My First Profitable Affiliate Pay Per Click Marketing Niche
Sep 25, 2008 Case Studies, PPC Campaign
Finally after a very long time of researching, learning, testing and many hours of hard work - I was able to find a profitable niche that I can improve on and possibly create a site for in the long term.
This is one of the case study test sites that I am talking about in a post I did on 12Aug2008 where I used Gauher Chaudhry’s system of a landing page.
I wrote in that post that I would be creating a project on dog training but our offline family business and other pre-occupations kept getting along the way which have kept me from pursuing my original intention. I sincerely apologize for that.
Going back to the project, Gauher’s theory seems working because each of the 166 keywords (166 only! Pathetic!) was rated as either Good or Great by Adwords Quality Score. And to think that I was only using 1 landing page for all those keywords. But I intend to keep adding more keywords so that I can test this landing pages’ maximum potential.
Keyword research is something that I should keep improving on and I admit that this is the part where I keep dilly dallying. I am extra careful in using the keywords to use during the initial deployment of my test sites because I don’t want to be penalized with my Quality Score. Even in the landing page, I made sure that every keyword in my campaign can be found by the Google bot in case it comes to visit my site.
Damn, it’s finally paying off! I love this game! Of the original four niches that I tested so far, only this one can be judged as a winner for now. I hope to improve searching for niches better.
I didn’t make thousands of dollars in this study, in fact not even a hundred dollars. But for a single website to make almost $55 in a month surely beats the income of my mostly Adsense only sites. That for me is an improvement by itself. Now, I have to find offers to promote for all my Adsense sites and send traffic to them via Adwords, outside of organic traffic. Who knows, I might be able to re-create the past profits I enjoyed before Google clamped down on Adsense earnings.
Below are screenshots of my Adwords expenses for this particular niche and the other screenshot is from the affiliate network of the offer I am promoting.
I have to do better next time.
Tags: affiliate marketing business, affiliate marketing income, pay per click case study, pay per click techniques
Posting Project Studies
Aug 12, 2008 Case Studies
The post I did in Testing The Niche thread at the Black Ink Project 2 forum gave me this idea of making available some of the project studies I’m testing in PPC and niche marketing.
Initially I was thinking of posting it in the Black Ink forum, but I had to rethink that move because I will be creating a new campaign based on the success (or not) of the method I used when I wrote that post.
I will be spending time and money on the project, so I guess it’s only fair to post it here.
The niche I’m planning to use as a case study for the first project is about “dog training” and I will be using a Clickbank product and probably spend like $50 on Adwords.
I would also be using the landing page structure by Gauher Chaudhry which, according to my initial test is very effective in lowering my PPC cost to 5 cents and a high Quality Score in the search network for my keywords.
Since I suck at site design and I’m still using tables for my landing pages, it’ll probably take me longer to post the first case study here. But I will surely go for it and post it here for everyone to see.
So, let’s see when it will happen.
Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Case Studies, landing page, ppc techniques, project studies
