I really wanted to join this company as I heard lot of good news and successful stories of many affiliates running their offer. If there are many big players running their offers for sure there are bunch of gold to be dig in Azoogle.  I don't need to be the top affiliate, I just want to taste a small portion of what they are promoting.

So, after 30 mins of chat with my AM discussing offers, conversion etc..  I have one campaign running in Azoogle. That is from the campaign I'm running from other network. Basically I just change the destination URL so it will point to Azoogle. I generate affiliate link and setup the offer in my t202 then I sleep.

Morning comes, when I login to my Azoogle account this is what I see.

Sounds like a good 1st day running offer in Azoogle. The stats shows my first day earning in azoogle 10 hours after sending traffic to their offer. I'm planning to start new campaigns from them and I'm wishing that I'l have more good days like this.

Here's the sign up link if you are interested to apply in Azoogle (Click Here to Apply at Azoogle.)

That's all for now. Have a nice day to all!

This is actually my first CPA campaign using the paid search as a source of traffic. The offer is a lead generation campaign that lasted for about 1 1/2 months.

Using the idea that I learned from my unsuccessful Facebook Affiliate Marketing experience plus useful advise of online friends who are already doing well in this industry, I finally get my very first PPC to CPA campaign running.

Unlike facebook aff marketing wherein you can just grab your affiliate code, write your ad and target your demo, here in PPC via search, I need to come up with converting keywords, ad copy and landing combination for this offer to work.

Affiliate marketing tasks that I learned includes:

• Market research
• Niche research
• Keyword research
• Ad copy
• Landing page
• Tracking

I keep an eye on below figure and make them as high as possible by testing every possible variation/combination by optimizing my adcopy and landing page daily:

• Ad copy CTR
• Keyword Impression / CTR
• Keyword/Ad copy that result to conversion
• Landing page clickthrough to offer CTR

In the end I found out keywords that is giving a constant conversions. I then expand KW list from there and the rest is history.

Here is the result:

Earning:

• Hydra -  $ 3,306.60
• Neverblue -  $ 3,302.25

Ad Spend:

• Combined  -  $ 3,712.82

Net (ROI) :

• $6,608.85 - $3,712.82 = $ 2,896.03 ( 78% ROI)

I'm happy that I earn money on my first PPC to CPA campaign. Another good thing to mention is that, I use my adsense earning to fund my advertising thus, making my $ 3,712.82 adsense earning to $ 6,608.85!

Unfortunately the campaign didn't last long they stop me before I scale it. My AM told the advertiser don't like me.. So, instead of grieving I started a new campaign. I'l share the report on the my next post.

Lesson Learned:

• Don't just drive leads to offer, for a long term campaign, it is very important to consider also the quality of the traffic. Ad copy, Landing Page, Keywords plays a vital role for a quality traffic.
• Seek opportunity!. If you are already included in Google Adsense Payroll, or already receiving online income from Infolinks, Chitika, Kontera. Try PPC to CPA affiliate marketing, reinvest your earning. Just don't forget to consider the risk involve and invest what you can affort to lose.

Not yet affiliate marketer? Apply Here >>  Hydra & Neverblue and try the next level of making money online

Few weeks back I received an email inquiry for a possible in-text ads from Infolinks. After a couple of email exchanges from the account manager, I decided to give them a try.

Why I decided to test Infolinks?

1. Higher revenue share, which guarantees a higher CPM for my in-text ads > 80% split
2. To check ad performance & choose the one who will give me more revenue of course ( Yes! You must also A/B - split test advertising company that you are using.)

After 23 days, here is the result:

Result shows that my test sites are profitable with Infolinks compare to my previous Intext Ads. The first 3 days I haven't fully updated the script so you'll see a very low earning but if you are going to observe the earning from 4th - 24th of March the daily earning is hovering to $8 - $21 .  If earning trend continue this will give me an average of $14 per day - around $400 monthly! not bad.

Strong Points:

1. Publisher have the ability to control the number of intext ads to appear per page
2. Publisher can also control the underline style (double or single)

Weak Points:

1. Intext performance per website is very crucial for publisher who is running multiple website. Infolinks reporting dashboard will not give you the report per website it will only give you the daily earning.  If you want to segragate the earning per website the only way right now is to apply a separate account and generate a unique infolink code.
2. In some instances I see intext ads irrelevant to my content.

With the current eCPM and earning I think I'm going to let the Infolinks run for another month.  Let's see if the result is consistent. If the result is the same then I'm going to migrate all my site to infolinks.  We should use the monetizing method that is more profitable to us, right?

Shifting to Infolinks will give me additional $400.00 monthly, which I can then use to fund my affiliate ad spend..

Oh..  INFOLINK Sign Up Page is HERE. (Try it! - This might give you a 3-4x as much intext ads earning of what you are using right now.)

Also check this post:

$301 in 35 days with Chitika Premium.

January - December 2007 Adsense Recap:

January 2007 is when I successfully setup my first blog using the free blog hosting (www.blogger.com). Here are the unforgettable dates and numbers on my first year of being an adsense publisher:

• February 12, 2007 - my blog received its very first adsense page impression.
• March 2, 2007 - somebody clicked my adsense ads making it my official first adsense earning equivalent to $0.11
• $3.22  -  highest adsense earning per day on that year.
• Total page impression for 2007 is 93,534 and my total earning for the whole 2007 is a whoooping $70.05!... that is an average of $0.24 per day, very very impressive eh?

