Comments on: Using Php Echos on Landing Pages – Kirsty’s Affiliate Quick Tips!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:21:18 +0000

Cool, thanks Kirsty!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:41:16 +0000

Theoretically, however I’d pursue that kind of strategy with caution. A lot of the time you might be up against a PPC agency or large affiliate with an extremely strong Adwords account QS. In that scenario you might have to pay a whole lot more than you’d like to get your ad up and running.

Personally, I prefer a nice, low margin campaign and cover all the less obvious bases. The result is quite often extremely healthy margins.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:08:46 +0000

So if I were to bid HIGH would google let me ‘push’ that other person out?

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:35:11 +0000

Hey Marc / Russell… In my experience you will generally always get at least some traffic even when it looks as if another affiliate or the merchant have a search term in the bag. I’ve got some keywords that I can’t for the life of me get my ads to show up for… and yet I get a healthy amount of traffic for them each and every month.

Another thing you can do is really go to town on keyword variations around the search term you see competitors on. Even with terms Google says there’s no volume for you can quite often get a really nice little stream of traffic going for. Specially during the festive season.

Keep at it Marc!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:24:25 +0000

hey Russel,

I dont know to be honest. I know when I did try something google said (nxt to the kw in adwords) that the kw was inactive as another advertiser was bidding on it.

By: Russell Beech

Russell Beech — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:57:31 +0000

“I found one the other day, but some else was bidding on most of the terms I was trying already….”

In this case doesnt google rotate the ads so you’d still show up some of the time?

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:50:01 +0000

Hey Kirsty,

I do have 1 campaign going on adwords (with a mini site I built using wordpress) that is currently profitable – but I suspect xmas conversions has something to do with this.

I do like direct to merchant campaigns, its just finding the right merchants who currently do not have anyone bidding on those terms where I have the problem. I found one the other day, but some else was bidding on most of the terms I was trying already….

Thanks Kirsty…time to keep plugging away.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:06:34 +0000

Ho Marc, no problem… you’ve just caught me unwinding at the end of the day so it is a good time to get an answer, lol.

Adwords is very difficult if you are trying to make money from a landing page. It takes a lot of time and effort to create something that’ll still make money and comply with their rules.

I make a lot of my income from Adwords campaigns. I just think of all the people saying it can’t be done as really meaning “I can’t do it”. Not the same thing!

Have you thought of trying some really targeted direct to merchant PPC? Contrary to popular myth, this is perfectly OK with Google.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:57:41 +0000

Thanks for the quick response Kirsty.
I am still trying to get a consistent profitable campaign from ppc.
If you dont mind me asking, I keep being told that adwords is next to impossible (although I likke working with it) to make money as a result of all the rules and high cpc costs.
I keep hearing go only to yahoo and only use the content network etc. Are these rumours truthful or have you found you can make profitable campaigns on google search?

Sorry for the long question, and thanks again
Marc

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:07:45 +0000

@ Everyone who exposed various loopholes and internet trickery… LOL, I was expecting something like that to crop up. As I’ve said many times, I am not a programmer. Interesting trick re: the page rank mind you. TBH I’ve rarely used this on SEO sites, only landing pages.

@Darrell – This isn’t something I do (hiding data from the merchant). It is something I should think about, so I’ll look into it

@ Marc – Still into PPC heavily, I just run my landing pages a little differently now!!