How do new affiliates get started in this industry? This is something that I’ve been wondering about for a while now, and been trying to make happen for the past few months. I’ve attempted PPC campaigns with Google, setting up an information site, and even resorted to advertising on Facebook!
At the moment, it’s not going well, and to be honest, I’m feeling disheartened. I’ve had some success with campaigns - almost breaking even anyway! I’ll try and break down what I’ve done so far in this post.
Initially I was direct linking to a few offers, one of which was LavaLife (US Dating), but I made the mistake of using their display URL so had to stop very quickly. After changing it to one that didn’t exist (don’t know why I did that, but Google didn’t seem to care!), I found that although I was paying in the region of 30p ($0.60ish) per click, each sale made enough to cover everything. I spent around £50 and made £45 back in a month (so again, really poor!).
A few more Google campaigns later, and I’m definitely into the negative cashflow area! Not good!
Developed Sites
The next area I tried was to create a site comparing pre-paid credit cards. I figured that this is an expanding area so thought it might be something that would be popular. Without any PPC, I got around 4/5 visitors a day from search engines - not enough to get any clicks or conversions! With PPC, this rose to 50/60 a day, but again, still not enough to cover my costs. Anyone got any ideas?
This has kind of been my most successful venture, but only just! Payday UK loans were promoted at one point and returned £40 CPA, which, despite spending about £75, meant I was £5 in profit after 2 signups!
Having read around, following more advice, I decided to try a traditional commission based offer, promoting an online retailer. I’m currently promoting yogaaccessories.com (through CJ), and despite having got my clicks down to less than $0.05 each, and having sent over 500 clicks through in the last 3 days, I seem to have made only $2.50 in commission. Very disheartening!
Anyway, I suppose I should be off to do more research and learning!
Recent Comments