Total Expense:  Precious Time + $0

At the end of the year, my adsense account accumulated to the amount just enough to pay one month of my DSL rent.  Everytime I look back to the 2007 earning data, I still can't believe that I survive blogging with that daily income. So to those people who are still having a hard time improving their adsense, read this and compare it to your stats I will bet your earning is better than mine.

January - December 2008 Adsense Recap:

So I continue my pursuit in improving my adsense income. I read different ebook, blog post and tips about increasing CTR, blending the ads etc etc.. I just have one thing in mind at this point: If other people is raking cash online via this method why can't I?

After one year of read-experiment-apply-read-experiment-apply blogging pattern here is the outcome:

• February 2, 2008 - my first $10.19 a day with page impression of 15, 713.
• Somewhere in April 2008, I received this twitter message:

Adsense Ads Space $200 per week only . (avg daily earnings $50/day) PM me if interested... nid money badly T_T 4:39 AM Apr 17th, 2008 from TwitterFox - - > its on http://twitter.com/******?page=134

This is my first biggest investment in adsense.  I rent the space for $400, with the guaranted adsense return of $700.00 giving me a 75% ROI and the wonderful feeling of earning more than $50.00/day in adsense.

• After lease period my adsense earning returned to 10-15 daily, but the feeling of earning $60 per day keeps hunting me so the eagerness to earn more become stronger.
• June 24, 2008 - my first $111.63 a day.
• Somewhere in October 2008 - my record breaking adsense earning $919.07 in one day.
• Total page impression for 2008 is 6,209,008 with a total earning of $23,961.00

Take a look at this 2008 adsense earning report graph:

And here is my 2008 expenditure:

$142.80 (hosting)

$50.0 (domain)

$50.0 (freelance writer)

$242.8 (total)

To sum it up, 2008 had been a very great year for me.  From $70.05 in 2007 to $23,961 in 2008, well that was really a very nice adsense improvement. The time and effort I spent in the first year of being an adsense publisher paid off.

What is the secret to improve 70.05 >> 23,961 adsense earning? Well, actually there is no secret.  The method is already online free all along you just need to change your thinking to understand it and don't be afraid to test it.

Here let me share you again.

1. Don't rely on one blog / site alone.
2. Buy your own domain - it only cost $10.00/year and choose a good hosting. (I host my site in hostgator now, check this post there are also discount coupon there that you might use)
3. Interesting topic + interested user = $$$ in adsense
4. What I did is create a blog and work on it til it meet the adsense earning goal I set.  So first example, I will continue working on blog A til it hits 10 daily, when the initial target is achieve I will then shift my focus to create new blog B and work on it til it hits 10 daily.. rinse and repeat.  Here is a typical example.  If you target to achieve 100 a day in adsense, you have some options:
   • Develop one blog and work on it until it hit $100/day = 100x1
   • Develop 10 blogs and work on it until it hit $10/day = 10x10
   • Develop 5 blogs and work on it until it hit $20/day = 5x20
5. If you are too occupied hire freelancer to write content for you.  I have one blog where the total amount I spent to create is around $40 (domain + content) and now it is earning around $600 a month with 1500-2000 visitors daily.
6. Sign up for google analytics to study the behavior of your visitor, pay attention to the keywords, top post and optimize your adsense on that page.
7. Use google webmaster tool to submit your sitemap and identify crawling error
8. Drink plenty of water! - you need this because you are very prone to "Google Adsense Stats Syndrome" also known as GASS.
9. Don't QUIT your day job yet!
10. Last but not the least - SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS.

Thats all for now. Wait don't forget to subscribe my feed to receive articles like this.

Lets talk about some other money making method next time.  In the meantime you can also check this post where earned $301 in 35 days using Chitika Premium & my other experiences to Make Money Online here.

September 19-October 22 Chitika Earning Report:

The above earning is from Chitika Premium wherein I earn from the clicks generated from US & Canada visitors coming from search engines.  They pay via paypal or by cheque by the way.

Here is what they say about the payout:

Chitika will pay you 30 days following the end of the month that your commissions are earned provided that your total revenue has exceeded $10 (for PayPal) and $50 (for check where PayPal is not available)

Here is how the Chitika Premium will look like.

Chitika is another option if you want to monetize your blogs, they also offer referral program where you could earn 10% of the referred publisher earning for 15 months.  In case you are asking, the 10% will not be deducted from the publisher's earning but from Chitika's revenue share.  Aside from that you'll also receive a $25 referral for every $100 ad spent of advertiser you referred to them.

As per my referral earning.  The report shows that I've earned a whoooping $1.88 from 2 publishers . Not big but I will not neglect it because even if it earns cents every day, in the end it will add up.  Anyways, I hope that my referral earning will increase next month.

If you are looking for another PPC program to monetize your blog / site, then I suggest you check Chitika.  You might also want to read what other publisher is saying to Chitika, read their success story here.

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