My Life As A Fun Loving Internet Marketer…

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…..

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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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I’ve been scratching my head for the longest time trying to install the Blackberry Desktop Manager on my new Vista machine. I previously had it running on my older XP machine without any problems. Initially I thought it was a problem with my pc so I rebooted it and still couldn’t get the BB desktop manager to install. I was using the disc that came with my Blackberry and I’ld click on the ‘Install’ link and nothing would happen for the next 3 minutes after which the installation would begin only to end up with an error message mid way.  Grrrr….

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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I’ve always read that testing & tracking are essential tasks that when done religiously make all the difference between a profitable campaign and a dud. I guess I’ve always known that but it never quite occured to me that I was doing it all wrong. Well I wouldn’t say all wrong - I was just not doing enough of it. For instance I would simply track keyword conversions and scrap keywords that weren’t converting and I thought it was enough.

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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Wow…I just realized that its been a good 2 months since I last posted on my blog. Guess I’ve been busy with Christmas preparations, New Year parties and now Chinese New Year celebrations. How time flies! Heres a quick update on whats been happening :-

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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