Sep 14
Its freeeeeezing here in Star Bucks and for a Sunday the Mid Valley traffic seems to be unusually clear. These days I try to fit in a reading day where I spend a couple of hours once a week just reading and going through my book list. I’ve found that I tend to spend too much time on my business that I hardly ever have any fun anymore. Mind you I do consider sitting in front of my pc and developing campaigns or reading blogs fun (minus the wrist blisters and the blurring images due to eye fatigue). Gosh I sound like such a geek…but then again who cares 
as long as I enjoy it.
Anyway….that brings me to the topic of todays post. I wrote a post last year about the purchase of my new iMac and how I couldn’t quite get the hang of it especially since a lot of the software I used ran only on Windows. Well…I’ve somehow gone back to using my Mac and parallels desktop (after getting extremely frustrated with my Windows Vista) and I feel like I’m on a highway as opposed to a dirt path. Things just work so much smoother on the Mac and I don’t get the sudden freezes or lag that I experienced with Vista. I’ve now decided to go Mac all the way. I currently have a 20″ iMac, a Vista laptop and desktop. I spend most of my time working on my Vista desktop (with a HP 22inch screen) and am now going to indulge in a Mac Pro. Imagine a Mac Pro with dual 30inch Apple Cinema Displays — sweet! Unfortunately the Mac Pro isn’t cheap and the 30 inchers are just pure indulgence so I’ll stick to using my HP 22inch for now….one step at a step i guess!
I’ve also just downloaded the new Google Chrome browser and am still playing around with it so can’t quite comment on anything yet but I must say it looks good and is quite speedy as well. I know some people who have actually ditched Firefox in favor of Google Chrome. Can’t say if I’m one of them but will keep you posted. Sigh* yet another browser platform to test my landing pages for…….
CPA Offers - yup its CPA all the way for me now. The only CPS offer I’m managing now are the ones that I built much earlier and were all Clickbank products. I’ve signed up to quite a few CPA networks and CPA conversions just rock! I go for the super high traffic niches. Since I’m gonna be spending time on a campaign it might as well have the potential to be really big.
Aug 18
Hello all and in case you were wondering…no I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth. Yes its been a long while since I last updated my blog and with good reason. Yup you guessed it alright. Google’s been keeping me busy. I can’t recall exactly when the avalanche of Google slaps started but I believe it was in March and I’ve constantly been hit every other month since then. I’ve been busy rebuilding landing pages and trying to find exactly out what Google wants.
Google is basically a huge black hole. You kinda know what makes them happy when it comes to affiliate advertisers (emphasis on ‘kinda’) but you never know exactly what. I’ve build content sites around my landing pages with unique content and yet boom…I’m hit with $10 bids. The only thing I can think of is that I haven’t really been constantly adding new unique content to these sites. I was always too busy looking into new niches that I never quite focused on that.
There came a point where I decided to leave Google and just focus on the other search engines. I tried to build up campaigns on Yahoo but I just couldn’t get the same amount of traffic as I had from Google. So I finally decided to stick by Google and take the bull by its horns. I have built some new landing pages and am gonna update them on a weekly basis. Let’s see how they hold up this time.
I’ve also been focusing a lot on CPA offers. They convert at a much higher rate and also I get to test out a market pretty quickly. Unlike other campaigns I don’t have to wait till 200-300 clicks before I determine that the niche is not working. Any keyword that doesn’t convert in 20 clicks is basically outta there. For the rest of the year my plan is to focus on improving my existing Clickbank campaigns and expanding into more CPA offers. Will keep ya posted…..
Sep 22
Its the weekend…yipppee…I usually try not to work over the weekends but I’ve been taking it easy over the past few weeks so decided to put my nose to the grind today. I received an email the other day about domain flipping and it kinda sparked my interest.
Domain Flipping is basically the art of buying and selling domains. I do recall hearing something about John Reese making $xxx,xxx by reselling a domain name he had purchased. The concept seems simple enough - buy a domain and resell it. The domains that were purchased for 5 or 6 figures were of course domain names such as Chinese.com or BestBuy.com. I’m gonna try my hand at domain flipping. I’m already working on my blog with the intention of reselling it and domain flipping seems to fit in nicely with that. I’ll write more about what I’m doing with domain flipping over the next few posts..
On another note, Anik Singal & Jeremy Palmer are releasing a home study course called PPC Classroom. Jeremy is a big time affiliate who apparently made $1.4 Million purely as a PPC affiliate. The PPC Classroom course claims to pull back the curtain on Jeremy’s business. Based on the free videos that were sent out, Jeremy promotes Clickbank, CJ, Link Share products as well as CPA networks. The course is pretty costly at $497 and will be launched on the 25th of Sep. I haven’t quite decided if I’m gonna get it…just seems like an awful lot of money to spend on a course..we’ll see.
Jun 04
I’ve been so busy since I got back from the World Internet Summit Singapore. I’ve got so many ideas buzzing around in my head and simply no time to implement them. My main weakness is focus. The lack of patience would come in at number 2. I had to keep telling myself to focus, focus, focus else I would have found myself attempting all kinds of things from building niche content sites for Adsense revenue to selling ebooks with resell rights. I’ve decided to focus on affiliate marketing. So for now I won’t be doing anything else other than selling other people’s product. Oh well….enough fluff!
This post is a bout my CPA earnings. I really haven’t been paying much attention to my Azoogle campaigns and have two ad groups running on Adwords. I hadn’t checked my stats since I left for the summit. I did a quick look today and lo’ and behold I doubled by previous earnings of $7 to $20 in a week without doing anything. I probably just got a flood of traffic.
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May 12
As a follow up to my previous post where I had just started with CPA networks I thought I’d report on my progress. I’ve applied to and been approved by three different CPA networks - Azoogle, COPEAC and MaxBounty. I had some problems with accessing the COPEAC links as the links only seem to be displayed if you’re accessing the site from a US ip. I contacted the affiliate manager but never got a reply. I’ve been busy so I just never followed up on that. In the meantime I set up two campaigns. Both of them were email submit offers that paid out ~$1 per lead. Two offers from Azoogle and the third from Max Bounty.
I had problems direct linking with quite a few of the Max Bounty offers. Was hit with very high minimum bids and it seems that a landing page is definitely required. I then moved on to Azoogle. With Azoogle I found the quality of the merchant pages a little better (from a Google quality score standpoint) that I was able to direct link with fairly low minimum bids.
Here are the stats from both of my campaigns :-
Total clicks : 123
Total leads : 23
Conversion rate : 18%
Total ad costs : $16.4
Total commission earned : $24.05
Total profit : $7
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