How I Earned $10k From Trending Topics
Getting traffic from trending topics is nothing new, but it's still a great way to build some profitable campaigns.
I'm going to give a quick rundown of building these campaigns.
Step 1 - Finding trends
The first step is to find a trending topic. You can use any of these sites to find trending topics.
Google Trends
Google Insights for Search
Google News
Bing Social
Yahoo Buzz
Yahoo Clues
Social Mention Trends
Twitter Trending Topics and Trendistic
It's Trending Read more [...]
Your CPA Network Doesn’t Convert? Here’s Why.
I've written about this before but wanted to do an actual test just to get people to actually test their CPA network. I still see so many people blindly running with networks just because they like their AM or they want to hang with the cool kids.
This is business and I'm doing this to make money. I can be friends with anyone I want, but I am going to run with the network that gives me the best results.
With that in mind, I tested the average offer page load time for 4 popular networks. I am Read more [...]
Cookie & Return Time Analysis
Something you need to watch out for with physical product merchants is the 'return day' analysis. What return days mean, is the amount of time that elapses when people come back and buy something.
Here is a screenshot from Shareasale
As you can see, the majority of sales comes from people who come back 15 days after clicking through my link. Why is this important? Well, for one thing it means you might be stopping your campaigns too early. In the above example I might have run this campaign Read more [...]
Generating $94k in Physical Product Sales
Most of the readers of this blog, or members of the forum are into CPA marketing. What a lot of people don't realize is that there is a whole 'other world' of affiliate marketing promoting physical products. This post is meant to be an intro to some of the things you can do with physical products.
First, let me say the world of physical product affiliates is quite different than CPA affiliates. I went to the Shareasale think tank in Half Moon Bay in 2010 and it was a far cry from the affiliate Read more [...]
Are You Up For The 30 Day Campaign Challenge?
At the workshop I did at ASW my friend Adam made a really great statement; he said that the majority of 'problems' with not making progress/money in IM have a very simple solution - build more campaigns.
This reminds me of a really well known blackhat seo guy I used to be friends with and what he told me one time; Apparently tons of people would come to him for help with questions about site structure, indexing, etc, etc, etc. and he said his answer 99% of the time was just that they needed Read more [...]
The Best Posts You Missed
Here are some great posts you might have missed this week from various blogs
8 Reasons rich people hate their lives
Two campaigns, one theme, different outcome
Five Best Web-Based Conferencing Tools
6 Tips for When You’re Not in the Mood to Work
Article Marketing + Submission for SEO
11 Practical Ways To Stop Procrastination
Ecommerce Tip: SEO for Product Pages Read more [...]
Blogs You Missed This Week
There are a lot of great blogs focusing on affiliate marketing. If you haven't already, visit Affbuzz on a regular basis to see what people are talking about. I wanted to share some other blogs that aren't necessarily focused on affiliate marketing, but have useful information for affiliate marketers. I usually email my forum members on Sunday with good threads or posts from the week so I thought I would also make a blog post highlighting some good blogs posts from the week that you might not have Read more [...]