Affiliate Marketing is All About Testing

digga — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:02:38 +0000

Affiliate Marketing is all about testing. Testing your way to a profitable campaign is your only way to do it , unless you got the secret sauce, or get lucky on a few campaigns, but in reality, test until you got data, and test some more . This brings up a question …“When is it time to quit?” Generally, if I get 100 clicks to the offer page, from my landing page, I will count that as a sample size. I’ll stop everything at 100 clicks, and analyze my data. This maybe too soon, but you will only be able to tell by looking at your tracking. Okay, I got 100 clicks! Time to analyze. I am looking for 3 things.. (or 2, if you are direct linking)

1) Click Through Rate for Ads

2) Click Through Rate from Ad to Lander

3) Click Through Rate from Lander to Offer

4) Conversions

5) ROI

This should give a general idea if you should dump it, or keep pumpin. If you think your deal needs more clicks, take another sample size, there’s no right answer. Looking at my data, I can see which combinations worked best, and use them, and ditch the others. For example, for the ads, I can look at which ad is getting the better CTR, keep that one, and ditch the other. The next thing, which lander is performing the best? You should be split testing all your landing pages, and offers, using prospers, landing page rotate script found here. It is all trial and error. Think of it like solving an equation like (x – 2)(2x – 3) . There is no explicit way to solve this problem, but to try numbers in x, and see what works. There may be ways, but if you took Calculus, you would understand what I mean. So, after a few tests, . Money Made > Money Spent? Good find ways to improve campaign, and keep kw’s converting, pumpin till they die out. Money Made < Money Spent? This part is up to you, you could ditch it, or take high performing elements of your campaign , and change out things you feel need improvement. If your getting high CTR on ads, but not landers. You may have good ads, but need some work on your landing pages. What do you do with a failed campaign?

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Using Your Affiliate Skills to Bank off Yahoo Answers

digga — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:07:52 +0000

Update: Looks like yahoo has caught on to this ..scroll down to bottom, and read comments for details…

I’m going to start out this post by saying, I did not originally come up with this idea. This is one of the many reasons I stay active in the community of Internet, and Affiliate Marketers, and why you should too.

Originally I had asked the man Ruck, over at Convert2Media what some good ways to promote my offer with some organic traffic, besides PPC. The answer was short and simple, Yahoo Answers. I actually did not pursue this at first, because I felt it would take to long for the traffic to hit, if any at all, and it would be hard to convert that traffic. I was wrong on one thing already, and that was the amount of time it will take for you to get traffic after you answer the question. The first time I answered a question, with relevant information, and a good answer, I was reward quickly with traffic. If this remains true, think about all the niches that are out there, and how many categories there are on Yahoo Answer. Don’t sound like Spam, and if you actually answer some of the questions with the correct answers, you might be rewarded for it.

To get you guys thinking, what if you were to do this for every offer Convert2Media had to offer? With some time on your hands, and some relevant good content, your bound to get some conversions.

1. Sign up for a network:
(Watch out shameless affiliate plug coming in)
Convert2Media
Ads4Dough

2. Sign up for Yahoo Answers:
Yahoo Answers

3. Answer some Questions.
4. Get Paid!

Pretty simple concept. This is just the beginning of the idea, but throw your own spin in there to get even more nuggets.

One BIG tip for you guys to get started. The sooner you answer the question the better. We all know that after the 3rd answer, users probably won’t be reading it as much as that first reply! So be fast!

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Okay, looks like I caught on to this idea too late, and Yahoo has caught on. There may be other question sites out there that you can look for. I’d like to hear if anyone finds any, for now this looks like a did.

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