggested by big Adwords GURUs. I am small guy like you and have lost big chunk of money increasing CTR. Concentrate more on the ROI. As suggested by Set Godin, you should always has some sort of cash flow before it really become a miraculous product of process. For that you need a reasonable number of sales to keep going otherwise you will become dishearten and loose faith in the Adwords. If your CTR is above 0.5%, it is time to increase the ROI. Only then you will stay in the Game. And as Napolean Hills said, "Go as far as possible, then you will be able to see farther. Believe more than 2,00,000 advertisers in adwords. It works and it works wonder. Best of Luck. Arvind Kumar
Decent CTRs are good, but you should track your keywords and find out which one generate sales. It's not easy to do that by advertising affiliate products, but it's possible. I would also recommend you to set up a landing page to collect visitor emails after you find a good affiliate product. It's easier to convert visitors to leads, than visitors to sales. And when your visitors subscribe, you can follow up with them giving more than one affiliate link! Good luck!