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.

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The course basically consists of a pdf manual, landing page templates and 14 or so videos.  I’ve bought my fair share of Adwords courses over the past 2 years and am aware of the quality of a lot of them. Some very good…most just rehashed basic material. I’m not going to provide links as I wanted my review of these courses to be as unbiased as possible. Courses are not cheap and especially to us Malaysians so I wanted to provide you with a list of courses that were really worth the money.\ (more…)

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I bought an adwords course and the expert on the call talked about a little about this so am just going to share what I learnt. Don’t want to get into trouble with the owner of the course so am not going to disclose it here..anyway here’s what I learnt from the course.

‘If you have multiple landing pages with only slight differences between them then just select one as your control page and insert a no crawl code into the rest of the similar landing pages so they don’t get crawled by the Google bot’

I haven’t done this yet but in my experience (can’t say for sure but…) most of my landing pages were hit either because the design was similar to another advertiser or it focused primarily on making a sale. Anyway most of my landing pages are unique and use PHP code to dynamically insert the new keyword into the landing page instead of creating 100s of landing page. Its easier maintenance with PHP. This way when I need to make a change to a link or image etc I just need to change one page instead of all of em….

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Instead of answering each of them separately…since some of the questions are fairly similar I’ll try and answer them here. If you have anymore questions just send me more comments and I’ll reply accordingly. Now that I have improved on my time management I’ll have more time to work on my blog.  Here goes…

1) Do I direct linking to the merchant or use landing pages?

I tend to use landing pages a lot more. There was a time when I was doing really well with direct linking but the problem is Google’s one URL policy. A new advertiser came along and bid through the roof. My ad was then shoved off in favour of the better performing ad. An alternative is to cloak your URL using an iframe but its against Google’s policy and after reading in forums about the masses who’ve been banned or suspended from Adwords I just don’t want to take the chance.

2) How do I get content for my landing pages?

I hire a ghost writer to write a whole bunch of articles related to the niche I’m promoting. These are mostly short 500 word articles.

3) How many pages of content do I have on my landing pages?

It varies from 5-20 pages and they consists of Privacy Policy, Contact Us and some related articles.

4) How to contact me personally?

I’ll put a contact me form ony my blog so you can email me directly.

5) Hows my Adsense project doing?

Well…I’ve found that traffic to my blog seems to be directly related to updating of content. I haven’t updated my Adsense site in awhile and my traffic has dropped to about 300 uniques a day from 1000. I’ve noticed before that when I update the content, the traffic seems to increased probably due to the increase in rankings of my site on search engines. I haven’t quite monitored it (and i know i should) but am pretty much focused on my CPA offers instead. My Adsense earnings are now about $0.4 a day.

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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…..

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Phew - I’ve been busy busy busy! The dreaded Google slap is back - and did a lot of damage indeed. 3 of my campaigns were hit BIG time with $10 bids. Those domains are now useless despite the fact that all my landing pages were mini sites on their own. Oh well - I guess they just weren’t good enough. Am not completed back on track yet but am getting there. In fact I’ve learnt quite a few valuable lessons from this. Will get to that shortly. In the meantime this is what I did to get my campaigns back up and running (mind you - its easy to just transfer over your content from your slapped domain to a new one and get Great QS for awhile - problem is you haven’t addressed the reason you got slapped in the first place). I’ve attempted to slap proof my campaigns and heres what I did :-

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Something was definitely up. I use my Blackberry pretty much for everything and constantly fiddling around with it. I’m either listening to some internet marketing related MP3 or watching videos. Helps kill waiting time I figure. Anyway…I did a search on the net and couldn’t quite find any info straight away but eventually I came across a site that provided a solution. It didn’t take me long and lo and behold I managed to install the Desktop Manager without any problems. So here’s an excerpt from the site. Hopefully it’ll help all of you who are suffering the same fate

Vista for some reason doesnt register VBScript. What you have to do is first of all find where vbscript.dll is, mine was in C:\Windows\System32, but I think it changes dependant on your version. Next you need to go to start -> accessories and the right click on command prompt and click “run as administrator”, next type “cd C:\Windows\System32″ (replace the dir if its differnt for you) and then type “regsvr32 vbscript.dll”. It should then confirm that vbscript has been registered and everything should work.

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For some strange reason (I can’t remember why) but I decided to test different aspects of my landing page. I tested different layouts, graphics, headlines and anything else I could think of. That was 3 weeks ago. Since then I’ve increase my conversion rate drastically. In some cases I tripled my conversion rate just by tweaking my landing page. I’ve now put a hold on creating new campaigns and am working on testing and tweaking my existing ones. So if you really wanna squeeze out every last drop of profit from your campaigns - test, test, test!

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1) My Adsense blog project has suddenly picked up

I mentioned in one my previous post (a couple of months ago) that I had a failed Adsense blog project. I have not touched my blog since and lo and behold when I checked my blog traffic stats I was blown away. If you remember this blog is just a collection of articles (from articles directories) with a couple of Adsense ads plastered all over. Within 3 months I had massive traffic and a month after traffic just screeched to a halt where I was getting 20 visitors a day and negligible Adsense income. Since then I have not touched the blog. Today I did a quick check on the traffic stats and guess what? Have a look at my traffic screenshot below :-

I’ve actually been getting on average 500 unique visitors a day. How did that happen? I then had a look at my Adsense account and I made $15 last month. Not bad eh considering I’ve hardly worked on this blog at all. Now I’m inspired to put more effort into it and will look into inserting some unique content and testing & tweaking Adsense placement.

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