I want to give Azoogle a go with some ringtone stuff. But I have had a rather confusing conversation over what I can and I can't bid on, particularly concerning trademark names. There seems to be restrictions regarding using carrier names but only on the keyword terms you bid on. For example, you are allowed to bid on ringtones broad match, but not cingular ringtones. This seems silly to me as both would result in displayable adverts in Adwords, Overture or whatever. Surely this is not right? Also, I am allowed to display the trademark terms in the adverts themselves. Have I got that right? Can someone who knows about the ringtone industry please clarify this for me before I make a right mess of it. Thanks, Jon
Basically they don't want you bidding on trademark items.....Ringtones bidding is fine...just don't include trademark. The people you do see using them usually get permission. I just threw out $500 down the drain in this industry. Using Google Adwords.
I setup a google and overture campaign focusing on ringtone keywords. First it was hard to get a decent amount of traffic for a decent price. Conversions were low and I spent a ton on Adwords.....I moved on to some Clickbank products and I am having much more success.
My Azoogle rep just had me try some ringtone stuff and I lost about $100 bucks on it. With Azoogle the smiley download and screensaver download stuff works best...
buying traffic for ringtone site would be of no worth.... i personally tried but that couldn't turn up good amount of revenue... it was almost same as of the the amount i spent on ppc... some times i did even lose money from my own pocket... overall i;ll not recommend you to buy traffic for ringtones... better go with organic traffic and that you can get with lots of (hell lot of) off page seo.. all the best..
Yes I tried PPC with Adwords. I tried every keyword I could imagine. It's just too competitive. With the toolbar download stuff, you can find your own little way to get people to download it. It's much easier.
Many (most?) merchants wil have a problem with you bidding on trademarks. Usually they rank naturally well for their own trademarks in the search engines so they don't see the value in giving away commissions on those terms.
better get yourself be ready with lots of off page and on page seo work and get good amount of visitors... my recent website with ringtones is getting abt 500 unique visitors a day.... and m earning a good amount of earning too... although its just a start and we are expecting more... best thing in ringtone industry is that you the entire globe to play around... people are willing to buy the mobile content.... and they do buy it online...