It’s been a week since I started rolling out the PPC ads from Bidvertiser on some, (but not all) of my blogs and websites. In my earlier post introducing my change of heart with this type of advertising, I did mention that I’d keep readers updated as to how things are progressing with this.
Well, I won’t be retiring on the proceeds just yet!
That said, I can actually see some potential here. Ok, I’ve only made $2.06 (I’ll wait until you’ve finished laughing and picked yourself up off the floor…), but the promise is there as I hit a couple of 50 cent clicks in there. That tells me that the particular niche that caught that kind of click needs to be promoted a little better as the site it came from isn’t even optimized for PPC!
That said, other sites that should be attracting more clicks haven’t …yet.
Which means some more work is needed to a) attract more traffic to them and b) resite the ads for better effect. What I’m trying to achieve has already been amply described by my friend Grizzly in his blog, How to Make Money Online for Beginners, so I won’t go into the nuts and bolts here.
Suffice it to say, for sites and blogs that are properly optimized for generating adsense revenue may do reasonably well with Bidvertiser should adsense cease to be an option for whatever reason. But I don’t believe for one minute that Bidvertiser will outperform adsense simply because of the massive difference in the two companies’ inventory and choice of advertisers in each niche.
I’ll let this run for a while and let you know how it pans out
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
Affiliate Marketing works best when you focus on just one niche and then promote it well.
That statement is quite true, but if you pick the wrong niche then all that hard work could come to nought and you’d be joining the rest of the 95% of unsuccessful internet marketers. That is far too easy to do for most people - me included!
So how to you beat the odds and create your own success from affiliate marketing?
My honest way is probably not most people’s way, because it entails a lot of work. As I’m accustomed to that, it doesn’t really faze me, so I just push on regardless. Here’s my way to show success and make money with affiliate marketing:
Take the first statement in this post and turn it on its head!
I mean don’t settle for just one niche and put all your energy and enthusiasm into it - pick a dozen niches and work at them all! True, you can’t possibly give them all 100%, because you will spread yourself too thinly. But by hedging your bets and picking a cross section of niches that you can sell affiliate products in, you stand a chance that if one niche fails the next will succeed!
But how do you do that? Doesn’t that mean buying a lot of domains and building a lot of websites?
No and yes to thos two questions. No, you don’t need a load of domains, just one. Yes, you’ll have to build a lot of websites, but don’t despair - it can be done quite easily.
Take one .com domain - make it generic. Its tough to find good .com domain names, but possible. You don’t want a long name if you can help it. Then get professional hosting that allows you to create unlimited subdomains - Hostgator are the best for that, and the host that I personally use and this site is hosted on. Then simply choose your niches, do your keyword research and then generate yoru subdomains based on the best keywords.
As for building websites, just build one simple one. I built a single page site with an external stylesheet and used basic PHP to include modules for the main page - so there’s a header file, a footer file and side-bar file (bigger sites also have a menu file for multiple pages). That’s so any changes you need to make can be done in one file only - that saves a lot of work later on.
Then create a generic template website that you’ll use for all your niche subdomain sites.
For each niche site, just change the header, links and wording and then start adding your reviews of affiliate products to each site. Once each site is ready to go, start promoting it by publishing articles to GoArticles.com and EzineArticles.com - two of the best article submission sites. That will generate high PR back-links to your site and get it indexed with the search engines fast.
Then get busy with all the other promotional methods that I’ve blogged about in past posts and get traffic to your sites. I
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Then watch as things start to happen - affiliate sales start appearing and things start to escalate from there. That’s if you’ve done all the work I just told you to do, of course!
Congratulations, you have joined the 5% of successful internet marketers!
Terry Didcott
The Honest Way
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