03.01.10
Posted in Questions and Comments at 2:12 am by jancahoon
It’s been quite a few months since you told us about your new concept of earning money by forwarding web traffic through the CasinoBlasters link. I wondered if you would be willing to give us an update on how that was going, maybe including some numbers like what percentage of visitors you’re finding convert on your foreign domains and what the annual earnings per domain look like? This would be useful information for those, like me, who have been hesitant to just plunge in!
Thanks.
Janelle
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02.24.10
Posted in Questions and Comments at 11:39 pm by Chris
I have just started reading today … I have to tell you my excitement level was diminished when I logged on here to find a lot of changes have taken place in the industry since your book was published. Is there still a chance for a newbie or has the ship already sailed?
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01.28.10
Posted in Questions and Comments at 10:22 pm by TY
I am new to affiliate marketing. I have heard Pay per Sale is a great way to go . I have a great product to offer and I am willing to pay 30 percent plus commission on my sales and I will do all the selling. I just need the leads driven to my site. Can anyone give me any advise on how I would find affiliates that would consider this kind of offer.
Thanks
Ty
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Posted in Questions and Comments at 3:24 am by drbuilder
Tony, your book definitely gave me a kickstart into setting up programs on google adwords. After a few campaigns/learning experiences, I think I finally found a few programs that should start working well now that the ad campaigns are generating clicks at a good cost, and I have had a chance to refine them and get the CTR up. On the few that are in this category, they have had 2-3 days of steady click activity, but I have only had one $14 commission reported, which is well below the reported EPC on CJ. I checked the advertiser’s detail pages to see if they used batch reporting, but they don’t. How long does it typically take for advertisers to report sales/commissions? I’m trying to make sure there isn’t something wrong with the way I set up the program before I get too far in. The clicks are definitely registering on Commission Junction, so the links appear solid. Any help would be appreciated.
David
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01.10.10
Posted in Questions and Comments at 5:35 pm by championventures
Tony:
I am new to this general industry. I just read your book and found it quite interesting especially in light of the fact that you were successful without a website. However, seeing that it has an ‘07 copyright date I figured that the search marketing business had changed. After reading your blog, it appears that little or no search marketing exists, at least in the sense described in your book. Is my assessment correct? Do you now suggest that only affiliate marketing that directs one to your website / content affiliate marketing will be profitable and/or is the best route? Thank you in advance for your reply.
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01.06.10
Posted in Questions and Comments at 12:30 am by T
Tony,
I took a few months off from search marketing and now Commission Junction no longer shows keyword links in my existing affilliate programs – are they gone or just renamed?
Also, if I buy a new UK casino domain name then can I do search marketing in the UK to drive traffic to the site? Was just wondering why you recommended purchasing an existing site with traffic instead of creating a new one and advertising on Google to drive traffic?
Thanks,
T
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12.11.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 7:35 am by DToral
I took your advice and bought 2 domain names and linked them to my casino affiliate site. In the past 3 months I have had over 10,000 hits and 400 downloads. I have yet to see any deposits or actual money played. Any suggestions?
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12.01.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 8:05 pm by millions
I am a newby at affiliate marketing.
I am trying to work out how to collect customers to my mail-list, before they click on the hoplink on the same page???
What I see as a problem is:- how do I get the customer to fill in the mail-list box before pressing the hoplink button.
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11.15.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 3:03 pm by bakulesh
[Edited: the quoted text below is not in font page but in Affiliate Network page. Sorry for confusion.]
In your front page [no, not front page but in Affiliate Network page] it says that “Search Marketers signing up for any of these networks should list a search engine URL (such as www.google.com) in the website URL field, and explain in the description that you will run your ads on search and content networks like Google’s.”
I had setup a Commission Junction account using my own website name URL. Although cj.com allows me to add more websites and I can certainly list google.com as one of the websites associated with my account, is it necessary to do that?
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08.11.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 5:13 am by mikee53
I am new to Search Marketing, and my question is in regards to the Display URL’s. One of the Affiliate Programs I joined prohibits the use of their Website URL as a Display URL in Search Marketing Text Ads. Would I use the Destination URL as the Display URL also? I don’t want to be penalized so I’m posting this question.
