First PPC to CPA Affiliate Marketing Campaign Result – $6,608.85
I''ve been doing affiliate marketing for quite sometime now and today I'm going to share you some stats of the Hydra / Neverblue campaign that I promoted via PPC.
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.
Task Schedule
To provide a regular update to my blogs & share you my affiliate marketing experiences at the same time,I decided to create a task schedule which I will strictly follow. The goal is to more productive and multitask effectively (hopefully)
- Mon Wed, Fri (MWF) Blog Networking (adsense, blog networking, posting)
- Tue, Thurs, Sat, Sun (TThSS) Affiliate Marketing stuff
This schedule is now in accordance with the new online strategy that I'm going to implement. Its a 50-50, which stands for 50% blog networking, blog creation and blog posting for passive income and 50% for affiliate marketing.
The Google Ad Auction
Hal Varian, Chief Economist of Google explains how the Google Ad Auction works. This short video will give us a clear explanation how Google calculates the max CPC, quality score, and ad auction.
Additional $400 a month – Thanks! Infolink
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?
- Higher revenue share, which guarantees a higher CPM for my in-text ads > 80% split
- 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.)
The Affiliate Thermostat
For those trying to figure out what separates an affiliate who generates $50,000/month in revenues and one who only generates $50/month in revenues, here check it out. Good thoughts and information on how effective a mind set is when it comes to hitting whatever goal you want to achieve.
After reading that post I decided to reset my thermostat. That means, no blog posting for the whole month (February 2009) as I'm going to focus all my energy and strength to IM.
I'l be back on March 2009.. 
How to use OIO Publisher for Geo Targeting / IP Targeting
A few days back, I come across this premium wordpress plugin that will help the publisher to automate private ad selling. The cool tool that I'm talking about here is the OIO Publisher. Its very easy to setup and the interface is simple.
I'm using OIO Publisher to easily manage buying and selling of all my blogs' private ads (banner, text link, blog post, downloads). Its automated from A-Z - from payment to ad placement to follow up emails.
Affiliate Marketing using Facebook Advertisement Platform
After reading good affiliate marketing experience and success stories using the social network ad medium, I decided to take a plunge and choose Facebook Ads platform as my starting point.
The first thing I did before I setup my affiliate campaign in FB is to search the net for free facebook coupon codes. After 30 minutes, I have found $250.00 worth of fund that I can use to promote my affiliate link in Facebook free. (I compiled the facebook ad voucher here)
December Traffic Stats
Let me just share you how this blog improve since the last time we reviewed its' traffic stats.
Site Usage:
| Nov 5 - Dec 5 | Dec 5 - Jan 5 | Change | |
| Visits | 321 | 493 | + 53.58% |
| Pageviews | 921 | 1,250 | + 35.72% |
| Average Pageviews | 2.87 | 2.54 | - 11.49% |
| Absolute Unique Visitors | 236 | 306 | + 29.66% |
| RSS Subscribers | no data | 12 | n/a |
Although improvements are evident in most of the aspects that we are monitoring, still the monthly visits and pageviews is not high. There is also a notable decrease in average pageview which I suspect is because of not posting new content. Maybe they check the site, when there is no new content they leave. I'm thinking of installing a random post the the homepage to improve the pageview.
From 70 to 23K Google Adsense Earning Recap
There are million ways to earn money online and google adsense is just one of them. Let me share you my earning recap for being a google publisher since the first day I use adsense.
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?