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In my previous post David, a good friend of mine from Init2Winit, asked the question "Why would scam affiliate programs buy PPC? I feel compelled to answer this question. Because most affiliate marketers are Adwords savvy enough to only have to pay about 5 cents or less per click for PPC and they can get "the herd" to behave certain fashion, that is to buy more, very easily this way. These ads are just recirculated affiliate programs with a different covering. Look at the Day Job Killer affiliate program for instance. They change it a little and, poof! There you have what looks like a brand new affiliate program to get the suckers in your list to buy. Take "Get Google Ads Free" for instance. Basically, you get your Google ads free by selling text links on a landing page. This is a simple, yet unremarkable, idea that will net the author thousands because of a good title. You may make some money, but there is no guarantee. My bet is you will not make a lot of money by buying this ebook, mostly because it will probably end up sitting on a book shelf and the principles contained in it not used to a great enough extent to really learn how to get results. This is what happens to the majority of people who buy into an affiliate program. They fail because they stop too soon or expect too much. Is that the truth? I did not quit and I certainly did not expect too much, yet I failed to make more than $60.00 per month with an affiliate program that was "guaranteed". I don't buy into affiliate programs anymore. I have no suggestions as to what affiliate programs work and what affiliate programs do not work. Howevever, I can make money online by selling them. If you really want to make money online, you need to change your mind-set. Read Are You Wasting Your Time Trying to Make Money Online? The one thing that I wish Trent had addressed was the frivolous following of all these f'd up affiliate programs, which some follow after with abandon. Only 5% succeed. It is like playing the lottery. It should not be. The key to Trent's article is "if you have done your research and are in the right niche, they are ready to spend money. These are the visitors you make money from." 1. You have to have a niche with a lot of content, like an article directory or blog, where the topics will gain the interest of your visitors. 2. Affiliate links/banners should be nested in the content to get the optimal click thru rate required to make money from them. Simple text links work. I get about a 20% CTR with articles related to one niche. That is, 1 out of 5 that read about the niche topic Iphone downloads, 56 articles with approximately 286 unique page views per day, on average out of an average of 724 unique page views, in the Moxie Drive Expressions article directory, go directly to this link: Iphone Download Pro. The trend for the Iphone articles contained in the Moxie Drive Expressions article directory are reflected in the Google analytics graph here::  The Iphone download articles started coming in in November of 2007 and showed up on the Analytics scope in December. Obviously, I was not ready for Christmas, but there was a delay in the number of units sold over the Christmas holiday and the number of Iphone owners looking for music, movie, and game downloads. These Iphone articles are now enjoying a good bit of traffic. Apple reported that they had sold 4 million Iphone's by January 2008. They are releasing the 3g Iphone (now called 2.0) in May-June 2008 and expect Iphone sales to exceed 10 million by the end of the year. I have a tiger by the tail. I have a collection of over 6,000 targeted keywords for Iphone from my Analytics that are not even reported in Word Tracker or the Google keyword tool. I can't keep track of them all in the search engines. That's the way it should be. I have started breaking into the Ipod download niche as well as other gadgets. I have found traffic in these areas by replacing the word "Iphone" in my list of keywords and then writing or obtaining articles based on these new keywords and including them in my article direcory. Example: replace the word "Iphone" with "Ipod". Once you find a trend, stick with it. Or like MacDonalds, duplicate and repeat the process. Get lots of content and promote products and affiliate links in the content. I finally figured this out in September 2007 after spending about 1.5 years promoting one affiliate program exclusively. I make about $60.00 per month from my down-line in that affiliate program. I guess that I did not do it the right way. Hell, what is the right way? Since September 2007 my income from Adsense and Clickbank has continued to increase. I did not have to talk anybody into anything to do it either. The articles in Moxie Drive Expressions are showing up well in the search engines. As Trent said in his article " You need to get traffic from the search engines!". Traffic from the search engines will work if you have quality content on your website. You will make money if the affiliate links and affiliate programs that you promote are targeted to the content. You will make money from Adsense as long as the ads are targeted to your content. Learn more about Google section targeting. These figures are based on actual receipts or receipts pending/not paid. September 2007 - $140.68 October 2007 - $142.69 November 2007 - $257.51 December 2007 - $302.02 January 2008 - $547.69 (Clickbank text link income kicks in) February 2008 - $1073.01 March 2008 - $948.88 April 2008 - $1,200.00 (estimate based on Adsense and Clickbank reports to date) April 2009? Now, answer me a question. How many of you reading this clicked on the Iphone Download Pro link? That's how easy it is. Oh, and to answer the question "Why Would Scam Affiliate Programs Buy Pay Per Click Anyway?" Because they cannot get to page one of Google the conventional way, through good old fashioned hard f'ing work. I don't use pay per click either. Tried that too. I'm organic, 100%.
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Good thing I like organic work!
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