Is this how you got started in Affiliate Marketing?

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I've recently started my first two real-life-actually-running affiliate marketing campaigns. I'm not suspecting to be super successful with this model, or that it will be very scaleable or long lasting, but I'm glad to have got something started instead of just talking/reading about it.

1. Found a niche and some offers on clickbank.
2. Put up an old domain I had related to thid niche.
3. Researched keywords, wrote ad copy and setup AdWords campaign.
4. Linking adwords campaigns to my domain, then re-directing to the click bank offer.

Is this pretty standard? I'm writing a custom CMS that will allow me to build more robust landing sites, but for now, I think direct linking will help me get my feet wet and gain some experience.

What do you think?
 
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Is adwords your only means for promoting? Have you thought about BUM Marketing (articles, blog etc)

How you are driving traffic to your landing page? Building backlinks is essential to get natural rankings in Google.

What you're doing is what I do for a few niches and it works.

- Rob
 
Since I'm not really investing any real effort into these niches, especially since I don't know how they're going to work out, I haven't done any other promotion.

I'm focusing on learning more about adwords/direct linking for now. When I find a niche in something that I'm passionate about I will definitely go the "hard work" route and develop more content and work on natural rankings.
 
Offer easy CPL that converts VERY WELL with presell (i'm getting 25 to 50 percent conversion with PRESELL)

basically with some shit niche that I don't care about, I throw up a couple articles/youtube videos ... niche makes me $30 a month. Throw 10-20 of these niches and that's some pocket change right there.
 
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maxor said:
I've recently started my first two real-life-actually-running affiliate marketing campaigns. I'm not suspecting to be super successful with this model, or that it will be very scaleable or long lasting, but I'm glad to have got something started instead of just talking/reading about it.

1. Found a niche and some offers on clickbank.
2. Put up an old domain I had related to thid niche.
3. Researched keywords, wrote ad copy and setup AdWords campaign.
4. Linking adwords campaigns to my domain, then re-directing to the click bank offer.

Is this pretty standard? I'm writing a custom CMS that will allow me to build more robust landing sites, but for now, I think direct linking will help me get my feet wet and gain some experience.

What do you think?
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If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you don't want to ruin a perfectly good domain name's reputation with Google just to get your feet wet. If you're going to test direct linking, do it on a separate domain. However, Google also keeps track of your ad history per keyword, so be prepared to pay higher prices after you get slapped in order to make up for that history.

Long story short: what you're doing is good if you don't want to run the campaign long-term at all, but if you want it to last beyond your testing period, you should plan ahead.

Although it might seem like wasted time, if you spend time writing unique, relevant content for your site and make it seem like more of a website than a landing page (index, contact, terms of service, privacy notice, about us, etc.), you'll do far better with Adwords. Hopefully you can come up with a template with your custom CMS that allows you to do this easily but until then, that's my advice for you.

Regardless, good luck. Let us know how it works out.
 
amanda11 said:
Offer easy CPL that converts VERY WELL with presell (i'm getting 25 to 50 percent conversion with PRESELL)

basically with some shit niche that I don't care about, I throw up a couple articles/youtube videos ... niche makes me $30 a month. Throw 10-20 of these niches and that's some pocket change right there.
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I smell what your cookin.. keep it up.

That's my kind of thinking, just keep building with a consistent strategy that you know at least semi what the return is. Then when your fingers a bloodied and tired move to outsourcing and build 10 x's as fast :)
 
smaxor said:
I smell what your cookin.. keep it up.

That's my kind of thinking, just keep building with a consistent strategy that you know at least semi what the return is. Then when your fingers a bloodied and tired move to outsourcing and build 10 x's as fast :)
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I agree with both Smaxor and Amandas' sentiments here - you can start building these sites with very little capital and if you hit a nice vein of traffic you can consistantly pull in a couple thousand per month with 10 of these simple information sites.
 
Thanks for the replies!

Not sure what PRESELL or CPL is, but googling...

My plan for the short term is to just try things out, I think I've spent enough time reading and thinking about how to do things, just need to give it a shot. One I've got that going for me I can look into what will work for the long term.
 
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