Hey, Just getting started expirimenting with Azoogle and PPC on adwords. Does anyone have any good offers they would reccomend for noobs? Not looking for any secret offers orbig earners. Just something i can practice my keyword research and campaign refining. So probably something low risk/ low reward at first. I also plan on direct linking at first just to get a feel for it. thanks!
Well, first of all, Google won't let you direct link Secondly, if you're just starting out and looking to test the waters, I would focus on the low paying offers (the offers that pay $4 or less per conversion). Don't go for the $20+ payouts...The reason is because you typically have to spend a lot of more money in order to determine whether or not those campaigns are profitable. With the lower-paying offers, you can spend substantially less to get a feel for whether or not it may be profitable. My advice would be to find a topic that you at least know something about. Then, just do a Google search for it. Look at the sponsored results that come up and visit those - Do NOT click the ads, just copy/paste the display URL's. See what other people are doing. That'll usually give you a place to start.
Well, I could have rephrased...I think that they'll allow it, but they only allow 1 advertiser to direct link at a time, if that makes sense. Say there are 5 people direct linking to a product at Amazon.com...They'll only allow 1 of those 5 ads to display at a time. Google allows it, but you won't get a lot of impressions unless you're advertising a niche product/URL I'm pretty sure that's how Adwords works - It's been a while since I checked their policies on this since I use landing pages for all of my campaigns, so if you're not sure, check their policies
hmmm interesting thoughts. I'll have to look for some low paying offers to test. Also, can i put anything i want in the display URL? or does it have to be an actual URL?
The display URL must be the domain that your users actually land on How they get there is up to you (that's where destination URL comes in)...but the display URL must be the domain that they end up on.
No not really, thats moreso for YSM. with google, I just put a random display url, usually containing the name of the product i am promoting, even though I am linking to am sending them to an a merchant's site. It works although it affects the quality score, but gets great CTR. And as long as the merchant you are promoting allows for sending traffic directly from PPC, you can just stick your affiliate link in as the destination although again, quality score is affected and you can't do much tracking for yourself.
Ok, so i just had 5 campaigns deactivated because i had non-existant URL's. So i went out and bought domain names and added redirects. guess that settles that...
im just doing it until i can get a landing page up. just trying to test some offers without puting tons of time into it. but so far i have 41 clicks and 0 leads! (spent $51 so far. i get $32 if i get a lead) so i'm still learning, as you can see..
rgordon, I told you to start with low-paying offers first for a reason Like I said earlier, if you don't know what you're doing, you can throw away a lot of money chasing those high paying offers
Freebie website is good. that's still a good money maker for me. the leads convert well if they are free stuff (qualityhealthy.com coolsavings.com etc...). The trickis not to post spammy freebie stuff like Free game systems and such. I only post freebies that people can really use w/o having to do sponsor offers and such @GTAce, Yeah, i was a little trigger happy. I'm backng off now and going with lower paying offers that i'm pretty sure i can get to convert with a good landing page...
how long did it take for you to start getting some quality traffic on it? I might have to start one up too. :b
Well, i am up to about 150- 200 visits a day. All organic...Not sure if thats hi quality, but it's enough to make a bit of money. I have had the blog for about a year. but the first 5-6 months were on blogspot, so i had to do some rebuilding when i switched to wordpress in june...
About $200 down the drain when I first started affiliate marketing, I learned this the hard way. Take his advice- it's good. Focus on the $1-$2 pay per lead offers, not the higher payout pay per sale ones. Now I'm finally starting to make some $$$ from $1.70 email submit offers.
Right, and even after you start to get the hang of things, those low-paying offers are still good to pursue. I still actively promote low-paying offers an do well with them.