06.29.08

Adwords and how to make the destination link work with an affiliate ID

Posted in Questions and Comments at 3:39 pm by juliejam77

Hello,

I have had a website on skin care for over a year and have affiliates from Commision Junction, LinkShare and a few others all on my site. I wanted to get into using Adwords as the Affiliate Millions book does (which sounds wonderful), but cannot figure out how to configure the click on URL to let me get the credit for the click. I have asked both CJ and LinkShare but they are not much help, and don’t quite get what I am asking for. I would like to be able to direct click thrus to a specific product page on a website, not just the home page. Does anyone know how to make this work?

Thank you,

Julie

06.25.08

Confusing Performance

Posted in Questions and Comments at 1:31 am by T

Tony,

I recently launched my first campaigns and things seem to be progressing well except that the reported clicks on Commission Junction are typically 3 times the reported clicks on Google - for example, I had only 5 clicks reported on Google today and 18 reported on Commission Junction.  Luckily its not the other way around but I’m still confused by the discrepancy.  Do you have any ideas as to what the issue might be?

Thanks for the help.

Best,

T

06.04.08

Google’s Affiliate Policy

Posted in Questions and Comments at 4:08 am by rishi

Hi,

First of all I would like to thank you for the wonderful book, it really opened my eyes about Affiliate Marketing.

On some further research I came across Google’s affiliate policy at http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14844 that states “We’ll only display one ad per search query for advertisers sharing the same top-level domain in the display url.” This appears to be a problem for search advertisers as it could greatly reduce chances our ad getting showed, unless ofcoarse we build our own website.

What are your thoughts on this?

 Rishi

06.03.08

Short question

Posted in Questions and Comments at 10:06 pm by loopster

Hey Tony,

Apologies for throwing the universe at you in my last post….here’s a smaller question.

In your book, page 100, you talk about 3 month EPC and 7 day EPC.  You then say these are per 100 clicks.  So divide by 100 and set a bid in that neighborhood.  My question is, bid for which keywords?  I know you mean setting a bid for keywords, but which ones?

After doing the calculation and coming up with a bid amount, it’s not clear what keyword the bid applies towards.

Can you clear this up?  Or if I’ve missed something, help get me on track?

Thanks!

Loopster

Is search marketing too competitive?

Posted in Questions and Comments at 2:50 am by osu2008

Tony,

I just finished reading your book,and I just started my first marketing campaign with no success,but i refuse to give up. However, I would appreciate your honest opinion on whether or not you truly believe someone with relatively little web experience can be successful in such a highly competitive industry. I just graduated college with a marketing degree, so i do understand the marketing aspect of this business but I am new to the google adworld and lack the savvy web skills that i think are necessary to be competitive. I am very optimistic and think i can succeed, but at the same time, am i kidding myself into believing that i can compete with people like yourself that know all the tricks?

You mentioned several times that ad copy is king, and how important it has been to your overall success. Just wondering if you could offer any advice on how to formulate successful ad copy. Any books or articles that inspired you that you would be willing to share? if not i guess i understand. Also while im at it, how do you go about searching for new campaigns, what do you look for, is there something that tips you off, a good product, a new affiliate program or network, a combination of both etc… I know i’m probably asking too much but i would like to avoid wasting excessive time and money if at all possible. So ultimately do you think their is potential for newbies to make it in this industry and what’s the best advice for achieving success?   if anyone would be willing to offer some advice or just blatantly tell me i don’t have chance in this business i would really appreciate it, heres my email, ajme_osu2008@yahoo.com

Thanks,

Jason

Thanks

06.02.08

adCenter $75 free credit promotion ending.

Posted in Questions and Comments at 5:16 pm by Administrator

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