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07.04.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 5:42 pm by twotwelve212
I am a newbie to the concept of Affiliate Marketing, I know for a fact it is somthing I think i will begin taking part in in the near future, I am going to start with a website instead of search marketing because I feel there is not as big of a risk with the affiliate websites but I will begin search marketing in the future when I am comfortable with the process.
so my question is, when i register my domain name, select a web host, create a website, how do I get my website to appear on search engines? will it show automaticly? will there be a fee charged to register my website for a search engine? thanks 
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06.23.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 7:27 pm by dancraig
Hi Tony,
just finished reading your book,great read,and i’m exploring Direct Search Marketing but can’t help but notice there are a lot of restrictions. I’ve found lots of programs that don’t allow search marketing or don’t let you use their urls in your ads making it very difficult to get ads placed. Is search marketing now a thing of the past or can you still make serious money with it? I think i just need some reassurance before i dedicate my time to this project
dan
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05.20.09
Posted in Questions and Comments at 9:15 pm by Mark
Hi, I am willing to try out your idea regarding the websites with traffic, etc. Can you give a bit more details as to how to set this up? I see on Sedo.co.uk that they actively sell sites with current traffic levels, but once I buy the URL, how do I maintain the traffic and then addon the Casino affiliate programs?
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Posted in Questions and Comments at 5:19 pm by Administrator
Some of you may have noticed we had some technical difficulties on the site recently that affected your ability to view and browse the site. We’ve fixed the problem, and it shouldn’t happen again.
Thank you,
Anthony Borelli
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05.11.09
Posted in Newsletter Archives at 7:25 pm by Administrator
Hi Everybody, So do you want the good news first, or the bad news?
The Bad News
Let’s just go ahead and get the bad news out of the way. As of May 1st, Amazon.com no longer allows direct search marketing. They were the last really big affiliate program to still allow affiliates to place their ads directly on search and content networks, and their decision to disallow direct search puts the exclamation point on the writing that was already on the wall… Direct search marketing of affiliate programs is no longer the path of least resistance for reaching financial independence. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a lot of money to be made in affiliate marketing, but it does mean we have to look at some different approaches.
The Good News
The good news is, there is still a LOT of money to be made in affiliate marketing using other techniques. The even better news is one of these techniques in particular is even easier, and cheaper than direct search was. Let’s get right to our new options;
The Easy Money – Redirecting existing traffic to Casino Programs
I’ve been searching for something as profitable and as easy as Direct Search was – before most companies stopped allowing it – and I’ve even resorted to doing a little hard work, buying domain names, setting up landing pages and advertising those. And although I have had a little modest success there, I don’t appear to have the same knack for web design that I have for ad writing.
HOWEVER… as I have shut down sites that weren’t profitable, I decided to redirect the traffic to online casinos, simply because it wouldn’t cost me any more money, and they were the only programs that would pay commissions on redirected traffic. Most of these domains generated only few clicks a day, so I stopped even looking at them for several months. Last month, I took a closer look and realized, although almost none of this traffic converted, the small number that did convert made multiple online gaming visits and blew an average of more than $4,000.00, and those figures are climbing. With lifetime commissions of 36%, I suddenly realized that I might be able to make some real money with even less effort than my last gig.
I suggest you try what I am now doing, which is this… buy cheap (under $100) existing domain names with at least a trickle of existing traffic (make these European domains like co.uk and .fr, etc. because US law now prevents these affiliate programs from paying you for US traffic), then simply redirect these domains to a casino affiliate program. It may be months before you see your first commission, but as you add more and more domains, these commissions will come quicker and quicker. All you care about is that the domains have some existing daily traffic, but if the domain happens to be gambling specific, that’ll obviously work a little better.
Your only cost is the purchase price of the domains (and you can always sell these sites later, so even that money is recoverable) and the hosting costs, though many sites will do the redirect for free.
Search for and buy the domains at a site like GoDaddy.com. And sign up for the lifetime commission program at Casino Blasters. Take your affiliate link codes you get from casino blasters, and tell GoDaddy to redirect your domains there. Low cost. Low risk. Minimal effort. That simple.
Old School Affiliate Marketing – Using Landing pages
Many affiliate marketers are switching back to the old model of using landing pages to market affiliate programs. If you decide to go this route (and it certainly opens up many avenues for marketing many different products), we have many resources available to you at www.AffiliateMillions.com/web-design.html. You can find affordable and professional web-design assistance and we even offer free website templates. You can view a working example of one of our templates at www.Great-Colleges.com.One thing to keep in mind when you are promoting a website of your own is that your Google pagerank will directly impact the cost and placement of your ads, so be sure to focus some of your efforts on optimizing your site for search engines. If you can successfully climb near to the top of a few key searches, you will begin getting the best kind of traffic… FREE! Add to that the relevancy of the traffic you get from appearing at or near the top of a few relevant search phrases, and you will likely have established a significant revenue stream.
A great book about promoting your own website that I read in preparation for launching the Affiliate Millions website is Insider Seo & Ppc: Get Your Website to the Top of the Search Engines, available now on Amazon.
That’s all for today.
Good Luck, Affiliate Millionaires in training!
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